Wouldn't I be weird if I talked about him every day? I would think my friends were weird if they did that.

At least I don't think I mention him more than a few times a week. However, at one stage I realised I was talking about him too often when people began to get that glazed, distant look in their eyes.
The best indication I had that the man had infiltrated my world a little bit too much is when I went off shopping to Morrisons, and told me mam I was going to Morrissey's.
Freud has a lot to answer for.

there are less choices than there initially appear to be. Is there very much difference between 'a few times a month' and 'a couple times a week'? Yes, I suppose the former = a few less mentions, but? And more importantly, what is the difference between 'at least once a day' and 'part of my daily conversations'? Eh?

On another note, who starts sentences with 'Wouldn't I be weird if...'?

...all in good fun...

is when I talk about El Mozzer... so that's maybe "a few times every other year".

All the damn time.

only to my partner who hates him!?!

I talk about him all of the time and people scold me for it. I tried to go a lunchtime without talking about him. I honestly didn't manage it (although the person I was with started it!).

It's terrible, I know, but if I don't talk about him then the sad thing is that I have nothing else to say. That is how nerdy I am.

people already think i'm looney enough for traveling as far and wide as i do for his shows (especially after they've begun to notice that he cancels a whole bunch) and so i limit it to when i'm asked.

but i guess that's not the only reason. i do like to keep some things for myself and at least pretend that i'm a well-rounded individual with many other hobbies.

or my significant other

I talk about Morrissey at least once a day.I listen to him everyday.My family hates to hear me talk about Morrissey.

My ex hated Moz (awful, wasn't he?) and I used to talk about Moz just to wind him up. And then it stuck. A lot.

How about "only when it comes up" ?

Does it have to be an obsession ? Well no, sorry, it's been my secret garden for over 20 years so please, leave your shoes outside and keep quiet.

I suspect it is a different story for many people on this site, but a very, very, very long time passed by without my mentioning his name once. Then he was rude enough to sing like a fallen angel, release an album and stir up all this mess that I had left far, far behind me.

More than once I have vowed to give all this up. It is not healthy. But these are troubled times, and what harm does it do, really? I know I could recover again, if only he would stop singing, if only he would stop recording, if only...

I would love to speak about Morrissey as much as possible, but unfortunately I work in an industry full of society's retreads. I work in the corporate office for concrete construction company, so I am not exactly surrounded by Rhodes Scholars. This bunch of slack-jawed yokels don't know a song unless it's in a beer commercial or played at a Nascar event. I do however get to speak with my brother and a couple of friends about Morrissey. When we're together he comes up frequently, but we only see each other every three months or so, and don't get to speak much on the phone. If only the rest of the world had taste as exquisite as ours.

because there was no option for "used to."

I used to talk about Morrissey at least once a week, that is, until I got tired of people knocking stuff out of my hands, tripping me, telling me to shut up....... etc.

at my chav post 16 it was a matter of survival not to mention moz, and my dad's not really into him so whenever he was mentioned my dad would start singing "i would go out tonight but i havent got a fucking friend" or something similar, which i laughed at coz my dad never fails to make me laugh, but it simultaneously pissed me off.
Then i came to uni and it was like here is where all the morrissey fans hide and i'm in my elementnt with moz's fine voice echoing down my halls and smiths t-shirts posters and badges everywhere to be seen.

"Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain"

It would have been much more interesting had the poll been about where you say his name.

For instance: while in the shower; in bed, while having sex; while barbecuing; etc.

.... who probably spends waaaay way way to much time being a fan of Moz and his music. But really it isn't bad at all- cuz it makes me happy ;^)

Live life to the fullest, right?

Be happy. Enjoy life.

Cheers,

Jay

The problem is you usually end up looking like a prick if you make too many. I only mention Morrissey when he has a show coming up or a new album out.

