Skywater Revisited - Your Guide to the World of Boredom

You Know You're A Backie When... Part 3

(Compiled from the bttf.com message boards)

Currently, the most common spelling errors:
1) 'DeLorean' NOT 'Deloaern', 'De Lorean', 'Delorian', etc.
2) 'Flux capacitor' NOT 'flux compasitor', 'flux capitor', 'flux capasitor', etc.
3) 'Jules Verne', not 'Jules Vern' or 'Juels Vern'.

YKYABW... Part 3:

- You have all the movies plus the first and fourth draft memorized
- Zorba_m_13_ILA

- When you're playing the Oregon Trail computer game, you name all of the characters after BTTF characters, and if one of them dies, you cry hysterically!
- On the sides of papers at school, yoou scribble quotes from BTTF! I can do better than that! I've taken the front of my fanfic notebook, doodled the clocktower, the clock, and the Delorean complete with a Mr.Fusion on the back, covered the border with all things BTTF related, and covered the entire cover with quotes!
- LorraineBaines55

- You're listening to the soundtrack and you can hear the actors' voices in your head speaking along with the music. (Ed: Actually I don't. All I hear is: Trumpet! Flute! Horn! Clarinet! OBOE!!!!... and so on.)
- giggles

- You spend $40 on BTTF merchandise in 20 minutes.
- On November 12th, you watch BTTF andd plan it so at exactly 10:04, you'll be watching the scene where Marty goes back in time.
- LorraineBaines55

- You pine for BTTF merchandise.
- giggles

- You have an entire folder dedicated to the DeLorean with over 100 reference pictures and 12 pages full of information on it (I do)
- You learn the guitar just to play Joohnny B. Goode (I even have the same metal pick that Marty does in the beginning of BTTF)
- You have a picture of Albert Einsteiin just like Doc's
- You have a shrine to BTTF on one of your walls, and one to the DMC on top of your bookshelf
- You name your Miniature Schnauzer, tthat doesn't look very much like the original, Einstein.
- Jedi_McFly

- You discover you were actually the 40th person to sign up to use the BTTF.com forums almost 4 years ago. Gads I feel old.....
- MrFuzion

- You get a great BTTF Ride watch for Christmas and start wearing a watch on both wrists.
- You've trained your parents! I have,, judging by what they gave me for Christmas and my birthday! My poor mother looked everywhere for BTTF stuff. The best present of all was an original BTTF white promo jacket with "Doc's Girl" sewn into the front! See my topic Coolest December ever!
- You're having a BTTF marathon, compllete with food, to celebrate the new year. See topic New Year's Marathon.
- Hot_For_Doc

- A mundane coincidence occurs and you think it inherently contains some sort of cosmic significance, almost as if it were the junction point for the entire space-time continuum - such as the fact that during Christopher Lloyd's first scene ever on Taxi, one of the characters utters the line, "This is heavy."
- Quarantina

- You drive your DeLorean off a bridge or cliff to see if it can fly (Ed: With or without you in it?)
- otherself

- You have dreams about a multitude of ticking clocks, like in the Time Machine and BTTF.
- deloreancrazy

- You call yourself a 'butthead' when you do something stupid or forget something. (I do that sometimes)
- You knock on your friend's dead and say "Hello? Anybody there? Hello? Think McFly, think!" (Ed: My father does that to me ALL the time.)
- When somebody asks you, "Where'd youu learn how to shoot like that?" you say: "Seven-Eleven"
- You know all the lyrics to "Power Off Love", "Back In Time", "Doubleback", "Heaven Is One Step Away", "Time Bomb Town", "Earth Angel", "The Wallflower (Dance With Me Henry)" & "Johnny B. Goode" by heart
- Your friend asks you to try out his new toy car he has. You say, "when this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you're gonna see some serious sh*t!" - The phrase you'd always use would bee: "This is heavy, Doc" or "Great Scott" - Before you go on a trip to the deserrt with your friends you tell 'em "Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads"
- You started drinking Pepsi after youu saw the first Back to the Future.
- You have The dates of all the speciaal events that took place in The movies along with the actors/actresses birthdays marked on your calendar
- Partners In Time 1885

- You own a 1990 Toyota Celica and you actually priced out how much a gull-wing door conversion would be. BTW it's 3995.00 CDN
- chipheadskerry

- You find yourself humming the theme song from parts 1&2 at work over and over (Ed: How about Part 3? That has the best soundtrack, I swear!) - MJFoxsleadinglady

