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Re-Enacting Titanic
Re-Enacting Titanic
- Whenever you are on a cruise you go to the bow of the ship, climb onto the railings and re-enact the 'I'm flying' scene
- You are scared that any ship you board will hit an iceberg and sink
- You climb the railings at the stern of a ship and lean out, hoping for 'Jack' to come and save you
- You spend all your money playing poker in the hope that you will win passage on a ship
- You try and re-enact the sinking of the Titanic in your pool
- You run up and down staircases trying to find Jack and all the other people from Titanic like in the end of the movie (Cara)
- You write threatening letters to Kate Winslet for not letting Jack on the piece of wood (Cara)
- You take cold showers just to feel how cold the water must have been.(Marlena)
- You take up sketching just so you can feel like you have a connection with Jack. (Marlena)
- Your fiance' has agreed to wear a tuxedo exactly like Jack's at your wedding.(Rachel)
- You go to the Queen Mary ship in Long Beach and try to go to the bow (which is blocked off by about 5 feet - UGH!!) with your husband - then go and see the movie for the 2nd time and hold hands with your husband (Mary)
- Your cousin asks you to re-enact the movie with them and you agree (Ashley)
- You refuse to go swimming unless they put a piece of driftwood in the pool first. (Drew)
- You sit in class and silently re-enact scenes from the movie with your friends that sit across the room. (Kate)
- Every time you open the freezer you scream "Iceberg right ahead!!"
- You take lessons on etiquette and dress up for dinner. (Kelly)
- You're having your very own "Heart of the Ocean" made. (Keala)
- You search high and low for a butterfly comb just like Rose's.(Erin and Christie)
- You spit on the people you don't like whenever you see them. (Jess) <
- You throw chairs and tables into your pool and then run around it to get the effect that Jack and Rose had when the ship was sinking.(Jess)
- You start to drink tea everyday (Jess)
- You change into something fancy just for dinner.(Jess)
When you go on the Queen Mary you constantly quote the movie and act out scenes on the appropriate part of the ship.(Shannon)
- You constantly beg your husband to handcuff himself to a pipe so you can free him with an axe.(Anduwaithe)
- You get an irresistible urge to put on a pendant and lie nude on the couch, quoting Kate Winslet's lines from that scene.(Anduwaithe)
- You wear a life-preserver at all times.(Anduwaithe)
- Whenever your fiance says she's going to take a bath, you say "If you do that, I'm going to have to jump in after you."(Anduwaithe)
- You re-enact the sinking everyday in the bathtub with toys(Shawna)
- You do the steerage party dance (foot thing) to entertain your friends.(Natalie)
- You make out with your boyfriend in the back seat of his car just so you can fog up the windows and then slam your hand against it to leave a hand print.(Melissa)
- You dig out your old pointe shoes and practice going up on your toes like Rose did at the steerage party.(Melissa)
- You can no longer just sit on a couch, you have to sprawl on it as if posing for a conte crayon sketch (Tayan)
- You stand on your toes to impress the guys at a party (Tayan)
- You get into a cab and the driver asks "Where to, Miss?" and you say "To the stars!"(Tayan)
- The first thing you say when you go to the office in the mornings is "I can't work in such horrible conditions!"(Tayan)
- You make Freudian observations regarding men's preoccupation with size every chance you get (Tayan)
- You replace your favourite cuss words with "This is horses@!%!"(Tayan)
- You take practice swings at your wardrobe with a fire axe, and always try not to hit the same spot twice (Tayan)
- You refuse all offers of caviar for the rest of your life (Tayan)
- You can make only one toast... "To making it count!" (Tayan)
- You wear a whistle around your neck whenever you're on a ship or near water (Tayan)
- Every time your husband tries to leave the house and say goodbye to you, you become hysterical and yell, "Don't you say your goodbyes!"(Tayan)
- You take 5 bags of luggage, 15 framed photos and a bowl of goldfish everywhere you go, even if you're only popping into the 7-11 for milk. (Tayan)
- You have had copies of Rose's dresses made for yourself.(Sara)
- You redo the story over and over and over and over in your mind, casting yourself as the hero who saves the ship, and ESPECIALLY Jack. Oh, and throws Cal overboard. (Celeste)
