For all your hard core ID ...........
Just browsed the internet for an hour and added up all of the below. There could be duplicates in it
Have Fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DutchDad
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YOU KNOW YOU ARE A HARD CORE IRISH DANCER WHEN
1. you have no pity for people who have blisters smaller than an inch in diameter
2. people cry when they see your bare feet
3. breaking a bone is not an acceptable excuse for not dancing
4. you can change anywhere with no second thoughts
5. you can recognize if the music is reel, slip jig, treble jig, hornpipe, light jig, any of the 4 traditional sets, or your set with in 2 seconds of hear it and can dance any one of the above at any time
6. driving 2 hours to practice on a friday night is not only acceptable, but encouraged
7. you can put a wig on in 60 seconds
8. you know what putting a sock in your wig means
9. you randomly take days off school for competitions
10. you can smile and change the dance you are doing and talk with others about doing it, all at the same time, ON STAGE
11. it is normal to practice one second of your final dance for 6 months, do it once on stage, and never do it again
12. you can smile and look happy on cue for hours on end
13. the only thing that strikes fear in your heart is doing your hornpipe five times through
14. you don't know how to wear natural makeup
15. you can recite the story to your choreography at a moments notice
16. you don't panic when the number you're in has started and you don't have a costume on.someone else will get in on you as you dance on stage, no big
17. you have more trophies than you would ever need/want
18. the people in your age group are like family
19. you go to ireland and don't see the sites, you practice
20. you know what diddley dees, quivers, and cleaps are.
21. you bring food to shows and it's gone within 3 minutes
22. you hate the sound of bagpipers
23. you find yourself making your steps into rap songs
24. You've learned to actually like accordian music even if you don't admit it publicly.
25. Pat King knows you on a first-name basis
26. You're seen constantly hand-dancing or finger-dancing in class, in the store, in your car, at church, anywhere you can't do some steps. Your non ID friends have stopped commenting on it.
27. Your neighbours have commented, asked or - hopefully - not complained about the corny accordion music & hardshoe practice sounds coming from your house or garage. Or the thumping from softshoe practice at all hours.
28. You've been asked by someone on the phone who doesn't know you dance what that corny circus music is in the background (more accordian music!)
29. Your friends & family know when a competition is coming up (PFS = Pre Feis Syndrome) by the way you act.
30. Your non ID friends don't expect to see you much during the St. Patrick's Day season unless they show up to watch you dance or see you on TV in a parade.
31. When you go into a school gym you think, hey nice dance floor.
32. When you take pics with non dance friends you stand with your feet crossed and turned out (All the time!)
33. every problem that arises can be fixed with duct tape. That stuff can fix anything
34. when someone asks if you have any glue you automatically hand over your sock glue
35. you don't even bother shaving your legs below midcalf. Your poodle socks cover them up anyway.
36. you walk into a fabric store for any reason and automatically head over the sparkly fabrics and dream how they would look on a solo
37. you see your dancing family more than your real family during the month of March
38. you know what you are doing on St. Patrick's Day 6 months in advance
39. you consider the major holidays to be the Oireachtas, Nationals, Worlds, and of course St.Pat's Day
40. you don't own any non feis shirts.
41. you constantly find your self shopping for tiaras at claires.
42. every class you have the kids make you dance, because when asked something interesting about yourself you automatically say IRISH DANCE!
43. when you finish a test at school and you dance with your hands on the desk
44. you humm your set dance music through your school hallways
45. if you cant find any shoes in the morning and are going to be late for the bus you put on your gihillies or dance sneakers (never the ghillies but deffinatly the dance sneakers)
46. when standing around in gym class doing nothing or when your teacher tells you to walk laps around the court, you end up dancing your hardshoe
47. when the guy you likes asks you out and you say i cant i have dance then he says what about what ever day and you say sorry dance too
48. when you are bored or grounded and stuck in your room, you put your dance wig and tiara on and then plan the next feis's new makeup
49. in the summer you dance your reel off the high dive (you get really good hight for the overs haha)
50. when staring off into space and your friends come up and say what are you doing, you say " dancing in my head"
51. you hang a bizzilion! feis pictures in your locker
52. when locked up in the car for 8 hours, when you get out you immediatly start dancing
53. when people say " irish dance isnt a sport" you feel like leaching out and strangling their throats and saying we compete we win prizes and we dont chase a ball around ( interseting stares come as a result of this)
54. when you go shopping and try on clothes, you make sure you can dance in them, and do some up one two's in the dressing room or rocks or some sort of jump.
55. when you program your cell phone ring as your set dance (aaaw, yeah, baby! =D)
56. when you constantly have a sock glue ring around your calves and are constantly trying to unstick your pants from your leftover sockglue on your legs
57. whenever any song is playing, you immediately start finger-dancing or doing your steps in place
58. when you start judging new songs on the radio by how well you can dance to them
59. you buy all of your shoes two sizes too small with no extra room whatsoever, and when trying them on, you make sure you can do toestands in them if they're casual shoes
60. you go to the gym and set the leg weights at the max, and the arm weights at the min.
61. whenever you get sick you don't fret about getting behind in school as much as you fret about losing muscle and stamina
62. you have freaked out everyone in almost every gas station in America on the way to feiseanna with your spike curlers and random dancing in the parking lot and in the line for the bathroom
63. going to numerous bars and pubs on St. Patrick's Day does not involve alcohol just hours of shows!
