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To add your "you know you're a phishead when" entry, send it
to BoutrosBe@aol.com.
Thanks to all who have submitted entries and who have
made this site a HUGE success!
Added on Mar. 4, 1998
From madersalas@aol.com
- If someone asks you if you got any last night, you reply with either
lengthwise or diagnal.
- You have two sets of each of your bootlegs to be ready for a trade
using that show.
- You are extremely proud to say your brother is the Boutros' Aquariums'
Boutros.
From ricki@xmission.com
- You don't mind paying over $800 to pay for your damaged car after
hitting and running over a possum. (I'm sorry:( )
- You have dreams of shows.
From payne@fastlane.net
- You know you are a phish head when your first name is Hood. (seriously
my real name is hood I was named after my great uncle a WWII general
not Harry Hood Milk Co.)
From smlacy@neocomm.net
- You think Mike Gordon is a robot.
- You and your friends always try to do the vocal jam from YEM.
- You are that guy that trey talks about during the ball.
- You are sure that page has been in jail for looking skechy.
- You can name the set list from any random date.
- You start to find mike sexy even thought you are straight.
From Destinyunb@aol.com
- You pop in an old AC/DC CD and can't help but picture Trey, not Angus.
- You have sucked more nitrous than you care to admit, but you agree
it is really the worst element of the lot scene.
- You have seen more live Phish than you have ever heard on tape, and
you have a readicculusly large collection.
- You have a printout of your stats from David Steinberg's page.
- You recognize David Steinberg at shows, (hint: look for the clipboard
and stopwatch).
- You felt really out of the loop when you didn't know the meaning of
the uno cards.
- You look forward to your oral surgery because you get to listen to
that sugarbush show for three hours - with a tube to your nose!!
- You appreciate the music of Neil Diamond.
- New Year's Eve is the only college reunion you need to attend. More
of your friends will be there anyway.
- You have ever fallen asleep in a tent to live PHiSH.
- You have your own theory on Tela.
- You want to write one simple addition to this list but find you can't
stop.
- Your parents think the new haircut means you won't be following that
stupid rock band around anymore.
- You have ever spent several hours tailing the "Night Train."
- You consider your self a fan of the Red-Head Brothers, but you aren't
quite sure wich one's Squirrel.
From Skategddss@aol.com
- You pretend to be a small record store just so that you can buy maxell
tapes wholesale
- Your parrot starts to whistle reba
- A welcome window pops up everytime you go to phish.net
- You giggle everytime someone says "and i see you" (NICU)
- The only reason you attend camp/college in the northeast is for the
endless supply of hood milk
- The only correction on your english paper is the red circle around
the PH where it should be an F
- When attempting to pick up a guy/girl in a bar, you ask them if they'd
like to go back to your place to "share in a groove"
- Whenever you're with your friend harry, you pray for the lights to
go out (to see where he actually goes)
- You actually know what those uno cards mean
- You wonder if the vacuum has another use (other than jamming on)
From Henrieta26@aol.com
- You play the shopvac in the tech-ed room at your school and the rest
of the class cheers you on.(it's the only reason i liked tech-ed).
From tconway1@nycap.rr.com
- When you'll leave the country just to go see them.
From demoan@hotmail.com
- While perusing a crossword, find a slow but wide smile spread across
one's face when confronted with "Harry ____."
From jjoseph@mtronline.com
- You re-name your roommates cats "Poster" and "NutBag" (and they come
when you call them).
From STAR357@aol.com
- when your guitar teacher asks you what that "wilson sucks" sticker
is on your case and you have to go into a deep conversation to enlighten
her about the Gamehenge saga.
From dbuchner@wam.umd.edu
- All you know of Buddism is that Fee was a protegy.
- You understand the point of collecting tapes.
- You actually get really mad at people who call phish "that band who
plays that song Bouncing arond the room."
- You have spent the last five months debating a cool inside-phish joke
to put on a liscence plate.
- the only thing that keeps you awake on long drives to shows is looking
for others with phish stickers.
- you know the story of the Ghost.
- Your favorite pasttime is thinking up neat-o shirts to make and sell
on the next tour.
- When you check Andy Gadiel's sight every day to see if any new rumors
or tour dates are up.
- You know that Rift was once a part of the Curtain.
- You can tell by the look in a person's eye that they are into phish.
- Your ideal meal is a grilled cheese, a beer, a veggie burrito, and,
for desert, a ganja goo-ball.
- you refuse to go to school before the Went next year.
- You know all the words to Kung.
- You can do the claps on Mound.
From Nay6887@aol.com
- You feel like crying when you're big brother leaves for college in
fall, not because he'll be 4 hours away but because most of your tape
collection is going with him.
- Your mother tells you to take off those damn sandals and put some
good shoes on, and you suddenly realize that you dont own any other
shoes.
- People ask what your going to maine for and you tell them its a family
reunion.
- You're at a red light and your favorite song comes on and the whole
car starts dancing and you look into the car next to you and realize
the elderly couple has rolled up their windows and locked their doors.
From rreid@eznet.net
- Starving stray cats follow you through the street nipping at your
heels and licking exposed skin.
