UPDATED OCTOBER 3 , 2000. Latest submissions are added to the top of the page
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YOU KNOW YOU’RE A TYR ADDICT WHEN……..
I’m sure all of you have family and friends who don’t understand your obsession with TYR and think you’re crazy. Well maybe they’re right. Check out some of the stuff we do.
Note: Some of these first appeared on the Riders Coming! Message board and were inspired by a similar BuffytVS page. Our posts would have disappeared into cyberspace if Heather hadn’t printed them and sent them to me. Thanks a bunch Heather! If you anyone would like to add to the list (truth or lies), please send it to mail@theyoungriders.com
CASS
You watch the new WB show Young Americans (and force your roomie to watch it twice a week too) because Hamilton and Jake are "just like Kid and Lou".
You constantly check to see what's on The History Channel in the hopes of catching a program about the REAL Pony Express, Buffalo Bill Cody or Wild Bill Hickok. You'll even watch a show about the women of the wild west because Calamity Jane was a friend of Wild Bill and Annie Oakly worked for Buffalo Bill so one of your guys might get mentioned.
HELEN
You haven't been able to finish a book since TYR became your secret identity.
CINDY
you call people + pets Buck, Kid, Jimmy, or Cody by accident.
Every show you watch and you see an old guest star you say "He was in an episode of The Young Riders!"
your husband tells you: "We can't do anything because our lives revolve around The Young Riders!"
you tell your family to leave you the heck alone, you don't need to be distracted while you're taping and you yell at them when they distract you and you forget to pause during the commercials!
you think of the many sexual things you'd love to do with your faverider.
you find a corrolation between real life and something that happened on the show...scary.
you spend countless amounts of hours--from the time you wake up until time you go to sleep thinking about what am I going to add to that fan fic now? OR sitting at your computer typing your fan fic.
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you have more lustful thought about them they you ever wish for.
your server is down and you can't get to your favorite web page and when you do it has not been updated yet !!!
you wish you lived in the 1850's and not the 2000
your best friends are all over the world and not in the same town
you wish you were Lou or Rachel so many times you lost count
Your tapes have traveled to more countries than you have because you can’t bear to think of anyone being deprived of the show.
You dump your boyfriend/husband because he doesn’t measure up to Jimmy.
You wave your hand around like a gun and sing “do do do do do do do do do do” when the theme music comes on.
You yell out “YOU BITCH” or “DON’T KISS HER” when the evil female guest stars are on screen.
You can’t call said female guest stars by their real names but instead refer to them as (Scumantha, She-Devlin, Horitha, Spawn, Mantis, Ike-killer etc. )
You belong to a wacky fan group devoted to one of the riders and you have a lengthy sig line.
You spend more time working on your website (or surfing or reading fic) than on your degree/cleaning your house/spending time with your family.
You can recite the URLs of the message boards and several TYR sites.
You have at least 30 TYR related webpages bookmarked.
You have more TYR friends than real friends.
You think about your favourite rider at very inappropriate times.
You feel the urge to discuss the show with complete strangers.
You have made at least three Jimmyholic conversions (or Buckette etc. )
You’ll sit through “Trancers 186”, “Street Fighter”, “The Mod Squad”, or just about any Stephen Baldwin movie just to catch a glimpse of our guys.
You know which rider was in the above-mentioned movies.
You haven’t read a book since you discovered fan fiction.
You increased your intake of M&Ms because of Stephen’s commercial.
You get your Grandma to read an adult TYR story.
You get your Dad to admit that Jimmy is a hunk.
You move to Arizona with someone you met online. ;-)
You have at least 10 Tyr folders on your PC/Mac divided into the appropriate categories for each rider. E.G Main folder: TYR subfolder JOSH [Mimic, shirtless/bulge, Nightwatch, etc.] subfolder JIMMY [Jimmy+Lou, Jimmy tied up] etc.
You can find a quote from the show to suit every occasion.
You’ve meditated for many days over the nature of Jimmyness.
You feel Teaspoon has more to teach you than your parents do.
You watch season 3 more than once.
You do a paper/dissertation/thesis on TYR.
You know ALL the episode titles.
You name your first-born Teaspoon, Buck, or Kid (don’t laugh, a guy here once told us he named his son Hickok.)
You kiss (OK lick) your TYR poster good night.
You have spent more than $200 buying TYR stuff on ebay.
Your dreams are set in Sweetwater.
You read Homer’s Odyssey hoping it will have something to do with TYR.
You buy a gun and you’re anti-gun in theory.
You resolve disputes in a friendly game of Tennis with said gun.
You buy buckskins and wear them in public.
You eat raw onions hoping it will give you Teaspoon-like wisdom.
You cut your husband/boyfriend’s head out of pictures and replace them with your favourite rider’s face.
You will only eat hand-churned ice-cream
You make your husband/boyfriend or fellow TYR fan re-enact the proposal scene (preferably on location.)
You wear black and refuse to speak for a week after “In the Presence of Mine Enemies” airs.
You can’t watch “The Practice” because you harbour resentment towards Emily (Kelli Williams).
You date lots of quiet, bald guys.
You have a weekly tent sauna.
You make your hubby/boyfriend dress up as a cowboy. ;-)
You plan your group study sessions around getting home in time to see the show.
You feel as though you have achieved a great victory for the world when you finally get your roommate to watch the show, and she starts to like it.
You start to rearrange your European trip to include Sweden just because you have a bunch of TYR friends there.
HEATHER ADDED
You hide out in the boss’s office to catch up on the message boards.
You get angry with your family when they talk during and episode.
You get all teary eyed when Lou turns Kid down in ‘Daisy’.
You ball your eyes out when you watch “The Sacrifice”.
You throw popcorn, the remote, or your dog at the TV when the SPAWN appears!
You use TYR or any of the riders’ names, initials, or the words ‘young riders’ in your email address or as a nickname.
You compare your date to your favourite rider.
You constantly need a Kid and Lou fix.
You share fan fic with your students as a way to teach creative writing.
You have a replica of an 1851 Navy Colt for a bookend.
You search fleamarkets and antique malls for a mochilla.
One of the tapes in your car has the TYR theme song on it.
You find yourself searching for the perfect Jimmy hat, and Jimmy’s not even your favourite character.
You risk your life rushing home to see if your favourite fan fic story has been updated.
You pester your significant other to do one of those “old time photos” with you so you can dress him up like your favorite rider and have a pic for posterity.
You feel the need to make a pilgrimage to the read Cody’s boyhood home, and he’s your least favorite rider, but he was real and there’s actually a place to visit.
You throw a hissy-fit if your ISP kicks you offline in the middle of a TYR post.
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