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You Might Be an Irish Dancer, if…
201 - 300
201. You think duct tape is the best thing since, well... Irish dance! 4/29 by Eiretash and Ashe
202. While your friends watch you dance, they're either telling you what you are doing wrong, sing the tune of the song for you, sing the steps when you mess up, or bang the beats out along with you! 4/29 by Eowyn
203. Your band is playing a song with an Irish tune in it, and the band master stands up and says "Look, I’m [Your Name Here]!" and dances a bit. 4/29 by Eowyn
204. People you dont even know know you because of dancing. ("Hey, you do that dancing stuff, right?") 4/29 by Eowyn
205. "Beating up the floor" is the best way to vent your anger (even though you hurt the floor more than it hurts you). 4/29 by Eowyn
206. All of your "school friends" and teachers all know your new opens dress design, colors, and materials and they voice their opinions. 4/29 by Colleen
Numbers 207 to 235 are 4/29 from Aine.
207. The term "Orange Rouge at 73" actually means something important to you.
208. You know the number for your hair color match (I’m an 8).
209. You own one outfit that costs more then your whole family’s wardrobes combined.
210. You can do a reel or a hornpipe to every song you hear on the radio.
211. You know all the winners of the last 5 World Championships, but have no clue who won the last Superbowl.
212. When you saw Titanic all you could think about was "How can I get a part dancing in a movie, and who’s Leonardo DiCaprio anyway?"
213. You actually know more verses to "Drunken Sailor" then the drunken sailor at the bar.
214. You can’t remember ever sitting still.
215. You choreograph dances in math class, and history, and the grocery store, and well, everywhere!
216. You own a bodhran or a tin-whistle, but dont know how to play it.
217. Your CD collection includes at least 4 CD’s that feature music played on an accordian.
218. You get disgusted every time you see a dancer taped only from the waist up. (What on EARTH do they teach them in film school?)
219. You can name at least 2 of the dancers in the Foldgers commercials.
220. Your friends have to tell you to stop dancing every 5 minutes because they're sick of you bouncing up and down while you talk to them.
221. When you meet new people at school they say "hey, you're that girl that does the Irish dancing stuff aren’t you?"
222. Someone uses the term "Riverdancing" and you have to resist strangling them.
223. You can finish this line from a song: "Tell me ma, when I go home..."
224. You’ve ever lost all the skin on your heels.
225. You know that it wont hurt until you take the shoes off, so you just leave them on all day.
226. Gluing your socks to your shins isn’t really weird.
227. You finger dance and people look at you funny.
228. You finger dance and people have stopped looking at you funny because they're used to it.
229. You know what I mean by finger dancing.
230. You’ve ever worn orange the color of a traffic cone.
231. The colors purple, lime green, and gold actually might go together.
232. You regularly put on a dress that can stand on its own.
233. You’ve had plans for St. Patricks Day since June (or St. Pat’s the year before!). Added to by Ashe
234. You can sing all of your dances.
Numbers 235 to 237 are 4/29 from Kemara.
235. You go into a Sam’s or other large warehouse type store and think "I wish I had my hardshoes!"
236. Every time you go to the mall you look around at other girls and think "I bet she'd be a great dancer."
237. You keep a 3-ring binder for dance. It’s divided into categories of soft shoe, hard shoe, ceili, sets, warmups, etc... complete with pictures. Obsessed? Nah...
Numbers 238 to 247 are 4/29 from Kristina.
238. When other people drool over prom dresses, you drool over solo dresses.
239. You constantly bother your friends by announcing every hour, on the hour, how many hours until the next feis.
240. You don’t call hard shoes "tap shoes"!
241. When you're watching a movie, whether at home or in the movie theatre, and Irish music comes on, your fingers start finger dancing, your feet start twitching...
242. You consider hard shoes very attractive, and the perfect accent to any outfit for any occasion.
243. Anything that you name has to be related to dance...you have a cat named Jean, a dog named Colin, and a Parakeet named Fiberglass.
244. You constantly get asked by people to, "Do one of your jig thingies!"
245. You frequently get reprimanded by your teachers for tapping out your dances with your fingers a little too loudly.
246. You look at the steel tips on tap shoes and mutter "Cheaters!"
247. You’ve asked the people in shoe stores if they carry anything in fiberglass.
Miscellaneous
248. You’ve ripped the hems on many a skirt, dress, or pant leg because you were dancing in it when you shouldn’t have been. May 16 by Abrcrmbfitch754
249. You go to Blockbuster and rent a stack of movies to watch their Irish Dance scenes, which is probably a total of 30 seconds. May 16 by Eiretash
250. You watch the introduction to "Ballykissangel" just for the Irish Step dancers. May 16 by Eiretash
251. You have thought of sewing sequins on your regular clothes. Hey, it looks good on your solo dress. May 16 by Eiretash
Monica
252. You know the names of all the Chieftains and can name them at random, but haven’t a clue who one member of NSync is.