From AFutonFork@aol.com
- You own an antelope and keep it in your backyard.
- You refuse to use half and half unless it's made by HOOD.
- Your parents don't understand your sudden love for mangoes.
From Phattypant@aol.com
- you only date Phishheads
- you get in a fight with a frat guy because he tells you he bought
the Phish shirt he is wearing because it looked cool.
- you want to buy extra tickets and give them to phrends just to make
their day
- you feel a bond to total strangers whoh hsve Phish shirts or stickers
- when you hear Reba playing from some room in your friends dorm and
you run down the hall and knock on the door.
- you have enough Phish clothes to clothe a small country
- when people intoduce you as Phishgirl
- your dad listens to Phish at work
- you make Phattypants as gifts for people for Christmas
- when you mom's name starts with Ph
- when you skip 12 classes for phall tour
- when you ask to take final early so you can go to a show that day
- when all you want to do is go on tour
- when your parents do not understand why you wouls drive 26 hours to
see a band
- when the people youlove most and that you always feel at home with
is your phamily
From asludwig@erols.com
- When you're greatest wish would be to jam on Divided Sky with the
guys (even though you can't play the guitar or any other instrument).
- You keep a collection of mailers from all over the country.
- When you get flamed on rec.phish.com over you're show of the year
choice, yet still come back for more with no hard feelings.
- When you go hoarse explaining to people that Phish is NOTHING LIKE
THE GRATEFUL DEAD!!!
From ltjaz@hargray.com
- When you get out of the bus after a four to five hour drive and you
step on the parking lot and realize that you are home with the best
friends that you have never met.
- When you feel like a part of the family.(Those who have experienced
know what im talking about)
- When you love those funky boys from VT.
From JahZI0N
- When your clad entirely in courdoury and hemp.
From Ctrl4smlrs@aol.com
- You pray Maxell will let you trade in Max Pts for blanks so you can
unload your 3000+ pts.
- You know what PYITE, GTBT, CTB, TMWSIY, MSO, LtJP, YEM, FEFY, BBJ,
SITM, BBFCM and MMGAMOIO stand for.
- Your New Years Resolutions for the next year are:
- 1. Get 200 more tapes.
- 2. See as many shows as possible .
- 3. Get the New Years Run by the end of January.
- You know that there's a Wilson's leather store in King of Prussia,
PA.
- You added something to this list.
- Your dad says just about everyday around 2 when the mail comes, "More
tapes?!"
- You had a smile plastered all over your face when reading Boutros'
list.
- You print out setlists when mailed to you from Mikey and save all
of them.
- You stay up until 3AM NYE even though you can barely see straight
just to get the setlist from the show.
- You've never missed a 4:20 reference.
- You've hooked up at least 3 newbie phriends with tapes.
- Your girlfriend's name is Suzie and she forgets your name.
Added on Jan. 25, 1998
From Dead18@aol.com
- You have so many left over maxell labels u can make full detail sculptures
of the whole band.
From funtime@drkennedy.com
- Your e-mail address begins with "yem."
From egbarber@netdoor.com
- You wear Birkenstocks to church.
- All you wear is Phish shirts.
- You do vocal jams with your Phriends.
- You make plans for your senior trip to Buy a bus and go to the Great
Went.
- You consider the three greatest bands ever Phish,Phish & Phish.
- You listen to Harry Hood With the lights out.
- Non phans dont understand why you like these guys so much.
From spadej@rpi.edu
- On the way to a show you check every car that you pass for a Phish
sticker.
- You spend your whole day on a trip to the wholesale warehouse to stock
up on cheap Maxell XLIIs.
From jonnyquest@mailexcite.com
- When you write about phish in a scholarship essay.
From smithpac@ix.netcom.com
- You drive straight from the July, '97 California Bar Exam to see
Phish and begin Summer Tour.
- It's not even February, and all you can think about is NEXT Summer
Tour.
- You're more worried about affording to fly to the next Great Went
than to your best friend's wedding, in which you are the Maid of
Honor.
- You couldn't be prouder that your 8 month old nephew saw his first
Phish show (with his Mom) the second night of Worcester, '97.
From asludwig@erols.com
- When your dad offers to buy you a walkman so you can stop listening
to that long and pointless music around the house.
- When getting a sweet bootleg is the highlight of youre year.
From B7jmango@aol.com
- when the ladies in the post office know you by name and ask you
about the highlight of the shows you're sending out.
- when you write poems for english about your love of phish and
you get them back with a note saying that it was "a good metaphor
for life" and all you intended to do was write about trading tapes.
- when you have to keep track of daily events for government and
your notes for each day of the phall tour began with where phish
played the night before
- when you get a phish bootleg from paris (2-18-97) thinking you
may get extra credit in your french class
- when you see a skip pass on your friend's jacket and you see the
date and tell him, "march second, 97, plish played a great pyite
in copenhagen."
- when you start making a phish mix tape for a non-phishhead friend,
bu tyou can't decide which songs to include so one tapes becomes
two, and two tapes become three, and three become four...
