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This concept was originally developed by Jay Boutros and published on his site.  It allowed many fans to submit their ideas about  what it means to be a phishhead.  Since he no longer updates his site, several PholkTales visitors have expressed a desire to see the continuation of this brilliant project... Submit: Tell me what it means to be a phishhead!

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Rich:

  • When ever you go to a non-phish concert you end up starting numerous conversation with strangers because you saw each others phish shirts.
  • Your nuggets contain no chicken whatsoever.
  • You constantly find yourself having to explain why phish in the best thing in music today, even though its so obvious.
  • You have seriously problems with any figure of authority.

MakingPhishCakeRules:

  • You are in English class and you're doing vocab and the teacher says 'hiatus' then you say 'sucks' right after every time he says it.
  • You get your friends little brother into phish then he tells you how awesome it is how he can talk to you about IT and Trey's guitar.
  • You finally get your mom to share in the groove with you to a phatty nassau gin in the living room.
  • You get so excited when you hear the boyz say "we're coming to your town to help you party down" in that 89 harpua.
  • You dream of the night they help you party down in your town.
  • You are watching 'happy gilmore' in the back room at work and the part when the guy gets taken away from washing windshields you shout wook at the tv.
  • You continue to confuse the people with you in the back room b/c every time the guy comes back on the screen you shout wook.

Allegra:

  • When in the real world, you just don't understand why grilled cheese costs more than $1.00... and why peanut butter and jelly isn't phree.
  • You're kinda funny about people who say their favorite album is Farmhouse.
  • You have tickets to IT... although you have absolutely no one to go with.
  • You have to explain to your guidance counselor why UVM is the only school you're applying to.

Phishy26:

  • You look on the back of the "Bittersweet Motel" video case and read that Todd Phillips followed Phish around for a year and all he managed to put in the video was about two hours of footage, and you feel cheated.
     

Egghead:

  • When you don't have to mention the number of shows you've been to in order to prove how much the band means to you.
  • When going alone is just fine by you.

Barrett:

  • You spend hours trying to figure out why the crew you did Grateful Dead tour with don't love Phish.

Egg:

  • Phish is the drug.
  • You like to eat lunch outside.

Jibler McJanks:

  • You see your friend Timmy K in the parking lot scene of Bittersweet Motel and he looks very haggard and tired and cold and yet you envy him every time you see it anyway because you know that he just completed the entire fall 1997 tour.

David B:

  • Mike Gordon solos make my day that much better.

Sparkle:

  • That you love phish and are not going to there shows for the drugs but for the music!
  • That phish has brought happy times in your life. because it doesn't matter how many shows you have been too! or how heady you are but how much you love phish! and no one can take that away from you!
  • Phish is not a contest! <3 jah bless

Suzygreenberg616:

  • You don't even WANT a job cause you know you are going to be seeing phish all summer!!!

Phatty Patty:

  • You have a song stuck in your head, and you hear far more than just the lyrics.
  • You hear every note, every slight inflection from every member of the band, you can close your eyes, and the music is so vivid that you can nearly see the boys on stage playing that song just for you.

Sebass:

  • The lights go down, everyone stops what their doing...the roar. I'm home.

Jake:

  • When you realize you've been reading show reviews for the past 4 and a half hours.

Momadancin:

  • You met your soulmate at a show.

Moonie:

  • When you've gotten laid by every hippie chick in the lot before each show!
  • When you put a WooHoo sticker on every girl's ass you've done in the lot before each show!

Justin:

  • You have to call the weather line to find out what time it is after listening to Tweezerfest from the Bomb Factory in Dallas.

Phanophite:

  • You spell your name with ph before you even heard of phish, and then when you hear of phish, you think it was meant to be.
  • You work on your operating systems projects for many hours every night, and the only reason it takes so long is because you listen to PhishCast.
  • If anyone from the indianapolis area wants to chat, my AIM is phanophite
  • When you reach the bottom of this page, and realize you got 9 more pages to read, and you're thrilled to death!
  • When you spend 5 or 6 hours per day working on an operating systems project, and it only takes that long b/c you're listening to PhishCast.

