What brings Firefly to mind for You?

POSTED BY: Channain
UPDATED: Monday, September 22, 2003 12:54
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CHANNAIN

Tuesday, July 29, 2003 8:00 PM

So what made you think of Firefly? last week while watching Two Guys & Girl, Johnny (played by Nathan Fillion for them as could still be unaware) accidentally saw Ashley's boobs, but it was a line sometime after she and Sharon got done laughing at him that made me think Firefly -

"I'll be in my room..."

“We...are the only ones in this place wearing brown. Means we’ve found something worth fighting for.
Something worth being more than alive for.”
Sarahetc

SHEPHERDOFHERMAS

Tuesday, July 29, 2003 8:17 PM

Well, I was visiting my mother and watching Ground Force with her, when suddenly the television was filled with the image of Charlie blowing up a blue glove. I gasped.

Mother noticed my gasp and said, "You're too old to get excited over that woman not wearing a bra."

"No, no, it isn't Charlie's nippl....I mean lack of a bra. Its the blue glove."

Mother, eyeing me strangely, repeated rather slowly, "Its the blue glove..."

JOHNNYREB

Wednesday, July 30, 2003 2:55 PM

SPOILER WARNING FOR Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.

I had taken my wife to see Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, when about half way through the movie...

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there was a scene were Captain Jack Sparrow was speaking to Elizabeth. He asked her if she knew what a ship was. "It's not a deck, or sails, or planks, or masts, a ship needs all those things to be a ship, sure. But that's not what a ship is. It's...freedom." This reminded me about the discussion that Mal had with Zoe, when she only saw Serenity for what it is and not what it could be...freedom.

Viva Firefly!

JOHNNYREB

Wednesday, July 30, 2003 2:55 PM

Oops. Double post.

Viva Firefly, just the same!

NIGHTTRAIN

Wednesday, July 30, 2003 3:47 PM

Everytime I see Serenity brand adult diapers at the drug store I work at.

MELEAUX

Wednesday, July 30, 2003 5:34 PM

My six year old daughter sometimes ,uhm, alters the truth to best suit her needs... Anyway, she was blaming an incident on her little brother and I asked her... "Are you lying?" at which point she said "Am I a lion?" She has not seen FF so she wasn't trying to be funny but it spooked me a bit cause she sounded just like Jubal Early

She understands, she doesn't comprehend

CHANNAIN

Thursday, July 31, 2003 5:03 PM

The DVDs in the Target ad keep bringing it to the forefront somehow. I think I'm expecting a picture of it to appear with "newly released" next to it. Yes, I'm fully aware it's only almost August.

Eating with chopsticks - haven't tried it with tomato slices yet, although I have been meaning to.

Strawberries at Cub are looking mighty scrumptious right now!

Watching Peacemakers on USA last night, the marshal had a confrontation with a baddie he knew from the Civil War and I mentioned to my sister I completely expected him to say something like "You gone and got yourself looking mighty hideous."

Driving home from a parade in NW Minnesota, we drove past a sign at the end of a really long country driveway. The sign had the sillouette of a horse on it, but it was the name that got me smiling; it said "Serenity Farm."

There's a house on the outskirts of Alexandria, MN, that has what looks like the same kind of silver heat-shield siding that the Heart of Gold does. My hand to God.

“We three are the only ones in this place wearing brown. Means we’ve found something worth fighting for.
Something worth being more than alive for.”
Sarahetc

KAYTHRYN

Thursday, July 31, 2003 7:23 PM

I was mopping the floor in a building that our company is going to rent out when my boss walked in with this lady who was planning on starting up a new company and was interested in renting from us. She walks in, looks around and...

Lady: It's smallish.
Boss: Well how much room do you really need for what you do?

I almost died. I burst out laughing and got the you-better-get-your-ass-back-to-work look from my boss. Of course then they started talking about making asphalt and it ruined the effect.

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

ALIENZOOKEEPER

Monday, August 4, 2003 4:46 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Channain:
Watching Peacemakers on USA last night, the marshal had a confrontation with a baddie he knew from the Civil War and I mentioned to my sister I completely expected him to say something like "You gone and got yourself looking mighty hideous."

Caught that the other night. I liked, "I really don't want to have to kill you tonight."

Also, the detective really surprised me with the knife-throwing, nearly as much as when Simon jumps off of the catwalk in 'Serenity'.

Minor quibble, the way they bring the detective onboard, at the end, isn't very convincing. It is something of a Firefly substitute, though

A long, long time ago, I can still remember
How those stories used to make me smile;
And I knew that if I had God's grace,
I could save the human race
From anything but itself for awhile.

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KAYTHRYN

Monday, August 4, 2003 3:07 PM

An advertisement came on TV today for a new show and they called it "a western CSI" but I could of sworn they said "a western sci fi". I even managed to convinced myself for a few seconds that it was an ad for Firefly, dusty towns, horses and all.

