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How can you tell you're addicted to DBZ? Well here's a few ways...

1. You watch unsubtitled DBZ movies and episodes again and again, and like them better each time, even though your entire Japanese vocabulary consists of three words (all of which were learned *from* watching them again and again).

2. You take Japanese in school mainly so you can find out what they actually *are* saying in the movies and episodes.

3. You see the first commercial for Dragon Ball Z in the States, and you start to hyperventilate.

4. When you think pride, you think Vegeta.

5. Instead of doing work in class, you write a "How to tell you're addicted to DBZ" list and more chapters for your fanfic.

6. You continue to write snatches of said list during after-school band practice.

7. You have previously decorated your instrument with the 1½ inch figurines you bought from a friend who used to live in Japan.

8. The only way you got through 9th grade orientation at your new school (which has 4,000 students 7-12 grade) was to carry around your Cell-era SSJ2 Gohan and long-hair future Trunks of above figurines.

9. You think Trunks (or Bulma or #18, as the case may be) is hot.

10. You think almost any guy with a short-hair Trunks style haircut is cute.

11. You refer to that haircut as "Trunks hair."

12. When your Japanese teacher asks you what the word for rice is in Japanese, you nearly scream, "Gohan!"

13. You get up at 8:00 AM Saturday morning to watch DBZ in English.. after marching at the football game the night before which ended up making you stay awake until about 12:30 AM.

14. You explain what's happening in the DBZ movies you are watching to your four unknowing friends.. all at different times.

15. You sit down and figure out how to play the first part of "Cha-La Head Cha-La" on the piano.

16. You set your tape recorder next to your computer speaker and record all of your DB/DBZ/DBGT MP2s onto a cassette so you can listen to them without having to boot up the computer.

17. You start coming up with goofy ideas like "Dragon Band Z" (All the DBZ characters playing instruments or doing vocals in a band of their own).

18. You actually spend some time revising Dragon Band Z, like making one for earlier when Gohan was 10, and one for later when he was 17, and agonizing over who would play what.

19. Four out of six members of your group dressed up as DBZ/DBGT characters for Halloween, and the only reason it wasn't five was because you couldn't find a long enough shirt for Videl.

20. You yell out in your most annoying young Gohan voice, "PICCOLO-SAN!" in the middle of a crowd, then you and your friends start laughing your heads off while everyone else stares at you.

21. You constantly do impressions of DBZ characters. (I.E. yelling out "Gohan-chan!" in your Chichi voice, and "Goku-san!" in your Kuriring voice.)

22. You write a DBZ fanfic.

23. You think up a sequel to your fanfic before you're done with chapter 3 of your first one.

24. You think up a goofy idea like ( sung to the tune of "Addicted to Love") "Might as well face it, you're addicted to Trunks."

25. You think it up in the middle of Biology.

26. You tape DBZ pictures to your covered textbooks, and each book has its own theme. (English: All of DBZ; Biology: Trunks; World Studies: Son family)

27. You decorate your TI-83 calculator with a picture of Goku, Gohan, and Gotten (all SSJ) doing a Kamehameha.

28. You pretend that one or more of the DBZ characters is standing next to you, and you have conversations with them.. including telling the male characters to stay out of the girls' locker room.

29. You're a teenager and you willingly get up at 8:00 AM on a Saturday just to watch DBZ.

30. You watch the first English-dubbed episode a total of three times... on the day it was aired.

31. For any period of time your Windows '95 start-up sound was all of "Cha-La Head Cha-La."

32. Your Windows '95 background has ranged from Trunks to Vejito to Cell.

33. You print up a picture of Cell and show it to your Biology teacher.

34. You're modest enough that you turn your 1½ inch DBZ figurines towards the wall when you change, but leave the rest of your figurines untouched.

35. You work for over an hour perfecting drawing the Capsule Corp. logo on your TI-83.

36. You draw Gohan's face on your TI-83.

37. You write #s 22-37 of your "How can you tell you're addicted to DBZ?" list during school, along with nearly all of Chapter 4 of your fanfic.

38. You're watching a movie or TV show and you think to yourself, "Wouldn't it be cool if Goku showed up right about now?"

39. You regret not bringing in your Cell figurine when your Biology teacher said she wanted a cell model from each person in the class.

40. For a school project you try to develop a material that will allow you to actually build Karin Tower.

41. You do.

42. No, I mean you actually build Karin Tower.

43. The most memorable event on your trip to Paris was seeing about 2 seconds of Mirai Trunks in the closing credits of some French show about anime.

44. You own enough DBZ shirts to wear a different one every day of the week... for three weeks.

45. You wear nothing but DBZ shirts, even to church.

46. You spend all your spare time searching for dragon balls.

47. Your World Literature book report was on the first ten issues of the Dragon Ball manga.

48. You strap a piece of colored glass over your left eye and laugh at everyone, telling them what pathetic power levels they have.

