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You Might Be an Irish Dancer, if…
301 - 400
301. While on your field trip to New York City, you freak and take
pictures of a bus that has the Riverdance on Broadway advertisement on
its side. By Adriane
302. You think "Irish Dance" every time you see ID, meaning Identification! By Mariel
303. When someone says "lets see some ID" you proceed to start dancing the jig. By GlasTara
304. When someone asks you for your shoe size, you reply: "American (or whatever nationality), or Irish?" Sarah
305. While the rest of your friends are humming tunes to the latest N'Sync CD, you're humming the reel. Elgee224
306. The rest of your friends are humming your reel. Heather
307. You're practicing for your TCRG - and you have 5 years until you can take it. Heather
308. When you are fitting a girl for a pair of oxford tap shoes and the parent says, "Look, Riverdance shoes!" and you try to correct them with no luck! (Sorry, I work in a dance shoe store.) Jess
309. You are always cold because you have grown so used to wearing a 10 pound dress in the summer with no problem! KAPhelan
310. You look up everyone with Irish dance on their profile, in the AOL member directory, just to talk about anything and everything with Irish dance and you become best friends. Alyssa
311. You map out every Irish dance school, Irish dance shop, or anything having to deal with Ireland within a 100 mile radius around your house. Alyssa
Lisa A
312. You have permanent indents in the carpet where you're dancing!
313. You tell a person you're an Irish step dancer and you have to mention Riverdance somewhere in the conversation.
314. You spend all day looking up Irish step dancing webpages.
Allison
315. You have highlighters to match your favorite dress.
316. You wear you dad’s old knee high socks that he was going to throw out. (They are just a little tight in the calves, though.)
317. You spend several weekends in Ohio.
318. There isn’t a day that you don’t think about Irish dancing.
319. You have computer disks dedicated to Irish dancing information and pictures.
320. You have named some of Ashe’s graphics after people you know.
321. You’ve printed out millions of pictures of solo dresses; once you got one you didn’t stop!
322. One of your favorite colors is definitely green.
323. You count down the hours until your next feis.
324. You make a paper chain telling you how many days until the next feis.
325. You cut out Ashe’s graphics and tape them to your folders.
326. You’ve tried a slow hornpipe to fast hornpipe music, just for fun.
327. You check your school’s website all the time.
328. You want to wear your dress headbands to school but know you'd look like a major geek to all those "non-Irish dancer people".
329. You’ve thought about wearing poodle socks to school.
330. Your Mom buys you large boxes of gauze and band-aids.
331. Dr. Scholl is like a god to you.
332. You can type "www.diochra.com" very fast!
Steffani
333. You don’t remember how to skip and all you can do is threes.
334. You mention to your friends that you're an Irish Dancer and they exlaim: "Oh, you Riverdance? I can do that!" Then they precede to move their feet wildly around while you just stand there pretending you don’t know them.
335. Your family refuses to watch another new step and run screaming from the room.
336. You constantly hear little voices in your head whispering: "Cut 23 and up down and step and click click..." and etc.
337. You do your steps under your desks at school and nobody knows where the tapping sounds are coming from.
338. You can fluently do your steps with your fingers and you think it would be cool to enter them in a "Fingers of Flames" Feis.
Ashe
339. Green: you either love it or hate it - there’s no in-between.
340. You practice your steps under your desk, and everyone knows where the noise is coming from.
Krystal
341. You naturally walk with your feet crossed out.
342. You wear Soft Spikes to school on a regular basis.
343. Your friends debate over Fila and Lugz while you debate over Hullachan Pro and Pacelli.
344. Your Soft Spikes are your best friends.
345. The only numbers you can remember that come after 8 are your competition and stage numbers.
346. Your dream house has A.) a built-in dance room complete with full length mirrors, etc.; B.) a pool shaped like a ghille and/or hardshoe; C.) all of the above plus whatever is on your mind.
347. You make your friend that plays the violin play Swallow Tail and any other Irish song she/he may know - just so you can dance.
