i just wrote "come full circle to find the truth" in a proposal and i'm super, super pleased with myself.

...when you're at the supermarket, see that cream cheese is on sale, and you think to yourself 'now, should I buy real cream cheese, or lite cream cheese?' Then you realize that's from X-Files, and are embarassed, even though you never said anything aloud

...when you're stranded on the side of the highway with your mom, and when you're eventually picked up by a passing vehicle, you're scared to death and almost cry. Not scared to death because you're nervous about the situation in the first place, but scared because he looks exactly like Donnie Pfaster

(that last one happened about 4 or 5 years ago... it looked like him so much that I wanted to ask him if he was the guy who played him, but I was too scared)

My fiance' and I just adopted a cat and named her Scout! She has orange fur so I immediately thought about naming her Scully, but to avoid further ridicule from my family I decided to go with the less obvious X-filish name of Scout.

Oh my God, I saw a guy who looked exactly like Pfaster on the Montreal subway almost two years ago. I shrunk into my seat and was embarrassingly petrified until my stop.

Did anyone hear "Stardate" on NPR last night? It was about the planet Venus. You probably thought you heard a Stardate last night about something other than Venus, but I assure you, the Stardate last night was about Venus.

[YKYAXPW you watch "The Green Mile" and automatically think, "They had a healer on the X-Files." ]

And then you also note that the resident psycho/power hungry prison guard who gets it in the end...is none other than TOOMS.

... you ask your dad what star that is in the sky, he replies Venus, and the first thing out of you mouth is: 'No object is more commonly mistaken for a UFO than the planet Venus', and then you giggle to yourself for the next ten minutes.

... it still gives you a thrill when you look at the clock and it says 11:21 or 10:13.

YKYAXPW... you go to a very dry, dull seminar on staturory voluntary sector investment and one of the speakers illustrates her point with a slide that says

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it" - Alan Kay.

and you get a stomach flip and scan the other delegates for hints of recognition. To find none.

YKYAXPW..you get a work email from a 'rstrickland' and think 'what does Ronnie want now?'

YKYAXPW... you're at WalMart, and you hear the loudspeaker declare 'CSM to customer service... CSM to customer service' and think to yourself 'See! He's not dead! He's alive, and he works at WalMart!'

(The department name was different, but I couldn't remember what it was, so I just inserted customer service... makes sense, right? hah)

CSM working at Wal-Mart--I shudder at the possibilities.

Would that stand for Customer Service Manager?

No idea... as I said I'm not even sure it was calling 'CSM' to the customer service department. All I heard was CSM and I got all giddy and dorky

The University of Toronto had it's 175th anniversary a while ago, andthere were flags of famous alumni hanging from lampposts. William B. Davis is an alumni, and I was walking downtown one day, and there was this massive flag of CSM hanging down right over my head. For a brief, shining, moment, I thought XF and CSM had taken over the world...

Today I was in a building on campus and I walked by these two guys. Right at the moment I passed them, I heard one little snippet of what one of them was saying, the only words I heard being "The X-Files". So I reflexively looked down at my shirt, figuring I must be wearing one of my XF t-shirts, and he had noticed. I actually wasn't, so then I was just really excited that someone was talking about XF. I kinda wanted to join in the conversation, even though I had no idea who they were or what they were saying.

First, WalMart. Then, the world...

Did you ask if you could have it when they were done. Because that would be frigging awesome.

Nah, they took them all down before I realized it was over. But I totally would have hung it over my bed...

YKYAXPW- a normal after-breakfast conversation turns into a debate over the mytharc, and you realize that it's a regular occurance.

That would have so totally given me nightmares

Anyway, YKYAXPW ... you see the name Reyes on the sign in sheet for one of your classes, you automatically look to see if the person's name is Moronica. When you see the name Alex there instead, you think 'Why would Krycek ever marry Moronica?'

YKYAXPW - you spend top dollar buying S9 (which you don't even like) and pay to get it from the USA because you can't wait an extra six months before it's released in the benighted country you call home.

My husband and I ate dinner at my parents-in-law's house tonight, and the conversation naturally turned to vampire movies. Here is a transcription of the actual discussion. I am not making any of this up.

