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You Know You're A Backie When... Part 6

(Compiled from the bttf.com message boards)

Spelling-wise, one of you doesn't seem to know how to spell 'when' and spells it as 'whean'.
Another common spelling error - it's 'Copernicus', not 'conpertagus'. 'capernicus' or 'Coppernicus'.

YKYABW... Part 6:

- You say lines from BttF.
- You drive 88 in a Delorean.
- If you can't drive 88 then you get iin a plane and when you lift off you scream, "88!" (I did this once but nobody could not hear me because of the altitude and the roar of the engine).
- You scream whean you see a VW wagon van.
- You have a Bttf Birthday.
- You come to thise message board.
> - You go to the ride.
- Your pin numbers are 1955,1985,1885,,2015
- You own all the movies.
- When you say goodbye, you say, "See you in the future" instead. .
- Your computer desktop has BTTF all oover it.
- You buy a DeLorean and convert it innto a BTTF DeLorean.
- Your room is based on Bttf.
- You create a BTTF pic folder.
- You draw diagrams from Bttf.
- You buy only Nikes and when you tie them you say, "Cool! Power laces."
- You drink Pepsi Free.
- You dedicate a wall to Bttf.
- You make Bttf legos.
- You listen to the BTTF soundtrack onnly.
- You wait near a revine to see what hhappens. (Ed: Did anything happen?)
- You make a folder with Bttf pics alll over it.
- You take pics at BTTF filming placess.
- You carry extra power cords when neaar a clock tower.
- You take over the tours when you aree near the clock tower.
- You try to invent a hoverboard.
- You try to steal plutonium from a poower plant.
- If you need a club house name it wouuld be Brown's mansion or clock tower.
- You try to get your DeLorean struck by lighting.
- You wear two watches: a calulator waatch like Marty's and the other like Doc's.
- You listen to 50 music.
- You dress like Marty.
- You dress like Doc.
- You mix Marty's and Doc's clothes annd dress like Doc and Marty. (Ed: Right...)
- You research Bttf.
- You try to invent a time machine outt of a DeLorean.
- If you find a 7-11 with Wild Gunman you will gather all the Bttf fans and play it.
- You mark Bttf red letter days on youur calender.
- You only get gas from Texaco even iff it means pushing your car for miles.
- When somone ask what home energy youu have you say Mr. Fusion.
- You name your dogs Einstein and Copeernicus.
- You mostly buy BTTF stuff.
- When you are in traffic you wish youu have hover conversion.
- You set all your broken clocks at 100:04
- If you can't buy Bttf props you makee them yourself.
- You own BTTF games.
- You tape all BTTF:TAS episodes.
- You see all BTTF:TAS episodes.
- You do all the experiments on BTTF:TTAS.
- You will do any thing for BTTF.
- Doc's personal asst

- You stand on a kickboard in a pool and pretend its a hoverboard until it slips from under your feet and hits someone. I have actually done this before.
- AlternateStrickland

- You watch it through scramble on a channel that you don't get and you can't really see anything but you can still hear it... (I was just watching Part2)
- DocsGirl

- When you count your posts to 88.
- You make love to your girlfriend/boyyfriend and think of Jennifer/Marty instead. (Ed: *is itching to censor this one* )
- Any word will trigger dialogue.
- Your favorite colors are red, yelloww and blue because the title of the movie has those colors.
- You show the movie when you are babyysittng to the kids even if they don't want to watch it.
- BackInTime

- You wish their first idea for Part 2 could be Part 4...set in the 60s. So maybe we can see some Beatles stuff. >=)
- You listen to the soundtrack so muchh, you can tell when the song is called on the movie.
- Whenever you watch it too much, you give it a break...then watch it again!
- Whenever you ask a person at a storee if a certain movie is there, and they say its on VHS; then you see the DVD of the movie and say, "You're forgetting one thing, WHAT THE **** IS THAT?!"
- Zack

- You... have 88 pants
have 88 shirts
have 88 hair do's
have 88 different shades of lipsticks
have 88 kids, LOL
- You click on the arrow where you're supposed to type a keyword or web address and all that comes is
Back to the Future....The Message Board
Back to the Future....The Message Board
Back to the Future....The Message Board
Back to the Future....The Message Board
- Lorraine

- You can recite the Bob Gale/Neil Canton DVD commentary WORD FOR WORD with the VHS version.
- Dynamite XI

