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You know you like 'Evita' too much when


..you stay up until 2:55 AM to finish the movie and 2:15AM listening to the whole double CD soundtrack.

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Or perhaps when you skip psychology revision to watch the film?

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When you can sing the entire movie.

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You sing "I'd be Surprisingly good for you" to people you like

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You sing "I'd be Surprisingly bad for you" to friends/acquaintances who dare to support the UK when it comes to the Falklands/Malvinas

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You an Argie or just an Argie-lover?

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My mother and I watched this movie shortly after I had had 6 teeth removed in oral surgery for my braces when I was younger, and after three times, we knew the whole movie! We LOVE to stick that sucker in, blare the volume all the way up and sing along! Every single song is stuck in my head! I have done many papers on Miss Eva herself and each time I do a new one, with power point, I do add the songs to the music runner. The class always gets a giggle from it! ROCK ON!

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When you have a real history test about the real Eva Peron and you quote the lyrics to make your point!

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When you sing the Latin parts and Spanish parts yet you don't even know what you're singing.

Whenever you're in the back seat of a car you start singing "Dice are rolling...."

You play the movie in your mind while you're bored at work quoting every single line even lines like "I won't let them take you", "We did not come here to dance with Madame Pampador", "Senor Magaldi, it's 7:00, You'll be late" etc etc

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No, it's worse... when you've learned some Latin and Spanish so you will know what you're singing.

Are they made from real Girl Scouts?

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When you've bought the Spanish Cast because you think it will be much more relevant in that language.

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When you can sing the whole thing on a whim and apply it to EVERY situation.


"What do you want me to do? Dress in drag and do the hula!?"

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when you start noticing other members of the cast that were crucial in the real Eva Peron's life.

for me, it's her brother. I notice "Brother Juan" in many more scenes before realizing he was Eva's brother.

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You get angry when they mention more about Juan than Eva in text books published in 1990



Gossip's worth its weight in gold

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When you go to your wordrobe and think "I have to be dazzling, I want to be rainbow high !"
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I'm listening to "Rainbow High" right now and the second I read that post, those exact lyrics came at the same time. I was amused indeed.

You're so vain, I bet you think this signature is about you.

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LOL! Those are great!

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Where on Eareth did you find those because I want them!

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When you see a young lady OUT OF PLACE OR UNWANTED and you sing to yourself "The Chorus Girl Hasn't learned the lines you like to hear"

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When U get crazy when U see the low rating in IMDB, though U think this is one of the best 20 movies U ever saw in your life.

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HAHA i did the exact same thing as SOMETHINGWICKED i translated every single line in a foreign language. at like 300 in the morning too right after seeing this movie. haa.

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I've done that! I sang "Rio de la Plata! Florida! Corrientes! Nueve de Julio" all the time and had NO idea what I was singing!!

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When you eagerly hope ALW will make another musical based on a dictatorship (I can wait to see Trujillo!)

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Had you only seen the play, instead...

(Honestyl, Mandy Patinkin vs. Antonio Banderas = No Contest!)

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you listen to the original recording from the 1970s and then do a comparison to the movie soundtrack

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Every Evita song plays in your head 24/7/365!












Remember: Teletubbies are evil, ever around, fundamental, system of government quite incidental!

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you're thinking about doing a semester abroad program in Buenos Aires...

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Stand up in reception (Kinder garden for the americans present) and sing out the entire of Don't cry for me argentina!!! i was 4!!!

Smeg!

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You go on your upstairs balcony (if you have one) stand on it, and sing Don't Cry For Me Argentina to people passing by and call them your descamisados :-)

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"Stand up in reception (Kinder garden for the americans present) and sing out the entire of Don't cry for me argentina!!! i was 4!!! "

Oh god yeah...I used to constantly do that, I was singing it all the time up until i was about eight because i was obsessed... :)

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When you've spent a quarter century of your life working towards US citizenship and you'd throw it all away for a few months in Buenos Aires...

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Oh my gosh. Thanks for starting this post! I knew I wasn't the only one who loved this (both movie and stage) But everything applied to me! You guys are too funny :)

You Swapped Me? For MilkMaid!

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Wow! I'm all of the above. Especially that I can recite the whole of the film in my head and I have demanded "to be buried like Eva Peron".

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Name your cat Evita,as I did,and call her The Argentine Rose Of Catdom,which she was.

i was actually thinking of doing that when i watched the move on hbo tonight!
either evita or fyedka
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Eddie: Pats...
Patsy: Yes, Eddy?
Eddie: You have no morals, darling.

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HAHA AND I AGREE WITH ELM ST. i know am i origional or what but omg i love this post. and iveonly read liek 1/2 of it. il have to think of some ood ones and post them later

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You run for president of the school council, and whenever you're given premision to speak you stand up and gesticulates wildly with your indexfinger. You're by the way not afraid of fixing the votes as you know that the goal justifies the means.

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You're so funny, Onryu! I would totally do that! ^__^

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Thanks.. It is rather tempting to do no? I know I did it once.. I was just a simple court member, and I had no power to govern over the bureaucracy that ruled. I could influence on simple things such as more garbage cans, while important issues as fx. "Why are 30 students squeezed into a class room with a capacity of 23, let's write a letter to the school president, and ask him to create some sort of debate as all the teachers suggest" got lost in the red tape. Every day I was met by requests by my class mates that reached beyond my powers, so one day I stood up on a chair, and the little evita in me cried out:

"Allow me to help you slink off to the sidelines
I'll mark your ado with three cheers
But first tell me who'd be delighted

If I said I'd take on the
The school's greatest problems
From cramped in students to class room pollution?
No hope of solution
Even if I lived for one hundred years"

True story...