Crow's Sister-In-Law: Have you guys seen the sequel to Dracula 2000?
Crow's Husband: What, Dracula 2001?
SIL: I don't remember what it's called, but they added all of this weird new vampire lore. Like, if someone threw seeds, the vampire had to count them all. [Crow nearly chokes on her pizza, but recovers.] Have you ever heard of that? And if someone's shoes were tied, they had to untie them.
Crow: Oddly enough, there seems to be one obscure fact which in all the vampire stories told by different cultures is exactly the same, and that's that vampires are really, really obsessive-compulsive.
Husband: [catching on] So, if you toss seeds at one, he's got to stop and count them.
Crow: Well, he doesn't actually count them, he picks them up. If he had to count them, he would be Rain Man.
Husband: Y'all must be the gub'mint people!

Holy cow, that's funny, Crow! YKYAXPW you want to marry Crow's husband just so you too can confuzzle people in just this fashion.

When after all these years you still have wet dreams about Alex Krycek. This was fine when I was single, but nowadays I live with my boyfriend. He gets a bit grumpy when I tell him that my dreams sometimes feature this fictional hunk....

when your english teacher announces that this year's science ficton unit invovles dissection of several x-files episodes, and the entire class turns around to see your reaction (and are gratified when you squeal. loudly.)

Oooh, fun. Let us know how it goes.

Oh, just tell a little white lie and say it's Scully you're dreaming about - he might really like that...

You know you're NOT an X-phile anymore when you realize very late in the day that it is the second anniversary of the finale and you really don't give a shit.

Or that it's been a couple of months since you watched one of your DVDs.

I haven't watched an XF DVD since August. I'm a bad phile.

...you pick the right definition for syzygy during a game of Cranium, but your team doesn't believe you when get to the definition by explaining its the name of an X-Files episode where the girls go weird because the planets are aligned and...and...Well, at least I got a "I told you so" when my team picked a different (and wrong) answer.

...when you have a yummy dream about DD (dressed in a gray polo shirt and nice tight jeans, hair tousled just so) where you go around calling him "David" and rub your hands on his chest, and you have a smile on your face all day because of it.

Or maybe that's just a "You Know You are Obsessed with Your TV Boyfriend When..."

...you see a license plate that reads "REYNKIN" and think of Victoria Jackson.

....you use the words "syzygy", "conduit", "obfuscate", "inveigle", and "requiem" on the vocab list for your english class.

I haven't watched any of my X-files tapes in quite a while now. I don't have any DVD's yet, either. Bad, bad phile.
Once I get money, I will start collecting the DVD's. Now, alas, Buffy comes first.

Victoria Jackson is on Hollywood Squares this week (which show I started watching when GA was a panellist a few months ago), and I keep wanting a contestant to choose her by saying, "I'll take the only panellist who has appeared on The X Files." No one has so far. Stupid contestants.

Truth be told, it's been four months since I watched one of my XF DVDs. I was embarrassed to admit that, but then smrou admitted that it's been 9 months for her, and I didn't feel so bad. That's a long time. You could be 9/14ths of the way through a pregnancy in that much time.

Hee!

Something happened that made me realize that I need to break out my XF DVDs again. Last night I was watching TV with my roommate, and she was flipping through channels. One of the channels was showing XF (The Amazing Maleeni), and as soon as I saw Scully's face I started grinning and let out a little "ooh!". Then I saw Mulder's face, and I think I may have moaned. So my roommate stopped right there. I could tell she wasn't into it at all, so I said she could change the channel, and she said that she hadn't planned on stopping, but it seemed like I might explode if she didn't.

... when you you figure out the year of a certain major event (like, I don't know, say 9/11) for your US Society final exam, thanks to a obscure reference in one episode

...the last quarter of the Friends series finale is a blur for you because the departure gate was decorated with huge prints of the conical and spherical constructions which were the signature image of the New York World Fair, and so all you can think about is Audrey. (And how "off" it was to have neither Ben or Emma in the final episode.)

... when you watch the Pilot for the umpteenth time in 10 years and still want to know, how did the f-ing orangutan get into the grave?

Because it's not an orangutan, my dear, it's an alien. Or something. Yeah, actually, either way, what the fuck??!

...while driving into Toronto you see a building with the letters MSR and immediatly wonder if there's a building with the letters NoRomo...and then you giggle.

Or one of the nicest people you ever met was the guy who said "Hey, you look just like Scully" before he even knew your name or of your obsession. Aw, how I miss him.

Or or! You seat people all day at work but get a real joy out of it when it's a petite red-headed woman with a Scully cut. And! You aren't afraid to admit that your heart skipped a beat when you thought it actually was GA before seeing the face.

