You Might Be a Liaden Universe® Fan If...



  1.  You recognize a Friend of Liad from across a crowded room by the color of their faded t-shirt.
  2.  You wonder what clan the attendant at the Laundromat is because she's clearly Liaden.
  3.  You start wondering which part of your melant'i is most dominant in any given circumstance.
  4.  You accidentally knock the ketchup bottle off the counter and avert a disaster by catching it in midair, and think, "Yeah! Pilot reflexes!"
  5.  Your child has an innocent water balloon fight during her birthday party, and you consider
        the deeper implications of a nose bleed caused by such a projectile.
  6.  You put blue food coloring into white wine for the same reason Trekkies wear fake pointed ears when they go to see the movie.
  7.  You go to buy a rug for your living room and look verrry carefully at the pattern before purchasing.
  8.  You call people 'denubia' regularly.
  9.  You've legally changed your name so that your last name starts with yos'.
10.  You call big people Yxtrang, little people Liadens, and medium sized people Terrans.
11.  You meant to get that dragon kite stuck on the upper branches of that tree.
12.  No one can mention "Plan B" without you first thinking of Clan Korval.
13.  You are drinking your (insert beverage of choice) in a dark blue Tree and Dragon cup with I DARE on the other side.
14. When someone cuts you off in traffic you enter their license plate number in your Balance notebook.
15.You have a collection of lace cuffed shirts... and you practice flipping the cuffs back.
16. Deep booming voices ALWAYS make you think of turtles.
17.You stopped wearing makeup years ago.
18.You spend months on end trying to get your daughter's crystal growing science kit to make a knife.
19.You constantly bug your boss to change your job title to "Sector Judge."
20.You've actually used the quote "rag mannered as a Terran" when describing someone.

-- Compiled by the Friends of Liad



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      Page created August 10, 2003, by Sharon Lee. Updated December 15, 2003, 1:39 p.m. Contents copyright 2003.