Post by killerbananas on Jan 27, 2008 15:10:12 GMT 9.5
ADMIN PRE-NOTE: Please do not add "When" to your responses, otherwise it'll become "You Know You're A Warlovian When When ... ", and that's just silly ((and we shouldn't have to keep deleting all the extra "when"s!)). Also, adding a "-" before each one helps a lot. Thank you.
I've had a few moments when I've seen something that instantly reminded me of Ant, and so this is the place to share those moments, such as:
YKYAWW...
- You smile to yourself every time you see a silver Sharpie.
- Your breath catches whenever you see a tall-ish bald man- until they turn around
- Your heart skips a beat whenever you hear or read the name "Anthony"
- You keep finding reasons to bring him into a conversation.
- You see a tea towel lying about and have the urge to put it over your shoulder even when under the circumstances a tea towel is completely unnecessary.
- You have fond memories of performances in pink tights (or red tights - OK, any coloured tights!)
- "Ant-asm", "Ant-awe" and "Ant-easers" are staples in your vocabulary.
- You insist that your boyfriend must shave his head and wear a mask.
- Your friend says, "I swear, if you mention that man's name one more time...!"
- You make icons/signatures with his likeness on them...
- ...when you should be doing your homework/getting ready for work/picking your kids up.
- You joined this board.
- You do a double take every time you see a certain make and model of car....
- ... or any car with a certain state licence plate ((I swear there was one with that state licence plate in the Foodland / Hotel carpark the other day, only it was a different colour))
- You use any opportunity to pull out the photos of you and him, and then recount the entire experience.
- You calculate whether you can use your shares to buy the exact same car....
- You swear to never throw out the Sharpie that Ant used
- Your workmates know who he is and have learnt to bail when you start talking about him!
- A major goal at work is to bring him up in conversation with customers (its hard to at maccas.."would you like some anthony warlow with that?")
- You can bring him up in almost any situation such as donating blood, supermarket line etc
- You say to your friends, "Ah, but is Johnny Depp a musical pirate?"
- People irritate you, you threaten to punjab them.
- You refer to him as Ant.
- You know every nuisance of Phantom (the song), right down to the, "Sing for me"s.
- You don't have to think very hard when adding to this thread.
- You fear/anticipate the day Michael Crawford crosses your path.
- You can't bear to listen / watch Antonio Banderas singing PotO.
- You'd take Antonio Banderas over MC.
- In doubt, you do as Ant would do
- You use quotes from him ((songs, shows, et cetera)) in day-to-day life
- You hear a complaint about an ant (as in the insect) you are for a split second very insulted and near to injuring the person who made such a blasphemous (sp?) remark!
- You prefer to wipe completely from memory the years as a kid when you said something akin to "BORING!" when mum's friends' spoke of Ant's voice in the first Phantom run.... i didn't do it, i swear!!!!!
- You hassle your nan for Ant anecdotes instead of tuning out of the conversation
- You seriously consider using your small uni savings to fly to Sydney to see Phantom
- The first thing you do when you get home from a holiday is check out this site so you can see what you've been missing
- You go into a store just to check how much Ant merchandise they have in each day.
- You walk down Little Bourke St just so you can see where you met him, and then get choked up cos some inferior alien vehicle is parked in the spot.
- You base your shopping list on his demonstration of Italian words.
- You go see Sweeny Todd but get angry coz some other guy is singing Johanna ("what's that!?" "that's fop!")
- You use the internet on your phone to try and keep up to date on the site, the realise where you are holidaying isn't on the 3G Network, so it's on roaming, and you've run up a $300 mobile bill because of the extra charges that aren't inclusive in your package!
- You feel the urge to vandalise the car in the spot...
- You want to turn said spot into a shrine or sacred spot, complete with giant photo of Ant and flowers and letters
- You hassle the ABC shop people on a weekly basis regarding Ant related stuff
- You have "Anthony Warlow" saved as a search on ebay
- You go to a movie (such as Sweeney Todd) and spend half the movie thinking who Ant would play best...
- You go to any show and try and work out who Anthony would play best.
- You spend an entire day devoted to this site and don't consider it time that could have been better spent
- You realise you're starting school tomorrow and wonder what excuses you can use to get to the library and check out the site every hour or so...
- You also realise how much your homework will suffer due to your dedication to Ant.
- You're browsing the menu at an Italian restaurant and all you can hear is Ant's voice in your head reading out the items...."Ravioli" "Tortellini"
- You're in a shop that sells DVDs and you keep pausing over the film The Main Event, even though you know it's the film and not the concert.
- You're reading the cast board at Spamalot, notice the conductor is Peter Casey and say rather loudly "Oh- he's the guy that did The Main Event!" as people around you either smile or look at you like you're crazy.
- You decide you like Sweeney Todd as soon as creepy organ music is played in the intro.
- You flail wildly after Harold Prince's name pops up in the opening credits.
- You emit a small squeal when that boy's name's revealed to be Anthony.
- You end up typing "Anthony", "Warlow", both or variants when you were actually trying to type something else (("anything", et cetera)).
- You get up to answer the phone, stop, turn around and backtrack to pause iTunes because Ant's pining in His Work and Nothing More ("Li~sa~!") is just about to start. (Which I did!)
- You trudge through Les Mis (the book) just to read abouthim Enjolras. (Which I didn't do, but this could possibly be because I read the book before garnering knowledge of Ant.)
- You feel inclined to - or actually do - send in a picture of Ant to a website that makes posters ((I've got the leaflet for it somewhere and I'm just having trouble deciding what pic to use)).
- Your roommate randomly comments to you that the new Financial Economics professor looks like AW (Anthony is officially known to them as AW), because he is bald too.
- You're listening to Ant on your iPod(/mp3 et cetera) and there is so much noise around u that u have to turn it up to the max not minding the fact that you might be getting permanent ear damage.
- You go to great lengths to steal someone else's (eg. your brother, mother sister, friends) iPod etc just so u can listen to him where ever u go.
- You list how many Phantom and J&H vibes you got from Sweeney Todd.
- You fight the urge to scream at the screen "His name is ANTHONY! With a 'TH'- that makes a thhhhhh sound! Not Antony!!"
- Your grandfather orders a Crownie and you fight the urge to ask if he wants chips with it.
- You zone out of a conversation about your distant cousins until "they moved to Wollongong" comes up and you're all ears.
- Your first words at your first Cal class are "Guess what? I met Anthony Warlow!" and pull the programme out of your dance bag (The one you take to Phantom)
- You have photos of you and Ant that you intend to stick to the front of your school organiser, and keep randomly going "Oh look, it's me and- who's that standing next to me? Why it's Anthony Warlow!" and smiling like an idiot.
- You hassle the video store about a movie that Ant told you to watch- I STILL HAVEN"T GOT IT!
- You see an ad up the top of this page that says "How I Kill Fire Ants" and you get very offended!
- You're checking your playlists on iTunes and realise you've got 265 tracks on your Warlow playlist + 10 interviews which comes to 17.5 hours and 1.3G!!!
- It's 11:50 and you're still hanging around here...
- You go green with envy when you find out your friend and her family grew up knowing Anthony and his family in the photographic business in Shellharbour!
- You're trying to find Australian photographers to research for photography class (obviously!), you hear someone mention their dad's a photographer and instantly wonder if its really crossing the obsessive line to try and find any stuff by Ant's dad- does anyone know exactly what sort of photography he did?
- You hear your Psychology teacher call someone in your class "Ant" and you try and find out who they are...
- You go through the canteen just because the teacher who looks like Ant is supervising....
- You get excited when someone informs you the teacher who looks like Ant is in the building
- You fill out a form and you almost put Warlovian under "religion"...
- ...and "occupation".
- You add This Is The Moment at the end of every cd that you burn for your friends (whether they contain music or data or whatever) in the hopes of converting them into Warlovians. And then going into a long, gushy monologue about Ant whenever any friend asks who the singer was.
- You make your baritone friend sing said song every time you get together for Karaoke that now he automatically chooses to sing that song whether you're there or not (actually it's Videoke here- the lyrics flash on the screen and you sing along, but same banana)
- You make your baritone friend listen to Ant on your iPod so many times he understands that when you tell him he sounds like Warlow, it's the height of compliments, as compliments go
- You make multiple backups of your Ant cds in case the real ones break and Amazon runs out of copies.
- You consider buying multiple copies of Warlow DVDs and CDs and storing them in someone else's house or in a bank vault in case something happens to your collection (house burns down, you get burgled).
- You go away to the beach for a week, and the last thing you do before leaving is hide every Warlow thing you own in different places around the house, so that should someone break in and manage to find one of them, the rest are safe...unless there's a house fire- I must buy a safe!
- You wonder if "Warlovian" could become a legitimate religion, like Jedi (but then it would be too mainstream- NO!)
- Driving your car makes you break out into Alive.
- You blow an entire week's pay on Phantom merchandise and consider it money well spent...
- ...and bills are piled elbow-high on your desk...
- ...beneath various Ant-related paraphernalia.
- You bought the damn umbrella.
- ... and the teddy bear
- ... and the "small" shirt
- ... and the necklace
- ... and a copy of the program each for each time you attended.
- You use the umbrella.
- Regularly.
- In fact, you hope it rains just so you can whip it out.
- You go shopping, find a black suit jacket and think joyfully, "This screams Hyde!"
- You refuse to eat apples because you don't want to keep the doctor away.
- You understand these obscure references.
- "Girl From Ipanema" comes up in the random play iTunes you are listening to while you are checking what's been happening here while you've been cooking dinner and you just have to fall back into the chair, eyes closed, small smile on face, swaying gently in time to music.
- You realise that there aren't enough words in the English language to do Ant justice, so you create / contribute to / memorise the Warlovian dictionary
- You can never look at an apple the same way again
- You laugh uncontrollably when your mum returns from grocery shopping with a rockmelon
- You have a panic attack because you can't find your necklace from Phantom
- January 8th is forever immortalised in your memory and you intend to tell your grandchildren about it
- You look up "Warlow" on a surname history site and learn the family motto- "Wonderful in the Depths"
- You realised if you got into that Annie audition you got a call back for you would have worked with Anthony Warlow*tear*
- You can't wait for - or at least know about the significance of - 10pm.
- You're going through the phone book on your mum's phone and you jump when you see the name "Anthony", before realising its your boring uncle Tony- damn him!
- Your friend gives you his business card and you read it and splutter, "Your middle name's Anthony?"
- ... and he rolls his eyes and replies, "No relation to your Anthony."
- You seriously consider not going to the family beach-house half way up the East Coast for 3 days because there is no phone line at the house and the nearest public computer that you know up is on dial-up (no ADSL in rural Tassie) and 30 minutes drive away.
- You pack for your mini-break at family beach-house (we call 'em "shacks" in Tassie) and you take all Warlow DVDs & CDs with you so you can have another marathon in private!
- Your family is so used to your ranting you dad strikes up Warlow conversations with you and your mum is pointing out people in magazines who look like him
- You have a particularly violent reaction to Kath's (of Kath & Kim fame) comment, "That Michael Crawford makes me hot"...
- ...so you go stare at your program for a while...
- ...which you refer to as "therapy."
- You hear Johnny Depp hold an "nnnnn" in Sweeney Todd and instantly think of "Orphannnnnnnn boy". And how much nicer Ant did it.
- You see an ad in a travel agents to buy a pacific island and beginning plotting to get one and give a Warlow related name (such as Warlow Island)
- You realise the Phantom brochure is covering up the only photo of your friends in your bedroom.
- You get excited when you see JB Hi-Fi have a "Musicals" section.
- You get really excited when you see they have a "Jekyll and Hyde" section.
- You rant and rave when you see they spelled it, "Jeckyll".
- You've signed up for Anthony Warlow Google Alerts
- You're reading Susan Kay's "Phantom" and see this quote- "Extraordinary hands he has....they quite give me gooseflesh"....and you instantly think of Ant.
- You overhear a Yr 7/8 say to their friend "..and then he did the Back In The Swing tour" and smile to yourself because you know it's good to have up and coming Warlovians.
- A certain make, model and colour of a car pulls up outside your next door neighbours house, and you steathily check it out the window...
- You know you've made the right choice of hairdresser, based not on the way she cuts and colours your hair, but on the fact that she was very excited when a mutual friend told her of my meeting, rang me this morning before I went to the salon to make sure I brought my CD with me, and then sat it up on the bench so he could watch her while she "made me look beautiful".
- You've already decided to get another budgie, although you already have 23, just so you can name him Anthony!