- You watch the movies 20 times a day (Ed: Nu-uh, that's not possible. One day is only 24 hours long. The movies are about 2 hours long on average. So, unless you make use of a time machine to make your days longer, that ain't possible.)
- You are psychic and you know when thhe movies are gonna be on TV (I swear this story is true) I've been sick so all I've been watching is BTTF. Well after I finished watching part2 I was rewinding it and was getting ready to put part3 in. While my tape was rewinding I figured I would flip through the channels. Something told me to go to a certain channel and I swear to God part 3 was just starting!
- Your desktop is a picture from BTTF (Mine just happens to be Marty on the hood of the Delorean, Doc leaning against the door, and Einie waving to the camera)
- Your screenname has something to do with the movie (Mine is DocNov121955)
- You write fan fic about them
- You cry hysterically when you were yyounger and your stupid brother ripped up your favorite picture of Doc (It happened to me)
- You are thinking of covering your waalls with BTTF stuff (I am thinking of taking down my BackstreetBoys stuff and redecorating)
- Whenever somebody brings up the wordd future you say: the future oh I can tell you about the future (I did it to may parents one night)
- You've been saying like every singlee line from that movie ever since you started watching it (my case it was like 17 years ago)
- You try to convince your parents to change the dog's name to Einstein (I've been trying but it hasnt worked yet)
- You want to get a sheep dog and namee him Einstein
- DocsGirl

- You have the soundtrack to the movie
- When you start your computer and shuut it down it plays the theme from Back to the Future and when you do other things with the computer like empty the recycle bin it plays lines from the movie (I finally just did this yesterday)
- You wish you could have been born att 10:04 pm..
- DocsGirl

- When I turn My Comp on it plays the Main Theme, and it also plays lines from the movie whenever I empty the trash too. Then when I shut down or restart it quotes this:
Marty: Hey, Doc, we better back up, we don't have enough roads to get up to 88.
Doc: Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.
- Partners In Time 1885

- You try to power your car using the contents of your garbage can.
- You stop strangers holding hands in the street by walking up and saying "Hey you, get your **** hands off her..."
- You play your hifi loud everyday, teelling your complaining neighbours - "...but your kids are gonna love it..."
- You post anonymous notes to all of yyour family telling them `Do not open until 2055`
- You create new sandwich recipes and yell uncontrollably, "Finally, I invent something that works!!!"
- You visit numerous power stations annd mutter constantly to everyone, "Wait a minute, are you telling me that this sucker is nuclear???"
- You hang out in car parks in the deaad of night.
- You buy electrical appliances and assk what power is required to run them then run around the shop screaming, "Tom, how am I gonna generate that kind of power, it can't be done, it can't..."
- Anadin

- You're ecstatic your thread reached 6 pages. ^^;;
- giggles

- You buy a DVD player just to get the BTTF films on DVD, and you're planning to get it converted to a multi region format so you can get the Region 1 box set as well and watch the extra extras Region 1 has...
- Frasier Crane

- Whenever you see any BTTF merchandise, you just have to buy it, even if you don't need it/can't use it etc!
- Editor, Hill Valley Telegraph

- You ask your parents if you can hydrate a pizza on level 4 then your father says, "Where do you think you are in, the future?" and you say, "the future, oh I can tell you about the future." (Ed: Not 'where', but 'when'...)
- DocsGirl

- All your clocks are exactly 25 minutes slow
- otherself

- You're watching The Wedding Singer and when the Delorean is on it you start thinking about BTTF, then you stop The Wedding Singer at that moment and start watching BTTF. (True!!!)
- The Power of Love comes on the radioo at work and you start talking about BTTF to your colleagues and don't stop talking about it all afternoon. (I'm sure you've all been there)
- Kenaz

- The only author you're into is Jules Verne, and you end up naming your kids Jules and Verne (even if you have a girl)
- The only ride you ever go on is the BTTF ride, and when you race for the front seat and you finally get to it you punch in different dates
- You go out and buy a cowboy suit, goo around the neighborhood and when people ask you for your name you say, "Eastwood. Clint Eastwood".
- BTTFfan2015