- You insist that your husband dress up as Jack, and you as Rose, to pose for your wedding photos.(Wy F)
- You would sail out to the sea and cried, "come back, come back!!" and stay there for a few hours each day, just in case Jack is alive and is waiting to be saved.(Wy F)
- Every time you go fishing, you hope to fish up that Heart of the Ocean.(Wy F)
- You've completed "Spitting lesson for Beginners" and is on course to finish the "Advanced Lesson"(Wy F)
- You pay $1200 to have a dress like Rose's made.(SalmAngel2)
- For added realism, you run to the bathroom right after the impact, stop up the toilet with a roll of paper towels, and flood the rest room so you can run around in the cold water for a minute.(Ken)
- Remembering those fond "Rocky Horror" nights from your youth, you've started wearing corsets to the theatre, and bringing your own props, like beer to slosh on yourself, a whistle to blow, and necklaces to flush down the toilet afterward. (Ken)
- You leave a handprint on every fogged up window you find. (Jamie)
- You run to the elevator and flip off those unlucky to make it on as the doors close. (Donn)
- You have an emergency and instead of calling 9-1-1 you tell a bystander to send out a CQD.(Donn)
- You invite friends over for a bar-b-que you bust the bag open on the floor and use a shovel to fill the grill.(Donn)
- When on a small boat you yell "we have to go back and save the people still in the water".(Donn)
- While on the high-dive you try to out tumble the poor guy that hits the propeller jumping off the stern. (Donn)
- You call your local amusement park and demand they make a Titanic ride so you can go vertical and experience the plunge for yourself.(Donn)
- You hope that they come out with Titanic action figures so you can have fun in the bath tub like the kiddies do.(Donn)
- When seated in a restaurant, you tell your friends "watch this" and re-enact the entire dinner scene by yourself.(Kim)
- The movie has inspired you to begin your long-dreamed-of pursuit of an acting career. (Kim)
- You're having an Oscar party, and if Titanic doesn't sweep, you're going to write a "strongly worded letter" to the Academy.(Kim)
- Every time you see water or hear the word, you involuntarily say "water" with Mr. Andrews' accent. Sometimes you go on with the scene detailing the ships' damage. ()
- You know the characters so well that the two of you act out scenes that weren't on the ship but could have been.
- You notice people in your church who resemble people from the movie and start recasting it in case they shoot it again in your home town.()
- You get upset when you call someone and it's not your "Titanic" partner so you can't yell, "Iceberg! Right ahead!"()
- You vow to someday become a movie director, writer, producer, and make a movie about the Titanic that doesn't sink...and have Leo and Kate play the parts again!(Amanda)
- You paint your toenails red, and pretend you're walking to the end of the ship to throw your necklace over the side (kelly)
- You dye your hair red like Rose and dance around your house saying " I will never let go" (Jessica and Katie)
- Every time you fill your bath you remember the water rushing into the ship (Jessica and Katie)
- You insist that all dinner conversation be directed to Leo, using dialogue from the movie. (KMF)
- You and your best friend hire a boatman to take you out to sea to look for the heart of the ocen because you want to re-enact the part where Rose throws it away (Ashely and Brandi)
- You move to France, find an artist named Jack and tell him to draw you wearing only a diamond necklace.(Ashley)
- Whenever you run down an empty hallway you have to yell, "We need help, hello?" (Sara)
- Your ideal vacation is to go to the in the dead of winter and sit in the ocean for a couple of hours, hanging onto a piece of driftwood.(Cat)
- You are planning your weekends around the showings of Titanic. (Cat)
- You carry the Titanic script with you everywhere you go in order to memorize all the lines even those that didn't make it into the movie, so that you can re-enact the whole thing while you wait for it to come out on video.(Jennifer)
- You commissioned your best friend into making an exact replica of the dress Rose wore on the night of the sinking. (Megan)
- You take ballet classes just to learn how to impress men at parties by going en pointe.(Karen)
- You run up to strange men and ask them to teach you how to spit.