- You use Phantom references in your annotations for photography.
- You get a rush of happiness when you realise its February 8th, and therefore a month since you met Ant....and then remember the night by saying to yourself "and this time a month ago I was...."
- You intend to lie in the backyard on the "anniversary" of meeting Ant and send out well wishes to him through the universe. ((I'll do what I like, shut up.))
- You hear / read a name like Cary Grant and immediately think of Ant's impersonations.
- You're mortified when you're dad says the dentist he went to looked like Anthony and respond by saying, "There's only one Ant!"
- You then imagine what Ant would be like as a dentist...
- Your cyclone preparation kit includes a dedicated supply of zip-lock bags and waterproof containers which have the single purpose of safeguarding your Ant collection
- Your cyclone plan reads "...move to the strongest part of your house. Ensure that you also take your pets and your Ant collection ..."
- You start to look for an "alternative energy" iPod charger to add to your emergency supplies - simply because the thought of an Ant "famine" during a cyclone is too horrible to contemplate
- You log-in to check what's been happening on U/S before checking the BOM website to look at the cyclone track map
- You realise Ant says "September 14th" in Streak Of Madness, and take it as a sign for the LSS.
- You get excited about that ^ news.
- You risk life and limb banging into walls and falling over to see two seconds of footage of Ant on TV (It was worth it!)
- You get up at 3.30 am to go to the loo and the lure of the computer in the room next to yours (I'm staying with a friend who leaves it on all the time) is too great, and you have to check out what's been happening here, and half an hour later you're still here and it's now 4.00 am!!!
- You see a 10 sec compilation of clips from shows in Melbourne, swear you saw Phantom and watch the rest of the show going on an Ant hunch
- You see Ant of TV and scream out "I met him!"
- You grin like a maniac watching him
- Your uncle (who lives in Brisbane) rings your nan, and gets her to ask you if you're going up to Brisbane because "that guy Anthony's up here" and he expects you and a few crazy friends showing up on his doorstep.
- You then tell your uncle to look out for a certain car and call you immediately if he sees it....
- You're sweeping the store and can't stop your fingers from twitching on the broom handle.
- You're sitting down anywhere, with your arms either resting on the arms of a chair or on your legs, and you find your fingers are twitching ((thankfully everyone has their eyes closed during closing meditation or I would have had to explain that to my whole Shotokan class)).
- You overhear an ad where someone says "That's not a whip" and you suddenly get an image of Corcoran in your head...
- You drive by the Murray River Queen ((often)) and keep thinking Captain Corcoran is going to burst through one of those doors ...
- You randomly type Ant's name into site search engines, because you never know where he might be mentioned!
- You find this little gem:
- You read a (pretty dodge) fanfic with a typo where Erik says "I assume you got the massage" and all you can hear in your head is "I have a massage to get to"
- You notice that to buy a kilo of Haigh's (sp?) chocolates is $100, and calculate how much it is buy two...
- Your Aunt gets a box of said chocolates for her birthday and scoffs the lot before you can ask to try one...
- You are sitting at computer in Brisbane and ad for Phantom comes on TV in other room and you race into other room to see it, much to astonishment of friend and her children!!
- You lament that Rob Guest is in Wicked, purely on the basis of his Phantom performance...and then spend half an hour reminding yourself how fantastic Ant is...
- Someone says "Who's Anthony Warlow?" you have an initiation pack to convert them in an instant.
- You run into the lounge room in the morning because on one of the morning shows you overhear "So, Anthony..." only to find out its some weird looking businessman.
- You're lying in bed half asleep and your eyes pop open the minute you hear someone in the next room or on the radio say "Anthony".
- You get excited when the basketball team from Woollongong wins a match...
- ...and you don't even like basketball.
- You're hoping a certain guy wins So You Think You Can Dance? purely because his name's Anthony.
- You spent hours working on animations just to satisfy yourperverted creative nature...
- ...and despite yourself you still went back to it after Photoshop crashed and deleted heaps of your frames.
- You have the sudden urge to run out and purchase shampoo.
- You begin to think of a brand new Comedy Inc. cast doing a re-shoot of that Herbal Essence add where the Jamaican sings: "Coconuts and orchids are a hair's best friend!"
- You are helping a friend clean up after dinner and putting left-overs into a container to freeze and she gets a Sharpie out of the drawer to write on the lid and you dissolve into uncontrollable giggles.
- You're in the Newsagent looking over the back-to-school products on sale and you start having a laugh attack - much to the fear of fellow shoppers - when you see that sharpies only cost $1.50 ((and being incapable of explaining the hilarity of it all)).
- The item you order off eBay arrives from Wollongong, and you get excited, because maybe they knew Ant way back when.
- The example work brief you're given in photography has the example theme of Fitzroy and you can't stop giggling.
- You hear a certain car brand mentioned on the radio and you turn it up, even though they're talking to some design guy and you really know nothing about cars.
- The teacher at your school who looks like Ant is walking behind you (without your knowledge) and then says "Anthony!" behind you (talking to a kid in the corridor) and you jump a mine because a) he looks like Ant and b) you thought he saw your English binder, which has an A4 copy of Unwinding's Sharpie ad on it.
- Your friend just asked you for a copy of the Phantom CD. Little does she know, you refuse to spread MC's filth. (She's gonna get a surprise when she flicks on the CD, heheheheh...)
- You flail with joy when you see there's a Fitzroy street near you.
- You panic when you realise you just killed an Ant
- When you take pictures of the teacher at school who looks like Ant, from behind...with your phone..
- You pick up Phantom symbolism in nearly every scene of your school play.
- You plot to emphasise said symbolism.
- Your Aunt's friend tells you she's looking at moving, possibly to Fitzroy, and you wonder how you can test how long it takes you to get from the Princess to there....in 10 minutes.
- You see Crownies are on special at the local bottle shop and smile to yourself.
- You wear same clothes to see Phantom in Brisbane as you did in December when you saw Ant three times in two days in the hope that it will mean Ant will be on.
- You wear the same jewellery to see Phantom in Brisbane as you did in Melbourne the day you met Ant, as a talisman to ensure he will be on.
- Your first shoot for Photography involves Phantom masks and other imagery.
- You see this guy's t-shirt has a skull on it and think it really looks like Red Death.
- You see a hoodie that has some trendy logo and the words "Midnight Dreaming" on it, and you want one, purely because of that.
- Your day is made because the teacher who looks like Ant says "Hi" to you.
- Your new singing teacher has a Phantom poster on the wall, and spends a good 10 minutes discussing Ant with you and using him as examples for technique....
- You'd probably sit through an episode of Petals just to hear his voice.
- You have a heart attack when you find your folks have bought Herbal Essence.
- You get bored in drama and make a phantom mask out of paper
- You get excited when you find one of the school bands are learning "orange coloured sky" and instantly insist they listen to Ant's version
- You spaz when someone says they "hate musical theatre" but soften up when they say they heard phantom was really good and wished they'd seen it
- You ((for once)) leap at the chance to learn a song your vocal teacher has suggested, merely because it comes from Patience
- You immediately e-mail Warlow tracks to your vocal teacher when you learn she is learning to play the violin, and the last song in her beginner's book is Cavatina.
- You get excited when you watch the first episode of ITT (that you taped while you were away) and notice when they are intro-ing D Hobson that they play a short grab from Pirates featuring the Pirate King.
- You are doing this week's TV Week crossword and you get excited when one of the clues is _______ of the Opera.
- Your psychology teacher starts every conversation with you by asking "What's Anthony up to today?" and confuses the hell out of the guy in your class named Anthony!
- Your English teacher is using examples of conflict in modern media, and uses the final lair scene as an example.
- You try and figure out how to work Phantom music into your school production- it will happen!
- You nearly cry when you break the chain on your Phantom necklace
- You feel like making a complaint because a stationary store stocks every colour Sharpie but silver!
- Masks are mentioned by your drama teacher and about 3 people turn to you using their hands as phantom masks
- Your stomach leaps, you do a double-take and start laughing all at once when your mum remarks, "You know, we haven't had any ANTS all year!"
- You take it as a favourable sign from the gods when you spend a whole day at school finding random ants crawling on you!
- You smile to yourself when a customer buys Herbal Essence
- You burst into laughter at the Dolmio ad- "Wear the Dolmio Grin!"
- You're unpacking new craft stuff at work and see a mask kit with a silver half mask on the front (misleading, as the kit is for a carnivale style mask!)
- You get excited about staying with your grandparents for two days because you know it'll be an Ant-fest.
- Your English teacher asks the class what you expect from a hero and you say tights...pink tights, and get a few strange looks
- Your friend says, "I was violated by ants," and you have a very loud coughing fit. (She later explained she sat on an ant nest while wearing a dress and they crawled to places they shouldn't have!)
- You jump at every opportunity to watch the new Gillette razor blade commercial (("Feel the power of Phantom"))
- You hear your mother say on the phone (while looking at Termite-Ant) "Wow that's bad termite damage" and burst into laughter...
- You watch Rebecca, as Ant recommended, and your first comment at the end is "Ant has good taste".
- A poodle follows you home you see it as a sign.
- You get angry when you're signing up for something and the default name is "GUEST" and its the first thing you change
- Your teacher hands back a Psychology exercise with "freudian slip?" written in the margins- when you check the answers, you notice you've written "ANTonomic Nervous System"
- You notice that Ant has a sister named Marie, and instantly think of Mars!
- You notice that the girl playing Columbia in Rocky Horror is the original Meg Giry and spend a good ten minutes pondering who Ant might have wound up as in RHPS....
- You find out a friend didn't get to see the chandelier crash in a performance of phantom so you make a paper one so you can crash it into a paper stage
- You've taken all your geography lessons from On the Road to Mandalay.
- You listen to On The Road To Mandalay over and over because Manderlay (different spelling I know) is the name of the house in the film Rebecca.
- You get mad at an ad on TV where an exterminator is killing ants.
- You're working in fitting rooms and do a major double take when you hear a guy say to his wife/girlfriend "What do you think of these, Celia?" (I've got issues...)
- You're pushing your trolley around Coles and the announcement comes over the PA "Attention Shoppers! The Phantom is now in the store! (think it's some kind of razor) and a tall good-looking bald man comes round the corner into your aisle and you get a fit of the giggles (and he looks at you like you are possessed and out on day release from the maximum security institution up the river, thus blighting any chance of forming a meaningful relationship with him!!)
- You've influenced friends so much that they see the words "the phantom" giggle, then show you so you can giggle too, even if its on a class list
- The same thing happens again but with a different friend!
- Nearly every one of your school books has something Phantom or Ant related stuck or drawn on it.
- You go into a 20 minute speech whenever anyone points at the group pic in your locker and says "Who's the bald guy?"
- Whenever you meet another Anthony you mentally start clocking up all the differences/similarities.
- You find words like, "water", "warzone" and "warning" exciting because of the first syllable.
- You squeaked when your train passed Fitzroy station today.
- You suddenly take an interest in politics when you hear the government have sacked a council member in Wollongong
- John Williamson's Beachcomber from Wollongong gets a heck of a bashing on your audio devices.
- You go to the museum and a friend points out a tiny little phantom thing on the wall, and its awesome
- You use a certain animated icon to argue why it's a ridiculous thought to want to "destroy" the colour pink.
- You have to duck out of your TAFE class unexpectedly after seeing you have just reached the Word document exercise that asks you to make an advertisement for a production of HMS Pinafore.
- You feel like dying when you hear your father quote: "That's not a whip!"
- You got an extra kick out of last night's episode of House: "Your kidney is like a chandelier."
- You go to the new Cold Rock Ice-creamery (their words not mine!) and notice on the order board their "New! Your Photo On A Cake!" and instantly decide to take in a photo of Ant in order to have an Ant Cake! (There better be a Cold Rock in Sydney for LSS!)
- You use Phantom to help you remember cerebral hemispheres and facial recognition.
- Your psychology teacher invents a nickname for the Anthony in your class, because your head shoots up whenever she says "Anthony".
- You're reading Schindler's list and keep jumping bits because you see "Warsaw" and skip half a page...
- You turn on your MP3, prepare dinner, Music of the Night flips on as your first song ((which is followed by an amazing stream of Warlow songs, despite the fact that you have more Bowie tracks on it than Warlow!)), and you realise you have just grabbed a can of tuna.
- People go through your iPod at school and hand it back within 5 minutes saying "Is there anything on there that's not Anthony Warlow?"