I'll make amends when I die. I plan to have 6 Morrissey songs played at my funeral. If anyone shows up, there won't be a dry eye in the house.

broken

I don’t actually mention Morrissey every day, but I often drop lyrics and song titles to describe situations or make hatstand remarks at work.

Examples I can recall off the top of my head…….

On whether IT Supplier would want more money and someone said ‘…..cash on the nail’ ‘its just a fairy tail’. I carried on for most of the song for that one but is was in the middle of the Tour.

‘What difference does it Make’ applies to any missed deadline (yours or colleagues) and you can slip it in on almost anything. Performance appraisals are good.

I got ‘Lifeguard Sleeping, Girl Drowning’ into a conversation about a Project failing.

‘Seasick, yet still docked ‘ was an analogy applied to the start of a Project Design phase.

I get ‘That joke isn’t Funny Anymore’ in so many times I cant recall actual examples. ‘Well I Wonder’ is easy as well.

Try it, it is fun for all Morrissey Anoraks (preferably after you have got the job and not at the interview) and makes the monotony of work passable. It is nice when someone twigs as well (sort of ‘Radar’ for Morrissey fans)? There are some out there who have forgot they are fans!

I have never managed to get anything into a formal report or official document yet. Still trying.

...who doesn't find frequent talk of Morrissey pathological? I voted for a couple times a week, which is probably how often most of my major musical interests come up. I mean, do all you people get the shit look if you talk about Lou Reed and Bowie too? I don't even get crap for bringing up Brandon Flowers five times in one day. BRANDON FLOWERS people.

I've spent my life as a Morrissey fan in Los Angeles and New York, and I feel really sorry for British (or, naturally, any) people who feel compelled to say things along the lines of 'I swear I've got it down to just a few times a month and fortunately my friends no longer beat up me.' Whoa - maybe it's time to start hanging out with some music fans?

love
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Most people just don't get it, so why waste my breath.

Somebody has to say this for each poll and nobody has said it so far. So, I'll be the first.

But emails get the odd mozza lyric in them of course, because they are usually so pithy... so like, why not?

What difference does it make?

i could not believe my eyes when i read this poll! it's totally meant for me. i mention morrissey so much, on every occasion possible that my friends actually count it! i have to struggle hard not to mention him as often as i want to for the fear i might lose them. it's such a problem for me. it's just that everything reminds me of him. terrible, i know.

I like to drop him into conversation whenever I can but I'm aware it's annoying when people keep mentioning their favourite band or artist. I'm wary of refering to him too much. Besides, our relationships with Morrissey are quite personal things aren't they!

I do love going to gigs and conventions because then you can be completely unabashed about talking Moz Moz Moz. It's like suddenly letting water out through a dam!

Sometimes I'll see someone walking along the road in a Smiths or Moz T-Shirt and sometimes think to just stop them and say 'Fancy a pint and a chat about The Old Dear?' But I never have. It might backfire.

By the way, I found this; A video tour of Hook End Manor, where Moz has had some of his greatest moments. The woman doing the tour is a bit annoying but otherwise it's interesting. You get to see where Moz would hold court over dinner and also, it was the location for the Ouija Board, Ouija Board video wasn't it? You see that staircase. And the bedrooms. Have a butchers.

http://www.recordproduction.com/sarm_hook_end_stud ios.htm

-Wow, who came up with this brilliant poll suggestion? This was the best one yet!
    I hate to admit it but, I tend to defend Morrissey's music to a lot of friends who just do not understand him or The Smiths. I tend to get on the converstaion about music a lot with people because it means so much to me in life. So, at work Morrissey's name is mentioned more than the weather.
  If I meet someone that I am interested in for more than just a friendship, I give them the old 'Diner Test'{the movie}. I sort of feel them out and slip in the question about Morrissey slowly when the conversation turns to music. "Do you ever listen to Morrissey?" And if I get a response such as "do you mean Jim Morrison", or "Morrissey, who is that?" Well thats it, the date just came to an early defeat. I could never date someone who doesn't even know who he is. Imagine not being able to talk to a new love, [girlfriend or boyfriend] if they have never even heard of The Smiths or Moz? Its definately frightening. My nephew just turned 3 years old and I just finished burning all the Moz solo albums for him. He is now much happier. He will be singing all of YATQ before he goes to kindergarden! Now isn't that better than talking to him about Sesame Street or Barney? And to think when I was 7 years old I was listening to Elton. Thank God someone finally came up to me in Tower Records and talked to me about Morrissey!

