You can clearly visualize slashing the throat of the next person who says "Why do you need to see it? You know how it ends. The boat sinks!" (Jill)
You have sent an e-mail petition around because Leo didn't get nominated for an Oscar. (Vanessa)
Your bird knows every song to the Titanic Soundrack because you've played it so much, even though only one song has words.(Vanessa)
Your bird says "I love you Leo" everytime you enter the room because everytime you enter your room, you go over to your Leo poster, tell "him" you love him and kiss the poster.(Vanessa)
One of the remixes of "My Heart Will Go On" has the conversation of Kate saying "I want you to draw me wearing this." and Leo saying "Alright." You absolutely love the way Leo says this, so you cover a whole side of a tape of Leo going "Alright""Alright'"Alright"....... (Vanessa)
On your answering machine message you have Titanic playing in the background and your message says, "Sorry, I can't come to the phone right now because I'm on a date with Leo, so please just leave your name and number and I'll
get back to you when I have time (Vanessa)
You broke your arm leaning off the railing of the loft in your house while acting out the scene when Jack and Rose meet and you won’t let anyone sign your cast because you need the room to write Titanic quotes. (Steph)
You watch clips from the movie before you go to school, insisting that you will have a bad day if you don’t. (Steph)
You wake up at 3:30 in the morning just in case MTV plays "My Heart Will Go On"(Steph)
You play "My Heart Will Go On" on the paino so much that your fingers have blisters. (Steph)
You have started drawing again seriously. (Steph)
You dyed your hair red to match Rose’s. (Steph)
You start crying out of joy when strangers mistake you for Kate Winslet. (Steph)
You punch someone for calling Kate Winslet fat. (Steph)
You drive for 5 hours to go ice fishing in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. (Steph)
You have at least one friend who spell's out the word obsessive for you daily,(teresa)
You join the school drama club in hopes that you'll be discovered and get to work with Leonardo DiCaprio.(teresa)
In computer class the teacher says pick any topic to make your project about and you pick 'titanic' the movie.(teresa)
You check every titanic website daily to make sure your not missing any new info. (teresa)
You have collected at least 1 hundred pictures of Leonardo DiCaprio, and collaged them into one great big pic.(teresa)
You convince your sister-in-law and her husband to spend their tenth wedding anniversary going with you to see Titanic. You meet them in a town (30 miles away) only to find out it's SOLD OUT! So you further convince them to come to your hometown and watch it. All of you do 80 mph to make it about 30 minutes late! (jen)
You download various images from the movie and load them as wallpaper on all the computers in the computer lab at the preschool where you work.....and.....the preschoolers instantly recognize the images. (jen's friend jodi)
You convince your husband to leave the resort town where you are spending your 10th wedding anniversary to go to the next town to take you to see Titanic for your seventh time and because you had to sit in the very front, far left side, you convince him you need to see it again because you feel as though you only saw half the movie. (jen)
Every time you see a sign that says "Watch For Ice" you start to cry. (EM)
You've spent over 24 hours of your life in a movie theater watching this movie (about 8 times) (D)
You and your friends try to figure out who's parents will be willing to take you next (D)
You have your best friend play the TITANIC cd in the background of your phone conversation because you don't have it. (Miami99AHM)
Your little brother hates TITANIC because he knows if something comes on tv about it, he doesn't get to watch his cartoons.(Miami99AHM)
You stayed up late to print this list out for your friend because she doesn't have the internet.(Miami99AHM)
You call the local DJ and ask "How in the world did My Heart Will Go On fall from the #1 slot on the daily top 5 countdown?" FYI #1 was Truly, Madly, Deeply.(Miami99AHM)
You are thinking of new obsession signs when you should be taking notes on WWII.(Miami99AHM)
You know about TITAN~~> a fictional ship that had TITANIC'S same fate only years earlier.(Miami99AHM)
