Top Signs You
Are Obsessed with Titanic
- You climb onto a boat or cruise ship and re-enact the flying scene on the bow
(*and take pictures - tee-hee!*).
- You can no longer just sit on a couch, you have to sprawl on it as if posing for a
conte crayon sketch.
- You stand on your toes to impress the men at a party.
- You get into a cab and the driver asks "Where to, Miss?" and you say "To the
stars!"
- The first thing you say when you go to the office in the mornings is "I can't work
in such horreeble conditions!"
- You replace your favorite swear words with "This is horsesh*t!"
- You take practice swings at your wardrobe with a fire axe and always try not to
hit the same spot twice.
- You can make only one toast from now on... "To making it count!"
- You have learned to spit like a man.
- Every time your "significant other" tries to leave the house and say goodbye to
you, you become hysterical and yell, "Don't you say your goodbyes!"
- You take 5 bags of luggage, all of your photographs and a bowl of goldfish
everywhere you go, even when you're only popping into the 7-11 for milk.
- You've seen Titanic more than two times.
- You are the webmaster of a Titanic page.
- You have visited more than two Titanic web pages (not including the official webpage).
- You have copied and saved the entire screenplay on your computer. You have read it
several times, and then printed the whole thing or your favorite quotes just for the heck of it.
- You and the ticket guy at the theater are on a first name basis.
- You print out all the Titanic pictures that you can find, and put them up on the wall
in chronological order.
- You take an audio recorder into the movie theater and tape the movie (hmmm...that's a
little illegal).
- You collect more then 100 Titanic pics on your computer.
- Every time you open the freezer you scream "Iceberg right ahead!!"
- You throw chairs and tables into your pool and then run around it to get the effect
that Jack and Rose had when the ship was sinking.
- You wear a life-preserver at all times.
- You get 2 fish and name them Jack and Rose. You also put a sunken ship at the bottom of
the aquarium and when you look at it, you end up crying.
- You have more than 5 Titanic sites bookmarked.
- You know how many times Rose said Jack's name in the movie (FYI - she said it 76 times!).
- You start group discussions about staying on the ship vs. getting in a lifeboat.
- You know all the officers' names, ranks, lines, fates, and nationalities, the actors'
names who played them, and you have a crush on at least one.
- While in line for anything you yell "For God's sake - women and children first!"
- You get in trouble with your teacher or professor for writing, "This is absurd! We are
not having this conversation!" on your homework paper.
- You yell/scream/call for complete silence whenever anything Titanic-related is on T.V.
- You put your Titanic CD on repeat mode before going to sleep, and wake up at 4:00 a.m.,
realizing it's been spinning for many hours.
- You set your alarm to wake up on the morning of April 15th at 2:20 a.m.
- You buy the paino sheet music, even though you don't know how to play the piano or
know very little, then you spend hours trying to learn the music.
- Everytime you go fishing, you hope to fish up that Heart of the Ocean.
- While listening to "My Heart Will Go On" you dance with your cat, pretending he's
Jack.
- You refuse all offers of caviar for the rest of your life.
- You make Freudian observations regarding men's preoccupation with size every chance you
get.
- You download so many Titanic trailers on the Internet, that you eventually have the
whole movie on your computer.
- You drive over 200 miles just to see the movie in a theater with surround sound, so that
it actually sounds like the theater is about to sink.
- Every strange sound reminds you of a ship creaking and groaning.
- You get really excited when they use Titanic music as background music for the Olympic
broadcasts.
- You know that you have lost all sense of reality when you believe that somewhere there
is a beautiful girl waiting for you to save her from jumping off the back of a ship and she'll
fall desperately in love with you.
- You figure out that if Rose had stayed on the lifeboat, Jack would have had plenty
of room on the wooden door, and both would have survived.
- You train your cats to run around meowing and shrieking during Track 7 of the Titanic
soundtrack (Hard To Starboard). This is the music that is used when the ship hits the iceburg.
- Whenever your mom yells at you, you say "Oh, stop it, Mother. You’ll give yourself
a nosebleed!
- You are featured in the local newspaper for the number of times you saw the movie.
- You move to France, find an artist named Jack and tell him to draw you wearing
only a diamond necklace.
- Your father doesn't want to talk to you any more because all you ever talk about is
Titanic.
- You have e-mailed Gaelic Storm (the band during the third class party) and try to get
them to go on tour.
- You are naming your first-born daughter "Jacklyn Rose".
- You and your boy/girl friend go to the Santa Monica pier, drink cheap beer, ride
the roller coaster until you throw up, and try to draw each other's portraits, figuring
that since Jack and Rose didn't get to, someone should.
- You drive for 5 hours to go ice fishing in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin.
- You stare at every picture/painting you see, study it with a furrowed blow, and announce
softly to anyone who will listen, "There's truth but no logic . . .".
- Whenever you get on a boat or ship you scream "ICEBERG RIGHT AHEAD!" even though it's in
the middle of summer and it's ninety degrees outside.
- You know what time it is in every scene at the Grand Staircase. It's 7:05 when Jack
comes to dinnerand Rose arrives two minutes later. It is 9:00 when Rose makes it count with
Jack. 2:15 when Titanic goes under the water, and 2:20 when old Rose dies and reunites with
Jack on Titanic.
- You bought both the regular and widescreen versions of Titanic.
- You won't take a bath unless your mom lets you put a wooden board in the water.
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