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

STILLSHINY

Monday, August 4, 2003 7:06 PM

The fact that I would much rather be on Serenity, than here at work!!!!!!

Mal: “See how I'm not punching him? I think I've grown!”

BLACKSTAR

Monday, August 4, 2003 9:55 PM

Seeing Badger on a Sci-Fi commercial last night.
Hearing "Serenity" by Godsmack on the radio.
My homepage, which is this wonderful website.

Oh, my GOD! WHO'S FLYING THIS THING!!! Oh, right, that would be me...

WHOODAHN

Saturday, August 9, 2003 5:11 AM

I watched Shindigagain tonight. When Badger goes to Serenity, he knocks on the door with a 36 inch aluminum valve wrench. We use them at work all the time.

CHANNAIN

Monday, August 11, 2003 3:18 PM

Quote:
Oroginally posted by Johnny Reb
I had taken my wife to see Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, when about half way through the movie...

I saw Pirates twice last week, watching for the scene you mentioned and each time I was grinning for no apparent reason.

btw, that house I mentioned in Alexandria, Minnesota, that looks like it has the heat-shielding like the Heart of Gold? Turns out it's copper-sheet siding. I mean who would think of such a thing? The copper is turning purple now because the owners haven't seal-coated it, but when the sun hits it just right, it gleams.

“We three are the only ones in this place wearing brown. Means we’ve found something worth fighting for.
Something worth being more than alive for.”
Sarahetc

HIMBERRY

Monday, August 11, 2003 10:13 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Channain:
Quote:
Oroginally posted by Johnny Reb
I had taken my wife to see Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, when about half way through the movie...

I saw Pirates twice last week, watching for the scene you mentioned and each time I was grinning for no apparent reason.

... when I watched pirates of the carribean last week [thanks to johnny reb already knowing jack would say something about a ship meaning freedom, looking forward to it the whole time and squeaking when the scene finally appeared :-)] i saw jack eating that apple - and i had the strong feeling that he really should not eat the apple without cutting it in two first.

HIMBERRY

Monday, August 11, 2003 10:14 PM

stupid double post 'grr' sorry for that

KAYTHRYN

Monday, August 11, 2003 10:56 PM

My mother is now my biggest reminder of Firefly.

She has seen all FF episodes up to Shindig, we watch one every night, and now she frequently says “gorram” and “shiny” (except she spells is “gorrham”). The wall paper on her computer is a picture of Mal, Jayne, Wash, and Zoë. She knows I can’t stand the thought of Jayne and River hooking up, so the last e-mail she sent me read- “Jayne and River sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g. Love mum.” Gah.

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

PSYKOTEK

Tuesday, August 12, 2003 1:55 AM

When I am having a crappy day , the theme song comes to mind...

and they can't take the skies from me

Psyko
Tek

She's terse. I can be terse.

Once in flight school, I was laconic

CHANNAIN

Wednesday, August 13, 2003 6:53 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by psykotek:
When I am having a crappy day , the theme song comes to mind...

and they can't take the skies from me

Psyko
Tek

A billboard on I-94 somewhere between St. Cloud and Monticello. It was advertising a real estate company, but it was the name of the agent pictured that caught my eye.

Angela Tamm

I spent the next hour of driving time thinking about how the Tam family made their fortune. First, they changed the spelling of the name (reasons are endless) then staked some kind of mining/land claim on one of the core worlds. Then they eventually sold the rights, made a huge profit and invested in the stock market of the time.

Nothing ever makes drive time fly by like background story work.

“We three are the only ones in this place wearing brown. Means we’ve found something worth fighting for.
Something worth being more than alive for.”
Sarahetc

JOHNNYREB

Thursday, August 14, 2003 5:25 PM

Last night I actually saw a firefly. They're rather rare where I am, so it was kinda lika treat. I never realized the that the illuminecent color of a firefly's abdomen is really very close to the color of Serenity when she "fireflies off."

AND

Last weekend, I attendended my best friend's wedding. I wasn't sure what the plans were for the whole day, so I asked what the plans were once we were done with the shindig. Shindig isn't a word that I normally work into my vocabulary. I just opened my mouth, and out it came.

Viva Firefly!

SARAHETC

Thursday, August 14, 2003 6:10 PM

Last night as I was saying goodbye to my brother-in-law and his wife (who I consider my sister-in-law) who are moving cross country, I got to talking to her sister and said sister's boyfriend about music. Had they ever heard of Jeff Black? No, but we love Jeff Buckley. Have you heard his song Hallelujah? Yes, I said, I had heard that song. I knew that song well. That is a Firefly song. Then the Firefly jokes started.

