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Joe:

• You're listening to gamehendge when your friend gets in the car and he says, "haha i bet he just made that up," and you just look and laugh, thinking: If only you knew... If only.

rphishin:

• Your boss tells you to turn the music down at work when you're playing Phish because he says they're "too funky" for him.
• you educate the cop who pulls you over and informs you that "Phish is spelled with an F"
• your first Phish show was not sold out.
• you still regret being too chicken to talk to Mike at the Alamo Draft House in Austin during SXSW 2000.

Stoney:

• you save fed ex packages to remind you of how happy you were when you got your tickets.
• somebody asks you your goals in life and you say 100 plus phish shows!
• you're leaving your hot girlfriend cause she just don't get it!
• your dad's friend calls phish an imitation grateful dead and you have to be restrained so he don't get beat!

RootsRockRhythm:

• you buy the Relix Year End Issue for no reason other than it has a picture of Phish on the cover.

Briton:

• Your parents take you to St.Thomas for your senior year spring break and the only thing you bring home is a carton of Hood milk because you've never seen it before and you think it is the greatest thing.
• You see Trey in Asheville and tears of happiness are streaming down your face when the band jams out First Tube. Man it was awesome!!
• You're at your first show in Memphis and you run into your brother at set break when you didn't even know he was going to be there and you hug and smile at each other forever.
• You're totally stoked because after 6 years of being a phan, your mom finally gives the boys a chance and watches SNL without you having to remind her. Then the next day she asks you a million questions about the guys and you couldn't be happier to answer them.

Collin:

• you look forward to shows not only for the sound, but to also catch up with people you haven't seen in a while.

DeezNuts:

• You really remember the last time a giant comet crashed into Jupiter. (First Show!)

Wiphan:

• You dig the music and you don't make being a fan a contest.

Rutherford the Brave:

• You’re visiting KU with ur dad and u look at his HOOD coffee creamer very carefully and smile. He says, what's so funny? and ur grinning like an idiot. I said, u just won’t get it. He responds, it's another one of those Phish references again isn't it, and you just laugh and laugh and fall apart.
• You just blazed some serious krypto nugs and u repeat, "you’ve never heard gamehendge?" 10 times, not knowing you’ve repeated it until your friend yells at you, saying no for the tenth time.
• you won't exit your vehicle until your phish song is over, but you end up never getting out because each song is as good as the previous one.
• you're leaving for fla winter break 02 and your mom says, I couldn’t bear to see u lose that.  You're like, what my clothes? and she responds, your phish cds… she finally understands.
• you see another phishhead that has a phish shirt on, and it's an obligation to say "nice shirt"
• You think every time u hear a bass riff that anyone plays, it reminds you of DWD and it sends chills up your spine.
• A good time on a friday night is sittin at home downloading shows!
• You sit in a boring class and think, WHY ISN'T IT FRIDAY TODAY!

Phaith:

• Your first dance with your husband on your wedding day was to "Waste"....
• When you're packing the car to head to a show and there's only room for one more item, and you have to choose between the portable stereo and a few camping chairs and you choose the stereo because you can always sit on the grass....

Jeremy:

• You watch the live Phish DVD on mute with Round Room on the stereo so you can "See" the music being performed.
• You find a patented way to get Ticketmaster tickets and score tix for 2 of the Feb tour dates (and 3 of Hampton)
• You work next to MSG and stare longingly out the window (I'm on the 12th floor) and wish you would be inside for new years.

Phishhead 420:

• you didn't do so well your first semester, and you're trying to tell your parents you're going on tour instead of going back to school.
• 3 out of 840 kids in your high school actually knew who phish were. 1 out of 840 was a phan.

Hookah:

• You have a crate of cds... all from the shows you have been to, but sadly you never listen to them, it's just the fact that you have them!

Woods:

• As Jim Morrison says, "The Music experience is what relgion is suppose to be"

Tony 2 Times:

• WHEN YOU ACTUALLY STAY IN ON A THURSDAY NIGHT TO SEE THEM ON DAVID LETTERMAN AGAIN.

