1. You think the reason that the Vesta colony fell to the Chigs was because they were busy watching their 6
when they should have been watching their 7:30 (remember the 15 hour clock scene ???).
2. You call your member of congress and both senators to demand that in-vitros be given equal rights. *When I
worked in DC this summer I had to field calls from consituents on any number of weird issues. I would have
welcomed a call like this.*
3. When you start drawing on your contacts so when you wear them, you look like an AI. (Hank Lee)
4. You use latex to make a fake navel on the back of your neck for Halloween, and go around telling people
to stop calling you a "Tank". (I did this friday...)
5. When I play Paradise Netrek (any treker out there?), I keep on hitting "H" for Hammerhead. But it keeps
saying "Ship Not Available"...doh! And I yell at my opponents as U DAMN CHIGS, instead of U DAMN TWINKS!
6. Your mate cooks you a "special meal" and you're upset because it isn't pancakes.
7. You keep wondering why your car's front end doesn't detach and move into the garage when you pull into
the driveway.
8. Someone says "Take a Chance", so you grab their car keys and head out to Denny's with a bunch of your friends.
9. When ur co-workers yell "5 o'clock, 5 o'clock," u turn 130 degrees to the right and say "where? where? where r
the incomers? I can't see a damn thing." Ur co-workers then say, "5 o'clock, time to go home, u twink!"
10. Your two year old is wandering around talking to himself and when you ask what he's saying he tells you
"Above an' Beyon' ."
11. You pass a local company named "Vitro Incorporated" and wonder where the "In" is. (Suzanne Nisonger)
12. You pass the local company a second time a few weeks later and wonder if they are still making in-vitros
and selling them on the black market. (Suzanne Nisonger)
13. got in a fight with 49ers' fans after aruging with them, as u remember West said that "49ers sux,
they haven't won a Super Bowl for over 65 years."
14. it is 4th quarter with 5 seconds left, ur team is down by 6, 4th and long. And ur team just calls
a time-out. U call the coach up and say "Take that weenie QB out of there, bring Wang in, bring Wang in!"
15. When watching Star Wars and u r really, really sleepy, u hear a "black chig" say, "Nathan, I am ur
father!"
16. You call up the Lego people, whining and complaining because they don't pack enough grey and black
pieces in any set, and you want to finish your Hammerhead.
17. Your kids say they saw a tank on TV, and you chastise them for using foul language.
18. You get into a horrendously heated arguement over who would win, the 58th, the Enterprise-D, or
a Super Star Destroyer. (Sorry, I couldn't resist. B) )
19. You forget what Bob Saget looks like.
20. Your friend asks you for dating advice any you tell her to "Take a chance."
21. You keep pressing your car's cigarette lighter button, wondering why a missile doesn't blast the
jerk in the car ahead of you.
22. You get your license plate changed to any of the following:
23. Other licence plates and bumper stickers:
24. ....you see those little coin operated toy machines at Ames (or Walmart), and when the one with
the planes attracts your attention, you look for Hammerheads.
25. When ur waiting for ur foor, u pick up a napkin and draw the mechanical design of a hammerhead
on it. Then send it to Washington and ask them for money, so that u can build one in ur own garage.
26. You start dreaming about what McQueen woulda looked like in those x-rays.
27. You imagine cockroaches like Wang's crawling in your room.
28. You protest to your government about the ethical issues regarding using electronic nerve-gas in
combat.
29. You decide to have a T-shirt made that says Tellus Colonist on the front with a big Bulls-eye on
the back.
30. You've quit talking about Cpt Power and the Soldiers of the Future all the time and now babble
incessantly about SAAB.
31. Your wife files for divorce because you shouted "Vansen!" at an improper moment.
32. When you've been up late studying and the prof says, "The calculus test will be given by an AI
in your discussion class," you think to yourself, "Will the AI be willing to gamble with me for an A?"
(At my university, the grad students who teach are called AI's- Associate Instructors). (Suzanne Nisonger)
33. When you show up for the test armed with a battle rifle and grenades shouting, "Let's frag the
filthy AI's!"
