The Walkin' Mouth | "What is dis, some kinda walkin' mouth?"

YNYOWNW

I love to do these, so I thought I would start one, and see what other people come up with for it. You just put ways that you could be a sign that someone is obsessed with Newsies. Here goes:

YOU KNOW YOU'RE OBSESSED WITH NEWSIES WHEN...

1. You know all the songs and/or dances by heart!

2.You read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn just because it says Brooklyn in it.

3.You own one/multiple slingshots.

4.Ditto newsie hats.

5.You go to see Brooklyn the Musical

6. You scream when you see Max Casella on the cover of a Doogie Howser season when youre in the store and quickly shriek to everyone nearby OMG LOOK! ITS MAX CASELLA!

7. You watch Lizzie McGuire just so you can be all, Bootsie grew up!

8. You go see Batman Begins in theaters and clap madly in the credits when Christians name shows up. (Note: this provokes strange looks from other theatergoers)

9. You scream obsessively when you see Aaron Lohr in Rent and get angry at the cameraman because you can only see the back of his head half the time.

10. You have to refrain from bursting into song when someone mentions Santa Fe.

11. When you see other Bill Pullman in other movies you have to say "David? As in David and Goliath?" in the kind of lisp-y way and only think of him as Denton.

12. You throw a party every time its a newsies birthday and/or have a marathon in which you only watch their movies. Note: the cake from the party goes well with the theme when you watch the movies.

13. You get a copy of the Tony Awards the year that Max Casella was in The Music Man and scream for the five seconds that he's on the screen, wishing that they had done Shipoopi instead of You Got Trouble so you could watch him more.

14. You saw him in The Music Man and/or The Lion King on Broadway.

15. You watch all of the Disney movies and Gilmore Girls episodes that Kenny Ortega directed, and point out to the people around you that he was the director of Newsies, and they respond with blank looks because they are not Newsies fans. Then you proceed to make them Newsies fans.

16. You cried when you realized that Kenny cut his long hair from '92 off.

17. You know bloopers and historical errors from the movie and still love it even more.

18. You have seen the movie and/or listened to the soundtrack so much that you learn to recognize Alan Menkens style of music, so that you can identify him as the composer without even knowing what you're listening to.

19. You watch Big and fast-forward to the parts that David Moscow is in.

20. You catch Honey on TV and watch even though it bores you just because you want to see David in something recent.

21. You are very, very tempted to swing on your ceiling fan, but decide that it would not be worth the ceiling falling in.

22. You're sitting at work (or school, if that's your thing), thinking of - what else, Newsies! - when you suddenly become inspired to download a picture of Kenny Ortega, cut it out and attach a string to it, then hang it from the ceiling, commenting to passerbys "Behold, the great floating Kenny Ortega!"

23.You're constantly saying "Never feah - Brooklyn is heah" - even during ridiculously inappropriate times.

24. You refer to your enemies as 'The Delancey Bruddahs'.

25. You remember (and were old enough to be thoroughly excited) when the film first came out in the theatres, you've watched it countless times over the years since then, and you still LOVE it!

26. You buy a t-shirt just because it says Brooklyn on it.

27. You write fanfiction

28. You cry when Sarah gets to kiss Jack because you think you should've
been the one he kissed, even if you weren't even born when the movie was
made.

29. You swear you'll build a time machine, go back in time, and snatch the
role of Sarah away from Ele Keats.

30. You want to go to Brooklyn just so you can scream off the bridge.

31. You're known as the resident Newsie freak in your circle of friends.

32.You write a paper for school based on Newsies... and your teacher writes
that she likes it too.

33. If and when you've ever been to NYC you sing Carrying the Banner while walking through the streets disregarding the strange looks you may receive

34. All of your dreams are Newsies related

35. You don't feel bad for people with eye patches. You just consider them deeply cool.

36.You talk like a New Yorker even when you're from Japan

37. You've watched an episode of ER just because it was the one Gabriel Damon was in for one minute.

38. You can relate ANYTHING back to the Newsies, no matter how long the train of thought may be.

39. You write the Newsies names all over your shoes just so that they'll always be with you.

40. You should be doing your homework right now instead of reading this list

41. In every History book that you come across, you rabidly search it for any information about Pulitzer and Hurst, or the Newsies Strike of 1899.

42.You and your best friend sing the entire Newsies soundtrack so many times
during the day that whoever has been with you the whole day ends up jumping
on you guys and attacking you with every inanimate object within reach.

43. A guy with suspenders walks by, and you feel the unexplainable desire to
create a human dog-pile on top of him and steal the suspenders.

44. You find yourself doing the pelvic thrust whenever possible [and singing
"We need a good assassination; we need an earthquake or a war!" to go along
with it]

45. There's a manic urge to suddenly kidnap all the Newsies and make them tap
dance for you

46. You want to force everyone in the world to watch Newsies 24/7 until they
declare that it's one of the best movies ever made, and Christian Bale [+all
the other newsies] and Kenny Ortega are declared some form of gods/prophets

Thanks so much to everyone who's sent in ones for the YKYOWNW's that are up here so far!!

Email me ones you come up with at Daninoodle@aol.com Thanks!