Sir Rutherford:

• you smoke a bowl of good herbals with a girl you just met in your campus parking lot, then go back to your car to hear a phat jam of divided sky and surrender to the phlow all night.

ivemeticculus:

• you burn your grilled cheese sprinkled with garlic powder cuz you were reading this.
• you have a necklace that says "save gamehendge" and people constantly ask you, "What's gamehendge?" and you don't really feel like explaining it all but you also feel like you HAVE to...
• you try to constantly get others that are definitely not heads to mouth jam with you.
• you can't fall asleep without watching bittersweet before bed.
• you sing gamehendge (the whole thing) to your friend that asked you about it during gym class, and when you say that's the end, she says jesus i cant believe you did that!
• you pheel the urge to say "ssssllllllaaaaavvvveeeeeee" whenever you get stopped at a traffic light.
• you are dead tired but are staying up to watch your kids on letterman tonight. :D
• you get all giddy when the mike gordon look alike walks by you at school.
• you have a friend that makes a list like this about you b/c this list is all you talk about. -it's so good she put it on her livejournal.

Rastaphun:

• all your phriends are deadheads, but you argue with them anyway.
• you get offended when your girlfriend reminds you that you do have other CDs.
• you cry because you couldn't take your girlfriend to NYE for her first show and then got shut out for tix to your hometown (cincy).
• you end all your emails with a phish quote.
• your parents stop asking you if you are getting a job this summer and instead ask which tour you will be on.
• your eight-year-old brother sings fee at every phamily holiday, much to your grandparents' dismay.
• you just don't get why people would pay 75.00 for patchies that they could make themselves.
• the only thing better than listening to your phirst show while spun is being at a show while spun.
• you pray that somebody reads this and emails you about a NYE ticket that they will sell you for cheap.

Kevbo:

• you start to run on a treadmill listening to 2/20/93, you remember how amazing it is and forget that your even exercising, but you refuse to stop till it's over.
• you finally get tickets from "santa" who waited outside for you, and you remember what it feels like to be a kid at Christmas even though you're 22.
• you bought a bottle of Jose Cuervo when you heard Mexican Cousin.

Dankman:

• you feel like you are blessed to be in a high school with so many phans (literally like 30) .
• you have never been to a show, but dream about it every night.
• you can't go to sleep without listenin' to a whole show.

O'Malley:

• when you get out of college and most people take their stickers off their car, but you can't quite bring yourself to take off the antelope crossing sticker.
• when you hear Trey sing 'Roses' you think he is speaking directly to you.
• you see another car driving down the road w/ a Phish sticker and you speed up to see if you possibly know them.

daliobor:

• your one year old son raises one hand in the air and shakes his can can when he hears phish because you listen to them only.
• you love the people as much as the band.
• you just can't stop dancin' after you watch them on SNL.
• you make cd's for all your friends for Christmas.
• you refuse to buy from scallpers... only heads.

Taylor:

• you defy your parents at the age of 16 (2 years before you can legally do that) to see phish.  Man and you know that it' s going to feel good... i already know that. But now I have to figure out what to say to them when i get back....... hmmmmmmm

deadheadphisherman:

• everyone says dreddies will take away from your beauty, but you think it could only go up hill from there.
• you try to get tickets to far away venues not knowing at all how you're going to get there.
• you'll put off a once in a life time trip to Venezuala with your two good friends to see phish both nights in vegas with some guy you only talk to twice a day in school.
• you try to get as much listening time in every day, such as right when the bell rings to end class and right when it rings to start it
• you cried and called everyone you knew when you found out the boys were coming back.
• you fell out of your chair (literally) when you heard about the NYE show.
• the only thing you asked for for your next four birthdays and x-mas was being aloud to attend the MSG on NYE (god damn parents).
• you're staying home on a saturday night and watchin all of SNL.
• you own every live phish and you've burned every live phish for a phriend (for free!).
• You can't stop spelling everything that starts with an 'f' with a 'ph' (come on, it's the only way to do it).
• You're getting harassed for making your own clothes, but you just don't give a shit so you go home and make more.
• You offer to burn random people shows because you feel no one should miss out on this.
• you know the meatstick dance by heart and taught it to all your phriends so they'll join you at the next show.

PhunkStyle:

• You make up your own dances to tunes by the boys and your idea of working cardio is dancing to them. (it works! really!)
• You go to parties and end up chilling in the back of your volvo station wagon with your phriends listening to the boys do their magic.
• You are going off to college 5 states away and need to get another vehicle that can actually make it there, but it's so hard to part with your car and all its stickers and memories (even though dad is keepin' it)

Tabor:

• The first day your little sister asks you to play her Divided Sky on the guitar. Man that felt great, before that she was a rap fan. Now she's asking me for Round Room for Christmas. What a good feeling. Almost as good seeing your first "Trey Show" in November.

Runaway Jim:

• You hold your breath between those last two notes in Divided Sky before Fish kicks in.

