Funnies
You Might Be an Irish Dancer, if…
101 - 200
101. You buy a bunch of magazines like Seventeen, but skip most of
the beauty stuff except for "foot massages" and "exfoliating home-made foot lotion"
102. Your AOL Buddylist is separated into 2 categories: "Irish dancers', and "those....ugh....OTHER PEOPLE!"
103. You don’t stop dancing during the summer like most people. The sand makes a great landing pad for birdies.
104. You can remember the names of every judge you have when you see them at the next feis, or remember something weird about them, like "oooh! That’s the judge who accidently walked into the men’s room" or "that’s the judge who choked"....or the judges can remember something about you..."You're the one who kicked the table during your dance!" or "Oooh! Got a new dress, I see!"
105. You wonder why your mom is upset about the holes in your new nice dress shoes. You only practiced dancing for an hour...or two...
106. When the mall dance shop doesnt have Irish dance anything, you yell out to everyone in a 400 mile range that these people are idiots, don’t they know that Irish dance is the coolest of all the dances and that they need to stock Pacelli's?!
107. You do finger dancing (use your hands to do the steps) and people give you strange looks.
108. Your favorite word is "Smile!"
109. You go around telling people that you are going to a Star Trek convention when you are really going to a feis (Soft Spike story).
110. You are at a feis and your name is Kelly, Erin, Patrick or Sean -- your friends get so aggrivated with everyone else turning around that they end up calling you by your competition number!
112. You carry shoe polish around with you.
113. You carry your shoes with you wherever you go -- hey, you never know where Irish music is going to be playing!
114. The week before the competition, you can’t sleep at all. You start running through your reel leadround in your head...and you have to finish the whole thing......then you have to do your jig and set as well......and again, and again, and yes, you're still awake at the crack of dawn!
115. Instead of running up to your room and slamming the door when you're angry, you head up to your room and pound on the floor practicing your Treble Jig.
116. People ask you where you are going, you automatically start telling them the numbers of your stages you are going to be at: "2, 5, 7, 6, 1, 3, ohh yes and 10 for Treble Reel!".
117. You think your hair looks better curled.
118. You get your wig -- your parents think that they can forget doing your hair for prom, too.
119. You get your wig and think, Now how can I make it curlier?
120. You hear the name Butler or Dunne and think of Jean and Colin.
121. The only webpages you visit anymore are about Irish dance, and you can’t go more then a few hours without checking the message board.
122. You have a chronically severe case of Feis Syndrome (Theresa’s page).
123. Your teacher says "Da di da dum" or some sound that is similar and you know exactly what step he/she wants you to do.
124. As a condition to accepting a job offer, you insist on being allowed to take paid vacation around feisanna.
125. You can’t wear capri pants because your calves are too big.
126. You can hear someone talking about Ireland, the Irish, or Irish dancing within a 25 foot radius and jump into the conversation with ease.
127. You look forward to St. Patricks Day more than your birthday or Christmas.
128. You're already planning for next St. Patricks Day or a feis the day after.
129. Every time someone says run or skip, you automatically do hop 2-3's.
130. The guy you fancy is an Irish dancer, and you know all of his faults and what he does best.
131. You forget that you are wearing a regular dress and dont have bloomers on underneath!
132. You spend all your free time in math class ( or any other class for that matter) designing the "perfect solo dress", you have 5 or more designs, complete with shawl pin and tiara---on paper in full detail and colors labeled.
133. You spend hours in biology planning the rules and steps, etc. of your future school!
134. Your family vacation is taken in two-day increments and always includes a feis.
135. Instead of dreaming of being famous, you dream of the perfect pair of hardshoes, a perfect solo dress, or of going to the Worlds.
