You know you're obsessed with Les Misérables when...
IOwnTheEnjyVest
can think of something put it down. So you know you're obsessed with
Les Misérables when
1. You have memorized the complete score of Les Mis. :)
2. You have at least one pet/stuff animal named Marius, Enjolras,
Eponine, etc.
3. Your French name is Eponine
4. Your French teacher loves you because you're the most eager to
learn French
5. You got pissed when the Pirate Queen went off Broadway
6. You sang Empty Chairs at Empty Tables for it.
7. You got mad at your English friend Darcie when she said she's never
heard of Michael Ball
8. You made your Australian friends give you a recording of Anthony
Warlow's and Philip Quast's version of Lily's Eyes from the musical,
The Secret Garden
9. You hate the OBC version of Lily's Eyes becuase it doesn't have the
Warlowness or Quasiness in it. (Yes those are real words!)
10. You laugh at Colm's eyebrows during the TAC
11. You know every single abbreviation for LM. (Ex. JVJ, JV, Eppy,
Enjy, Gavvy, R)
12. You get in trouble in school for reading the Unabridged version of
Les Misérables when you're bored in class.
13. You got in trouble in camp for punching a girl when she called Les
Mis gay.
14. You get pissed when someone says Les Mis is about the French
Revolution.
15. You nicknamed Enjolras "Sexy Red Vest Man" whne your friends
couldn't pronouce the name right.
16. You hummed DYHTPS in FCS (Home Ec.)
17. Everyone thinks your nuts when you try to explain LM
18. You can the é thing!
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Eponine
quoting the book or singing ALFOR along with your cd. (I know, I'm
weird.)
20. Your sibling's seen so much of the TAC video (against their will)
that they know most of the score.
21. You get really pissed off when someone you know says they have the
original cast of Les Mis and refuse to play it over the phone when you
beg them to, and then they finally confess that they were lying the
whole time.
22. You print out dozens of "You know you're obsessed with Les
Misérables when..." lists and read the over every night to see if
you've done something else on that list.
23. You make your own Les Mis obession list!
IOwnTheEnjyVest
think. ANYWAY:
24. You plan on not returning the library's copy of the TAC.
25. You had to get blindfolded so you wouln't have eye sex with
Cameron Mackintosh (ok I had to do that to my friend Kristin)
26. You get excited everytime you see red, black or blue.
27. You made a $10 bet with someone that you can recite I Dreamed a
Dream and Bring Him Home in French.
28. You explain to your mother about the MM/AW and Valjean
controversy. (sp?)
29. Your Christmas list has one and/or more of the following items:
PQ's nighty stick, Enjy's red vest, Grantaire's vest, a signed poster
of Les Mis, Jean Prouvaire, Montparnasse, Babet, Marius :)
30. This is your 15th Les Mis group/site joining
31. You beg your mom to take you and your friend to see JOJ during
opening week.
32. You and that same friend are planning to go to the back of the
Broadhurst Theatre to get autographs.
33. You get emotional during ALFOR and ECAET
34. You got mad at Connor when he signed off during Michael Ball's
rendition of ECAET
35. You scream at him the next day
36. He has no idea why you're mad at him and sends his girlfriend
Shannon to ask you why
37. When you explain, Shannon still has no idea what you said
38. You say you have Les Miz in your blood
40. You're bribing another Connor to convince his mom (the musical
director) to put on Les Mis
41. You have debates on the internet on whose the best Enjolras and
the best Valjean
42. You can pronouce Enjolras the right way
43. You are disgusted when Jenny tells you the Les Mis movie was great
44. You felt better when she knew Castle on a Cloud
45.You got overexcited when Colin mentioned Jamie Farr (1999 West End
Cosette) on Whose Line is it Anyway?
46. You're studying Victor Hugo for an English project
47. You're practicing for your Eponine auditions
48. You got overexcited when you saw Victor Hugo AND Les Misérables in
your French textbook.
49. You are having a bad encounter with a Phan (No offense Anna and
it's not you!)
50. You know Jane Bodle was an ensemble member in the OBC and later
became Fantine.
