Since I finally figured out how to start a new thread (im not slow....really) I thought this might be fun. Here's a chance for everyone to post the things that makes us GBS fans....unique. The things that make our non-gbs-loving friends look at us and say " Are you crazy??"

 For Example :

 You know your a GBS Fan WHEN..

- You drive down the road listening to STH at full volume, and all the older neighbours who happen to be out moving their lawn, stop and stare. Then when you wave, they pretend they dont know you.

- You sing 'Feel it Turn' in the shower on a regular basis...

Now its your turn!!! and im sure you'll come up with something better than I did.

 ------ and forgive me if there is already a thread like this out there...I am too lazy to search through them and look.

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I refuse your reality and substitute my own - Adam Savage

When you give people chances and allow them to come back from their mistakes, great things happen and I'm a perfect example that you shouldn't give up on people. - Eric Lamaze

You say you're traveling to Canada and all your friends respond, "How many concerts are you seeing by that band?"

true story. Although it was ironic that, after saying there were no GBS shows on the trip, the week ended up including Fortune's release date, so I did get to watch them on Canada AM.

The only thing you have on your iPod is all the GBS albums,
and you play them constantly

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My basement homebrew bar area

frostythebeerman:

The only thing you have on your iPod is all the GBS albums,
and you play them constantly

Amen to that Frosty!!

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I refuse your reality and substitute my own - Adam Savage

When you give people chances and allow them to come back from their mistakes, great things happen and I'm a perfect example that you shouldn't give up on people. - Eric Lamaze

1) When your quiet vacation at home turns into a road trip to Buffalo and Akron even though Akron is outside of the 9 hour drive limit for GBS concerts you set after Atlantic City when you upped it from 6 hours.

2) Your own 5 year old looks at you and asks you when the next road trip is and is upset when it's not soon enough.

3) You drink a glass of beer, even though you hate beer, simply because a band member gave you one and you didn't want to be rude (peer pressure, although #1 evolved from peer pressure too).

4) The only thing on your iPod is GBS (except for 1 Punters CD that was produced by Alan).

GBS Anonoymous, here I come!

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"I see you in the front row, bouncing up and down, you're ripped and ready for a night downtown." ~ Margarita
What's wrong with a little flirtation?

Monster Tee

When you seriously consider driving to Akron (3 hour drive) by yourself, with four kids in tow, to go see them.

 

 

The only CDs in your car are GBS (I don't have an ipod)

You want to buy an ipod so you don't have to keep shuffling your GBS CDs.

Everyone of the overseas students, who only see you an hour a day for a few weeks, know you like GBS and know at least one of their songs.

One of your pet names for your husband is GBS.

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Sing an unwritten song or repent for the deeds you left undone.- GBS
If curious means that you trade your routines for something free, the freedom you feel's the whole point of the deal so curious I'll be! - BNL
Priates over Ninjas!!

1) You have road tripped to at least 3 different states and on a cruise ship in the last couple of years to see this band

2) You talk your kids into naming their new goldfish "Jack" and "Hinks"

3) Checking out this website at least 3xs a day

 

John

 

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"I must have gone through 10 million in my career. Part of the loot went for gambling, part for booze and part for women. The rest I spent foolishly."....George Raft

your kid has a NFLD TShirt and the only thing she knows about NFLD is that Alan Doyle lives there. (in my defense I have NO idea where that Tshirt came from! Must have been from FIL)

 

You have to REMIND your children they are not to sing the "old black rum" at church or school.

 

Your non-gbs friends refer to GBS as" that band you follow"

 

You belong to more than 5 GBS dedicated FB sites and/or have started one of your own.

 

You have a "when I met Alan (or Bob or Sean or Murray or Kris)" story

 

You have a GBS ringtone or several

 

After listening to the LLbean conert you will never see a Cialis ad without thinking of Alan ( SO sorry Alan, but its true!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses; only results.”

you go to Scotland with your boyfriend for a wedding last August in Greenock and you find out that GBS is playing at an outdoor festival in Drumnadrochit and you buy tickets without even knowing where it was.  I took his family and we stayed in Fort William and the LOVED GBS.

5) You have no idea how many sleeps it is to your kid's birthday but you know EXACTLY how many to your next show.

6) You're depressed because everyone else seems to think that your neice's photos of her grad trip to Europe is more interesting than your photos of the last concert and meeting band members.

6B) Those people in #6 just don't "get it" but your husband does and he spends his time wandering the house repeating "whatever makes you happy" and starts support groups for other husbands that have been cast aside by  Alan/Sean/Bob/Murray/Kris frenzies.

7) Your kid screeches "they said Newfoundland and/or St. John's!" everytime she hears the words spoken not knowing where these places are.

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"I see you in the front row, bouncing up and down, you're ripped and ready for a night downtown." ~ Margarita
What's wrong with a little flirtation?

Monster Tee

1) you reconsider your employment because a band member had suggested that the draconian entity you work for is evil.... and you wouldn't want to upset him for the sake of a paycheck.

 
2) you've spent 7 to 8 hours sitting in front of a pub waiting for a show you don't have tickets for because you're afraid that a flash mob might descend and rob you of your chance to squeak in.

 

3) you've nearly forfeited your life to a Moose at 2am on a lonely New Hampshire Hwy en route to a concert (you only decided to attend that very morning) while making the all night treck to Freeport... also not knowing where the heck you were going to stay when you finally got there.

 

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There's a thread on this topic already...and it's titled the same! Oh well!

You know you're a GBS fan when...

The last line of your answering machine's out going message is, "Thanks, and have a great big day"!

When you host okp parties at your house! (as I did last year and will be doing in a little over a week!)

When you say you're going to a concert and no one asks who you're going to see anymore!

You name a bunch of kittens names from GBS songs.

Your child wants to name a kitten 'Lukey' and have her poppa make him a boat shaped bed and paint it green!!

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Whenever you go to a concert, you spend immeasurably more on flights/fares/hotels than you do on tickets. And end up in towns you never would have even heard of if not for GBS.

 Half your stories begin with "Well, this one time, when we went to a GBS concert . . ." (The other half begin, "This one time in St. John's . . ." All other stories are hardly worth telling by now.)

You have a group of people that you consider friends - real friends, that you genuinely care about and talk to about your hopes and dreams - whom you virtually NEVER see in real life, unless GBS and/or Newfoundland are somehow involved.

Sometimes, you see a person in the street with long light brown hair and you almost want to yell "Alan!" And then, it turns out to be a teenage stoner or a husky woman. 

You divide your life into the era before GBS and the era after GBS. As in "This was in May . . . yes, I'd already been to my first GBS concert, so it must have been May." 

Alcohol brings it out in new and marvelous ways, too. Like - you get drunk on a picnic with some friends, none of whom know GBS's music (although, rest assured, they've heard OF them), get happy, and end up loudly singing "Rant and Roar" and trying to do a jig, if only you didn't keep falling down and two people weren't bodily carrying you back to the car.
Or, you get drunk . . . again . . . and somehow end up wandering through the streets of New York, screaming "Free Newfoundland! F@#$ Tibet! Free Newfoundland!" (And hey, some dude actually yelled "Woot!" I think I convinced him.)

Trace2716:

There's a thread on this topic already...and it's titled the same! Oh well!

You are correct Trace!

I would join them, but the other thread is 22 pages long, so we may as well just have this new thread with new ideas. 

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