- You play Wreckless for X-Box and always choose the supercar(DeLorean) and on level B-8 when you are about to ram the space shuttle you resemble it as the train in BTTF3 pushes the delorean to 88mph and travels trough time (too bad you cant go up 88 mph from the elevator to the space shuttle)
- When the tour guide dude says if youu look at your left you will see the courthouse from BTTF, you look at the right to see where the DeLorean lands in BTTF 2
- You know where Twin Pines Mall is (PPuente Hills Mall) and Doc's lab is in 1985 (Doc's lab: 533 Victory Blvd. Burbank, CA
- You keep calling Mattel and keep askking when hoverboards come out
- You read the novels and listen to BTTTF at the same time and pause it when you reach a deleted scene in the book
- You pretend to be Marty on your skatteboard and act out the scenes from parts 1 and 2
- You bought the DVD on the first day (I did!)
- You have a DeLorean
- You want to beat up Robert Zemeckis to a bloody death because he lied about hoverboards
- You always tell your friends that onn November 12 10:04 pm lightning is gonna hit a building
- You used Lego studios and made BTTF trilogy outta legos. (Good thing they had something that looks ALOT like clocktower!) which I did!
- I am your Density

- You only respond to people using BTTF quotes. Whether it's online or in a normal conversation!
- Gravitational Pull

- You sport around a pin that shows Doc and Marty on it, which says: "Own Back to the Future for the first time on DVD... December 17th!" I work in retail, and my work gave all the employees the BTTF pin to wear for advertisement. Almost two months later... I am still wearing it proudly, whenever I am working!
- MJFoxsleadinglady

- You scour high and low, looking for Nikes like Marty's and when you finally find them, you think little of shelling out $130 for them.
- You wear four layers of clothing (reed t-shirt, checkered shirt, denim jacket, snap-button down vest) even if it's 90 degrees in the shade, just so you look 'cool' (Ed: More like hot...)
- Your favorite toy car was the DeLoreean (made by Johnny Lightning)
- Actionman81

- You wear jean jackets and bubble vests all the time (I do some times.) - You have your hair in an average malle hair cut like Marty's (I do)
- You wear nothing but Nike shoes (I ddo now).
- You end up in a hospital/police stattion because you were riding your skateboard on the back of a truck (I've done that, but "very" rarely, usually on the back of the truck that belongs to my best friend's bigger brother. No, I didn't go to the hospital or the cops.) - You constantly go on ebay to look foor BTTF stuff even though you don't have any money at the time (yes I do sometimes)
- You get into a car crash because youu were trying to get it up to 88mph while heading for a wall.
- You only go to USH to ride the BTTF ride and buy BTTF merchandise (yup I do)
- You throw pie dishes at people that are trying to hurt your best friend.
- You look for years and miles but cann't find a 7:11 shop that actually has arcade shooting games.
- You get mixed up on two specific worrds on a spelling test: Destiny, Density.
- You buy a dog and name it Einie.
> - You get arrested for blowing up the largest amplifire at your local music shop by playing a guitar with all the cranks on max.
- You go to play at the school dance gguest auditions even though you can't play an instrument. (Well, I can!)
- You name your kids Jules and Verne.<
- You look inside of every store in yoour country but can't find a real working hoverboard. - You "only" look for girlfriends nameed Jennifer.
- You try to slide down your telephonee wires like Doc and end up getting injured.
- You have nothing but songs, memoriess and images of anything BTTF related in your mind (I do alot)
- Jimmy McFly

- You wonder why your:
boyfriend/husband doesn't wear jeans, Nikes and a denim jacket more often
OR
girlfriend/wife doesn't wear pink jeans, white blouse and a blue sweater more often
- Actionman81

- You play the BTTF soundtrack every time you're accelerating to highway speeds (this is especially awesome if you have standard transmission).
- Western Union

- You go to a store and turn every clock to 10:04 (Ed: And what did the store say about that?)
- I am your Density

- You act out scenes from any of the trilogy with your friends... like I've done before!!
- 88mph_McFly

- Every store you go to you have to go to the DVD section and pick up a brand new copy of the trilogy and just look at it. I mean, it wouldn't be right if you were in the same store as it and you didn't, right? (Ed: Guilty.)
- Future Fanatic

- You wear a red life preserver over a denim jacket and Nike trainers, which I'm doing know.
- You sleep in a red T-shirt and jeanss, which I did last night.
-You drive with a hook and pole attachhed to the back of your car.
- Jenius

- Your favorite drink is a Pepsi Free
- Your favorite designer brand is Calvvin Klein
- otherself

- You have to do a paper in school about one place you would like to go on vacation to and you choose the Puente Hills Mall. You write on about doing 88 in the parking lot. (has anyone on these boards actually done that!?)
- Funny Doc

- You call everybody "McFly"
- Future guy 1985

- You can't say a thing at school that sounds even remotely BTTF, or DMC related, without somebody telling you to "Shutup about Back to the Future!!" or rolling their eyes at you. (this happens to me)
- You want to buy a DeLorean. (surprissingly, most people who own them are BTTF fans... coincidence??)
- ImMrFusion