You refuse to speak to your parents because they refer to TITANIC as "just another movie"(Miami99AHM)
You buy a $200 dollar zip drive because your brother won't let you store any more of the Titanic Images on your precious hard drive. (Mehnaz001)
Your AOL profile is filled with Titanic quotes. (Mehnaz001)
You can only go to the Titanic chatroom and do nothing else (Mehnaz001)
When you buy all newspapers or magazines that contain articles on Titanic (Mehnaz001)
For the first time, when you enter the public or school library
just to get a book about Titanic (Mehnaz001)
When your friends give less than enthusiastic feedback on the movie, you boom loudly, "You can be blase about some things, but not Titanic!" (Kathryn)
On school picture day, you arrive at school wearing a cheap "Heart of the Ocean" knock-off and insist that the photographer take a picture of you "wearing this . . . . wearing only this". (Kathryn)
Your friends must drag you out of the theater as you thrash wildly and scream, "Damn you, Ismay! You got your headlines, didn't you? DIDN'T YOU?!?" (Kathryn)
At your school formal, you beg the dee-jay to play "a spirited
Irish jig". (Kathryn)
When a friend nonchalantly points out some historical inaccuracies in the movie, you get frantic and ask, "But that doesn't make it any less perfect, right? RIGHT?" until she gets scared and agrees. (Kathryn)
You stare at every picture/painting you see, study it with a
furrowed blow, and announce softly to anyone who will listen, "There's truth but no logic . . .". (Kathryn)
Because the play figures of Jack and Rose aren't available, you construct your own crude imitations, using magazine pictures, rubber cement, and cardboard stands. You play with them frequently.(Kathryn)
In school, your teacher becomes disturbed when she sees you shaking your head sadly and murmuring "Not enough boats . . . not enough by half". (Kathryn)
Your next destination: Chippewa Falls. (Kathryn)
When ever you get on a boat or ship you scream "ICEBERGH RIGHT AHEAD!" (Crystal)
You have made 18 different themes up for your windows desktop (Rob)
Your College Research Paper on titanic comes up with new theories on why titanic went down.(Rob)
You do a biographical paper on Thomas Andrews as an example of nice guys finish last. (Rob)
When your friends are trying to make plans with you and what you'd like to do over the weekend, you blurt out "Are you ready to go back to TITANIC"? (Lisa)
You wake up in the middle of the night saying "Jack, you're
trembling." (Mandy)
When at the dance and "My Heart Will Go On" comes on you stand in the middle of the floor with your best friend and sing and scream movie clips while using hand motions, instead of dancing with your boyfriend. (Chrissey and Catey)
Your church sanctuary gets remodeled, and when you find there are new hymnbooks you are practically ecstatic when you see that "Eternal Father, Strong, to Save" is in there. Next you look up "Nearer, My God, To Thee" and sing these to yourself in your head during the sermon (Byron)
You wish the movie was rated NC-17 so there's no chance of annoying little children who like to disrupt movies being allowed in.(Byron)
You look past Kate Winslet and instead find your heart
ensnared by 2 other women--those who play the Countess of Rothes and Madame Aubert. Naturally, the dinner scene is one of your favorites. When thinking of nothing else they come into your head and will not go away for anything (of course, that's not a problem). (Byron)
You find a Titanic book in Waldenbooks in the mall, become engrossed in it, and when the mall is closing you can't tear yourself away from it. You keep trying to read as fast as you can, the gate to the store has already come halfway down and the woman is standing there waiting for you after the announcement has been broadcast that the mall is closed,
and it's not until she looks at you and says, "Sir, we're closed now," that you finally look up and think about leaving peacefully.(Byron)
You go to buy the sheet music to MHWGO and when the salesgirl gives it to you with the receipt inside you have to compose yourself and stop yourself from glaring at her saying, "You didn't give me a bag. Why didn't you give me a bag? Don't you underSTAND?! This is from "Titanic"! You can't give me something from "Titanic" without a BAG! Obviously you