136. You’ve become intimately familiar with all the hotel and restaurant chains in Ohio.
137. You have gone to Mass with a group of 100 girls or more who were in curlers.
138. The thought of going out for dinner in curlers doesn’t bother you.
139. You have to "christen" the floor of any supermarket you go in.
140. You have a thing about dying your hair to match your costume.
141. People think you're wierd because you have loads of friends who are 11 or younger (and you're 16).
142. You dance in the pool.
143. You once got asked to stop making so much noise in a school exam...you were practicing your hornpipe!
144. Your mother has to physically step on your toes to make you stop dancing in the shopping mall.
145. You see no fashion emergency in wearing a white dress with black nylons. In fact, you wore them with your graduation dress and are considering wearing them with your wedding dress. Jacqueline
146. You're wearing a tank top, neon green kickpants, white socks hiked up to over your calves, black leather shoes and a cloth crown. What’s the big deal? Ashe
147. Seeing your hair without curls is somewhat scary. Dancerin84
148. You run to the nearest Irish store to stock up on "sock glue". Dancerin84
149. You think that $300 is NOTHING to spend on a fancy dress. Meaghan
150. A fun car-ride game is to count how many cars you can see with "curler-heads" in them. Meaghan
151. You're on suspension from feisanna, but you still want to wear the Soft Spikes. Monica
152. You have to dance in bars a lot..and you're under 21! Anne
153. You can name every pub in town and have danced in them all. Mary
154. Whenever something comes on TV about Irish Dancing, five of your friends call and tell you to make sure you are watching. Mary
155. You’ve been in more than one conversation in which the other person has said, "Irish dancing? Don’t you mean Riverdancing?" Dancrguy11
156. You get annoyed when people say "Irish dancing, isn’t that only for girls?" Dancrguy11
157. You are actually considering wearing your solo dress to the prom. 3/29/(02?) by Tara
158. You're playing soccer and your teammates yell for encouragement "YEAH, YOU IRISH JIG THAT BALL!" 3/31 by Ashe
159. You can start a sentence out with "Well, my physical therapist said..." 3/31 by Ashe
160. People ask you what sport you play, and you answer "Irish dancing." 4/8 by Adriane
161. You abandon directions to a feis for the car in front of you that has curler heads. 4/8 by Katie
162. You can’t resist putting rhinestones on everything. 4/8 by Katie
163. You can always win sibling arguments by saying: "Let’s go...Lord of the Dance style!" 4/11 by Dana
Numbers 164 through 199 are 4/25 by Reelsweet706.
164. Your AOL favorites list is all irish dancing websites, and you have so many sub-groups (Vendors, message boards, dresses, shoes, feisanna, etc...)
165. You count down the days untill your next feis.
166. You start packing for your next feis months ahead of time.
167. You draw Irish dancer items 24/7, even if you're not that good of an artist.
168. Throughout your school notes there are drawings of little 1 inch Irish dancers everywhere.
169. You give up finger dancing for Lent and fail miserably within the first hour.
170. Your Social Studies teacher gives you class time to quietly study, and you do all of your steps in your head or with your fingers.
171. Your email address or AOL screen name is somehow related to Irish dance.
172. One of your favorite colors is green.
173. You get the gumbands on your braces to match your dress.
174. You wear kick pants under a regular dress.
175. Your two-page report on your favorite activity is five pages long.
176. Your five-minute speech on Irish dance is already at six minutes and 30 seconds, and you're not done! And you still have some steps to show your class!
177. You have a "solo dress fund": a can of saved up money for your dress with a picture of a solo dress taped onto the front.
178. Your favorite soap is Irish Spring.
179. You know all of the steps to the Folgers commercial with the Irish dancers.
180. Every time you see the word 'treble' on your stereo, you smile and do one.
181. You have little clover stickers everywhere throughout the whole year.
182. You absolutely love (or absolutely hate) Will Smith’s "Gettin' Jiggy With It". There is no in-between. "Hate/inbetween" added by Ashe
183. All of your school projects are about Irish dance.
184. Your idol is your dance teacher.
185. Just for fun you’ve looked in the dictionary for words such as Oireachtas, Feis, Ghillies (its in there), hardshoes, solo dress, etc.
186. You can relate everything to having use at a Feis.
187. Your dance bag has anything and everything in it!
188. You go to the craft store with your Mom to browse the material section to find "solo dress material".
189. You see colors as "solo dress yellow" or "solo dress red"...
190. You think spending $80 on an Easter dress is a lot, but a $700 solo dress isn’t bad.
191. You think wearing socks really far up your leg is really cool.
192. You’ve gone to www.feis.com only to find out that its a Japanese site.
193. Your favorite CDs are Irish dancing ones.
194. The trophies you're most proud of are the ones from feisanna.
195. You leave a Feis, but you still hear the music. [Theresa’s Feis Syndrome]
196. Your favorite time of day is 3:17.
197. It’s a contest to see who can get their poodle socks the highest.
198. You know that poodle socks arn’t socks with dogs on them.
199. You taped the Irish dancing Folgers commercial, and can name each dancer in it. Addition by Ashe
Numbers 200 to 206 are once again from miscellaneous people.
200. You might be an Irish Dancer: if you know exactly how many measures (in music and steps) long your Pastors sermon is. 4/25 by Maureen