First, we must warn you that a great deal of these obsessons are actually true, and for that we are proud.
1. You are constantly being made fun of at school for being obsessed with Titanic.
2. People say "Titanic" just to see if you'll look.
3. You see a bowl of ice on the table and you yell, "Iceberg, right ahead!!".
4. You walk up behind people at school, grab their bookbag strap, and say, "I'll never let go! I'll never let go!"
5. You're freezing at a softball game, and to keep warm, you sing "My Heart Will Go On."
6. You go rumaging trough two months worth of old newspapers to see if there are any articles about Leo or Titanic.
7. You figure out how to play "Never An Absolution" on the piano.
8. You get yelled at for playing "Never An Absolution" on the piano at school.
9. You feel a sense of accomplishment when your dad starts humming "Never An Absolution".
10. You feel a sense of accomplishment when your little sister asks you if she can take your Titanic book to pre-school for "T" week.
11. You wouldn't see "The Man in the Iron Mask" until after the Oscars because you didn't want to be responsible for the downfall of Titanic.
12. You buy one of those tabloid papers because there's an article about Titanic in it.
13. At lunchtime at school, you reenact the scene where Jack throws his cigarette over the side of the ship, only you do it with a carrot.
14. On April 15th, at 2:20 in the morning, you throw driftwood in your pool and reenact the ending scene.
15. You arrive at the theater an hour early and wait outside in the freezing cold, so you can get tickets and good seats for the 4th time you're going to see Titanic.
16. You inscribe the word "TITANIC" on a stool you made in woodshop. (To see Hannah's stool, click here!!)
17. You make your best friend tape the whole 1998 Academy Awards for you cause you don't get ABC.
18. You mark the date of the Titanic's sinking on your calendar.
19. You mark the date of the Titanic's sinking on other people's calendars.
20. You and your friend go to Staples to buy a brown folder like Jack's, but the only ones that scarcely resemble his are like 8 bucks, so you have to settle for cheaper ones that aren't as good, THEN you put all your Titanic stuff in it and carry it around at school, and you constantly reenact the scene where Rose says "What is this stupid thing you're carrying around..."
21. You get in trouble with your algebra teacher for writing "This is absurd" on the top of your friend's homework.
22. Your mom asks you to clean the bathroom, and when you are finished scrubbing the toilet, you stand back and say, "You shine up like a new penny!"
24. While stretching in gym class, you say, "Take her to sea, Mr. Murdoch, let's stretch our legs".
25. In gym class, your friend is doing a flexed arm hang and you say, "Hannah, you're trembling!" and she yells down from the bar, "I'll be alright!"
26. You can put your Titanic soundtracks on random order, and without looking you can name the track number and name of the song.
27. Your Spanish teacher seperates you and your friend for talking about Titanic during class, and you turn to your friend and say, "Not without you!".
28 You pick up a cone in gym class and yell, "Lifeboat number six, come back to the ship!" just like Captain Smith said in a cut scene in the movie.
29. You realize that there is no more pizza in the lunch line, and you say in dismay, "I've waited too long!"
30. You notice that the word "dismay" in #29 rhymes with Ismay.
31. You keep a piece of purple cabbage in a little jar because it's the color of Rose's hat.
32. You keep a baby carrot in a little jar because it reminds you of the cigarette Jack threw off the stern when he said, "No you won't."
33. You can't go a whole lunch period without reenacting Titanic scenes.
34. You climb over the rail of the bridge on a playground and act out the scene where Jack saves Rose's life.
35. Since you spent all your money seeing Titanic and you don't have any money left to buy the piano music for "My Heart Will Go On" you have to figure out how to play it on the piano without the music. And while you're at it, you figure out how to play "Never An Absolution," "Southampton," "Rose," and "Unable To Stay, Unwilling To Leave" too.
36. You photocopy "Eternal Father, Strong To Save" and "Nearer, My God, To Thee" out of the hymn book and learn how to play them on the piano.
37. You and your friend harmonize Titanic songs on your recorders.
38. You practice spitting over the side of your balcony.
39. You ask the Japanese exchange students to show you how to write "Titanic" in Japanese.
40. You have read "A Night To Remember" by Walter Lord.
41. You write Titanic quotes all over your book covers and notebook.
42. You complain to your English teacher that Southampton isn't on his map of England.
43. You complain to your History teacher that Cherbourg & Queenstown aren't on her map.
44. Your new excuse for anything you don't want to do is, "I don't see the need."
45. On the morning of April 15, you plan to get up at 2:20 and take a cold shower in memory of the people who died on the Titanic.