are uncultured and do not know just how big this movie is. If I get home and something has happened to this, you'll be sorry!" (Byron)
When you get home your poor bagless sheet music (which
thankfully did not get bent) you play it and you get this eerie feeling because, since you're playing it on a piano, at times it sounds really uncannily like the scene where Jack draws Rose.(Byron)
You find that when you sit down to play even just a little bit
of the music, you can't stop there. You have to play all 10 pages of it.(Byron)
You feel sorry for your "Titanic" partner when her mother
forbids her to see it anymore and almost cry for her yourself.(Byron)
You're so worried about everything going just right at the
Oscars that you refuse to mention any names of any people or "other things" that have been nominated. You don't want to hurt "Titanic".(Byron)
Your "Titanic" partner helps you realize you can do a jolly
good impression of Mr. Lightoller, and you think it would be neat for Halloween if only you could find blue contacts and an officer's uniform.(Byron)
very time you see the movie you wish that in Mr. Murdoch's
last scene the people would just suddenly calm down and let the man do his work, cause it's just too sad when your favorite character has to go like that.(Byron)
You've been 15 freakin' times (so far) and you STILL catch new things and have unanswered questions! (Byron)
You know some of these signs you submit qualify you for a
permanent room in the loony bin, but you don't care at all because you know the people who are going to read these could be your roommates.(Byron)
Some of your movie-going relatives still haven't seen it, yet
you suppose you'll acknowledge them the next time you see them (but they're pushing they're luck). . .(Byron)
When reading all the signs and highlighting ones that are
"you", you become depressed when you get to the end of the 24th page and get a craving to break into the computer lab because you simply *must* get more! More! MORE!!! (Byron)
You feel incomplete without having found a new Titanic web site(Tara)
Your parents have seriously offered therapy to you to help you get over your so called "obsession" with Titanic.(Tara)
People who you thought were friends have alienated you because everything ends up being about Titanic.(Tara)
You have wall to wall posters of Titanic and the two characters (Allison)
You plan on being the first one at your school to have all the Titanic accessories (Allison)
You have more than 50 Titanic websites saved in your Favorite Places folder (Allison)
You listen to the soundtrack so much that you screwed it up and now it doesn't play normally (Allison)
You have dreams about Titanic every night (Allison)
All your tests essays and examples on things in school are about Titanic (Allison)
You spend your allowance paying for tickets to see Titanic again (Allison)
You write fanmail every free time you've got (Allison)
When you and your friends play truth or dare, all the questions have to do with Titanic (Allison)
Your goal in life is to have pronted the entire movie in stills off the internet. (Amanda M)
You hear the song "my heart will go on', or 'southampton', and you record it even though you already have five times.(Chele99n1)
You look in newspapers every monday to see if titanic has passed star wars, and swear you'll go five more times so that it will (Chele99n1)
When you go to restaunts or stores, you can hear faint music in the backround, and you swear it's the song, or a variation of it.(Chele99n1)
Every word someone says sends you off on a titanic tangent, and you quote a whole scene from the movie (Chele99n1)
You sign onto chat's as either Jack Dawson or Rose DeWitt Bukater.(Crystal)
Finally, after 11 times, you realize that if you don't stop seeing it,
you are going to have a nervous breakdown and you have to stop.(Kim)
You spend all your money (all six dollars of it) to buy A Night to
Remember, then get it home and read it over and over, highlighting
parts that are accurate with the movie, folding down favorite pages, etc.(Kim)
You have a sinking feeling that when you go see The Man in the Iron
Mask (not because you *want* to, but because you were *asked*), you are
going to stand up and yell "No, Jack! What are you doing?! Where's ROSE???"
