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Ironic Deaths for Firefly Crew

POSTED BY: zoid
UPDATED: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 22:28
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ZOID

Tuesday, October 26, 2004 7:29 PM

Mmmm- alicious:

I actually like being thought of as 'convoluted', so, no apologies necessary.

I trust you are well, and having a good day; and there's not a trace of convolution in that sentiment.

Twisting into the cul-de-sac,

zoid

P.S.
Hee-hee!

ZOID

Tuesday, October 26, 2004 7:39 PM

Guildsister:

'Plot bunnies', indeed. 'Win' and 'place' for Book and Kaylee (tie) and 'show' for Wash. One presumes Inara tripped out of the gate?

Racily,

zoid

GUILDSISTER

Tuesday, October 26, 2004 7:47 PM

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One presumes Inara tripped out of the gate?

Inara?!

Guildsister smacks forehead in dismay. Inara, the One That Got Away...

"Guildsister" forgets about Inara--has its own kind of irony there ;-)

Inara--obviously after committing to vows of chastity, a hormonal overload kills her.

Guildsister

ZOID

Tuesday, October 26, 2004 8:12 PM

maugwai wrote:

Quote:
...That is ironic, and also crappy. But it's not ironic because it's crappy...

Agreed. Good fortune may likewise be ironic. I'll not bore you with how I met the love of my life, my wife, Kayley (no, seriously).

However, I also don't consider the sequence of events 'crappy'. That's just how it worked out. Ironic, yes. Crappy, no. I have a somewhat perverse sense of humor (ask anyone here), and if this had happened to someone else, I could scarcely find it amusing. Since it happened to me, on the other hand, I find it immensely entertaining and instructive to reflect upon. As I said, I'm ambulatory and productively employed; although I do occasionally miss the 'chasing the ball' boyish things middle-aged men wind up in the ER over.

My life is a Shakespearean comedy, thus far, not a tragedy. Not accurately a comedy 'of errors', but of reasonably competent planning meeting Divinely-guided chaos in the most critical way, at the most crucial split second... As your friend and mine, Mal's dog Jayne would say, "Hi-larious".

Respectfully,

zoid
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RADEGUND

Wednesday, October 27, 2004 12:30 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Guildsister:
And Jayne...

old age.

Guildsister

Now that one's great!

Here's my try. They aren't ironic, just amusing.

Kaylee: Someone finally does duct-tape her mouth and toss her in the hold for a month.

Inara: Her shuttle breaks down mid-flight because the incense she burns interferes with the circuitry.

Zoe: Drowns in a bioluminescent lake because she never learned to swim in one.

Wash: Catches a disease from Zoe after she becomes all corpsified and gross.

Jayne: Returns to the crappy town where he's a hero, only to have the rebuilt statue fall on his head.

Book: Accidentally crushed beneath the weight-lifting bar when Jayne gets distracted.

River: Dies after eating the contents of a can of something from which the label -- including the food's expiration date -- had been removed.

Mal and Simon: They die at the same time, having finally killed one another -- awake, facing each other, and armed.

MALICIOUS

Wednesday, October 27, 2004 1:30 AM

Radegund!

Those are excellent! Tres funny.

And now, because that is how I am, I am turning this post into something about me:

I noticed from your profile that you joined this wonderful site in 2002 on November the 19th. The irony there is that that is MY BIRTHDAY, PEOPLE!! 24 more shopping days left! (Note: November 18th is Birthday Eve or Hallowed Birthday Eve in Canada and Guam)

Mal-licious

Co-Holder of the Red Bell from Hell

DIETCOKE

Wednesday, October 27, 2004 2:03 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Booksword:
This is sick !

Here let me have a go...

Captain Mal
Is mouthing off at Shepard at his belief of a God, accidently steps on prayer beads goes up and comes down on his neck.

Ow.

God - 2 Mal - 0

Jayne
Gets into an argument with Vera about him looking at other guns, Vera wins.

Zoe
For some strange reason a skinny white kid calling himself Conner sneaks up behind her and hits her **very** hard

Wash
One terrible day his toy dinosaurs decide to fight for their freedom and launch themselves at him. Bloody, messy and not very pretty.

Simon
Simon uses a ten letter word on an outer core planet in the hearing range of some heavily armed people. He sounds snotty and condencending and they shoot him just in case he insulted their fathers. Whomever that may be

River
Goes on yet another walkabout and admires what looks like long grass on the Serenity. Turns out to be the ships wiring, end result.

Krispy fried Prodigy.

Inara
Highly paying client with exotic tastes. Ok lets say freaky tastes and an unrealible breathing tube. Nuff said.

Kaylee
No force in the verse can stop her. Unless its another random shooting in her general direction. With more and bigger guns. After dying the fates explain its nothing personal but her cheerfulness was freaking them out a bit.

Shepard Book
' I have something to tell ' he says to the screen and as we hold our breath in anticipation... the final ever episode ends leaving us wondering what his secret is and if he survived the armies of hell storming that really long alley.
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SOUPCATCHER

Wednesday, October 27, 2004 7:32 AM

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Originally posted by maugwai:
For instance, Wash left the widowed father of a child he never wanted is slightly ironic, but Zoe dying in childbirth is not. Usually the very thing you try to avoid leads to your downfall.

Okay. I'm still trying to get a handle on this irony thing...

So if Wash died while Zoe was giving birth (best guess, she strangled him), would that be ironic?

There are three kinds of people: fighters, lovers, and screamers.

JCPRICE

Wednesday, October 27, 2004 7:59 AM

Okay, I'm getting confused on this whole irony thing too, so I've consulted the highest (publicly available) authority ...

i·ro·ny

NOUN:
pl. i·ro·nies

The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
An expression or utterance marked by a deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning.
A literary style employing such contrasts for humorous or rhetorical effect. See Synonyms at wit 1.

Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs: "Hyde noted the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated" (Richard Kain).
An occurrence, result, or circumstance notable for such incongruity. See Usage Note at ironic.
Dramatic irony.
Socratic irony.

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ETYMOLOGY:
French ironie, from Old French, from Latin rna, from Greek eirneia, feigned ignorance, from eirn, dissembler, probably from eirein, to say; see wer- 5 in Indo-European roots
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/irony

So, now we are all experts in irony ...

jason

BARNEYT

Wednesday, October 27, 2004 9:35 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by jcprice:
Okay, I'm getting confused on this whole irony thing too, so I've consulted the highest (publicly available) authority ...

i·ro·ny

NOUN:
pl. i·ro·nies

The use of words to express something different from and often opposite to their literal meaning.
An expression or utterance marked by a deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning.
A literary style employing such contrasts for humorous or rhetorical effect. See Synonyms at wit 1.

Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs: "Hyde noted the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated" (Richard Kain).
An occurrence, result, or circumstance notable for such incongruity. See Usage Note at ironic.
Dramatic irony.
Socratic irony.

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ETYMOLOGY:
French ironie, from Old French, from Latin rna, from Greek eirneia, feigned ignorance, from eirn, dissembler, probably from eirein, to say; see wer- 5 in Indo-European roots
http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/irony

So, now we are all experts in irony ...

jason

That definition looks familiar! Do you have a copy of the American Heritage Dictionary, or did you go to Bartleby.com, like I always do!

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