- A guy at school asks "Why isn't there a picture of me in your locker?" and you reply "Because you're not Anthony Warlow" (I have the group pic in my locker)
- You're trying to decide what to order at a restaurant and a friend says "Order what Anthony would order"
- A waiter walks past your table with a box of Crownies and you smile.
- You walk past a place selling peanut free Easter eggs and you ponder if it could survive being mailed to Queensland...
- You get your aunt to scope around DJ's getting quotes for assorted hampers and packages of Haigh's.
- You laugh when someone has scribbled on an unpacked box of Phantom razors so the box says "PHANTOM of the opera". Seems I'm not the only Phan!
- You dissolve into giggles while shelving Herbal Essence shampoo with a co-worker who starts singing the jingle.
- You smile when a RESD (anti-theft thingy) beeps without anything going through it and a customer says "you've got a phantom".
- You hear "A contrast between the sacred and profane" and laugh.
- You smile when you walk past a tank of propane gas.
- You're excited because a new CD you bought has "The Fledermaus Waltz" on it.
- You're extra friendly when serving a woman from Melbourne who's wearing a Haigh's t-shirt...
- And chat to her for a good 10 minutes about how Ant likes Haigh's- she was a Warlovian too!
- You think of a certain picture when you find you have to type up an advertisement that has an address of "Manly Beach"
- Ants choose to climb and walk around on your collection of Ant CDs instead of taking the easier path and just going around them.
- Your anaesthetist uses Ant to distract you while inserting your drip. (I believe the question was "So what's old Anthony up to now?")
- Your nan brings you her Ant CDs to listen to in bed.
- You fight the drowsiness of painkillers to come on here
- You sit out on the cement as the sun sets and grind your callus' raw carving "Unexpected Song" ((badly)) into the cement with a small triangle of bone, afterwards sitting back to watch the ants scramble along the contours.
- You find this site Click and seriously consider getting Ant a personalised Sharpie... until you realise they don't have the silver one
- You break any awkward silence with, "So... how about that girly punting?"
- You watch a compilation vid of Phantoms punting on YouTube and try to figure out the ratio of girly to manly punting. Doesn't help a few Phantoms decide to switch
- Even though it's 40+, you're more concerned about the temperature in Brisbane.
- A door slams closed in class you say (a little too enthusiastically) "the phantom of the opera!"
- Someone in your maths class says "past the point of no return!" and your head snaps up immediately.
- You're half tempted to join up here, even though he's probably only said two lines.
- You get distracted while navigating someone through Geelong because you find 'Anthony Street' in the street directory and try to convince the driver to take a detour
- Your London-based Brother announces his engagement and your first reaction is to tell him: "Not March or April 2009, Anthony will be in Perth for Phantom and I can't go to both Perth and London. Don't make me choose, it will not end well!!"
- You smirk to yourself when one of your TAFE tutors says "Just In Time System"
- You stay behind a little longer after class and ask said tutor to explain the Just In Time System and count how many times she says it ((9))
- When you swear, it's always, "Damme."
- You (finally) find the Haigh's store in Melbourne, walk in and instantly think "If I was Ant what would I buy?" followed by "He's probably been in here!"
- You arrive at Spencer St Station, your nan says "It seems to be ant central here" and you smile like an idiot.
- You have a 20 minute conversation pondering whether it's strange to 'miss' Phantom.
- Your mum accidentally slams the lid of the piano and you exclaim "It's the Phantom of the Opera!"
- You giggle every time Voldemort says: "After tonight" ((incidentally, I want his robes; they have a fantastic flow))
- A radio DJ says "And now we'll check out Unexpected Song" and you think they're talking about here. They weren't even talking about the song, it was just some feature they were doing about new music. Underground Melbourne Music= ick.
- You go into extreme shock every time someone tells you that they have never heard of Ant
- Caramel is now on your list of banned substances.
- You're willing to endorse Phantom of Manhattan if it means getting an Australian Cast Recording.
- Chopping up the veggies for tea always ends with you murmuring, "The way you hold your knife."
- You're disappointed when you don't get Haigh's for Easter.
- You freak out when you're told your cousins and Anthony both went to the same church back around 1990.
- You jump when you see the words, "A local authority from Wollongong..." in an article and read the whole thing looking for Ant's name.
- You're reading an article about Natalie Bassingthwaite and jump when it says she's from Wollongong. You then try and do maths to figure out whether her parents might have been friends with Ant's.
- You spend 3 hours trawling through the microfiche files of the Wollongong paper from the sixties and seventies. I gave up at 1969.
- Unwinding's new knowledge makes you consider re-thinking your whole view on religion...
- You thought up "Warlovium".
- You thought up properties of Warlovium.
- You did this when you should have been doing real chemistry.
- You like the smell of the Phantom program. (Tell me I'm not the only one!)
- Unexpected Song is your most visited website.
- You ranted and cursed and raved when you read that rumour.
- You'll go see Phantom of Manhattan if he's in it...
- ...and enjoy it.
- You're a tad OCD about not having dust gather on your Phantom program.
- You have so many songs under 'Anthony Warlow' on your iPod that you fall asleep to it, and its still going when you wake up the next morning.
- You're helping your mother clean out her wardrobe (there was much amusement), and she wants to throw out a shirt of your grandfathers that has rows of little tuck pleats down the front. You refuse and stash it in your own wardrobe because it's "exactly like Erik's!"
- You then go to the local oppy and buy a $5 waistcoat to go over it.
- You're helping your callisthenics coach pull out rhythmic costumes, one of which has pink tights. And you grin like a maniac.
- You're wondering you should get Marina Prior to sign your 1990 Phantom program, or save it as is, in the hopes one day you could get Ant to sign it.
- You're of the belief that Ant can never sign too many programs!
- You wrote the Warlow version of Whatever Happened to My Part?
- It only took ten minutes or so.
- You have your family and friends well trained so that if they see any article on Anthony they cut it out and save it for you.
- Your Uncle rings your mum, asks to talk to you and the first thing he says is "I saw that type of car you were looking for.." *cue me begging for details* "except it was red. And from Queensland." And you want to kill him
- You freak when you find out your brother was in Wollongong for no apparent reason
- And that when he was in Sydney he went to Star City, where the casino apparently sucks
- Your friends are deciding who has claim of which man, (johnny depp, edward, those guys from supernatural) you are surprised when they give you Ant
- Mystery calls to Sydney pop up on the phone bill and everyone suspects you.
- A half empty bottle of Herbal Essence shows up in your bathroom, and you grin like a moron every time you see it.
- Your family can hold power over you by threatening to hurt the program.
- Your mother knows to stop asking you to turn down your stereo, because MotN at maximum volume is just like being back at the Princess.
- You're planning to run up to the Princess before another show, just to relive the memories.
- You giggle when you realise you have just typed the following:
"Further to your phone call yesterday we are pleased to offer you the following rates for your members during your conference from 13-19 September."
- And when you discover that the letter exercise you've just written for that sentance is from "Horace Higgins".
- You name your new mobile phone "Erik" so now, whenever you turn on the ignition in your car the Bluetooth screen lights up "Connecting with Erik". I also spent an enjoyable few minutes "Pairing with Erik" to establish our initial connection. Ah, small things etc.
- You fall into a giggling fit at the "Handy" commercial, especially if it's the one where they say "These are TIGHTS!"
- You're playing some pirate computer game with your cousin and insist you waste all the money buying a boat called "HMS Pinafore".
- You then name the captain Corcoran.
- The first CD you put on your laptop is J&H...
- ...And all your Ant photos and backgrounds.
- You have to clamp a hand over your mouth when your guest lecturer is introduced as John Bowl.
- Champagne is the scapegoat for all your shortcomings.
- When reading the instructions for your chemistry prac, you chuckle upon reaching the line, "Once the transformation is complete..."
- When you play Halo against your nieces and nephews ((even though you know they're going to gang up on you and kill you before you can move because you suck at the game)) you choose the name "Pirate".
- Because "Phantom" wasn't an option.
- You mishear "good job" as "punjub".
- You smile when you pass St. Anthony's.
- The CAPTCHA you get in order to post a comment is "CATLOTTA" "dies"
- You went out and bought a purple top.
- Someone puts "The Girl From Ipanema" on at work and you tell them why Ant's version is much better
- When doing a stationary order someone orders a pack of sharpies and you are tempted to order the silver ones insted... "It was an honest mistake, really!"
- You come on here even though the festival you are suppose to be working on starts tomorrow and everyone is going crazy. I can't help it, I need an Ant fix!!
- You come on here regardless of anything you should be doing - like the dishes. Or getting dressed.
- You visit Borders to buy Rebecca.
- When they don't have it, you take a five-block detour to try Angus and Robertson's instead...
- ...which makes you miss your train.
- You don't mind.
- You lose it when you have to type up an exercise going to Mrs Robertson in Manly, with the date as the 14th of September.
- You lose more than "it" when you have to save said exercise as "Phantom-Data".
- You are grateful that it's lunch time and therefore have to leave the classroom, especially since after making this post your "Antasm" icon has popped up.
- You hear this conversation in the next room ((mum does scrapbooking)) :
"Why do you use up all the purple?"
"What?"
"You've used up all the f*cking purple."
"What's wrong with it?"
"Purple purple purple purple purple!"
and you hide within the hood of your dressing gown ...
- ... only to realise that it's purple.
- You stroll into your nearest Optus store and the first thing that grabs your attention is an all purple phone.
- When you laugh at yourself, your mother asks what's wrong. Without you replying, she realises, "Oh, Anthony."
- ...then delivers the priceless line, "What's Anthony do that's purple?"
- You are sitting in a serious technical conference with government officials, and someone walks by with a Haighs Chocolate Shop bag.............and you laugh out loud.
- You look at the wrapper of your muesli bar and choke when you see it was packed in Hyde Street.
- You look down at your notes after a particularly boring lecture and can spot 23 phantom masks, as well as half the libretto from Pirates.
- You decide your new favorite flower is the Madagascan Rosy Periwinkle after learning that it is the flower that the treatment for non hodgkin's lymphoma was derived from.
- You leave the classroom unexpectedly when you come across the assessment that asks you to make a mail murge about tickets to Phantom of the Opera ...
- ... while you were also working on your Petition Presentation for PowerPoint ...
- ... and listening to the Back in the Swing Tour copy of Music of the Night.
- You're in the change rooms at work and freak when you see a phantom keyring, then hunt down the person who owns it
- Use your little cousins as an excuse to read Enid Blyton's 'Naughtiest Girl In The School' books, because the games master is "Mr Warlow"
- You buy your mother a white card with a lot of purple on it - and a matching purple envelope - even if she won't understand the significance of the colour ((pray she never does))
- You hear a contest to win a mother's day pack on the radio asking to fill in the phrase: "I love my mother even though ... " and you're tempted to call just so you can say: "I love my mother even though she embarrassed me in front of Anthony Warlow ((and I would have if dad hadn't been home at the time)).
- You buy yourself a small notebook computer on special for Mother's Day so you can sit in front of the fire on cold winter evenings (like tonight, and last night) to post here, instead of sitting in the study on the desktop shivering with a doona wrapped around you and a hot water bottle clutched to you (it was 5 degrees last night!)
- You burst into a fit of laughter when you see your physical chemistry lecture notes include a "Raoult's Law".
- You feel like crawling under the table as you listen to half of your TAFE classmates talk about how "Anthony and Matt are pillow biters" and the other half talk about the difficulties of looking after fish.
- You get asked if you're still planning to join the rest of the family for Christmas this year - even though you've never missed a family Christmas! - because "we thought that you might be going to see Phantom again instead"!
- You cannot wait until your baby budgies (which hatched last Monday and Wednesday!) feather up, so you can see if one is a boy you can call Erik!
- You install PSP9 into a TAFE computer just so you can make Ant icons ((actually I needed to adjust the Phantom of the Opera logo in my PP presentation and I kept forgetting to do it at home, but since I'm here and I've got 3 hours' to kill ...)) ...
- ... Just as your lecturer is talking about the Mail Merge exercise previously mentioned concerning Phantom tickets ((the amount of times she's saying "Phantom" ... I'm going to have to step out for some air!))
- You seriously contemplating spending your 5 week end-of-year annual leave in Auckland....
- ... And requests your next block of holiday to be somtime in Mar/Apr 2009.
- You have just worked a 60 hour 6 day week and you put yourself on call for 5 nights next week so you can boost your PoTO fund and turn LSS weekend into LSS week!! (I must see Roy again and the only way I can do that is ensure I get a Wednesday matinee, which means spending all week in Sydney. The sacrifices I make in the pursuit of art!!
