Firefly made me do it.
POSTED BY: Slip
UPDATED: Monday, May 8, 2006 17:52
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Soon you will talk obessively about the show all the time, and your family will look at you like you're crazy. Never mind them. They've been too indoctrinated by the Alliance to understand.
At last.
We can retire and give up
this life of crime.
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Obsessed? Says who? I am not obsessed. Obsessed I am not. I can stop watching my DVD’s of Firefly anytime I want. I can also stop going to see Serenity in theaters. I just chose not to. It’s my choice and I can do whatever I want with it. I chose memorize every line in every episode of Firefly. I chose to live inside a movie theater so I can catch every showing of Serenity. I chose to sing “The Hero of Canton” song all the time. I chose to rub soup in my hair. It has nothing to do with an unhealthy obsession with the show, the movie, Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk, Morena Baccarin, Adam Baldwin, Jewel Staite, Sean Maher, Summer Glau, Ron Glass, Chiwetel Ejiofor, or Master, I mean Joss Whedon. What? Who said that? No one, it was the sound of sanity.
heh! thats really funny zisker! can i steal?? =D and SO true!
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"the legs. oh, yeah. definitely have to say it was her legs. you can put that down. her legs and where her legs meet her back. in fact, that whole area. and... above it..."
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Well, I stole it . . .so I can't really say no . . .
One day.
One plan.
One army of Browncoats.
On June 23rd, we aim to misbehave.
http://www.serenityday.org/
Little or no free time, but want to help?
Help Spread the Signal: http://www.geocities.com/browncoatsignalcorps
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"They've been too indoctrinated by the Alliance to understand."
Ha! I knew it! We'll soon fix them. Enlightenment my toosh. They don't know what they're missing.
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I got in a fight with my brother and used every manner of firefly lingo even the chinease
Someday the verse will spit in your soup but at least they gave you soup.
one day
one plan
one mission
one army of browncoats
june 23rd serenity day
-Our mission as browncoats is to make us known.
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What? I was singing Hero of Canton in the shower just this morning.
There something wrong with that?
And I NEVER spend all day on a gorgeous sunny Sunday indoors reading Firefly fanfiction. Nope. Never.
err
almost never?
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Well, havent caught myself singing the Hero of Canton in the shower yet (although I usually sing along during the episode when I watch it) I have however found myself cussing in chinese instead of swedish or english and also I sometimes find myself singing the main theme when out walking or in other inappropriate places (like waiting in line at the store)
You can’t stop the Signal.
Keep spreading the word about Firefly!
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My favorite is to say "Shiny!" (in an appropriate context, of course, so they don't send those guys with a net after me) at the store or some other public place and see who reacts. It can be surprising!
If I began to sing, I am sure I'd be in terrible trouble. But you haven't heard me sing, so that's hard to explain, which rhymes with Jayne, oh dear, it's starting in again...
The Hero of Canton,
The man they call Jaaaaaaaaaaaayne!
bun
-- bastards singed my turtle --
----- why's the rum gone? -----
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Im not the finest of singers, (except when im drunk, honestly ive asked the innocent bystanders), but somehow it just feels ok when I sing the Firefly Theme
You can’t stop the Signal.
Keep spreading the word about Firefly!
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If I've recently watched Firefly or am cruisin' boards like this, I talk in southern-y slang. I don't say "you guys", I say "y'all". I don't say "people", I say "folk". I occasionally refer to my food as "problematic" and once in a while will say "shiny" instead of "cool" when speaking to a friend who isn't (probably) into Firefly/Serenity. I use the word "mite" instead of "slightly". And I drop a mite large amount of my g's from my verbs. ;)
I VERY frequently get The Ballad of Serenity or the Hero of Canton stuck in my head. I don't know all of Hero of Canton, but I'm workin' on fixin' that. 
Then again, I am always having a song stuck in my head. Matter of fact, it's apparently normal for people to have a song stuck in their head a lot of the time.
We've had music and dance and presumably singing as a part of human culture for countless thousands of years (we're talkin', they've found drums dating to the ice age, here!); way deep down it's a part of our very souls; it's in our blood, in every fiber of our being, in every synapse that fires and every breath we take; an entire section of Mankind's Mass Unconscious... and also pretty gorram catchy. Especially Hero of Canton! :P
All of which translates to, "Well, OK. So now I have totally and utterly got Hero of Canton stuck in my head. Mmm... I should watch Jaynestown again tommorow! Yeah!"
It's also natural for any subculture to have its own lingo, it's own set of "secret handshakes" if you will, and even sometimes its own clothing styles.
Which is part of why I find Browncoats so fascinating, and why I feel so excited to be one - it's a subculture!
Think about it: the Serenity Tees and Jayne Cobb hats and brown dusters = Browncoat subculture's recognizable clothing types.
The lingo: Browncoats speak a whole seperate dialect of English, most of which won't exist for a few centuries more, so to speak. Browncoats don't say "cool". "Cool" is so un-Browncoaty. REAL Browncoats say "shiny". Horrible/evil totalitarian regimes or overly-clean environments are "Alliance".
Anybody but a Browncoat will tell you "flan" is a dessert; anybody but a Browncoat will think "gorram" is a misspelling or some weird German word. Nobody but a Browncoat (or someone intimately acquainted with one) knows who the Big Damn Heroes are or what BDH or BDM stand for. Only Browncoats will giggle loudest if you say "I swallowed a bug" or "curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal", and only Browncoats will get the slight urge to tear up at the phrase "leaf on the wind". A Shepherd, to a Browncoat, does not herd sheep, 'verse doesn't just refer to songs and poems, and a Companion is more than somebody you happen to be with at the time.
Isn't it cool to know there's a sociological term for this that is pretty much completely nonjudgmental?
Seriously though... embrace it, my friend. It's more fun that way. Be at peace with your inner Browncoat. Be at peace with your sociological connections. Be One With The 03-K64.
And if you got that last joke, you're beyond being able to pull out, anyway!
~Emma
"I swallowed a bug."
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