34. You are thinking about putting in a postage meter in your office and your about to call Mr. Pitney
and Mr. Butts.
35. You've completely replaced all your Star Wars, Beavis and Butt-head, and The Simpsons sound-bites
with those from Space: Above and Beyond. (Nothing like being welcomed to the Saratoga every time you
boot :) )
36. You can recall more details from the 58th's bunk room than your own room.
37. You can imitate McQueen almost as well as Wang did.
38. ...when you go into your bosses' office for your annual review an he asks you a bunch of questions
about your loyality to the company and you end up spouting off word for word Cooper's speech to McQueen
about how loyality can't be tested by a bunch of questions and answere. Then you ask him if you can get
him a magazine or book or something.
39. ...when you break up with your boyfriend telling him you can't possibly be serious about him as
you've developed a strange affinity for men who's navels are located on the back of their neck.
40. You know exactly how long to fast forward the VCR and not miss anything (and not once have to
rewind because you over-forwarded).
41. You mention that Hawkes is cute and your brother replies in disgust: "He's a TANK!!" (My cousin,
his girlfriend, and myself pillow bombed him for that one).
42. You find out McQueen was a POW and wonder if there was a POW/MIA bracelet with his name on it,
and if you could get one.
43. When you start signing off on your Babylon 5 e-mail messages with Hoo Rah!
44. When you find yourself in a tree outside of one of the castmember's home, near a window with
binoculars and a bag O' cheetos.
45. When someone walks down the street yelling "Space:AAB sucks!" and you go get yourself arrested
for 1st degree murder.
46. When you ruin your little sister's sweet fort by transforming it into a complex replica of the
Saratoga.
47. You incessently call your congressional representatives to demand an investigation into
Aerotach's practices. (Mark Leonard)
48. When you watch CNN, you keep wondering why they never mention President Hayden's election to
the U.N. (Mark Leonard)
49. The "Jetsons" theme song gives you the creeps..."his boy Elroy!" (Mark Leonard)
50. You try to organize a boycott of Aerotech products. (Mark Leonard)
51. More licence plates... (Joey Stanford)
52. You're in your college physics class, and the teacher says "Welcome to Physics 101" and you jump
up and yell, "Physic's a Bitch!" (Michael Whitt)
53. When you start looking for Chig-Chow coupons in the Sunday paper. (El Sparko Diablo)
54. You start wondering if you can go to Tellus when you enter the Federal Witness Protection Program.
(El Sparko Diablo)
55. You sit bolt upright at 2:30am shouting "Die you Chig bastards", then begin wrestling with a 5 pound
chihuahua who jumped on the bed to investigate the shouting. Then you wake up to gales of laughter from
your spouse and the gaze of one very confused pup. *True Story*
56. You actually think your boss will give you the promotion you are up for because you told him to "Take
a chance." (Joseph Gilbert)
57. You're sitting in your college Calc class bored, and you take out your TI-81 graphing calculator
and start trying to graph a Hammerhead. (Suzanne Nisonger)
58. You are walking through the woods and a friend says "I got Chigs on my 6" and you jump to the ground
only to find out he was talking about the plant kind of Chiggers. (Michael Whitt)
59. You are driving down a rural Indiana highway in your old '85 Ford Thunderbird and it starts grumbling,
shaking, and groaning and you think to yourself "This car. It's dying." (Suzanne Nisonger)
60. You turn on CNN and a report on the troops landing in Bosnia is being broadcasted, and you look for
the 58th... (Suzanne Nisonger)
61. You turn on CNN and an interview on a particular troop team is on and you begin switching the characters
of the 58th for the troop soldiers in an attempt to see what a comparison would be like. (Suzanne Nisonger)
62. When you cut yourself shaving and start wondering if you are going to dissolve into green goo. (El Sparko Diablo)
63. When you get sick, you wonder if the doctor is going to suggest ECT to help you forget the trauma. *Hey,
the cold isn't going to hold it against you at it's tenth anniversary* (El Sparko Diablo)
64. You call 911 and wonder where all of the cool equipment is that they used to check
out West's wounds. (El Sparko Diablo)