64. you walk and even sleep turned out =D
65. your toes are permanently curled under from being wedged into too-tight soft shoes for so many years
66. You think a feis within 300 miles is close by.
67. You begin to enjoy getting up at 5 a.m. to practice.
68. It is fun to spend several hours a day on the ID message board.
69. You think you're being frugal if you spend less than $2000 on a dress.
70. You can't remember what it was like to have just one wig.
71. You most important factor, when buying a car, is how many dress bags you can fit in it.
72. When you look for a house, the first thing you check is if there is an area large enough to build a stage.
73. Your dance bill is higher than your family’s food bill.
74. You spend more on a solo dress than you did on your wedding dress.
75. You have no money because of Irish dance.
76. Yo have to buy more than one vehicle a year, because you keep burning out the 7 year or 70,000 mile warranty going to feises.
77. You have more pictures of your of your kid dancing than of your family.
78. Your idea of a fun vacation is to go to a major completion.
79. Most of your conversation resolves around Irish dancing.
80. You wake up in the morning and you find out you put the kids in the dress bag and the dresses in the beds.
81. You know each judge's name, but you can't figure out who that stranger in the house is, and it turns out to be your spouse.
82. You cash in the kids' college trust fund to buy a new dress by Gavin.
83. You’ve been on the road going to feises so long you can't remember where you live.
84. Your family tells you,” It’s either Irish dancing, or us!" and you choose the dancing.
85. when you wake up to go to school and you are still super tierd cuz it is like 5 30 in the morning, you turn on your set dance and start dancing to wake you up.
86. when you can study for a chemistry test and practice at the same time
87. when you are willing to spend all of you birthday money on your dance dress
88. when you can walk down a corridor with several cups of tea, dodging numerous amounts of kicking legs.
89. when you feel like dancing when you are frustrated. (how backwards is that!?)
90. when you think that dancing outside in the freezing cold in just shorts and a tshirt is perfectly normal.
91. when you will openly criticise someone’s arms, feet, posture etc when they are trying to mimic your dancing.
92. when you say "pah! that’s nothing when people wince at ballet dancers going on blocks"
93. when you want to put a rocket up someone’s bum and light it when they sy that tap dancing, ballet dancing, jazz dancing etc is harder I MEAN who ever heard of an easy sport which involves keeping your body completely straight and just moving your legs, smiling when your in agony and have shoes on that are 10 sizes too small.
94. when you break out in a cold sweat at the thought of your wig falling off.
95. when you cannot control your laughter at the thought of someone elses wig falling off.
96. when you agree that illegal arm aids is a scandal and the Michael Jackson case is mere tittle tattle.
97. when you think nothing to bending yourself in half, just to get ready for your warm up!
98. when towards the end of the movie Napoleon Dynamite the first thing you notice besides the funnily characters is that the music is a reel
99. when you cant do gym class because of a twisted ankle but the same night go to dance
100. when half of your makeup is feis or performance make up
101. when you have nothing to do at a feis you paint your nails to match your dress
102. when asked what your favourite show or movie is you say either riverdance lord of the dance of feet of flames
103. when asked your role model, you say the name of an irish dance
104. when your friends ask what you do when you procrastinate, you say dance
105. when you go up and down your highschool hallways doing overs and do rocks while waiting at a friends locker
106. when no matter what type of outfit or color you are wearing, you wear your got irish dance wrist band, even to homecoming
107. hahaha when you break your arm wrist or anything else that needs a cast, you get the color to match your irish dance dress,you your dance school's main color
108. when you have an entire wall in your bedroom filled with irish dance posters pictures medal trophies or music cases
109. when asked what calms you down, you say dance
110. when asked what stresses you out, you say dance( funny how that works huh?)
111. when you run, you hold a perfect posture, up straigt, and aren't able to bend your knees.(thats me anyways lol)
112. when you have a permanent piece of plywood on your bedroom floor for dancing.
113. dum didlydums actually mean something to you.
114. when you don’t mind walking into a public place after a feis with short shorts and poodle socks, maybe even a wig as well.
115. when your constantly pulling your pants off the sock glue still left of your legs.
116. When you choose to listen to irish dance music in your car INSTEAD of your favorite alternative rock station
117. when you have gone to just about every public place in a wig, tiara, and bloomers popping out of your jeans!
118. When you're not one bit embarrassed to walk into a store with a wig on and poodle socks pulled up to your knees
119. You can't resist doing a few "tip-step, treble-change"s in the middle of volleyball.
120. All of your teachers know you dance -- you do it while waiting for everyone to come into class (and during class, and after class, and in the hallways )
121. Your knees hurt, so you walk on tiptoe to make them feel better.
122. Common discussions are whether you want to do back23s or change23s.
123. You find yourself walking on tiptoe all of the time -- and it's perfectly natural.
124. Making yourself use your heels to walk up the stairs is a trying project.
125. You know all the words to your school's steps.
126. You can stand on your toes at the strangest of times.
127. It's 60 degrees out and you're still not cold -- normally you have a 20 pound dress on.
128. Sponges are part of what you put your hair in, and not something that goes in the sink!
129. You have a big lump of muscle either in the back or front that sticks out everytime you walk.
130. You actually know what the gaelic terms for the Teachers Test.
131. You have pulled more 3 muscles or broken a toe and dancing on them anyways -- not feeling a thing.
132. You actually know how to fly in the air and come right back down into a bird.
133. You dont call IRISH DANCING "RIVERDANCING"!
134. You know what a "ceili" is and how to pronounce it.
135. March is your busiest month.
136. You fight with your friends about doing hopover drills rather than going to the movies.
137. Your favorite comeback is "and shuffle hopback, tip toe and backclick. Hop shuffle hopback tip toe and back click".
138. Your friend's neon-green and fuschia "Footloose" shirt makes you call him "solo dress boy".
139. Everytime you see any kind of "Irish-wannabe" dancing, you find yourself cringing because of their knees, their placement, their posture, their arms
140. You talk about fiberglass with your friends on a regular basis.
141. You can rationalize Michael Flatley's somewhat obscure notion of putting an Egyptian theme into Lord of the Dance through mythology. (Only for the REALLY obsessed!)
