Here are the the two main reasons why I decided to write a compilation of all
ykywtmsmw (You
Know You Watch Too Much Sailor Moon When) statements collected from the Internet:
1) YKYWTMSMW pages were much more popular several years ago.
Since then many of them are closed and abandoned, and right now there are very
few (if any) moonies on the Net who update their YKYWTMSMW pages on a
regular basis. In
fact, up to 80% entries in the compilation were collected from already
closed or abandoned (updated the last time in 1999-2000 years) websites. I hope
that my work will help this field of knowledge not to be forgotten.
2) Though the
compilation is available online (check menu on the left), its main form is a
downloadable version. Downloadable version allows very easy to print out all ykywtmsmw statements, thus freeing a moonie
willing to have a copy of so indispensable book from
necessity to collect all YKYWTMSMWs on their own. The compilation is totally free for
distribution and if you have your own website, I
encourage you
to put it on your website for download without asking any
additional permission of mine.As long as I have
new ykywtmsmw's to add, the compilation will be updated
regularly. I invite everyone to send their ideas to me. After
checking the uniqueness of submissions (i.e., that there are
not the same statements in the compilation as yet) - that
won't take much time since I almost memorized the list
already ^_^ all submissions will be added to the end of the
list with the name of the author and email address included
in brackets after the statement.
Please, send your new ykywtmsmw ideas
to
gummario@hotmail.com
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The compilation version 5 contains
6045
ykywtmsmw statements (April 18, 2007) |
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The very first YKYWTMSMW page was started by
Starfox (http://starfox.simplenet.com/ - now closed; an
exact copy can be found at:
http://catana.webhowl.net/ykywtmsmw1.htm ) who published
his own ideas and those submitted by other moonies. The page
has become very successful but despite this it was closed by
Starfox on December 1997 after getting 1420 entries
(published ones). All content of the website was declared as
free for use by anyone.
Mara Jade published almost all YKYWTMSMWs compiled by
Starfox (with some editing/changing the order of
entries) and continued the list, adding the fifth page
(the list of Starfox was divided into four pages). Unfortunately, her site,
though not declared as closed, was abandoned in 1999 (as on
March 26, 2006 it is still online:
http://www.cstone.net/~lbrannon/lauren/smtomuch.htm ).
Since then many other YKYWTMSMWs pages were open
by different moonies. Sometime their titles vary like "Your
are obsessed by Sailormoon when" or "You like Sailormoon too
much when" but "YKYWTMSMW" title is used the most often. These pages included (if they did)
only parts of YKYWTMSMW lists by Starfox and Mara Jade.
Moreover, if these parts are included they are usually not
noted as such ones but mixed (and often edited) with the
original YKYWTMSMWs by the owner of a page. In practical
terms it makes extremely difficult to discern original
entries for a certain page from the ones taken from other
pages. This all really messed me up while I compared entries
from different pages in order to be sure that a certain
statement
will appear in my compilation only one time. I excluded only
clearly identical statements; the ones that used the same
idea but with different hints of meaning are included into
compilation. Taking into account the quantity of sentences I
had to read and compare with each other it
is still probable I omitted something and you can
encounter the same statement twice.
Apart from excluding repetitive statements, YKYWTMSMWs included in the
compilation appear in the same form as they
were published at their original sites. Using MS Word
spellchecker, I corrected only obvious orthographical errors
in compilation, but as far as spelling concerns arguable
matters (e.g. personal names) I did not edit anything. Url
addresses of original pages that ykywtmsmw statements were
taken from appear in the compilation
in blue color; the comments, written by the authors
for their pages and necessary for understanding the sense of
some statements, appear in red color.
All copyrights for YKYWTMSMWs belong to their authors and
not to me. Entries are enumerated all through for
convenience of citation (quotation).
Here is the translation from French of the pledge from
ykywtmsmw #3994: "I (write your name here) solemnly declare
to be faithful and bear a sincere allegiance to her Majesty
the Neo Queen Serenity, a ruler of the Earth, to her
descendants and to her successors, in accordance with the
Law".
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