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That's too many syllables in "from cramped in students to class room pollution". You only get six. You should've just gone with "Like class room pollution" 'cause the rhyme is great.

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Or you scream "Christian Dior me!" or "Machiavell me!"

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Or when you're doing the musical for your spring musical, and you tell the costumers to do any of those.

It was always the funniest when the girl who actually WAS Eva did that.

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....when you go out to eat and have your friends applaud when you take your jacket off....

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You always play "High Flying Adored" in your head when you are on the Superman at Six Flags! ^__^

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You refer to people you hate as "the aristocracy" and your friends are the "descamisados".
When your'e about to do something and someone says "People will think we'll weird" you say "I don't care what the bourgeoisie say! I'm not in business for them."
When your boss hands you your paycheck, you shout "And the money kept rolling in from every side!"
When you find out your sick, you tell the doctor "And if I am ill, that could even be to your advantage." And hope that he shouts "Advantage?" with a Spanish accent.

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The holidays will hit you,
Like a BRICK!

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....your little brother gets embarrassed because you're dancing and no one else is, and you strike a pose and sing, "It doesn't matter what those morons say..."

Or you're discussing politics and you murmur ,"Our nation's leaders are a feeble crew..."

It's all your fault that my essay on Cistercian monks is not being done, this was so funny.
Ah, and so glad to see people not getting 'all serious' about films. That's why I don't post too often on the forums because sooner or later someone is going to come up and either make outragous claims or have a verbal fit because of something you said...It can be fairly amusing to read, but not to have it happen to you.

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Or when you change the lyrics while singing to the other gender's POV.

"Go inside, for your finest inspiration
Your dreams will open the door.."
-- Madonna, "Vogue"

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"7. Whenever a movie cuts off, you wail "OH, MY GOD!!!!!!! WHO DIED?!?!?!" "


OMG YES! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

"Go inside, for your finest inspiration
Your dreams will open the door.."
-- Madonna, "Vogue"

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When your school does a production of "Evita" and you know something is wrong when you look in your program and find out that indentical twins are playing Che, and then see them doing it at the same time.
And, at that same production, your mother and you are singing every song under your breath.

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This is ridiculous! I've finally found my people ;-) I totally thought I was the only one with the serious addiction. At least 25 times "through and through" over the last 3 months. : ) : )

Just saw the stage show tonight. I though Ché was brilliant while Evita was very shallow and not at all redeeming. But, I guess that's for the other thread.

Just good to know that I have some Evita comrades around me. Now I'll knock each one of you off slowly but surley, as I take each rocking chair away. Mua ha ha!

Alright..I'll stop now.
Peace,

-Harry

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When seeing your housemate off for the holidays you yell at the top of your lungs, "IF YOU'VE MISSED ANYTHING YOU CAN GIVE ME A RING BUT I WON'T ALWAYS ANSWER THE PHONE!!" and slamming the door on the last word in his bewildered face.

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You sing "Another suitcase in another hall" when you get dumped by your boyfriend and sing "Goodnight and Thank you" when you find new boyfriends and drop them like dead carcasses!

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You start singing Rainbow High or Waltz for Eva and Che out loud in public or in a classroom.

Hopelessly in love with Uma Thurman, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Emmy Rossum

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Please!!! I went to Buenos Aires. Visit The Casa Rosada and went to Evita's final resting place. Beat that (besides the 12 hour flight)

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When you start singing "High Flying Adored" in refrence to a girl you know. Or better yet, when you think about making your version!

"Imagine if you suddenly learned that the people, the places, the moments most important to you were not gone, not dead, but worse, had never been. What kind of hell would that be?"

Dr. Rosen (Christopher Plummer) in A Beautiful Mind




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God, this happens to me everytime I hear the song! I think about a girl I like, and just recently thought of writing a more appropriate lyric with the same music (while keeping some of the originals, such "a fantasy of the bedroom and a saint."

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"Make it your mission that Eva become a saint."

No! She didn't want that! Remember, "I've decided I should decline all the honors and titles you've pressed me to take." Sorry about being picky

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1. You can't walk past a balcony without raising your arms and singing the line "I had to let it happen..."
2. You walk up to the guy at the gay bar that caught your eye and ask "Colonel Peron?". If he doesn't come right back with "Eva Duarte?" you move on to someone else.

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"2. You walk up to the guy at the gay bar that caught your eye and ask "Colonel Peron?". If he doesn't come right back with "Eva Duarte?" you move on to someone else. "

LMAO!


When you refer to your favorite actors as Fly Highing Adored

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~ ...You test your knowledge of the movie/play's lyrics by typing them up -- and wind up with over 5 pages!

~ ...When you are determined to find out what comes after

High flying, adored
It's good to hear, but unimportant...


And you cheer when it hits you while you're asleep.

~ ...When you're looking forward to asking your music teacher for permission to watch it in school.

The Underworld: Evolution DVD comes out June 6! Mark your calendars!

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2. You walk up to the guy at the gay bar that caught your eye and ask "Colonel Peron?". If he doesn't come right back with "Eva Duarte?" you move on to someone else

this is especially funny, my drag persona is modeled after Eva... I am so going to do this.

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