... you sing: "Doe, a deer, a female deer. Ray, the golden apples of the sun."

... you hear the words "ray" or "berry," and your first thought is not of beam of light or a kind of juicy fruit, but rather of a bespectacled American of English/Swedish descent.

... you definitely refuse when your husband propose a tour to catacombs of standing mummies.

... you expect to hear sound of waves and ocean wind when you press a sea shell close to your ear.

... you build sand castles always just a half.

... you have a feeling that your longevity may be dependent on a farmer who is working in the endless fields of wheat.

... you named your children Einar, Cecy and Timothy.

Now it�fs your turn to continue, if you like.

...you don't have a Christmas tree every year, but never miss putting up a Halloween tree!

...you can't hear the word "lilies" without thinking "dentrifice," or vice versa.

...you actually encourage dandelions in your yard!

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... you have a feeling that your longevity may be dependent on a farmer who is working in the endless fields of wheat.

Very nice.

...when you put your ear against the heart of a loved one, you hear ticktickticktick...

...you never TOUCH fruit in a bowl

...when you hide your books in the heating vent.
...when you memeorize books and burn them right after.
...When your name is Pride and Predjudice, Vol 1.
...when you let your kids play with real holographic lions behind your back.

Dandelion,
"...you can't hear the word "lilies" without thinking "dentrifice," or vice versa."
Oh it's so true! Denham's dandy dental detergent!

Okay, here's a couple:

...you're going for a leisurely walk and you freak when you see a cop car.

...you repeatedly claim to be the last martian.

...you can't make a complete sentence without using the words "damn" or "hell."

...you search every old map you come across for the words "here there be tygers," and are dissapointed when the word "tygers" is not spelled with a "y."

...you convince your brother to go halfers with you and buy a white suit.

...you lean out of your bedroom window every morning and tell the town to get up

...the last thing you do before going to bed is switch on the night

- Phil

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Originally posted by philnic:
...you lean out of your bedroom window every morning and tell the town to get up

...the last thing you do before going to bed is switch on the night

- Phil

Lovely!

..if each spring's first dandelions immediately inspire thoughts of Green Town, Ill., the Spaulding boys, their friends, and those golden bottles of wine

..when seen from a distance the lights and sounds of a carnival stir up curious feelings of something about to arrive, carried in on an early autumn wind

..you observe Mars sparkling in the night sky and wonder how long ago it actually was that an ancient culture held midnight festivals along its wine red canals

..watch a pick off play and think the first baseman is going to purposefully plunk the runner in the back of the head

..read an article about T-Rex and consider what it would be like to walk just above the forest floor, terrified out of your wits in knowing at any moment you might face the Tyrant King

..your dog returns after digging about all day and you are glad you don't know where he has been digging

..someone's tattoos catch your attention and you can't help but stare even when you try not to

..you get off from the ferris wheel and are truly relieved you are still the same age as when you got on

..your two young sons start each day excited about what awaits them in the next few hours; read comic books in bed together under the covers with a flashlight; catch fireflies in a jar on hot summer nights; hit and throw baseballs into the high, wet spring grass; scrape their elbows and knees doing things they were warned a hundred times not to do; wrestle each other all day long; and "finally" fall asleep best buddies - and you realize this is not some crazy de je vue!

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...you have ever preheated your oven to 451 and thrown a paper in to "see what happens."

...you are looking at the periodic table of elements and rubidium isn't the first thing that the abbreviaton Rb conjures up.

You might be a Ray Bradbury fan:

- if you become obsessed with being the first on your block to actually possess a cupful of the sun.

- if your house is the only one on the block to escape a nuclear disaster and your appliances keep everything perfectly neat long after your death by radiation poisoning.

- if you notice your cow is growing a horn, your wife is getting sexier and more golden eyed, and your son recommends moving to those curious Martian ruins in the hills.

- if the sound of rain on your space helmet drives you mad.

- if you've been trying to kill your co-workers because you believe their cubicles contain "three more extra days of life."

- if you develop a sudden and irresistable urge to destroy every annoying electronic device on the planet. (extra fan points for actually getting jail time)

- if you think it's hilarious to convince the local midget he's getting SHORTER and SHORTER.

- if every three or four years, you pack your things and move on to another good hearted family, whom you hope won't realize you're not 12 years old anymore.

- if you won't go to Chicago, because you're convinced, that upon entering, it will eat you.

- if, upon every full moon, you have your bed put at the edge of the forest, in hopes of getting laid and kicking your lithium pills.

- if you can't afford to take your family to the Grand Canyon, so instead you sell your business to build a cheap facimile that briefly convinces them they're flying over it.

- if you know, just KNOW that this will be the day, the minute, the second you'll finally catch up with the ever illusive UPS man that seems to deliver everyone elses' packages on time.

- if your baby is trying to kill you.

- if your children are trying to lure you into a den of lions.

- if you have a man that resembles Rod Stieger living next door that is really into S and M, and is covered with tattoos. (Extra fan points if you experience hallucinatory dreams of the future every time you stare at said tattoos.

- if you think that your flatscreen t.v.s should exist on three walls, but that the coolest people have them on all four walls.

- if you're at any job anywhere that has more technology to it than you have know how, but, it's still no big deal because the machine does it for you.

- if you've read all the above, and get the references.

Peace Out.

-you knock a person's teeth out when they are acting foolish in an important area.

-when the world ends you don't freak out, you just talk with your wife.

-you run away from strangers who drink and smoke and look at you.

-when they start burning the books you run away and build an illegal house in which you murder several people.

-wouldn't miss the time when your lawn is mowed for the world

...when you stand in the middle of a burning house and calmly recite a 17th century qoute...
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...you keep hoping someday to hear someone say the name of a certain ice cream, and it will be a very good thing for you both.

Still waiting....