Top 10 Reasons why you know you're obssesed with Transformers ------------------------------------------------------------- 10.) Your fiance starts to actually collect them with you. 9. ) Your kids think you're awsome. 8. ) Most of your friends think you are absolutley nuts. 7. ) 50 Meg. of hard drive space is devoted entirely to AVI, WAV, and Gif files. 6. ) Spent the past two months searching every store for damn Cyberjets. 5. ) Your attic has been renovated as a Cybertronian Shrine. 4. ) You discover that you have no money left for gas for work, because you just spent $40 on a Hot Rod Targetmaster. 3. ) Can recite the movie and the soundtrack word for word, by heart. 2. ) You start to seriously consider a custom tattoo of the Decepticon insignia. ...and the number one reason why you know you're obssesed with Transformers... {Paul Schaffer starts a drum roll here...} 1. ) You eat on Transformer plates, sleep in Transformer sheets and tent, and drink out of Transformer glasses that you saved all your Chef-boy-ar-dee labels to send away for. (OK, I'm not THAT bad, but I do have the items stored away!) ============================================================================= JKierst919 (jkierst919@aol.com) wrote: Guess I'm not doing too bad. Only three of these apply. :) (for interests sake, they're 8, 7, and 3.) Hmm, a tattoo. Not a bad idea :) ================================================================== hehehehe... let me add a few more to these, slightly more net-specific... 11) You think of TF MUSHers interchangably by their net, RL, and TF-character names :) 12) You get into passionate arguments over the reproduction of TFs, the nature of the Matrix, and Cybertron's atmosphere. (sound familiar,anyone?) 13) You go out and do research on astrophysics in order to create a semi-accurate representation of space for TF2005 MUSH.... ok, so I'm the only one who's crazy enough to do this, so what :P :P :P (and of course no one noticed me sneaking in a plug for TF2005 there! ;) 14) You've already started saving money for your trip to BotCon95 :) 15) You've read all the messages on a.t.tf available on your server, including all the fanfic. ============================================================================= I don't have ten, but I have two. When some jerk at the office gets you upset, you tell him to eat transistor parts and die. At the end of the week, you thank Vector Sigma it's Friday. ============================================================= Here's one of mine: When you name your car after your favorite TF character. And fully intend to add a painting/decal of a Decepticon symbol on the hood someday soon. ============================================================== Here are a few that I noticed lately... -- You have probably used over 200 TF quotations after being on the newsgrouops for 4 1/2 months -- You stare at cars, looking for seams in the metal that might allow them to change to robot mode -- You try to compare the size of your favorite transformers to familiar strucures. Yep, Wheeljack would have to duck under that bridge, but Swindle wouldn't... -- You choose a TF name for your account's login instead of "dfilip" -- You got a five string bass to recreate the thumbslapped sound of the Vince DiCola's soundtrack -- You have dreams about buying, playing, working with or being TFs. -- Your daily conversations incorporate scenes from TF episodes "oh this essay was good, but not good enough to beat Megatron..." -- You put more than 15 posts a week to this newsgroup (although that will be a tough one to do while I work on finals) -- When asked to consider your favorite characters, you find yourself in a forty-way tie. =============================================================================== I've renamed all my sister's stuffed animals after Transformers, especially the Dinobots. Her friends can't figure out why her big German Shepard toy is named Trypticon :) Two years ago, as my drafting assignment, I handed in a drawing of Scorpinok. I actually seriously considered purchasing a car specifically to take its chassis apart and re-organize it into an Autobot... I used to spend so much time in the toy department copying down the tech specs info that the customers thought I worked there... For an English essay in high school, I analyzed the quotation "Clarity of thought before rashness of action."... A year later, I wrote an essay on "Peace through tyranny"... I know I'm obsessed with Transformers when I realized I had twice as many tech spec cards as actual Transformers (huh???) And lastly, you know you're obsessed with Transformers when you create not only a character on TFMUSH, but also the toy it's supposed to be based on! ============================================================= And speaking of naming stuff after TFs, here's another one of mine: naming pets after Transformers -- or the reverse, creating a Transformer character based on a pet. I've done both -- they're an endless source of inspiration to each other. =============================================================================== My contribution, based on an experience I just had on my brief trip to San Francisco... 