Skywater Revisited - Your Guide to the World of Boredom

You Know You're A Backie When... Part 8

(Compiled from the bttf.com message boards)

Woohoo! Page 8! (=page 20 on bttf.com)
Before I start this page, I would just like to know one thing: How can you guys be allegedly so crazy about BTTF and yet mispell simple things like the characters' names? If I see someone spell 'Emmet' ONE MORE TIME...
More common SPG (Spelling, Punctuation, Grammar) errors: 'A lot' is two words, not one.
Poster whose posts need the most editing: DocsGirl.

YKYABW... Part 8:

- You buy and watch the BTTF trilogy 9999999 times
- You drink only Pepsi Free
- You dress like Doc in BTTF2
- You spend 100,000 dollars making a DDeLorean and then converting it into a BTTF replica (Ed: 'Making'?)
- You study science at very young age<
- You read Jules Verne
- You have memorised every line
- You slip and hit your head on the siink while hanging a clock and dream about you being Doc and telling Marty about the FC
- You totaled your mothers car while ttrying to hover convert it (Ed: What did she do to you?)
- You say Great Scott a lot of times aa day
- You punch a kid because he called yoou chicken and then kick him for calling BTTF ***
- You ask your grandma for something BBTTF every time you see her
- You keep a picture of your family wiith you at all time
- You have a shrine to BTTF in your laab
- You build replicas of all of Doc's iinventions and turn your room into a lab
- You name your dog Einstein
- You sign all of your letters, "your friend in time, Doc Emmett L. Brown
- You post on this board and forum
> - You run high voltage cable from yourr clocktower to the road below and fit your car with a lightning rod just in case
- Everybody who hears you talk gets coonfused
- Your teacher yells at you repeatedlyy for jumping up when she says the number 1.21 and screaming 1.21 jigowatts before running out of the room
- You hit your head on your steering wwheel to start your car
- The number 88 is significant to you<
- Every Nov 5 you celebrate the creatiion of time travel
- You are considered the crazy wild eyyed scientist of your school, city, and state
- Doc Emmet.L.Brown

- You sing Johnny B. Goode (and other BTTF hits) in the car at the top of your lungs
- Whenever someone mentions the words 'purple' or 'Calvin Klein' I say, "I've never seen purple underwear before, Calvin." "Calvin... why do you keep calling me Calvin?" "Well, that's your name, isn't it? Calvin Klein? It's written all over your underwear."
- Whoa...Rock-n-Roll

- You go to IMDb and vote 10 for each movie of the trilogy! (Ed: Hey, let's all mass up and do that, and see how far up the 'Top 250 Movies' list we can move BTTF!)
- Zack

- There's a guy at school with a short haircut. He looks really big and mean (he's not though). He looks a little like 1955 Biff (well, maybe '65 Biff). Anyway, we were talking, and because he's bigger and more buff than me I accidentally said, "Now Biff, uh, how long is it before your next class?" He's not a BTTF fan, but he laughed. Better than nothing.
- Blind Spot

- My math teacher is bald like Strickland and even though he doesn't act like him he still reminds me of Strickland! Also he says, "Hello, Hello" a lot and I always hope that he would finish it and say, "Hello McFly, Anybody home?" Sadly he hasn't but I wish that he would!
- AlternateStrickland

- When my friend makes up a support group for me. (Ed: 'Backies Anonymous'... hmm...)
- Jamie McFly

- One of my friends is named Scott so some times I say, "Great Scott! What was the History homework?"
- OuttaTyme

- I was outside waxing my car when my dad came out and asked me what I was up to. And of course I couldn't resist saying, "Just puttin' on the second coat now!" What made it even better was that my dad started laughing cuz he knew what I was quoting from.
- Doc's Mistress

- Part3 was on yesterday and I ran into the den yelling to my father, "Back to the Future is on!" and I was like, "Ma, I'm not going to work, I'm watching Back to the Future instead."
- DocsGirl

- There's a charity dress-up day at school and you go as Doc; you keep quoting things from the film at people and run into lessons just in time shouting, "Precisely on schedule!"
- emmet_brown_88

- Well right now I'm supposed to be writing an assigment and I swear I am... but I'm also listening to the BTTF soundtrack right now and it's on the overture... I stopped what I was doing when it came up to the part where Doc is like, "D*mn, where is that kid?" I stopped what I was doing and looked at my watch and said, "D*amn, where is that kid? D*amn.. D*mn d*mn!" I had to do it.
- My stereo speakers are hooked up to the VCR in the den, so I can tape songs off the video tapes... when I was younger you have no idea how much I loved the end theme from part2... i made my dad tape it... but now I have it on CD, yay!
- DocsGirl

