You knew I was gonna write it.. and here it is!
Signs you are addicted to GenX-Lisa "bum" McKee (even worse.. most of
these are true! Except Bloom County. I'm a Bill the Cat fan all the way)
1. More people call you GenX related "counterpart"
than they call you by your real name ~$$~
2. You learn how to play scrabble even if you can't spell.~**~
3. When asked to play you say look for your opus mug.
4. Bloom County means one thing to you. OPUS!~**~
5. You label all the boxes in your basement "This side up" upside down
6. You wear a black leather jacket on the cause that it looks like Chambers.~$$~
7. You CALL the given leather Jacket the "Jono Jacket"~$$~
8. The biggest event of Christmas was getting a fax from Scott Lobdell.
9. You know Scott Lobdell and Chris Bachello's fax numbers by heart.
(No. I'm not giving it out. If I'm not using em then you can't have em either)
10. You scream when someone uses one of your Gen Next to hit someone.~**~
11. You scream when someone reads genX out loud and give Paige a Southern Accent from GEORGIA! (One of my biggest pet peeves in life!)~**~
12. You "ran" around online going "what's a Gorden Bennet?"~**~
13. You are part of the bring back Scrabble mini-campaign.
14. You already know what issue James Robinson will take over GenX
15. You have your own theory on the M and the Twins.~**~
16. You realize that the person that looked like M was name Claudia in Gen Next.~**~
17. You have the annuals even though they SUCK!~**~
18. You have taken part in a group MST3K of the annuals.
18a. And constantly wondered what happened to it cos it was gosh darned funny! (added by Me)
19. You have a laminated card of your favorite character.~$$~
20. You have one of the Marvel Universe 1994 cards with art by Chris Bachelo.~**~
21. You have better track of newspaper articles and media coverage regarding GenX then Lobdell does (I have a spiffy article from my local paper about Monet's Autism)
22. You have mentally blocked out GenX7-16 but can refer to them for important plot line supports. (but it still never happened)
23. You've figured out Chamber is just in stage one of a manifest of his powers.~**~
24. You've caught on to Paige's abnormal psychic patterns (GenX #7, Gen Next #1, New Warriors #42)
25. You know what comic book Jubilee reads (earthworm jim)~**~
26. When you see anything white leather you think Emma~**~
27. You have a framed GenX poster in your room. ~$$~
28. You have one or more Marvel Univers 94 cards blown up to 11X17 and on your wall.
29. You dream about reading GenX issues old and "new" at least once a month~**~
30. You've dreamed you were are a GenX character.~**~
31. You find yourself correcting Fan-fic writers when
they misspell Jonothon.~**~
32. Instead of doing your midterm work you are making this list
33. You have a project/report/presentation to make and while you
are waiting to give it..all you think about is how
cool it would be if mainstream Blink came back.
34. ..You think how wild it'd be if the AoA Paige and the
normal Paige literally ran into eachother (Quantum theory
dictates the same mass can no coexist in the same space
and they would cohease..but.. only her skin would be the
same exact mass.. Get the mop!)~**~
35. You realize marvel writers never study quantum theory
and you go into a depression and THEN give your speech
36. You know more than 3 people who've made a GenX soundtrack~**~
37. A friend lectures you because you haven't started
a "Generation Next" Pepsi add. (Pepsi's new campaign is
Join Generation Next)
38. You've read Wizard's Casting call more than 5 times
in the hour you got it.
39. You offered to do sexual favors to someone just so he
took off he GenX shirt so you could run off with it.
(Well... I WOULD!)~**~
40. People you know describe things to you like this
"well I was sparing and then I pulled a Paige and.."
41. You plan on re-watching or renting any of the movies
with the people in Wizard's Casting call (Okay.. I wanted
to see Fear a long time before this ANYWAY!)
42. You get paranoid and think at times bits of your life
is getting written into the story, just made
alot more exciting.~**~
43. YOU NAMED PAIGE'S BEAR, THE TURTLES AND THE RABBITS
(and we KNOW who you are Mice!!)
44. You have a stuffed.."thing" that you name after the
name that a fellow fan came up with.
45. You actually asked Lobdell if he knew about Picklebottom
(WWP) before he came up with the concept of Fluppy.
46. You can spell BXLOMRMLEZQ without looking at the comic~$$~
47. You have a coloring book diary like Monet.~$$~
48. You have Mirage's fan-fic and Mice Tales (it will
be back hopefully this week!) bookmarked, and you visit
it every other week.
