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You Know You're A Backie When... Part 9

(Compiled from the bttf.com message boards)

Part 9. Bleagh. This is long... Oh, and did you know that the title of 'The Power of Love' contains the word 'the'? Grr. I drove me mad trying to correct it and I gave up.

YKYABW... Part 9:

- Every time you see a truck turn a corner, 'The Power of Love' pops into your head and you have to start singing.
- Jamie McFly

- I have been a fan for 14 years. I own soo many props, I pretty much talk to my parents saying a lot of BTTF quotes along with friends, I have Marty's outfit from BTTF1 - I wear it around complete with vest Nike bruins and jeans etc - I watched the movies who knows how many times, I drive around with the Einstien plush dog in my passenger seat, I back out of my driveway with my car saying, "Doc, we better back up. We don't have enough road to get up to 88", then I flip my eyeglasses down and say, "Roads? Where were going, we don't... need... roads". I wanna take a road trip to Marty's house... I made my own hoverboard, I have a collection of BTTF shirts... what a sci fi nerd!!!!!
- Hello McFly 1985

- When I eat cereal or soup now, I always have this urge to take a spoonful and drop it back down into the bowl in a surprised manner, like how Marty is about to take a sip of coffee in Part 1 then drops it back down on the saucer when he realizes George left. (I think I got this as a cross between Marty's action and the fact that George is eating cereal.)
- Lil' White Dove

- Whenever I wake up, I have to sit up and stare around the room and then run my hand through my hair.
- Jamie McFly

- I was watching TV just a little while ago, and I changed the channel to watch Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and right when I got to the channel, him and this other girl (I don't remember her name) were talking about someone named Gina Brown. I was like, "It's InLoveWithDoc!!" lol.
- Lil' White Dove

- You say HAPPY NOV. 5TH to everyone!
- You know on Windows XP you get to haave an icon and a user name... well mine is Mrs.McFly AND my icon's an electric guitar!
- Whoa...Rock-n-Roll

- When you think of a really good one of these, and then forget it. But instead of not making a big deal, you actually let it get to you, like I'm doing now.
- Jolly Jamo

- Guess what?? My milk expires Nov. 12th!! hehe you never know where you'll find BTTF (Ed: Milk? Okay... "Next Saturday night, we're sending you (the milk) back to the dustbin!" Yes I talk to milk.)
- Whoa...Rock-n-Roll

- Everytime you hear, see, or read any word such as: Back, time, Doctor, scientist, power, travle, etc. You automatically think 'Back to the Future!'
- Jamie McFly

- You go around asking everyone what happend 48 years ago today. Then you go ahead and tell them that it's the day Marty first 'attended' class in 1955 and almost got in a fight with Biff. BTW, I did recently go to class in my Old Biff clothes. When I walked around, I got stares and laughs from a bunch of people (they are old man clothes, after all). Of course my friends/classmates/acquaintences who know of my obsession think I've really gone off the deep end now.
- Blind Spot

- Your father comes home from Atlantic City and he's like, "Gina, guess which movie they showed on the bus!" and of course I was like, "Back to the Future?" but I was wrong (I cant remember if it was Sweet Home Alabama or My Big Fat Greek Wedding)
- DocsGirl

- I know my teacher is a BTTF fan because she told me. She always called us slackers just like Strickland does. Today she was doing it, and I couldn't help but yell out, "You're a slacker, McFly! You wanna be a slacker your whole life?" We had a good laugh about it because she knew what I was talking about.
- Jamie McFly

- Last year in music class, we had to sing a song about steam trains so of course I was thinking of BTTF3 when our teacher asked if anyone has ever seen Back to the Future Part 3 becase it included a steam train... it was scary...
- I am your Density

- Oh, another BTTF reference with my English teacher. Once we had to write these resimay letters. I wrote to Doc. I had his whole adress on there. My teacher saw it and was all, "You really like BTTF dont you?" I said yes and smiled proudly.
- Jamie McFly

- The other day I was in a craft store, and there was a sign for DMC thread. The first thought that came to my mind was Delorean Motor Car. hehe. When I mentioned it to my friend she just laughed at me and shook her head.
- Doc's Mistress

- We had to write a popcorn essay in Enlish. Ya, dumb. But I titled it 'The Power of Popcorn' At the end of my essay I wrote a little spoof of of 'The Power of Love' using popcorn. It was just a verse. My teacher said she actually sang along. She know's how much I love BTTF so she knew I put it as a reference to the movie. I'm glad my teacher is a fan. (Ed: Wish I had your English teacher; mine is getting irritated with all my BTTF references. Maybe I should cut down a little...)
- Jamie McFly