- When your mom makes pizza for dinner you say in an old, scraggly voice, "Boy, oh, Boy mom you sure can hydrate a pizza."
- You always use dialogue from the fillm
- When you sign up for something on thhe Internet you always have your name as Marty McFly and your birthdate as October 25, 1985
- You read this whole list
- Emmit L. Brown

- You're up 'til 1:16AM reading chapters 16-20 of No Place Like Home, then head over to the topic here to tell [Kristen Sheley] about a goof. ^^ (Ed: Goof? What goof? There was a goof? *has just found a wonderful excuse to read NPLH again*)
- giggles

- You spend hours on the Internet looking for the arcade version of Wild Gunman for MAME. (I found the NES version, but I'm pretty sure it really was for the arcade, as well).
- Goldie Leader

- When your music teacher tells you to start from measure 88, you sing "please don't drive 88!" (From "back in time")
- Blackjack254

- You hear Marty say, "power laces, alright!" when you tie your Nike shoes.
- Zack

- You actually set fire to your living room rug. (Yes, this happened to me. I managed to convince my mother that the burn mark was a mud stain. Worse, she actually tried scrubbing the "stain" out with carpet shampoo!)
- Your answering machine message contaains dialogue from the movie. (I get a lot of hang-ups with my message.) (Ed: Which is?)
- Martygirl25

- You play numbers from the movie for lotto... where I live we have this game, 'quick drawer', where you pick numbers and if your numbers come out you win... sometimes I either do 19 and 55... or 20 and 15... sometimes I do Doc's and Marty's ages 17 and 65... I'm thinking of doing 11 and 5 now for Nov 5th
- DocsGirl

- When you see someone doing something stupid, you say "Hes's a few miles short of 88"
- When your mom is backing up the car,, you say, "Mom, were not going to have enough road to get up to 88!!!
- When you get your leg halfway in youur car, turn, and look at your watch, surprised.
- BTTFJunkie85

- You see "The birth of Christ" on your Geological Time sheet in science class and think of Doc saying "or witness the birth of Christ!!"
- JohnnyBGoodeGirl

- I was going to meet someone and was running on the late side. I looked at my watch just as it turned from 1.23 to 1.24, and found myself thinking, '1.24, I've still got time'! (although this was 1.24pm, not am!)
- I also tend to hum 'The Power of Lovve' whenever I see someone skateboarding!
- AbbyJ

- I always use the term "GREAT SCOTT" all the time whenever something happens or just for fun
- flying-delorean

- You crash your car into a wall and when asked by the police officer what happened you say that you were thinking fourth dimensionally! LOL!!!!!!!! (Ed: And did the police buy it?)
- bttf_fanatic

- You speed your car up to exactly 88 miles per hour on the freeway and expect it to go through time.
- You can play the entire movie in youur head, word for word, and do it everytime you're bored in class.
- You find out one of your friends hassn't seen it before and you force them to watch all three with you. And then you force them to watch it again because you forgot you already did.
- purplewear

- I think I would have The Power of Love for my wedding instead of the wedding march and have your e-mail changed to BTTF or DeLorean I think I would name my kids Jules or Verne, Marty, Jennifer, Doc or Biff or Griff, Clara or Marty Jr.
- time hopper

- Everytime I'm in line for the BTTF ride I joke that it's like my mother ship calling me home. And then after the ride I go into the gift shop and I get "over-excited" as people put it.
- purplewear

- You blab to one of your bosses that you were so excited that the cartoon was on again and you are taping every single episode
- You watch the trilogy from the firstt movie to the third at least once every other day (depends whether I have time)
- Your father finally yells at you thaat you are wasting electricity by watching the same movie over and over and over again
- You dream about Doc almost every sinngle night! (or any other character)
- You tell your father to tape ED for you cause Chris Lloyd "the Doc" is going to be in it and he rolls his eyes
- DocsGirl

- You buy the misframed widescreens then complain about 'em til you get the right ones
- After you've seen BTTF2, you become a MJF FAN (thats how I became one)
- You start singing The Power Of Love when your girlfriend kisses you and gives you her number on the back of an important paper.
- You have the back to the future gamees that actually came out for computers back then (which you can actually download, but I forgot the site)
- You have a BTTF screensaver - You've seen the sequels because the first one is an incomplete story
- Even if you have VHS and DVD copies,,you still watch the trilogy whenever it comes on TV.
- Even if you've seen it 70 times,you still watch BTTF like you're new to the trilogy and you're thinkin' (from bttf2) "WHAT THE **** WAS THAT" =D
- You enjoy the trilogy enough to comee on to bttf.com and discuss it with your 88 mph typing skills (muhahhahaha) - You go to a BTTF related website, riight click on all the pictures and save them in a big fat BTTF pics folder on your hard drive.
- You always quote Lorraine jokingly wwhen you see Michael. "Isn't he a dreamboat?"
- Your MSN, AOL, or Yahoo username is somehow related to BTTF.
- You fire up your DVD player just to watch a bonus scene and figure you'll watch the whole movie next!
- After you got the DVD, you said "thee **** with VHS"
- Hopefully your money for your DVD puurchase went towards the MJF Foundation