46. When somebody says something stupid, you say, "Don't be absurd!"
47. When somebody starts laughing and you don't know why, you say, "What could possibly be funny?"
48. You feel that you have failed when you find out that the baker who rode the stern down and survived was Charles Joughin, not Walter Belford like you had been telling everybody.
49. You have to have your pictures when you travel.
50. When your hermit crab dies, you say, "Come back! Come back!"
51. When you hear the date April 10, instead of thinking of your brother's birthday, you say, "That's when Titanic left Southampton!"
52. You spend a whole study hall thinking of obsession signs.
53. You refer to the stairs in your house as "The Grand Staircase."
54. Whenever you see a locked gate, you can't resist saying, "Open the gate!" "Go back down to the main stairwell." "Open the gate!" "Go back down to the main stairwell like I told you."
55. When you get to the theater only to find that Titanic has sold out, you turn to your friend and say, "We've waited too long."
56. You hate the number 1,523.
57. You write all your Grammar sentences about Titanic.
58. Whenever you hear the word "cow," you immediately think of Cal because it rhymes.
59. All your teachers know that you are obsessed with Titanic, and they will occasionally tell you things they've heard about the movie, or save pamphlets and newspaper clippings for you.
60. When your History teacher tells you that Louis the 14th wore the Hope Diamond, you pull out your Titanic screenplay and say, "No! It was Louis the 16th!"
61. You write a different Titanic character's name on your hand every day.
62. When a guy beats a girl to the hall pass, you say, "Women and children first!"
63. The first $30,000 you make, you're going to the North Atlantic 2 1/2 miles down to see the Titanic wreck.
64. Your friend puts a terrible picture of you on her computer and you say, "You know I don't like that, Hannah."
65. When you hear something remotely interesting, you say, "How extraordinary!"
66. When you hear potty words in the hall, you say, "There's no need for language, Mr. Hockley."
67. You are suddenly jealous of your friend for having the middle name Rose.
68. You constantly act out Titanic scenes. People used to smile and nod. Now they just nod.
69. Your grandma agrees with you that Leonardo DiCaprio is hot (well, she says he's "handsome"), and it's all you can talk about.
70. You look at old baby pictures and say, "Wasn't I a dish?"
71. You take it personally when people say anything anti-Titanic.
72. When you say goodbye to your friends after school, you say, "It's only goodbye for a little while..."
73. You ask your History teacher if you can do an extra credit report on Titanic.
74. You have a way of incorporating Titanic into every aspect of your life.
75. Whenever you disagree with someone, you say, "I don't understand a one of you..."
76. You make up Titanic tests for your friends.
77. You come into school with a brand-new pen and say, "This pen has never been used." Then you just have to add, "The beds had never been slept in. Titanic was called the ship of dreams and it was. It really was."
78. You convince your brother to give you his reading level grade 2 Titanic book.
79. Whenever you don't want to talk to someone, you say, "This is absurd . . . We are not having this conversation."
80. You find yourself spitting at people you don't like.
81. When your friend suggests going to see Titanic again, you say, "Say we'll go there sometime to that theater, even if we only ever just talk about it." And your friend says, "No we will go there . . ."
82. You have given up on e-mail and now you send wireless messages instead.
83. Whenever you need to ask a favor of someone you say, "You must do me this honor..."
84. You're trying to kill a bug and you say, "Stay where you are!
Don't come any closer!"
85. You sign out for the hall pass with your name as "Rose Dawson" and your destination "to the stars!"
86. You are looking for your friend and you say, "Where's Hannah? This is a school. There are only so many places she can be!"
87. You print out the picture of Hannah's Titanic stool and use it as a bookmark when you read "A Night to Remember" and other Titanic-related books.
88. You notice that if you really use your imagination, your orange kinda looks like John Jacob Astor.
89. Your friends start to count how many times you mention Titanic: 32 times in fifteen minutes.
90. Your Spanish II teacher asks you and your Titanic-loving friend to play Titanic songs on your recorders for the background music in a movie the Spanish IV class is making.
91. You and your Titanic-loving friend use a scientific calculator to write Titanic quotes back and forth during Algebra II, completely missing what you're supposed to be doing for homework.