142. Whenever anyone asks you, "How're you doing?", you mention what dances you've gotten better at.
143. Every time you hear Irish music, you start tapping along.
144. "Clown" and "Pilgrim" shoes are part of your normal garb.
145. All of your T-Shirts say something like "Reel Irish", "Riverdance", "______ School of Irish Dancing", "Dancing on Dangreous Ground", "Lord of the Dance", or mention Medusa in curlers
146. You walk around hearing "Medusa!" because of your curls -- but don't think anything is wrong.
147. You know what a Treble is - and not something in the music.
148. You know that a jig is something you do and not something you fish with.
149. You talk about Irish dancing 24/7.
150. You go out some place during an overnight feisanna, you look for someone with their hair in curlers to bond with.
151. Your parents say "pick a dress," your mind automatically goes to what your solo dress will look like.
152. You know "feis" is not pronounced "fice".
153. You know what a feis is.
154. You go some place and see someone in curlers - and think nothing of it.
155. You go someplace in curlers, and you think nothing of it.
156. Any story you write has to do with dance, Ireland
157. You always turn out while standing (or sitting, or )
158. Watching a tap dancer makes you want to say "pick up your feet!"
159. You always have bandaids.
160. You are never short of the ultimate tool: Duct tape.
161. You always notice slouching.
162. People begin to think you are 6'0 rather than 5'4 because you are always doing toe walks.
163. Your legs automatically run on Irish Time.
164. Your legs are always straight when you jump or kick.
165. You always stand heel to toe.
166. When doing jumping jacks, you automatically turn your toes out, cross your feet and point your toes.
167. Walking like a duck with your toes turned out is normal!
168. Using "Body Adhesive" to glue your socks to your shins just doesn't seem weird to you.
169. You know that "clogs" is not the correct terminology for hardshoes.
170. You are proud of your calloused feet and would never dream of getting a petticure!
171. Somehow you realize that Irish Dancing fashion stands in limbo and no current fashions can relate to it or taint it. For example: frizzy hair, flourescents, lace over flourescents with sparkles, socks hiked half way up your shins, and wigs can never really be considered odd in the Irish dance world!
172. If you're caught off-guard during class, it's usually because you're chanting one of your steps in your head (or creating new ones).
173. You choreograph dances during well, always.
174. You can't stop moving; if you've been sitting still for too long, you have a great need to at least wiggle your toes for a while.
175. All of your art projects somehow remind you of the dance.
176. Your friends don't do madlibs with you any more; they'll get too many dance terms!
177. Your favorite celebrity is in one of the dance shows.
178. You can't remember a time when "ghillie" wasn't a word in your vocabulary.
179. You can remember the motto of every dance company.
180. Your friends refer to you by your competitor number at your most recent feis, and not by your name anymore. ("Hey 728! What's up?")
181. You even glue your gym socks to your shins.
182. You have permanent indentations on your palms from your fingernails digging into them when you dance.
183. You spell "real" like "reel".
184. You can't have a conversation with a friend without having to explain what something means. ("Wait, um What the heck is an Oireachtas?")
185. You can walk comfortably WITHOUT swinging your arms.
186. Your dance shoes are used so much, the bottoms are made up of cardboard and duct tape because the leather wore off.
187. Your prayers consist of "And bless my dance teacher, and bless Jean Butler, and my ghillies, and my feet"
188. Your curling iron LIVES in the "on" position.
189. You've actually thought of naming your kids Micheal and Jean.
190. You know that 7's and 3's CAN be done during class under your desk.
191. You've actually tried doing your steps in the pool.
192. Leaf is to tree as callus is to your foot!
193. "Feet of Flames" is actually quite literal.
194. You think curlers are cool, and you've worn them almost every place imaginable.
195. Your short, stick-straight hair gets longer and more curly on a regular basis.
196. Your friends call you "River Ditz".
197. You always need to stretch.
198. Your gym class can do your hornpipe better than you can.
199. You don't know what the word "flashy" means any more; though your solo dress embodies it, you don't think much of it.
200. You hang out with six year olds on a regular basis.
201. You don't remember what number comes after "8".
202. You can't be "Simon" in Simon Says any more; you always end up telling them to dance.
203. Flexible takes on a whole new meaning. (You try making your heel hit your hip to a slip jig beat without falling on your butt!)
204. You test out any clothes by making sure you can dance in them.
205. You can dance your reels to ANYTHING!
206. You actually find yourself screaming at your feet. "Lift, guys! Lift!"
207. You paint your nails (or consider dying your hair) to match your school dress.
208. You can't resist not to dance on linoleum floors.even in the supermarket!
209. If asked to describe you in under 5 words, your friends can do it."Um.very Irish".
210. Your closet is.uh.very colorful, to say the very least.
211. The most expensive thing you own worn't fit you next year!
212. Your car has bumper stickers that say things like "FeisMobile", "Dancer Transport", and "Life in the Feis Lane".
213. Your feet go faster than your computer's modem.
214. You have big bruises on your heels from accidently kicking your butt too hard.
215. You've thought about painting a border around your room with your school's knotwork pattern.
216. You just know when someone has the perfect feis curls -- it's become intuition.
217. You don't remember the last time you "walked" around the house you only dance!
218. You love everything even REMOTELY related to dance (You write encouraging letters to farmers to keep supplying leather for ghillies.quite an odd connection there!)
219. 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"
220. Your AOL Buddylist is separated into 2 categories: "Irish dancers', and "those.ugh.OTHER PEOPLE!"
221. You don't stop dancing during the summer like most people. The sand makes a great landing pad for birdies.
222. 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!"
223. You wonder why your mom is upset about the holes in your new nice dress shoes. You only practised dancing for an hour or two
224. 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?!