51. You know who that blond Gavroche is. (Patrick Duffy)
52. You got EXTREMELY excited whenyou found out a former Gavroche is
in Spring Awakening
53. You overlook the fact he's just ensemble.
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Eponine
in my English textbook. As for the 'Phan thing' I'm not offended,
because it's not me and I don't know 100% about what's up with that.
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IOwnTheEnjyVest
(music video) and look at the comments, you will understand.
ANYWAY!!!!!!
54. You are refusing to go on the school musical trip because it isn't
Les Mis.
55. You're mad at all the Phans in your school for no reason.
56. You are enemy of 40% of the Phans in your school both for B-Way
and personal reasons.
57. You ask your FCS if you can sew an Enjy Vest.
58. You want a Les Misérables spa robe.
59. You go on eBay to find one. (They don't have it! Damn it!)
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64. You have saved every single Les Mis photo you can find.
65. You threw your iPod out the window when it kept skipping over
*GASP* PQ's renedition of Stars AND the Robbery. (Don't you love how
emotional I can get about Les Miz?)
66. You are having a constant Michael Ball dream.
67. You know the mystery of Anthony Crivello's hair.
68. You scare all your friends with your mizziness.
69. You have a secret grudge against your chorus teacher because she
screwed up the description of Les Mis.
70. You get extremely pissed when someone says Les Misérables is about
the French Revolution.
71. You are crushing on Tom Lucas. (Thank you Anna for that video of
him AND JOJ!)
72. You get mad when nobody knows who Tom Lucas is.
73. You want to smack someone in the face after she wants Emmy Rossum
to play Eponine, Zac Efron to be Enjolras or Marius in the future
movie-musical and she states that Michael Crawford was the original
Jean Valjean.
74. You can't do it because it's a conversation on You Tube.
75. You are not going on the Broadway field trip because you've
already seen Hairspray and you're not too crazy about The Little
Mermaid.
On Sep 14, 7:01 pm, "Mabel Ann Baylon" <krazykat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 60. You have never on the face of this earth failed a Les Miz Quiz
> 61. When you failed your first one, you did not leave your room for a week
> 62. You are annoyed when anyone states 'Hairspray' as the Bestest musical on
> the face of the earth (or is that everyone?)
> 63. You know each of the characters by name (even the one with the shovel)
> I'm sorry this is short!
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Combeferre
60. You have never on the face of this earth failed a Les Miz Quiz
61. When you failed your first one, you did not leave your room for a
week
62. You are annoyed when anyone states 'Hairspray' as the Bestest
musical on
the face of the earth (or is that everyone?)
63. You know each of the characters by name (even the one with the
shovel)
I'm sorry this is short!
Combeferre
(I like the nick name so I did this...I am such an idiot...)
Weellllll... while I'm here I might as well post...
77. You listened to at least three different casts
78. You are willing to barricade anyone who insists Frances Rufelle
sounds whiny.
79. When watching POTC (Pirates of the Carribean) you cheered, "yay,
Javert!" Everytime Geoffry Rush came up (I know I did...)
80. You're reading this
82. You're editing this.
83. Even when watching Sweeney Todd you thought to yourself, "It's not
too late for him to change...."
84. You were sorely dissapointed at the end (No spoilers--yay
Sondheim!)
85. When someone says, "I have a surprise!" you hope it's Miz related.
86. See 84.
87. You compare everything to Les Miz.
88. You quote it and giggle to confuse everyone.
89. .... I should really just fix up this list! oooohhhh...guilt!
Oh wells it's kinda...funny in a twisted sort of way...
89. You are able to find humor in every event (read Gavroche's
death...)
90. You are happiest depressed--or for this sake, MISERABLE
welll...I think I messed this up enough! I'll go do something else...
Combeferre
I forgot to post this one!
Sorry!
IOwnTheEnjyVest
I will reach 100.
92. You have the following or more recordings on your iPod: OLC, OBC,
OFC, Paris Revival, TAC, CSR, a few 3NT and a little bit of HMP. Also
you're working on getting the original Australian and Canadian cast.
93. You own your Eppy hat and coat.
94. You are having a hard time choosing between going as Javert or
Enjolras for Halloween. (But I'm also considering Eponine, Gavroche
and Fantine)
95. Your mom has trained herself to listen to Les Miz rants.
96. You know all the double roles in LM (Innkeeper's wife/ Old beggar,
Bamabitois (I didn't spell that right but imagine I did) Grantaire or
Combeferre, Eponine and Cosette/ Lovely Ladies, Fantine/ "Barricade
boys" etc.)