49. You hire a hypnotist to make you think you're a Saiyjin.

50. You demand that Japanese be taught at your school. When the principal says no, you leap on his desk and start doing a Kamehameha.

51. You get arrested because of the last one.

52. You only answer people when addressed as Goku.

53. You've been wearing the same Dragon Ball Z t-shirt for the last 6 days in a row.

54. You conquer a small country and make Akira Toriyama your second in command, and all the characters form DBZ your advisors.

55. You start wearing weighted clothing to increase your power level.

56. When faced with a problem, you wonder what Trunks would do, then you do just that.

57. You try to do a fusion with your best friend, but only end up with a headache.

58. You name your son Gohan and have him genetically altered so he has a tail (or at least plan to).

59. You avoid the full moon for fear of turning into an Oozaru and destroying all your cool DBZ stuff (although causing mass devastation in your town would be cool!).

60. You see a grossly over-weight plump guy and call him Majin Boo.

61. You actually read your own fanfic!

62. Next time you come across a frog you're sure you'll say "Hi, Ginyu!"

63. You're in your thirties and still contemplating on keeping 2 full sets of the DB manga - one set from each publisher!

64. You're gay and have a crush on Future Trunks or Normal Goku.

65. You scream on hearing that a DBZ episode is postponed to the following week owing to a beauty contest or indeed any other stuff.

66. You find Perfect Cell wearing quite a handsome face!

67. A cat reminds you of Karin.

68. A lizard/chameleon reminds you of Furiza.

69. An African reminds you of Mr. Popo.

(This one sent to me by someone who only signed the e-mail "Clueless")

70. You *KNOW* your addicted and you won't admit it, but you dream of hanging out with DBZ Characters, even on dates.

71. When you have a crush on one of the protagonists.

72. When you yell "baka!" to your annoying little brother or sister.

73. When you check out DB pages on the net every day or every other day.

74. When you don't do you homework and instead see DB or write your Fanfic.

75. When you print all the DB drawings you can and keep them in a safe vault together with your most valued possession (your Fanfic, you DB drawings and posters, your DB toys) etc.

76. When you call by mistake a family member or your best friend by a Dragon Ball character.

77. When you have "erotic" dreams with your favorite character.

78. When you wake up in the middle of the night with a nightmare that your favorite character was defeated.

79. When your best dream is being saved by your DB crush.

80. When someone asks you what is the first word that comes to your mind you answer "Dragon Ball".

81.You run around the house screaming KAMEHAMEHA!! for no obvious reason.

82.You dress up like a DBZ character for Halloween.

83.You dress up like a DBZ character for no reason at all.

84.You take your DBZ action figures and your dad's video camera) and make your own episodes.

85.You spray paint a DBZ character on the side of your house.

86.You catch yourself thinking what would happen if Goku or another character showed up at school.

87. When people ask you, "Why'd you go into martial arts?" you reply, "Because one day I'll beat that lousy third class Saiyjin!"

88. Lima and kidney beans remind you of senzu seeds.

89. You print out summaries of the manga and use them for making sure your 20 fanfic fit into the series fairly well. =)

90. You try to grow senzu seeds.

91. You spend 7 hours trying to focus your Ki to enable you to either fly or make an energy ball.

92. You spend the next three hours trying to find if you have any Ki at all.

93. You make up a character and place him/her in every DBZ timeline/alternate universe you can.

94. You take sewing lessons just to make yourself a gi that looks exactly like Goku's or Piccolo's (and that's after you try to conjure them out of thin air first).

95. You find yourself learning katakana faster by memorizing how the Dragonball characters' names are spelled in katakana.

96. You spend a good half hour looking up names in the phone book like, Son, and Briefs. And when by chance you do come across one, you immediately call them up and ask for Goku, or Trunks, or whatever personage my reside at under that name

97. You try to find the Capsule Corp phone number, but the closets you get is Capsone Healing Hypnotherapy

98. You spend hours trying to teleport, but all you end up with is two finger marks imprinted on your forehead.

99. You're looking for a car and one of the first questions you ask the dealer is, "Do you have anything by Capsule Corp?"

100. When making a grilled cheese sandwich, you accidentally call the artificial cheese Vegeta instead of Velveeta

101. Actually walk around school on Halloween in a Goku gi made by your friend who works at a karate studio (blond hair dye and all) and get recognized by students.