- You keep misreading your Psych textbook and seeing Warlow instead of Harlow.
- You give up your holiday shopping spree to save money for flights.
- You begin the petition for the family to pay for LSS, on the grounds that you turn 18 that week.
- Your TAFE workmates inform you that you smirked when they said "bug", even if you didn't realise you did it ...
- ... and then when you fumble about for your phone when it starts screaming, you crawl under the table when they say: "Was that a big bug that was biting you in your pocket?"
- You hear Slade on the radio... and it makes you think of Anthony and Puccini
- You laugh (loudly) everytime you see a Some mother's do ave em dvd just in case someone nearby asks you to explain what you find so funny.
- Everytime you walk past a bridal shop you immediately hear "Not on our wedding day!!!" and tear up.
- You go off your nut whenever anyone recognises the phantom song you are humming in class.....but then realise they loved the movie and now you can never have anything to do with them ever again.
- You start to wonder about life-after-phantom and everytime you do the world gets a little colder.
- You incorporate Phantom into your wedding . We had 'All I Ask of You' and a few others during our wedding ceremony
- When you disown half the cast of your school production because you make part of a scene directly like Phantom, and they all go "I love that movie!" and a few went as far as "Gerard Butler is soooo good!" >).<
- You then hum the first Ant song that comes into your head when they're near you!
- You send a txt to the local radio station on Choosey Tuesday to request Ant's Music of the Night.
- You send another txt to the local radio station some time later when they begin to play a version, vehemently stating:
"No! No! Wrong one! That is Michael bloody Crawford, not Anthony Warlow! Do not torture us with that drivel!"
- You smile/giggle/try-to-control-yourself as you hear your father say in the next room: "He sings this like a woman, whereas that other bloke sings it like a MAN."
- You ((and your mother, who was bitching about Crawford and complimenting Ant all through the song)) laugh out loud when the radio presenter suddenly fades it out to read your txt on the radio word for word.
- You immediately call the radio station afterwards and ask them if they have it; upon hearing they didn't, you offer to send thema copy of the CD that the track is on ((neglecting to mention that you plan on sending copies of all of his albums so they can be armed for future requests)).
- You seriously consider using your small uni savings to fly to Sydney to see Phantom
(You're assuming that I haven't!)
- You have just worked a 60 hour 6 day week and you put yourself on call for 5 nights next week so you can boost your PoTO fund and turn LSS weekend into LSS week!! (I must see Roy again and the only way I can do that is ensure I get a Wednesday matinee, which means spending all week in Sydney. The sacrifices I make in the pursuit of art!!
(So very true... it's insanity, but I have a mantra! "Warlow in a mask, Warlow in a mask, Warlow in a mask...")
- You consider shelving arguments with estranged father just to stay at his house in Auckland for a week to follow Anthony over to Auckland
- You go in for your final CC injection, get the needle in your arm, hear the nurse say: "Think of something else; holidays in Queensland ... " and you ((literally)) scream "SYDNEY!"
- The two new 'recruits' at work ask everyone the plot to Phantom, to which EVERYONE replies perfectly and adds "... because SHE won't stop talking about it!"
- You get excited about a Plantagenet wine ad in the Qantas in-flight magazine.... because it's being advertised as "the wine of choice of the Phantom"
- You get all giggly and excited when you see this sentence in a magazine article on anonymous notes:
"Eager to avoid responsibility and confrontation, the passive-aggressive type is content to blame others - perhaps even scrawl a phantom note."
- Your self-created game manual for an unrelated, blood-thirsty, M-rated game has so many Phantom references in all the names and places that the lecturer has listed them in the back with "Did I find them all?"
- Said lecturer knows that, when you say you're off to see it again, "WHAT?!?" is not the correct answer. "When?" is.
- The auto-door at work opens without anyone there and a colleague shouts 'Phantom customer!', you're not going to be able to concentrate for at least five minutes.
- Anyone who goes near the freezer while you're shifting boxes of fries will be treated to a rendition of "Think of Me", "Twisted Every Way" or "Wandering Child"... and they stick around to listen unobtrusively.
- Your ringtone is 'The Phantom of the Opera', your message tone is 'Music of the Night' and the wallpaper is Ant and Ana... and you go to uni in your 'Phanatic' shirt (try denying that's your phone then!)
- You hear the line "You try my patience" in a movie and then yell (to an empty room!) "Make your choice!"
- You buy Archibalds Bees Honey.
- You pass a pink car and think: Hey look, Archibald!
- You bring Phantom up in a job interview (mine was for EB Games) and show the interviewer your mask necklace (the interviewer then said that Ant "stomped all over MC's version", even though she though MC was lovely). You then spend the rest of the interview discussing the LSS pilgrimmage and half-convince the interviewer to come with you!
- You check your work roster to see that you haven't been scheduled at all next week, notice that they've marked that roster the 14th of September, and spend the rest of the night grinning like an idiot.
- You look up at the clouds and swear you can see the formation of someone punting in a gondola.
- Your hubby asks you if you would leave him for Ant and there's a definite 'pause' before you answer 'Of course not!'
- Hubby says he's getting jealous, cause you keep saying 'what a lovely man Ant is!'
- You check the roster, see that you're rostered to work the entire weekend of LSS, and tell your boss there's no way you can work, because of more important comittments!
- You get slightly up in arms when there's a car-jacking gansta in a movie named Anthony.
- You are not so subtly reminded by your parents that your car rego will be due between the LSS and the LPS you decide to forgo having a drivable car in favor of a week in Perth
- Your grandmother reminds you to put in your tax "because it'll pay for your flight to Perth to see that Anthony chap".
- You're doing forensic DNA fingerprinting in a Bio lab, and you find yourself wondering what Anthony's DNA would look like.
- You lose your wallet and after panicking about your license, atm etc., you think "No! My ticket from the night I met Anthony is in there!" and then relax because you moved it two days ago (thank goodness!)
- You can't talk about (the character) Anthony in Sweeney Tood coz then you just get confused and dreamy at the same time, imagining the possibilities
- You consider joining the United Church when you hear someone ((Darrin)) say: "Well last easter they dressed in purple!"
- In the midst of a day so monumentally crappy that it started with burying a pet and your boss telling you that you've ruined an $8000 ring, you're cheered up by the discovery that your name means 'white phantom'.
- You pass two strangers having a conversation in the street and manage to overhear the words "Anthony's mic went off in the final scenes" and for the rest of the morning nothing can get you down as you daydream about [missing :-(] LSS
- You wonder if ANT has brought out his own range of chocolates when you see a brand that starts with ANThon, then wonder what they'd be like if he did
- No matter how stupid people are at work, you float around thinking "I met Anthony Warlow" ... and proceed to tell EVERYONE in the store and drive-thru, thus blowing out the timer at the other end but not getting into trouble ... because your boss is jealous.
- Your signed program is gently wrapped in a very soft (and rather expensive) piece of material ... in case anything happens to it.
- The first thing you did when you got home - from the show - was do the above
- You nearly have a fit in a biology lecture when your lecturer starts to talk about clumps of cells.
- You write 'Julie' all through a SAC instead of 'Julia', which is the character's name! (Damn you JG!)
- Your friends are totally confused with your rantings of "so we declared we couldn't go to Subway alone", etc.
- You buy a drink just because it's purple ... even if it is liquified yam.
- you haven't eaten dinner for days because instead of cooking, you're distracted by this site.
- you think the kitchen is the perfect place for unwinding.
- You get sick when you get home and don't feel at all sorry for yourself, because you're positive you caught it from Ant, though you're not totally sure how.
- you get a silly grin on your face when you open a drawer of an anaesthetic trolley and see a couple of Sharpies in there.
- you get to work to discover an A4 size photo of you and Ant on the Theatre scheduling whiteboard with the caption "Sandy and her new mystery man" and think nothing of it!
- You run across roads like Nina the Ballerina shouting "Mr Warlow! Mr Warlow!"
- "I'm here" is ALWAYS followed by "The Phantom of the Operaaaaa"
- Even though you're at a posh function for My Fair Lady, you can't resist showing off your photo with Ant, doing promo for U/S and convincing at least three people that it's not insane to up sticks and go to Auckland... or Sydney/Perth next year... really, it's not!
- You get everyone's emails at said function and send them the link to the U/S petition
- You remark as you enter the Lyric thusly: "Oh, that's sad. They took all the ornamentation down. Oh that's SAD" and ACTUALLY consider crying.
- You are pleasantly surprised when you stumble across a slab of Crownies in your shed
- You get a very pleased/proud feeling when you hear a young performer speak on radio about how seeing Ant in phantom was an inspiration
- You check food to see if it contains nuts, even though you don't have an allergy!
- Then feel guilty buying said food.
- You say after eating especially good fish cooked by your Nan, "It's a shame Ant couldn't have this."
- You drive all the way to Mosman and Cremorne and drive around and around hoping to catch a glimpse of Anth or his car..
- you're standing in the middle of a shopping center, supposedly getting people to sign up for free lightbulbs, but actually youre surfing the net for cast photos
- you desperately wish you could have stolen your dad's pretty Crownies glasses, given them a clean, whacked a bow on them and handed them over!
- you can work Anthony into a blog about the political upheavals in Zimbabwe and the US.
- The sum total of your tickets to Phantom alone (without travelling/extras expenses) would have replaced your defunct laptop... and you don't care
- Your university paper on game music is entitled "The Music of The Night"
- Your friend asks what her new laptop should be called, you immediately yell "Erik!"
- 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' becomes 'Girls Just Wanna Have Warlow'... while your mum and her friend are in the car.
- Phantom Hourglass is an awesome game... simply for the title.
- Said game is best played with certain tracks from Jekyll and Hyde... and you set out the soundtrack to play so you hit the right song at the right place in the game (takes a bit of work to do it, but I've done it!)
- You can "yoink!" Warlow-related items from your friend's hand in 0.05 seconds flat (this happened to ozzie and I. I'M SORRY! Lmao!)
- While playing your favourite video game *coughKingdomHeartsIIcough*, you grin like a moron when you notice that Pride Lands has a "phantom".
- You dare NOT think about Alive/It's a Dangerous Game at work, because you break out in a dopey grin and people think you're making fun of them.
- You could almost swear that Lady GaGa's song is called "Just Ant"
- You do a double take when you see a Phoebe W registered for the classical solos at South Street.....and she's from NSW.
- You then scan the entire theatre. Just in case.
- You're then disappointed when said girl is a brunette, and a shocking dancer as well.
- You find yourself trying not to giggle while explaining the plot to your musical (Jekyll and Hyde II) to your group buddy in Enabling Immersion... who happens to be named Celia.
- You laugh when your (practise) Psych exam has the possible options for an answer: a) Method of Loci, b) Association, c) CLUMPING, d) chunking.
- You then circle C, even though you know its not right.
- Your brother is giving a heartfelt vent on a bunch of problems he's bottled up for six years or so, and you still manage to bring Ant into the conversation...
- ...twice.
- You arrive at your audition with your Phantom necklace on, and the sign-in lady says "I know its a fantastic show, but would you mind removing the necklace?"
- And then has a ten minute conversation with you about the show.
- You have reason to scream for joy and jealousy when you get a text message from your sister saying "I'M AT THE OPERA GARNIER - YOU PROUD?" Oh, boy am i! Good on ya Manda!!!!
- You almost snort lemonade out your nose at this movie quote: "And we managed to come away with the Big W."
- You stumble across a picture of the Ant Nebula, and you get way to much amusement from the name.
- You get the giggles and wear a cheeky grin when your mother says "stop shoving Malteasers in your mouth!!!"
- you talk to the Wicked cast about Ant, who needles to say they like as well
- You find that your little budgie you named Erik was a GIRL, so you decide to call her Christine instead.
- And the little baby that was attacked as a chick, and now missing a toe and half of one wing, you decide to name Erik (because he is now kinda 'deformed') - AND he/she(?) turns out to be a YELLOWFACE VIOLET BUDGIE!
- You add Warlovian ((and others)) to your ((and every other)) computer's dictionary.
- You see Gregorian chants on sale at JB and have a little laugh.
- You see "Dr Jekyll" Absinthe at the local liquor store and wonder if 'HJ7' is a code name for hallucinogenic alcohol.
- A book of the illustrated history of Gregorian chants is on sale at Angus and Robertson's....and consider it for a hamper idea.
- You spend the morning grinning inanely, because it is your job to wind the 8 day clock first thing on a Monday.