and constantly be looking for navy uniforms.(Kim)
You changed your minor to be able to do a paper on the Titanic.(Kim)
You've got four tapes of Titanic stuff, but are afraid to watch any of
them for fear of suffering an emotional breakdown, because you've
stopped seeing the movie.(Kim)
You are going to kill your "Titanic partner" if he does that Mr. Lowe impression one more time, not because it's annoying, but because lately, it makes you cry.(Kim)
You say the whole script (without even knowing it) during the movie (Spree94)
You and your best friend spend every English period writing Titanic
quotes all over your textbook cover, and several peices of looseleaf and then
your other friends ask to borrow the book so they can be entertained during class
by reading it.(Jen)
You buy a really old car ( like say from 1912) just so you and your
boyfriend can act out the car scene in it.(Jen)
The people your local book store threaten to kill you if you call one
more time asking if they have the book 'Titanic' by James Cameron (Jen)
You and your friends have hand signels for every scene in titanic that
you do across the room to eacother in class.(Jen)
You buy an antique silver hand mirror so you can pick it up in a few
years and say "the reflection changed a bit" (Jen)
You cry when you realize that you lost your Titanic ticket stub...the
6th one.(Tara)
You got yelled at in chemistry for reading the script instead of your
book. (Tara)
You call people who have only seen the movie 3 times deprived(Tara)
You've seen it 6 times and want to go see it again just in case you
missed something (tara)
You buy the book 'Titanic for two' which includes menus and recipes
for first class and then host a party and recreate a titanic dinner
complete with movie clips, 'My Heart Will Go On' and recreations of
Rose's dresses for all your guests. (Amy and Shelby)
The first time you saw Titanic was on Christmas Day and it was the
best present you got. (Jennifer)
You don't know how you're going to survive all those months waiting
for Titanic to come out on video.(Jennifer)
You know the whole movie by heart.(Jennifer)
You have spent $100 or more on the movie (buying the book, the
posters,the soundtrack, the movie tickets...) and you hadn't even noticed until
someone pointed it out to you.(Jennifer)
You go over to your friend's house to spend the night and you bring
so much stuff with you that she says "Uh, you're not about to board the
Titanic" but you actually wish you were, even though you know it's
going to hit the iceberg.(Jennifer)
You let your friend borrow your Titanic soundtrack for the weekend
and suffer greatly because you won't be able to listen to it, but are glad
that you can at least listen to "My Heart Will Go On" on your Celine Dion CD.(Jennifer)
When you get in your friend's car you say "Will we be seated
according to class?" You then you go on to pretend that the people sitting at the
front of the car are first class passengers, the people sitting in the
middle are second class passengers, and the people sitting in the back
are third class passengers.(Jennifer)
You buy every magazine that has Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, or
anything Titanic-related on the cover.(Jennifer)
You listen to "My Heart Will Go On" over and over again while
checking out Titanic websites.(Jennifer)
You are taking a test on a book about WWI in English class and
somehow you incorporate "No matter what happens, no matter how hopeless" into
one of your answers.(Jennifer)
You say goodnight to your Titanic poster every night.(Jennifer)
ou find yourself wishing you looked more like Kate Winslet so that
people will start mistaking you for her.(Jennifer)
You always listen to the top 5 countdown on weeknights on the
radio, even though you know "My Heart Will Go On" is going to be number one and
you have the song on your Titanic and Celine Dion CD's.(Jennifer)
You want to go down to see the wrecked TITANIC. (Stephen)
You want to have your wedding in the ocean above the wreck.(Stephen)
You have to keep track of how many times you've seen the movie by
writing it down, just so you can remember (Nikki M)
You sit and watch music videos of bands you hate for hours just to see
"My Heart Will Go On" and tape it (Nikki M)
You cry when you hear the movie remix of "My Heart Will Go On" while
you're in your car, not only because it's really sad, but because you're in
you car and can't record it (Nikki M)
you get into arguments with the guy who works at the theater because
he's seen it more time than you, claiming it isn't fair because he gets to
work the projection room (Nikki M)
You get to the theater a half hour before the movie starts, just to