65. The next time you are at an accident, you switch clothing with one of the victims to fool the Chigs.
(El Sparko Diablo)
66. The next time that you call an emergency medevac, you tell the paramedics that are on the scene that
you will stay as "bait". (El Sparko Diablo)
67. When the phrase "it's as easy as eatin' pancakes" takes on deep personal meaning for you. (M. Costa)
68. When your sixteen month old daughter is running around shouting "Hoo Rah" and calling everyone "Ty".
(M. McLendon)
69. When your boss tells you "the computer is trying to scare us by crashing at this most crucial time of
year" and the first thing out of your mouth is "It's OK to be scared!" *True Story* (Tigger)
70. you begin to suffer from temporal mandibular joint disorder as a result of stress from watching
Space:AAB battles. (Donovan Stites)
71. While watching any other sci-fi show, you always come to the conclusion that the 58th would kick
their asses' in Hammerheads. *ie. Robotech "Veritechs" vs Hammerheads...Ok, Ok so Robotech is animation*
(Donovan Stites)
72. You wonder if society would still be patriarchal if more women were like Shane Vansen. (Donovan Stites)
73. You save fingernail clippings in a little box just in case your remains cannot be somehow recovered.
(Donovan Stites)
74. You begin to thing that your girlfriend is really a Chig spy, and that shooting her doesn't seem
like such a bad idea. (Donovan Stites)
75. You find that it isn't a waste of time to think about more "You know you've been watching too much
Space:AAB when..." additions. (Donovan Stites)
76. You refer to tanks as the "T" word. (Duchess)
77. You start every sentence with "OK, listen up!" (I used to have a teacher in the 70's who always began
classes with that. (Duchess)
78. You tell your girlfriend you want to break it off because you've discovered a strange attraction to
women with blood red eyes and stitches around their mouthes. (Jadar Allyna)
79. When you change to Daylight Savings Time and back, you say out loud to yourself, "READY! READY! ...
HACK!! (Victor Peng)
80. When you paint your girlfriend really pale and get her one of those voice changers so she'll be like
"Lady Death". (El Sparko Diablo)
81. When you view those slide shows with new interest: "America Loves You, Some day you'll return her
love. Method 1, our vacation in the Grand Canyon...". (El Sparko Diablo)
82. You catch yourself trying to figure out just what all 687 methods to kill a human being are...
(El Sparko Diablo)
83. You start looking for Chig Berries and InvitrO's in the local supermarket cereal isles. Corallary 1:
You buy marshmellows to make Marshmellow InvitrO's treats. (El Sparko Diablo)
84. You get really scared when your doctor tells you that he has "monitored" the development of a head
cold in you, and wants you to get up on the table. (El Sparko Diablo)
85. You look for Chig 101 when signing up for classes to meet your language requirement. (El Sparko Diablo)
86. You send someone a note saying that they are "defective" and are going to be erased. (El Sparko Diablo)
87. You wonder when Obi Wan is going to tell Damphousse to "Use the Force". (El Sparko Diablo)
88. You wonder when Damphousse is going to be on the next "Psychic Friends" with Dione. (El Sparko Diablo)
89. You go to they local shooting range and ask if they have any Chig targets. (El Sparko Diablo)
90. The teacher/Instructor asks how you knew the answer, and you tell him/her "Amomoulus Intuition".
(El Sparko Diablo)
91. You spend $400 making your Glock 17 look like a pistol from S:AAB. (El Sparko Diablo)
92. You find yourself outside Roswell AFB or Dreamland looking for prototype Hammerheads.
(El Sparko Diablo)
93. You refuse to go into the Subway because you see these weird lights... (El Sparko Diablo)
94. You see a delivery van for Inflatable Delights (honest! really! I saw one while stuck in
traffic) and wonder if they have the Hawkes Pleasure Doll. (Shirley Loh)
95. You find yourself tempted to record the S:AAB theme music as the greeting on your answering
machine. (Shirley Loh)
96. You find the theme music running through your head at all hours during the week and/or humming.
aka: Stuck in my head so I'll make it stick in yours too, or How to drive your friends insane!
