The 'You Know You Are Obsessed With Hal When.....' list is looking pretty epic!
Here is a summary of the list so far, let's see if we can keep it going without any repetitions..i noticed a few creeping in!
You know you are obsessed with Hal when....
1) you buy your own dominos and keep one with you all the time. *coughs* (Eileen)
2) you look for tweet suits on the internet/in the shopping mall. *coughs again* Damn, forgot the cough medicine again. (Eileen)
3) you prefer the lute to the electric guitar. (Eileen)
4) you organize your eggs by size. (Eileen)
5) you try to do 110 press-ups just to keep up with Hal. (Eileen)
6) you wear marigolds for even the most basic task, and sing while doing so. (domino)
7) you drop the odd "have we finished flirting" into conversations (domino)
8) you deliberately go down the squash and delicious fruit cordial isle in the supermarket, just to see if.... (domino)
9) you find yourself checking the daily Radio 4 schedule over breakfast (domino)
10) you find your hands trying to make origami flowers out of anything remotely paper-like (domino)
11) the sight of sharp wooden objects fills you with an irrepressible protection instinct! (domino)
12) you don't find it odd to pile all your furniture in your room in front of the door just to stop yourself from going out. (Eileen)
13) you check your local museum if they have a wooly mammoth on display. (Eileen)
14) you start to check Ceefax daily because social media is too modern. (Eileen)
15) you think about your priorities when a friend suggests a camping trip. (Eileen)
16) you start to avoid shaking hands because Hal hated it, why should you like it then? (Eileen)
17) you start to feel braver about coming out of the closet as an obsessive Bargain Hunt and Antiques Roadshow watcher (domino)
18) you get a disliking to budgies (HalGal)
19) you get annoyed by your messy bookshelf (HalGal)
20) the dirty kitchen floor starts being something you look forward to :D (HalGal)
21) on a night out with your friends the first drink that comes to mind when asked is a bloody mary!(domino)
22) you try to find as many signs as possible that show that you are obsessed with Hal and post them in a forum (Eileen)
23) someone asks you and your friend "Who are you?" and you answer with "I'm a Human, he/she's a human. Any questions?" (Eileen)
24) you don't dare to touch certain magazines and would rather bin them. (Eileen)
25) your friend is getting hysterical downstairs and you're not enjoying it. (Eileen)
26) you think about putting bin liners on your arms when you empty the bin. :D (HalGal)
27) your wise ageing grandparents begin to seem ridiculously young... and naive (domino)
28) when lying in the dentist's chair and asked to open wider, you actually 'do a Hal' (and expect to see your teeth grow longer in the mirror) (domino)
29) the white polo shirt you wore a few times when in your tennis phase that has since been in the 'take to the Charity shop' bag is suddenly harder to part with (domino)
30) in current affairs, political, philosophical or just about any discussions, you find yourself looking for opportunities to dramatically say, "Sooner or later we all go back to being the monsters we truly are” (domino)
31) you make a forum to legitimize having a space where you can hang out all day thinking about stuff like signs that show you are obsessed with Hal (domino)
32) you lovingly handwash your Hal 'resist the urge' T shirt every night, so you can wear it the next day........ (domino)
33) you and your room mate (who you have forced to watch the show with you) have decided to create a Hal drinking game just so you have an excuse to watch it all again (Sami)
34) you have memorized the man of god speech (and many of his other lines) and you plan on using it as a monologue for auditions (Sami)
35) you attempt to use words such as tangentially in every day life (Sami)
36) you've latched on to this one shirt that you have convinced yourself is exactly like one of the ones he wore (but is really only slightly like it) (Sami)
37) You came up with the term OCHD (Obsessive Compulsive Hal Disorder) just to describe yourself on the BH blog! (woomewithtulips)
38) You walk down the street with your arms behind your back. (rubyrosettared)
39) Kia Ora and other such cordials make you a tad fidgety and on edge and maybe a tad homicidal. (rubyrosettared)
40) You check the contents of a matchbox to make sure all the matches are the right way around and take great delight in sorting them if they aren't. (rubyrosettared)
41) whenever you are sorting or cleaning anything, the first thing you think is, "this is a very Hal sort of task" (Sami)
42) When you successfully insert the word 'tangentially' into a conversation and it makes sense! (rubyrosettared)
43) when you were starving hungry but do not even notice your lunch going cold because you are chatting with other Hal fans in the forum chat box about chatting about Hal!! (domino)
44) When someone exclaims 'Jesus Christ!' you reply 'not quite' (rubyrosettared)
45) Radio 4 becomes your new must listen to radio station. (rubyrosettared)
46) When you find you need some space to think, TO BREATHE!! (woomewithtulips)
47) When you're not au fait with answerphone etiquette (woomewithtulips)
48) You find you're always hungry (woomewithtulips)
49) when you HAVE to change your clothes (domino) 50) when the sound of small dogs yapping becomes more intriguing than irritating (domino) 51) you begin to test your ability to resist small urges... (domino)
52) when you are both curious and scared about Kia-ora (Ziadada)
53) when you hear "Reach out" on the radio and think about Hal washing the dishes (Ziadada)
55) when your idea of a Night out is seeing how many episodes of the 4 series of BH you can watch before falling asleep
56) when you keep this site open on your phone so you can check it and pretend you're txting
57) when you're soo tired you can barely function but you still come on here and watch at least a few minuets of Hal
58) when you know that the majority of the other members of this site are asleep yet you still post things hoping that maybe one of them in the UK is up at 4 in the morning or that another international member will be on
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It's a really nice look you've got going on there :wink:
Sami wrote:56) when you keep this site open on your phone so you can check it and pretend you're txting
57) when you're soo tired you can barely function but you still come on here and watch at least a few minuets of Hal
58) when you know that the majority of the other members of this site are asleep yet you still post things hoping that maybe one of them in the UK is up at 4 in the morning or that another international member will be on
Sami wrote:56) when you keep this site open on your phone so you can check it and pretend you're txting
57) when you're soo tired you can barely function but you still come on here and watch at least a few minuets of Hal
58) when you know that the majority of the other members of this site are asleep yet you still post things hoping that maybe one of them in the UK is up at 4 in the morning or that another international member will be on
LOL and aw....that is awesome..glad the forum is feeding your insatiable Hal habits!
you international members are performing an invaluable service keeping the place safe from trolls and other mischievous monsters while we in the uk and europe are sleeping...
60) whenever someone's running you think "That is the weirdest run!"
61) when you used to have a (insert object here)...... A RED one!
62) when you have a list you keep with you of "you know youre obsessed with Hal when" things So that you can add to it in case you think of any....
63) whe you may or may not have had a dream where Hal killed you and you cried when you woke up. Not because he killed you or it was scary, but because you woke up from a wonderful dream
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It's a really nice look you've got going on there :wink:
May I add to your point 60) ? for me this phraseology, in the exact Hal intonation, extends to many things i.e. 'that is the weirdest laugh / smell / noise / face...........
May I add to your point 60) ? for me this phraseology, in the exact Hal intonation, extends to many things i.e. 'that is the weirdest laugh / smell / noise / face...........
of course!
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It's a really nice look you've got going on there :wink:
I said "I've been involved only tangentially!" last friday at work! (ok, I've said it in Italian, but when realistically will I have an opportunity to say it in English?)
So I was doing paper work today With some people from work and I was using this red pen (I'm sure you can see where this is going..) I lost it at one point and I was like "have you seen my pen?" and then slowly I made the connection in my head.. Then i go (abit too loudly) "i had a pen! A red one!" and everyone gave me the funniest looks... But it made me really happy!
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It's a really nice look you've got going on there :wink:
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