get the same seats you sat in the last 4 times you went (it took you 3 times
before that to find them) and call them the "perfect seats" and you ask anyone
sitting in the to move, claiming they're yours. (Nikki M)
You get mad at the people talking behind you, even though you've seen
it 10 times (Nikki M)
The people behind you get mad because you keep quoting the lines from
the movie (Nikki M)
You have read EVERY page of EVERY obsession sign. (Steph)
You have calculated the figures, and 89.4% of the obsession signs apply
to you.(Steph)
When you are home alone, you act out the entire movie, playing every
single part yourself.(Steph)
You give you fiancee headaches because you talk about the Titanic so
much.(Steph)
You were upset that there are only five pages of obsession signs so far.(Steph)
Every time that you see the movie, the owner of the theater tells you
that you are not to yell that there is room on the wood for both Jack and
Rose.(Steph)
You honestly believe that in your former life you were in the exact
situation as Jack and Rose(In love and on the Titanic, and then the male
dies).(Steph)
The first thing anyone says to you in the morning is "how many times
have you seen it NOW?" (Heather)
You make three copies of your Titanic images on disk and give them out
to your friends(Heather)
Your color printer breaks, you cry and beg your boyfriend to print out
the 60+ images for you(Heather)
The first thing everyone says to you is, "Did you add anything new to
your Titanic scrapbook?"(Heather)
You put the soundtrack on repeat every night when you go to
sleep(Heather)
When "My Heart Will Go ON" comes on the radio, you BLAST it from every
room in the house, then lie on the floor and stare at the ceiling and
cry(Heather)
You insist on combing every book, department, or grocery store for
anything even remotely related to Titanic(Heather)
You count the days until the TV premiere(Heather)
You don't leave your seat in the theater until ten minutes after the
credits are over(Heather)
You set a goal to have everything on this list checked off by the end
of the week(Heather)
You call your friends every time "My Heart Will Go On" comes on the
radio(Heather)
You lie awake all night listening to the soundtrack and trying to think
of signs to add to this list first thing in the morning(Heather)
You dream that you and a friend went to a performing arts school with
Leo(Heather)
You sit and listen to "My Heart Will Go On" over and over and over and
over at The Wall or Barnes & Noble in the "listen before you buy"
section(Heather)
Over 100 of these signs apply to you(Heather)
Your boyfriend starts talking about Titanic all the time just so you
will pay attention to him(Heather)
One by one, all of your guy friends change their names to Leo(Heather)
You write the lyrics to "My Heart Will Go On" in a spiral on your
friend's hand and scare him half to death because he doesn't know that it's just
a song(Heather & Joe)
You teach yourself how to play piano so you can get the sheet music to
"My Heart Will Go On" and play it(Jess)
You do everything on this list just so you can say you are
obsessed(Heather)
You write the lyrics to "My Heart Will Go On" on every notebook you
own(Heather)
You buy both CDs (the soundtrack and Celine Dion's) and still record
the song EVERY time you hear it on the radio, regardless of how many times you
already have it on the tape (like 50 times!!) (Heather & Jess)
You submit more than 20 signs of obsession to this list(Heather)
You nick name yourself " The Unsinkable 'First Name'
Titanic 'Last Name' (G1RULE635)
You've made many honest attempts to
see "The Wedding Singer", and just can't bring yourself to seeing anything
else as long as "Titanic" is still playing! (DaynaSculy)
You've spent more than 10 minutes contemplating the fate of the dogs
aboard Titanic. (Kathryn)
Every night you stay awake until the precise moment of Titanic's
sinking (at which you cry yourself to sleep).(Kathryn)
You wear a life jacket at all times.(Kathryn)
You enjoy taking those 30 minute movie surveys over the phone just so
you can say youve seen it 6 times and discuss it with the nice lady over the phone (Gemini2399)
Your answering machine is a recording of lines off the "my heart will go
on" remix (Gemini2399)
You look in national geographic at the real Titanic and say " Ohhh thats where
they made out at the bow of the boat, thats where they hocked lugies", etc....(Gemini2399)
You record anything and every thing off the tv on titanic, leo, kate or
just big boats in general (Gemini2399)
You stay cooped up in your room for days crying
and saying over and over, "Why did Jack have to freeze?" (G1RULE635)
You think you know your way around the Titanic better than most of the
crew did.(Susan)