- Zack

- You know Marty goes on the back of cars to get to school, but what I do at the school hallways is pretend I'm Marty and I get on back of kids' backpacks and I hum the Power of Love
- I am your Density

- You are camped outside next to your mailbox in the cold waiting for the mail to get here so you can watch the sequels.
Waiting...in the cold...waiting...the passage of time is only a principle of mind, try not to think of it...waiting...the walls are closing in...are they here yet...waiting...strange voices...i see a light...the mailtruck?!...IT'S HERE! THE MAIL IS HERE! But the DVDs aren't in it. So I'll keep waiting...
And then you can't stand it, and you rush inside and pop in the part two tape that you recorded off the Disney Channel two years ago, and you watch the whole thing, and you start to pound on the wall yelling, "Why? Why must Universal torture me so? WHY?!" (I wasn't joking)
- Plutoneam

- You make a new BTTF trilogy staring you and your friends but they get annoyed because you ramble about the new trilogy all the time.
You try to look up Hill Valley even though you've already know it's fictonal.
- Back To The Future The Second

- You search the net for hours trying to find out when the episode of spin city is on with Chris Lloyd in it
- Whenever your teacher says, why dontt you make like a tree and leave, which I know most teachers dont say but hey... my teacher isn't most teachers; you shout at the top of your lungs, "Great Scott!" and your friend says, "This is heavy," just to disrupt the class and to reminicise about the movie
- Fluxing 55

- You buy a cane (about 70 years early) just because Old Biff had one.
- You actually hope people will say annything that anyone in BTTF does, even if it's just one word, so you can say the next line (i.e. someone says "Hello", than I say "Hello, anybody home, think Mcfly, think!").
- You see a Texaco Station and all youu can think is "Welcome to Texaco, you can trust your car to the system with the star...", not food, bathrooms or gas!
- You only eat Rice Krispies because GGeorge likes them.
- You pull your pants pockets inside oout.
- Suddenly you wish you were growing uup in the 1950s.
- The word "Park" will always mean whaat Lorraine said (even if you really mean just stopping a car)!
- You try skateboarding just because MMarty does. (Harder that it seems, but I've got that kick-flip down though!) (Ed: I can do the kick-flip thing, but I can't skateboard... yet. I don't HAVE a skateboard. I borrowed my neighbours life-size toy one to flip.)
- You wear khakis not because they're trendy or your friends like 'em, but 'cause Doc does.
- When someone is late to class at youur school, you tell the teacher, "D-mn where is that kid!? D-mn! D-mn, d-mn!" (Ed: And the teacher says?)
- You become obsessed with anyone who happens to be 17 or 47 years old.
- You look forward to washing someone''s car so you can say, "I'm just finishing up the second coat now!" (even if it's a coat of soap!)
- You hang a clock up in your bathroomm because Doc did.
- Whenever you order anything with beeef, you say "Can I have a be-be-beef burrito?" (Note: I'm a vegetarian now, but before that when I did this, I got some pretty weird stares. Maybe 1 out of 10 people got it, but when they did it was so worth it!)
- You have a perfectly good backpack, but still go buy a dark red one, just 'cause it's the same color as Marty's.
- You go out and buy a bunch of Calvinn Klein underwear.
- If you get into an accident you ask the other driver "Can I, can I assume that you're, uh, insurance is gonna pay for the damage?"
- You've happily read all 270+ of thesse posts and can STILL come up with more!
- Blind Spot

- Any time you pass a manure truck, you have to fight the urge not to crash into it.
- Even though you can't stand singularr team names, you name your fantasy sports teams the Hill Valley Storm.
- You are gonna spend the next few houurs just thinking of something else you can post under this topic.
- HVStorm55

- When you are watching Part3 for the 10th millionth time your father says he doesn't remember where they are in the movie you explain more than he wanted to know and you love doing it! Before I go to bed every night I always say, "Good night Emmett, I love you (I swear)
- DocsGirl

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