225. You do finger dancing (use your hands to do the steps) and people give you strange looks.
226. Your favorite word is "Smile!"
227. 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).
228. 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!
229. You carry shoe polish around with you.
230. You carry your shoes with you wherever you go -- hey, you never know where Irish music is going to be playing!
231. The week before the competition, you can't sleep at all. You start running through your reel lead round 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!
232. 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.
233. 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!".
234. You think your hair looks better curled.
235. You get your wig -- your parents think that they can forget doing your hair for prom, too.
236. You get your wig and think, Now how can I make it curlier?
237. You hear the name Butler or Dunne and think of Jean and Colin.
238. 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.
239. You have a chronically severe case of Feis Syndrome
240. 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.
241. As a condition to accepting a job offer, you insist on being allowed to take paid vacation around feisanna.
242. You can't wear capri pants because your calves are too big.
243. You can hear someone talking about Ireland, the Irish, or Irish dancing within a 25 foot radius and jump into the conversation with ease.
244. You look forward to St. Patricks Day more than your birthday or Christmas.
245. You're already planning for next St. Patricks Day or a feis the day after.
246. Every time someone says run or skip, you automatically do hop 2-3's.
247. The guy you fancy is an Irish dancer, and you know all of his faults and what he does best.
248. You forget that you are wearing a regular dress and dont have bloomers on underneath!
249. 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 labled.
250. You spend hours in biology planning the rules and steps, etc. of your future school!
251. Your family vacation is taken in two-day increments and always includes a feis.
252. Instead of dreaming of being famous, you dream of the perfect pair of hardshoes, a perfect solo dress, or of going to the Worlds.
253. You've become intimately familiar with all the hotel and restaurant chains in Ohio.
254. You have gone to Mass with a group of 100 girls or more who were in curlers.
255. The thought of going out for dinner in curlers doesn't bother you.
256. You have to "christen" the floor of any supermarket you go in.
257. You have a thing about dying your hair to match your costume.
258. People think you're wierd because you have loads of friends who are 11 or younger (and you're 16).
259. You dance in the pool.
260. You once got asked to stop making so much noise in a school examyou were practicing your hornpipe!
261. Your mother has to physically step on your toes to make you stop dancing in the shopping mall.
262. 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
263. You're wearing Wearing neon green kickpants, white socks hiked up to over your calves, a tank top, black leather shoes and a cloth crown. What's the big deal?
264. Seeing your hair without curls is somewhat scary.
265. You run to the nearest Irish store to stock up on "sock glue".
266. You think that $300 is NOTHING to spend on a fancy dress.
267. A fun car-ride game is to count how many cars you can see with "curler-heads" in them.
268. You're on suspension from feisanna, but you still want to wear the Soft Spikes.
269. You have to dance in bars a lot..and you're under 21!
270. You can name every pub in town and have danced in them all.
271. Whenever something comes on TV about Irish Dancing, five of your friends call and tell you to make sure you are watching.
272. You've been in more than one conversation in which the other person has said, "Irish dancing? Don't you mean Riverdancing?"
273. You get annoyed when people say "Irish dancing, isn't that only for girls?"
274. You are actually considering wearing your solo dress to the prom.
275. You're playing soccer and your teammates yell for encouragement "YEAH, YOU IRISH JIG THAT BALL!"
276. You can start a sentence out with "Well, my physical therapist said"
277. People ask you what sport you play, and you answer "Irish dancing."
278. You abandon directions to a feis for the car in front of you that has curler heads.
279. You can't resist putting rhinestones on everything.
280. You can always win sibling arguments by saying: "Let's goLord of the Dance style!"
281. Your AOL favorites list is all irish dancing websites, and you have so many sub-groups (Vendors, message boards, dresses, shoes, feisanna, etc)
282. You count down the days untill your next feis.
283. You start packing for your next feis months ahead of time.
284. You draw Irish dancer items 24/7, even if you're not that good of an artist.
285. Throughout your school notes there are drawings of little 1 inch Irish dancers everywhere.
286. You give up finger dancing for Lent and fail miserably within the first hour.
287. 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.
288. Your email address or AOL screen name is somehow related to Irish dance.
289. One of your favorite colors is green.
290. You get the gumbands on your braces to match your dress.
291. You wear kick pants under a regular dress.
292. Your two-page report on your favorite activity is five pages long.
293. 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!
294. 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.
295. Your favorite soap is Irish Spring.
296. You know all of the steps to the Folgers commercial with the Irish dancers.
297. Every time you see the word 'treble' on your stereo, you smile and do one.
298. You have little clover stickers everywhere throughout the whole year.
299. You absolutely love (or absolutely hate) Will Smith's "Gettin' Jiggy With It". There is no in-between. "Hate/inbetween" added by Ashe
300. All of your school projects are about Irish dance.
301. Your idol is your dance teacher.
302. Just for fun you've looked in the dictionary for words such as Oireachtas, Feis, Ghillies (its in there), hardshoes, solo dress, etc.
303. You can relate everything to having use at a Feis.
304. Your dance bag has anything and everything in it!
305. You go to the craft store with your Mom to browse the material section to find "solo dress material".
306. You see colors as "solo dress yellow" or "solo dress red"
307. You think spending $80 on an Easter dress is a lot, but a $700 solo dress isn't bad.
308. You think wearing socks really far up your leg is really cool.
309. You've gone to
feis.com only to find out that its a Japanese site.
310. Your favorite CDs are Irish dancing ones.
311. The trophies you're most proud of are the ones from feisanna.
312. You leave a Feis, but you still hear the music. [Theresa's Feis Syndrome]
313. Your favorite time of day is 3:17.
314. It's a contest to see who can get their poodle socks the highest.
315. You know that poodle socks arn't socks with dogs on them.
316. You taped the Irish dancing Folgers commercial, and can name each dancer in it. Addition by Ashe
317. Numbers 200 to 206 are once again from miscellaneous people.
318. You might be an Irish Dancer: if you know exactly how many measures (in music and steps) long your Pastors sermon is.