Sarah

I'm a dying breed who still believes, haunted by American dreams. ---Neko Case

KAYTHRYN

Tuesday, August 19, 2003 8:43 PM

I was reading Fray when I saw this in the corner of one page and I swear it looks like Kelly in the Blue sun commercial in Firefly.

http://www15.brinkster.com/kaythryn/fray8.htm

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

STILLSHINY

Tuesday, August 19, 2003 9:29 PM

The other day I saw a shirt, that was not only shiny, but it was actually shiny. And of course I called it that, my wife just laughed.

JOHNNYREB

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 1:30 PM

I just read a news article about a woman who was attacked by a shark of the coast of California. That got me wondering. When the Earth was used up, did they consider leaving sharks behind to die with Earth. Sharks are a pretty important part of the web-of-life, so they probably had to bring them. What about mosquitos? I think if they made Earth uninhabitable, they probably said, "Frig the mosquitos. Let the mosquitos fend for themselves." I know I would. Dirty little itchy bastards! And finally, which planet has all the tigers, lions, elephants, kangaroos, wombats, orangatangs, gorillas, crocodiles and other animals that don't jive with a space/frontier/western genre. Don't tell me they were all left behind! Just wondering.

Viva Firefly!

DRAKON

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 2:11 PM

The 1980 movie Galaxina. Yes, I know it is horrid. Oh GOD I know it is horrid. But one of the advantages (?) of several years underwater is learning to appreciate bad films.

Anyway, part of the subplot has Galaxina, who is an android, walking through this town on the far fringe of the galaxy, looking for a guy who has the Blue Star (Woo AHHHH!) The town looked exactly like the one in Safe. (Well except for the Human Restaraunt and the cult of Harly David Son.)

They also had a scene at an intergalactic whore house. Not at all like the one in Heart of Gold.

What can I say, I am insane.

"my kind of stupid"

CAPTBAGGYTROUSERS

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 2:12 PM

Did anyone ever see Titan, A.E? Not that I'd recommend it, but both Joss and Ben Edlund worked on it. In it, Earth is attacked by hostile aliens, and gets a ship out with survivors of the human race then, uh

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Eventually, the thing the heroes of the film are looking for is this ship "The Titan" which contains frozen DNA of every species on Earth, with which they can recreate the world.

I've said before I feel Alien 4 has a lot of elements that went into Firefly, and the show is what Joss would have wanted that movie to be. Titan A.E. is a similarly craptastic movie he worked on where little of his brilliance got through. I wouldn't be surprised if some elements of Titan came through as well.

Sidebar- The working title was "Planet Ice" when Edlund was initially involved and I wondered if the Ice Planet frozen confection in "The Message" is a shout-out to Joss and Ben's time in the trenches of working on that tough, horrible movie. And one could say they "lost" that battle, too.

History repeats the old conceits

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JOHNNYREB

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 2:32 PM

I thought Titan A.E. was a great movie.

Viva Firefly!

ARCBEATLE

Thursday, August 21, 2003 12:58 AM

I did too! (planet bob...)

Dont insult other good scifi!

MANIACNUMBERONE

Thursday, August 21, 2003 6:08 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Kaythryn:
I was mopping the floor in a building that our company is going to rent out when my boss walked in with this lady who was planning on starting up a new company and was interested in renting from us. She walks in, looks around and...

Lady: It's smallish.
Boss: Well how much room do you really need for what you do?

I almost died. I burst out laughing and got the you-better-get-your-ass-back-to-work look from my boss. Of course then they started talking about making asphalt and it ruined the effect.

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

Laughing good... Kayt (Gu nian zhong de gu nian, as everyone knows) is the undisputed master of Firefly quotes.

I guess I'll do my best to add a notch onto this thread. Reminded of Firefly today once again just because I am obsessed, and I pulled out the old gagreel. Laughed real hard and made myself very happy.

Thought while I was watching it, that it would have to be a crucial part of any great shindig.

CHANNAIN

Thursday, August 21, 2003 5:11 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by ManiacNumberOne:
I guess I'll do my best to add a notch onto this thread. Reminded of Firefly today once again just because I am obsessed, and I pulled out the old gagreel. Laughed real hard and made myself very happy. Thought while I was watching it, that it would have to be a crucial part of any great shindig.

That would go without saying, I think. You'll have to tell us what put the notion in your head to get the gag reel out sometime.

Eating SmartOnes chicken & vegetables Carbbean, which was pretty good, actually - spicy even - for a "lite" microwave meal (I'm not sure the chicken is in fact chicken, but let's not go there) and as I finished I thought, "Dang! wish I'd had chopsticks for this. The chunks were sure big enough."

Funny how I never thought to use chopsticks to eat all manner of foods, not just Chinese. Then Firefly came along and I saw Mal eating a tomato using chopsticks in Sereneity and the whole landscape changed. Okay, granted, it could get a little problematic when eating steak.