92. You find that you have to mentally prepare yourself to see Titanic. You can't just sit down and watch it.
93. You get out your calculator to figure out how you did on your Health test, but instead of putting it away when you're finished, you find yourself subconsciously typing in the number 1,523. Then, once you realize what you are doing, you suddenly see the need to find out other Titanic-related information on your calculator, such as the percentage of people who died on the Titanic. (about 69%)
94. You hang up signs at school advertising your Titanic website.
95. Your sister asks you if she looks ok for her date and you say, "You shine up like a new penny!"
96. You get the song that Rose's music box plays stuck in your head.
97. You and your friend are the last people to leave the theater when Titanic is over because you just have to stay and watch the end credits so you can hear "My Heart Will Go On" even though you have both soundtracks.
98. In Health class, your friend asks if anybody is sitting in the seat in front of you, and you say, "First class seats are right up here, Hannah." But she doesn't hear you and starts walking towards the door, so you say, "Hannah! Get in the boat!!"
99. At a friend's 16th birthday party, you and your Titanic-loving friend are rumaging through the bowl of mixed nuts to pick out all of the macadamia nuts. You say to your friend, "It's a little white nut . . . These are all brown ones!"
100. You are correcting your algebra homework not even thinking about Titanic, when out of nowhere you say, "Rose DeWitt Bukater died on the Titanic when she was 17."
101. When you and your Titanic-loving friend both stayed home from school because you were sick, the first thing people say to you when you come back to school the next day is, "So how was your Titanic party?"
102. You go canoing on a biology field trip, and when the instructor tells your class to put on life jackets, you say, "Everybody up, put your life belts on... just put your life belts on!"
103. On the same field trip, you and your Titanic-loving friend stand at the bow and reenact the "I'm flying!" scene (while the canoe is still on land of course).
104. As you pull your canoe into the water, you say, "Time for me to go row with the other slaves."
105. You and your Titanic-loving friend accidently back into a buoy while canoing, and you say "I tried to port around it, but she hit."
106. You walk into school dead tired and your friend tells you, "You should have stayed home and watched Titanic."
107. You choose Louis the XVI for your oral report in History class, because he "wore a fabulous stone that was called the blue diamond of the crown..."
108. You go outside to pick some flowers because "you need a little color" in your room.
109. When you go outside, you leave your Titanic soundtrack playing for your hamsters to enjoy.
110. Your friend tells you that Titanic was a stupid movie and you give her a stern look and say, "I'm going to pretend you didn't say that."
111. You notice the word stern in #110.
112. People tell you they feel like they've seen the movie just by hearing you quote it all day long.
113. You quote Titanic when you're in the movie theater seeing Star Wars.
114. You say to your mother, "You ever, uh.. ever been to Wisconsin?" meaning to say "New York City," but subconsciously quoting Titanic instead.
115. You fear that something tragic will happen to your new church building because it has a grand staircase and can seat 2, 220 people.
116. People start telling you they wish you had been on the Titanic.
23. You spray yourself in the head with Bath & Body Works spray while reenacting the scene where Mr. Murdoch shoots himself.
1. The only Celine Dion song you know is "My Heart Will Go On."
2. Every piece of written work from school has to do with Titanic.
3. You print the uncut and the cut version of the script.
4. You just got the music for Titanic to play in band; you didn't receive the first clarinet part and your best pal did, so you kick your clarinet, yell absurd words and swear to get first if it kills you, and you bug your band director for the first till he has no choice but to hand it to you.
5. You listen to the soundtrack every night for you are trying to prove that classical music makes you smarter.
6. Your mom starts to tell people how much you love Leo.
7. You kiss your Leo posters every day before school for good luck.
8. You ask the school principal for a later starting time to school so you can see the Oprah with the Titanic people.
9. You've seen Titanic 14 times. One for each nomination they got at the Academys.
10. You start using the quotes in every day conversation.
11. You're starting a scrapbook with Titanic, Leo, and Kate pics and they are all in order from the film.
12. Everyone is so sick of the obsession, they think you need to go to Titanic rehab for those who need Titanic withdrawl.