- You consider passing up the chance to meet Peter Davison -your first Doctor- just so you still have the money for Adelaide, much to the horror of your Whovian friends.
- You frequently misspell 'Whovian' (freudan slip, I swear!)
I've had a few moments when I've seen something that instantly reminded me of Ant, and so this is the place to share those moments, such as:
YKYAWW...
- You smile to yourself every time you see a silver Sharpie.
- Your breath catches whenever you see a tall-ish bald man- until they turn around
- Your heart skips a beat whenever you hear or read the name "Anthony"
- You keep finding reasons to bring him into a conversation.
- You see a tea towel lying about and have the urge to put it over your shoulder even when under the circumstances a tea towel is completely unnecessary.
- You have fond memories of performances in pink tights (or red tights - OK, any coloured tights!)
- "Ant-asm", "Ant-awe" and "Ant-easers" are staples in your vocabulary.
- You insist that your boyfriend must shave his head and wear a mask.
- Your friend says, "I swear, if you mention that man's name one more time...!"
- You make icons/signatures with his likeness on them...
- ...when you should be doing your homework/getting ready for work/picking your kids up.
- You joined this board.
- You do a double take every time you see a certain make and model of car....
- ... or any car with a certain state licence plate ((I swear there was one with that state licence plate in the Foodland / Hotel carpark the other day, only it was a different colour))
- You use any opportunity to pull out the photos of you and him, and then recount the entire experience.
- You calculate whether you can use your shares to buy the exact same car....
- You swear to never throw out the Sharpie that Ant used
- Your workmates know who he is and have learnt to bail when you start talking about him!
- A major goal at work is to bring him up in conversation with customers (its hard to at maccas.."would you like some anthony warlow with that?")
- You can bring him up in almost any situation such as donating blood, supermarket line etc
- You say to your friends, "Ah, but is Johnny Depp a musical pirate?"
- People irritate you, you threaten to punjab them.
- You refer to him as Ant.
- You know every nuisance of Phantom (the song), right down to the, "Sing for me"s.
- You don't have to think very hard when adding to this thread.
- You fear/anticipate the day Michael Crawford crosses your path.
- You can't bear to listen / watch Antonio Banderas singing PotO.
- You'd take Antonio Banderas over MC.
- In doubt, you do as Ant would do
- You use quotes from him ((songs, shows, et cetera)) in day-to-day life
- You hear a complaint about an ant (as in the insect) you are for a split second very insulted and near to injuring the person who made such a blasphemous (sp?) remark!
- You prefer to wipe completely from memory the years as a kid when you said something akin to "BORING!" when mum's friends' spoke of Ant's voice in the first Phantom run.... i didn't do it, i swear!!!!!
- You hassle your nan for Ant anecdotes instead of tuning out of the conversation
- You seriously consider using your small uni savings to fly to Sydney to see Phantom
- The first thing you do when you get home from a holiday is check out this site so you can see what you've been missing
- You go into a store just to check how much Ant merchandise they have in each day.
- You walk down Little Bourke St just so you can see where you met him, and then get choked up cos some inferior alien vehicle is parked in the spot.
- You base your shopping list on his demonstration of Italian words.
- You go see Sweeny Todd but get angry coz some other guy is singing Johanna ("what's that!?" "that's fop!")
- You use the internet on your phone to try and keep up to date on the site, the realise where you are holidaying isn't on the 3G Network, so it's on roaming, and you've run up a $300 mobile bill because of the extra charges that aren't inclusive in your package!
- You feel the urge to vandalise the car in the spot...
- You want to turn said spot into a shrine or sacred spot, complete with giant photo of Ant and flowers and letters
- You hassle the ABC shop people on a weekly basis regarding Ant related stuff
- You have "Anthony Warlow" saved as a search on ebay
- You go to a movie (such as Sweeney Todd) and spend half the movie thinking who Ant would play best...
- You go to any show and try and work out who Anthony would play best.
- You spend an entire day devoted to this site and don't consider it time that could have been better spent
- You realise you're starting school tomorrow and wonder what excuses you can use to get to the library and check out the site every hour or so...
- You also realise how much your homework will suffer due to your dedication to Ant.
- You're browsing the menu at an Italian restaurant and all you can hear is Ant's voice in your head reading out the items...."Ravioli" "Tortellini"
- You're in a shop that sells DVDs and you keep pausing over the film The Main Event, even though you know it's the film and not the concert.
- You're reading the cast board at Spamalot, notice the conductor is Peter Casey and say rather loudly "Oh- he's the guy that did The Main Event!" as people around you either smile or look at you like you're crazy.
- You decide you like Sweeney Todd as soon as creepy organ music is played in the intro.
- You flail wildly after Harold Prince's name pops up in the opening credits.
- You emit a small squeal when that boy's name's revealed to be Anthony.
- You end up typing "Anthony", "Warlow", both or variants when you were actually trying to type something else (("anything", et cetera)).
- You get up to answer the phone, stop, turn around and backtrack to pause iTunes because Ant's pining in His Work and Nothing More ("Li~sa~!") is just about to start. (Which I did!)
- You trudge through Les Mis (the book) just to read about
- You feel inclined to - or actually do - send in a picture of Ant to a website that makes posters ((I've got the leaflet for it somewhere and I'm just having trouble deciding what pic to use)).
- Your roommate randomly comments to you that the new Financial Economics professor looks like AW (Anthony is officially known to them as AW), because he is bald too.
- You're listening to Ant on your iPod(/mp3 et cetera) and there is so much noise around u that u have to turn it up to the max not minding the fact that you might be getting permanent ear damage.
- You go to great lengths to steal someone else's (eg. your brother, mother sister, friends) iPod etc just so u can listen to him where ever u go.
- You list how many Phantom and J&H vibes you got from Sweeney Todd.
- You fight the urge to scream at the screen "His name is ANTHONY! With a 'TH'- that makes a thhhhhh sound! Not Antony!!"
- Your grandfather orders a Crownie and you fight the urge to ask if he wants chips with it.
- You zone out of a conversation about your distant cousins until "they moved to Wollongong" comes up and you're all ears.
- Your first words at your first Cal class are "Guess what? I met Anthony Warlow!" and pull the programme out of your dance bag (The one you take to Phantom)
- You have photos of you and Ant that you intend to stick to the front of your school organiser, and keep randomly going "Oh look, it's me and- who's that standing next to me? Why it's Anthony Warlow!" and smiling like an idiot.
- You hassle the video store about a movie that Ant told you to watch- I STILL HAVEN"T GOT IT!
- You see an ad up the top of this page that says "How I Kill Fire Ants" and you get very offended!
- You're checking your playlists on iTunes and realise you've got 265 tracks on your Warlow playlist + 10 interviews which comes to 17.5 hours and 1.3G!!!
- It's 11:50 and you're still hanging around here...
- You go green with envy when you find out your friend and her family grew up knowing Anthony and his family in the photographic business in Shellharbour!
- You're trying to find Australian photographers to research for photography class (obviously!), you hear someone mention their dad's a photographer and instantly wonder if its really crossing the obsessive line to try and find any stuff by Ant's dad- does anyone know exactly what sort of photography he did?
- You hear your Psychology teacher call someone in your class "Ant" and you try and find out who they are...
- You go through the canteen just because the teacher who looks like Ant is supervising....
- You get excited when someone informs you the teacher who looks like Ant is in the building
- You fill out a form and you almost put Warlovian under "religion"...
- ...and "occupation".
- You add This Is The Moment at the end of every cd that you burn for your friends (whether they contain music or data or whatever) in the hopes of converting them into Warlovians. And then going into a long, gushy monologue about Ant whenever any friend asks who the singer was.
- You make your baritone friend sing said song every time you get together for Karaoke that now he automatically chooses to sing that song whether you're there or not (actually it's Videoke here- the lyrics flash on the screen and you sing along, but same banana)
- You make your baritone friend listen to Ant on your iPod so many times he understands that when you tell him he sounds like Warlow, it's the height of compliments, as compliments go
- You make multiple backups of your Ant cds in case the real ones break and Amazon runs out of copies.
- You consider buying multiple copies of Warlow DVDs and CDs and storing them in someone else's house or in a bank vault in case something happens to your collection (house burns down, you get burgled).
- You go away to the beach for a week, and the last thing you do before leaving is hide every Warlow thing you own in different places around the house, so that should someone break in and manage to find one of them, the rest are safe...unless there's a house fire- I must buy a safe!
- You wonder if "Warlovian" could become a legitimate religion, like Jedi (but then it would be too mainstream- NO!)
- Driving your car makes you break out into Alive.
- You blow an entire week's pay on Phantom merchandise and consider it money well spent...
- ...and bills are piled elbow-high on your desk...
- ...beneath various Ant-related paraphernalia.
- You bought the damn umbrella.
- ... and the teddy bear
- ... and the "small" shirt
- ... and the necklace
- ... and a copy of the program each for each time you attended.
- You use the umbrella.
- Regularly.
- In fact, you hope it rains just so you can whip it out.
- You go shopping, find a black suit jacket and think joyfully, "This screams Hyde!"
- You refuse to eat apples because you don't want to keep the doctor away.
- You understand these obscure references.
- "Girl From Ipanema" comes up in the random play iTunes you are listening to while you are checking what's been happening here while you've been cooking dinner and you just have to fall back into the chair, eyes closed, small smile on face, swaying gently in time to music.
- You realise that there aren't enough words in the English language to do Ant justice, so you create / contribute to / memorise the Warlovian dictionary
- You can never look at an apple the same way again
- You laugh uncontrollably when your mum returns from grocery shopping with a rockmelon
- You have a panic attack because you can't find your necklace from Phantom
- January 8th is forever immortalised in your memory and you intend to tell your grandchildren about it
- You look up "Warlow" on a surname history site and learn the family motto- "Wonderful in the Depths"
- You realised if you got into that Annie audition you got a call back for you would have worked with Anthony Warlow*tear*
- You can't wait for - or at least know about the significance of - 10pm.
- You're going through the phone book on your mum's phone and you jump when you see the name "Anthony", before realising its your boring uncle Tony- damn him!
- Your friend gives you his business card and you read it and splutter, "Your middle name's Anthony?"
- ... and he rolls his eyes and replies, "No relation to your Anthony."
- You seriously consider not going to the family beach-house half way up the East Coast for 3 days because there is no phone line at the house and the nearest public computer that you know up is on dial-up (no ADSL in rural Tassie) and 30 minutes drive away.
- You pack for your mini-break at family beach-house (we call 'em "shacks" in Tassie) and you take all Warlow DVDs & CDs with you so you can have another marathon in private!
- Your family is so used to your ranting you dad strikes up Warlow conversations with you and your mum is pointing out people in magazines who look like him
- You have a particularly violent reaction to Kath's (of Kath & Kim fame) comment, "That Michael Crawford makes me hot"...
- ...so you go stare at your program for a while...
- ...which you refer to as "therapy."
- You hear Johnny Depp hold an "nnnnn" in Sweeney Todd and instantly think of "Orphannnnnnnn boy". And how much nicer Ant did it.
- You see an ad in a travel agents to buy a pacific island and beginning plotting to get one and give a Warlow related name (such as Warlow Island)
- You realise the Phantom brochure is covering up the only photo of your friends in your bedroom.
- You get excited when you see JB Hi-Fi have a "Musicals" section.
- You get really excited when you see they have a "Jekyll and Hyde" section.
- You rant and rave when you see they spelled it, "Jeckyll".
- You've signed up for Anthony Warlow Google Alerts
- You're reading Susan Kay's "Phantom" and see this quote- "Extraordinary hands he has....they quite give me gooseflesh"....and you instantly think of Ant.
- You overhear a Yr 7/8 say to their friend "..and then he did the Back In The Swing tour" and smile to yourself because you know it's good to have up and coming Warlovians.
- A certain make, model and colour of a car pulls up outside your next door neighbours house, and you steathily check it out the window...
- You know you've made the right choice of hairdresser, based not on the way she cuts and colours your hair, but on the fact that she was very excited when a mutual friend told her of my meeting, rang me this morning before I went to the salon to make sure I brought my CD with me, and then sat it up on the bench so he could watch her while she "made me look beautiful".
- You've already decided to get another budgie, although you already have 23, just so you can name him Anthony!
- You use Phantom references in your annotations for photography.
- You get a rush of happiness when you realise its February 8th, and therefore a month since you met Ant....and then remember the night by saying to yourself "and this time a month ago I was...."
- You intend to lie in the backyard on the "anniversary" of meeting Ant and send out well wishes to him through the universe. ((I'll do what I like, shut up.))