- You answer the phone with "Yo" at age 7.
- backfromthefuture

- You've taken a girl out on a date simply because her birthdate was November 12th, and her little brother Martin (called Marty) was born in in 1988... thought it was fate.
- You spend 98% of your time searchingg for Back to the Future: TAS tapes with little to show for it...
- DocBrn

- When your girlfriend comes over for a romantic dinner, you think it's the right time to put on the Back to the Future soundtrack!!! (To add to the romantic atmosphere)
- Pairo'docs

- Your clocks are 25 minutes too fast
- make like a tree and leave

- You include a whole verse from "Power of Love" on your cell phone answering machine. People who call me are really bugging me to change it now!
- Whenever you see a hat, you always wwonder what Seamus would think of it. (Ed: ;))
- You're writing 'yourself' into your BTTF fanfic universe. (It's true, I wanted Jennifer to have a sibling, so I came up with a younger brother, Jesse William Parker, who is 14 in 1985 and is somewhat based on me, even his name and birthday, as well as personality traits.)
- Blind Spot

- Whenever you see a scooter, you feel like ripping the top of it. A scooter just went by my house and I hate the things (Ed: Hey, what's wrong with scooters?)
- Shandy

- Every time I forget stuff or something weird or exciting happens I say, "Great Scott" and then I think of Doc, isn't that weird? (Ed: No. What's so weird about that?)
- Herschel Brown 1931

- One of the Back To The Future movies is on TV and you can't turn it off even though you already own the VHS and the DVD.
- FutureFan88

- When you ring up a sale and it's for $18.85 you get excited and you can't hide the excitment in your voice when you say the price
- DocsGirl

- OK guys, true story, I did something yesterday that surprised even me: I honestly answered my cell phone by saying "Doc, come in Doc, this is Marty, over!" I didn't catch myself until I already said that; all I could say was, "Oh, sorry, I mean hello."
P.S. It was a wrong number (I get that alot, my number is easy to misdial) but that guy must've thought I was totally weird!
- Blind Spot

- Your license plate frame reads:
HILL VALLEY
WILSON HOVER CONVERSIONS
- Grant

- When someone casually mentions Clint Eastwood is in a new movie, you eagerly reply with, "Oh yeah! That guy Marty was impersonating in BTTF3!" You can hear the silence already... (Ed: *silence*)
- OUTTATIME_Doc_1955

- You get excited when you're at the store and things ring up to 88 cents...or you like Walmart beucase a lot of times it has 88 cents instead of 99
- FutureDirector

- You watch a film and you see something or hear a line that you're convinced was influenced by BTTF in some way, and you say, "That was used in Back to the Future!"
- Erased From Existence

- Every time you pass a Texaco, "TEXACO: TRUST YOUR CAR TO THE SYSTEM WITH THE STAR," rings in your head.
- When you try to learn the moonwalk sso you can reenact the dance Marty does in the bar.
- DRiVe 88

- Whenever I am in a rush to get somewhere fast, I put the Clock Tower score on my car c.d. player. It works everytime, I'm never late. And it is great how somwtimes I stop at traffic lights and the theme changes to when Marty is sitting at the take off spot saying, "If I only had more time." I say the lines with the music. I have to be careful and keep my windows wound up so the other cars don't hear what I'm playing
- Shandy

- I live near a Marty Street, and I purposely drive down it at times, because it reminds me of the movie.
- MJFoxsleadinglady

- My mom was mad at me for not getting home on time and she wouldn't stop yelling at me so I said, "I know, and all I can say is... I'm sorry." and she was just like ok, and forgot about it. Am I lucky or what.
- Marty 121

- Anytime you see a tow truck, you check to see if there's a white car with front end damage.
- You've posted on this topic like 50 times, and with 100+ different things, yet are constantly coming up with more.
- Blind Spot

- You spend 6 months learning to play the theme song on the piano (Ed: I tried to; it sounded relatively okay the first few times but I decided my own version of the theme song was much easier to play. And I'd memorised it, too.)
- Jamie McFly

- My dad and I went to a store one day but we came back to the same store the next day to return something. As we pulled into the parking lot I said, "It's like I was was here yesterday". My Dad then said, "You were here yesterday, Marty, you were!" He knew what I was talking about!
- AlternateStrickland