97. You have two LM actor tributes (Javvie and Gavvie) up on YouTube
and you're working on an Eponine and Fantine one.
98. You are in love with silverypavement's LM videos. (Anna will
appreciate this!)
99. You had a swordfight with Greg after he said LM stunk. (Ok it
wasn't real swords, we borrowed them from the fencing team)
100. You made Greg listen to THE ENTIRE LM lLibretto and other parts
that were cut out.
I DID IT! YAY ME!!!
I_am_the_real_Drew_Carey
101. You saw a kangaroo outside your house and named it Joly.
102. You named another one Babet.
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104. You cheered for IOwnTheEnjyVest when she told you about Greg and
her :D
105. You're shocked when your brother and sister aren't really excited
when you tell them thrilling news from the Les Mis world
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wrote:
I_am_the_real_Drew_Carey
105. Joly came back!!!
106. You know who Joly is..
107. You were excited with Azelma about Greg and Halle
108. your message to Greg: IN YOUR FACE!!!!
IOwnTheEnjyVest
109. You can connect anything to Les Mis.
110. You attempt to buy a nightie stick on eBay.
111. You are totally mizzified!
112. You number the pages (ex. 120 Fantine comes in, 941 beginning of
the book Little Gavroche etc.)
113. You can't let go of the library's copy of Les Mis
114. Joey C. teases you about your LM obssesion <_<
On Sep 20, 8:11 pm, I_am_the_real_Drew_Carey <beachyblonde...@aim.com>
wrote:
Combeferre
I had sugar!!!!!!!!!
It's common science--Sugar+Time+Les Miz=evil/awesome ultra attack!
(mwahahahaha...)
so...yeah hyper mizzies!
okay--business!
115. You felt awkward someone gave you the Phantom book--there's only
one long french novel you plan to read in your lifetime!!!
116. When Geoffrey Rush died in POTC:COTBP you cried.
117. When he came back, at the end of POTC: DMC, you had a happy
attack.
118. You consider that part to be the best of the movie, hands down
(saddly)
119. You actually understand the random Geoffrey Rush references
120. Geoffrey Rush was in the awful, awful Les Miz movie with Liam
Neeson, Claire Danes, and Uma Thurman!!!!!!! (he did, however, manage
to make the movie stink a little less with its absence of Eponine. In
fact, out of the three movie adaptations I've seen of Miz, only one
had Pony--but no Gavroche in that version. 'Twas odd...
Meep! I rambled!!!!) okay--back!
121. You've seen at least three episodes of Shoujo Cosette.
122. Because of Miz, you have unually high standards now when it
comes to theatre (sorry, Andrew Lloyd Webber...)
123. You are immediately upset when you go on the internet and see an
ad for tickets to "Andrew Lloyd Webber's hit, Les Miserables"
124. You curse at the computer.
125. You've seen bits of the Pirate Queen on YouTube
126. You liked the pieces you saw.
127. You were upset when it left broadway--wait that was already one!
127. You know that if you add 2,4,6,0, and 1 you get 13. (at least
NOW you do...)
128. You thought of Les Miz Fan Fiction
129. You wrote LM fan fiction
130. You got it on the internet
131. You've seen, read, and heard Les Miz.
132. You've done it twice.
133. Thrice.
134. You keep a cool object on this site.
135. You keep an actor.
136. You keep a character.
137. You keep a place, dangitt!!!!
138. um... you've seen La Resistance (a South Park song that makes
fun of One Day More) on YouTube.
139. You've seen the bit of Phillip Quast in 'Sunday in the Park with
George' on YouTube
140. um...This'll be my last (for now) When anybody sings a Miz song
(and well), you automatically like them a little more.
so there--somebody else can do 150.
me: I'm just gonna sit and draw.
woot.
Hurray for Sondheim!
IOwnTheEnjyVest
142. When the library lent you a crappy quality video tape of the TAC,
you yelled at the staff. Alot.