Mrs. Gordon:

• you think you hear your name in a certain phish song
• you laugh at people that don't understand your shirts
• you collect all types of lizards (stuffed, plastic, etc...) and run out of phishy names to name them :D
• you convince yourself you're going to NYE02, but you're really only going to dance like antelopes in your living room to live phish
• you practically cry when you get your feb 2003 tour tix
• you cringe when you read this site get in a debate in bio class about how you pronounce golgi apparatus. it's you against 3 others, and they just don't get it

Kynd Head:

• you're gonna sit home all 3 hampton nights and cry because you couldn't get tickets
• you are the only head at school and get joked for wearin' patchwork pants, but you don't care
• all you spend your money on is phish and pot and then more phish
• you can't find any phriends because you listen to that "hippie music"

Tyler:

• You sit through a whole episode of SNL just to see Phish.

Phanatical Antelope:

• When you pay 450 dollars for your phirst phish concert and realize that you are going to all 3 hampton shows, and you smoke yourself stupid with resin cause you can't believe what you are getting into! LOOK FOR TWO PHANATICAL ANTELOPES AT HAMPTON!!!

Tony 2 Times:

• YOU'RE ACTUALLY STAYING IN ON A SATURDAY NIGHT JUST TO SEE THE BOYS ON SNL FOR THE FIRST TIME... 12/14/02, SNL HISTORY.

Jacob McKay:

• A shower takes you 25 minutes, because you can't stop grooving to a phat Wolfman's Brother.

Esther:

• At the end of Run Like An Antelope, your muscles tighten, and goose bumps appear on your skin from the sound of Treys voice telling us to "Set the gear shift for a high gear of your soul... you gotta run like an antelope, out of control."

Richard:

• When you are playing the game Taboo at a friend's house and you steal the card that says "Dollop" b/c its your favorite word in Esther. (Still have it)!

Phrisbee:

• You can't do your homework because you're counting down the minutes until midnight on December 9th when tickets-by-mail says the e-mails will be out.

Goose:

• you change schools and everyone knows who you are cus you stand out, and 3/4 of the people don't know your name... it's just "hippy"
• you get hell from your parents, friends, and teachers to "cut your hair!"
• you cry nightly cus you have no phriends to talk to during the day, and you wait for the next show so you can be with them.
• you get out your CD player and the kid next to you just shakes their head.
• all your money goes to Phish, fabric for patches, Phish, drugs, and Phish.
• you feel your stomach turn when you think that MSG is only 20 days, 20 hours and 16 minutes away!

Gontrand:

• When work calls to ask if you can do some overtime on Saturday, you answer "Can't do it" because it falls on a TM onsale-date...

Alex:

• your parents or friends get tired of you listening to phish too much around them.

Silly Hilly:

• The guitar solos talk to you and say "hey, you thought I was going to do the daddle-dee-dum lick, but I didn't. I went totally into a hum-bi-hum-bi-hum bit. You know why? Cause I felt like it!! (hum-bi-hum...) And if you stay tuned, I might invite Gordon and Page into a dee-dee-dee-dee jam, you know the kind where all the music stops but we all play the same high note through our telepathic powers? Yeah, that kind of jam. But only if you're a good boy/girl and kiss the phan next to you. Yeah, that's it. Here I come!" This is the point when Page makes a face as if he has just ejaculated all over the front row of the crowd. And if you're really a phishhead, you'll like it. Jokes!
• Real phishheads keep in mind the spirit of open-mindedness at all times, and remember the song is not about the music but the message. Peace.

Bobo:

• you think Trey's vocals are good

Heady420:

• you look in the mirror and try to do Trey faces everyday.

Dotter:

• You're listening to a booty and in the middle of a jam you forget what song you're listening to.
• You spell fish p-h-i-s-h. really, I've done it.

phReed:

• you are driving down to see the Other Ones in Pittsburgh and you get a call from home saying your Phish tickets arrived, and then you say, "really? the lottery was just last week, I don't even remember getting an email confirmation. What shows are they for?" and then your brother tells you there are two tickets to Hampton, and then you almost drive off the road because you didn't think you'd gotten those tickets and somehow ticketmaster never told you. now you're going to Hampton with a ticket!

Andy:

• You are listening to a Round Room advanced boot and realize it is the most mature, chill, laid back, album yet by the boys and wish everyone could hear it too. It is very different and all too familiar. Mexican cousin is very funny and Waves is the best trey has licked in a while. you'll see this album is 10-"I want a round room at the end of the day" Fishman sings this one!!!

Tori:

• You know exactly how long 15 minutes is

PhreshPhish:

• you devote 40min of your day to one song each day of the week. (YEM 10-31-95)

Plooza:

• When you get in an awful wreck, and the only thing you can think is, "My tapes!!!"

