You know you're a M.E. fan when...

You know what? Now that I think of it whenever I hear the song it makes me happy too! Sometimes I even don't answer the phone so I can hear the song playing!

When you spend hours upon hours making a Henry Gale Mood theme (and you still aren't finished) but at least I'm getting a reason to watch all of Henry's season 2 scenes over and over again...

That is so true. Don't we spend time discussing his off-centered eyes, crooked lips, etc. LOL>

Me the only one obsessed? *looks around* No, not me! I'm not obsessed at all. That's all you guys. lol.

**NOTE: I thought this needed a separate color, and I guessed that pink had the best chance of showing up well on every skin. I'm unsure how to test that, though, so... if it don't work, just say so.




You know you’re a Michael Emerson fan when...


* you see your dad wearing a striped shirt and think of Michael’s striped shirts

* you dream about meeting Michael for three nights in a row

* you’re willing to wade through over 70 pages of Google results to find new or good information about him

* you talk to his picture all day hoping he’ll answer something

* you watch the second season of Lost and can think nothing but, "Hey… what a bore! When is one of them gonna air?"

* you're planning your next holiday to Honolulu, and that's not for the beautiful landscape

* you're watching some movie only because you want to see Michael for 5 minutes

* you're looking around your room and see his pictures

* you're falling asleep and think that you want to see his face when you'll wake up

* you see your husband wearing the same striped shirt that Michael does, and compliment him for his great taste, knowing well that you love the shirt because an "Other" wears it as well.

* you buy a birthday cake that says, "Happy Birthday Michael" on the same day as Michael Emerson's birthday and celebrate it

* you celebrate the one-year anniversary of the first moment you laid eyes on Michael, and refer to it as your "One Year Anniversary" that you friends and family know about and celebrate with you

* you make dolls of his characters

* you make pillows to accommodate his photos

* you make a collage (NOT A SHRINE) of his photos from different things, and think about making a collage for every single show he's been on for your office

* when people at school are asking, "Is that your boyfriend?", and pointing at your folder with 6 photos of Michael on it

* you draw hundreds of pictures of Michael-related fan-art

* you write hundreds of stories of fan-fiction

* you rip people's faces off and spit salt in the exposed tissue when someone disses him

* your mother begins to worry that you may be distorting reality from TV

* you would rather watch and drool over Michael on TV or in a movie, than Brad Pitt or Jake Gyllenhal like most females

* you find yourself frequently daydreaming about your adventures with Ben Linus

* you cuss when the camera cuts to Jack or some other character, then squeal with delight when Michael is back on the screen

* you watch all Benry episodes once a day and press the stop button just to watch his face for the next three hours

* you tell your parents that you don´t need your old wallpaper anymore, cause you made one of Mike´s pictures

* you rewind a Benry scene 50 times before moving on with the rest of the episode

* someone asks you if you have a "significant other," and you snicker

* you work at a department store and are folding pants, only to pause and giggle because you are handling Ben's type of pants

* you yourself begin to talk to people all slow, creepy and condescending, trying to refrain from blinking

* you look at Harry Potter and scream that he stole Ben's glasses

* your creative writing teacher asks you to write a poem about beauty and you write about Michael

* you find yourself planning to someday move to, or at least visit New York, in part just to be a place Michael has been and loved

* you’re creeped out to learn you once stayed in the same town where his parents live

* you at various times have decided to jaywalk, have a sandwich to eat for lunch, or to go to the gym, because these are things that you have read Michael does

* you are trying to convince your husband to wear his hair straight up and texturized

* you buy him lots of striped shirts

* you're picking out glasses with your husband, and keep suggesting the rounder frames

* your adult son pats you on the head and calls you a sad fan girl

* you chain your friends and force them to watch Benry episodes and Mike pictures for three weeks, because they just don´t understand, and you know that it´s for their own good

* someone borrows your mobile phone and you have to explain who the cute man on the display is

* you wake up very early in the morning only because The Practice is on and you don't want to miss “Mr. Hinks Goes to Town”

* you try to convert anyone you know to the Michael Emerson religion

* you begin to make Italian subtitles for C.I.-Phantom only because you would like your mom to watch the episode, but want to hear Michael's voice all the time

* when you drive alone in your car and don't turn on the radio, for you're too busy performing your own version of "he was dead already," trying to persuade the steering wheel that you are not one of them

* you have to get up at 7 in the morning to go to college, but you set your alarm at 3 am just so you can tape X -Files "Sunshine Days"

* you plan on just letting the recorder run, and then you get so caught up in the episode you don't go to bed until 4, leaving you only 3 hours of trying to go back to sleep

* someone asks, “If you were to have a baby boy, what would you name him?”, and and you scream almost too readily, "MICHAEL!" (or Ben, or Henry, or Zep)

* you are reading a poem and it is my Ralph Waldo EMERSON and you snicker to yourself

* someone asks why, and you reply, "It's the rules”

* you test candle fragrances in Yankee Candle and try to guess which one smells like Michael

* your best friend has to leave the room because all the Benry pics stuck on your wall are creeping her out

* you look up "Stalking for Dummies"

* your Halloween costume is a ripped and bloodied orange shirt with an arrow through your shoulder, and when a kid asks you for candy, you say, "No, you're not one of the good ones"

* your mom thinks you’re dying and rushes into the room because you yelled when Benry came on the TV

* your friends tell you that you need to find a hobby other than watching old LOST episodes until the new season starts

* you are madly in love with him and everyone else thinks he is ugly

* you show a friend of yours (who's never seen Michael before) your portrait of him; she tells you, "I know this man! He's the guy you like!"; and you're proud because you described him so precisely that your friend could recognize him without knowing who he is

* you see a mannequin at your work displaying a striped shirt and you hug it with all your might, imagining yourself in Michael's warm embrace

* you are visiting a friend and she goes to get something out of the refrigerator. As she closes the door, you appear behind it with the creepiest BEN STARE you can muster, and she jolts back in surprise. Then hits you.