The real trouble with this poll is that there is nothing interesting to say about it once you've selected your vote. There will certainly be no interesting debates. Just people saying they drive their friends crazy talking about Mozz and that's about it !

Life seems to have been fortunately insisting that I not stray from Morrissey in the past year! I was a second-hand fan till recently, appreciating, after some disappointments from admired people, how the Smiths had unusually sustained people I’d cared about emotionally. When I told colleagues I was going to see Morrissey last year, within days without asking I had copies of Smiths compilations and the brand-new album. I experienced a beam from ‘the light that never goes out’ and was impressed, reinforced by my neighbour, Sack’s pal, who’d done some acting and used to put on this great imitation of Morrissey’s voice. Another friend was unexpectedly booked to see him in New York last year, and more came to the second concert in December where they were enthused. A few days ago, a pal revealed that he’d caught the flowers Moz threw at the SFX on a Smiths tour. So somehow though for a month or so, I had a Morrissey high, the subject is a legitimate occasional point of conversation now generally in my circle, and of course Morrissey-solo is a gift when connection just has to be attempted!

I Never ever mention the name Morrissey or talk about my passion for him. People will always think I am talking about either Jim Morrisson or Alanis Morrissette.

I only bring it up when there´s evidence my interlocutor is a die-hard.

This has only happened once in my life.

She was a speech-therapist from Canada. I was helping her with some interpreting ( she was in my country )when she spotted my school note book wiht a your arsenal pic pasted onto the cover.then she told me she´d even been to a new york gig or maybe in canada indeed.

She sent me the single of The more you ignore me a couple of months later.
if you, speech-therapist, ever visit this site and see this post please contact me at caieiros@hotmail.com

I talk to Morrissey out loud everyday. Though he's not there, I know he hears me.

i don't think it's every single day, but quite close to. i do it backhandedly, when a lyric suits the situation. although today, i'm inclinded towards saying, 'it was Dark as i drove the point home', whenever there's a silent spot. just because i've been gripped by that song all day.

also, if i'm listing a group of people. for example; at the party last night i saw beth, kim, chris, moz, ben, lisa.... because that doesn't hurt anyone.

and i love to describe morrissey or one of his songs without outright naming him. why? because he's my little secret. but if i can find someone who'll pick up on my lyric dropping, i will spend the rest of my life with them, or at least the next few hours.

I teach computer classes and I play CDs from time to time (with the sound down low). I bring in what I like. Oasis, U2, Coldplay, The Beatles. I also bring in my favorite, Morrissey and the Smiths. Interesting enough, I have more students come up to me and ask about Morrissey than any other cd. Maybe it's because they haven't hear the songs. Other than that, I never tell anyone I like Morrissey because I don't think anyone would care. Also, I grew so tired of people not knowing who he was. Anyway, that's me. Good question!
thetexasbloke

I do talk about him every day in some way....there's always a song lyric that's perfect to quote at some moment...and my friends like the fact that I know so much about someone who they had no clue existed before they met me. And it's not weird to talk about someone you love every day...it's only natural.

I have placed many lyric quips on top of my desk. I work in a criminal court room, so I have a multitude of dramatics or episodes happen right in front of me, that apply to any given lyric. It's only natural and perfectly appropriate to give authorship of said quips and lines. Everyday. Its that kinda job. It pays the bills, but it corrodes...

posers... at least once a day. come on. morrissey talks about how weird we are for being his fan more than once a day. let's think of that for a second.