(Shirley Loh)
97. You want to suggest meeting at 7pm EST/PST on IRC when there's no episode airing. (Shirley Loh)
98. You really, REALLY want FOX to lose the NFL contract so SAAB doesn't keep getting delayed (though
then you start to wonder..."gee, maybe that might hurt FOX, which might result in them not picking up
the series...oh, whatta dilemma!! thud! Shirley faints in indecision...) (Shirley Loh)
99. You really don't need to stop an think of all the letters needed for the header of this posting.
(Shirley Loh)
100. You find yourself thinking of more and more things to include in your YKYBWTMSAAB list. (Shirley Loh)
101. You get really upset when your insurance won't cover the treatment of SWS. (Christine Chase)
102. You're in a bar, listening to a buddy mope about his girlfriend, who he hasn't seen in a while,
and you're thinking "Man, this guy's really gone West..." (David French)
103. You are studying logic and switching circuits and see "A-BAR" (/A) and then you wonder how a K-Bar
fits into logic... (Mark Gray)
104. When on a cold day, you start thinking how good a steaming hot bowl of Chig Pea Soup would taste.
(Stanley)
105. You start calling your cat a chig. **Since you have to watch your six when you walk into a dim room
or any kind of chig cover, like bushes** (Sharon Frey)
106. You are working at a college bookstore and someone asks where a book is, instead of saying next row,
top shelf, you point and say : Above and Beyond. (Kyril)
107. You find yourself training new workmates, and all your speeches end with "It's OK to be afraid".
(John Willis)
108. Someone cuts in front of you and you REALLY wished you were driving a Hammerhead. (John Willis)
109. When the same thing above (#108) happens twice you immediately suspect an Aerotech plot. (John Willis)
110. You wished your modem's hand shake sounded more like a silicate communication. (John Willis)
111. You sit in class trying to think up new additions to YKYBWTMS:AAB When... (Suzanne Nisonger)
112. You burst out laughing in class because you were thinking of this list and new additions. (Suzanne Nisonger)
113. When you have to drive 50 miles under a snow emergency just to get to class and your mom fixes
you a "special" hardy breakfast and it turns out to be pancakes and you have to restrain yourself from
launching them out the window. *Left over from the blizzard of '96* (Suzanne Nisonger)
114. You watched the Jay Leno show and Dave Foley was on and made a lame joke about going to the doctor
and being afraid that the doctor would come back and say that his blood smelled funny, and you fell off
the couch laughing while your roomates look at you like you've lost your mind. *True Story fellow Red
Stink Creatures!* (Mark Leonard)
115. You're reading evaluations from your students from the previous quarter and you read one students
comment that said that the class had been "writing: above and beyond" and you say to yourself, "wait, I
didn't show my students an episode of Space last quarter, I did that this quarter!!!!!" (Amy Rang)
116. You're watching Strange Luck and Chance Harper lands in a puddle of green goo and you say... "I've
been spooged!" and then you start to wonder who was imitating Kylen this time. (Amy Rang)
117. You get nervous everytime a ballboy sticks a squeeze-bottle through a football-player's mask
to give him water. (Mike Hartman)
118. You begin to wish fervently that Barry Switzer would've dissolved in a puddle of sulfuric goo
when doused by the gatorade. (Mike Hartman)
119. You do an especially skillful job of driving on treacherous roads after a snowstorm, and you
yell "HOO-Rah!" when you safely reach your destination. (Kate Duncan)
120. You're maneuvering your car around potholes, and you think you're dodging asteroids in the
Keiper belt. (Kate Duncan)
121. You go into a bar and immediately look for Patsy Cline songs on the jukebox. (Kate Duncan)
122. Patsy Cline songs are suddenly sadder than ever. (Kate Duncan)
123. You're explaining the show to a new viewer, and you cringe when she uses the T-word. (Kate Duncan)
124. You are watching Third Rock From the Sun and Dick Solomon replies to Dr. Mary's new gift with...
"That's not a thimble! That's Turkish nipple armor!" and you think that it would have been really
funny if he had said "That's InVitro neck navel armor!" (Suzanne Nisonger)
125. You watch "Aliens" and are up all night agonizing over who'd win in a Vansen vs. Vasquez fight...
and You get into a fight with a die-hard "Aliens" fan because you picked Vansen. (Robert J. Cruze Jr.)
