'Verse-isms

POSTED BY: Grizwald
UPDATED: Friday, July 14, 2006 02:08
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FUTUREMRSFILLION

Tuesday, July 11, 2006 3:24 PM

OK, I am just gobsmacked at the "my husband was cooking".

Stunned is what I is. I KNEW they existed! Or rather I HOPED they did!

RUGBUG

Tuesday, July 11, 2006 3:24 PM

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Originally posted by Grizwald:
and I frequently spot 'Coats when they end their posts with "not so much."

Hrmmm, I don't attribute this to Firefly, but it's possible that was the start. I feel like I've been saying it forever, but with the way any of Joss' shows get into my head, it could've come from Firefly without me knowing it.

BELUGASMOM

Tuesday, July 11, 2006 4:09 PM

These days (months, years) I find "Gorram Feds" escaping my lips alot. I just told the dog, who is having a meltdown because he lost his toy, "You are damaging my calm."

Life is short, brutal, and unpredictable. EAT DESSERT FIRST.

GRIZWALD

Tuesday, July 11, 2006 4:17 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by RugBug:
Hrmmm, I don't attribute this to Firefly....

In my best Operative voice:

"I do."

I mean, these are old expressions, so old they haven't been in common use, at least in the USA, in... well, a long time. Like "gorram." It's real, just archaic and colloquial. Maybe that's why the 'Versisms sound so natural and are so easy to pick up - they are real.

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* If you're a leaf on the wind
* If you aim to misbehave
* If they can't take the sky from you
* If you are going to the Special Hell
* If you like the taste of Mudder's Milk
* If you carry Serenity with you everywhere you go
then you are a Browncoat, and you're with family.

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MSG

Tuesday, July 11, 2006 4:24 PM

the other day we were at the movies and someone started talking and without missing a beat my husband and I looked at each other and went..."special hell"
I will also admit to memorizing and using a few chinese swear words, because I am prone to swearing and don't want to do it in front of my students and I figure it doesn't count if they don't know what I said

I choose to rise instead of fall- U2

CYBERSNARK

Tuesday, July 11, 2006 9:03 PM

I try to be more careful, since many of the people I interact with are "nonfans" (not just non-fans of Firefly, but lacking the nature that would make them a "fan" of anything --no empathy, creativity, patience, or sense of artistic merit). They have enough trouble understanding textbook English.

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We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.

RMMC

Tuesday, July 11, 2006 9:42 PM

I tend to use phrases like "all manner of things," and "damaging my calm," "dong ma" and "that's a mite disturbin.'" Then there's random swearing, "gorram," "ruttin'," "gos se" and "Ta ma duh."

I'm sure there's more, but I can rattle 'em out of my brainpan just now. *!* Oh, yeah, "Brainpan!"

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RMMC

PAGANPAUL

Tuesday, July 11, 2006 10:24 PM

I just started a new job at the FCC Headquarters in Washington, DC this morning. I used the phrase "Shiny" just once and discovered that the people I work with are all closet Browncoats!

They'd never heard of this site, and were completely unaware of the SN/EN campaign last month, and didn't know that we are all trying to get a sequal made, but they are Browncoats never the less (or at least they will be once I'm done with them! Bwahahahaha!).

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流口水的婊子和猴子的笨儿子。
Liou coe shway duh biao-tze huh hoe-tze duh bun ur-tze.
"Stupid son of a drooling whore and a monkey."

MSG

Tuesday, July 11, 2006 10:29 PM

PaganPaul- that rocks!! nothing like seriously compatible co-workers to make the day go round:)

I choose to rise instead of fall- U2

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Tuesday, July 11, 2006 10:33 PM

My friends have been known to say, 'That's why I never kiss 'em on the mouth.'

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'It's Braedan. With an A.'

'Shiny moments aren't a destination any of us get to, and stay put forever. They're unknowable, brief flashes in time. That's what makes them shiny.' -GorramReevers

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