319. You think duct tape is the best thing since, well Irish dance!
320. 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!
321. 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.
322. People you dont even know know you because of dancing. ("Hey, you do that dancing stuff, right?")
323. "Beating up the floor" is the best way to vent your anger (even though you hurt the floor more than it hurts you).
324. All of your "school friends" and teachers all know your new opens dress design, colors, and materials and they voice their opinions.
325. The term "Orange Rouge at 73" actually means something important to you.
326. You know the number for your hair color match (I'm an 8).
327. You own one outfit that costs more then your whole family's wardrobes combined.
328. You can do a reel or a hornpipe to every song you hear on the radio.
329. You know all the winners of the last 5 World Championships, but have no clue who won the last Superbowl.
330. 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?"
331. You actually know more verses to "Drunken Sailor" then the drunken sailor at the bar.
332. You can't remember ever sitting still.
333. You choreograph dances in math class, and history, and the grocery store, and well, everywhere!
334. You own a bodhran or a tin-whistle, but dont know how to play it.
335. Your CD collection includes at least 4 CD's that feature music played on an accordian.
336. 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?)
337. You can name at least 2 of the dancers in the Foldgers commercials.
338. 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.
339. When you meet new people at school they say "hey, you're that girl that does the Irish dancing stuff aren't you?"
340. Someone uses the term "Riverdancing" and you have to resist strangling them.
341. You can finish this line from a song: "Tell me ma, when I go home"
342. You've ever lost all the skin on your heels.
343. You know that it wont hurt until you take the shoes off, so you just leave them on all day.
344. Gluing your socks to your shins isn't really weird.
345. You finger dance and people look at you funny.
346. You finger dance and people have stopped looking at you funny because they're used to it.
347. You know what I mean by finger dancing.
348. You've ever worn orange the color of a traffic cone.
349. The colors purple, lime green, and gold actually might go together.
350. You regularly put on a dress that can stand on its own.
351. You've had plans for St. Patricks Day since June (or St. Pat's the year before!).
352. You can sing all of your dances.
353. You go into a Sam's or other large warehouse type store and think "I wish I had my hardshoes!"
354. Every time you go to the mall you look around at other girls and think "I bet she'd be a great dancer."
355. 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
356. When other people drool over prom dresses, you drool over solo dresses.
357. You constantly bother your friends by announcing every hour, on the hour, how many hours until the next feis.
358. You don't call hard shoes "tap shoes"!
359. 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
360. You consider hard shoes very attractive, and the perfect accent to any outfit for any occasion.
361. Anything that you name has to be related to danceyou have a cat named Jean, a dog named Colin, and a Parakeet named Fiberglass.
362. You constantly get asked by people to, "Do one of your jig thingies!"
363. You frequently get reprimanded by your teachers for tapping out your dances with your fingers a little too loudly.
364. You look at the steel tips on tap shoes and mutter "Cheaters!"
365. You've asked the people in shoe stores if they carry anything in fiberglass.
366. Miscellaneous
367. 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.
368. You go to Blockbuster and rent a stack of movies to watch their Irish Dance scenes, which is probably a total of 30 seconds.
369. You watch the introduction to "Ballykissangel" just for the Irish Step dancers.
370. You have thought of sewing sequins on your regular clothes. Hey, it looks good on your solo dress.
371. 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.
372. Your school is doing Broadway Night, and you request the band does Riverdance so you can perform in it.
373. You don't tell people to 'go to the pet store' when they ask for poodle socks. (That actually happened grrr.)
374. Your friends are scared to get you mad because they know you can kick ten times harder than they can.
375. 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
376. Your choir comes early at lunch just so you can teach them how to "dance in the Riva."
377. You answer to Jean (or Eileen, Pat, Colin, Tara) more than your own name.
378. 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.
379. You go around before class scrawling "Power to the Celtic Nations" on all the dry erase boards.
380. You spend hours arguing with your friends at school that hardshoes are NOT tap shoes.
381. Your favorite comeback is "Well, if I just had my hardshoes" and they run away, cowering in fear.
382. You've worn your wig to school more than 5 times WITH the scrunchie!
383. You've danced for every one of your classes at least once.
384. You are respected now because you've danced in every one of your classes at least once.
385. You've learned to be immune to the phrase “Hey, look, I’m Riverdancing!”
386. You can finish this sentence: “Dance, dance, wherever you may be”
387. You spend lunch teaching your friends The Seige of Ennis.
388. Your walls at home are plastered with pics of your dance friends, Ireland, Riverdance, Lord of the Dancein addition to a cardboard Irish flag, an Irish dancing doll, both Irish beanie babies
389. You go into a bookstore and can spot the Irish books from 30 feet away.
390. When the bookstore you go into doesn’t carry Irish Dancing Magazine, you go up and have a half hour row with the management.
391. When the local Irish band comes to play at the bookstore, they sign you up as part of the act.
392. Your 50 CD rack is full of all CDs with ‘Irish’ or ‘Dance’ in their titles.
393. You drive down the street with Glasgow Reel blasting out of your CD player.
394. You dance at the Barnes and Nobles Starbucks and people throw you money and/or offer to buy you a Frappacino.
395. Now you have a coffee at that Barnes and Nobles Starbucks named after you.
396. The bookstore employees know you only as “That Jig Girl.”
397. 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.
398. You know that Luck of the Irish completely sucked.
399. You count down the days to Nationals, and all of your non-dancing friends know too.
400. 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.