- Every time you get together with friends to watch a movie, you automatically suggest Back to the Future.
- When one of your friends say that thhey don't like BTTF you pretend to faint
- You save up a hundred bucks just to buy yourself a DVD player just to wach the BTTF DVDs you just bought.
- When your teacher asks you to write an essay advertising something, you advertise the time machine
- When you talk about Einstein and Coppernicus in school you automatically say that they are the dogs from BTTF
- You quote a movie line evertime someeone asks you something
- You decorate your locker with BTTF sstuff
- You know more about the movie than yyour dad who got you into it
- Jamie McFly

- I always wanted to have contact with my future self (past selves are more complex). I wrote a letter to my future self in 1993, sort of a diary type thing, just saying "Hey dude, it's uh, me, er you from 1993. I'm thinking this and that, and I wanna accomplish this in 10 years" and so on. It was pretty long and I don't remember everything. I've still got the enveolpe with a DO NOT OPEN UNTIL 2003 on it. Anyway I wrote this on my 12th birthday (Sep 3, 1993) and promised I wouldn't open it for 10 years (Sep 3, 2003) - my 22nd birthday - in just a few weeks! I can't believe I've actually carried that thing around this long, hidden it from people and haven't looked at it. I'm usually anxious and impatient with stuff like that. (Ed: I did that too last year; waiting for 2013 to open the thing.)
- Blind Spot

- The only reason I want a cell phone is so that I can have a BTTF ring tone. I don't even call people. Lol.
- JohnnyB GoodeGirl

- I was just playing a game of Pool after work tonight, and I'm not very good at it. When I *finally* hit one of the balls in, I said loudly (semi-yelled) to where a ton of people were staring at me "It works! I finally invent a shot that works!" Then some guy at a table near us proceeded to say, "You bet your a** it works!" We both had a little laugh about it.
- Blind Spot

- Whenever you hesitate to get a watch Mikey wears on BTTF1
- Whenever your brother is driving youu to school in his lowrided '89 z34 camaro...you blast Power of Love with extra bass because it sounds awesome!
- Whenever you try to be 25 minutes laate for school! (Ed: And you don't get scolded?)
- Whenever you see a tourist video youu yell "NOOOOOOOOOOO" lol...
- Zack

- You watch the "We Love the 80s VH1 Special: 1985" just to hear them talk about Back to the Future - You read the Michael J. Fox memoir: Lucky Man just to read what he said about BTTF. (Ed: Can someone type out those parts and post on the bttf.com boards?)
- Fluxster

- I just got a paycheck for $120.15, and I'm really tempted not to cash it. (Yeah, I know there's an extra 1, but that's still pretty close!)
- Blind Spot

- You explore caves trying to find a hidden DeLorean
- You think the world you live in is aan alternative future
- You call people's attention to your website... www.geocities.com/bttf_webmaster
- BrazilianDoc

- You hit people over the head with your scriptures at church because they don't like Back to the Future (lol)
- Jamie McFly

- The fans that live in NY might know what I'm talking about with this one.... you guys know the win for life scratch off tickets? Well my father will buy one about twice a week and once in a while I'll ask him to pick me up one...and you know the little numbers in the corner of the ticket? Well one number said 87 and the other said 88...guess which one I picked? I picked 88 and ended up winning 5 bucks...I was like, "See, I won because I picked 88 for 88 miles per hour
- DocsGirl

- A couple of days ago, my little bro. (9) made this makeshift fan thing from pieces of all his old toys (does it all the time, nothing ever works, drives us all nuts). Well he made it and it worked! And he was all, "it works" and then I said, "YOU finally invented something that works, I don't believe it!" we all started laughing.
- Jamie McFly

- One time my cousin skated off cars like Marty; he tried this two times and unfortunately he got hurt and got in trouble.
- Doc's personal asst

- You watch the trilogy at least once a week
- Jamie McFly

- Your cell phone rings when your paying for clothes with your mom (the BTTF theme of course) and you later find out that the girl that was ringing up your clothes said she loved your ring tone and wants it so you figure she must be a backie also.
- You play BTTF in your head when you''re bored and don't have access to the DVDs
- When your mom's car won't start you tell her to try banging her head against the steering wheel (my family gave me funny looks for this one)
- You get mad at your brother when he sings the wrong lyrics to Johnny B. Goode
- You only agree to watch Angles in thhe Outfield with your friend after you find out Christopher Lloyd is in it!
- You stay up until 3 am to watch Spinn City
- You get really mad that none of yourr local video stores have many MJF movies (1 of them doesn't even have BTTF1!!!!)
- When you're gonna rent a movie and yyour between Stuart Little and The Whole Nine Yards (I also LOVE the show Friends) you rent Stuart Little (which you've seen before) over The Whole Nine Yards (which you haven't seen)
- i kno, its not to scale

