Question: What tv show object do you associate with which character

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UPDATED: Friday, May 27, 2005 07:06
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XENOCIDE

Thursday, May 26, 2005 5:57 PM

Zoid technically they are braces, because they button to the pants. Suspenders clip on. At least that is my understanding of the difference. Of course pants with buttons for braces are called suspender pants. Hmmm....

-Eli

If voting mattered, they'd make it illegal.
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PS Am I reading the wrong threads? I haven't heard Static recently.

MANWITHPEZ

Thursday, May 26, 2005 6:16 PM

I can't believe that no one's brought up Zoe's Mare's Leg. I LOVE that gun. Behind Mal's, it is my very favorite gun.

Wash is the dinosaurs...gotta be, right.

Kaylee...The engine room/strawberries...

Simon...That black medical bag.

Jayne...Its all about the hat, baby.

Book...I always associated him more with the robes he was wearing than anything else.

Inara...The hourglass.

River...That stick/or the Desert Eagle it turns into...I'm not sure which, because its the same gun she weilds in War Stories.

Mal...Serenity herself,...Okay, the gun....No really...okay...The Browncoat...

Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

ZOID

Thursday, May 26, 2005 6:19 PM

xenocide:

I don't know about 'technically', but this is one of those disconnects between English and American 'English'. 'Suspenders', in the US, may be popularly defined as, well, 'suspenders' as we generically think of them. In British (and Commonwealth) parlance, 'suspenders' refers to a garter belt, a la Frederick's of Hollywood and J. Edgar Hoover.

What we generically refer to as 'suspenders', Britons routinely call 'braces'. (NB: As in Elton John's, "My sister looks cute in her braces and boots", which many Americans think means she's wearing an orthodontic appliance.)

There probably is a more detailed etymological refinement of this particular quirk in usage; but, generally, if you say 'suspenders' to an American, one picture leaps to mind, quite different from that which leaps to the mind of a Brit. And vice versa with the term 'braces'...

Linguistically (or at least 'Linguini-ly'),

zoid
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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'

XENOCIDE

Thursday, May 26, 2005 6:36 PM

Book: His collar, the unseen hunting rifle.
Jayne: The switchblade and the apple.
Zoe: Her vest and gun. And the tall boots.
Wash: The shirts...the moustache
Mal: The Gun...bwah!
Nara: The Padme pistol!
Simon: Medicin vials
River: Pitter pattering combat boots...poison berries.
Kaylee: Her fancy cupcake dress

-Eli

If voting mattered, they'd make it illegal.
www.civil-unrest.com

XENOCIDE

Thursday, May 26, 2005 6:38 PM

But in the US the are sold as braces if the have button holes. So do you think they are different or is this jsut caused by snobbishness and linguistic overlap? Any Brits here to chime in?

-Eli

If voting mattered, they'd make it illegal.
www.civil-unrest.com

ZOL

Thursday, May 26, 2005 6:49 PM

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Originally posted by xenocide:

But in the US the are sold as braces if the have button holes. So do you think they are different or is this jsut caused by snobbishness and linguistic overlap? Any Brits here to chime in?

-Eli

If voting mattered, they'd make it illegal.
www.civil-unrest.com

Ok, here`s a good brit reason why they are braces and not suspenders.

If you goto a gentlemans outfitters and ask for suspenders, you are most likely to be asked if they are for holding up socks rather than trousers - think Jeeves & Wooster - Braces on the other hand have only the one meaning within the gentlemans out fitters - the device used for holding up ones trousers.

Darin (Zol.)

Now - Get back to the question!

ZOID

Thursday, May 26, 2005 6:55 PM

xenocide:

Please do not misunderstand. As I said, there are many ways of correctly saying anything, to include the usage of 'braces' versus 'suspenders'.

I was simply trying to point out that if you say, "He was wearing suspenders" to an American, the likely response would be, "What? Doesn't he like belts?", as opposed to a Brit's "What? Is Eddie Izzard on again?"

Same thing with 'braces'. Say, "The teen-aged girl wore braces," and most Americans ('Yanks', I suppose, to be fair) think of orthodontia; whereas most Brits would have a mental picture of straps worn over the shoulders to hold up a pair of trousers/breeches/britches/pants.

Still, isn't it interesting that I'm apparently the only one who finds Mal's suspenders/braces a signature item? Most folks have said 'gun'. I think I see him as more of a father figure, symbolized by his suspenders...

Respectfully,

zoid

P.S.
When it comes to self-analysis, I'm reminded of the saying about a defendant who represents himself in a court of law: He has a fool for a client. So maybe I should let someone else analyze my responses to this question, hmmm?
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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'

MALICIOUS

Thursday, May 26, 2005 7:07 PM

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Originally posted by zoid:
So maybe I should let someone else analyze my responses to this question, hmmm?

I have analyzed your responses throughout this thread, yea, verily, throughout time, and have concluded that I would not wear braces of either sort. Garter belt, sure, but not braces.

Mal-licious

"Let's go be bad guys."

BLINKER

Thursday, May 26, 2005 7:24 PM

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Originally posted by PsychicRiver:
When I think of River I think of her "stick" from Objects in Space

I nominate this to be the only correct answer to what is in fact a subjective question.

It's just an object. It doesn't mean what you think.

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Sliders: Gate Haven - http://slidersweb.net/blinker

WEICHI

Thursday, May 26, 2005 8:13 PM

Mal - Serenity
Zoe - Her gun
Wash - Dinosaurs (Hawaiian shirt if costume counts
Jayne - Weight set
Kaylee - Her lawn chair
Book - Dust
Simon - River, or rather River's "illness" (a stretch I know, but best I could do)
River - the stick

I'm learning brevity!

See how I'm not hitting him, I think I've grown!

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