Which Firefly quotes do you use every day?

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FREELANCERTEX

Friday, October 5, 2007 9:41 PM

lol, and thanks :) for the b-day wishes.

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Have you ever wondered why in a dream you can touch a falling sky?
Or fly to the heavens that watch over you?

"I am a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar."

A man is least himself when he speaks in his own person. Give him a mask and he will show you his true self.

You can't take the sky from me...

TWITCH

Saturday, October 6, 2007 5:50 AM

Funny thing is, a lot of these have just become part of common usage to me. "Shiny" is just accepted as something I'll say. (Equally well accepted is that if anyone asks what the !#@$ I mean by "shiny", they're going to be handed my copy of Firefly and Serenity until they get it).

But all sorts of things have become common usage, not just to me but to others where I work. "This gives me an uncomfortableness" is in regular usage. "You're like a trained ape, without the training!" is another one (don't ask why this one would be used so much at work... please don't.)

The plain fact of the matter is that whether you've seen it or not, the writing in Firefly and Serenity is just plain good. I don't care if it was borrowed from Louis Lamour, or if it was cooked up out of Joss's head or the head of ANY of the writers of Firefly (of which there were many, and all of which I cherish and treasure!) it's plain speaking, and well worth adopting.

I don't care that I missed the original run of Firefly. It was the wrong time, the wrong place for me. But gorramit, that's mighty fine work. If I take a shine to it now, that's nobody's business but my own.

Aaaaah, you got me going. I'll be at it for hours now.

-- Twitch

MADRIK

Saturday, October 6, 2007 4:31 PM

I use 'shiny' very occasionally. When my girlfriend asked, "Is there something wrong with my car?"
Me: "Nah, shiny."

And I use 'gorram' and 'ruttin' to replace swear words.

When I was a supervisor, I used things like, "As soon as you wrap up that communication log, you can be on your merry."

My girlfriend was about to splash a cup of water on me, and I said, "If you throw that on me, I swear by my pretty floral bonnet, I will end you."

FREELANCERTEX

Sunday, October 7, 2007 7:07 AM

I TOTALLY used a Wash line at my friend's house today. We were playing a game and I saw something that looked really weird and said, "Oh my God it's grotesque!!" I was so proud of myself. I've been waiting to use that one in conversation, almost didn't realize I said it. :)

__________________________
Have you ever wondered why in a dream you can touch a falling sky?
Or fly to the heavens that watch over you?

"I am a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar."

A man is least himself when he speaks in his own person. Give him a mask and he will show you his true self.

You can't take the sky from me...

BULLET0IN0THE0BRAINPAN0SQUISH

Sunday, October 7, 2007 3:38 PM

LOL. Aint it nice to have that proud moment when you know you have used a Firefly quote properly? Yes, I am always so *PROUD* I used one again this morning when my brother was running around the house and trying to use a cardboard box as a sled (I have no idea why he's doing it!). Had to adjust it to fit my purpose though: "If you fall and die, I'm not gonna clean it up!"

and my other brother told me that I was being "morbid and creepifying".

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I don't know what I'm saying. I never know what I'm saying.... -River Tam, Serenity (2005)

FREELANCERTEX

Sunday, October 7, 2007 10:32 PM

Yes it always makes me feel all warm and fuzzy when I use a quote properly without even knowing or trying to.

Oh, and it's funny you mention it, when I was in high school there was a kid who was a year ahead of me and he was on the football team, and one of his friends flattened a cardboard box, stood on it, grabbed onto the football player's hands, and the guy dragged him down the hall standing on the box like it was a surfboard. XD must be a guy thing, iunno, it was funny though. fortunately no one fell and died, so there was no cleaning up to do ;-) I badly want to use that in conversation though, and I'm sure with my two little cousin's I'll get the chance at some point.

__________________________
Have you ever wondered why in a dream you can touch a falling sky?
Or fly to the heavens that watch over you?

"I am a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar."

A man is least himself when he speaks in his own person. Give him a mask and he will show you his true self.

You can't take the sky from me...

BULLET0IN0THE0BRAINPAN0SQUISH

Monday, October 8, 2007 7:13 AM

Does Mutant Enemy, Inc.'s "grr...arrgh..." count as a quote? I keep laughing when I see it on the subtitle, but I laugh more when I unconsciously use it in IMs or emails. teehee!

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I don't know what I'm saying. I never know what I'm saying.... -River Tam, Serenity (2005)

FREELANCERTEX

Monday, October 8, 2007 7:22 PM

lol, i guess it could count :-P

every time i hear something hit my car *i.e. acorn, rock, or something that makes a noise* i say "what was that?" even though there's no one there to offer an answer :-P every time i say it it reminds me of mal.

__________________________
Have you ever wondered why in a dream you can touch a falling sky?
Or fly to the heavens that watch over you?

"I am a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar."

A man is least himself when he speaks in his own person. Give him a mask and he will show you his true self.

You can't take the sky from me...

BULLET0IN0THE0BRAINPAN0SQUISH

Wednesday, October 10, 2007 9:25 AM

LOL. won't it be stranger if you continued on with "Was that the primary buffer panel?" and people looked at you funny?

Wtgh does a primary buffer panel do anyway?

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I don't know what I'm saying. I never know what I'm saying.... -River Tam, Serenity (2005)

FREELANCERTEX

Wednesday, October 10, 2007 10:32 PM

LOL that would be hilarious, of course it would only apply if something went flying off of my car, which, since it's 15 years old, might happen at some poing :-P (too bad Serenity wasn't around when my mom had her Reliant. The muffler was always falling off that gorram car and that line would be perfect)

Well, a primary buffer panel...buffers, I guess :-P lol

__________________________
Have you ever wondered why in a dream you can touch a falling sky?
Or fly to the heavens that watch over you?

"I am a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar."

A man is least himself when he speaks in his own person. Give him a mask and he will show you his true self.

You can't take the sky from me...

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