....or when you realize that your new obssession with the Gilmore Girls is what reminded you of your previous obsession with the X-Files so you wonder over to these boards rather than pack.

... when you read

and you think "ooooooo, The Pilot... *sigh*" and no words can express...

Well, since Ray Soames was "dead" and fellow abductee Billy Miles showed obvious signs of alien influence, I took the orangatuan body to be a failed attempt at a transformation, ala into an alien replicant like Billy Miles did in Season 8. In other words, Soames was being transformed while "dead", just like Billy Miles was and Mulder almost was more than seven years later. The Soames kid was obviously either a failed attempt or not allowed to "finish". And I'm not even suggesting that CC knew way back then exactly where he was going with the whole alien replicant/supersolider thing, I'm just saying that he knew he was going to have aliens doing experiments on abductees in an attempt to somehow turn them into aliens and/or alien products. Of course, if human beings are already alien (see "junk DNA"), then perhaps it's more accurate to say they're really just turning up the alienness that already exists in all of us. All this, of course, is opposed to government experiments to turn out beings completely immune to alien influence...

Needless to say, YKYAXPW when you still get a charge out of puzzling out all this wacky XF stuff...

When you're on course to fail your exams due to getting distracted by a renaissance in your X-Files enthusiasm which has resulted in you watching about 6 episodes a day for the last week...

So if the recipe for a supersoldier goes a little bit wrong, you get an orangutan instead? That gives whole new meaning to the old phrase, "Come on you apes, you want to live forever?" Or perhaps that's how we end up with the Planet of the Apes? "Get your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty regenerating supersoldier!" Are we lucky that Mulder didn't come back as a chimp? Actually, that could have been really cool. It would have been like Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp. Of course, Mulder would have to switch from sunflower seeds to bananas. I should probably stop now.

Actually, that explanation occurred to me, but I just couldn't believe they'd planned things that carefully.

But, bmills you could be trying to postrationalise a link into a understandable coincidence. Isn't Planet of the Apes one of CC's favourite movies, with it name-checked/referenced a couple of other times in the show? There is a strand of similarity - with branched evolution masquerading as alien life, and a corrupted and raped planet earth masquerading as an outer-space new world order. Colony and slavery, blah blah Roddy McDowell cakes.

After lurking for a few weeks, i've finally decided to contribute my own ykyaxpw's. Needless to say, I have a bunch to add. :)

You know you're an x phile...

… when you visit Vancouver BC for the very first time and all of your sightseeing consists of trying to recognize locations where they shot XF (I saw Scully’s church from “Emily”!).

… when you take the long way to the gym because you know you’re driving past THE baseball field where Scully had her first baseball lesson and it makes you happier, somehow.

… when you started listening to The Foo Fighters and Eve 6 because you know where their band names came from.

… when watching CSI you see Nick Lea playing Catherine’s boyfriend and immediately think, “He’s up to something… I don’t trust that one,” because, well, he’s Krycek.

… when you stop flipping on PBS because you hear David’s voice narrating a documentary about homeless dogs, and think, “I bet he’s doing this because of Blue!”. It was actually a really good doc!

… when your new car’s license plate has the letters “F” and “M” in them and you smile to yourself.

… when you actually get to meet Nick Chinlund (who plays Pfaster) and you’re nearly paralyzed with fear, even though he last played that character like six years before. Of course, you tell yourself, “Yes, I’m scared. But it’s an irrational fear”.

That's all for me! Yay for first posts!

...you see this headline in the Chicago Tribune

"Man with glass eye sought in Blue Line slashing"

and you immediately think Henry Weems really should keep better track of his eye.

At the risk of sounding like a bad Phile, to what is "Foo Fighters" a reference? (I'm familiar with the band. What I mean is, where is the term in TXF?)

Crow,
according to a web site called Neurotica World:

“Foo Fighters” was a nickname that Allied forces gave to basketball sized unidentified glowing spheres they used to see floating in the air over the battlefields during WWII. Both sides thought the globes came from the other side and were some sort of spy device. UFO researchers consider the globes to be of extra terrestrial origin as many “abductees” have reported seeing similar objects.

Lead singer Dave Grohl is reported to be a big fan of the show, even appearing as an extra in the episode Pusher, and I think in the movie, too. And there's a Foo Fighter song on the movie's soundtrack.

Hope that helps!