401. You and friends from dance "stalked" the Riverdance crew when they came to town.
402. Everyone constantly asks you to do those thingies (and they imitate rocks).
403. "Oireachtas Rince na Cruinne" is scribbled all over all of your book covers, notebooks, homework assignments, quizzes, and so on.
404. Every time anything about Ireland is mentioned in any of your classes, everyone looks at you.
405. You go to a bookstore/library and read all of the travel guides and tourist maps about Ireland.
406. You have read every set of feis results ever posted on the internet.
407. You can find interest in these feis results even if you've never heard of any of the people listed.
408. 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."
409. You know so much about Eileen Martin (or Jean Butler, Pat Roddy, etc.) that you truly feel like you know them personally.
410. 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!)
411. 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!!"
412. You took a picture of the Riverdance 18-wheeler in which they carry the sets.
413. You framed the picture of the 18-wheeler truck!
414. You perk up every time you hear the name Eileen.
415. You travel across the country, only to spend all day in the hotel ballroom!
416. 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.
417. You've actually met up with another Irish dancer from the internet at a feis.
418. There's anything Irish-dance related in the newspaper, and 10 people you know bring you clippings of it the next day.
419. You own stock in Dr. Scholls.
420. 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.
421. You think "Irish Dance" every time you see ID, meaning Identification!
422. when someone says "lets see some ID" you proceed to start dancing the jig.
423. When someone asks you for your shoe size, you reply: "American (or whatever nationality), or Irish?"
424. While the rest of your friends are humming tunes to the latest N'Sync CD, you're humming the reel
425. The rest of your friends are humming your reel.
426. You're practicing for your TCRG - and you have 5 years until you can take it.
427. 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!
428. You are always cold because you have grown so used to wearing a 10 pound dress in the summer with no problem!
429. 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.
430. 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.
431. You have permanent indents in the carpet where you're dancing!
432. You tell a person you're an Irish step dancer and you have to mention Riverdance somewhere in the conversation.
433. You spend all day looking up Irish step dancing webpages.
434. You have highlighters to match your favorite dress.
435. 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.)
436. You spend several weekends in Ohio.
437. There isn't a day that you don't think about Irish dancing.
438. You have computer disks dedicated to Irish dancing information and pictures.
439. You have named some of Ashe's graphics after people you know.
440. You've printed out millions of pictures of solo dresses; once you got one you didn't stop!
441. One of your favorite colors is definitely green.
442. You count down the hours until your next feis.
443. You make a paper chain telling you how many days until the next feis.
444. You cut out Ashe's graphics and tape them to your folders.
445. You've tried a slow hornpipe to fast hornpipe music, just for fun.
446. You check your school's website all the time.
447. 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".
448. You've thought about wearing poodle socks to school.
449. Your Mom buys you large boxes of gauze and band-aids.
450. Dr. Scholl is like a god to you.
451. You can type "www.diochra.com" very fast!
452. You don't remember how to skip and all you can do is threes.
453. 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.
454. Your family refuses to watch another new step and run screaming from the room.
455. You constantly hear little voices in your head whispering: "Cut 23 and up down and step and click click" and etc.
456. You do your steps under your desks at school and nobody knows where the tapping sounds are coming from.
457. 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.
458. Green: you either love it or hate it - there's no in-between.
459. You practice your steps under your desk, and everyone knows where the noise is coming from.
460. You naturally walk with your feet crossed out.
461. You wear Soft Spikes to school on a regular basis.
462. Your friends debate over Fila and Lugz while you debate over Hulluchan Pro and Pacelli.
463. Your Soft Spikes are your best friends.
464. The only numbers you can remember that come after 8 are your competition and stage numbers.
465. Your dream house has A. a built in dance room complete with full length mirrors, ect. B, a pool shaped like a ghille and/or hardssoe, C. all of the above plus whatever is on your mind.
466. 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.
467. You don't call bobble socks "bobbie socks" like those other people do.
468. You know more about Irish music than your music teacher.
469. You do leap23's in place of running.
470. You've curled your hair with FOIL at least once (hey, it works!).
471. You've at least thought about dying your hair your school colors (ie. black with teal streaks).
472. You run with your toes pointed and you kick your butt too!
473. You think tap dancers are cheaters!
474. You somehow manage to do Irish Dancing to any song off the radio!
475. You can stand on your toes with your feet crossed out longer than anyone in your gym class.
476. People in your gym class call you Riverdance.
477. You'd rather date Pat Roddy and Michael Flately than Nsync.
478. Your dance teacher is your best friend.
479. You've worn your school dress complete with curls, tiara, ect for picture day.
480. You perform for your friends at lunch and the next thing you know, the whole school is watching.
481. You're in line waiting for lunch and you start dancing a reel and someone yells, "No cutting in line!"
482. Down the Center means something important to you.
483. Across the Floor's means something important to you.
484. You have strong, muscular, powerful legs and your arms are useless and weak.
485. You have to be taught to bobb your head.
486. You only buy clothes you can dance in.
487. St. Patrick's Day is always planned at least a year in advanced.
488. You have to start charging people to perform for them.
489. There's an article in the school paper in March about St. Patrick's Day and you're somehow featured in it.
490. You've been asked to perform for your school.
491. You've been asked to represent your school at a cultural fair.
492. Rise and Grind means something important to you.
493. You can carry on a full converstaion about the upcoming Oireachtas but when it comes to the Super Bowl, you have nothing to say.
494. Your favorite dress is your school dress.
495. Your favorite dress is your solo dress.
496. You have no need for heels because you can stand on demi-pointe all day without a problem.
497. You wear your ghillies and hard shoes to school for fun (and the extra practice).
498. You wear ghillies/hardshoes with bobble socks and a mini skirt to school.
499. You wear a wig, or hair piece on a regular basis.
500. You're the only one in your school that knows Gaelic.
501. You, your mom, or whoever has a car, drives a Feismobile.
502. You're doing a production and when the director yells cut, your leg automatically cuts!
503. 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.