126. You realize that "Chiggy Von Richtoven" rolls off your tongue a lot easier after you've said it
for six straight hours! (myndcrym)
127. You've finally confirmed an AeroTech coverup, because you just got arrested at Camp Lejune for
asking about a Chig Invasion Force. (myndcrym)
128. After eight gruelling weeks of Marine Corps Boot Camp, you realize that you won't be flying a
Hammerhead or sleeping next to Vansen. (myndcrym)
129. You find yourself trying to create a 1:1 scale model of the Super Ship that the Chigs made. (Chig)
130. You figure out the acronym on the Mission Control button the first time you see it. (Gil Smith)
131. You start to wonder, if Vansen and Hawkes have an affair should she go to AlAnon *She'll be
getting "tanked" every night* (Ty Shadow Wolf)
132. You start wondering if it had been Col. McQueen instead of Col. Decker, if the A-Team would
have been caught sooner. (Ty Shadow Wolf)
133. You go out to eat and ask what the soup of the day is. You hear the waitress say it's Chig 'n Noodle
Soup, and decide to have some. When it arrives, you complain because it isn't green and slimy enough and
demand to know the cook's name so you can repots him to Ross. (Red Baron)
134. You hand craft a 58th patch and sew it on your new leather jacket. (Louis Mills)
135. You mistake Chicklets for Chiglets and wonder when the Chigs got into the gum business. (Trey Best)
136. You step on the scale first thing in the morning and go: Hoo Yah!! (Stanley)
137. You tell a girlfriend who is confused about her feelings: Don't Think...Act! Don't Think...Act!
Don't Think...Act! Don't Think...Act! Don't Think...Act! Don't Think...Act! (Stanley)
138. You wonder if you will be able to convince your significant other to "zero-g" with you.
(El Sparko Diablo)
139. You find yourself looking for chig foosball tables. (El Sparko Diablo)
140. Space:AAB related items make up more than 1/2 of your website. (El Sparko Diablo)
141. You look for Sewell fuel when you try and fill up your car. (El Sparko Diablo)
142. When dealing with a recalcitrant 4 year old, you whip out a feather and say "I have no problem
going all the way with this..." (El Sparko Diablo)
143. You seriously consider taking the McQueen Torture Dilemma to an ethics professor.(El Sparko Diablo)
144. The next time you are asked to refill a drink, you reply "Sorry zoomie, no billit, no fillit"
(El Sparko Diablo)
145. When A member of the space-l list is forcibly removed, you consider drinking a bottle of scotch like
it was her blood... *AMEN!* (El Sparko Diablo)
146. You are able to spot the redshirt 2 minutes into any episode. (El Sparko Diablo)
147. You spend more than 30 minutes imagining the things that are going to happen to Hendricks. (El Sparko Diablo)
148. You seriously consider constructing a uniform just like the Marine Flightsuit/Battle Armor combo.
(El Sparko Diablo)
149. You can understand every word uttered in an episode *Not applicable if you have prior military service
in a none "pogue" unit* (El Sparko Diablo)
150. You learn to program just for the Wildcard MOO. (El Sparko Diablo)
151. You let your little brother lose a game of football. (El Sparko Diablo)
152. You scour the video stores looking for The McQueen workout tape. (El Sparko Diablo)
153. You send a S:AAB cast member a better valentine than you get your significant other. (El Sparko Diablo)
154. You are looking at an 1861 census, trying to find your ancestors, you see the name McQueen, and think
"I wonder if they're related. (Lauren Snellgrove)
155. Your dog recognizes Vansen and West...he barks every time they appear on the screen! (Audry Hollingsworth)
156. The local news break talks about a town protesting putting a tank in a park, and you immediately think
"what did the in-vitros have to do with this park?" *True story* (Jennifer Eisenbart)
157. You log into every "Space:AAB" homepage. (Christopher Chretien)
158. You have a video library of every SAAB episode. (Christopher Chretien)
159. You are in computer class and everyone is printing out the same project without names on it, and someone
asks you "Is that your project or mine?" you take a look and say "It's mine, I recognize the typos."