- Today at lunch, my friends and I were minding our own business when this kid from another table suddenly leans toward us holding a cap from a soda bottle and says pretty loud, "I won $35!" It was pretty annoying, but then he dared to go on and ask if any of us would go out with him. I mean, come on, the kid looked like he was 14!! So I look at him and say in my best Lorraine voice, "I wouldn't go out with you even... even if you had a million dollars!" He got this sad look on his face, but he deserved it - he kept acting like a pimp and calling us his hoes for the rest of the period (but we ignored him). We were like, "Kid, you're white!"
- Lil' White Dove

- Anyway, I was at the mall today when I noticed a guy who was probably about 50 and he looked quite a bit like me. I tried to get a closer look and got tempted to go up and ask if he was my older self. Maybe he was. I don't know what I'll look like in 30 or so years. I can't imagine why I'd wanna come back to 2003 though - 1985 would be much cooler. (Ed: If he wasn't and you asked him that, you'd probably get a really weird look in return.)
- Blind Spot

- The other day I was playing my electric guitar and my amp shorted out and I smelled smoke. I couldn't resist saying "Whoa... Rock and Roll." I wish I had the big amp from the movie though... woulda been so sweet!
- Doc's Mistress

- You can't stop yourself from daydreaming about BTTF whenever a teacher mentions the word "paradox." So far this year, I have had paradoxes come up in two classes - in English Literature (they're used in sonnets) and statistics (I forget the name, but it was something like this example: I can bat better on the right than my friend, and also on the left (according to batting average), but my friend has a better batting average overall). (Ed: We were talking about this poem, 'The Paradox of our Times' in Lit class and were supposed to write what we thought about it. At the bottom of my paper, I put in the quote where Marty asked Doc if a paradox was one of those things that could destroy the universe; the teacher underlined it and drew a big question mark. Sigh.)
- Lil' White Dove

- Whenever the number 88 comes up you immediatly lose focus! For example: The other day in science we were taliking about constellations. There are 88 constellations that scientists study... I dont remember anything thing else after that... teehee!
- You think your best friend's street looks excatly like Marty's! (seriously!!)
- Whoa...Rock-n-Roll

- You make your sister want to watch BTTF because you are listening to the soundtrack in your car when you are giving her a ride. Muahahaha!!
- Shonash Clayton Eastwood

- When Doc smiles at Clara (when she is off screen) in Part 3, you turn away just like she does and smiles because Doc really has that affect on you.
- Today I had the biggest headache... I said to myself, "Whoa, what a headache," then I heard Doc in my head: the thing I really miss here is Tylenol.
- DocsGirl

- I went to meet my friend at the mall after class today. He was about half an hour late so when he arrived I (without thinking) said "What happened to you? I went to Biff's house and you weren't there!" He just looked at me and went "Huh?" I was like "Ah sorry, nevermind dude." I doubt he had any idea what I was talking about.
- Blind Spot

- Every time I drive down my old street in the late afternoon, (it looks like martys' street) I try to get to 88mph even though I can only get up to about 45.
- When I see my cousin and he's been llosing hair since he was 18 (he's 40 now) you say, "Geezes, didn't that guy ever have hair!"
- You hear your aunt say all the time,, "You little nutty cousin Marc just loves being in his playpen". You smile and look at him, saying, "You better get use to these bars, kid"
- chipheadskerry

- At the store, I got a perfume sample called Stella and right away, I heard this line in my head...
"STELLA! Another one of these **** kids jumped in front of my car!"
- Doc's Mistress

- You're home sick and spend the whole day on bttf.com and watching BTTF.
- i kno, its not to scale

- You start the trend of wearing your pants inside-out at school, and people actually take you seriously. (Too bad they don't get it, despite all of the hints I gave.)
- Doc's Celebi

- On your trip to Universal you buy...
~BTTF Shirt
~BTTF Sweatshirt
~BTTF Soundtrack
~BTTF Notepad
~BTTF Pen
~BTTF Postcard (the postcard is 4 an english project!)
- And you have your pic made by the Deelorean & Time Train outside the ride, of course!!!
- You're about to take off on an airpllane and you're going, "65,75,85, 88!!"
- Whoa...Rock-n-Roll

- I was having a conversation at work with someone yesterday. He asked what I want to do for a living. I said, "You think I'm gonna spend my life in this place? No sir, I'm going to school, and one day I'm gonna be somebody!" I was hoping some other guy would say, "That's right, he's gonna be on a TV show!"
- Blind Spot

- You build your own custom skateboard and fix the top so it looks like Marty's Mattel hoverboard.
- Marty's Hoverboard