348. You don’t call bobble socks "bobbie socks" like those other people do.
349. You know more about Irish music than your music teacher.
350. You do leap23’s in place of running.
351. You’ve curled your hair with FOIL at least once (hey, it works!).
352. You’ve at least thought about dying your hair your school colors (ie. black with teal streaks).
353. You run with your toes pointed and you kick your butt too!
354. You think tap dancers are cheaters!
355. You somehow manage to do Irish Dancing to any song off the radio!
356. You can stand on your toes with your feet crossed out longer than anyone in your gym class.
357. People in your gym class call you Riverdance.
358. You'd rather date Pat Roddy and Michael Flately than Nsync.
359. Your dance teacher is your best friend.
360. You’ve worn your school dress complete with curls, tiara, ect for picture day.
361. You perform for your friends at lunch and the next thing you know, the whole school is watching.
362. You're in line waiting for lunch and you start dancing a reel and someone yells, "No cutting in line!"
363. Down the Center means something important to you.
364. Across the Floor’s means something important to you.
365. You have strong, muscular, powerful legs and your arms are useless and weak.
366. You have to be taught to bobb your head.
367.You only buy clothes you can dance in.
368. St. Patrick’s Day is always planned at least a year in advanced.
369. You have to start charging people to perform for them.
370. There’s an article in the school paper in March about St. Patrick’s Day and you're somehow featured in it.
371. You’ve been asked to perform for your school.
372. You’ve been asked to represent your school at a cultural fair.
373. Rise and Grind means something important to you.
374. You can carry on a full converstaion about the upcoming Oireachtas but when it comes to the Super Bowl, you have nothing to say.
375. Your favorite dress is your school dress.
376. Your favorite dress is your solo dress.
377. You have no need for heels because you can stand on demi-pointe all day without a problem.
378. You wear your ghillies and hard shoes to school for fun (and the extra practice).
379. You wear ghillies/hardshoes with bobble socks and a mini skirt to school.
380. You wear a wig, or hair piece on a regular basis.
381. You're the only one in your school that knows Gaelic.
382. You, your mom, or whoever has a car, drives a Feismobile.
383. You're doing a production and when the director yells cut, your leg automatically cuts!
Kristina
384. St. Patrick’s Day is the busiest day of the year for you, and yet you nearly scream whenever you walk into a Hallmark store and see all the little happy dancing neon green leprechauns and giant shamrocks.
385. You walk into any store, anywhere, and immediately start skimming the shelves for anything Irish.
385. You almost know more Gaelic than English. (Well, at least all the really important words...the ones that mean dance, competition, and world championships...)
386. You're always looking for new foot-care products, and begging for one of those nice foot bath and massage thingies is a daily practice for you.
387. Your Christmas and Birthday wishlists are dominated by Irish Dance stuff.
388. Your friends laugh when they look at your CD collection-and you find it amazing that anyone would think it weird to have accordion music. It’s a misunderstood and underappreciated instrument, really!
388. In Chemistry, you thought it was awesome that there’s an element called Rutherfordium.
389. Your neighbors know all the music and steps to your set...I mean, who wouldn’t when you're out in the garage every spare moment practicing it?
390. Your neighbors actually know what a set is.
391. Everything is second in priority to the feis. 'You want me to do to Disneyland a month from now? Sorry, I’m busy that weekend.'
392. You're trying to decide what you want more, a new car, or a new solo dress.
393. "Gaudy" takes on a whole new meaning.
394. They know you on a first-name basis at the hardware store...you are their biggest buyer of duct tape.
395. You're always begging the local dance stores to start carrying Irish Dance stuff.
396. When asked your favorite athlete, it’s always a dancer.
397. You don’t make snowmen, you make snowdancers - complete with dress and feis hair.
Undisclosed Clever Girl of the Mullane Rouge
398. You change the lyrics of a popular song to be about your dance teacher (i.e. Mullane Rouge).
Kara
399. You make homemade shirts about inside jokes at dance and everyone asks what it means.
400. You have joined Webfeis and are completely obsessed with it!