* you have the Sims game and you create yourself and Michael as video game characters

* a relative like your grandmother or such asks you if you have a boyfriend, and you bite your lip and try not to laugh as you say, "Oh yeah, his name is Ben," then proceed to describe him. They believe you.

* you plan on torturing the writers for not putting Michael in the episodes for over three weeks, so to make them put him back on immediately

* you have a dream about you and Michael making spaghetti together

* you find a little anecdote about somebody seeing Michael and his wife at a grocery store, with Carrie wearing "beautiful boots." That night you have a dream about going there and, for some reason, seeing these boots for sale on the shelf. You dream about them in exquisite detail.

* you show a co-worker the picture on your cell phone (which is Michael) and she asks when she gets to meet him and how long you two have been together

* you start imagining Michael in place of another actor in a movie or show you are watching and it's so real that for a second you actually believe that he was really cast and not that actor

* you can quote all of his lines

* the kid that you babysit starts calling him "daddy"

* you see someone wearing a gray suit and think of Michael

* you see a picture of a kid with his hands over his parent's eyes and think of Michael

* you open a hand lotion bottle (strawberries), sniff it and moan with a dreamy look, "Essence of Michael"

* you go to Spencer’s in the mall and your friend calls you over to the Lost action figures. You then scream and rip through the rack in search for Ben, and when finding none you pause, then slam your head into a metal pole

* the cable guy comes into your office to hook up a phone and inquires who Michael Emerson is (from collage on wall) and how is he in relation to you

* the post office clerk laughs at you because you're sending a strange envelope to Honolulu and you can hardly contain your anger cause you want to beat her up, tie her to the wall and carefully tell her your reasons

* you're a 23 year old college student, who is posting pictures online of the dolls that she made from her obsession's character

* the lights go out and the first thing you think about is not being able to go online and visit the Michael Emerson fan board and make Michael graphics

* your parents talk about taking the family to Florida for a vacation, and you're thinking, “Cool! I can visit Jacksonville, and maybe talk to an old theatre friend of Michael's!”

* you're invited to visit family in California and think, “Cool! I can visit L.A., pray for a Michael sighting, see Michael haunts, and visit some of the Michael Emerson fan board members!”

* you post up a Ben art piece on your art gallery and everyone comments that u are "such a fangirl"

* you get everyone at the Henry Gale Lovers Community (and Other places) referring to Michael as an "angel"

* you make a blog called “The Adventures of Henry Gale”

* the front desk clerks and manager at work (who know about your obsession) call you over the walkie-talkie to tell you that Michael has arrived and is waiting in a specific room for you

* you start acquiring a whole new set of breakfast habits, including saying "got any milk?" at random moments; preparing sliced mango and banana for breakfast, then just staring at it for hours; and denying coffee to anyone who happens to be incorrectly dressed

* you buy your husband (who happens to have blue eyes and sticky-up hair) a pair of khakis and a really foul orange crew shirt from Gap

* you delay your spring break vacation for two whole days just so you don't miss seeing Ben on LOST on Wednesday

* you squeal like an annoying fangirl and bounce on your bed as Lost is about to air

* your password on the computer at work is "Michael"

* you join a message board filled with many of his other fans

* everyone in your creative writing class refers to him as "your man" and know that all your poems/short stories are about him when I read them aloud

* you can't wait until 10 pm on Sunday (when Lost is on in the UK) even though it means your weekend is over and it's back to work the next day

* you really wish you hadn't been to New York a couple of years ago because it means you will never convince Hubby it's a good place to go for a holiday this year

* your ring tone for your cell phone is House of Pain's "Jump Around"

* you spend hours upon hours making a Henry Gale Mood theme (and you still aren't finished), but at least think you’re getting a reason to watch all of Henry's season 2 scenes over and over again

* you spent hours just narrating the characteristics of his face

* you attend a first day of a class with a teacher who's a dean over several departments. At one point he explains why he may not reply to our e-mails quickly - he has 100 full-time teachers underneath him, plus another 100 part-time, not to mention all the administrative/other folk. As he talks you take note of his attire (business casual), begin to sympathize, and think, "So this is what it's like for Ben"






Holy moly. We are fans, hear us roar!! ;D

Really, guys, on Microsoft Word, that was three full pages, 10-point font (!!), with no line spacing.

Should I insert numbers? It's be cool if it turned out to be an even - heck, I'm not going to guess. Math was never my strong suit (to put it mildly ) If you think yes - somebody else count, please.

I counted too. Got 95 also.

I'm just scared to count how many are mine...lmao!!!

I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can we add 5 more? We can call 100 reasons