Lindsay:

  • All of your passwords to various things are different phish songs

John the Phisherman:

  • Your father-in-law asks, "What in the hell is this Five-Hundred and Sixty-Nine dollar charge on my freakin' Visa?!?!?!"
  • When things get hectic at work, you find yourself repeating, "You'll never get out of this maze. You'll never get out of this maze."
  • You freak out co-workers by fanatically screaming, "Dude, that's Esther in Muzak on the Weather Channel"
  • You want to celebrate your third wedding anniversary seeing Phish at Deer Creek, especially since you spent your first wedding anniversary in Deer Creek seeing Trey-band
  • When on Gnutella, you are sharing over 600 files, 500 of which are Phish.
  • When you look at the Smoky Mountains in the Spring, you wonder if Icculus is up there.
  • You read past "You know you're a Phishhead when..." posts and find out how unoriginal naming your cat Tela actually was.
  • You sneak a disposable camera into Hampton and get some of the worst pictures of a tiny spec of light in the middle of a black 3x5 photo, then pin it to your wall, and tell everyone that it's a picture of the sickest Taste you've ever heard.
  • You'll let your power get turned off, as long as you got tickets to Alpine.
  • You own a rental cabin in the Smokies, and just to offset the cheesy names others have given their cabins, you have named yours 'Swept Away' and 'Mountain in the Mist
  • When making acquaintances, you have found it necessary to always keep in touch with your friend who works for Days Inn

JenniB:

  • You actually buy tickets for shows you have no transportation or housing arrangements...and then you make it work

Higs:

  • Your at deer creek looking for a friend, and you ask someone if they've seen the tall guy with long hair and a beard, and just messin around they point to a guy, and it's your friend.

Brian:

  • You fall down a flight of stairs and break your pinkie toe when you roll your computer chair back after reading your email telling you that you got MSG tix.
  • While on your way to Hampton you pull onto the shoulder of the interstate to take a picture of the road sign for Wilson, NC.
  • You drive two cars from Indianapolis to S. Carolina on New Years eve for your cousin's wedding, just so you can meet your friends at Hampton while your parents go home.

Makisupa420:

  • Your screen name is guelah papyrus33, talk to me.
  • You listen to an average of 4 hours of Phish a day.
  • The only reason you listen to other bands is because Phish likes them, ex. Velvet Underground and Frank Zappa

Zach:

  • You have a Rhombus out in the woods...you phans know what I'm talking about

Anna:

  • Phishtunes are the soundtrack of your life.
  • You can link anything you hear to a phish song (seven degrees of kevin bacon style)
  • The word hiatus becomes the scariest word in the english dictionary -you buy three copies of every magazine that the even says phish in it... that way you always have a good copy!

Shellie:

  • You'll talk to anyone, anywhere with a Phish shirt, patch, sticker.
  • You FEEL the music, not hear it.
  • After five years your husband (who never liked phish) finds himself programming his cell phone to play Bathtub Gin when it rings.
  • One cd book in the car is full of Live Phish and the other cd book is full of Live Phish downloads.
  • Strange Design makes perfect sense in your daily life.
  • When someone around you gets really upset about something trivial and you say "Can you still have fun?"
  • You save all your vacation time for the summer tour and call in sick for the winter tour.
  • The local radio stations are never turned on because the horrible sounds coming out of the speakers cause you seizures.
  • When mike shows up at the Vida Blue show (they rock!) and sings Strange Design with Page you fall silent and dream of the summer tour.
  • You wander the art museum with Phish on your mp3 player and the paintings mean more when mixed with the music.
  • You've already packed for IT and it's only April.
  • The word "lottery" has a whole new meaning.
  • You enjoy your hour commute because it gives you two hours a day to listen to Phish.
  • You have a prepared answer to the comment "Phish is just like the Grateful Dead"
  • You cried when the lottery response came back saying, "Sorry, you did not get any tickets" and you swore angrily at Ticketmaster's busy signal and the $4000 tickets on ebay.
  • You feel the adrenaline rush as the lights turn down and the first note is played.
  • You can feel the excitement, the love, the happiness and the peace in the parking lot as your arrive.