49. Hawk fears you because you read more fan fic than she
50. The First time you got drunk really bad a friend asked
you "[your name].. How many beers have you had" and you
replied "Counting this one?.. one." then started laughing
madly until you realized that you heard that somewhere
before.... hummmm..~$$~
51. You KNOW how many times Paige Guthrie has gone into
trama induced shock, gotten the floor to fall from under
her, or had something equally bummin' happen to her. (that's
about every issue)
__The Following added by Me-----
52. You signed up to learn Spanish in High School/College just so you could figure out what Angelo keeps saying.
53. And because of this you realize that none of the Marvel guys ever
learned Spanish.~**~
54. When people start talking about La/Algeria/Southern California/St.
Louis/England/Yugoslavia/Ireland you say "Hey, I have a friend from there!"~**~
55. You fabricate stories of your weekend to tell your friends based on the Comic.
56. You can't eat omletes anymore.~**~
57. You fantasize about your favorite character.~**~
58. You go around saying "Luvaduck" even though you have no clue what it means.~$$~
59. You know the URL of ~ever~ Gen X page out there.
60. Every time somone says "Generation X" you say, "I ~love~ that comic!
Did you read the one where..." and they say "Comic?!"~**~
61. You have nighmares about the Gen X movie. ~**~
62. You know exactly what comic, page, pannel and bubble Jonothan said "To the post office, Angelo, quick!"~**~
63. You gave up your soft drink of choice for RC.~$$~
64. You keep tryin' to run five miles in 35 minutes.
65. You do it.
66. You own a pair of claw foot slippers
67. You've ever said "Hey Buddypal!"~$$~
68. or "Cheese-n-crackers!"~**~
69. Evertime someone says skin/chamber/frost/jubilation/banshee/penance/leech/grotto/
sphere/etc...you giggle to yourself.~**~
70. Even after all these years you wonder what a "psionic howl from the
grave" sounds like.~**~
71. You can't figure out why Cassidy keeps lettin Angelo park the car.~**~
72. You didn't cry when Mondo died.~**~
73. You cheered.~**~
74. You ~knew~ Emma wasn't dead.~**~
75. When you get tired of Scrabble, you want to try something more physical.
76. You made it to this list!~**~
---Added by Jubilee L---
77. You actually think you have the same powers as your counterpart.~**~
78.. You freaked when you realized your roommate was blond with a southren accent. (or roommare in this case...)
79. You take up rollerblading.
80. You have tried to locate snow valley on a map.~$$~
81. You go into shock when you actually meet Mr. Kelly who just happens to work for the goverment......
___Added by Mice___
82. You have pulled a Skin.
83. You know what a Skin is.
84. When you need to have a good laugh, you turn to the Generation X annuals.~**~
85. You celebrated the death of Mondo by eating Samoa cookies you accosted from a local Girl Scout.
86. You think a Mr.Kotter/GenX crossover would be cool! (Paige as Horshack!!)
87. In desperation to win in arguement, you say "In my native Algeria..."~**~
88. You don't CARE what biology says, you KNOW that Frogs have fangs!!~**~
89. You mother looks at you weird when you show her a picture of a young, Algerian girl sucking on a candy cane and you insist that this is the
picture you should send to your grandparents in South Dakota that want to
see a picture of you.~**~
90. You, out of frustration for Toy Biz, make your own figure of your
favorite character, and a variant. (Meet "Phalanx Monet" and "School Snob
Monet" and "Husk Gets Ass Kicked...AGAIN"
91. Every time you see a dark blue Jeep, you wave...just in case...~**~
92. You always get odd looks at dinner when you explain that your checking you salad to make sure it doesn't try to attack you
93. You have a bottle of Spidey Beer and a good Drunken-Paige accent for
the heck of it~$$~
94. You have to resist the temptation of getting on top of pool tables~**~
95. After a great time of husking corn, and then taking a shower with Dial soap is the only way the words "husk" and "dial" should be mentioned casually...~**~
96. You have used the phrase "Okie-Dokie-Artie-Chokie"~**~
97. You wonder what was the writer of X-Patrol on and where you can get it!
98. You think Jubilee and Monet are the equivilant to Jo and Blair from the Facts of Life
99. You can SEE Jonothon Starsmore in a purple
satin evening gown with matching heeled sandles
and accessories with a wig saying,"I strip ye of
yer princess points!"
****added by =-K-=******
100. You're drawing merrily along when you realize that the
sketch of a blonde girl lying sprawled out over a pool
table looks AWFULLY familiar...
101. For every major GenX character you know someone online
by the same name.
101b. Except Mondo, Artie, and Leech.~**~
101c. And this bothers you.
102. You read the "Signs You Are Addicted To GenX" list and
laugh and think, "Heh, not me"...until you start spontaneously
adding new entries to the list...and it gets longer and
longer...ulp...~**~
103 At least once a month you try to come up with a new way to
convince your stubborn spouse to break down and read GenX.
All of them.~**~
103b. (and you succeed to addict not only yer boyfriend but the
entire dorm on the comic)~$$~
104. You recall the exact date of your hampster's unlamented
passing because it had the bad taste to die -- NOISILY --
right smack in the middle of the GenX movie, when your VCR
was broken, and no one you know was taping it (heathens!),
so you MISSED part of it forever. Argh!
105. When the phone rings in the middle of the show you pick
up the receiver, snarl viciously into it, and slam it back
down...oh, I'm sorry, silly me, that's one of the signs
that you're addicted to MST3K.~**~
106. Emma Frost's outfits actually start to look normal to
you...until a family member looks over your shoulder at
the comic and almost dies of shock. ("This is a KIDS'
comic book?!?")~**~
107. You have the best mother-in-law in the fraggin' WORLD
because she put a White Queen figure in your Christmas
stocking. Even though you're 24.