253. Your school is doing Broadway Night, and you request the band does Riverdance so you can perform in it.
254. You don’t tell people to 'go to the pet store' when they ask for poodle socks. (That actually happened...grrr.)
255. Your friends are scared to get you mad because they know you can kick ten times harder than they can.
256. Your friends always tell you "Mon, this is not dance class" when you dance in the halls, in the choir room, in the Spanish room, at the lab...
257. Your choir comes early at lunch just so you can teach them how to "dance in the Riva."
258. You answer to Jean (or Eileen, Pat, Colin, Tara...) more than your own name.
259. You sign your name on school papers Jean Butler (or whoever) and your classmates and teachers know exactly who to pass it to when returning them.
260. You go around before class scrawling "Power to the Celtic Nations" on all the dry erase boards. By Jacqueline as well!
261. You spend hours arguing with your friends at school that hardshoes are NOT tap shoes.
262. Your favorite comeback is "Well, if I just had my hardshoes..." and they run away, cowering in fear.
263. You’ve worn your wig to school more than 5 times WITH the scrunchie!
264. You’ve danced for every one of your classes at least once.
265. You are respected now because you’ve danced in every one of your classes at least once.
266. You’ve learned to be immune to the phrase “Hey, look, I’m Riverdancing!”
267. You can finish this sentence: “Dance, dance, wherever you may be...”
268. You spend lunch teaching your friends The Seige of Ennis.
269. Your walls at home are plastered with pics of your dance friends, Ireland, Riverdance, Lord of the Dance...in addition to a cardboard Irish flag, an Irish dancing doll, both Irish beanie babies...
270. You go into a bookstore and can spot the Irish books from 30 feet away.
271. When the bookstore you go into doesn’t carry Irish Dancing Magazine, you go up and have a half hour row with the management.
272. When the local Irish band comes to play at the bookstore, they sign you up as part of the act.
273. Your 50 CD rack is full of all CDs with ‘Irish’ or ‘Dance’ in their titles.
274. You drive down the street with Glasgow Reel blasting out of your CD player.
275. You dance at the Barnes and Nobles Starbucks and people throw you money and/or offer to buy you a Frappacino.
276. Now you have a coffee at that Barnes and Nobles Starbucks named after you.
277. The bookstore employees know you only as “That Jig Girl.”
278. Your video collection: Riverdance, Riverdance Live from New York, Riverdance: A Journey, Lord of the Dance, Feet of Flames, Celtic Feet, World Championships 1994 and 2001, Emerald Shoes: A History of Irish Dancing, Dancing at Lughnasa, War of the Buttons, Backdraft, MAFIA, and Shrek is soon to be added. Switched a little by Ashe.
279. You know that Luck of the Irish completely sucked.
280. You count down the days to Nationals, and all of your non-dancing friends know too. Added on by Ashe.
281. The day before a feis, you wake up at 2 in the morning after going to bed at 1:30 ... and then you practice your set 25 times.
282. You and friends from dance "stalked" the Riverdance crew when they came to town.
Jacqueline
283. Everyone constantly asks you to do those thingies (and they imitate rocks).
284. "Oireachtas Rince na Cruinne" is scribbled all over all of your book covers, notebooks, homework assignments, quizzes, and so on.
285. Every time anything about Ireland is mentioned in any of your classes, everyone looks at you.
286. You go to a bookstore/library and read all of the travel guides and tourist maps about Ireland.
287. You have read every set of feis results ever posted on the internet.
288. You can find interest in these feis results even if you’ve never heard of any of the people listed.
289. When all of your friends are ooh-ing and ahh-ing over famous movie stars and singers, you sit and picture Pat Roddy in that tight shirt he wore in "Thunderstorm."
290. You know so much about Eileen Martin (or Jean Butler, Pat Roddy, etc.) that you truly feel like you know them personally.
291. You’ve stood outside the stage door at the theater where Riverdance was playing and waited to stalk the dancers for autographs. (May I add that it was a dark alley!)
292. The day after Riverdance left town, you went back to their hotel to reminisce. "I bet they touched this doorknob! They rode in this very elevator!!"
293. You took a picture of the Riverdance 18-wheeler in which they carry the sets.
294. You framed the picture of the 18-wheeler truck!
295. You perk up every time you hear the name Eileen.
296. You travel across the country, only to spend all day in the hotel ballroom!
297. Every time the commercial for "Lord of the Dance" comes on, you put down whatever you're doing and run up to the TV to gawk (or complain, whichever’s your fancy). Added onto by Ashe.
298. You’ve actually met up with another Irish dancer from the internet at a feis.
299. There’s anything Irish-dance related in the newspaper, and 10 people you know bring you clippings of it the next day.
300. You own stock in Dr. Scholls.