Garrett:

  • You and your whole lacrosse team is singing eye of the tiger to get pumped for a lacrosse game and you sit in the corner and hum divided sky (guitar solo's and all).

Eric:

  • You save your money for the next show rather than attending any other concert with your buddies who don't understand why you like Phish as well as you do... To me its not worth going to some concert where "My soul" isn't happy.....

Woman Mulcahey:

  • New "you know you're a phishhead when..." 's make your day

Jeremy Jordan:

  • You SWEAR you're going to a show you have no way of getting a ticktet or transportation to.

Wolfmans brothers friend:

  • You Draw characters of figures from phish songs when you're not finding show.
  • You have 13 AIM s/n's and they're all phish references.
  • You spend all of your internet time in high school downloading Mp3's to listen to at school.

Scott:

  • When you are front row on Trey's side for the first night in Vegas 2000 and Rift is not one of your favorite songs, but when the first set is over, Rift is THE song for you.
  • When you narrow your wedding songs down to Waste, If I Could, All of these Dreams, and 2001 (you think your bride would twirl really cool looking in that dress).
  • When your licence plate says IAMH2O and about one person a day honks and gives you a thumbs up, but when that person does, you feel you instantly know them and want to take them on the next tour.

Anna:

  • You tell your co-workers you will be gone for about a week come july and they don't ask why.
  • Your broke-ass car radio is busted so you pull the boom box in car move
  • You cry when you listen to your first show on tape.
  • You give all the ticketless folks a cookie to ease the pain.
  • Your shakespeare teacher wants the set list of the show you went to last night and just laughs when you turn in a paper on Love's Labor's Lost that starts with some lyrical citations.
  • Frankenstein ain't just a crazy doctor anymore.
  • When your comparative gov't teacher makes an announcement that Jiang Zemin (ex-pres of China) listens to phish because you're comparing setlists instead of modern Chinese leaders

Vasparkle:

  • Your cat's names are Trey, Page, and Wilson and they look like them.
  • You have a rock from Gordon's house on your coffee table.
  • You get into long discussions with your Phriends over the words to Character Zero and YEM.
  • You can't wait to bring newbies to their first shows, especially when they are family members.

Big daddy bjl:

  • You went to school in burlington to be closer to the roots of the band and to be near nectars. but also to be close to the webmaster of pholktales (a true phishhead) JK!!!, who attends middlebury college. we love jeff!
  • you run into fishman at kountry kart deli in burlington and he leaves his wallet on the counter so you immediately claim responsibility for it and run after him and return it to him. he then rewards you with a kiss on the cheek : ) good work brian!

Biscoisphun:

  • You sit home alot of the time and listen to phish, trying to figure out how to play what page plays. and fail.
  • Your so bored at work you start making up phishy jokes like....Q: what's the best tasting rock??? A: LIMESTONE (if you think of any more email me!!)
  • You actually know many people that if you called them a "Wilson" they'd say "don't say that!"

Brandon:

  • In your laundry basket the word phish appears more times than the word cotton, and also contains more colors than the rainbow!

Peter:

  • You love Phish more than financial security.

Adam:

  • When you get into arguments with friends over the funkiest Weekapaug ever ...11-27-98 damn it.
  • You get into a car accident from dancing too hard to Mikes Song.
  • You have constant dreams about being at phish shows.
  • You drive 30 hours from MN to Hamton VA with one ticket just to see the boys return to the stage.
  • You wake up thinking of phish, and go to bed thinking of phish.
  • You think Mike Gordan is sexy, but your not gay.
  • Your not truly happy, unless your with phamily.
  • You try to listen to other bands, but it is just not the same.
  • You have gotten into intense debates with hardcore widespread panic fans.
  • Everyone you know is sick of you talking about phish.
  • You get your mom to start liking phish.
  • You get pissed off at people who just don't get it..............not really!!!!!!
  • When you find yourself explaining gamehendge to random people because they want to know why your backpack says WILSON SUCKS.

lipheboy in chaz SC:

  • When you and your roommate (a recent convert) are watching the Ring DVD (terribly disappointing BTW) deleted scenes section and notice when the main character looks through a stack of VHS tapes that the top one is Bittersweet Motel and both of you jump off the sofa and shout, "That's Phish!" and then you stare at each other and realize that the boyz are everywhere.
  • When you're driving down Dorchester Rd in the rain listening to YEM and the raindrops that have collected under the wiperblades move and bounce and vibrate to the exact rhythm and melody of the song, and like Icculus, you look down and smile, realizing that the reason phish is so good is because they share in nature's groove.
  • your exboyfriend comes over to your house and (like you always did when you were together) you put on a phat AC/DC BAG and he says, "of course, Phish. Can't we listen to Beth Hart?" and you realize why you broke up with him in the first place and promptly kick his ass to the curb.

Justin:

  • You know your name- and your name is Justin McLean

vt2tahoe:

  • You've never seen a show before, yet you send off 15 discs to a complete stranger 1,500 miles away... THANKS LUCY!

Petey:

  • You play the vacuum until you face is swollen and bleeding, but as soon as the swelling goes down you are at it again. .
  • You think fishman is a sex icon
  • When you hear "i want to be like Mike" you think of gordon instead of jordan
  • When the Phish web site is your clock

Jeremy:

  • When you thank "Dustin" for pointing out something you already knew...damn wake and bake

Treyantipasta:

  • You take time out of your hectic day to post a "You know you're a phishhead when..."

Jeremy:

  • When you thank "Dustin" for pointing out something you already knew...damn wake and bake

Sam:

  • You know you're a phishhead when you're listening to a show on you're CD player in the ghetto and you still do signals.

Lilral:

  • You go to circuit city's stereo system department with farmhouse in your pocket

TexasTravis:

  • When you get on this site and read "All those guys with beards and long hair that once looked like Jesus to you now look a whole lot more like Trey." and know its bullshit, because Trey IS Jesus!
  • When you're in spanish class and the teacher asks you to write the "TU" form of the verb Llamar. And you write "Llama (to boot-to boot)" and three people laugh!

Dave:

  • Your girlfriend dumps you, your talking about it so much. ignorance.
  • You cook things in the micro wave to the break in divided sky.

Dustin:

  • You have a Dog named Prancer and she runs out of control so you start singing to her "you gotta run like a Prancelope out of control"...After she has heard the song so many times, when it comes on in the house, she picks up her cue and Runs Like a Prancelope out of control.
  • When every morning you look @ the alarm clock going off, and think to yourself "woke up this morning....dank"
  • You see Trey @ Red Rocks and wish he would say "this is red rocks!!!!!!! this is the edge".
  • you beg your girlfriend over and over to let you name your cat POSTERNUTBAG
  • YEM is the greatest word in the English language.
  • you get teary eyed in SITM when the lyric "you think that this exact thing happened to me...just last year".
  • you own stock in fuji blank cds based on the number of Phish shows you have on disc.
  • you listen to Phish so much that people you know who dont like phish know the lyrics and names of songs.
  • you have called and written paul languedoc and begged him to make you Treys guitar.
  • you go to NYE 1996 and say to your buddy "wouldn't it be cool if they played Bohemia Rhapsody." and they do .
  • you see tour dates posted and think of every possible scenario to get out of work and hit the road.

Rich:

  • You're reading a Phish book and one of your non-Phish friends looks over your shoulder at the book and tell you you look like Trey!
  • Your band mates threaten to quit because you won't stop making Phish mixes for them and suggesting that you cover a Phish tune at your next gig.
  • You are asked what type of music Phish is and all you can say is "let me make you a tape"
  • A friend asks you to explain Phish, and some hick pipes into the conversation and says they're just like the Grateful Dead and all you can do is spend all of your Algebra class explaining why he is so very wrong.
  • You are in a terrible mood, but when you think of that phirst Phish experience (A Live One) you realize you are suddenly so much happier.

Midphishman:

  • The only reason you joined the navy was because of the hiatus, and now that it's over, you're trying desperately to get out.

