Dorkdom that is firefly fandom

POSTED BY: gypsylife
UPDATED: Thursday, February 2, 2006 15:09
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GYPSYLIFE

Tuesday, January 17, 2006 10:45 PM

So, I was thinking that when we all love something as much as...well, we all love firefly then we can't help but express it in everday life. So...welcome to the Dorkdom.

Dorkdom law states that if in deed and work and speech and breath you can not go one day without relating your daily activities to the 'verse, then you are a qualified citizen of said dorkdom.

To illustrate your rightful place in this society, you must provide examples of such behavior.

The aforementioned requirements as follows:

I have previously mentioned that when a car part(the catalytic converter) went bad in my car I had to call around and price the repair. Except, when I called I kept telling everyone that it was the catylizer that was broken. I did not realize my mistake until later and even then, I was not bothered...lol.

Also, any new news now illicits a Shiny! from me, whereas any bad news is most certain to get a gorramnit or ruttin' (insert explicative here).

Claim your rightful place in the dorkdom with me!

"See this is another sign of your tragic space dementia, all paranoid and crochety. Breaks the heart." -Mal

LEIGHKOHL

Tuesday, January 17, 2006 10:53 PM

During Christmas my mom, sister, and cousin came to visit. I put on Serentiy but we are all way too chatty, so none of us were paying attention till I put on the Fruity Oaty Bar Commercial Easter Egg. My sister's attention was caught by the catchy beat so she and I got up and did a go-go dance to the commercial. My cousin Will and mom were cracking up! THey made fun of us for the rest of the day! I think Firefly has eliminated my ability to function as a normal human being.

OMELET

Tuesday, January 17, 2006 10:54 PM

This looks pretty neat. I'll be a member of Dorkdom too.

Here's my little story to assure my place here:

I was in Orlando for Martin Luther King Jr. weekend and I had to bring Serenity with me to watch on the way up. Anyways, I decided to go to Disney Marketplace and spend some time in Pleasure Island and the Virgin Megastore nearby to pick up a CD that I couldn't find. Anywho, whilst there, I saw that they were playing Serenity on the big screens everywhere. What did I do? I stood there and watched the gorram thing for nearly an hour and started repeating the lines. My family told me we had to go and started to get pissed at me for just staring and standing there for nearly an hour and we had to leave. I couldn't not stop and watch. I needed to have my Firefly/Serenity fix right then and there.

BTW, Serenity was the first thing that was in the store when I walked in and I was really proud of it cause everyone said it was selling like hot cakes in Alaska. A pat on the back is deserved for everyone for a job well done in making our BDM known.

*Pats gypsylife's and Leighkohl's back*

Jayne: Are you saying River's a witch?
Wash: Yes, Jayne, she's a witch. She's had congress with the Beast.
Jayne: She's in Congress?
Wash: How did your brain even learn human speech? I'm just so curious!

OMELET

Tuesday, January 17, 2006 10:59 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Leighkohl:
I think Firefly has eliminated my ability to function as a normal human being.

I think that Firefly has eliminated everyone's ability to function as normal human beings, sweetie. It's affected everyone in a profound way and I don't think we can live a day without it. It's what we like to call obsession, but it's a healthy one.

Jayne: Are you saying River's a witch?
Wash: Yes, Jayne, she's a witch. She's had congress with the Beast.
Jayne: She's in Congress?
Wash: How did your brain even learn human speech? I'm just so curious!

SLAYER730

Tuesday, January 17, 2006 11:01 PM

2 things:

1. The people I work with are not quite up on the latest trends, much less cancelled tv shows from years back. But they DO know I'm a Firefly fan (even the word Browncoat is a bit much for them to understand). I work in a daycare with 20 three year olds, and often find myself using the line, "You might not want to mistake that for a suggestion," among MANY other lines. Also, I have a sweatshirt I ordered that is brown (duh) and says Browncoat on it. the people I work with are so clueless, despite my constant firefly-isms and clothing, that someone actually asked me if I couldn't remember the color of my coat. So of course I launched into the explanation of the series and movie in its entirety to which he replied, "You're weird, you know?" and I said, "Shiny."