- You can envision the scenes in your head. When someone mentions a scene on this message board for example, I start to watch the scene in my head. I can catch all of the movies in my head! I haven't seen them in a month but since they are in my head I don't need to. It is helpful when I can't watch BTTF on TV, I can "watch" it in my head! (Ed: I can go years without seeing BTTF; I just watch it in my head. (And I still swear the fan fiction is better.))
- AlternateStrickland

- We were in science class today. We were doing an assignment where we had to read and then anser the questions. There wasn't enough books (cheap Weber school distric), so me and my friend Rachel had to share. We were reading it, and it suddenly talked about a kilowat. And Rachel was all like, "Hey, Kilowat, that reminds me of Back to the Future." I was really surprised. I said, "You've seen Back to the Future?" She said yes and that she loved the movies. We spent the rest of class talking about the trilogy. I think I found a fan!
- Jamie McFly

- You wanna be a BTTF character for Halloween!!
- Whoa...Rock-n-Roll

- When your history teacher talks about Switzerland you think: You're supposed to be in Switzerland, you little son of a b*tch!
- DocsGirl

- Today in cross country, we were going for a 30 minute run and along the way we found this branch, about a couple meters long or so. One girl picked it up and thought it'd be funny to carry it... then we ended up all holding a part of it and bringing it all the way back to school! So tonight, we decided to get together and celebrate our new inside joke by making T-shirts. I couldn't resist making a BTTF reference, though... I wrote "Back to the Branch" on the back and for the quote, I put: "Hold the... BRANCH?!" (These 3 words were our main quote that everyone put on their shirt.) "Great Scott!" "I know, this is heavy!"
- Lil' White Dove

- My Chemistry teacher is a fan without even knowing it! One time in class a student was giving her guff so she comes back with the famous Buford Tannen line "Mighty strong words runt!" I couldn't stop laughing and no one knew why. Not only that but later in the lesson she mentioned Plutonium and she even said it the same way Doc did in BackI with that cheery serious expression. Gosh Chem is fun.
- One time my mother was yelling at mee about something or other, I wasnt paying much attention, but when she got to the end of her sentence I just broke out and replied "That was so stupid, Grandpa hit him with the car!" She dropped the arguement because she thought it was so funny. Looks like you can win over your parents with outrageous, random movie quotes. All the more fun for me!
- Silvestrilom

- For your Danceline routine you really really wanna do a BTTF song.... but no one else does...
- Your Dad just brought home the Back To The Future Movie Poster!!! YAY!!!!!
- Whoa...Rock-n-Roll

- You post on this board from your school's computer! (I am right now!)
- FireTrails

- I too tried the pantspockets inside-out thing for two or three days in a row before I gave up; It's almost impossible to find another pocket for your keys! Besides, my friends threatend me saying they would act as they didn't know me, if I didn't stop. But as I said to them, "You'll see... I'm just ahead of my time! 12 years to be exact..."
- RedSlicer

- Yesterday at work, this guy came in and bought a few things (I mean quite a few), and a promotion we have. Everything totaled $88. When I rang him up, I danced around a little and said in my best Doc voice, "What did I tell you? 88 dollaaa-rrrs! The transaction occured at precisely 5:41 PM and 0 seconds!" Apparently he knew what I meant, but still gave me a weird look and acted like he wanted to get out of there. Everybody else in line heard it and many loved it. When they got to me, they were like "Hey that was really funny." Afterwards, my boss pulled me aside and I was getting all scared like George 'cause I thought I was in trouble. I wasn't, but he just asked me to not make it that obvious next time.
- Blind Spot

- My friends know how obsessed I am with the movies. Today we were playing basket ball till like 8 at night, and right before I went home I said, "I'm going to go home, pop in a movie and lie on my bed." And they gave me a weird look and said all at the same time, "Back to the future?" I smiled and hoped on my bike. I said, "No." They all looked relieved and then I said, "Back to the Future Part 2" They got all annoyed and made me leave. It was funny.
- Jamie McFly

- I'm not sure if every state does this different, but in Cal, your ID/License has a note on it saying when you'll be either 18 or 21 in a certain year (if you get it before then). Mine says '21 in 2002'. I just put a little label near it and wrote 'Age 47 in 2028'.
- Blind Spot

- You get really excited when you see that your credit card bill is due on Nov 12th even though you still have to pay it but it's the day Marty went back to 1985 from 1955
- DocsGirl

- When you whistle the BTTF theme song(s) and other songs from BTTF people yell at you. They don't yell at you because of what you are whistling, they yell at you because of how loud you are whistling it! I whistle very loud but very well!
- AlternateStrickland

- Your friend says to you, "Did you know that in BTTF part 2 it says that the Cubs are gonna win the world series in 2004?" and you snap, "no it never says that, it says 2015". I didn't mean to snap at her but I was quite annoyed by these types of rumors already... she thought of it because I was wearing my BTTF shirt today.
- i kno, its not to scale