Pbhrieseh:

  • When the guys are more than a band that you like... they are your way of life. The music truly touches your soul and molds who you are. When you truly understand.
  • Someone asks you how you can see a band so many times over and over and why you like them so much... you just smile because you know they will never understand...and you think to yourself if only they knew... Its passion.
  • When you spend about 4 hours reading every single one of these entries because its so nice to hear about how much other people love what you also are passionate about. 
  • You wonder what would life be like without Phish.
  • You see someone who just doesn't understand and feel the urge to give him a hug and say I am sooo sorry man.
  • All you can do is laugh to yourself when people ask you what your shirts mean...if they only knew huh... and when they ask you how a show was you say "words cant describe a Phish show...too intense."
  • You sit here and read through about all 10 pages of these things and feel as though you share so much with every person who wrote something down here.
  • Your non Phishy phriends walk around singing/humming/whistling bathtub gin and dirt.
  • Your mom asks you "Why are the lyrics to REBA in my cookbook?" -You truly believe that people who don't dig phish suck.
  • Your friend buys you phishfood ice cream because he knows it would make ur day brighter.
  • ~You Feel It~ You Love It~ You Share It~You live it~

Nathan:

  • When you know what song was played at any given show. Also the best version`s of the songs.

Phoose:

  • When you and a phriend enter a lipsink contest and do YEM, after about 13 min. of just sitting there slowly drifting into the places phish will take you, you are awakened and kicked out of the contest.
  • You carry around a picture of Mike in your pocket all day at school just in case things get too depressing.
  • You have a phish patch on your backpack and one day a kid at school is like, hey, whats up with your patch? Whats phish? and all you can do is cry
  • After a few months of intensive work, the same kid is seen around school with a phish shirt, patched pans and sandles.
  • You streak all over town yelling HARRY(HOOD), HARRY(HOOD) over and over again.
  • You wake up from a nice 1st period nap with a boner and just assume you must have had another phishy dream.
  • You sneak out your window at 1am, run a mile and a half to the train station where you wait until the morning when you catch a train for cleveland.
  • Upon returning from the show a few days later, you are disowned and thrown out of your house, and you know it was so worth it.
  • You and a friend plan how to get to IT when you have no car and no cash because you just got disowned.
  • you tell all your friends your going to gamehenge for spring break and your 100% sincere.

Dustin:

  • You get irritated when you see two people misquoting the same lyrics. Its "I ought to see the Man Mulcahey"

Steve:

  • Your next phamily reunion is scheduled for august 2nd and 3rd in limestone, maine.

Josh:

  • You make your mom get you out of school early so u can get your tickets and feel relief.
  • When your at the show you Now know what It feels like to me PHREE for a while.

Jeremy:

  • You get annoyed when you see people misquoting phish "memelkahi???" It's "I SEE THE MAN MULCAHY"

Jennifer Dances:

  • If your deit during tour consists of rice krispy treats, gooballs and grilled cheese.

Jeggy:

  • You insist on teaching every member of your family how to do the meat stick.
  • When you find out the hiatus is over you get so excited that you actually run around like an antelope out of control.
  • You listen the first 30 seconds of the local morning radio show every morning just to hear the first few notes of first tube.
  • You think it's perfectly normal to turn to the person next to you on a train from philly to savannah and talk about phish for the whole ride, even though the person barely knew who phish was when you started talking.
  • You have a reoccurring dream of meeting trey and the boys.
  • You loved (and remember) 7th grade biology because of the repeated references made to the golgi apparatus.

Wind blows high:

  • You look at kids who just don't get it...and you really just wanna give them a hug and be like "i am so sorry man"

Bren:

  • You know what kind of shoes Trey wears.

Taylor:

  • When you cry in the middle of a show because you realize the music is life -after the show listening to it you remember exactly every little detail about it.
  • When you talk to much about it to your rents that they openly buy you tickets just so you'll shut up.
  • When you keep your tickets in a lock-box, inside of a fire proof save, with the key on a necklace round' your neck.
  • When you have your first phishy glowstick war to "divided sky".
  • after the show your mom asks you how it was and you say nothing but smile and she understands.
  • when you find your self at home playing phish songs on the guitar and jumping on a mini trampoline ( but you don't know how to play the guitar so you just pop in a show and go with it).
  • When you ask your rents to buy you tickets to phish and your father replies “you just saw them” and you look at him in awe, as if he belongs in a funny farm.
  • When you listen to Divided Sky and you swear you hear words coming off of treys strings. you express this out loud randomly and your friends look at you like your crazy.
  • when you find your self yelling W-I-L-S-O-N in the middle of a test in class.