(Susanne Nisonger)
160. You are writing a report on computer monitors and keep typing "The Monitors are pleased with you."
(Susanne Nisonger)
161. You set all the screensavers in the campus computer lab to say "Watch Space:AAB, 7pm Sun on FOX"
(Queen of Hearts)
162. You see a van with the markings of AMTECH on it, and you had to do a double take because you thought
it said AEROTECH. *True story* (Hank Lee)
163. You believe that if Shane Vansen was the princess, someone would have had to rescue Darth Vader.
(Jersey Devil)
164. You are riding in a car that your wife is driving and she asks if it is OK to move into the next lane
and you say "Watch your Six". *True Story* (Dale Williams)
165. While golfing, instead of yelling 'FORE' to the group ahead of you, you yell "Watch your six!".
(Dale Williams)
166. Everytime you see a Marine Corps bumper sticker you think "HOO-YAH!". (John Willis)
167. You go to Toys 'R Us every day to see if those nifty Chig Foosball tables are in yet. (John Willis)
168. You have just been chewed out by your boss, and you go off muttering "Red Stink Creature" under your
breath. (John Willis)
169. A look of longing passes over you every time a SAAB passes you. (John Willis)
170. You INSIST to your Astronomy Prof. that Tellus is in fact the proper name of a certain blue star.
(John Willis)
171. You seriously consider printing up a "My other car is a Space Carrier" bumper sticker. (John Willis)
172. A workmate shocks you and you yelp "Hey, you spooged me!". (John Willis)
173. Someone cuts you off in traffic and one of the curses you scream at them is "Chig Lover!". (Sarah Wait)
174. Every time you hear a character on TV say "Son of a Bitch" you automatically respond "Yes, you will...
but we'll talk about your mother when I get back" then laugh hysterically. (Sarah Wait)
175. When Social Science is so boring you make up imaginary battles between Vansen and Ivanova, and you get
sent to the office for yelling "Go Vansen" when your teacher asks you what you are doing. (Katy McFadden)
176. You see a SAAB (the automobile) round a corner, and scream HOO YAH! at the owner. (John Willis)
177. You go to your favorite used bookstore's science fiction paperback section and blow your cash on three
books entitled "The Monitors" "Get out of My Sky" and "Genetic Soldier" all because they sound like S:AAB.
(Rachel Ward)
178. During a colloquium, a professor talks about "Tunnelling" in data modelling and your mind starts to reel!
(Judy Chow)
179. Asked by an interviewer to describe yourself, you respond without hesitation "I'm a heartbreaker and a
life-taker!" (Jacen86)
180. You walk past the Reserve counter of your University library and the thought "59th Ready Reserve!" pops
up immediately in your mind. (Wildfire)
181. At your National Honor Society induction ceremony, your principal says something about the members of the
NHS going "above and beyond" the average student, and you automatically think of S:AAB! (Justine Randt)
182. You're eating a box of these little printed cookies that are printed with these cute little bunnies, and
on the box, you read that two of the bunnies are names "Sparky" and "K.C.". Then you automatically think of El
Sparko Diablo and Kristen Cloke. (Justine Randt)
183. You consider "Tank" and "Chig" racial slurs. (Christopher Chretien)
184. You make a proposal before your Civil Air Patrol Squadron that the squadron's plane should be equiped with
LIDAR. (Christopher Chretien)
185. You think you are using the SpaceNet not the internet. (Wic)
186. You go to a water aerobics class for the first time, and have the overwhelming urge to call out "Watch your
six!" every time the instructor yells for everyone to keep their butts down in the water. (Rachel Ward)
187. You are walking in a supermarket parking lot and see a squished bag of brussel sprouts smeared on the
pavement and think to yourself: "Poor Chig B*st*rd". (Marilyn Cox)
188. You change *all* of your Windows sounds to ones from S:AAB. (Wic)
189. You are watching ST:TNG, and as Patrick Stewart starts on him introduction "Space..." you mind automatically
goes "...Above and Beyond", and you then do a double take when he proceeds with "...a final frontier." (Wildfire)
190. You make several copies of the same episode because of some slight interference on the screen that no one
else would even see...and so that you will have a backup copy if some disaster strikes you tape collection!