Shopping at the grocery store this morning I found myself wondering which core planet was most likely to grow peaches.

Visiting Ro's horse farm over the weekend (Roansrus is a new browncoat recruit

), I wondered what kind of set up Mal's mother had, how many horses.

Naming my new kitten Simon - because he doesn't know what the hell he's gotten himself into by adopting me - pretty much is the epitome of Fireflyfanness. There is truly no hope for me, people.

“We three are the only ones in this place wearing brown.
Means we’ve found something worth fighting for.
Something worth being more than alive for.”
Sarahetc

KAYTHRYN

Thursday, August 21, 2003 7:10 PM

My dad and my brother just got back from a trip to Texas the other day and told me about this.

On their way home the airport in Texas was really busy and security was extra tight because the president was in town. They didn’t know that at the time and where a little confused by everything that was going on. My brother said that he saw a few people being escorted away to be searched and that they were followed by two men with blue gloves. As I’ve been told, my brother leaned over to my dad and as he pointed to the men said, “Two by two, hands of blue”. My poor father, who was already uncomfortable flying, had also just seen Ariel before he left.

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

BLACKSTAR

Thursday, August 21, 2003 7:33 PM

Today, at work, I told one of my temps to go sort some boxes of old papers in one of our rear storerooms, a job that should have taken about 20 minutes. After almost an hour, I decided to go check on her. I walked into the storeroom to find her in the middle of the room with boxes strewn all about. For an instant, I was seeing red in anger(this room was neat, if disorganized, when she started!) when a sudden thought raced through my head. I couldn't resist saying "Were there monkeys? Terrible space monkeys?" The look on the poor girl's face made me break out into laughter, confusing her even more. I tried to explain it to her, but I dont think she got it, because she kept giving me strange looks the whole time we worked on sorting those damn boxes...

Oh, my GOD! Who's flying this thing! Oh, right, that would be me...

STILLSHINY

Thursday, August 21, 2003 7:53 PM

Saw the Pirates of the Caribbean. Waiting for "the scene"

Can't help but think of Firefly.

and just for the fun of it Gorram Fox

I love it!!!

Mal: “See how I'm not punching him? I think I've grown!”

ROANSRUS

Friday, August 22, 2003 6:01 AM

[what brings Firefly to mind for you?]

Ok for me, it would be looking out my front door, down by our pine trees where almost every evening we have fireflys flashing on and off... on and off... on and off... We live out in the county 8 miles from the closest town and 1/4 mile from the closest neighbor and 3/4 mile from the next closest neighbor, and then over a mile from the next closest neighbor....

And of course with the prominent Western theme, every morning and evening when I go out to feed, water and do 'what-ever' with my horses (23 of them) ... and hear them eating... sneezing, and stomping.. and the occasional Whinney, (horses never whinney as much as depicted in the movies....) I think of Fire fly...

And then finally....

I am a crack shot with a rifle.... and not bad with a 'scatter gun' (if any of you also watch John Wayne Westerns... what movie was that from???? )

AND...

if I'm close enough... I am pretty good with a pistol..... (357 Magnum is actually my preference)... My preference up close though is a shotgun... My preference at a distance is a rifle... so of course I think of the premier episode Serentity... When he met with Patience?? on Whitefall??? (I have only watched these episodes through once or twice)... So please bear with my nievete' "sp"... and my newness...

When Jayne was behind the sights of the sniper rifle... It just brought back vivid memorys... I was in the army and had the 250 Meter target in site many times... and got it most every time...(the drill seargents started refering to me as Cochise) I was an expert shot...

This scene almost made me fell like I was laying there in the prone position, stock pressed firmly against my right shoulder, looking through the site, being very conscious of my inhaling and exhaling.. to anticipate when I may have to 'take my shot'... looking first at Mal, and Zoe to make sure 'MY' people were ok.... (OK... fantasizing a little about what would happen if Mal wasn't in the picture and I would get the chance to 'be in charge...') But then realizing Mal is the leader, 'MY CAPTAIN' and, I am looking to the 'bad guys' to see if they were playing by the rules... I could take them out from this distance and protect my captain.... and Zoe, who ( I suspect) ... he respects... (Even thought he wansn't a 'Brown Coat'...

Well, I've been awfully Long winded this morning.....

Have a great day...

Leah... "Ro"

STILLSHINY

Friday, August 22, 2003 2:09 PM

OK, you I want to meet.

Today is Firefly Friday, I keep the whole series in the corner of my desktop, all day.

wooah, watch for the feds.

Mal: “See how I'm not punching him? I think I've grown!”

ROANSRUS

Saturday, August 23, 2003 4:37 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by stillshiny:
OK, you I want to meet.