- You hear / read a name like Cary Grant and immediately think of Ant's impersonations.
- You're mortified when you're dad says the dentist he went to looked like Anthony and respond by saying, "There's only one Ant!"
- You then imagine what Ant would be like as a dentist...
- Your cyclone preparation kit includes a dedicated supply of zip-lock bags and waterproof containers which have the single purpose of safeguarding your Ant collection
- Your cyclone plan reads "...move to the strongest part of your house. Ensure that you also take your pets and your Ant collection ..."
- You start to look for an "alternative energy" iPod charger to add to your emergency supplies - simply because the thought of an Ant "famine" during a cyclone is too horrible to contemplate
- You log-in to check what's been happening on U/S before checking the BOM website to look at the cyclone track map
- You realise Ant says "September 14th" in Streak Of Madness, and take it as a sign for the LSS.
- You get excited about that ^ news.
- You risk life and limb banging into walls and falling over to see two seconds of footage of Ant on TV (It was worth it!)
- You get up at 3.30 am to go to the loo and the lure of the computer in the room next to yours (I'm staying with a friend who leaves it on all the time) is too great, and you have to check out what's been happening here, and half an hour later you're still here and it's now 4.00 am!!!
- You see a 10 sec compilation of clips from shows in Melbourne, swear you saw Phantom and watch the rest of the show going on an Ant hunch
- You see Ant of TV and scream out "I met him!"
- You grin like a maniac watching him
- Your uncle (who lives in Brisbane) rings your nan, and gets her to ask you if you're going up to Brisbane because "that guy Anthony's up here" and he expects you and a few crazy friends showing up on his doorstep.
- You then tell your uncle to look out for a certain car and call you immediately if he sees it....
- You're sweeping the store and can't stop your fingers from twitching on the broom handle.
- You're sitting down anywhere, with your arms either resting on the arms of a chair or on your legs, and you find your fingers are twitching ((thankfully everyone has their eyes closed during closing meditation or I would have had to explain that to my whole Shotokan class)).
- You overhear an ad where someone says "That's not a whip" and you suddenly get an image of Corcoran in your head...
- You drive by the Murray River Queen ((often)) and keep thinking Captain Corcoran is going to burst through one of those doors ...
- You randomly type Ant's name into site search engines, because you never know where he might be mentioned!
- You find this little gem:
- You read a (pretty dodge) fanfic with a typo where Erik says "I assume you got the massage" and all you can hear in your head is "I have a massage to get to"
- You notice that to buy a kilo of Haigh's (sp?) chocolates is $100, and calculate how much it is buy two...
- Your Aunt gets a box of said chocolates for her birthday and scoffs the lot before you can ask to try one...
- You are sitting at computer in Brisbane and ad for Phantom comes on TV in other room and you race into other room to see it, much to astonishment of friend and her children!!
- You lament that Rob Guest is in Wicked, purely on the basis of his Phantom performance...and then spend half an hour reminding yourself how fantastic Ant is...
- Someone says "Who's Anthony Warlow?" you have an initiation pack to convert them in an instant.
- You run into the lounge room in the morning because on one of the morning shows you overhear "So, Anthony..." only to find out its some weird looking businessman.
- You're lying in bed half asleep and your eyes pop open the minute you hear someone in the next room or on the radio say "Anthony".
- You get excited when the basketball team from Woollongong wins a match...
- ...and you don't even like basketball.
- You're hoping a certain guy wins So You Think You Can Dance? purely because his name's Anthony.
- You spent hours working on animations just to satisfy your
- ...and despite yourself you still went back to it after Photoshop crashed and deleted heaps of your frames.
- You have the sudden urge to run out and purchase shampoo.
- You begin to think of a brand new Comedy Inc. cast doing a re-shoot of that Herbal Essence add where the Jamaican sings: "Coconuts and orchids are a hair's best friend!"
- You are helping a friend clean up after dinner and putting left-overs into a container to freeze and she gets a Sharpie out of the drawer to write on the lid and you dissolve into uncontrollable giggles.
- You're in the Newsagent looking over the back-to-school products on sale and you start having a laugh attack - much to the fear of fellow shoppers - when you see that sharpies only cost $1.50 ((and being incapable of explaining the hilarity of it all)).
- The item you order off eBay arrives from Wollongong, and you get excited, because maybe they knew Ant way back when.
- The example work brief you're given in photography has the example theme of Fitzroy and you can't stop giggling.
- You hear a certain car brand mentioned on the radio and you turn it up, even though they're talking to some design guy and you really know nothing about cars.
- The teacher at your school who looks like Ant is walking behind you (without your knowledge) and then says "Anthony!" behind you (talking to a kid in the corridor) and you jump a mine because a) he looks like Ant and b) you thought he saw your English binder, which has an A4 copy of Unwinding's Sharpie ad on it.
- Your friend just asked you for a copy of the Phantom CD. Little does she know, you refuse to spread MC's filth. (She's gonna get a surprise when she flicks on the CD, heheheheh...)
- You flail with joy when you see there's a Fitzroy street near you.
- You panic when you realise you just killed an Ant
- When you take pictures of the teacher at school who looks like Ant, from behind...with your phone..
- You pick up Phantom symbolism in nearly every scene of your school play.
- You plot to emphasise said symbolism.
- Your Aunt's friend tells you she's looking at moving, possibly to Fitzroy, and you wonder how you can test how long it takes you to get from the Princess to there....in 10 minutes.
- You see Crownies are on special at the local bottle shop and smile to yourself.
- You wear same clothes to see Phantom in Brisbane as you did in December when you saw Ant three times in two days in the hope that it will mean Ant will be on.
- You wear the same jewellery to see Phantom in Brisbane as you did in Melbourne the day you met Ant, as a talisman to ensure he will be on.
- Your first shoot for Photography involves Phantom masks and other imagery.
- You see this guy's t-shirt has a skull on it and think it really looks like Red Death.
- You see a hoodie that has some trendy logo and the words "Midnight Dreaming" on it, and you want one, purely because of that.
- Your day is made because the teacher who looks like Ant says "Hi" to you.
- Your new singing teacher has a Phantom poster on the wall, and spends a good 10 minutes discussing Ant with you and using him as examples for technique....
- You'd probably sit through an episode of Petals just to hear his voice.
- You have a heart attack when you find your folks have bought Herbal Essence.
- You get bored in drama and make a phantom mask out of paper
- You get excited when you find one of the school bands are learning "orange coloured sky" and instantly insist they listen to Ant's version
- You spaz when someone says they "hate musical theatre" but soften up when they say they heard phantom was really good and wished they'd seen it
- You ((for once)) leap at the chance to learn a song your vocal teacher has suggested, merely because it comes from Patience
- You immediately e-mail Warlow tracks to your vocal teacher when you learn she is learning to play the violin, and the last song in her beginner's book is Cavatina.
- You get excited when you watch the first episode of ITT (that you taped while you were away) and notice when they are intro-ing D Hobson that they play a short grab from Pirates featuring the Pirate King.
- You are doing this week's TV Week crossword and you get excited when one of the clues is _______ of the Opera.
- Your psychology teacher starts every conversation with you by asking "What's Anthony up to today?" and confuses the hell out of the guy in your class named Anthony!
- Your English teacher is using examples of conflict in modern media, and uses the final lair scene as an example.
- You try and figure out how to work Phantom music into your school production- it will happen!
- You nearly cry when you break the chain on your Phantom necklace
- You feel like making a complaint because a stationary store stocks every colour Sharpie but silver!
- Masks are mentioned by your drama teacher and about 3 people turn to you using their hands as phantom masks
- Your stomach leaps, you do a double-take and start laughing all at once when your mum remarks, "You know, we haven't had any ANTS all year!"
- You take it as a favourable sign from the gods when you spend a whole day at school finding random ants crawling on you!
- You smile to yourself when a customer buys Herbal Essence
- You burst into laughter at the Dolmio ad- "Wear the Dolmio Grin!"
- You're unpacking new craft stuff at work and see a mask kit with a silver half mask on the front (misleading, as the kit is for a carnivale style mask!)
- You get excited about staying with your grandparents for two days because you know it'll be an Ant-fest.
- Your English teacher asks the class what you expect from a hero and you say tights...pink tights, and get a few strange looks
- Your friend says, "I was violated by ants," and you have a very loud coughing fit. (She later explained she sat on an ant nest while wearing a dress and they crawled to places they shouldn't have!)
- You jump at every opportunity to watch the new Gillette razor blade commercial (("Feel the power of Phantom"))
- You hear your mother say on the phone (while looking at Termite-Ant) "Wow that's bad termite damage" and burst into laughter...
- You watch Rebecca, as Ant recommended, and your first comment at the end is "Ant has good taste".
- A poodle follows you home you see it as a sign.
- You get angry when you're signing up for something and the default name is "GUEST" and its the first thing you change
- Your teacher hands back a Psychology exercise with "freudian slip?" written in the margins- when you check the answers, you notice you've written "ANTonomic Nervous System"
- You notice that Ant has a sister named Marie, and instantly think of Mars!
- You notice that the girl playing Columbia in Rocky Horror is the original Meg Giry and spend a good ten minutes pondering who Ant might have wound up as in RHPS....
- You find out a friend didn't get to see the chandelier crash in a performance of phantom so you make a paper one so you can crash it into a paper stage
- You've taken all your geography lessons from On the Road to Mandalay.
- You listen to On The Road To Mandalay over and over because Manderlay (different spelling I know) is the name of the house in the film Rebecca.
- You get mad at an ad on TV where an exterminator is killing ants.
- You're working in fitting rooms and do a major double take when you hear a guy say to his wife/girlfriend "What do you think of these, Celia?" (I've got issues...)
- You're pushing your trolley around Coles and the announcement comes over the PA "Attention Shoppers! The Phantom is now in the store! (think it's some kind of razor) and a tall good-looking bald man comes round the corner into your aisle and you get a fit of the giggles (and he looks at you like you are possessed and out on day release from the maximum security institution up the river, thus blighting any chance of forming a meaningful relationship with him!!)
- You've influenced friends so much that they see the words "the phantom" giggle, then show you so you can giggle too, even if its on a class list
- The same thing happens again but with a different friend!
- Nearly every one of your school books has something Phantom or Ant related stuck or drawn on it.
- You go into a 20 minute speech whenever anyone points at the group pic in your locker and says "Who's the bald guy?"
- Whenever you meet another Anthony you mentally start clocking up all the differences/similarities.
- You find words like, "water", "warzone" and "warning" exciting because of the first syllable.
- You squeaked when your train passed Fitzroy station today.
- You suddenly take an interest in politics when you hear the government have sacked a council member in Wollongong
- John Williamson's Beachcomber from Wollongong gets a heck of a bashing on your audio devices.
- You go to the museum and a friend points out a tiny little phantom thing on the wall, and its awesome
- You use a certain animated icon to argue why it's a ridiculous thought to want to "destroy" the colour pink.
- You have to duck out of your TAFE class unexpectedly after seeing you have just reached the Word document exercise that asks you to make an advertisement for a production of HMS Pinafore.
- You feel like dying when you hear your father quote: "That's not a whip!"
- You got an extra kick out of last night's episode of House: "Your kidney is like a chandelier."
- You go to the new Cold Rock Ice-creamery (their words not mine!) and notice on the order board their "New! Your Photo On A Cake!" and instantly decide to take in a photo of Ant in order to have an Ant Cake! (There better be a Cold Rock in Sydney for LSS!)
- You use Phantom to help you remember cerebral hemispheres and facial recognition.
- Your psychology teacher invents a nickname for the Anthony in your class, because your head shoots up whenever she says "Anthony".
- You're reading Schindler's list and keep jumping bits because you see "Warsaw" and skip half a page...
- You turn on your MP3, prepare dinner, Music of the Night flips on as your first song ((which is followed by an amazing stream of Warlow songs, despite the fact that you have more Bowie tracks on it than Warlow!)), and you realise you have just grabbed a can of tuna.
- People go through your iPod at school and hand it back within 5 minutes saying "Is there anything on there that's not Anthony Warlow?"
- A guy at school asks "Why isn't there a picture of me in your locker?" and you reply "Because you're not Anthony Warlow" (I have the group pic in my locker)
- You're trying to decide what to order at a restaurant and a friend says "Order what Anthony would order"
- A waiter walks past your table with a box of Crownies and you smile.
- You walk past a place selling peanut free Easter eggs and you ponder if it could survive being mailed to Queensland...
