Al-back from the BigWhoop Posted May 12, 2001 Share Posted May 12, 2001 You´ve played too much Monkey Island when: (You have to have played too much Monkey Island 1, 2, 3, and 4 to fully understand this list) *Your hard drive is half full of MI pics and half full with MI sounds *You´re visiting your favourite Monkey Island page at least once a day *You enter a bar you're always looking for 3 important looking men *You try to hold your breath for 10 mins! *You've named your dog "Guybrush" *You put on a pink dress *You run into a circus and wanted to be shot out of a canon *You think you can beat Mike Tyson by insulting him *You start counting money as pieces ó eight *You use the same 3-headed monkey joke over and over *You keep hurting past enemies with Voodoo Dolls *You bounce off mountains hoping to hit a rubber tree *You can write walkthroughs from your mind for all games *You can't stop humming those catchy tunes! *You drink root beer at the pub *You answer "you fight like a cow " to a man that has just insulted your mother *You say, "EWWWW! PORCELAIN" everytime you see something made of porcelaine. *You get scared of LeChuck *You ask the lunchlady for some grog *You dig a REAL big hole in your back yard, and then throw dynamite in it *You bore your friends with stories about how you beat ghost pirate LeChuck *You mix alcohol and medicine and believe you can just wake up after that *You find yourself trying to fit about a thousand things in your pants, half of which are at least twice the size of you *You're believing you're a pirate *You keep looking for a Three-Headed Monkey at the Zoo *Your socks doesn't match anymore. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! *You have nightmares with big chickens *You can't stop checking if you're really with your girlfriend or she's just some monkeys in a woman cloth *You give crackers to parrots and expect them to tell you where Big Whoop is *You dress up as the Devil Chicken and go KFC *You challenge you're friends to a spit contest *You've got a big monkey head as decoration *You think that THE MONKEYS ARE LISTENING *You use the game boxes as decorative pieces on your dinning room table *You insist on watching all of the credits *You join group AMIA (Anonymus Monkey Island Addicts) *You tell people that your ocupation is selling fine leather jackets *You keep telling everybody you are a migthy pirate *You want to be a pirate *You have made a Monkey island fan game *You find you are stuck in a tricky situation, and your only response is to claim you're selling these fine leather jackets *You start to think there really are mushrooms in hell *You expect your mum and dad to turn into skeletons and do a funky skull *Your pants fall down everytime dig in a graveyard (then again, why would you dig in a graveyard) *You keep reading this, knowing that it won't lead anywhere. *You sing "The Pirate I was Meant to be" over and over again until your class-mates blindfold, torture and eventually keelhawl you *You wonder what happened to Guybrush's beard *You think there really were cannons with build-in fax-modems a few centuries ago *You can't stop singing 'there's a monkey in my pocket' *You keep looking for Murray under the sea, on a stick, or in Planet Threepwood *You yell at people"ARRR! I've come to plunder yer treasure fer new cannons!" *You think that saying "shiver me timbers" is a manly thing *You put an anchor in a pie *You start hitting people in the head with a milk bottle and a coconut *You convince yourself that it is 1635 *You always torture your brother when you go to an amusement park *All of your insults start to rhyme *You buy a bunch of junk, you don´t really need *You are contantly using the excuse, "I must have left it in my other pants" *You are giving serious thought to what the Secret of Monkey Island really is *You have cut off the head of a navigator *You spontaniously yell "Bua-ha-ha-ha-ha" *You have no friends because you nailed them all up in coffins *You want to grow flaming beard *You try to find disk number 76... and succeed *You fashion your own wooden nickels and insist that it's real money *You start insulting every monkey you see *You try to rip off your brothers face to see who he really is *You keep sawing feet off sleeping people and think it is funny *You are always searching for booty *You carry around a skull, call it Murray, and expect it to talk *You walk around with a button that says: "Ask me about Monkey Island" *You always carry a rubber chicken with a pulley in the middle *You choose the banjo *The Monkey Island disk melts from over-use *You dont go on roler-coasters anymore, in fear that it will turn you into one of Le Chuck's evil undead *You stab people in the back with a serrated knife if they complain about your chicken *You spent 40 dollars to get a game that you beat easily [This message has been edited by Al-back from the BigWhoop (edited May 11, 2001).] