New Fan
POSTED BY: sonicj
UPDATED: Sunday, May 1, 2005 06:35
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Welcome, sonicj! And you too, BECSTHEBEAST. We are a decidedly non-elitist bunch here. As long as you love the show, you are one of us. No-one here bites, except for Malicious, and with her it's more of a friendly nibbling.
MAL "You only gotta scare him."
JAYNE "Pain is scary..."
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i'm not the greatest with technology - can you tell me any of the bits of fiction here that struck you as good (and why w/out spoiling) - there's soooooo much
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To all new fans (especially sonicj and becsthebeast):
Welcome! Kick off yer shoes and set' a spell...
You know, the first thing I do when I'm preparing to respond to someone whose acquaintance I've not previously made, is to check their Profile page to see how long they've been a member ('Member Since' item), what else they've written ('My Recent Posts' item) and hopefully some clues about them personally ('Member Profile' item). All of these items help me get a picture of the person I'm responding to, so I can say something appropriate.
My pet peeve is a blank 'Member Profile' item. I enjoy my privacy as much as the next guy; but, age and sex should be required. It just feels totally wrong to constantly refer to someone as he/she, him/her. For instance, I assume that sonicj is a male and becsthebeast is a female, based strictly on writing style and choice of words ('voice'). But we all know what we get when we 'assume'...
I know that -- in this PC age -- age and sex shouldn't matter, and they don't. The things that motivate me to respond are the thoughts and ideas, not the age or sex, of the person who wrote them. I'm a 'humanist' that way (zoid definition: humanist = feminist + masculinist). But it makes conversing very unnatural when you don't know which set of pronouns to use. No matter how hard I try, I end up feeling very frustrated because I think the use of 'he/she' is insulting, which is not my intent.
It's no big thing, really, and welcome to the board, Madames and/or Sirs...
Respectfully,
zoid
P.S.
Has anybody seen Ebonezer? I could really use her testimony on this. When she first came on, so many people thought she was a guy (with a screen name like 'Ebonezer', who could blame them?), that she came up with the sig, "Four out of five gynecologists recommend calling Ebo a girl". While it clears up the whole 'girl or guy?' issue, it does raise the question of what the fifth gyno recommended calling her, and why wasn't the recommendation unanimous? (heh, heh) See? Y'all don't want to get the wags (like me) started, do you?
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"Sure as I know anything, I know this: I aim to misbehave." -Capt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity, a.k.a. 'the BDM'
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just checked that out - sorry being new to the technology i'll put something there soon!
for the record - it's beccy (so female pronouns are good!)
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Merci très beaucoup, Mademoiselle becs...
v/r,
-zed
P.S.
Everyone was new once. No apologies necessary. We all knock over some furniture in the beginning, and y'all really only scooted a footstool I use. When I was new, I broke a couple of vases...
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ok - (sound of teacup crashing) i looked up your profile - what are the following:
ATC
USAF
CB/SS/WR
ENTP
FTL
i'd just got to grips with the idea of learning mandarin looks like i'll have to add a couple of more languages too 
'i can't abide useless people'
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becs wrote:
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ok - (sound of teacup crashing) i looked up your profile - what are the following:
ATC
USAF
CB/SS/WR
ENTP
FTL
i'd just got to grips with the idea of learning mandarin looks like i'll have to add a couple of more languages too
'i can't abide useless people'
First, that's one of my favorite quotes from Shindig, especially since the character who said it is one of my alter egos on the show (along with Book, River, Wash and Mal, in that order). The full line is more appropriate for me:
Quote:
MURPHY (cont'd)
(to Kaylee)
Forgive my rudeness. I can not abide
useless people.
From http://twiztv.com/scripts/firefly/season1/firefly-106.htm
The politeness with which he excuses himself for being rude indicates he was protecting Kayley from attack. I'm all about that.
(NB: Strangely, a Firefly personality test they've got somewhere on this site shows me as a 67% 'Inara'. Guess that means I'm a female trapped inside a man's body; but, it's okay because she's a lesbian...
)As to the rest:
ATC = air traffic controller
USAF = United States Air Force
CB/SS/WR = cornerback, strong safety (after I filled out physically) and wide receiver
ENTP = The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Extroverted Intuitive Thinking Perceiver ('Inventor'). See http://www.capt.org/The_MBTI_Instrument/Isabel%20Myers.cfm
FTL = faster than light. According to Einstein, nothing can propagate faster than 'the speed of' light ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E%3Dmc2). However, according to the concept of 'quantum entanglement' ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement), this 'speed limit' can be broken, though exactly how is unknown (if widely theorized).
By the way, my novel is half-finished, where it's likely to remain. At least I'm in good company...
Explanatively,
zoid
P.S.
NB = Nota Bene, "Mark well!"... from the Latin...
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"Sure as I know anything, I know this: I aim to misbehave." -Capt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity, a.k.a. 'the BDM'
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Welcome, Sonic! Hope you stay with us will be long and enjoyable (read: there will be a TRILOGY!!!) Of course to get a trilogy, we have to make sure Serenity is a Big Damn Success, so recruit all of your friends, family, co-workers, and strangers you meet at the bus stop into browncoats before October!!!
Jayne, your mouth is talkin. Might want to look into that.
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Welcome to the browncoats, Becsthebeast and SonicJ! I, too, am relatively new here. I joined in march, but it feels like i've been apart of the bunch for much longer than that. This site will probably become your favorite online hangout. Everyone here is really great.
www.whispergraphics.net
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Originally posted by zoid:
CB/SS/WR = cornerback, strong safety (after I filled out physically) and wide receiver
I'm always curious about this: Did you have any problems being on offense after having been on defense? Or did your knowledge of the cornerback and safety positions help you be a better receiver? Or am I assuming you were defense first when it was the other way around? Am I asking too many questions? Discuss.
Mal-licious
"Let's go be bad guys."
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