Gr8flgrl:

  • You make up your wedding vows to include as many phish lyrics as possible.

PhunkPhreak:

  • Every jam with your buddies in the basement always ends up in phish lyrics being sang.
  • The tapes for the target center shows aren't online so ya make sure you upload it yourself to every hotline site out there.
  • You're typing submittal forms like this.

Carl:

  • You went to The Went and you're going to IT.

Rastizion:

  • You post up maps on your wall of where your driving to this summer-Limestone, Camden, PA.
  • You plan for Limestone a year in advance.
  • You already started making your fav. patch shorts for the summer tour
  • You see god in treys eyes.
  • Your phriend got you an autograph signed by all 4 of guys and you worship it to death.
  • You give a picture of gordon to your hair stylist and tell her to make me look like him.

Duce:

  • You say "Phatty Veggie" whenever you are talking about anything, whether it be pasta or a groove.
  • You twirl devil sticks at your friends wedding.
  • You give "hugs for extras" when you are ordering a Super Size meal at Micky D's.
  • You hold your index finger out when you are at the bar.
  • You dance "Phishy" when you are at a club in the city.
  • You try and make a woman match your moves when you are going for third base.
  • You consider beer either dank or schwag.
  • Whatever you do, you take care of your shoes!!!

Mr Miner:

  • You try and talk to your family for as long as you can using only phish lyrics.
  • You have met nectar, been to the willison, and talked to the new residents of their college home.
  • You have a the picture you took of a "Cars Trucks Buses" sign framed in your room.
  • You got grounded when you were 17 for talking about phish too much.
  • You couldn't concentrate in school for a week after you heard Mikes for the first time.
  • You actually don't like people when they say they don't like phish.
  • You make your parents go to a show just so they can understand...you even want to take them.
  • You art projects are all centered around phish.
  • You reinvent Harry Hood into a song about Harry Potter.

Jon:

  • You and your friends argue about what time signature the jam of SOAM is in, cuz you know there is one measure in 5/8 and those fools won't believe you.
  • You wonder how the hell the guitar line ends up with the rest of the band in first tube.. makes no sense, but it does.
  • The only reason you even know a song exists is because phish covers it and you're a little frightened when you hear the original band play it for the first time.

Phazbo:

  • You try to stick the lyrics from Reba into your family cook book.
  • You've met the memalkehi.

Gordy:

  • You cry and laugh hysterically at the same time when you hear the boys are hittin the road again after 2 years!! (extra points if you're at an upscale restaurant with a freind and his parents on their anniversary when you find out hahaha!)
     

Scarymonster:

  • The minstrels who follow you always play Fluffhead.
  • You KNOW "Trey was screwing with YOU!!!'
  • You just had to get a bigger box for your ticket stubs.

NICUenjoymyself3:

  • You key in the name "Harry" on the Hood vending machine in your school cafeteria and pay a ridiculous amount of $$$ just to see the boys on new year's at MSG!

Rich:

  • You drove an hour from your hotel at sugarbush just eat at nectar's.
  • You have little cartons of "hood" cream in your room.
  • After you smoke you freak out until you find a way to here some phish.
  • You have no use for any cds you have anymore because all you listen to are live phish releases and your ridiculous amount of bootlegs.

Carl J:

  • You've noticed that MS Word considers Phish to be spelled incorrectly and that it offers Hash as an alternative spelling.

Petey:

  • You can have an orgasm to divided sky.
  • You and another phriend can talk in just phish lyrics and understand each other while other people think you are an ass.
  • when you are not gay but still a certain 4 guys can give you a boner when they are up on a stage.

G:

  • you have read all of these.