- when you were told to write an article about a winter sport for
your school's newspaper and you write about "ice phishing" and the
msg shows
- when you hear a word from anyone and immediately say, "that's
in a phish lyric" and you give them the quote without being asked
- when your english binder/notebook is decorated with phish graphics
that you have downloaded
- when you mom asks you to help in her first grade classroom while
her class is doing a unit on fish and you agree to help because
she promised that you could play "fee" and you hope that you can
start a first grader on his/her trip to phishidom! : )
- when your mail man sees you waiting for mail and tells you that
he's sorry, but he can't come bearing tapes everyday
- when you and your younger sister discuss the day before's random
4:20 references while grooving to phish and driving to school each
morning
- when you sister actually mentions becoming a math teacher so that
she can create a quiz where every answer is in some form of the
numbers 420
- when you're told you BELONG on tour
From efloyd@lcsc.edu
- when you're often late to work because you can't decide on the
perfect 5 or 6 tape combination to take with you in the car and
your office is only 10 minutes away.
- when you can't leave your car for more than an hour without taking
your favorite tapes with you because you're scared that some idiot
will try to steal your car or stereo and make off with your tapes
as well.
- when you play a really awesome song for a non-phan and they look
at you like you are mental. I love that!
- When all of employees at the post office not only know you, but
they know exactly what you want because you are frequently mailing
off tapes.
From emily@pcmvisual.com
- your cheeks start swelling up and your eyes bulge out.
From Wikipagrv@aol.com
- While listening to Julius you stop walking when the part comes
on..."Don't take another step"
- In Bio class you start singing Golgi when you learn about the
parts of a cell
- On the Bio exam, you remember the parts to the cell by singing
golgi in the middle of it....(I did)
- Whenever you see a person with a phish sticker on his car, you
must catch up to wave even if you don't know them.
- You know suddenly know alll the lyrics to the songs when you go
to a concert...(my first one i was shocked as hell)
- You can no longer spell "fan" or "fish" correctly
- You have to walk through a maxe of tapes to reach your bed
- You get into your car, and suddenly start singing Contact
- Your friend and you get into large arguments over who is better,
Phish or the dead....(we all know who wins)
From Angelphsh@aol.com
- you've never felt as much at home as you do at a phish show
- meeting another phan is always the highlight of your day, or even
just seeing someone with some article of clothing or whatnot that
represents PHISH
- it doesn't matter that you absolutely despise milk (ughhh) you
still go out of your way for anything that says hood on it :)
- people think you're kinda crazy cause you sing to your car every
day.. "i woke up one morning in november and i realized i love you...."
- you and your friend managed to disturb the remote island of nantucket
by blasting lizards out the window of your house and dancing like
maniacs around the yard
- you and the same friend get very excited when somebody calls out
to the custodian at your school.. "harry! HARRY!"
- you've never ever been able to whistle but you are absolutely
determined.. just so you can do that little part from reba :)
- it's never goodbye or anything like that.. its "this has all been
wonderful, but now i'm on my way!"
From twobuck@hotmail.com
- You know you're a Phishead when you drive five hours straight
to the show, see the show and turn around and drive straight home
because you got to be at work by 4:00pm the following afternoon.
Added on Jan. 9, 1998
From kspencer@abacus.bates.edu
- you're sitting in a lecture class and you notice that on the periodic
table on the wall Ni is right next to Cu, spelling out...
From JmsKPolk@aol.com
- You can recite your tapelist from memory and when someone asks
you whats on a certain tape you can recite the setlist exactly...
from memory
From sr537796@oak.cats.ohiou.edu
- Every time you pass a rest stop on the highway you point out the
cars, trucks, busses sign and start humming the tune.
- When you get excited to hear that Jimmy's cat died.
- When you travel all the way from Ohio to Vermont to see a milk
plant.
- When you consider stealing an exit sign that reads "Wilson's Lane."
From kdougher@cbcc.bcwan.net
- When you buy a beeper and cell phone, so you can call your phriends
from inside the show and tell them each song as the set progresses.
- When no matter where you live you consider Limestone, Maine to
really be "an easy drive from any direction."
- When you went out on tour and crossed time zones singing: "Trapped
in time and I don't know what to do..."
- You put down touring as your previous job on your resume, and
your references are Trey, Mike, Page, and Fish.
- You visit Weekapaug, Rhode Island to hang out on the beach and
try to make a woman match your moves and she slaps you. You insist
that your just "sharing in the groove..."
From phishin_hempy@hotmail.com
- you go to a santana show 3 hours early expecting to join the party
in the parking lot
- you go to a santana show wearing a phish shirt
- you stand(sit) in the portallet piazza
- you vote fishman most intriguing person for 1997
- your mom asks "what the hell do you do with all those tapes?"
- you go to vegas for the kickoff of the fall tour and stay in bufalo
bills hotel casino at state line cause "BUFFALO BILL"
- going to a phish show isnt just going to a phish show it is visiting
you family
- you choose to stay with the music and your new friends at the
thomas & mack show instead of leaving with the 2 people you arrived
with after they leave after chalkdust opens the first set
- you go out to dinner for dessert ask for phish food (the waitress
will give you the wierdest look in your life)
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