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You know you are a hopeless QAF fan when...


You think Gale Harold is the most beautiful man alive

Your cell/mobile alarm is Brian saying either "Good Morning Sunshine" or "Rise and Shine Sunshine"

You get giggly whenever you meet or hear someone called Justin and/or Brian

Your friends want to watch the show too just because you talk about it so damn much

You will never look at a zucchini or a cucumber the same way again...

You won't even let your best friend/soul mate/family member touch your DVDs


You can read these and other almost 50 funny observations in this link:

http://www.fanbolt.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-44238.html



Can anyone think of other "signs" that we are all hopeless QAF addicts?




"Anything is possible. Explaining is the tricky part"- Brian Kinney

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"How can you *beep* up Jello?" :)

You can't polish a turd!!
http://pRiMe-BitChIn.bebo.com

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You know you're a hopeless QAF fan when you hear a commercial that says, "Can you grasp this, pull this...? Yes you can!" ...and you can't help but think of Ted's disgusting self-service orgy...

...and walking the dogs at night, hear the Woodcock calling to his mate (they have an amazing mating ritual), and giggle at the thought of Ted explaining to a disbelieving Emmett that a Woodcock is a real bird of the avian type...

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I was hopeless just last night. I saw a name of an actor I had never seen before. His name in, get this, Taylor Kinney. I was almost ROLFLMAO. I couldn't help myself.

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Taylor Kinney is a regular on Trauma.

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I'm baaaack with another crazy one. I was going through the files at work one day (I work with military members) and we file by last name. Well, found one with the last name "Novotny", actually pulled the file out to see what the first name was. You guessed it, "Michael", had to do a little more digging but alas, his middle name was not "Charles". I just had this crazy smile on my face and really couldn't explain it to my co-workers. I am a heterosexual female (using my husband's IMDB account to post), working amongst a load of homophobes. They really get on my nerves, but I usually just try to tune them out.

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LOL! No wonder you come here for refuge! We ask and we tell!

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...you know you're hopeless when in the shower you wonder what temperature the water was when the boys were filming their shower scenes.

Not too hot, not to cold...

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You know you're a hopeless fan when you find out there's a boy named Brian among your new students and that puts a big smile on your face!



"Anything is possible. Explaining is the tricky part"- Brian Kinney

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You know you're a hopeless fan when you have your turkey sandwich on whole wheat with no mayo and find it's very delicious and it's the only way you'll have it from now on.

WHERE IS MY CHIFFON!!!!!

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That was a good one!



"Anything is possible. Explaining is the tricky part"- Brian Kinney

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Around 8:30pm, you're thinking to yourself while stuffing your face with pizza and soda that maybe it is a good idea not to eat carbs after 7pm. lol I don't know how Brian does it.

WHERE IS MY CHIFFON!!!!!

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That's funny, I'm eating pizza at this exact moment! Maybe I should drop it...

"Anything is possible. Explaining is the tricky part"- Brian Kinney

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...you feel uneasy about buying or wearing a white scarf

...you decide against buying a toy baseball bat for a child's first brithday

...you decide against taking a friend to a classical music concert for their birthday

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...Brian Kinney's defeat of Stockwell becomes your inspiration during your country's Federal Election (Australia) and you find yourself donating money to help defeat an evil, homophobic politician (i.e. Tony Abbott)

...you watch the clip of Justin's stunt against Stockwell at the GLC and find yourself thinking of ways to do a similar thing during the Federal Election campaign

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Definitely! I'm sure Justin could come up with some brilliant anti-Abbott posters!

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...when you hear Ke$ha's song 'Take it off' and you immediately think of the back room of Babylon and the Liberty Baths

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...when you managed for months now not to think about any qaf-thing at all (hard time in the beginning, but by now really seemed to work) - and the simple fact of a name "pavel novotny" inserted in some TV-interview spoils all your efforts in less then a second...
...don´t know what "Pavel" was asked nor what he answered, nor what it was all about at all...
...drat...

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I saw the name Scotty Paige on a document today, and was like 'OMG', I cannot even do my job without something reminding me.

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I just came back from seeing The Social Network. I am a person that stays to read all of the credits even though most of the crew names mean nothing to me. Suddenly out of all the dozens of names rolling by was the name Brian Kinney! Of course I had to say it out loud. My friend just rolled her eyes at me and sighed.

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I have endured every episode of hellcats just at the chance of getting a glimpse of Gale Harold and maybe a sliver of Brian Kinney.

Everything that Gale is in I imagine that Justin walks in and they run off together.

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You are hopeless and pathetic when you are watching South Carolina trounce Alabama's hopes at a National Championship and all you can think of is that South Carolina (appropriately, The Gamecocks) is playing "Sandstorm" as their "get fired up" tune in the statium.