C. Lib:

  • You find yourself playin simple on your phone.
  • Trey's solo project makes you picture han solo with his lite saber  you wish you could go back to the Clifford Ball and try to remember just a little more...(at least ice) 
  • "my friend, my friend" doesn't change tempo. 
  • you would rather go waaah waah wah bend nen ben. 
  • when ever you lambs or doves coming in you jump like an antelope and run out of control !! : O )

Peter Caye:

  • You are blessed to have a Algebra teacher that plays phish everyday before class.
  • You try and get everyone in your family to Share in the groove.
  • You have to keep burning the shows you download because they stop playing after long hours of listening, oh and breaks a good cd player by over heating.
  • Plan your summer so that you have jack to do so you can catch the tour.

Fishmanforpresident:

  • You vote fishman for president.

Nicky:

  • You teach the 6 year old girls group at summer camp the meatstick just to keep them away from Brittany Spears.
  • You buy goldphish the kindergarten class you teach and insist on calling them Trey, Mike, Page, and Fishman.
  • You listen to Phish in the morning at work, and don't bother to turn it down when other teachers come in.

MacW42o:

  • Your on a plane, taking off, listening to your favorite groove. The guy sitting next to you turns and asks you what your listening to. You turn to him and just smile. Then spend the next 3 hours recounting your favorite shows and by the end of the flight this guy is soooo in love with the PH that he gives you his e-mail and you guys go on tour together. YEAH TOMMY!

Nathan:

  • When you're non-phishhead friends start calling you Trey because you never shut up about Phish.
  • When you get ecstatic at seeing Wilson Rd. and Mound St. on the same trip.
  • You always have people asking you, "What's so freakin great about phish that you have to have that many discs"
  • Your mom has given up trying to figure out why you go to so many shows.

Brian:

  • You laugh at work because there are so many other people who do as little work as you do and more time looking/listening/reading phish sites. Right on working stiffs!

NICUtwo:

  • You went to 2/26 and knew every side project song, and stood up while mad people were sitting down.

Dan:

  • You are in a phamily vacation in Vermont, and you purposely take your aunt who lives there in Burlington to Nectars to eat, and you hear her say, "I remember seeing phish here back in the day."------chills glaore...and the rest.....phistory 
  • every time you don't know an answer on your biology test u put "golgi apparatus", and usually you get that answer correct in some weird way. smells of phish-IM me I'm always on and ready to talk about the nest band every.

J.C.:

  • Everytime you hear a great album by another artist, you can't help but wonder what it would sound like if the boys covered it.
  • You put phish in the same category as the Beatles, Stones, Dead, Floyd, Dylan, Hendrix, Who, and the Clash. You will argue anyone to the death on this point.
  • Somehow, they're better cause they're ours.
  • You see a local cover bar band, and wonder how bad phish would blow the roof off of this mothersucker, and completely blow all these feeble redneck minds.
  • Every night phish plays, and your not there, you feel as if a part of you is missing you usually end up listening to a show that is relatively close to it's anniversary date (i.e. listening to 2/20/93 a few weeks ago)
  • Your still waiting for that glorious day when you finally hear Divided Sky live.
  • You are envious of people who get to go to more shows than you.
  • Your non-phish friends don't mean the same to you as your Phriends, even if you've just met them.
  • You refuse to be in a relationship with a girl, if she doesn't accept the fact that you listen to phish at least half the time (hey, I'm compromising)
  • You could only marry a girl if she enjoyed going to shows
  • One of your dreams is to smoke buds with the boys (by the way: there should be a special section in pholktales called gettin' high with the boys, with people relating stories about sharin' a buzz with the band)
  • Your constantly trying to convert people, but when they don't get it, you fell the need to cut that person out of your life.
  • During the intense Bathtub at the Went, your about 30 feet from the stage. You look all around you, and you can actually see the music enveloping everyone in a dreamy cascade. the sheer joy on everyone's faces, at that moment you knew why you called this home.
  • You and your Dad are driving through Hebron, N.Y., and you try to convince him to find Ian MacLean's farm.
  • You make everyone in your life listen to phish, whether they like it or not.
  • Everything falls away when those lights go out.

Antlax21:

  • When you send emails to knighthoodtees.com to tell them ideas for lot style. shirts that you thought of during class.
  • When you have tried to play the vacuum.
  • When look at page in live in Vegas and he looks like gods.
     