Oh... StillShiny, I could tell you storys.. here is just one... that you might really enjoy...

I grew up on a working farm, we had beef cattle, pigs, and we also raised large and small grains... and unlike today... I was raised to be very independent! I only had a babysitter a very, very few times.. I was pretty much on my ow on my own pretty much when I was 10 or 11... their philosophy was if I can go off on my pony or be out with the pigs or cattle, and be on my own for 10 -12+ hours a day why couldn't I take care of myself other wise...

Any way when my dad when back to Alaska to work, my mother took a trip to Alaska to visit her parents, this was when I was only like 13 or 14 or so...

Our house was on a smallish private lake that was always filled with geese from early spring to late fall, well these hunter guys drove down into the field with-in striking distance... (shot gun distance) of our geese.. I hopped on my horse and rode Hell-bent-for-election... up to where they were and told them they were on private property and that they couldn't hunt here!!!!

There were 3-4 guys and the guy that seemed to be in charge (a Jayne-type Macho guy), looked at me, then, very subtley laid his shotgun across the hood of the blazer (the barrel of the weapon pointed at me) and very simply said, "What are you going to do about it???"

I may have been young but common sense told me that they knew that my parents were out of town, (small town of population 1200, they publish that stuff in the paper), and I was out-numbered , so I turned my horse around and rode straight back up to the house... where my 22 with scope was in the house... Loaded when my parents were away...

Hey, now, you never know when varmints may be around...

Well, I ran into the house and grabed my 22, ran back out just as they were approaching our geese, weapons raised and ready, and I..... with one shot put a round into a tire on thier vehicle. I will never ever for get these guys stopping dead in their tracks... knowing that they had shotguns... (short Range) and I had a rifle... Long Range... and I WAS/AM A GOOD SHOT!

They stood there for the longest time... looking toward the house, then at the geese, then back to the house, then back at the geese... the 'Jayne-type guy' advanced a couple steps toward the lake, and I shouted at the top of my lungs that unless they had more then one spare in their car, or they wanted to walk 12 miles back into town, they better change their flat and leave... or the county Sherriff that I called would give them a ride to town.. (Yes, YES, looking back now... it wasn't the best plan in the world but... I couldn't let them shoot our geese!!!

The guys went to the rear of their vehicle, put their weapons in thier cases, changed the tire and left... Never to be seen or heard from agian...

Leah... thinking of the good-ole-days..

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HIMBERRY

Saturday, August 23, 2003 7:18 AM

on my way to denmark last week (grey, stormy, wonderful north sea, wind, weather, books, sand, in one word: holiday) i saw extraordinary many numberplates saying 'VER-A' something.
gotten there i started reading a book in which a girl appeared whose name was saffron - and in the end it turned out that it wasn't hear real name at all ;o) and even though that saffron-girl had no main part in the story, i started thinking if the author is a fff herself.
i even saw a tshirt which had 'firefly' on it; but it was not any similar to our firefly, just blue and orange and not shiny at all. which made me smile was that i didn't see it first, but my boyfriend pointed at it and said: "look. now you will smile the whole day, just because of that ugly shirt." and he was right.

"Just because a guy's in his underwear, you assume the worst."

CHANNAIN

Monday, August 25, 2003 10:04 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by ROANSRUS:
Oh... StillShiny, I could tell you storys.. here is just one... that you might really enjoy...
Leah... thinking of the good-ole-days..

i find myself wondering what the kids at school would have said about you if they knew about that story. I think I remember you telling it to me back in the day, but as we've reflected, much has gone on in the years since. I've seen the 22, and that look...

my weekly entry:

during the sermon at church this week, the pastor was talking about choices. this, by the way, is a man who's deep into Native American spiritualism as well as Christianity, Lutheran style.

and I quote "to make a choice is to make a decision. to not make a choice is to make a decision." my head went right to the scene near the end of The Train Job when Zoe and Mal are dropping off the vaccine:

Quote:
SHERIFF: You were truthful back in town. These are tough times. If a man can get a job, he might not look too close at what that job is. But a man learns all the details of a situation like ours, well, then he has a choice.

MAL (looking stone-cold serious): I don't believe he does.

A look of understanding passes between them.

for the record, church was the last place I expected to find myself in the Firefly zone.

“We three are the only ones in this place wearing brown.
Means we’ve found something worth fighting for.
Something worth being more than alive for.”
Sarahetc

VETERAN

Tuesday, August 26, 2003 1:23 AM

A couple of times while reading Ship of the Line ...

Quote:
...Day by day he longed for the moment when he should get to sea, and could settle down into the comfortable solitude which surrounds a ship's captain[/qoute]

Made me think of Mal taking the long route to get places.

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LERXST

Tuesday, August 26, 2003 3:06 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Channain:
"to make a choice is to make a decision. to not make a choice is to make a decision."