- I work at a bowling alley; last night we had a DJ and he was doing movie trivia - you had to guess the theme song from a movie, and one was the theme for Back to the Future. I started screaming, "BACK TO THE FUTURE, BACK TO THE FUTURE!" while ringing up customers at the same time (I think I got some looks but oh well)
- DocsGirl

- You spend 2 hours reading this thread instead of working on the report due tomorrow...
"Do you realize what would happen if I turned in my reports in your handwriting? I'd get fired. You wouldn't want that to happen would ya'? Would ya'?"
- You see a "Bingo Night" ad and thinkk that a "Biffco Night" would be great...
- AnotherGreatMystery

- Your dad comes home and tells your mom it's going to cost $300 to fix her car and you start quoting Biff (he cost 300 bucks damage to my car...).
- i kno, its not to scale

- I was at Target yesterday and walked past a stand where there were wallets for sale. I started laughing, seemingly out of nowhere (that's one of my weird habits) and the people I was with asked why and I pointed out "Look, there's some wallets over there. I think he took your wallet!" They made a few subtle noises of disgust before we moved on. Everyone I even remotely know has to live with my BTTF obsession.
- Blind Spot

- You have a paper printed out that you got from a BTTF website that has firetrails on it and says, "Roads, were we're going we don't need roads" And it's hanging in your room over your bed. - You also have a picture of a DeLoreaan in your room.
- You have an old clock that dosn't woork anymore hanging on your wall set permanently to 10:04
- Jamie McFly

- Whenever you're on a train, you pull out a walkie talkie, stick your head out the window and shout, "WE'RE GOING PAST 45, YOU'LL NEVER MAKE IT!"
(I did this today!)
(Well, I caught a train and thought about doing it)
- Shandy

- You spend all your time on this website writing why you're hooked on BTTF
- Jamie McFly

- You watch an old home video of yourself and realise that you've been quoting the first movie for the last 18 years! I went home for a week and watched an old home movie. I have been quoting BTTF for the last 18 years... since I was 7 years old!!!
- SpiderGrinch

- You work at a movie theater and tell everyone (including the managers) how great it would be if Universal rereleased the BTTF trilogy for its 20th anniversary.
- Lil' White Dove

- You set your digital watch alarm and/or the hourly beeper to go off at random times, just so you can remind people that "Marty's Casio did that too!" Then subsequently get stares and snickers.
- Blind Spot

- When the Power of Love comes on at a party, you start singing it and people stare at you funny
- You get the kids you babysit hooked on it from watching it so much over there
- Jamie McFly

- You got 4 boxes of Rice Krispies 'cause they were on sale.
- Blind Spot

- You're yelled at in Algebra class for daydreaming.
- You ask people to call you Marty McFFly.
- You buy a VIP ticket at Universal Sttudios.
- Your mind is always dreaming of timee traveling with Marty and Doc.
- You memorised all the movies withoutt trying.
- You come to this message board.
> - You'd trade your car for a hoverboarrd. (Ed: Me too. Though an X-Wing fighter would be kind of cool too, if I had a place to put it.)
- Sora

- You enjoy seeing people walk around the movies with 3-D glasses on (for Spy Kids 3-D) because it reminds you of Biff's friend, 3-D, and when you tell people it was some kind of fad in the fifties, they say, "Oh yeah, like in BTTF!" and you get soooo happy! ^When a cute boy responds this way to the 3-D glasses, you immediately imagine him in Marty clothes (fifties and eighties!)
- At work tonight, there were these miiddle school girls going around with papers pinned to their shirts that said, "I love power outages," and me, this other boy, and a manager were all standing there griping about it. So I said, "I really wanna go over there and tell them to make a like a tree and get outta here." I was so excited when the boy started laughing and said, "It's make like a tree and leave! You sound like a ---- fool when you say it wrong!"
- Lil' White Dove