504. You walk into any store, anywhere, and immediately start skimming the shelves for anything Irish.
505. You almost know more Gaelic than English. (Well, at least all the really important wordsthe ones that mean dance, competition, and world championships)
506. 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.
507. Your Christmas and Birthday wishlists are dominated by Irish Dance stuff.
508. 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!
509. In Chemistry, you thought it was awesome that there's an element called Rutherfordium.
510. Your neighbors know all the music and steps to your setI mean, who wouldn't when you're out in the garage every spare moment practicing it?
511. Your neighbors actually know what a set is.
512. 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.'
513. You're trying to decide what you want more, a new car, or a new solo dress.
514. "Gaudy" takes on a whole new meaning.
515. They know you on a first-name basis at the hardware storeyou are their biggest buyer of duct tape.
516. You're always begging the local dance stores to start carrying Irish Dance stuff.
517. When asked your favorite athlete, it's always a dancer.
518. You don't make snowmen, you make snowdancers - complete with dress and feis hair.
519. Undisclosed Clever Girl of the Mullane Rouge
520. You change the lyrics of a popular song to be about your dance teacher (i.e. Mullane Rouge).
521. You make homemade shirts about inside jokes at dance and everyone asks what it means.
522. You have joined Webfeis and are completely obsessed with it!
523. You write "Irish dancer" on a form and you put in quotations after it "(yes, like riverdance, I can riverdance!)" just so other people will understand.
524. You take that cute boy from dance class to prom with you (yes, I have done this!).
525. The only people you talk about are from dance class ("who is that again?!.ooh dance class right?")
526. You have bruised someone's hand because they got in the way of your lead, that'll teach them.
527. People don't understand that you have serious muscle in your legs, so you have to prove it to them.
528. Your dog (or pet) is frightened of your dancing (especially hardshoe!).
529. You listen to your "Irish Dance Mix" in your car.
530. You can pick up any dance that someone yells very quickly, you do it all the time in class.
531. You have to stay after school to make up gym days, you bring your hardshoes along to practice.
532. You negotiate with your gym teacher to let you practice instead of playing badmitton.
533. You get sad when dance is cancelled.
534. You know all your dance teacher's bad jokes, and then you tell them to your friends.
535. Your dance teacher has nicknames for everyone in the class.
536. You like any Irish band.
537. You come home from practice dead tired, and you put on music to practice more.
538. You've started a club at school called "Finger Feis."
539. You read # and thought it was a cool idea - in fact, you might start one up yourself. Complete with finger-people costuming
540. During band class, when you are playing FRANDOLE you can actually hear where the part that sounds like Riverdance is (i.e measures 28-32).
541. You have watched the Robin Hood scene of Shrek so often that you know all the
542. moves, but haven't seen any of the rest of the movie. You then download the music of that part of the movie, burn it to a CD-R and teach the rest of your dance class. (Not that we have done that. *looks left, looks right, runs away* A friend of mine actually did do that and I couldn't resist telling you.)
543. You see an advertisement for a Boston Celtics game, and scream, 'It's CELTIC, not Sel-tic!!'.
544. You wear your poodle socks to school on a regular basis.
545. You have drawn your school's knotwork on your ankle (or arm) with a permanent marker." (Not that I've done that, oh, nonever)
546. You bring your hardshoes to school with you on a regular basis and dance at random times during the day.
547. You lend your numerous Irish dancing tapes to the 'non-cultured', just to spread the joy.
548. You can start a sentence with the words, 'Well, my wig supplier.'
549. Your teacher actually comes to one of your dancing events, and at school the next day, spends the entire class period telling everyone how wonderful you are, asks you to dance for the class, etc.
550. Leaves are to a tree what Soft Spikes are to your head.
551. You get in trouble at school for looking at Irish Dancing Magazine, and when your teacher takes it up and starts to read it silently, she looks at you and says, 'You can do this Riverdance stuff?'
552. You stay late after class teaching your teacher the three's and seven's. She then proceeds to show them to the class the following day.
553. When someone asks for glue, you grab your sock glue and hand it to them. When they look at you like you're a nut, you simply smile.
554. When someone threatens to hurt you, you pull up your pant leg and say, 'You sure you want to hurt me?'
555. You know more about shin splints than the school nurse.
556. You're on vacation with your choir, and you walk into a hotel and automatically, your feet start twitching, your ears start listening for accordion, and your eyes start roaming, looking for curled heads and flashy dresses.
557. You walk into a hotel, and say, 'This is where (insert feis here) was held!!!', and your fellow choir members back away slowly.
558. Your friends tell you they've seen an Irish dancer. You ask them what school they were from, expecting to hear a dance school, and they say, "She's from some middle school.". You take a minute to register that, thinking, 'That's not a dance school'.
559. When someone asks you what school you're from, you automatically reply with the name of your dance school.
560. You try to teach your siblings a two hand and make them perform while setting the table.
561. After every dance class you tell your parents, "Oh! That was a good class!" instead of the details.
562. You know the URL of every website that has anything to do with Irish dance.
563. Your parents constantly yell at you during dinner: "Stop with the tapping feet!"
564. Your baby sister's favorite show is "Feet of Flames."
565. Your room is in a flutter of dance photos, shamrocks, and dance shoes.
566. Your tosies are fidgety when they can't do toe stands.
567. After you practice in your hard shoes, you mistakingly try to do toe stands in bare feet.
568. You wear your dance sneakers to school.
569. You freak out the day before a feis, by practicing every spare moment.
570. You see no reason to shave your legs: you always have socks hiked up to your knees!
571. When on a class trip, your friends hear a bagpipe and your friends beg you to dance. (True story.)
572. Your teachers know how to dance your reel.
573. Your gym uniform calls for long white socks - so you wear poodle socks!
574. Your friends are thoroughly perplexed when you tell them you were shopping for a "Tupperware for your hair". And you enjoy the look on their face as they try to make sense of what you just said!