- You walk around town in a black leather jacket, fedora, and walkie talkie watching a school bully!!
- Herschel Brown 1931

- Someone keeps talking about a car and you say, "Would ya shut up about the car!"
- FireTrails

- Me and my sister were at our NAL away game. Afterwards we went to watch volleyball cause we go at the same time. They were playing a JV game and my friend Angie was on the team serving. It went over to the wrong side and me and my sister couldn't help but say, "Angie you bozo! Those balls don't work on that side!"
- Jamie McFly

- We may get a thunder storm tonight! (yay!) and I was like, "Dad, how cool would it be if we got a thunderstorm tonight...?" and he's like, "Why?" I was like, "Don't you realize what the date is? Nov 12th!" I was like, "at 10:04 p.m. tonight Marty is gonna get sent back to 1985 from 1955!" He's like, "Your brain is computerized on Doc Brown."
- DocsGirl

- It's raining! that's so cool! It's Nov. 12 and it's raining! Two hours till Marty arrives in the year 1985!
- You get excited because it rains on nov. 12.
- Jamie McFly

- You're looking forward to getting 1885 posts tonight.
- Blind Spot

- Today I was at the bank with my mom getting an account. My mom went to cash some checks in the other room so I was left sitting on the chair by myself. I could hear the radio in the background and suddenly 'The Power of Love' came on. I started singing it out loud. I got alot of stares from people.
- Our NAL topic on Fri. was 'Whaling MMoratorium'. In our presentation we had to pretend we were a group of people who wanted to save the whales and such. I couldn't help but say in our presentation, "We at the whale preservation society believe that the whales should stay exactly as they are as part of our history and heritage." My sister was the only one in the group who knew I got this out of BTTF.
- Jamie McFly

- Friday night, my brother told me he'd call me the next morning, and I couldn't resist saying, "Not too early, I sleep in on Saturdays. Hey, McFly, your shoe's untied! Don't be so gullible McFly!" He thinks I'm a total BTTF nerd.
- Lil' White Dove

- Anyhow, I was cleaning some shelves at work this morning. I had to alternate between that and other stuff.One of my managers asked me how far I was. I said, "I'm on the second row," which I honestly was, I wasn't thinking of BTTF. Than the guy said, "Now, Jesse, [my name] try to speed it up a little, okay." I ran over to him (in view of the line), did hand gestures, going, "I-I-I'm sorry, I meant I was just starting on the second row, now." Nobody knew what I meant this time.
- Blind Spot

- You logged on to the message boards because you wanted to add something to this topic, then you noticed that it's been so long since you've been here that you have 8 pages to catch up on. You go on to read the 8 pages only to forget what you were going to say.
- I remember now... Last week, I was llistening to the Kings game on the radio. They had a stop in play and in the arena they were playing the BTTF version of Johnny B. Goode. Oh, and to top it off, the Kings were playing against the LIGHTNING.
- HVStorm55

- Last night I was riding home from my mom's house and I was sitting there and dozed off, then I pictured the DeLorean coming 'atta nowhere and going somewhere in time.
- You're watching a movie (theatre or home)and all of a sudden you see the DeLorean pop up. (I did that when I was watching Matrix Revolutions) (Ed: THERE WAS A DELOREAN IN MATRIX REVOLUTIONS? *hyperventilates* WHERE?)
- Herschel Brown 1931

- I was on the phone with my father before. Sometimes I call him McFly. He asked me not to call him that anymore. I replyed "Ok Dad Da Da Daddio" Then he said, "That's better. He must've thought I was studdering. (Ed: My brother calls me McFly. My father calls me Marty. Go figure. )
- Future guy 1985

- You find a "Make your own Tumbler" in Starbucks (Eggnog Lattes...mmmmmm) and begin to design your own BTTF tumbler!
- Shonash Clayton Eastwood

- You buy a pair of Nike bruins
- Jamie McFly

- One of your best friends ships off to Basic training and you wish you could jump forward in time to the date he comes back, or go backwards in time to the day he left in order to say/do the things you should've the first time.
- You want to go back in time to the nnight rides you missed in order to get a few dances in with the aformentioned best friend. ^^
- giggles

- Your car is dead and out of sheer frustration, you bang your head on the steering wheel(hoping that'll make it start.) It hurt like h*ll and it didn't work, but wouldn't it be cool if it had?? haha.
- Doc's Mistress

- I was walking down the street today when a really friendly dog came up to me. I bent over to pet him and (without thinking) said, "Einstein, where's the Doc, boy?"
- Blind Spot

- You see a big, white, GMC truck and think, "It's Doc and the DeLorean!" and start to follow it to the mall(If it goes there).
- Hershel Brown 1931