108. When your spouse complains of the newspaper-and-comic-
book mess left in the bathroom, you promptly retort, "Hey, it
could be worse -- it COULD be yards of shed skin!"~**~
109. You only know two things about Algeria...the name and
the fact that it's in Northern Africa. But hey, that's more
than 90% of the average public knows about it.~**~
110. You start sneakily wanting a Celtics jacket even though all
you know about them is a) they're a basketball team and b)
that white guy Larry Bird is one of 'em.
111. It takes you over a year to stop and say, "Wait a minute --
what the HELL is an 'EMPLATE'...?!"~**~
112. You keep count of how many Guthrie pups there are. "Well,
there's Sam and Josh and Joelle and Paige, and the twins, and..."
112b. YOU CAN name them all (bum)
113. You know someone who held a solemn "public" burning of GenX
'96...and this doesn't strike you as the least bit strange.
114. Oh yeah, and you've had violent, HEATED discussions on the
true age of Artie Maddicks and plan to rectify the situation
in a fanfic someday. Then again, that's also one of the signs
that you used to be addicted to X-Factor...
115. You keep track of other obscure mutant children who really
should be enrolled at the school, like Rebecca "Lighttrakker"
Littlehale and Sarah Grey's two kids.
116. You actually stand up and defend Howard the Duck in the
middle of a comic shop. (Hey, the movie sucked but the
novelization was hysterical!)
117. Now that Warren Ellis has left Excaliber, you notice to your
dismay that Pete Wisdom's accent is starting to rip off
Chamber's. "What?! He called Kitty 'Sunshine'?!? Oh, that
DOES it, Marvel..."~**~
118. Forget studying art in college -- you're not going to be able
to take Monet seriously ever again.
119. The GenX kids' powers and codenames no longer seem dorky.
Unless you really think about it. ;)~**~
120. "It's a BULLROARER, dammit, not a BOLA!!!"
Everything you need to know comes from Gen X.- by Me
1. Dawn is natures way of saying "Here ya go. Take another shot. Try again."~**~
2. Only Psychopaths and Garbage men get up at 6:50 am.~**~
3. There's nothin' gross about shedding skin...~**~
4. Just when you think you'll never be surprised again, you are.
5. In St. Louis, a sucker punch is known as a "Sucker Punch."~**~
6. Always return the favor.~**~
7. Climbing trees is like totally second grade.~**~
8. If a super evil mutant wants to embrace you...don't~**~.
9. It is possible to adjust to a hole in your chest.~**~
10. The word penance can be used as a proper noun.~**~
11. When falling from a great distance, go limp.~**~
12. Childlike innocence can save your life.~**~
13. Make sure that this side up, is.~**~
14. Beauty and the Beast are fun characters.
__---Added by bum___---
15. Never go to an public place to fight unless you are armed witha
telepath~**~
16. Even guys with holes in their chest watch Beavis and Butt-head~**~
17. Never take someone you care about hostage.~**~
18. NEVER turn your back to a girl with razor sharp fingers and toes~**~
19. Find a phone booth if you want to change, and if you don't understand the refference you will be cheezed for the next few issues..er..days.~**~
20. Scrabble heals all wounds. (That or Opus mugs!)~**~
21. If you want to be alone. Go watch TV in the basement~**~.
22. Small aborigines NEVER knock.~**~
23. Drink beer, bring down the house.~**~
24. Running X-country five miles in 35 minutes is possible (err.. yeah.. right)
25. Writer don't run X-country very often.
26. Metamorphs are prone to shock durning transitional phazes.
27. If you don't want to do a test, draw pitcures of the teacher~**~
all over the paper.
28. Never trust someone that seems happy.~**~
29. If a telepath tells you to stay down. Do so.~**~
30. If Paige tells you to stay down. Wait a second. Lighting or some other act of God will knock her out of the way.
PLUS...Signs That You've Read Too Much GenX FANFIC:-Kielle
---> You can't think of Girl Scouts or their cookies or the song
"Peaches" without busting out laughing.
---> You know that the online Mirage is a he. (I think.)
---> LA, Kentucky, St. Louis...a perfectly natural progression.~**~
---> You keep forgetting that the "real" Jubilee hasn't been
raped at LEAST once.
---> "Huh...isn't Jubilee the Phoenix now...?"
---> As far as you're concerned, the mysteries of M and Penance
were cleared up many months ago.~**~
---> You accept the Skin/Paige/Chamber triangle as canon.~**~
---> You know who Ahmed is.
---> The words "tapestry" and "dawn" have a whole new significance.
---> You read the real comic and wonder where Manchild and
Perkolator have gotten off to...
---> As far as you're concerned, the Gen13/GenX crossover already
happened.~**~
collected and complied by bum (Paige the Warrior Nun)
addons should be addressed to [email protected].
And a cheep pitch..
http://www.geocites.com/Area51/Vault/1478/
Just go and turn up your speakers!