13. You pull out Barbie dolls and try to reenact Titanic, but then you realize that the boat is missing.
14. You write a letter to Mattell telling them to make Jack and Rose dolls.
15. You buy the dolls (if they ever come out on market).
16. You've been grounded for Titanic obsession.
17. You take it personally when your friend says that City of Angels was better.
18. You yell at the radio when Titanic doesn't make the 9 most wanted.
19. Your friend has to literally pull you away from the theater because you want to stay for the next show.
20. You pretend to use the payphone and look at Titanic instead.
21. You envy your cousins in the Phillippines because they can see Titanic as many times as they want and only pay for one time.
22. Everything said to you relates somehow to Titanic.
23. You hate anyone who says anything bad about Titanic, Leo, or Kate.
24. You have a journal full of stories on how you set up Leo and Kate and how it was working on the Titanic movie as a little director who got to film the real thing and acted with Leo and Kate.
25. Your friend tells you this obsession is pathetic.
26. You tell your friend, ''There is no need for language, (name here)."
27. Your boyfriend dumbs you because you're too obsessed with Titanic.
28. Whenever you leave your house and step outside without seeing anyone, you yell, "Is anyone alive out there?"
29. Every time you see your boyfriend you say, "Put your hands on me Jack"
30. You have dreams of standing on the bow of Titanic with Jack.
31. You have dreams that your house is Titanic and it's sinking, and you float out of the window, but your three cats are still trapped inside, and Leonardo DiCaprio rescues them.
32. Every time you lend your Titanic CD to your friend, you say, "I trust you!"
33. When your friend tells you a secret, you say "I'll never let go of that promise, I'll never let go!"
34. When you see your best friend fighting, you say, "Take a few practice swings!"
35. Every time you see an airplane, you say, "They're flying, Jack!"
36. You sulk for a week because your dad won't let you print up the script.
37. When you're on a camping trip, your friend threatens to kill you because every time she says, "The water is freezing," you say, "and there aren't enough boats, not enough by half. Half the people on this ship are going to die." Then you say in a deep voice, "Not the better half."
38. When you're on the same camping trip as in #37, while you're lying in the tent and freezing cold, you chatter the "promise" scene and your friend pretends to be asleep so she doesn't have to talk to you.
39. For your end of the year 7 page report, you do a 15 page report full of great webpages, and pictures of Leo and Kate.
40. When, at the end of the year, your teacher gives someone else the "most likely to be Mrs. DiCaprio" award, you want to run over to her and tear the award out of her hands.
41. You don't have any more room on your dedicated to Titanic and Leo wall, so you have to take everything else off all of the other walls and put them in your closet to make room for Titanic pictures.
42. You're planning on camping outside of Best Buy August 31st all night so you can be first in line to buy Titanic in widescreen.
43. While you're channel surfing, you stop to watch QVC because they're selling an early release of Titanic and silently curse your mother because she won't let you buy it.
44. You get thrown out of classes for writing quotes from Titanic out.
45. You go to see Titanic and you can say all the lines at the same time as the actors do.
46. Whenever you get mad at your mom you say, "Oh mother shut up!"
47. You go to see the Titanic exhibit at Canada's Wonderland and buy everything in the gift shop since it's Canadian money which equals half price.
48. When at the Titanic exhibit you ask if you can open the door to the 1912 Renault car and your eyes well up when you find out that it's bolted shut!
49. When your Titanic obsessed friend has a birthday party you buy her something relating to Titanic that you don't have just so you can buy one for yourself too.
50. You have all your friends come over late at night, go in your pool, get out your inflatable lifeboat and the closest thing you can get to driftwood and act out Titanic scenes.
51. Your teacher saves newspaper articles on Titanic for you.
52. Your teacher threatens to take the movie away from you.
53. While staying at a hotel on the 7th floor, you tell your parents that you are going to take the stairs but instead of going to the lobby, you go all the way down to the boiler room just to see if you can find a 1912 Renault car.
54. You have more Titanic books in the backpack that you carry to school than textbooks.
55. You're in the mall shopping with your friends and they point out everything to you that has to do with Titanic, and you buy half the things they point out.
56. The only sections in the bookstore that you look at are those with Titanic books.
57. You go through all the radio stations in your area looking for the theme to Titanic. When you don't find it, you turn the radio off and play the soundtrack.
58. When someone calls for you on the phone and your roommates answer, they only have to listen for the Titanic soundtrack to know if you are home.