- My friend was trying to impress me by singing 'Back in Time' (She thinks she's a backie but she dosn't even know half the characters names.) and she sang it wrong and so I started singing it outloud the whole way through. They entire class was looking at me but I just kept on singing.
- Jamie McFly

- Several small BTTF-related things occur during the day but by the time you get to the board you can't remember any of them
- Lil' White Dove

- I needed to come up with an address to put on a paper I was doing earlier this week, and the first one that came to mind (and the one I ended up using) was 1640 Riverside Drive...
- HVStorm55

- We had to watch some science video in school yesterday about the ocean. It showed the sky at the first and the camera just kinda moved around like in part 2. I couldn't help but start humming the theme song.
- Jamie McFly

- Yesterday, a lady came in to my work wearing a "life preserver" type jacket like Marty wore in part 1 (except it was black, not orange/red) so I said to her "What happened? You jump ship?" and she looked at me like I was insane so I added "what's with the life preserver?" and then I think she "got it" cuz she gave me a smile and a slight nod. I'm so sad.
- Doc's Mistress

- This happened a while ago (a couple months to a year ago to be exact) but I was eating dinner at a friend's house when his older brother (who is a BTTF fan, just like his younger brother who is my friend, and his Dad) was whistling the DoubleBack orchestral theme that Doc danced to! His dad, my friend and I said, "That the dance song from BTTF 3!". He said it was stuck in his head the whole day. They are not as big as BTTF fans as me, but they still like BTTF!
- AlternateStrickland

- You love this board so much you get your sister (Time After Time) and your cousin (8milesperhour8) to join the board. And when your little sister and other cousin are soon joining because of you. We are going to be the Johnson/Taylor family Backies! ^-^
- Jamie McFly

- You spend an hour every day trying to comb and style your hair to look like Marty and/or another MJF character.
- Blind Spot

- You go to McDonald's and accidentally order a McFly instead of a McFlurry... (Ed: McFly burgers do exist in McDonalds. *nods wisely* GUESS WHAT'S IN THEM?)
- Editor, Hill Valley Telegraph

- Every year for Christmas your list reads all over it: BTTF, BTTF, BTTF...and so on.
- You buy a old resturant and remodel it to look like Cafe '80s
- You go to the courthouse and ask theem to put a clock that DOESN'T work on the top of the building showing 10:04 (I think)!
- Hershel Brown 1931

- You look at an old school year book from 1984 and in the year book, it says that one of the top songs from 1984 was "Beat It". When you read that you instantly think of the Cafe 80s scene in Part II! This actually happened to me today!
- AlternateStrickland

- You post a Save the Clock Tower flyer on the College Bulletion Board.. I'm such a dork
- Hello McFly 1985

- We had to list some things that we were thankful for in school. Back to the Future was on my list! lol!
- Such a big moment just happened for me and my sisters and brothers. We've been saving up pennies for years in a huge penny saver/parking meter thingy. We decided it was time to cash in the gold. We turned on BTTF and waited till George and Lorraine kissed. Then we spilled the pennies all over the floor yelling, "Yay, Back to the future!!!!" Time After Time and Clarence O'hara as they are known on the board helped in this glorious event of Back to the Futuriss and Lorraine/George book. We are truly in need of help.
- Jamie McFly

- As a sequel to Jamie's post about the pennies... we took the pennies to a CoinStar machine at the local Albertsons and showed mucho excitement every time the penny-count reached a number such as "1.21" or "88" or "19.55" We would all then yell that number with its corresponding BttF line. People thought us freaks. (Ed: You are.)
- Time After Time

- The danceline went to the cheerleader's regional competition to cheer them on and 'support our school' Anyways- It was at Coleman Coliseum and that's where the University of Alabama's mens' and womens' basketball teams play and where Bama's Gymnastics Team compeats. Well, they have championships and SEC titles on the walls... so I was looking to see if they got anything in 1985... and guess what? There was an SEC title in 1985, so I went, "1985! The best year ever!" And my friend goes, "Oh, is that the year BTTF came out?" I was like "Well, yeah" and she was like, "Tara you are such a goober" I should have said "Nobody calls me 'goober'!" but I just said, "Aw, who cares?"
- Whoa...Rock-n-Roll

- You put sounds from BTTF on your computer. I put the sound of the DeLorean hitting 88 with the 3 sonic booms when the computer starts up. The other night, I left the sound turned a little high so when my hubby went to log on, I could hear the sonic booms from down the hall and I shouted "What did I tell you!? 88 miles per hour!" He and I are still laughing about it every time the computer gets turned on.
- Doc's Mistress