This is the song in the background when Brian first lays eyes on Justin under the lamp post.

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I am definately hopeless. My husband and I have started watching the Graham Norton Show on BBC America. The one they showed a few nights ago, they are showing ones from like 2008 had Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers from Hart to Hart (American TV show) on it. The audience members were asking questions. Graham would introduce the audience member and go to them with the microphone. One of the women to ask a question was named Linda Hurley. All I could think about was the episode on QAF where a very high Brian and Michael are talking about Michael acting in a play in High School and the girl acting with him was named Hurley (the hurler). Also, I seem to think the girls name was Linda. Very pathetic and pitiful.

I guess I am hopeless when it come to QAF UK too. There was a story on CNN.com today about an gas explosion in Manchester, England. It stated that a man risked his life to save a women and her toddler from the wreckage of their home. The man's name is Vincent Jones. Of course, I immediately thought of Vince (Tyler) and (Stuart) Jones. Again, pitiful isn't it?

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BUMP!

"I'm not antisocial, I just can't stand people." Justin Taylor

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...You can't stop grinning because some character in some random movie is introduced as "Dijon," then confirms it by saying "yeah, like the mustard," lol.

Brianwashed!

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Speaking of food, I always remember QAF whenever I hear about:

1) Lemon bars, pink plate, potpie (Debbie)
2) Meat loat (Brian)
3) Devil's food cake, cookies (Mel and Lindz)
4) Meekrob( Ben)
5) Pesto arugula pasta (David)
6) Home made pasta (Brian and Justin)
7) Jambalaya (Brian and Justin)
8) Chicken soup (Brian and Justin)
9) Chinese food (Brian and Justin)
10) Ice cream (Brian and Justin)
11) coffee (Brian and Justin)
12) Paella, Thai food (Brian and Justin) I know, it's an obssession!




"I'm not antisocial, I just can't stand people." Justin Taylor

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The audience members were asking questions. Graham would introduce the audience member and go to them with the microphone. One of the women to ask a question was named Linda Hurley. All I could think about was the episode on QAF where a very high Brian and Michael are talking about Michael acting in a play in High School and the girl acting with him was named Hurley (the hurler). Also, I seem to think the girls name was Linda. Very pathetic and pitiful.

Priceless! I just re-watched that episode yesterday! LMFAO

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...you remember the meaning of 'sycophant' because of Brian's apt description in S1 E09 - asskisser!

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...and you remember the meaning of insouciant (uncaring) for the same reason.


"I'm not antisocial, I just can't stand people." Justin Taylor

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Oh my gosh! This totally happened to me yesterday. I was playing cards with my sister and grandma. One of them won the round and my sister was telling grandma how great she was at playing and then asked for certain cards to help her hand. I just looked at her and said stop being a sycophant. They gave me the funniest looks. My sister should've remembered what it meant- she watched the show too! But alas, she did not remember, so I had to explain what sycophant was. lol I'm a silly fan! :P And your post made me chuckle reading it now.

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...you spend a couple hours reading 5 years worth of posts to a thread about being a hopeless fan of QAF! And, you're just happy to have found a group of people just as obsessed as you are.

...as the year 2015 draws closer you find you can't keep from hoping that Cowlip and Showtime will pull everyone back for the long-awaited Season 6 even though you have absolutely NO reason to think that Ron and Dan couldn't care less about the turmoil they left their B/J fans in!

...you get positively giddy when a cast member makes a guest appearance on one of your current favorite shows. (Robert Gant on Bones and NCIS, Scott Lowell on Bones, Criminal Minds and NCIS, Michelle Clunie on Bones and NCIS, Peter Paige on Bones, Carlo Rota (Vance) on Bones, Matt Battaglia (Drew) on Mike and Molly)

...you get pissed when you read a fanfic that refers to a very minor character by the wrong name. Like, the shrink Brian talked to in 2x02 was Alex Wilder and Emmett was forever quoting his Aunt Lula.

...9 years after the series finale you're still pissed at Cowlip for the farce that was Season 5.

...you think it would be cool to pair Justin with someone in a crossover fic but just can't do it because he belongs with Brian, damn it!!

...you occasionally troll the web for some of Deb's t-shirts and wish you could get away with wearing a *beep* t-shirt like Justin's.

...the fiery, passionate hatred for Michael and Lindsay still burns brightly in your heart.

...you imagine for 2 years running how you'll ditch the family and spend money you can't afford to attend Rise & Shine.

...you've got Desperate Housewives on your Netflix list, a show you were NEVER interested in watching, because maybe it'll be worth it for the 14 episodes Gale is in.

...you look at your son, whose name is Michael, and wished to God you'd thought to name him Justin instead.

...you laughed your ass off when you heard 'butt plug' in a sentence very similar to Tracey's comment about fixing the sink.