- Everytime you grab a drink from the fridge you say, "I come to your house and all you got for me is light beer?" even if it isn't beer!
- I am your Density

- You start a laughing fit when you listen to the Beatles 'Rocky Racoon' at the line, "It's only a scratch and I'll be better, Doc, as soon as I am able." I always think of a few incidents in Part 3.
- Blind Spot

- You dress like Marty
- You call everyone you don't like a SSlacker and a Butthead
- Danthefanman

- You can watch the movie in any format and not complain about the misframing or what type of audio the movie is encoded in on the DVD and enjoy it as much as you can.
- When you listen to the soundtrack inn your car, it makes you wanna go 88 mph - Whenever you go 88mph and are stoppeed by policeman you just tell them you are testing your flux capacitor (Ed: A lot of BTTF fans seem to be getting into trouble with the traffic police, from what I've gathered so far.)
- Zack

- When you want to catch someone off guard you say, "Hey Biff, What the h*ll is that?"
- Future guy 1985

- I've taken to calling the placement guy at my college a slacker. Because he is.
- giggles

- You have two dogs, one called Mac and one called Fly.
- If someone wants you to do somethingg you don't want to, all they have to do is call you 'chicken'.
- You have a whole lot of BTTF fics onn fanfiction.net
- You actually bother to reply to stufff like this.
- OUTATUNE

- You write up a whole Twisted Editions story about BTTF on ff.net. Just because you know it so well
- Jamie McFly

- When you find out one of the new principals at your school is named Matthew J. Fox you get really excited and say, "this is heavy". - When your brother's friend says someething about manure, your reply is, "I hate manure". - You buy Bright Lights, Big City justt because Michael J. Fox is in it even though you have never seen it (I have still yet to watch it).
- i kno, its not to scale

- You yell, "Noooooooooooooo! B*stards!" along with Marty when the terrorists shoot Doc
- DocsGirl

- When, as I did yesterday, you call your friend a square when he annoys you.
- Or, while youre listening to a rock CD, and it has a track by Chuck Berry, you say to your friend, "He had a cousin, Marvin Berry, you know? In BTTF?"
- its written all over your underwear

You learn how to two-step and your first thought is: I can dance with Doc now! Then you realize what he's doing isn't quite a two-step, but it makes you feel good anyway.
- giggles

- You are on your way to your 21st birthday party and you have chosen just about every song from the trilogy to play. Power of Love, Johnny B. Goode, Double Back, Back in Time, Pledging My Love. I've scattered them through the other music I have chosen for tonight, so it won't be a full on Back to the Future medley, but every now and then when a BTTF song comes on I'll start dancing.
- Shandy

- Whenever you've got an umbrella with you, and it stops raining, you close it and use the bottom as a cane like Old Biff did. Even if you get stares and laughs.
- Blind Spot

- When someone screws up you say that he had a few short circuits in his bionic implants.
- Future guy 1985

- The other day I reached up to get some paper towels to dry my hands and before I realized that the plastic towel holder said "Scott" on it, "Great Scott" suddenly popped in my head! It was freaky.
- Lil' White Dove

- At work today I was explaining to somebody about getting money back for a movie they were returning after the 30 day limit. I meant to say "When you bought the movie originally...." and stuff. I accidentally went, "When you burned the almanac in 1955 the normal timeline was restored." I already blurted it out before I realized. The unbelievable thing is after that, the woman said, "All you have to do is go to her house and wake her up." Than we talked about BTTF for like 20 minutes until I had to go do something else. It's in my subconscious. I just hope it never gets me in trouble.
- You daydream about what you'll look like when you're 47.
- Blind Spot

- When you meet someone you tell them your name and then say, "But you can call me Marty".
- AlternateStrickland

- Well a few days ago when looking at Mars (extremely close this week) I said, "This is truly amazing, a portable television studio, no wonder the president has to be an actor, he's gotta look good on television." My dad was completely perplexed.
- Danthefanman

- Tonight when I got home from work I was talking to my dad while he was flipping through the channels on TV and he turned to TBS and Part3 was on; it was the part where Buford was at the festival looking for Doc... Anyway, I let out a scream... my father gave me a weird look and I ran through the house yelling Back to the Future is on! Back to the Future Part3 is on! Then later I walked into my parents bedroom and my mom is like, "What are you doing?" and I was like, "Watching Back to the Future Part3 and she's like, "Oh god."
- DocsGirl

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