- I have a BTTF desktop... It's a deleted scene from BTTF3... Doc trying to give Marty the gun. Before that it was the BTTF2 thing that says "We're BACK!"
- Whoa...Rock-n-Roll

- You spend the whole day watching BTTF because you are stuck sick in bed.
- Jamie McFly

- There is an 88 cent sale thing or something recently at a local store. All I remember was that today in a big font "88 cents!" popped up on my TV. When I saw it I said, "What did I tell you! 88 cents an hour!"
- AlternateStrickland

- The husband and I were driving along, and a blue VW van pulls up next to us. Without thinking, I said "Look! The Lybians!" I got an appreciative chuckle from my hubby that time. Made it all the more funny when he said "Holy sh*t!" shifted gears and sped away. Unfortunately, when we told our friends about it later, they looked at us like we were insane. I can't imagine why.
- Doc's Mistress

- You finally get the Internet hooked up to your room just so you can visit the board. Hehehe.
- Jamie McFly

- You are still on this message board at 12:10 in the morning and you have to get up for school
- DocsGirl

- One of your vocabulary words is flux, and you see it and yell, "THE FLUX CAPACITOR! THIS IS WHAT MAKES TIME TRAVEL POSSIBLE!"
- Your lucky number is 88
- Time Monkey

- Your sister (above) is sick lying in bed with the flu she got from you and you're still in the room typing away annoying her. lol
- Jamie McFly

- You are sitting here at midnight, waiting for your future self to come back from the future to give you a good joke to insert here.
- Sancho

- You make plans with your friend to make Hill Valley High, Class of 1986 t-shirts and decide to put your boardname on the back!
- Lil' White Dove

- When you walk into your house and say, "Hey Doc, Doc, anyone home? Einstein? Come here, boy." like Marty did at the begininng of the first movie.
- Hello McFly 1985

- You own a 1984 AMC eagle wagon like Jennifer's dad owned in Part one
- You also have a few Huey lewis albumms hanging around including sports
- You own Marty's alarm clock from parrt one (I had one before I realized it was the same one and I threw it out because I got a better one)
- steve88mph

- You dress up as Marty and have the 1955 warning letter in your vest pocket
- Hello McFly 1985

- Your christmas list is full of BTTF.
- Your sister came home and you had a BTTF marathon.
- Jamie McFly

- You can say flux capacitor fluxing 3 times fast HAHA (Ed: So can I.)
- Hello McFly 1985

- You're on this site at school when you are supposed to be looking up stuff for NAL.
- Jamie McFly

- Someone mentions something about politics and you say, "You wait and see, [name], I will be mayor. I'll be the most powerful man in San Jose, and I'm gonna clean up this town!" (Ed: Yeah, you can start by sweeping the floor.)
- Blind Spot

You jump up and down and do a happy dance because... I'VE FINNALY GOT ONE THOUSAND POSTS!!!!!!!! WOOOO HOOOOO! I feel very special now.
- Jamie McFly

- You knock on your Dad's head and say "Hello Mcfly"
- Hello McFly 1985

- You are playing Classic Hearts on the computer and you name the comptuer players Doc, Marty and Jennifer (2 boys 2 girls)
- DocsGirl

- You're playing Zelda on the old NES and name your character 'Dockie'.
- Blind Spot

- You hear the word 'paradox' and get all excited. Your classmates all stare at you.
- Jamie McFly

- Your teacher mentions the word 'paradox' in refering to some of William Shakespeare's writing and givies an example of "jumbo shrimp" while you shout in your head all of the possible paradoxes in BTTF and in time travel in general! And to top it all off your teacher looks (somewhat) and acts like Doc!
- AlternateStrickland

- My manager at work calls me Marty Mcfly
- Hello McFly 1985

- You see a fundraiser magazine at school and shows a item that costs $88.00 and you shout" 88 MILES PER HOUR!!!" Problem is, I don't know what kind of item would be in a fundraiser for 88 bucks.
- Herschel Brown 1931

- You get in your car and pretend it doesn't start and hit your head on the steering wheel
- Hello McFly 1985

- Me and my sister were going somewhere and our car wouldn't start. I told her to get mad and slam her head on the steering wheel and it would work. She laughed cause she loves BTTF. (Ed: Don't you guys ever learn?)
- Jamie McFly

- You're a dude, and you dress up as 1985A Lorraine and get drunk and dance around the room. (It only happened once, I promise)
- martymcflysenior

- When it's raining or thundering outside, you say in a low voice "the storm" LOL
- Hello McFly 1985

- You were studying for your history final yesterday all day and you start to get a headache and the words in the books start to swarm around you... you see the word declaration and for a min you thought it said DeLorean (it's true)
- DocsGirl

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