(Teresita Kolenchak)
191. With binoculars you look into the night sky to see comet Hyakutake and wonder if it's from the Sirus system
and whether you'll be able to see an ISSCV trailing behind it. (Gail Montieth)
192. When you read a sign that says "Wilmington Hammerheads" coming to town. So you try and figure out why you
were never told, then realize that the "Wilmington Hammerheads" are a soccer team. (Amy Schmidt)
193. When you purchase a $99 CD player because it looked like the one used in the mining colony (AI) episode.
*AIWA Model CSD-EX111 white one*! (MrEd)
194. You wonder if Data is a reformed AI. (Anaae of Silver Lakes)
195. You move to 127 58th Avenue. (Anaae of Silver Lakes)
196. You ask your study hall monitor "Who monitors the birds?" (Anaae of Silver Lakes)
197. You start watching ST:TNG to see Lanei Chapman. (Anaae of Silver Lakes)
198. Your excuse for turning your project late is that your study group was affected by a hallucinogen-nerve
gas that provoked your intense fear of roaches and caused you to turn on each other. (Anaae of Silver Lakes)
199. You write a letter to Mattel accusing them of being discriminatory because there's no "InVitro Barbie".
(Anaae of Silver Lakes)
200. You quit your job by saying "Never No More" when your boss calls you to come to work.br>
(Anaae of Silver Lakes)
201. You get a question wrong on your radioactivity test when you say the Saratoga was sung by Chigs not an
A-Bomb...*Luckily this isn't true* (Anaae of Silver Lakes)
202. You join the Marines to fight Chigs. (Anaae of Silver Lakes)
203. You've suddenly developed this fanatacism for strawberries in thick cream.
204. You go buying vegetarian meat substitutes and you run across a case of Fri-Chig instead of Fri-Chick.
(Jim Heald).
205. You desire cole slaw to go with your Kentucky Fried Chigs. (Jim Heald)
206. You've been reading YKYBWTMSAABW... and realize it's 1:49 am and you have work at 4 am!!! (like now)
(The Grey Mugi)
207. You're watching X-Files and everytime there's an alien in it you expect it to be a Chig. (The Grey Mugi)
208. Your Air Force buddies have made an agreement to hit you everytime you say the words "Hoo Rah" for no apparent
reason, just to break you of the habit. (The Grey Mugi)
209. That tech working on that Hammerhead with the short red hair looks just like Skully! (The Grey Mugi)
210. You visit Sea World and are dissapointed when the Hammerheads are just fish. (The Grey Mugi)
211. Your you're watching SAaB and realize your spouse has been home from work for 3 hours! (ouch)
(The Grey Mugi)
212. You look up 'Chig' in the encyclopedia and say, "That's not what they look like!" (The Grey Mugi
213. Anytime someone knocks on your door you yell, "Who's at my hatch?" (Jadar Allyna)
214. When you stomp a bug running across the floor, and yell "GOT you, CHIGGIE!" (true story, happened
TWICE today.. (L.A. McGrath)
215. When the car ahead of you has a "Semper Fi: U.S. Marine Corps" bumper sticker and you have to resist
the urge to jump out and bang on their window or yell HOOYAH! or something. True story! (The Islander)
216. Your employer has a couple Highway Patrol officers in to give a talk on safety, and one identifies
himself as an ex-Marine. At the conclusion of his talk, he says 'Semper Fi!', and you have to clamp a
hand over your mouth when you almost blurt out 'Hoo rah!' (Kate-M )
217. When you are doing a crossword puzzle and the clue is "henhouse" and the 80 Yr old lady next to says
"coop" and you yell "HOO YAH'. and then the entire lunch room looks to see if you have killed her!! (Eileen)
218. You're watching a baseball game and the announcer refers to the "wildcard" player. You instantly wonder
"I don't see any of them". (Deanna Skraba)