"...if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."
--Rush, "Freewill", 1980

Any excuse to stick a Rush quote in here.

At the post office we have this clerk who really works hard at getting out of having to do work. And he's proud of it. So, today he got a little laugh when I described him as "jing tzahng mei yong duh" and told him what it meant.

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ZAPHOD: "Hand me the raprod, Plate Captain."
WAITER: "?"
ZAPHOD: "The phone, waiter, THE PHONE! Sheesh, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off."

STILLSHINY

Wednesday, August 27, 2003 2:06 PM

Ok I do phone tech support for fisherman, to help them with their electronic sonars, I had a call from a gentleman with a very "Niska" accent. And I was expecting him to start talking about "gossip & solid reputations" Then I had the vision of a guy hanging upside down, then the vision of it not being me.

what can I say I gots Firefly on the brain 24-7

Also watching my new LOTR dvd last night I couldn't help but start pining for December and the "shiny" Firefly dvd set.

Mal: “See how I'm not punching him? I think I've grown!”

SERENITYVALLEY

Wednesday, August 27, 2003 2:51 PM

I was watching Two Guys and a Girl as usual, but it was one of the early eps so Nate wasn't there yet, but anyway, Pete said something like "Sorry to ruin your Shindig." and I'm just like "tehe, Pete said shindig" and then like a few seconds later, Sharon is threatening Berg with a ladel and says things like "are you willing to risk the ladel?" and it reminded me of Alan Tudyk's monologue in 28 Days about the fork in the road or the ladel in the road. And of course Alan Tudyk brings me back to Firefly.

Also yesturday I went to a waterpark with my friend and she was talking about what she would say at my funeral if I got hit with the golf cart, so I just had to recite Wash's "here lie my beloved Zoe" line.

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KAYTHRYN

Thursday, August 28, 2003 4:38 PM

I came across a "Captain Spandex" font today.

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

CHANNAIN

Thursday, August 28, 2003 6:34 PM

One of the Enterprise reruns that aired last night was where an alien freighter captain turned bounty hunter came thisclose to turning Archer over to the Klingons. Why? So he could get enough money together to get his ship back, of course. I didn't watch it this time, but I read the synopsis in the TVGuide, smiled and thought to myself, "That's exactly what Mal would do."

And now it occurs to me that what he could do, theoretically, is turn in Simon and River...suddenly I'm not so happy about that.

“We three are the only ones in this place wearing brown.
Means we’ve found something worth fighting for.
Something worth being more than alive for.”
Sarahetc

CHANNAIN

Friday, August 29, 2003 4:33 PM

My new kitten Simon (so named because he adopted me and had no clue what he was in for) often calls out when he can't see me.

Simon: Meow!
ME: I'm sitting right here.
Simon: Meow!
ME: That's cuz I'm sitting right here.

“We three are the only ones in this place wearing brown.
Means we’ve found something worth fighting for.
Something worth being more than alive for.”
Sarahetc

STILLSHINY

Friday, August 29, 2003 4:39 PM

I was talking to someone the other day and they said they had been looking for a job for three months, all I could think of was

"Anyone who can't find work ain't looking hard enough"

So glad someone brought life to the page today.

I may be a low down dirty self-bumper but ya gotta read my ten things i learned from firefly list.

http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=4&t=1967

"I'm going to the special hell"

CHANNAIN

Friday, August 29, 2003 5:05 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by stillshiny:
When you start drinking, and a girl gives you a pretty hat made out of a tree and starts to dance with you, you are signing up to have & to hold.

and when that same girl who has nice qualities tries to seduce you, your pilot & your companion, then sabotages your ship, and leaves you & your crew at the hands of those who would kill them even though she didn’t and she made you dinner, remember marriage is hard work & you shouldn’t give up.

these made me laugh out loud in the office and get weird looks from co-workers - good on you!

“We three are the only ones in this place wearing brown.
Means we’ve found something worth fighting for.
Something worth being more than alive for.”
Sarahetc

STILLSHINY

Friday, August 29, 2003 5:30 PM

I am so glad you enjoyed, my day can now be considered made.

Mal: “See how I'm not punching him? I think I've grown!”

CHANNAIN

Friday, September 5, 2003 6:09 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by stillshiny:
I was talking to someone the other day and they said they had been looking for a job for three months, all I could think of was

"Anyone who can't find work ain't looking hard enough"

So glad someone brought life to the page today.

I may be a low down dirty self-bumper but ya gotta read my ten things i learned from firefly list.

http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=4&t=1967

"I'm going to the special hell"

the 10 things are a must read.