- You figure out that if Rose had stayed on the lifeboat, Jack would have had plenty of room on the wooden door, and both would have survived. (Kenny Smith)
- Strangely, you have an intense, irrational fear of the bathtub. (Elliott)
- You have a model of the Titanic stuck to the bottom of a pool, so that in the middle of the night you can dive in with a flashlight and play "submarine" (Aaron)
- You and a friend play a game at the beach where both of you try to get onto a raft without overturning it. Get dunked in the water three times and you're doomed. (Aaron)
- You carry around a sketch-pad all the time, hoping to catch the interest of a Titanic-obsessed young woman. (Unfortunately, most of the drawings in the binder are from last semester's Vertebrate Anatomy class.)(Aaron)
- Your boyfriend refuses to see the movie with you so you spit in his face and dump him on the spot.(Liz)
- You re-enact scenes from the movie at sleepovers (Sam)
- You and 2 of your best friend go wading in a pond on a cold day in the middle of Febuary to get the full Titanic effect! (cherry)
- You pour chilled bottled water down your back to get a glimpse of what Jack and Rose (and eventually 1500 other people) went through.(Byron)
- You wear the dress that Rose wore to dinner, curl your hair into ringlets and sport a butterfly clip to the snowball dance, and take a picture of Leo as your date which you and your friend fight over . When it rips in half you put it next to your heart and say "I'll never let go Jack" and sing "My heart will go on". (Shawn)
- You go shopping for a dress, and you buy the one Kate Winslet wore to the Golden Globe Awards, or one that looks like something from Titanic (Celeste)
- You pay 10 bucks for some Titanic plans so you can trace the route of Jack and Rose.(Carrie P)
- You buy a big hat like Rose and walk around the house reciting lines.(April)
- You want your high school to re-enact the Titanic for its musical (ReAnSt)
- You beg your friend (who is a ballet/ tap dancer) to learn that dance and teach it to you. (Rose0084)
- You find yourself wanting to spit on anyone who even remotely resembles Cal Hockley.(Jasmine)
- You have started drawing again seriously. (Steph)
- You drive for 5 hours to go ice fishing in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. (Steph)
- You buy a really old car ( like say from 1912) just so you and your boyfriend can act out the car scene in it.(Jen)
- You buy an antique silver hand mirror so you can pick it up in a few years and say "the reflection changed a bit" (Jen)
- You buy the book 'Titanic for two' which includes menus and recipes for first class and then host a party and recreate a titanic dinner complete with movie clips, 'My Heart Will Go On' and recreations of Rose's dresses for all your guests. (Amy and Shelby)
- When you get in your friend's car you say "Will we be seated according to class?" You then you go on to pretend that the people sitting at the front of the car are first class passengers, the people sitting in the middle are second class passengers, and the people sitting in the back are third class passengers.(Jennifer)
- When you are home alone, you act out the entire movie, playing every single part yourself.(Steph)
- You nick name yourself " The Unsinkable 'First Name' Titanic 'Last Name' (G1RULE635)
- You wear a life jacket at all times.(Kathryn)
- You look in national geographic at the real Titanic and say " Ohhh thats where they made out at the bow of the boat, thats where they hocked lugies", etc....(Gemini2399)
- You encourage your mother (named Rose) to repeat dialogue with her friend's husband (named Jack) (Kate)
- You speak exclusively in dialogue and have developed a tendency to stare at ice and repeat 'there aren't enough boats, there aren't enough boats' over and over (Kate)
- In the part of the movie where Rose is trying to find Jack you repeat the directions to her and use encouraging phrases like 'yes that way! now the crew passage!' (Kate)
- You take a rowboat out in the middle of a lake and recite Titanic lines. (Amy)
- On the part where the ship is leaving port and the people on the ship are waving, you wave back.(JesseC.)
- You're calling someone and if by the first ring, no one picks up, you say, "Pick up, ya bastards!!" (Just like Mr. Fleet in the movie did) (David)
- Whenever you and your best friend fight, he threatens to lock you up in steerage.(Frogger782)
- Whenever you see any kind of rail, whether it be an apartment or a doctor's office you can't help but jump on it and act out movie scenes.(Lance)
- After convincing the school to change the prom from "A Night in Paris" to "A Night on the Titanic", you begin to wonder if it would be possible to fit a replica of the ship into the gym. (Lance)
- You have printed out more than one script so that you and your friends can act out the movie.(Lance)
- In order to see how well a paper with pencil writing can survive time, you sketched a picture, put it in a leather binder then in a safe, and finally threw it in the ocean nearest you, and wrote a note for your grandchildren to fish it out in 84 years.(Lance)
- You walk around your house wearing a life jacket and screaming, "Alright listen up everyone! I want women and children first! Women and Children first!" (Liz)
- You wish you could go to the real Titanic and have the whole movie happen again but this time for real and instead of Kate it would be you.(amanda)
- You beg your parents to let you take Irish step dancing class just so you can re-create the Steerage Party scene with your friends. (kristen)
- You won't take a bath unless your mom lets you put a wooden board in the water.(Jeff)
- The movie ends, there's 500 people leaving the theatre, you've had to use the restrooms since the Steerage party, so you and your friends turn finding an empty stall into a search for an open gate from 3rd class.... sprinting down hallways and knocking people down, begging ushers to let you use the employee bathroom..... JUST LIKE JACK AND ROSE (Meryl)
- You have a really big urge to go up to complete strangers and ask if they're good at drawing so you can pose nude for them and say every single line that Rose said from that scene from the movie.(White Wolf)