219. You're at a barbecue and the host wants some sauce, you pass the Heinz 57 sauce saying "Here's the 58th".
(Linda aka lulu)
220. Your driveway suddenly becomes "River of Tar". (Anaae of Silver Lakes)
221. Your best friend, who hates the show, is writing SAVE S:AAB letters.(Anaae of Silver Lakes)
222. Your sister, who also hates the show, has seen every episode at least twice.(Anaae of Silver Lakes)
223. When you walk by the store Things Remembered in your local mall and stand there gaping for five
minutes. A display for a money clip have the initials AMF engraved on top. (Abby)
224. When you see a car hogging two spaces in a very busy parking lot, and you're going to put a nasty
note on the windshield, but then you see that the car is a *SAAB*... so you don't leave a note. (Kate Duncan)
225. You go to lunch and you specifically order a Turkey sandwich off the menu, just because it comes with
"Saratoga" chips. Turns out the "Saratoga" chips were homemade potato chips that were quite good. (Stanley)
226. They're doing the first roll call for my class and I glaze over everything past my name... and then I hear
first "Wang" and then "West" and immediately spin around to see if by some strange miracle. Anyway, I didn't
see Wang and West was female this time...(Simon Lee)
227. You see an article in your local newspaper title "Space: Costly Frontiers" and you immediately think
"Hey, this is about SAAB!" (Deanna Skraba)
228. When you hear a Ginsu commercial from the other room, and hear the line "It's so sharp it can cut
through a hammerhead" and you run into the room expecting to see a new Chig weapon on the screen. (Stephen Gideon)
229. You start to wonder if the Saratoga is bigger than a Battlestar! (Mapguy)
230. After walking with your dog in the same place a thousand times (just around your house), you suddenly note
this sign for the very first time: -SAAB REPAIR- Your heart beats, at last a place to repair that little scratch
you made to your hammerhead! (Ripley888)
231. You're skimming an article about a new ramjet powered cruise missile and you chuckle to yourself considering
the extended hammerhead discussions of late, but you start hearing Twilight Zone music when you read its being built
by SAAB. (Mark Leonard)
232. You know you read *way* too much Space-l when you're stuck in traffic and you notice that the car in front of
you has lisence plates that read "Froggy".. and your heat-wave addled brain says, "What the hell is Schmoopy doing
in Texas? (Steph)
233. You're watching game 4 of the NBA finals rooting for the Sonics who were down 3-0 going into the game and
seeing them kick Bulls butt with a group of friends when you see Michael Jordan come up behind Shawn Kemp and
you yell 'Watch your six, Shawn!' Everyone just looked at me and laughed. (Kate Ancel)
234. You know you've been watching too much SAAB when you see a title "WildCards" and you wonder when a book
focusing on the 58th came out and why you hadn't seen it earlier. (Danielle Walther)
235. You know you've been watching too much SAAB when you see that you're returning "Sliders" and you start
laughing hysterically, and no one else understands the irony. (Danielle Walther)
236. You step into the bathroom where your sister is having a shower. When she screams and asks what you're doing
here, you answer: "Sir, I'm here to seek and destroy Chigs, Sir" (Wouter Diesveld)
237. When you break up with the Marine Infantry captain you're dating because he swears he has never heard of the
58th. (Kristal McMaster)
238. When your Marine captain boyfriend has the audacity to ask you out on a Sunday at 7pm and you politely tell
him to "stay with the dead." (Kristal McMaster)
239. You've got a compulsive urge to get up at 11 o'clock at night and phone the nearest airport to inform them
that you have the airstrip "secured." (Brian Williams)
240. You're taking a test on evolution in biology and cite the example of the human-Chig evolution as a response
to a question about co-evolution. (Brian Williams)
241. You're trying to build a Hammerhead in your garage. (Brian Williams)
242. Every time your boss gives you directions, you respond "Sir, Yes Sir!!" (Brian Williams)
*** Copyright 1995 ***
Created by: Christine M. Chase (honcho@teleport.com).
Last Updated: August 17, 1996