Corey:

  • You chill your tweezer in the freezer before the big game.
  • You can truly envision yourself as being an underwater creature during certain sections of your phavorite aquatic songs such as theme from the bottom.
  • Every time you here "tick tick tick tick..." from a loud clock you start playing maze in your head.

Willin:

  • You name your pet phishs' prince caspian, fee, and wilson.
  • You drive to worcester without tickets an hour into the show just to hear YEM from a vent outside.
  • You get angry when people make fun of phish's lyrics.
  • Your summer revolves around their tour dates.

Laphley:

  • When you are listening to PhishCast at work and have to stop whatever it is you are doing just to see what the setlist is for the show you are listening to. And read every review for it.
  • When you spend more time at work listening to/downloading/burning/and reading about shows than actual work.
  • When you spend an entire show in the pouring rain dancing, and it was the best thing ever. And when you fall in love w/ a song just b/c you danced your ass off to a fat jam during that thunderstorm. Raleigh, NC.
  • When every year before Thanksgiving your family knows you are going straight to Hampton before making it home.
  • When you carry two CD books in your car, one a 10-case one for randoms, and another 50-case one just for Phish, and your friends look at you like, huh?

PheelinPhine628:

  • You get kicked out of a phish show in worcester but still cant stop singing Ya Mar in you head three days later and have completely forgot about the narks kicking you out.
  • You listen to another band cause everyone tells you that you listen to too much phish and it just makes you listen more phish cause the new music reminds you of phish.
  • Whenever you are online and someone says "nice" you can't help but think NiCu cause it is spelt similarly.
  • You are not gay but you are madly in love with four men, one of whom wears a moo moo.
  • You spent five hours trying to imitate the solo from HCA with fishman on the vacuum and have to stop cause your gums are starting to bleed a lot.

Phunkphiend:

  • You get the show you went to the night before on disc you listen to it phull blast and pretend you were in worcester again.
  • Your mom tells you you're sick b/c of how many cds you have of the boys.
  • You are so bored at work so you think of all sorts of ideas for you to save money while you're on tour next summer.
  • You were in denial when they opened with a KILLER YEM on 2/26.
  • You watch Trey's fingers and tears come to your eyes.

Adam:

  • You just talk and talk and talk and talk about Phish even though nobody gives a rat's ass you stupid hippie shut the hell up already.

Elizabeth:

  • You spend hours in the car trying to mentally transcribe "First Tube".
  • You refuse to go to shows anything but sober because the memories are so much more intense.

Dylan:

  • Your favorite bedtime story is Gamehendge.

camel nose:

  • When stuck in a sticky situation, you stop and ask yourself, "What would Trey do?"
  • You end up with sore knuckles anytime you meet someone with name Wilson.
  • Instead of comparing brands when shopping for groceries, you instead try to mentally spoof your phavorite songs with labels.

Walfredo28:

  • When people ask you why you listen to phish so much and how can you see them so many times over, all you can do is laugh inside because they just don't get it.
  • When I get pissed at bad reviews of NYE, because it was an honor just to be there.

Dan :

  • Your a completely heterosexual male, but you still have some weird obsession with Mike Gordon.
  • You play Mike's slap bass lines on your air guitar.

J Will:

  • When you are grooving during a show, and really have to go to the bathroom but you wait to the last possible second before you hurt yourself and pee your pants to go so you don't miss one second of the jams!
  • When you really want to live with Mike Gordon.

PhunkJunky:

  • Your life's ambition is to sell grilled cheese!

China_RiderXXXVI:

  • Your asked what concerts you would like to see and you list specific dates and venues from the current Phish tour until you've listed them all, then start naming other bands like Gov't Mule, moe and String Cheese or whoever.

Carl J:

  • You can read 8 reviews about ONE show and get a different chill from each of them.
     

Superego:

  • You're riding down the road and listening to really good music, like the Dead or Miles Davis, and your id tells your ego that something more substantive is missing, and sure, you could continue on jamming to great music, or you could embark on an experience that is so enjoyable that it literally picks you up and moves you to a different spot.

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