I caught Samurai Jack on the Cartoon Network the last couple of nights. Wednesday's ep had him entering a saloon on a Star Wars-like space western planet and striking a deal with a smarmy little Mexican-ish dude. I say Star Wars-like because there were guys in cowboy hats riding dinosaurs. At any rate, I couldn't help thinking somebody's been watching Firefly and taking notes.

“We three are the only ones in this place wearing brown.
Means we’ve found something worth fighting for.
Something worth being more than alive for.”
Sarahetc

JOHNNYREB

Friday, September 5, 2003 6:32 PM

My 1 1/2 year old boy was dancing to music performed by "The Wiggles" when he took a header into the coffee table and opened up his brow. My wife and I took him to the emergency room, of course, and the doctor who gave him his two stitches was wearing blue gloves! BTW, My boy's doin' just fine. He handled the whole thing better than my wife and I.

Viva Firefly!

STILLSHINY

Friday, September 5, 2003 6:41 PM

OK first, ouch!

And then my tale....

I was downloading music and was looking for rare Avril Lavigne music. Found a copy of her covering the song Kiss Me by Sixpence None the Richer, (yes, I'm going somewhere with this) Though I have heard the song many times, this time I recognized the line "strike up the band and watch the FIREFLIES dance silver moon sparkling"

yep, I'm helpless.

MANIACNUMBERONE

Friday, September 5, 2003 8:01 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by ROANSRUS:
[what brings Firefly to mind for you?]

Ok for me, it would be looking out my front door, down by our pine trees where almost every evening we have fireflys flashing on and off... on and off... on and off... We live out in the county 8 miles from the closest town and 1/4 mile from the closest neighbor and 3/4 mile from the next closest neighbor, and then over a mile from the next closest neighbor....

And of course with the prominent Western theme, every morning and evening when I go out to feed, water and do 'what-ever' with my horses (23 of them) ... and hear them eating... sneezing, and stomping.. and the occasional Whinney, (horses never whinney as much as depicted in the movies....) I think of Fire fly...

And then finally....

I am a crack shot with a rifle.... and not bad with a 'scatter gun' (if any of you also watch John Wayne Westerns... what movie was that from???? )

AND...

if I'm close enough... I am pretty good with a pistol..... (357 Magnum is actually my preference)... My preference up close though is a shotgun... My preference at a distance is a rifle... so of course I think of the premier episode Serentity... When he met with Patience?? on Whitefall??? (I have only watched these episodes through once or twice)... So please bear with my nievete' "sp"... and my newness...

When Jayne was behind the sights of the sniper rifle... It just brought back vivid memorys... I was in the army and had the 250 Meter target in site many times... and got it most every time...(the drill seargents started refering to me as Cochise) I was an expert shot...

This scene almost made me fell like I was laying there in the prone position, stock pressed firmly against my right shoulder, looking through the site, being very conscious of my inhaling and exhaling.. to anticipate when I may have to 'take my shot'... looking first at Mal, and Zoe to make sure 'MY' people were ok.... (OK... fantasizing a little about what would happen if Mal wasn't in the picture and I would get the chance to 'be in charge...') But then realizing Mal is the leader, 'MY CAPTAIN' and, I am looking to the 'bad guys' to see if they were playing by the rules... I could take them out from this distance and protect my captain.... and Zoe, who ( I suspect) ... he respects... (Even thought he wansn't a 'Brown Coat'...

Well, I've been awfully Long winded this morning.....

Have a great day...

Leah... "Ro"

Will you adopt me, or take me in or something? Whereever it is that you are, I wanna go.

CHANNAIN

Monday, September 8, 2003 10:50 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by stillshiny:
yep, I'm helpless.

you're in good company.

I read in the Sunday paper that strawberries can reduce stress and calm anxiety and I thought y'know, I'm not sure that's what I saw on Kaylee's face when she ate the most perfect strawberry in the 'verse, but heck - if that's another reason to eat strawberries, we'll take it!

“We three are the only ones in this place wearing brown.
Means we’ve found something worth fighting for.
Something worth being more than alive for.”
Sarahetc

STARRTAGG

Tuesday, September 9, 2003 8:08 AM

The sky was clear and you could make out the milky way and several constellations. I thought what it would be like to actually travel anywhere off the Earth that is now. Where are all the shiny spaceships?

Do you think I'm a complete back birth!

CHANNAIN

Tuesday, September 9, 2003 1:52 PM

From an actual ad on the community board in my coffee shop this morning.

"Painting Spaces - Decorative Painting
If your space needs a new look then please call JAYNE at (phone).

Free personalized gift with every child's painted room!"

I don't know whether to be shocked or to just fall to the floor in hysterical laughter.