16. You're looking at chintzy cheapo toys at a local tourist trap when you recognize them as knock-off clones of a "real" Transformers toy. (In my case, it was in SF's Chinatown district, and the toy was a clone of the Autobot Jumpstarters. No jumping transformation, just the motorized rolling gimmick) =============================================================================== Here's another that many of us can relate to. You add reasons to a top-10 posted by another user just so you can fit in. :-) (gee...I guess by adding that one, I qualify...) =================================================================== -Everytime you get a headache you act out the Galvatron plasma bath sequence. ===================================================================== how about this one: You dream up a "tranmutation chip" so that your fav tf's can shrink and become human looking so you can .......er (for lack of a better term) date them. =========================================================================== 21) You've been to Jenna's store. :) ===================================================================== How about this one: 20.) Whenever you are out in public, and you catch something in the corner of your eye that somehow resembles your TF name, it immediately grabs your attention. I know I'm really beginning to hate this place called the Crossroads Cafe. ====================================================================== This is THE SURE SIGN THAT YOU ARE TOO OBSESSED! When you subscribe to alt.sex.fetish.robot!!!!!!! That's pretty bad! ================================================================= I'll add these from personal experience: 17.) While going to a book store on official business you notice some old TF comics and immediately start drooling. 18.) You trade away old RPGs for Transformers from friends who are still looking at you funny. 19.) You consider changing your netalias from "Sablemane" to "Ramjet" <8). ===================================================================== Yeah, I got one too... Making an outline of Oppy (Gen 1 of course) and filling him with North Western Coast Native American art for one of your final art projects. It aint gonna be 'traditional' fer damn sure!!!! -:) ======================================================================== Wanting the cool Japanese-only toys doesn't make you obsessed, really. Now, seriously considering self-publishing RoboMACs to sell at BotCon... THAT's obsessed. ======================================================================== *yet another reason: You actually belive that you ARE a Transformer. We all know there are more than a few people out there like this. (You guys know who you are! ;) ) ======================================================================== Other TF-inspired lunacy: - Any moment of silence... you say, "It's quiet... too quiet... IT'S A DECEPTICON TRAP!!!!" - Gotta leave... say, "Okay, let's roll out." - Gotta call someone a fool... say "You're a fool, Starscream"... (in a deep, knowing, Megatron voice) - Something nice happens... "Thank the matrix!" - WHAMMM ZAMMMMM.. becomes part of you. ==================================================================== Even MORE signs that you are a Transformers Junkie: * You can't look at any 18 wheeler without visually seeing it transform into Optimus Prime (my friends tell me it's 'JUST' me, I think they're wrong, chuckle) * You have duplicates of all your toys. * Instead of saying 'hi', your friends ask you if you found them that 'StarScream' toy yet. * You would save your Transformers from a fire before your family, dog or even the computer... * You stare at the BotCon Manual and CheckList and complain about a certain company not releasing certain toys in America... ================================================================================ Okay, how about this one? You know you're obsessed with TFs... -- If you can't find the plastic "cup" part to your jock strap, and when asking for help to find it you quote TF:TM in a gurgled underwter voice. "Kuuuuuuuuup! Grimlock! Slag! Anybody?" -- You know your brother is obsessed with TFs if he knows exactly what you mean and says "it's in the other drawer." ============================================================== More additions to the list of things that let you know you're obsessed with Transformers... -- the forward-pointing hand-grips on your bike remind you of Unicron's planet-impaling horns... -- You can't see a shiney sports car without mentally transforming it into a Go-bot... -- You see a police motorcycle and try to imagine it as Defensor's leg... (BTW, Defensor wouldn't be very tall!)