575. You eagerly await the posting of the NAFC schedule in November so that you can promptly create your "feis schedule" for the year and pencil them in on your calendar.
576. You find out that the feis you've been waiting for hit its cap in only a week and promptly search for another feis to attend that weekend.
577. The next year, your feis schedule includes "alternate feiseanna" to attend in case of missing the entry cap.
578. You've missed your best friend's, cousin's, etc. wedding because of a feis. (What were they thinking!?)
579. You tell a coworker that there's no room to give a mini-performance of your dancing three days later, you mindlessly practice a treble jig.
580. You wonder if work will notice the missing plywood from the construction area walls.
581. Everyone at work has asked you why you are standing en pointe. When a new person begins working, they can answer for you.
582. After finding out that you Irish dance, they say they know someone who also dances. You ask what color their school dress is because you doubt they know the name of the dance school!
583. When *any* catalogue shows up in the mail you immediately look for the Celtic/Irish section (even in hardware catalogues).
584. You always pick the figurine with the green birthstone whether it's your birthstone or not.
585. The minute you hear words "international" and "show" put together you wonder if they need an Irish dancer.
586. The minute you hear that a rock/pop band has an accordion you immediately like them, whether you've heard them or not.
587. You think nothing of showing up at work in curlers and inform your employer beforehand only as an afterthought.
588. You've started up Irish dance clubs of one person and an advisor for the sole purpose of getting free practise space at your school. (shhh don't tell)
589. You use any excuse to get up and dance (i.e. oh! you need a performer for a dinner?, Hey! I think that's a reel, I'll test it out!, or "my leg's sore" "why?" "Oh, because I was doing this" (and precede to do a jig)).
590. When the store you were working at closed, you thought nothing of asking for the 2' X 6' particle board pieces that were being used for stock shelves (and you were planning this move even before you knew the store was closing).
591. You're doing a 60-mile walk during three days (think tired everythings) but you heard a rumor of a talent show on the second day after that day's miles (23) and all you can think is "I should pack my ghillies and a tape."
592. You spend $75 on shoes that aren't even a designer brand.
593. You spend hours debating fabric choices, and this is only for the mobcap for over your curlers.
594. You happily tell your family that your jeans no longer fit, but not because your waist is too big, but your calves have gotten too large to fit through comfortably.
595. You show up at an awards banquet in ghillies because nothing else would go with your dress. And, of course, you're totally prepared when they play "Cotton Eyed Joe" at the post-banquet dance.
596. Your friends hope they'll play "Cotton-Eyed Joe", "Come On Eileen" or something like Irish-y at dances and banquets just so you can dance.
597. Your three year old sister knows three reel steps two jig steps, her hop 123's, and her sevens and is already begging to go to dance class.
598. Every time you leave the house your siblings think you're going to dance. (and most of the time it's true!)
599. Your one year old brother claps, stands up, and rocks back and forth every time he hears irish music.
600. Your parents quiz you in the car by turning on some irish music and asking you what dance you would do to it and what time signature it is and marvel at you when you can answer every time.
601. You constantly have criss-cross marks on your feet from your ghillies.
602. Your Christmas list looks something like this:
• Antonio Pacelli Ghillies
• Fays Super-Flexi Hard Shoes
• Irish Dance T-shirts
• Irish Dance posters
• Irish Dance Rubber Stamps
• Doll Solo Dress and Ghillies
• Hardshoe Key Chain.
603. You don't like to go out of town, unless you're going to a Feis, because you don't want to miss dance.
604. You've cried because you had to miss a feis.
605. When your mom asks you what you want to study next you tell her you want to study the history of irish dance costumes. You've already studied the history of Irish Dance, all about Ireland, Irish music, etc (This only goes for Homeschoolers)
606. Most of your friends are at dance. And if they aren't, they are really good friends to listen to you constantly talking about dance!
607. You threaten people with hardshoes even though you don't have them.
608. Your mother is already telling you to not dance around the house.
609. You play the violin, have heard the girls on Feet of Flames, and have a burning desire to play like them.
610. You went so far as to actually get the sheet music to the Lord of the Dance theme so that you could try to learn it. That one part where it gets all hard sounding and minor is really difficult.
611. You're going to college in a town that's 4 hours away from your hometown. You hear that Gaelforce is coming to your town, and throw away your free ride to NASCAR weekend at Texas Motor Speedway to go see them for $30 instead.
612. In preparation for Gaelforce, you have nothing creative for them to autograph, so you go to Hobby Lobby and buy discounted shamrock/Saint Patrick's Day material, along with green glitter paint, and white spray paint to dull the green so that the green glitter will show. On this cloth, you write various things such as, "Will Reel 4 Food", "Kiss me I'm an Irish dancer" and "Irish by choice".
613. Your friend is the one teaching you Irish dance, and you say, "Hey I think I learned bird leaps. Is this right?" So you do one, and your friend freaks out, "You just did a bird leap! But you need to lean back more." So, you continue bird leaping until you get it right.
614. The people next door to you in the dorm constantly blare their rap music. So, in combat, you blare your Celtic music.
615. You've seen people give your dorm room horrified looks at the music that's coming out of it as you're walking back to it from the water fountain.
616. Just to completely confuse your college algebra teacher, you write random Gaelic terms on the board before class. My teacher really had no idea what the heck "rince" was
617. Your response to something or someone you don't understand is "Oireachtas" in hopes that it'll confuse whoever pulled the confusing trick on you.
618. You already know how awful Michael Flatley is, but your be
