Posted earlier by Jeanne Rose...(and promptly purged by the Forum dragon but saved by Lulu :)

 We are the obsessed. We are the people who occasionally get our realities confused. We are the people who type methos instead of method all the time, and have to remind ourselves that AP doesn't write newspaper articles. We are the people who wave swords around in the front yard when we are upset, leaving headless bushes in our wake. We all use Highlander related passwords, and some of us write parodies of famous poems. We are the people who lie awake at night thinking up new things to post, and who once in a while to our great delight have Highlander-related dreams. We are the people who pretend that lightning storms are quickenings. We are the people who practice our Scottish accents and wish for kilts and dream of learning to play the bagpipes. We are they who buy CD's of Kansas, Loreena McKennit, and Queen. We are they who refer to Duncan, Methos, Joe, and Richie in normal conversation as if they were real people. We are the people who can name the episode based only on a single quote. We can name our favorite kata, our favorite hug, our favorite quickening, and our favorite k'immie. We are they who make Highlander t-shirts, collect frus of the stars, and make lists of trivia questions. We are the people who debate about Xavier's hand, and
whether immies can get cancer, and what happens to immies who die as infants or of old age. We are the people who wonder what would happen if a pre-immie cut an immie's head off, and have tons of theories on where immies come from. We never ask why the police never find the headless bodies or where the immies hide their swords. We are the obsessed. We hope that we are not crazy. Now that you are one of us, who can we trust to give an unbiased opinion?

JR

Posted by Jeanne Rose, I KNEW this would be addicting! on Thursday, 2 July 1998, at 11:36 a.m.

We are the obsessed. We only get out of bed this morning (well, the second time) because the postman brought us season 4. We are they who immediately put on the MacLeod pendent and are thrilled beyond measure that it actually goes with what we are wearing. We are they who rearranged the entire video shelf to give season four a place of honor. We are they who put the Duncan MacLeod battle poster on the closet door, beside the humongous poster of Duncan they gave us at
the con. We are they who will be watching season 4 as it comes on USA and then making a Eurominutes video of all the scenes that got cut. We are they who wish that we had been on the calendar committee, 'cause we're sure we could have chosen some better stills. We are they who thought that the second blooper reel was more hysterical than any late night TV we've ever seen. We are they whose parking spot shall shortly say "Parking for the Highlander only! Violators will lose
their heads." We are they who received our state tax returns in the mail yesterday, and instead of observing that they would cover our extravagence in purchasing season four, thought - "Ah ha! Season 5!"

JR

Posted by Bright Girl on Thursday, 2 July 1998, at 12:12 p.m.

We are the obsessed. We are they who unconsciously hum "Princes of the Universe" over and over again. We are they who reply in Highlander quotes to non-Highlander people. We are they who pretend we are British. We are they who shower to "Queen." We are they who plan to lease a black 4x4 when we get the money. We are they who will choose a Highlander related license plate for our future car. We are they who introduce Peter Wingfield's picture to their 2 year old niece, "Pee-ter, aha, who's this? Pee-ter."

Hugs,

BG

Posted by Rissa on Thursday, 2 July 1998, at 1:13 p.m.

We are the obsessed. We are the ones who stay up til 5AM reading fanfic even though we have to get up at 7 for work. We are the ones who squeal with delight when a new HL fanfic hits the email. We are the ones who set a pagewatch on our favourite fanfic sites. We are the ones who are convinced that the fanfic authors ought to be made consultants to TPTB. We are the ones who recognize HL alumni just by the sound of their voices. We are the ones who can cite the episode(s)
those alumni appeared in and who their characters were. We are the ones who make lists of every aspect of HL we can think of. We are the ones who get excited when we think of another list to make. We are the ones determined to get all those lists into a proper database so we can search for the answer to any question. We are the ones who check the new phone book to see if any of the characters have moved into the neighbourhood.

We *are* the obsessed.

Cheers,

Rissa