- You get your aunt to scope around DJ's getting quotes for assorted hampers and packages of Haigh's.
- You laugh when someone has scribbled on an unpacked box of Phantom razors so the box says "PHANTOM of the opera". Seems I'm not the only Phan!
- You dissolve into giggles while shelving Herbal Essence shampoo with a co-worker who starts singing the jingle.
- You smile when a RESD (anti-theft thingy) beeps without anything going through it and a customer says "you've got a phantom".
- You hear "A contrast between the sacred and profane" and laugh.
- You smile when you walk past a tank of propane gas.
- You're excited because a new CD you bought has "The Fledermaus Waltz" on it.
- You're extra friendly when serving a woman from Melbourne who's wearing a Haigh's t-shirt...
- And chat to her for a good 10 minutes about how Ant likes Haigh's- she was a Warlovian too!
- You think of a certain picture when you find you have to type up an advertisement that has an address of "Manly Beach"
- Ants choose to climb and walk around on your collection of Ant CDs instead of taking the easier path and just going around them.
- Your anaesthetist uses Ant to distract you while inserting your drip. (I believe the question was "So what's old Anthony up to now?")
- Your nan brings you her Ant CDs to listen to in bed.
- You fight the drowsiness of painkillers to come on here
- You sit out on the cement as the sun sets and grind your callus' raw carving "Unexpected Song" ((badly)) into the cement with a small triangle of bone, afterwards sitting back to watch the ants scramble along the contours.
- You find this site Click and seriously consider getting Ant a personalised Sharpie... until you realise they don't have the silver one
- You break any awkward silence with, "So... how about that girly punting?"
- You watch a compilation vid of Phantoms punting on YouTube and try to figure out the ratio of girly to manly punting. Doesn't help a few Phantoms decide to switch
- Even though it's 40+, you're more concerned about the temperature in Brisbane.
- A door slams closed in class you say (a little too enthusiastically) "the phantom of the opera!"
- Someone in your maths class says "past the point of no return!" and your head snaps up immediately.
- You're half tempted to join up here, even though he's probably only said two lines.
- You get distracted while navigating someone through Geelong because you find 'Anthony Street' in the street directory and try to convince the driver to take a detour
- Your London-based Brother announces his engagement and your first reaction is to tell him: "Not March or April 2009, Anthony will be in Perth for Phantom and I can't go to both Perth and London. Don't make me choose, it will not end well!!"
- You smirk to yourself when one of your TAFE tutors says "Just In Time System"
- You stay behind a little longer after class and ask said tutor to explain the Just In Time System and count how many times she says it ((9))
- When you swear, it's always, "Damme."
- You (finally) find the Haigh's store in Melbourne, walk in and instantly think "If I was Ant what would I buy?" followed by "He's probably been in here!"
- You arrive at Spencer St Station, your nan says "It seems to be ant central here" and you smile like an idiot.
- You have a 20 minute conversation pondering whether it's strange to 'miss' Phantom.
- Your mum accidentally slams the lid of the piano and you exclaim "It's the Phantom of the Opera!"
- You giggle every time Voldemort says: "After tonight" ((incidentally, I want his robes; they have a fantastic flow))
- A radio DJ says "And now we'll check out Unexpected Song" and you think they're talking about here. They weren't even talking about the song, it was just some feature they were doing about new music. Underground Melbourne Music= ick.
- You go into extreme shock every time someone tells you that they have never heard of Ant
- Caramel is now on your list of banned substances.
- You're willing to endorse Phantom of Manhattan if it means getting an Australian Cast Recording.
- Chopping up the veggies for tea always ends with you murmuring, "The way you hold your knife."
- You're disappointed when you don't get Haigh's for Easter.
- You freak out when you're told your cousins and Anthony both went to the same church back around 1990.
- You jump when you see the words, "A local authority from Wollongong..." in an article and read the whole thing looking for Ant's name.
- You're reading an article about Natalie Bassingthwaite and jump when it says she's from Wollongong. You then try and do maths to figure out whether her parents might have been friends with Ant's.
- You spend 3 hours trawling through the microfiche files of the Wollongong paper from the sixties and seventies. I gave up at 1969.
- Unwinding's new knowledge makes you consider re-thinking your whole view on religion...
- You thought up "Warlovium".
- You thought up properties of Warlovium.
- You did this when you should have been doing real chemistry.
- You like the smell of the Phantom program. (Tell me I'm not the only one!)
- Unexpected Song is your most visited website.
- You ranted and cursed and raved when you read that rumour.
- You'll go see Phantom of Manhattan if he's in it...
- ...and enjoy it.
- You're a tad OCD about not having dust gather on your Phantom program.
- You have so many songs under 'Anthony Warlow' on your iPod that you fall asleep to it, and its still going when you wake up the next morning.
- You're helping your mother clean out her wardrobe (there was much amusement), and she wants to throw out a shirt of your grandfathers that has rows of little tuck pleats down the front. You refuse and stash it in your own wardrobe because it's "exactly like Erik's!"
- You then go to the local oppy and buy a $5 waistcoat to go over it.
- You're helping your callisthenics coach pull out rhythmic costumes, one of which has pink tights. And you grin like a maniac.
- You're wondering you should get Marina Prior to sign your 1990 Phantom program, or save it as is, in the hopes one day you could get Ant to sign it.
- You're of the belief that Ant can never sign too many programs!
- You wrote the Warlow version of Whatever Happened to My Part?
- It only took ten minutes or so.
- You have your family and friends well trained so that if they see any article on Anthony they cut it out and save it for you.
- Your Uncle rings your mum, asks to talk to you and the first thing he says is "I saw that type of car you were looking for.." *cue me begging for details* "except it was red. And from Queensland." And you want to kill him
- You freak when you find out your brother was in Wollongong for no apparent reason
- And that when he was in Sydney he went to Star City, where the casino apparently sucks
- Your friends are deciding who has claim of which man, (johnny depp, edward, those guys from supernatural) you are surprised when they give you Ant
- Mystery calls to Sydney pop up on the phone bill and everyone suspects you.
- A half empty bottle of Herbal Essence shows up in your bathroom, and you grin like a moron every time you see it.
- Your family can hold power over you by threatening to hurt the program.
- Your mother knows to stop asking you to turn down your stereo, because MotN at maximum volume is just like being back at the Princess.
- You're planning to run up to the Princess before another show, just to relive the memories.
- You giggle when you realise you have just typed the following:
"Further to your phone call yesterday we are pleased to offer you the following rates for your members during your conference from 13-19 September."
- And when you discover that the letter exercise you've just written for that sentance is from "Horace Higgins".
- You name your new mobile phone "Erik" so now, whenever you turn on the ignition in your car the Bluetooth screen lights up "Connecting with Erik". I also spent an enjoyable few minutes "Pairing with Erik" to establish our initial connection. Ah, small things etc.
- You fall into a giggling fit at the "Handy" commercial, especially if it's the one where they say "These are TIGHTS!"
- You're playing some pirate computer game with your cousin and insist you waste all the money buying a boat called "HMS Pinafore".
- You then name the captain Corcoran.
- The first CD you put on your laptop is J&H...
- ...And all your Ant photos and backgrounds.
- You have to clamp a hand over your mouth when your guest lecturer is introduced as John Bowl.
- Champagne is the scapegoat for all your shortcomings.
- When reading the instructions for your chemistry prac, you chuckle upon reaching the line, "Once the transformation is complete..."
- When you play Halo against your nieces and nephews ((even though you know they're going to gang up on you and kill you before you can move because you suck at the game)) you choose the name "Pirate".
- Because "Phantom" wasn't an option.
- You mishear "good job" as "punjub".
- You smile when you pass St. Anthony's.
- The CAPTCHA you get in order to post a comment is "
- You went out and bought a purple top.
- Someone puts "The Girl From Ipanema" on at work and you tell them why Ant's version is much better
- When doing a stationary order someone orders a pack of sharpies and you are tempted to order the silver ones insted... "It was an honest mistake, really!"
- You come on here even though the festival you are suppose to be working on starts tomorrow and everyone is going crazy. I can't help it, I need an Ant fix!!
- You come on here regardless of anything you should be doing - like the dishes. Or getting dressed.
- You visit Borders to buy Rebecca.
- When they don't have it, you take a five-block detour to try Angus and Robertson's instead...
- ...which makes you miss your train.
- You don't mind.
- You lose it when you have to type up an exercise going to Mrs Robertson in Manly, with the date as the 14th of September.
- You lose more than "it" when you have to save said exercise as "Phantom-Data".
- You are grateful that it's lunch time and therefore have to leave the classroom, especially since after making this post your "Antasm" icon has popped up.
- You hear this conversation in the next room ((mum does scrapbooking)) :
"Why do you use up all the purple?"
"What?"
"You've used up all the f*cking purple."
"What's wrong with it?"
"Purple purple purple purple purple!"
and you hide within the hood of your dressing gown ...
- ... only to realise that it's purple.
- You stroll into your nearest Optus store and the first thing that grabs your attention is an all purple phone.
- When you laugh at yourself, your mother asks what's wrong. Without you replying, she realises, "Oh, Anthony."
- ...then delivers the priceless line, "What's Anthony do that's purple?"
- You are sitting in a serious technical conference with government officials, and someone walks by with a Haighs Chocolate Shop bag.............and you laugh out loud.
- You look at the wrapper of your muesli bar and choke when you see it was packed in Hyde Street.
- You look down at your notes after a particularly boring lecture and can spot 23 phantom masks, as well as half the libretto from Pirates.
- You decide your new favorite flower is the Madagascan Rosy Periwinkle after learning that it is the flower that the treatment for non hodgkin's lymphoma was derived from.
- You leave the classroom unexpectedly when you come across the assessment that asks you to make a mail murge about tickets to Phantom of the Opera ...
- ... while you were also working on your Petition Presentation for PowerPoint ...
- ... and listening to the Back in the Swing Tour copy of Music of the Night.
- You're in the change rooms at work and freak when you see a phantom keyring, then hunt down the person who owns it
- Use your little cousins as an excuse to read Enid Blyton's 'Naughtiest Girl In The School' books, because the games master is "Mr Warlow"
- You buy your mother a white card with a lot of purple on it - and a matching purple envelope - even if she won't understand the significance of the colour ((pray she never does))
- You hear a contest to win a mother's day pack on the radio asking to fill in the phrase: "I love my mother even though ... " and you're tempted to call just so you can say: "I love my mother even though she embarrassed me in front of Anthony Warlow ((and I would have if dad hadn't been home at the time)).
- You buy yourself a small notebook computer on special for Mother's Day so you can sit in front of the fire on cold winter evenings (like tonight, and last night) to post here, instead of sitting in the study on the desktop shivering with a doona wrapped around you and a hot water bottle clutched to you (it was 5 degrees last night!)
- You burst into a fit of laughter when you see your physical chemistry lecture notes include a "Raoult's Law".
- You feel like crawling under the table as you listen to half of your TAFE classmates talk about how "Anthony and Matt are pillow biters" and the other half talk about the difficulties of looking after fish.
- You get asked if you're still planning to join the rest of the family for Christmas this year - even though you've never missed a family Christmas! - because "we thought that you might be going to see Phantom again instead"!
- You cannot wait until your baby budgies (which hatched last Monday and Wednesday!) feather up, so you can see if one is a boy you can call Erik!
- You install PSP9 into a TAFE computer just so you can make Ant icons ((actually I needed to adjust the Phantom of the Opera logo in my PP presentation and I kept forgetting to do it at home, but since I'm here and I've got 3 hours' to kill ...)) ...
- ... Just as your lecturer is talking about the Mail Merge exercise previously mentioned concerning Phantom tickets ((the amount of times she's saying "Phantom" ... I'm going to have to step out for some air!))
- You seriously contemplating spending your 5 week end-of-year annual leave in Auckland....
- ... And requests your next block of holiday to be somtime in Mar/Apr 2009.
- You have just worked a 60 hour 6 day week and you put yourself on call for 5 nights next week so you can boost your PoTO fund and turn LSS weekend into LSS week!! (I must see Roy again and the only way I can do that is ensure I get a Wednesday matinee, which means spending all week in Sydney. The sacrifices I make in the pursuit of art!!
- You keep misreading your Psych textbook and seeing Warlow instead of Harlow.
- You give up your holiday shopping spree to save money for flights.
- You begin the petition for the family to pay for LSS, on the grounds that you turn 18 that week.
- Your TAFE workmates inform you that you smirked when they said "bug", even if you didn't realise you did it ...