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al1587246385 Posted May 12, 2001 Share Posted May 12, 2001 You´ve played too much Monkey Island when: *You poor mud on someones head and follow them to the cleaners and steal their laundry ticket so you can have their pearly bra *You start having strange Monkey Island dreams *You keep looking behind you to see if the three-headed monkey is there when you´re alone *The name Guybrush Threepwood seems less and less fictional to you *At dinner you suddenly scream in horror "El Pollo Diablo, the devil chicken, THE DEVIL CHICKEN!" and run out of the room *You become a mercenary and join El Pollo Diablos army *You believe that every problem you face has a funny and creative solution *You think you can make people break down and cry by telling them that they are a failure as a pirate *You have a gorila as the captain of your ship *Every time you speak you can see your words appear over your head *You have an imaginary friend name Guybrush *You put on a gigantic mask of tofu to get into special events *You keep anoying your friends with: "If this is three then what is this?" *You actualy find a carnival named Big Whoop *You insist on people calling you Captain Loogie, the Bone Master, the Phlegm Master, Juicius Maximus the Third, etc *You put yourself in extremely dangerous situations on purpose, because you are convinced that "you can't die in a LucasArts adventure game..." *You memorize what guybrush says after reading each the books in the libary *You think persistence will get you anywhere *Everytime you see an aligator, you try to pull its tongue *You go to a gym and beg them to let you train on THE MACHINE *You start telling pirate stories about how you defeated the fearsome pirate LeChuck *Shakespeare play you keep trying to find the bowling ball scene *You smack every kid named Kenny selling lemonade (or firearms) *You sail the 7 seas in a bumper car *You sell leonade with a bottomless mug policy *You spend half your day thinking about the ending to MI2 *You write novelised versions of the games *You look for Murray's porno pictures *You start singing pirat songs *You fire yourself out of a cannon *You insist in using a pot insted of a helmet *You try to kill LeChuck using your brother's underware, your uncle's beard, someone's "fluids", and your father's head. *You live on Monkey Island *You got monkeys in your bed and you really like it! *You begin with nothing and then suddenly you have a Ship and a tresure *You've tried to use Murray's arm with everthing in CMI so much that Guybrush and some of the other characters yell at you *When you don't understand what a girl means you say "Darn yer riddles ya saucy female, whadya mean?" *You know every characters name backwards *You give poodles medicine and remind yourself that those poodels are only sleeping *You are afraid of El Pollo Diablo *You're trying to find The Monkey Islands in the atlas *You've read all this stuff on the list and still can think of something new *You pick up the map, the flashlight and a wood stick before you go out(maybe can be usefull!) *You want to meet Guybrush Threepwood *Your Halloween costume consists of you taking OFF the pirate outfit *You check sun-bathing people´s backs, for tatooed maps *You make your own money, and it consists in pieces of eight *You look for the Joy of Hex in the local library *You get excited by the fact that you have been eaten by a giant snake *You poison your neighbour's poodles, break into their house and steal an expensive vase *You can see how Skull Island looks like a skull *You try to take shovels out of plaques *You don't eat soup unless you know how to come back from Monkey Island *You make your friends ask you 5 times a day: "Is that a banana in your pocket or you're just glad to see me?" *You keep getting arrested for trying to put things twice your size in your pants *You refuse to go to a boat race in Australia *You´re training to be a insult swordfighter *You close an elevator door on your dads beard on pupose to see if he is LeChuck *You want to drown,get hit, burned in acid, fall off cliff faces and go through stumps just to see what it feels like, and think you'll survive because you're a mighty pirate *You've made a Monkey Island advertising in your town to say how cool it is *You start growing two more heads *You play every MI game 25 times per day *You forget your name *You shut down you computer and go to sleep only when your game tells you to *You cant sleep because you are afraid of talking skulls under your bed *You look for a skelleton named "BOB" *You pick up everything you see and try to combine it *You've broken every telescope on the earth *You never turn off your computer and do something constuctive. *You covert your girlfriend into gold *On a cruise, you shooot yourself out of a cannon at the nearest island *You are reading this list, and enjoing it [This message has been edited by Al (edited May 11, 2001).] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al1587246385 Posted May 12, 2001 Share Posted May 12, 2001 You´ve played too much Monkey Island when: *You seriouslly take the oath after singing "There's a Monkey In My Pocket" in Curse of Monkey Island *A talking skull is on the top of your wish list *You get offended when someone sings "I wish I could par-lay some French with governor Marley.Id say to her "voo-lay-voo"..." *You sing the music "A pirate I was meant to be" entirely in your school's arts&music contest *YOU ACTUALLY READ ALL THIS [This message has been edited by Al (edited November 01, 2001).] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AFish01 Posted May 12, 2001 Share Posted May 12, 2001 Wow thats just like me, just kidding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest grannen Posted May 12, 2001 Share Posted May 12, 2001 ......when you make a long list explaining why you have played it too much. ------------------ and Grannen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Brighteyesmonkey Posted May 12, 2001 Share Posted May 12, 2001 My thoughts eactly Grannen ------------------ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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