Objects In Space - Jubal Early

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MRSAX

Wednesday, August 22, 2012 2:37 AM

Just realized that Jubal Early was a real person from history. He served under Stonewall Jackson during the American Civil War. I thought his name sounded familiar, but didn't research it. However his name is mentioned in the book "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Slayer". So I check it and sure enough, a real person from history.

Someone may have already posted on this. But there is no search option (that I could find) in the discussion threads. **Note to webmaster - add search option**

REDREAD

Wednesday, August 22, 2012 3:53 AM

There actually is a limited search on site, but I had to dig around to find it. According to Haken (the webmaster), it only returns the top 50 results: http://www.fireflyfans.net/search.aspx.

As for me, I rely on Google to search for stuff here. If you type site:fireflyfans.net in the search bar, you restrict your results to only FFF.NET. If you want to make it specific to the forums, you use site:fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx instead. Then, you'd search as usual.

Example:

Alternately, you could just search firefly jubal early. The first three results I got all mention the connection between Jubals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubal_Early
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Firefly_characters
http://firefly.wikia.com/wiki/Jubal_Early

And, in general, given that Firefly finished airing almost ten years ago, most of us here at FFF.NET have pretty much analyzed the show to death, which is why the forums aren't very active anymore (save Real World Discussions). So yes, we are all pretty much aware that there was a historical Jubal Early. In addition, we also know that Nathan Fillion says he's a descendant of Jubal Early, and it was actually because of that connection that Joss Whedon named the character in the show Jubal Early.

P.S. Some friendly advice - you're coming off a bit rude here, demanding that the webmaster do something in your very first post. Might want to wait until you actually know how things work around here before you ask somebody to change their website for you.

MARKOMI

Wednesday, August 22, 2012 6:40 AM

I start giggling whenever I hear that name, just because it comes off so ironic in Norwegian. It's so similar to the word "jubel" which means "cheer" :)

MRSAX

Wednesday, August 22, 2012 2:10 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by REDREAD:
There actually is a limited search on site, but I had to dig around to find it. According to Haken (the webmaster), it only returns the top 50 results: http://www.fireflyfans.net/search.aspx.

As for me, I rely on Google to search for stuff here. If you type site:fireflyfans.net in the search bar, you restrict your results to only FFF.NET. If you want to make it specific to the forums, you use site:fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx instead. Then, you'd search as usual.

Example:

Alternately, you could just search firefly jubal early. The first three results I got all mention the connection between Jubals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubal_Early
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Firefly_characters
http://firefly.wikia.com/wiki/Jubal_Early

And, in general, given that Firefly finished airing almost ten years ago, most of us here at FFF.NET have pretty much analyzed the show to death, which is why the forums aren't very active anymore (save Real World Discussions). So yes, we are all pretty much aware that there was a historical Jubal Early. In addition, we also know that Nathan Fillion says he's a descendant of Jubal Early, and it was actually because of that connection that Joss Whedon named the character in the show Jubal Early.

P.S. Some friendly advice - you're coming off a bit rude here, demanding that the webmaster do something in your very first post. Might want to wait until you actually know how things work around here before you ask somebody to change their website for you.

Thanks for the info on how to search here. I've had an acct here for sometime. Just don't post. Probably won't ever again. Don't really care for having my post being attacked - which you did. If anyone is being rude, it's you. You assume a lot about someone's knowledge, experience. And when you assume... Well, you know the rest.

SUASOR

Wednesday, August 22, 2012 5:08 PM

Nathan Fillion once mentioned that one of his ancestors was Jubal Early. Many southern families went to Mexico and Canada after the war.

RIONAEIRE

Thursday, August 23, 2012 6:08 PM

I have to side with MRS AX on this one, I didn't get rude vibes from the post. Feel free to still post here if you want, just ignore rude people.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

REDREAD

Thursday, August 23, 2012 6:19 PM

Sorry for reading more into the post than what was there and saying you were rude, MRSAX. I'll just go back to leaving these sorts of newbie-ish posts to people who are nicer and more patient.

||| Blog post explaining my name change: http://www.fireflyfans.net/blog.aspx?bid=9414 |||

RIONAEIRE

Thursday, August 23, 2012 9:03 PM

Its easy to misunderstand people on the Internet, since you can't see their face or hear their voice, sometimes you just don't know.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

EBFIDDLER

Thursday, August 23, 2012 9:56 PM

One summer in college, I worked in Washington, D.C., at a place that was located on the site of a little-known Civil War battlefield. (Battle of Fort Stevens, anyone?) The boss's boss was a Civil War buff and one day he gave a lunch-time talk about the battle, which all us employees attended, of course. The Confederate and the Union troops battled it out, and Abraham Lincoln himself came out to see what was going on, the battle being conveniently(?) close to the White House. It seems that Jubal Early led some of the Confederate troops in a big flanking maneuver, crossing the Potomac River upstream and attempting to take Fort Stevens from the north via the road that I commuted to work on each morning. However, by the time Early's troops arrived, the battle was pretty much already over. In fact, Early was Late.

MRSAX

Thursday, August 23, 2012 11:04 PM

Nice to read the responses about Jubal. Funny that he was late (and not Early) to the battle. Reminds me of the [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commander_McBragg]Commander McBragg[/url] cartoons that always ended with some horrible pun :)

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