- ... and then when you fumble about for your phone when it starts screaming, you crawl under the table when they say: "Was that a big bug that was biting you in your pocket?"
- You hear Slade on the radio... and it makes you think of Anthony and Puccini
- You laugh (loudly) everytime you see a Some mother's do ave em dvd just in case someone nearby asks you to explain what you find so funny.
- Everytime you walk past a bridal shop you immediately hear "Not on our wedding day!!!" and tear up.
- You go off your nut whenever anyone recognises the phantom song you are humming in class.....but then realise they loved the movie and now you can never have anything to do with them ever again.
- You start to wonder about life-after-phantom and everytime you do the world gets a little colder.
- You incorporate Phantom into your wedding . We had 'All I Ask of You' and a few others during our wedding ceremony
- When you disown half the cast of your school production because you make part of a scene directly like Phantom, and they all go "I love that movie!" and a few went as far as "Gerard Butler is soooo good!" >).<
- You then hum the first Ant song that comes into your head when they're near you!
- You send a txt to the local radio station on Choosey Tuesday to request Ant's Music of the Night.
- You send another txt to the local radio station some time later when they begin to play a version, vehemently stating:
"No! No! Wrong one! That is Michael bloody Crawford, not Anthony Warlow! Do not torture us with that drivel!"
- You smile/giggle/try-to-control-yourself as you hear your father say in the next room: "He sings this like a woman, whereas that other bloke sings it like a MAN."
- You ((and your mother, who was bitching about Crawford and complimenting Ant all through the song)) laugh out loud when the radio presenter suddenly fades it out to read your txt on the radio word for word.
- You immediately call the radio station afterwards and ask them if they have it; upon hearing they didn't, you offer to send thema copy of the CD that the track is on ((neglecting to mention that you plan on sending copies of all of his albums so they can be armed for future requests)).
- You seriously consider using your small uni savings to fly to Sydney to see Phantom
(You're assuming that I haven't!)
- You have just worked a 60 hour 6 day week and you put yourself on call for 5 nights next week so you can boost your PoTO fund and turn LSS weekend into LSS week!! (I must see Roy again and the only way I can do that is ensure I get a Wednesday matinee, which means spending all week in Sydney. The sacrifices I make in the pursuit of art!!
(So very true... it's insanity, but I have a mantra! "Warlow in a mask, Warlow in a mask, Warlow in a mask...")
- You consider shelving arguments with estranged father just to stay at his house in Auckland for a week to follow Anthony over to Auckland
- You go in for your final CC injection, get the needle in your arm, hear the nurse say: "Think of something else; holidays in Queensland ... " and you ((literally)) scream "SYDNEY!"
- The two new 'recruits' at work ask everyone the plot to Phantom, to which EVERYONE replies perfectly and adds "... because SHE won't stop talking about it!"
- You get excited about a Plantagenet wine ad in the Qantas in-flight magazine.... because it's being advertised as "the wine of choice of the Phantom"
- You get all giggly and excited when you see this sentence in a magazine article on anonymous notes:
"Eager to avoid responsibility and confrontation, the passive-aggressive type is content to blame others - perhaps even scrawl a phantom note."
- Your self-created game manual for an unrelated, blood-thirsty, M-rated game has so many Phantom references in all the names and places that the lecturer has listed them in the back with "Did I find them all?"
- Said lecturer knows that, when you say you're off to see it again, "WHAT?!?" is not the correct answer. "When?" is.
- The auto-door at work opens without anyone there and a colleague shouts 'Phantom customer!', you're not going to be able to concentrate for at least five minutes.
- Anyone who goes near the freezer while you're shifting boxes of fries will be treated to a rendition of "Think of Me", "Twisted Every Way" or "Wandering Child"... and they stick around to listen unobtrusively.
- Your ringtone is 'The Phantom of the Opera', your message tone is 'Music of the Night' and the wallpaper is Ant and Ana... and you go to uni in your 'Phanatic' shirt (try denying that's your phone then!)
- You hear the line "You try my patience" in a movie and then yell (to an empty room!) "Make your choice!"
- You buy Archibalds Bees Honey.
- You pass a pink car and think: Hey look, Archibald!
- You bring Phantom up in a job interview (mine was for EB Games) and show the interviewer your mask necklace (the interviewer then said that Ant "stomped all over MC's version", even though she though MC was lovely). You then spend the rest of the interview discussing the LSS pilgrimmage and half-convince the interviewer to come with you!
- You check your work roster to see that you haven't been scheduled at all next week, notice that they've marked that roster the 14th of September, and spend the rest of the night grinning like an idiot.
- You look up at the clouds and swear you can see the formation of someone punting in a gondola.
- Your hubby asks you if you would leave him for Ant and there's a definite 'pause' before you answer 'Of course not!'
- Hubby says he's getting jealous, cause you keep saying 'what a lovely man Ant is!'
- You check the roster, see that you're rostered to work the entire weekend of LSS, and tell your boss there's no way you can work, because of more important comittments!
- You get slightly up in arms when there's a car-jacking gansta in a movie named Anthony.
- You are not so subtly reminded by your parents that your car rego will be due between the LSS and the LPS you decide to forgo having a drivable car in favor of a week in Perth
- Your grandmother reminds you to put in your tax "because it'll pay for your flight to Perth to see that Anthony chap".
- You're doing forensic DNA fingerprinting in a Bio lab, and you find yourself wondering what Anthony's DNA would look like.
- You lose your wallet and after panicking about your license, atm etc., you think "No! My ticket from the night I met Anthony is in there!" and then relax because you moved it two days ago (thank goodness!)
- You can't talk about (the character) Anthony in Sweeney Tood coz then you just get confused and dreamy at the same time, imagining the possibilities
- You consider joining the United Church when you hear someone ((Darrin)) say: "Well last easter they dressed in purple!"
- In the midst of a day so monumentally crappy that it started with burying a pet and your boss telling you that you've ruined an $8000 ring, you're cheered up by the discovery that your name means 'white phantom'.
- You pass two strangers having a conversation in the street and manage to overhear the words "Anthony's mic went off in the final scenes" and for the rest of the morning nothing can get you down as you daydream about [missing :-(] LSS
- You wonder if ANT has brought out his own range of chocolates when you see a brand that starts with ANThon, then wonder what they'd be like if he did
- No matter how stupid people are at work, you float around thinking "I met Anthony Warlow" ... and proceed to tell EVERYONE in the store and drive-thru, thus blowing out the timer at the other end but not getting into trouble ... because your boss is jealous.
- Your signed program is gently wrapped in a very soft (and rather expensive) piece of material ... in case anything happens to it.
- The first thing you did when you got home - from the show - was do the above
- You nearly have a fit in a biology lecture when your lecturer starts to talk about clumps of cells.
- You write 'Julie' all through a SAC instead of 'Julia', which is the character's name! (Damn you JG!)
- Your friends are totally confused with your rantings of "so we declared we couldn't go to Subway alone", etc.
- You buy a drink just because it's purple ... even if it is liquified yam.
- you haven't eaten dinner for days because instead of cooking, you're distracted by this site.
- you think the kitchen is the perfect place for unwinding.
- You get sick when you get home and don't feel at all sorry for yourself, because you're positive you caught it from Ant, though you're not totally sure how.
- you get a silly grin on your face when you open a drawer of an anaesthetic trolley and see a couple of Sharpies in there.
- you get to work to discover an A4 size photo of you and Ant on the Theatre scheduling whiteboard with the caption "Sandy and her new mystery man" and think nothing of it!
- You run across roads like Nina the Ballerina shouting "Mr Warlow! Mr Warlow!"
- "I'm here" is ALWAYS followed by "The Phantom of the Operaaaaa"
- Even though you're at a posh function for My Fair Lady, you can't resist showing off your photo with Ant, doing promo for U/S and convincing at least three people that it's not insane to up sticks and go to Auckland... or Sydney/Perth next year... really, it's not!
- You get everyone's emails at said function and send them the link to the U/S petition
- You remark as you enter the Lyric thusly: "Oh, that's sad. They took all the ornamentation down. Oh that's SAD" and ACTUALLY consider crying.
- You are pleasantly surprised when you stumble across a slab of Crownies in your shed
- You get a very pleased/proud feeling when you hear a young performer speak on radio about how seeing Ant in phantom was an inspiration
- You check food to see if it contains nuts, even though you don't have an allergy!
- Then feel guilty buying said food.
- You say after eating especially good fish cooked by your Nan, "It's a shame Ant couldn't have this."
- You drive all the way to Mosman and Cremorne and drive around and around hoping to catch a glimpse of Anth or his car..
- you're standing in the middle of a shopping center, supposedly getting people to sign up for free lightbulbs, but actually youre surfing the net for cast photos
- you desperately wish you could have stolen your dad's pretty Crownies glasses, given them a clean, whacked a bow on them and handed them over!
- you can work Anthony into a blog about the political upheavals in Zimbabwe and the US.
- The sum total of your tickets to Phantom alone (without travelling/extras expenses) would have replaced your defunct laptop... and you don't care
- Your university paper on game music is entitled "The Music of The Night"
- Your friend asks what her new laptop should be called, you immediately yell "Erik!"
- 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' becomes 'Girls Just Wanna Have Warlow'... while your mum and her friend are in the car.
- Phantom Hourglass is an awesome game... simply for the title.
- Said game is best played with certain tracks from Jekyll and Hyde... and you set out the soundtrack to play so you hit the right song at the right place in the game (takes a bit of work to do it, but I've done it!)
- You can "yoink!" Warlow-related items from your friend's hand in 0.05 seconds flat (this happened to ozzie and I. I'M SORRY! Lmao!)
- While playing your favourite video game *coughKingdomHeartsIIcough*, you grin like a moron when you notice that Pride Lands has a "phantom".
- You dare NOT think about Alive/It's a Dangerous Game at work, because you break out in a dopey grin and people think you're making fun of them.
- You could almost swear that Lady GaGa's song is called "Just Ant"
- You do a double take when you see a Phoebe W registered for the classical solos at South Street.....and she's from NSW.
- You then scan the entire theatre. Just in case.
- You're then disappointed when said girl is a brunette, and a shocking dancer as well.
- You find yourself trying not to giggle while explaining the plot to your musical (Jekyll and Hyde II) to your group buddy in Enabling Immersion... who happens to be named Celia.
- You laugh when your (practise) Psych exam has the possible options for an answer: a) Method of Loci, b) Association, c) CLUMPING, d) chunking.
- You then circle C, even though you know its not right.
- Your brother is giving a heartfelt vent on a bunch of problems he's bottled up for six years or so, and you still manage to bring Ant into the conversation...
- ...twice.
- You arrive at your audition with your Phantom necklace on, and the sign-in lady says "I know its a fantastic show, but would you mind removing the necklace?"
- And then has a ten minute conversation with you about the show.
- You have reason to scream for joy and jealousy when you get a text message from your sister saying "I'M AT THE OPERA GARNIER - YOU PROUD?" Oh, boy am i! Good on ya Manda!!!!
- You almost snort lemonade out your nose at this movie quote: "And we managed to come away with the Big W."
- You stumble across a picture of the Ant Nebula, and you get way to much amusement from the name.
- You get the giggles and wear a cheeky grin when your mother says "stop shoving Malteasers in your mouth!!!"
- you talk to the Wicked cast about Ant, who needles to say they like as well
- You find that your little budgie you named Erik was a GIRL, so you decide to call her Christine instead.
- And the little baby that was attacked as a chick, and now missing a toe and half of one wing, you decide to name Erik (because he is now kinda 'deformed') - AND he/she(?) turns out to be a YELLOWFACE VIOLET BUDGIE!
- You add Warlovian ((and others)) to your ((and every other)) computer's dictionary.
- You see Gregorian chants on sale at JB and have a little laugh.
- You see "Dr Jekyll" Absinthe at the local liquor store and wonder if 'HJ7' is a code name for hallucinogenic alcohol.
- A book of the illustrated history of Gregorian chants is on sale at Angus and Robertson's....and consider it for a hamper idea.
- You spend the morning grinning inanely, because it is your job to wind the 8 day clock first thing on a Monday.
- You consider passing up the chance to meet Peter Davison -your first Doctor- just so you still have the money for Adelaide, much to the horror of your Whovian friends.
- You frequently misspell 'Whovian' (freudan slip, I swear!)
) and spend half the movie thinking who Ant would play best...
Please feel free to introduce yourself in the Introducing thread in the General board, also to contact myself or anyone here if you have any questions. We hope you enjoy your time with US!