YOU KNOW YOU'RE A FURSUITER WHEN.....
After I got back from Anthrocon, I decided to take this nutty look at fursuiters and their culture. I hope you have as much fun reading this as I did creating it. The members of the Fursuit Central and Fursuit.org mailing lists got a kick out of it and I think you will too.
- You receive a letter from S C Johnson Co. (makers of Enbac) personally thanking you for the support of their product.
- You know that if your house/apartment/condo ever caught on fire, you'd grab your fursuit first when choosing things to take with you.
- Your significant other "pops the question" for marriage and you agree-just as long as can do it wearing a fursuit.
- You learned to sew just so you could make your own fursuit.
- When undressing you instinctively reach for the zipper in the back.
- You watch ER just to catch the 'Fursuit Episode' (or CSI just to catch their 'Fur and Loathing' episode).
- You saw the movie 'The Country Bears' 40 times (and perhaps own it on VHS AND DVD) just because of the fursuits!
- You have a headshot of your fursuit on your driver's license/state ID/passport.
- You won't spend a dime on sporting events, but you will spend hundreds of dollars to attend the annual 'Mascot Games'
- You'd give your eyeteeth to be allowed to wear your fursuit to work-just once (and perhaps worse! you've worn it to work on more than one occasion!)
- You go out in fursuit with your son/daughter for Halloween and are pleasantly surprised at the end of the night to have obtained more candy than he/she.
- You don't ask for much for Christmas-just for the right to wear your fursuit in the Christmas parades on TV.
- When you watch a movie, you spend your time figuring out how to insert fursuit characters into the plot.
- You wear your fursuit to your company's Halloween costume contest and you handily blow everyone else's costume away.
- You're constantly getting employment offers from major amusement parks (Disneyland, Great America, etc) to be one of their fursuiters/costumed characters.
- There's a commercial on TV with featuring mascots and you're more interested in the mascots than what the commercial has to sell.
- You're able to take YOURSELF for a walk (Worse! You get picked up by Animal Control for not having a license!)
- You feel naked without your fursuit.
- You aren't freaked out when you hear the term "Headless Lounge" when at Anthrocon. In fact, you know where it is and you go there often.
- You actually thought that Joey Kangaroo fursuit character actually improved The New Captian Kangaroo show.
- You know your fellow fursuiters more by the names of the characters they play than their real names.
- You find yourself using pantomine rather than words to get your point across.
- You've spend thousands of dollars on your fursuit, yet you're always looking for ways to make it better.
- You think nothing of subsisting for months on water and Ramen Noodles (tm) to be able to afford that new fursuit you want.
- You go to an amusement park just to hang out with the costumed characters.
- You have more friends who are mascots and fursuiters than those who aren't.
- You're so used to the limited vision that your fursuit provides that you will often bump into things and trip on things even when out of your fursuit.
- You don't have any children, yet you have videotapes (or DVDs) of such fursuit-heavy programs as Barney and Friends, Bear in the Big Blue House, Dumbo's Circus, Rimba's Island, and Welcome to Pooh Corner.
- You start a petition drive to bring back such fursuit laden shows as The Banana Splits, The Skatebirds, and The New Zoo Revue
- You won't watch Alice in Wonderland because of the Red Queen's line "off with her head" (many fursuiters don't like to be seen with their suit heads off)
- You flip through hunting magazines to get new ideas for your latest fursuit.
- Yappy Slyfox (owner of the Fursuit.org mailing list) names you his 2nd in command of the list.
- You're on a first name basis with the staff of your local theatrical supply/costume shop.
- In the colder months you put on your fursuit (instead of heavier clothing and coats) to keep warm.
- You ask to be buried in your fursuit
- You rate movies by the number of fursuiters that are in them
and worst of all....
- When viewing this list you not only get a knowing chuckle out of it, you can draw from your own personal experience dozens more examples to add!