- You spend two hours a day learning the BTTF theme song on the piano (Ed: Two hours a day? Hey, it's not that hard... I played it only about five times before I could get most of it.)
- Jamie McFly

- You look at the cover of your math book and notice...
Lea McCracken
Linda Thompson
I thought it was Lea Thompson at first... OH and I just noticed the name LINDA... Marty's sis! Cool. (Ed: It's a conspiracy...)
- Whoa...Rock-n-Roll

- You Know Your Backism Has Driven You Over The Edge when...
- You throw a birthday party for your toy Docs. That's right. In honor of Chris Lloyd's birthday, I gave my five toy Docs (two McDonalds, one Corgi, one Kubrick, one Johnny Lightning) a birthday party, complete with presents and food. We had one last brownie, and I used it for a cake. I hope somebody gets a kick out of this. (Ed: You could have given me the brownie...")
- Hot_For_Doc

- Yesterday, my mom and I were driving home from the store and she said that we might wax my car this weekend if the weather is nice, so I promptly told her, "I want two coats of wax this time, not just one!" It was funny. Luckily, she knew I was quoting, but unfortunately didn't respond with "I was just finishing the second coat now!" Oh well, can't win 'em all, I guess...
- Lil' White Dove

- Today I was going to help a friend who was having trouble with hs rideable lawnmower. When I got there I asked what was wrong. I said "What happened? You blew the fuel injection manifold? It will take me a month to rebulid it!". What he then said took me by surprise. He said, "No, i ripped the fuel line." He didn't know that I was quoting BTTF! He honestly did break the lawnmower's fuel line! I was laughing in my head for a while!
- I also thought of the whole dialoguee of the "We're Outta Gas" scene in my head. Anyway, I helped him fix it and we got the lawnmower to 88 miles per hour and we went back to the future. I mean we fixed it and we mowed the lawn.
- Also today, we got out of school earrly and a lot of teachers were getting ready for their meetings and they were listening to music, mostly from the 80s. And someone said, "Why do all the teachers here like 80s music?" I was kinda mad that he dissed 80s music (since i like it) so I replied, "Believe, me, it makes perfect sense." I then wondered how someone could not like 80s music. How could you not Huey Lewis and the News!
- AlternateStrickland

- Your credit card bill is due on Nov 12th and your mother asks when its due and you say, "Nov 12th, 1955"
- You are bowling with someone and theey throw a bad ball and he says, I don't think I can take that kind of rejection!" (I swear he said that!) I had the dialogue between Marty and George running in my head and I had to bite my tongue to say, "Besides, I think she'd rather go with someone else.... Uh, who? (points) Biff."
- DocsGirl

- Theres this team in my schools called N.A.L (national academic league). I'm on the presentation round. At one meet we had, we had to come up with someone to give the Nobel Prize to. And we picked Micheal J. Fox! We even talked about Back to the Future in our presentation.
- Jamie McFly

- You get kicked off the message boards for spamming, then create a new e-mail address just so you can get back on!
Perfect, just perfect
and
I'm back from the Future
That's me!

- Perfect, just perfect

- Your dad's complaining about you putting a cardboard box on the hood of his car (he thought I'd scratch it, yet he had no problem with me putting a SCREWDRIVER on the hood of my mom's car) and you're thinking in your head, "Would you SHUT UP about the car!"
- giggles

- When you drive your car on the expressway at 88 MPH screaming, "88 miles per hour!"
- Future guy 1985

YKYAIMBBW (You know you're an Internet message board backie when)...
- Every time you start typing in a URLL of a website you want to go to, you 'accidentally' hit bttf.com without even thinking.
- Blind Spot

- I wanted to be Lorraine For Halloween but I ran out of time and didn't have 50s clothes. I'm going as a dead soldier. (Ed: From Lorraine to a dead soldier... right.)
- Your teacher says the word 'flux' annd you drift off into BTTF world for the rest of the class.
- Jamie McFly

- You're going to class tomorrow (and it's after Halloween) still dressed as Old Biff - well, minus the old man mask and the modified cane.
- Blind Spot

- Your science teacher wants you to write down possible names for his new black lab puppy (male) and you suggest BTTF related names, such as Einstein, Copernicus, even Doc! What good names for a pooch! Sadly, he didn't take ANY of the class's suggestions- instead he named it Mo. And guess what? The dog's middle name is Ron. That poor puppy is going to need councelling. lol (Ed: MORON! =D *laughs hysterically* Maybe if I get a pet, I'll call it that too.)
- Whoa...Rock-n-Roll

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