You encourage your mother (named Rose) to repeate dialouge with her
friend's husband (named Jack) (Kate)
You and your friend have a contest to see who can make the best Titanic
website (Kate)
A girl in your school claims to have been an extra in Titanic and you
quiz her daily for evey detail (Kate)
You look up the names Jack Dawson, Rose Dawson, James Cameron (and
others) in the phone book and call them (Kate)
The guy you like's character in a school skit is named Jack and you
almost start crying for fear he will die (Kate)
On the web all your familiar 'haunts' on the web are Titanic pages (Kate)
Your hard drive actually ran out of memory because of all the Titanic
stuff (Kate)
You speak exclusively in dialouge and have developed a tendency to
stare at ice and repeat 'there aren't enough boats, there aren't enough boats'
over and over (Kate)
In the part of the movie where Rose is trying to find Jack you repeat
the directions to her and use encouraging phrases like 'yes that way! now
the crew passage!' (Kate)
You stare out at the ocean while listning to 'Hymn to the Sea' waiting
for Titanic to sail into the harbor (Kate)
Titanic is life (Kate)
Even though you have to go to the bathroom really bad right in the
middle of the movie, you stay in your seat until the movie is over. (Amy)
Your friends can tell when you want to talk about Titanic, because you
get that 'look' in your eyes. (Amy)
You take a rowboat out in the middle of a lake and recite Titanic
lines. (Amy)
You are calling video stores and offering money for movie posters (Amy)
You've disowned any family members who didn't like the movie (Amy)
You have no time for friends because you're too busy cutting Titanic
pics from magazines (Amy)
Your idol is someone who is in the movie (Amy)
You frame Titanic magazine pictures (Amy)
You wrote a book about your obsession (Amy)
You called your fav. radio station and threatened to stop listening if
they didn't play the Titanic song once every 10 minutes (Amy)
You know what time it is in every scene at the Grand Staircase. (It's
7:05 when Jack comes to dinner, about 7:07 when Rose arrives, 9:00 when Rose
makes it count and meets Jack at the clock, 2:15 when it goes under the water, and 2:20 when Rose dies and comes back to the Titanic.) (Susan)
Whenever you are drinking anything, you lift your glass and say "To making it count."(JesseC.)
You taped the Titanic special on Fox and have watched it at least 20 times. (JesseC.)
You have a fit when you find out that the Queen Mary is bigger than Titanic.(JesseC.)
You buy newspapers and magazines in different languages if they have anything about Titanic in them.(JesseC.)
Instead of saving up for a car, you're saving up $35,000 to go on a deep- sea dive to the real Titanic.(JesseC.)
On the part where the ship is leaving port and the people on the ship are waving, you wave back.(JesseC.)
You actually read your History book looking for something on Titanic.(JesseC.)
You bet your best friend that you can identify what song is playing on the movie before he can. (JesseC.)
You quote lines at the appropriate time when listening to the
soundtrack.(JesseC.)
You ditch your date to sing "My Heart Will Go On" with your friends at the school dances. (JesseC.)
You're calling someone and if by the first ring, no one picks up, you say, "Pick up, ya bastards!!" (Just like Mr. Fleet in the movie did) (David)
You put a suggestion in your theatre's suggestion box suggesting that all bathrooms should be equipped with monitors so that those going to the bathroom won't have to miss anything. (jen1)
You draw stick-figure reenactments of scenes from Titanic on various pages of your text book complete with dialogue. You show and explain them to the strangers sitting next to you. (jen1)
You've talked about Titanic so much that your 70 year old grandmother goes to see it and she hasn't been to the movies in about 30 years!(jen1)
You are able to quote the script on cue and can relevantly relate it to any event occuring in day-to-day life.(jen1)
You believe that the line, "Oh, stop it Mother. You'll give yourself a nosebleed." is applicable in any situation.(jen1)
You brag to others about how many converts you've made to the movie. (jen1)
Your opinion changes about your friends when you take them to see it, and they don't cry!(jen1)
You are mortified when your close friend says, "That movie just doesn't do anything for me." (jen1)
Your husband has started worrying that you will fall in love with someone that looks like Jack. (jen1)
You visit this web site everyday and everytime there is a new obssesion
sign page you print it out. (Robin H.)
You e-mail Cardmaster postcards with a choice of different Titanic
pictures and sayings to your friends.(Nix)