143. You got kicked out of that library
144. You are banned from the library until Thanksgiving.
145. You are going to finish Les Mis by Monday.
146. You wrote "henshall" instead of hens.
147. Your teacher knows what Henshall means.
148. You watch "The Sound of Musicals"
149. You watch "Brides of Christ"
150. Your darkest secret has something to do with Les Mis
151. You have OMO moments
152. You have IDAD moments
153. You have DYHTPS moments
156. You also have Gavvie moments
157. You can't let go of your copy of Les Mis
158. When your mind wanders, it goes to France
159. When you don't want to reveal your personal info, you say
something else to do with LM.
160. You love reading Les Mis fanfiction
161. You try to contact Victor Hugo with the Ouija board. (I don't
don't do that crap I just thought that up.)
IOwnTheEnjyVest
Azelma
164. You were bummed out when he died <_<
165. You can't wait to see Bleakhouse because it has Alun Armstrong
Alun Armstrong overload! :lol:
Combeferre
I knpw this is terribly late in the game but, I'm sorry, my name
appears in the post of points 64-75 (which are awesome).
I know that this is simply among members, however, I do not at all
feel comfortable about my name appearing on the internet (especially
with what you can do with technology nowadays!!!!
So, I ask (and apoligize right now!!!) if you could pretty please with
red, white, and blue sprinkles on top remove and repost the post (it's
not like this thing insn't already messed up!)
Thankyoooouuuuuu mucho mas.
sincerely, Combeferre
IOwnTheEnjyVest
167. Everytime you watch Into the Woods, you think "YAY I'm going to
see Chippy!" (yes I'm that much of a loser)
168. You are planning to wear Blue, White and Red for Les Mis'
birthday
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Halle? ;))
168. You never refer to Les Mis actors by their full names
169. You have a irrepressible (sp) urge to call Philip Quast by your
pet name, Quasimodo :P
170. You see a former Les Mis actor in a TV/Movie and you inform your
family how they were involved in Les Mis
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171. You only watched independent films no one has ever heard of
becuase a former Les Mis actor/actress was in it.
172. You only wanted to see the Drowsey Chaperone bacuse Sutton Foster
was in it.
Combeferre
173. You successfully sonverted someone to Miz
174. Even when going to Barnes and Noble to buy a cast recording of a
Different Play, you come out buying something miz-related (mine was
'Sunday in the Park with George'--which I bought with two old miz
movies yeah--I'm a geek!)
175. You slightly feel someone is more talented if they had anything
at all to do with Miz
176. You are not that skeptical of the upcoming 'Gone With the Wind'
Musical because Trevor Freakin' Awesome Nunn is involved in it
177. You slightly like 'Memory' (that evil song from 'Cats' which
everyone thinks they can sing!) because Trevor Nunn helped with the
lyrics.
178. You can find a way to link the Olson twins to Les Miz (I am
ashamed of this)
179. You've seen the brief yet glorious clip of Quast in 'Sunday in
the Park with George'--as a Miz-geek and a Sondheim-sympathizer I
squeal 'hooray!'
180. um.............................
ooo!
You've tried to envision Miz as a movie (with the cinematography
mostly--I've had fun doing this!)
181. You can understand when people write Miz actors and actresses
names as initials (RH, CW, TM, PQ, FR, MM, MB, etc, etc, etc.)
182. You doubt that M. Hugo really was like Mr. Toad! (even though he
probably was...)
so...Yeah!
I'm done...for now!
Eponine
RH-Ruthie Henshall
CW-Colm Wilkinson
PQ-Philip Quast
FR-Frances Ruffelle
MM-Michael Maguire
MB-Michael Ball
Am I right?
(If I am, maybe I need more help than I thought! lol)
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eeee--if ya saw a psychiatrist for help we'd miss ya!
Eponine
at it! lol
Combeferre
two cukoos with one stone!
hooray for Miz!
Vive la France!
Eponine
board!
IOwnTheEnjyVest
173. You annoy your homeroom teacher about Les Mis
174. He groaned when you told him it was LM's 22nd birthday
175. Whenever you get in trouble for something Les Mis related, you
say "Ah but Victor Hugo is proud of me Mr. Franchese! And Jean,
Javert, Fantine, Marius, Gavroche, Enjolras, Grantaire, Feuilly etc."
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