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Ran into a guy from Fox at the airport

POSTED BY: biggestdamnhero
UPDATED: Sunday, June 1, 2008 15:35
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BIGGESTDAMNHERO

Monday, April 14, 2008 8:46 PM

I was in the Charlotte airport a few days ago. I was at the bar sitting next to an older businessman, and made a comment about what was on the news(Fox). He commented he works for Fox. I was like "right" "OK", "whatever", and "I'm with NASA". He produced his business card. His title was senior developement something, if I recall. I gave it back to him, and asked how things were going. He stated alright. I commented that I no longer watch Fox over the Firefly debacle. His demeanor changed, and stated that wasn't Fox's fault. He said the Fox cancelled the show over ratings. I countered it was Fox who aired it out of order, preempted by baseball, 9 episodes, bad time slot, etc. I then stated I knew that Fox "deep-sixed" Firefly from the moment they aired it. Every Browncoat knows the details. I stated that Fox has made nothing but garbage since, and I was behind Joss 100%. He got upset, and said "excuse me", and moved down the bar. TAKE THAT FOX! BROWNCOATS ARE EVERYWHERE.

"They're whores"..."I'm in"!

LWAVES

Monday, April 14, 2008 8:57 PM

Good for you, any payback is good payback. I hope you ruined his day, or even his week.

Of course it's not 'their' fault, it's never 'their' fault. They inhabit a dimension completely seperate from the rest of us normals, abnormals and subnormals, one where fault is always applicable to someone else.
Although he says it's not Fox's fault, he then says that Fox cancelled the show for ratings. So they still cancelled it. The reason is irrelevant really, the end result is the same. They did it.

I hope he and his co-workers go to a special hell.

"I don't believe in suicide, but if you'd like to try it it might cheer me up to watch."

BLUEMOONSTUFF

Monday, April 14, 2008 8:57 PM

Next time you run into a guy from F*X.......... make sure you are in your car and he's in the crosswalk!

Good for you though! Makin' the Alliance move down the bar is always another point earned for us Browncoats.

BMS

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MOBBEX

Monday, April 14, 2008 9:01 PM

WAY... TO... GO !!!

STRANGEBIRD

Monday, April 14, 2008 9:06 PM

Personally I would have thrown in a few comments about Fox News. But good job!

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HIXIE129

Monday, April 14, 2008 9:23 PM

Good job,,

ZEEK

Monday, April 14, 2008 10:00 PM

If only you kept the business card. We could have made him have to change his phone number.

I think I would have gone off on him more and more and more. His excuse of poor ratings would have thrown me into a fury. Good job for letting him have it. I don't think I would have excused him though.

PHYRELIGHT

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 12:08 AM

Score one for the bad guys!

Man, you had me laughing so hard I couldn't breathe. I'll be spontaneously giggling about this for days!

Darksiders can keep their cookies. We have better writers.

Grrr. Argghh.

Patiently waiting to see Cap'n Hammerpants sing!

FREELANCERTEX

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 12:32 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by BiggestDamnHero: Ran into a guy from Fox at the airport.

Did you kill him?

*reads post* damn. want ME to kill him?

srsly though, i wish you'd kept his card, and given his phone number to everyone on this site, cuz I'm pretty sure we'd all start calling him ^_^ at least i would

JSTN

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 12:57 AM

I'm saluting you over here. I LOVE that he got up and moved. The truth is really hard for some people to deal with, and he probably knew of the Browncoat's rep.

Too bad it wasn't Kevin Reilly though. He's in charge of programming at Fox now, after cancelling Surface, when he was at NBC.

He hung 10 Million Nimsters high and dry, without resolution to quite literally dozens of questions raised in the show. (and they wonder why viewership is down)

Man, would I love to get him in a room alone, one without a bar to slide down.

Anyway, great job. I'll share your story over at savesurface - Jstn (Ad-Nim-istrator savesurface.com)

http://www.savesurface.com/phpBB2/index.php