59. You make dinner from "The Last Dinner on Titanic Cookbook" at least once a week.
60. Instead of taking notes in class, you write about or draw pictures relating to Titanic.
61. When you write out your Christmas/Birthday list, over half of the things on it are related to Titanic.
62. Your boyfriend/girlfriend breaks up with you and the first thing you say is "My heart will go on."
63. You and a friend are on a cruise and when the waiter asks what you would like, you turn to him and say "We'll both have the lamb... rare with very little mint sauce..."
64. You're on the same cruise, you look at all of the eating utensils in front of you and ask the next waiter, "Are all of these for me?"
65. You go up to a complete stranger and ask for her water bottle because it is from Chippewa Falls.
66. You carve your carrots into Titanic characters at lunch hour.
67. You get in trouble with your science teacher for signing everything April 14, 1912 JD or your last name as Dawson.
68. You have a street map of Chippewa Falls posted on your wall.
69. Every time your printer is done printing, it yells "Iceberg Right Ahead!"
70. You drive past a bookstore, your dad makes an illegal turn and drives into the parking lot, because he saw a Titanic display he thought you would be interested in.
71. Out of the 15 or so Titanic books in the bookstore, there are only two you don't have, so you buy them right there.
72. Your dad only sees about one movie a year, but he's been dragged to see Titanic with you 5 times.
73. You know that you and Leo are 10 years and 296 days apart.
74. You have bought the Gaelic Storm CD.
75. Adults are always calling you, asking you to answer their Titanic questions.
76. People in your English class don't know your real name, they just call you "Titanic."
77. You dress in all black every April 14th to mourn the Titanic's sinking. (not the 15th because you have to count time zones)
78. You get over 100 people in your school to say "Happy Birthday Kate Winslet" on her birthday.
79. You yell "Iceberg Right Ahead!" at 11:40 every night.
80. Your husband finds a new use for duct tape after hearing you talk about Titanic for the kabillionth time.
81. You go to the cheap-o movie (hey, they're still showing Titanic!), the sound goes out in the middle of the movie, and you stand up and continue the dialogue (all by yourself) until the end of the movie.
82. You have 7 Titanic books, the movie, and 2 documentaries, posters, every pic off the internet, 2 Titanic computer games, 6 puzzles, etc.
83. You just have to visit the Titanic Movie site one more time during computer class before the teacher yells at you to get out of the computer lab.
84. You did your biography report on E.J. Smith, Captain of the Titanic.
85. You did your book report on "A Night to Remember."
86. You can name all the first class passengers and their cabin number.
87. You have tried to build a life size Titanic out of legos, Lincoln logs, or Knex.
88. You know the Japanese horoscope of Leo and chart which of his days will be good ones.
89. On April 14, you set your alarm clock for 11:40 and then go through the house saying "Everybody up put your lifebelts on!"
90. At school on April 15, you vow not to talk for two hours and twenty minutes, and if somebody makes you talk before your time is up, you yell, "You unimaginable bastard!" and spit in their eye.
91. You spend your life savings to go across the entire world (by plane, not by boat!) looking for a man (or woman) with the last name Dawson.
92. When you get married and have children, you name them either Jack, Rose, Cal, or Ruth just so you can make your kids act it out for you.
93. You practice standing on your toes like Rose does at the steerage party.
94. You run through the halls of your house yelling, "I'm flying, Jack!" (with your arms spread out like in the movie).
95. You try to think of every song you hear as a song about Titanic.
96. Your ten and four year old brothers know all about the film, the Oscar nods, and even the dialogue... and whenever your four-year-old brother hears "My Heart Will Go On" he shouts, "Sissy, it's the Titanic song!"
97. You hold ice cubes in your hand wondering if this is how cold Jack and Rose really felt when they were in the water.
98. You jump off your bed with your arms outspread and say "I'm flying, Jack!"
99. Your family gets you a blow-up Titanic ship for your birthday/Christmas present, just so you can float it in your pool and pretend that it is the real ship, and ram it into anything that resembles an iceberg.
100. You relate every word to Titanic. Ex: Apple. The apple was eaten on Titanic.
101. You print this list and post it in your locker.
102. When you yell at someone, you end it saying, in a deep voice, "Is that
in any way unclear?"
103. Whenever you break something you reanact the scene where Cal shouts at
rose.
104. You have bought a corset, just to see what it's like!
105. When your mom reminds you that you are £19.84 in debt you retort "I
know the money's gone, you remind me every day".
106. You refuse to go to, or sell anything at auctions.