102. Convince your friend to make a Cell Era Gohan costume for Halloween so you don't look stupid by yourself.

103. While playing pool, you take the cue and call it Goku's staff and threaten to beat your opponents.

104. Have half of a broken pair of goggles from a science lab your friend gave you and make a scouter out of it.

105. Make a scouter out of an old pair of headphones and blue, transparent plastic.

106. You stay up until 11:00 PM on a school night just so you can finish watching the Cell Saga.

107. You and a friend come up with a fusion name for the two of you (a normal form and a "earing" form)

108. You create a picture of it on your comp.

109. In an empty field, you scream out NIMBUS and you are disappointed when nothing happens.

110. You think you DID see something come for you.

111. You draw a version of yourself in Super Saiyan form on the cover for your History notebook.

112. You've printed all our DBZ pics from the internet and spent 5 hours cutting them and pasting them to poster board. (mind you this takes up the whole east wall)

113. You've jumped from a diving board for 3 hours trying to learn to fly.

114. You learned how to fly (well, not really, but you got so sick the world seemed awfully distant).

115. You've phonetically memorized all our DBZ mp2's even though you don't speak a word of Japanese.

116. You've driven to Boston (from Albany) just to get a DBZ comic a vacationing friend said he saw at a comic store.

117. In choir you heard a familiar rhythm and 2 of you broke out into Hikari no will Power.

118. When your little brother/sister starts bugging you too much, you threaten to slice them in half with a Kienzen.

119. You're biology teacher asks you to draw a cell on the board. You walk up, draw Perfect Cell, then ask how it looks. For doing this, the teacher gives you a detention.

120. In detention from the above, you spend your time doodling new attacks and characters, writing more of your fanfic, and trying to summon up a Genki Dama and so you can blow off the wall and escape.

121. You stay out until 3 in the morning, and when your parents ask you where you've been, you say you were having a rough battle with a group of Saiyan-Jin.

122. You draw life-size DBZ characters on your walls and paint them in, while being grounded from the above.

123.You dress up as Goku for Halloween, and run around town, screaming "DIE, SAIYJIN SCUM!!!!", "KAMEHAMEHA!!!!", and "KAIO-KEN ATTACK!!!!!!".

124. You dress up as Goku for no good reason, and run around town, screaming "DIE, SAIYJIN SCUM!!!!", "KAMEHAMEHA!!!!", and "KAIO-KEN ATTACK!!!!!!".

125. From doing the above, several people call the police. As they chase you in their cars, you attempt to fly away or destroy them with a Kamehameha.

126. Top ten ways: 10. You get high one night and think Tenshinhan made you high after using the "Solar Flare" on you.

127. 9. You ruined a perfectly good leather jacket by dying it blue and making a Capsule Corp. patch and sew it on.

128. 8. You make miniature Saiyan Space pods for your action figures.

129. 7. You and some friends make up a gang called the "Ginyu Force."

130. 6. You dispend the "Ginyu Force" after another gang emerges, the "Super Saiyan's"

131. 5. You get 7 softballs and paint them orange with blue stars, and wish for all the DBZ characters to really exist.

132. 4. Your wish actually comes true.

133. 3. You shave your head bald and burn 6 marks onto your forehead.

134. 2. Instead of calling your freezer a freezer, you call it a Freeza.

135. 1. You fuse with a friend and take over the world!

136. You grow out your hair and get some blond hair dye and gel, and slick back your hair like Vegeta, then, you try to find someone one with a power scanner and a Saiyjin armor suit, then find someone to hypnotize in to thinking your Vegeta, then you go skydiving without a parachute thinking you can fly, and then, as you plummet to your death, you hope someone will find the 7 dragonballs and wish you back to life.

137. When you actually use Chi or Ki-to. Its called Tai Chi it is an Ancient art. It's when you use more multiple process thinking other than liner. Meaning you do an action like a block in a fight without thinking, its all reaction. But its also more complicated than that. you do meditations to focus (like Piccolo).

138. Referring to #91 "You spend 7 hours trying to focus your Ki to enable you to either fly or make an energy ball." In Taiwan people actually flew across the room (by only meditating).

139. Make Chi with your hands (but you can't see it).

140. This is true. With your Tai Chi friends you join a Tournament where they have kick boxing, karate and everything. You name your gang "Dragons of the black pool". You and your group kick all there a$$'s. While You and one of the gang guys win the gold medal.

141. You love Dragonball Z because the marital art is like Tai Chi.

142. You get in a fight and try to win by performing a spirit bomb.

143. You do win a fight like that.

144. When you insult someone you say "you have no dragon balls".

145. You think any of of the dragon ball characters are cuter than the person you are dating.

146. You date one of you're dragon ball figures you do the above and the figure dumps you.

147. You will not wear trunks or a bra (underwear) out of respect for the character.

148. You are asked to do a project for school on something you like and you do it on any of the dragon ball series.