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Servbot Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
#51: Dec 27th 2011 at 4:47:18 AM

... you know what UUDDLRLRBABA means.

... your first instinct when asked to run in the 100 Meter dash is to bring a coin with you.

edited 27th Dec '11 4:47:47 AM by Servbot

Nizbel Since: Apr, 2012
#52: Dec 27th 2011 at 5:01:37 AM

...you find someone in a compromising situation and expect them to give you money to keep you quiet.

hnd03 Parasol Star Memories from [REDACTED] Since: Jun, 2009
Parasol Star Memories
#53: Dec 27th 2011 at 5:49:17 AM

Hearing the name Top Gun does not conjure imagery from the movie but thoughts of endless frustration.

So. Let's all pause for a moment to smell what the Rock was, is, and forever will be... cooking.—Cave Johnson
Talby Since: Jun, 2009
#54: Dec 27th 2011 at 5:56:22 AM

When you love the Power Glove.

Nizbel Since: Apr, 2012
#55: Dec 27th 2011 at 6:10:48 AM

...you try to jump on a tortoise shell repeatedly, to see if it will grant you immortality.

...you have the urge to jump around in empty corridors.

MajorTom Eye'm the cutest! Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
Eye'm the cutest!
#56: Dec 27th 2011 at 6:39:50 AM

Hearing the name Top Gun does not conjure imagery from the movie but thoughts of endless frustration.

It's that fucking landing sequence!

"Allah may guide their bullets, but Jesus helps those who aim down the sights."
Jamdat369 Does What You Don't from Terca Lumireis Since: Sep, 2011
Does What You Don't
#57: Dec 27th 2011 at 6:53:11 AM

[up]I could never get that stupid landing right.

...you smash a TV hoping for a power up.

edited 27th Dec '11 6:55:25 AM by Jamdat369

"All worlds begin in darkness and all so end. The heart is no different."-Ansem
Fluid Since: Jan, 2001
#58: Dec 27th 2011 at 7:10:24 AM

...you smash a TV hoping for a power up.

In fact, smashing just about anything including walls, floors and ceilings hoping for a powerup.

Jamdat369 Does What You Don't from Terca Lumireis Since: Sep, 2011
Does What You Don't
#59: Dec 27th 2011 at 7:31:52 AM

True

"All worlds begin in darkness and all so end. The heart is no different."-Ansem
Nizbel Since: Apr, 2012
#60: Dec 28th 2011 at 7:21:19 AM

Similarly, the word "airman" brings to mind not an aviator but unfathomable rage.

edited 28th Dec '11 7:22:46 AM by Nizbel

stevebat Since: Nov, 2009
#61: Dec 28th 2011 at 8:25:12 AM

When you hear Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde you don't think about a great classic read, you think about how much of a piece of shit it was.

Apocalypse: Dirge Of Swans.
mrsaturn Youkai Serious Since: Jan, 2001
Youkai Serious
#62: Dec 28th 2011 at 9:07:48 AM

When you call it Dragon Warrior instead of Dragon Quest.

They assed first. I am only retaliating in an ass way. -The Dead Man's Life
WillyFourEyes I have seen the amateur, and it is me. (Old Enough To Drive) Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
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