- When you get into the bathtub and wear a pair of binoculars to watch for icebergs. (Stephanie & Kristen)
- You and your cousin have vowed to do toe exercises for 10 minutes a day to strengthen your toes. (Karen and Cynthia)
- You and your cousin are at work practicing standing on your toes. (Karen and Cynthia)
- Your kids ask you recite scenes from the movie with them. (jen1)
- You put tons of ice cubes and cold water in your tub, and then sit in it so that you go through what Jack and Rose went through! (Edward)
- On the last day titanic is showing in your town, you wear your most expensive dress and do your hair like Roses'. (RoseDwson)
- You and a friend are driving down the road thinking about the movie and find yourselves competing on who can hock up the best loogie and spit out the window.(Leigh & Misty)
- You have your entire wedding designed with a "Titanic' theme. The church and the reception are decorated to resemble Titanic and you and the guests all dress up in period costume - after contacting the Movie's costume designer and requesting to hire the lot! (RachelF)
- When the electricity goes out you scream "We're sinking!" or "We're going to die!" (Pixie)
- You now go to Titanic by yourself because everyone else hates listening to you act out the movie (Sarah)
- You carry an axe with you everywhere you go, just in case someone should get arrested unjustly.(Katie)
- You practice bench pressing your own weight just in case you are on a sinking ship and have to hold on the the rail for dear life (Meg)
- When a street artists asks if he can draw your picture, you immediately start taking off all your clothes (Norman)
- You only give the street artist a dime for drawing your picture (Norman)
- You insist that someone else drive so that you can stick yourself out through the sunroof, spread your arms and say, "I'm flying!" (Norman)
- Even though you can't really afford it, you always travel first-class now because you figure you have a better chance of surviving in case anything happens (Norman)
- You always slow down now while driving at night (Norman)
- While driving at night, you give your kids binoculars and tell them to keep a watchful eye out (Norman)
- [if you're male] Your new favorite way to "cruise chicks" (an adolescent American term for "meeting women") is to hang out on the deck at the back of cruise ships. (Norman)
- [if you're female] You go looking for true love on the deck at the back of cruise ships (Norman)
- Your neck hurts from practicing your over-the-shoulder kissing technique
- [If you're female] You refuse to kiss your boyfriend unless he's standing behind you (Norman)
- [If you're male] You insist that your girlfriend turns her back to you before you kiss (Norman)
- You have a background check run on your spouse just to make sure there isn't something he/she hasn't told you about their past (Norman)
- Every scene you do in drama class is based on titanic (Kristen and Allison)
- You are no longer allowed on your uncle's sailboat because your family got mad when every time you were there you re-enacted the entire movie and almost fell over the front while saying "Im the king of the world!"(Titanic935)
- You count down the days until your prom because it is on the Queen Mary and you can re-enact the entire movie even though you hate dances (Titanic935)
- You beg your mother to start playing poker in hopes to win a ticket on board a ship. (Nathalie)
- Each time you see Titanic you hold your breath during the scene Rose and Jack are separated and Rose is underwater : Just to see if you would've been able to live and not drown. (Diane)
- You are typing on your keyboard and all of a sudden your pointer finger starts going crazy tapping in the morse code. (Kaci)
- You stand on your deck when it's really windy and re-enact the "I'm flying" scene. [Heather, Christine]
- You dress your pets up and act out scenes from the movie.(Holly)
- You order lamb with mint sauce when you go out to eat (Dennis)
- You've had fantasies about being an extra in the movie (Dennis)
- You ride a horse "like a man" (Dennis)
- You play poker everyday hoping to get a full house. (Rocketown)
- You pass notes in class saying "Make it count. Meet me at the clock." (Rocketown)
- You put on blue lipstick and other pale make-up to imitate the people in the freezing water.(Lacey)
- When you eat you have someone throw the table over in the middle of your meal so that you can relive what Rose felt like. (Rebecca)
- You are planning to set your alarm on the morning of April 15th at 2:15 AM so you can run outside and act out the sinking, soundtrack on full blast.(Skyerose)
- You practice "spitting like a man" on the shower wall and pretend it's Cal's face. (Skyerose)
- You take all of your silverware out of the drawer and line it all up on either side of your plate; and you painted White Star Line on the plate. (Skyerose)
- You show everyone your engagement ring to Cal and beg them to help you break off the engagement.(WaterLily0)
- You and your best friend start spinning around..and around..and around just to feel the way Jack and Rose did at the steerage party. (Juls)
- You plan your next vacation for California...where you will go to the Santa Monica pier, drink cheap beer, ride the roller coaster till you puke, and ride a horse on the beach.(Leslie)
- You refuse to go with your family on their annual cruise to Bermuda because you're afraid that you'll run into a Carribbean iceberg (Suzie and Erica)
- On ships, you toss priceless heirlooms over the side to see if later, you die and get to kiss Leonardo DiCaprio (Suzie and Erica)
- When you're bored at parties, you and your friends go on a bridge and pretend like you're flying, while reciting quotes from the movie. (Meredith and Molly)
- You hang over the balcony inside a hotel, saying, "Look Jack, I'm flying!" (Molly and Meredith)
- While playing Out of Order on AOL, instead of typing good luck to your opponent, you type, "Look Jack, I'm flying!" (Meredith and Molly)
- You have begged your parents to take you to a titanic banquet at the fancy restaurant downtown.(natasha)
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