Lilla:

• You live in NYC and suddenly can't stand going anywhere near MSG, and cringe if you do...
• You try to order tix for places you have no idea how you'll get to, but you are definitely going if you get them
• You go on a family vacation to Firenze, then cry when your parents tell you there is no time to go to the Uffizi... then have a tantrum and cry some more (even though you are too old for that) until they rearrange the plans and take you!
• You love art and go to the Uffizi, but instead of paying attention to it, can only think of phish and hum a certain song in your head while there
• You bought Phish Food the first day it came out and kept your first carton
• You see 2 of your other favorites (Dylan & the Dead) at MSG, but spend half the time upset about how you won't be there NYE and thinking of ways to stay there until then
• You make plans to go to a show with someone you hardly know, but it's ok cause they get it
• You decide someone is going to be your friend, just cause they like Phish too...

Harry Hood:

• you're going on a road trip to see them with your mom because you've gotten her to love them as much as you do

Carlo:

• 10 minutes of shivers listening to Walls of the Cave. Phresh Phish for the first time in 2 years.... ahhhhhhhh!

Brendan:

• u feel the music hit your soul and you have to start to dance, and then you can never stop
• u own every phucking one of there cd's and dance to them 24/7

Dave:

• You phail English because you spell everything with a "ph"...

Phill Clark:

• all day long you listen the Boyz
• when the groove kicks in in Reba you jump up and dance around your room
• you go to shows of other bands and whistle the end of Reba or Guyute
• you don't have tickets to MSG and you stay home so they can play there again
• the kids in your fledgling jamband beg you to stop listening but you can't 'cause fishman is the man....

Jillian:

• all of your passwords have to do with phish

Phresh:

• You spend over 2 hrs a day at this site, LivePhish.Org, and Gadiel.com/phish
• You miss class because you have to burn shows
• You have NYE tickets but no where to sleep.
• You would rather have your grandma die then miss NYE. Just kidding. Man am I mean.

Jeremy - "The Dude":

• You were born in Cinncinnati, and hopefully (if I get tickets) get to return to your home city in February to witness a re-birth of the greatest band of all time. Too bad they can't come to Indy--but wait until summer at the Creek--MADNESS!!

Mamastrecky:

• You just found out you can have your company's suite at MSG on 12/31/02!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and you pheel like you are walking on air. You offer 2 of the tickets to someone you have only talked to on this board and never met because she offered to sell you her extra hampton 1/4 for face over a month ago. You call your other 6 phriends to let them know...they're in the suite! And yet, somehow you're just a little bit sad because there are so many other people you wish you had more tickets for.

Wilson:

• When you buy your plane ticket and book your hotel for the reunion NYE because you're a phishead and you'll be damned if you're not gonna be there. See you all inside......and if you got an extra Shine on ME!!

Patrick:

• you're glad, glad, glad to be alive

Chris-Topher:

• every PHISH song gets better... maybe because it's a better song or maybe it's just the phact that another PHISH song has passed in one ear and out the other ear... and it's a wonderphul Pheeling
• every other thing you've read strangely, beautiphully, remarkably, and actually applies to your liphe, and mine!

Gobes:

• you're driving home and you're in front of your house listening to phat jam, and you want to hear the whole thing so you say screw it! and drive around until it is over with.

Derick Andrade:

• "Brian and Robert" becomes a guide to fully experiencing the best that life has to offer!!!

Meliane:

• u r driving and u see a deer crossing sign and start singing, "U got to run like an antelope out of control!"
• When u paint PHISH MOBILE on ur car (or in my case, my bus)
• u r at school listening to phish and u start dancing!
• u just love to listen to PHISH!!

Andy Paulson:

• You pull up behind a semi truck that has the words FISH (no PH but close enough) written real big on the back and you pull up next to him and start honking loudly and he just looks at you with this blank stare.
• You have no room in your backseat for anyone to sit there because you have 3 stacks of cd cases full of phish music piled up.
• You dance your ass off and rock your head when driving because Tube is playing and everybody just drives by and laughs at you.
• You tell people you follow phish, and they ask you why you travel to different streams just to catch fish.
• You see a street sign that says La Grange and smile real big.
• Your whole life revolves around phish.
• You tell your job that you need time off work from Jan 2 through the 5th because your brother is getting married, and he's already been married for 6 years.
• Every time you hear the beginning riff of the DWD jam you get chills.
• You love the song Dirt even though nobody else does.
• You meet somebody online and call them everyday and talk for hours because she understands why you love Phish so much.