2. My dorkiness over Firefly is SO bad that when I got married, I actually made my husband wear his Mal costume when we got home, wear a hat made out of a tree, and drink rice wine out of a bowl so we could "really be married". Man, that's SAD. :)

***Never judge a book by its movie***

PHI

Tuesday, January 17, 2006 11:46 PM

Hmm, finally, a club I can relate to.

I recently converted a good friend of mine, along with the rest of her family, to the ‘verse.

She now grades every hot guy that she passes on the street on the Simon scale.

Between us, we have slipped so deeply into the ‘Dorkdom effect’ that on New Years Eve, a group of us were in the car, in the middle of town and decided that we had to spread the word. We rolled down the windows and sung The Hero of Canton at the top of our lungs.

The fact this seemed to me to be so completely acceptable and appropriate worried me for about .2 of a second. Then we started on the theme song.

I have used the lingo in day to day life for awhile but a week ago I used it for the first without consciously realising it was of firefly origin. I mentioned that someone was “all manner of angry with me”. The slip of tongue delighted me in ways that only those tipped over the edge into the ‘obsession’ category would quite relate to. To me it felt like a milestone.

FOLLOWMAL

Tuesday, January 17, 2006 11:59 PM

Ok, dorkdom here I am.

Took my daughter to the dentist today... long story short, they wouldn't see her, were rude to her. I stood there while the amazing anger washed over me, then I said abruptly... "NO, shiny, the wheel never stops turning... " and I walked out of there, just like Mal.

Felt good.

"Come a day there won't be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all." - Malcolm Reynolds

BOWIE

Wednesday, January 18, 2006 4:20 AM

well lets see......

I am working on building my vocab up to include all the Firefly words I can. And its working. Gorram and shiny are widely used, and my mother understands being a bit of a brown coat herself, but I wasn't happy with those. So I wrote out a paper of usable cusses and such, and take it with me werever I go. It was a little embaresing at first, cause when I got mad I'd have to pick out the paper and read to the appropriet word, but I hardly have to look at it at all anymore. I can say Gou shi on reflex, though my friends, who have always thought I was a little fong luh give me even wierder looks then usaule. I just say, "What?"

I'v also found my tastes in clothes have changed. I used to just wear jeans and any shirt I had lying around, but now I find myself asking, hmmmmm is there anyway I can get that more Asian? Like flowers and such? I also went shoe shopping today, picked out a pair of boots that looked almost exactly like rivers. The leather ones. The clerk looked at me real strange when I told him I was getting them cause they were so "shiny" They were not the 'shiny' type of shiny. :) LOL

Oh yeah, and I'v turned in homework with Firefly jargon written in, and had to re do it because Gou shi is not, according to my teacher, a word. :P The Hwoon dahn!

If you play Nationstates.net check out the region Firefly.

NINAH148

Wednesday, January 18, 2006 5:33 AM

I was making a return at the Tower store, and the manager and I were stuck waiting for the register to spit out a return ticket. I held out for about 5 seconds before I was like, "So, how're Serenity and Firefly selling?" My fiance also caught me moving DVDs around on their shelf so that their single Firefly box set was facing cover-forward rather than spine-forward for that convenient impulse buy...

RCAT

Wednesday, January 18, 2006 6:26 AM

My boss has a lot of inspirational posters in his office so I printed a copy of the "chain of command" one (off this site) and stuck it to his door (thankfully, he has a sense of humor). I find myself doing a hokey "ha-ha-ha, mine is an evil laugh" whenever I find a situation that applys. "That's a might disturbin'" and "shiny" also get daily use. I've been trying to slip chinese curses in but keep forgeting them (I'll have try carrying a list, thanks for the shiny idea).

Some people juggle geese!
-Wash

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