I can't talk about him, let alone listen to him in my parents house without EXTREME condescension. It's not TURN DOWN THAT MUSIC it's I DON'T WANT TO HEAR MORRISSEY, exclamation, exclamation, exclamation. My father tells me Oscar Wilde is a "retard" and Morrissey needs to "get a life" all the time. My sister believes I "love him too much" which isn't something one can factually do. If my stepmother is upset with me (which seems to be whenever I show my face) she waves me off, "Oh just go back into your hole and listen to Morrissey."

It's tough loving Morrissey. But I don't mind.

I never talk to anyone, id rather not get involved.

Never had a friend ever, and i will undoubtebly die alone.

But hmmm...i do talk to myself about morrissey all the time...hypocrite-warning...this is why i never talk to anyone, stop it.

I used to talk to my sister about him, until I started to notice this glazed look in her eyes at the very mention off his name, so I don’t even bother any more. He’s wasted on her any way.

Although I do come here to share my thoughts practically every day, does that count?

There use to be a time when people would ask me who I liked... and I'd say Morrissey...and they would ask either who he was or what he's done recently.

Now they say they really liked his last album too..

I feel so damn common...the same thing happened to me with the Manic Street Preachers. I begrudge all my idols success. (and happiness!)

I only mention Morrissey to people who know of him and appreciate him. Whenever I talk about Morrissey to people who are oblivious to who he is ALWAYS say, "Oh, I like them." or "I've heard of that group." Whatever!

this is such a good idea for a poll! i laughed because morrissey always comes up in conversation oh dear

I know this is going to sound silly, but I have a fat tabby cat, called Nasty, who I swear to have a conspicuous preference for Morrissey's music (I don't know what he thinks about his looks). Every time I put "Malajusted" or "The Quarry" to play in my bedroom, he opens the door, positions his fat self near the speaker, puts his belly and his paws in the air, and during the whole duration of the playing, he stays in that position, looking very delighted and purring incessantly. When the CD ends, he rolls his belly back to the floor and leaves the room. He is the only living being I share Morrissey with. It's not that I am affraid others won't like the mention, it's that I preffer to introduce our man with the thing that appeals even to a cat, his music, rather than just preach about him like a priest who can no longer taste anything divine - except in secretly eaten slices of cake - or defend him mercilessly and boisterously like a lawyer who relies no longer on facts, but on the power of his deafening voice.

comes up often in my household. It is my wife's maiden name and her parents current name.

had to choose 'all the time'! My family gets so annoyed cos thats all i go on about!! oh well...

Katie

I like to keep Morrissey and the Smiths a personal experience, it is more special that way. I am an Elvis fan and I hate it when he has spells of being in the spotlight, like when the singles are re-released, it is lie he is being taken from me and thrown to people that don't deserve him.

whenever I think of lyrics or something funny that reminds me of Moz. I've got a bunch of pictures of him on my corkboard at work and some people have asked who he was, but now I loathe having to explain "he's an English singer/songwriter...have you ever heard of the Smiths? yes? he was their lead singer" and wait for their "aha!" moment. I don't really mention Moz to any of my non-Morrissey/Smiths fans, because if I do, they'll roll their eyes.

my mom gets annoyed whenever I mention ANY of my favorite music bands or singers. I have to admit that my last roommate was really nice about the whole thing and didn't mind that I liked to talk about Moz incessantly :)

Once a month, but how do I vote for that? Another shit poll, with shit response options, submitted by a shit.

I talk about this bequiffed homo all the time!!!

What can i say, I love the guy, and all my friends, relatives and co-workers know about it.
 

i knew i had a problem when during any conversation with my friends where one of us starts going on and on about any subject that is only of interest to the person speaking one of us would interject with the statement, "well, enough about morrissey." which is much more effective that pulling them off whatever soapbox they're on by force and not nearly as mean as saying," nobody cares but you so for the love of god, shut up!.

is a coversation?