Chrispy:

• You don't chart the boys' every move... you just go to the shows and have fun!

Xander:

• You name your new bearded dragon “Wilson, Duke of Lizards”.
• You crack up uncontrollably when you hear the middle instrumental part of Guyute as background music on the Weather Channel. And I also read another Weather Channel anecdote on here somewhere so there must be some undercover head working there- Keep it up buddy!

Hadley:

• your final paper in high school English senior year was titled "This Has All Been Wonderful, But Now I'm On My Way"

Zak:

• when someone asks you what your favorite type of music is and you say, "dead phish and cheese," and they stare at you with a confused look on their face and a literal image of dead fish and cheese in their head.

Carlo:

• If you remembered reading this: From the Miami New Times: "Phish & the Seminole tribe already have signed a contract to stage concerts on the Big Cypress site each New Year's Eve through 2004."
• And you realize that the hiatus squashed two NYE bashes, but can feel the Everglades calling you 13 months from now.
• CHEESECAKE!

yemslave:

• you tell work that you have a wedding january 1st thru the 5th.....
• you are so excited to get the DVD because its the closest thing to a show in almost two years.....
• you spend all your time and money trading live shows, and no matter how many you have it's still not enough.......

Loopy:

• you don't have a msg ticket, but you are headin' out there anyway cuz you know there is a miracle waitin' for you.

have phaith

Chad:

• You have dreams about being in a show.
• Everyone else thinks Phish is the only thing u listen to.
• Your car is covered in stickers with song quotes.
• When you go to other concerts and think something "Phishy" may happen. It usually doesn't.
• most of your tee shirts are Lot Phish shirts.
• You read Pharmers Almanac when u use the Toilet (sorry but we know we all do it).

groovin42:

• u sit in your chair in your 15 by 8 dorm room and listen to 7/4/99 and you notice that at around 22 minutes everyone in the room is staring at you while you're playing air guitar to stttl

Ash:

• One of your friends says, "I don't want to listen to phish. They don't have any words." So you start yelling and getting upset cuz no one gets it and you want to be at a show with all of your being!

Ryan:

• you're readin' all this and u start cryin' because of your lack of holiday tix, but then you get a shiteating grin cuz u think ahead to 2003 and think it's going to be the greatest year in your phunky life.
• you think about nye and say man this phukin sucks.

Lou:

• If you have a daughter you and your wife are going to name her Piper.

Ben:

• you can't describe phish because there's not any words good enough to do it.
• every cd in your car's 6-cd changer is phish.

Skibby:

• you are waiting for tour dates to be released before you schedule classes for spring semester

Brian Hamer:

• Your first show is NYE 02, and you realize that your life will never ever be the same afterwards.
• You get mad at people just because they don't understand Phish...You just want them to be as happy as you are from music.
• You'd rather see pictures of the band than of women.
• You listen to approx. 4-5 hrs a day at least.

Mike Quinn:

• you have to tell everyone here that you might have your miracle for the 3rd hampton show!
• you're already finding a way to drop out of life to hit the February tour
• your sooooo glad the new album will be out before christmas so you can make sure your phishphriends don't buy it cause u want to bring that joy to them, especially those who might not hit any shows around nye.

JP:

• you are reading this right now
• you are listening to phish while reading this
• you ask your bandmates to learn FOAM
• you call out for FOAM and Buffalo Bill at shows

Carlo:

• In honor of keepin it real, you dropped a five-spot into your Phish Phund on the way to see SCI.

DestinyUnbound:

• 3 of your 5 Desert Island Discs are Phish!
• You tell your Mom you are going on vacation to ____ and she says "why, is Phish playing?"
• You are in awe of your own personal stats from ZZYZX's stats page (50% club for something as random as Spock's Brain?)
• The only ticket stubs you are missing are from shows you snuck or ticketmaster-scammed your way into!

Ryan - Mpls, Mn:

• you name your kitten maze.
• you have paid a total of 614.00 of your saved monies since phish last played (to see their summer tour when they came back ) to see a total of 2 shows in virginia... just to share in the phirst groove back in over two years... i love em...

MountainVibes:

• your dad calls you after a rolling stones concert and hopes you too will be able to see your favorite music group perform when you are his age! because he remembers how much music can fill your soul at any age! he finally respects my love and passion for MY BOYS!!
• you go on summer tour and come back two days before your brother's wedding.

Tenza:

• you write dream setlists in notebooks and emails, and instead of "sincerely," you write "Camel Walk > Tube > La Grange, Tenza"
• you love 'Brother'
• you use orgasms as a rating system: "wow, two minute long eruptions during Reba"

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