..you (and this actually happened) gathered 3 of your QAF friends from work in May 2002 and ran off to NYC to see an awful OFF, OFF Broadway show just for the chance to see Randy Harrison perform live and decided it was worth even if you didn't get to meet him and the play really did suck (and not in a positive, life-affirming way, of course).

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LOVE that list!
These definitely apply in my case (especially the last one, though it's "ditching work" in my case!):

...you get positively giddy when a cast member makes a guest appearance on one of your current favorite shows. (Robert Gant on Bones and NCIS, Scott Lowell on Bones, Criminal Minds and NCIS, Michelle Clunie on Bones and NCIS, Peter Paige on Bones, Carlo Rota (Vance) on Bones, Matt Battaglia (Drew) on Mike and Molly)

...9 years after the series finale you're still pissed at Cowlip for the farce that was Season 5.

...you think it would be cool to pair Justin with someone in a crossover fic but just can't do it because he belongs with Brian, damn it!!

...the fiery, passionate hatred for Michael and Lindsay still burns brightly in your heart.

...you imagine for 2 years running how you'll ditch the family and spend money you can't afford to attend Rise & Shine.


Guess I'm still hopeless
Brianwashed!

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*You can't be introduced to anybody named Brian or Justin (or Ted or Emmett or Vic) without smiling to yourself.

*You can never, ever hear anybody use the phrase, "This sucks!" without mentally adding 'and not in a positive, life-affirming way'.


It's only time ~ Brian Kinney

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... you can't help doing a double-take and grinning every time you see an email at work about the upcoming QAR...

*You can never, ever hear anybody use the phrase, "This sucks!" without mentally adding 'and not in a positive, life-affirming way'.

So true, gonzosgirrl!


Eschew obfuscation

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When you watched 20 episodes in a day. It happened to me.:D

kaan_sensoy

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20 episodes in one day?????????? Oh, my God! I think my record was 5!!



"I'm not antisocial, I just can't stand people." Justin Taylor

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20 episodes in one day?????????? Oh, my God! I think my record was 5!!

I think mine was 8, but that included 4 episodes of the UK version, which are shown in hour blocks of two episodes on the DVD's

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I'm at 8 also!

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It happened in the beginning of season 2. That season was so addictive. I regret what i did because i didn't want the show to end.

kaan_sensoy

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I watched all season 4 on a Saturday because I had to get back to work from holidays on Monday. In the middle I had to go to a party at my friend's house, I remember we were playing Trivial Pursuit and I said Mona Lisa but I was thinking Brian Kinney, Trafalgar Square, London but in my mind Liberty Avenue, Pittsburg...It was insane!!

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I just bought the season one set after having a friend tell me about this wonderful show, and I wanted to see it for myself. And I'm finding that a lot of these (Well, the ones that fit in the first 14 episodes) are applying to me.

The one that fits most is whenever someone says "that sucks," I now feel the need to respond "and not in that positive, life affirming way, either."

If you pull your pants down and we text our friends, you have a small penis.

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I knew I was obsessed when I was having dinner with my parents and suddenly the portuguese version of "Biggest Loser" starts on tv and I just stop talking because the theme song is an adapted version of "Proud". I get a sad look on my face remembering Brian, dancing alone at Babylon and my parents think I'm completely crazy lol

Oh, and I also caught myself doing the lip thing Brian does.... lol

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I do the lip thing too!!



"I'm not antisocial, I just can't stand people." Justin Taylor

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-When you walk down the street of Sydney wishing Brian Kinney was here.
-When you watch Dirty Dancing although you cannot stand the genre, just because Brian mentioned it.
-When you Google what a gambalaya is.
-When you think the most straighest TV show/movie would have a gay twist just to see similar JT/BK story line.
-When your friends see or hear anything to do with gay people they inform you immediately.
-When you hear "Brian" or "Justin" or "Michael" inserted in a conversation you eavesdrop because you automatically think that they are talking about QAF.

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Those are great, eminemz!



"I'm not antisocial, I just can't stand people." Justin Taylor

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There is this really cute blond guy working at Starbucks. He has the biggest "Sunshine" smile I have ever seen (I mean biggest ear to ear smile ever). I want to go up to him and call him Sunshine as I don't know his name (they don't wear nametags at SB). Last night was there again, I looked at my receipt and unless he was logged in the the register as someone else, it said his name is Hunter. Oh and BTW, my sometimes gaydar really goes off with him too.

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Hahahahaha! Buffy, what a coincidence! Well, we have very few blond blue-eyed boys is Brazil, so I never see anyone who looks like Justin. But we have some men who are like Brian. A little bit, of course, Gale is unique!




"I'm not antisocial, I just can't stand people." Justin Taylor

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