“We three are the only ones in this place wearing brown.
Means we’ve found something worth fighting for.
Something worth being more than alive for.”
Sarahetc

SARAHETC

Wednesday, September 10, 2003 1:31 PM

Had a crazy nightmare last night. Was being chased by the blue hands with two other people, tho I can't remember who now, but one of them was a River equivalent. There were a lot of dusty tunnels. The goal was to be able to get back to a certain point where we could stand on vinyl flooring and eat cereal and that would save us. I never made it. I had to hide in a storm drain and got dirty mopping water poured on me and then the blue hands found me. Luckily I woke up.

Sarah

I'm a dying breed who still believes, haunted by American dreams. ---Neko Case

JOSH294

Wednesday, September 10, 2003 9:13 PM

I was in Spanish class at school, and the teacher called someone up to write something on the board. They were meant to write "No se permitten" meaning "they aren't permitted" but they accidentally wrote "go se permitten".

"Dog crap allowed."

I started laughing hysterically. Everyone stared at me like I was insane. When I eventually stopped laughing, I spent the rest of the lesson avoiding other people's amused glances and mocking remarks by muttering words like "whoo dahn" and "ta ma duh."

"...So dawn goes down to day,
Nothing gold can stay."

JOHNNYREB

Monday, September 15, 2003 2:58 PM

After Johnny Cash died, I dug out all my albums, tapes, CD's, and 8-tracks; I was going to take the entire weekend and part of the following week to have a Johnny Cash-fest. The whole time I listened to the Man in Black, I thought about Johnny, his life, my life, my friends and family, etc., then I heard "Don't take your guns to town."

A young cowboy named Billy Joe
grew restless on the farm,
a boy filled with wander-lust
who really meant no harm.

He changed his clothes, and shined his boots,
and combed his dark hair down.
And his mother cried as he walked out,
"Don't take your guns to town, son.
Leave your guns at home, Bill.
Don't take your guns to town."

He laughed and kissed his mom
and said,"Your Billy Joe's a man,
and I can shoot as quick and straight
as anybody can.

But, I wouldn't shoot without a cause.
I'd gun nobody down."
But, his mother cried as he rode away,
"Don't take your guns to town, son.
Leave your guns at home, Bill
Don't take your guns to town."

He sang a song as on he rode.
His guns hung at his hips.
He road into a cattle town,
a smile upon his lips.

He stopped and walked into a bar
and laid his money down.
And his mother's words echoed again,
"Don't take your guns to town, son.
Leave your guns at home, Bill.
Don't take your guns to town."

He drank his first strong liquor then
to calm his shaking hand
and tried to tell himself, at last,
he had become a man.

A dusty cowpoke at his side
began to laugh him down.
And, his mothers words echoed again,
"Don't take your guns to town, son.
Leave your guns at home, Bill.
Don't take your guns to town."

Bill was raged, and Billy Joe
reached for his gun to draw,
but the stranger drew his gun and fired
before Bill even saw.

As Billy Joe fell to the floor,
the crowd all gathered 'round
and wondered at his final words,
"Don't take your guns to town, son.
Leave your guns at home, Bill.
Don't take your guns to town."

How Firefly-esque is that? That dusty cowpoke could just as easily have been Jayne. That young cowboy could just have easily been Mal right after he left Shadow. After, this song. I started tying every Johnny Cash song into Firefly, in one way or another.

Thanks, Johnny. 1932-2003

KAYTHRYN

Tuesday, September 16, 2003 7:03 PM

I just got an e-mail from Serenity.

Well, not our Serenity, but it did read “serenity” as the sender. The message ended up to be spam about mood swing medication.

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

CHANNAIN

Friday, September 19, 2003 6:13 PM

Funny how Firefly can twist your brain when you least expect it, isn't it?

For me, I used to think driving with two hands on the wheel was the sure sign of insecurity. Then somehow, watching Wash fly Serenity made it cool.

JOSH294

Friday, September 19, 2003 6:19 PM

Today on imdb.com

"Back in 1998, the premise for The Truman Show, in which the entire life of one man is broadcast worldwide as a hit television show, was just fantastical enough to seem slightly beyond reality – these days, not so much."

As I read the last sentence, I could hear our cap'n speaking.

CHANNAIN

Friday, September 19, 2003 6:24 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Josh294:
Today on imdb.com

"Back in 1998, the premise for The Truman Show, in which the entire life of one man is broadcast worldwide as a hit television show, was just fantastical enough to seem slightly beyond reality – these days, not so much."

As I read the last sentence, I could hear our cap'n speaking.

Totally - especially from "fantastical"

JOSH294

Friday, September 19, 2003 6:26 PM

Gah, my freakin computer kept crashing and refreshing and then everything was bad.

JOSH294

Friday, September 19, 2003 6:26 PM

*slaps computer*

STEVEP99999

Saturday, September 20, 2003 1:14 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Kaythryn:
I just got an e-mail from Serenity.

Well, not our Serenity, but it did read “serenity” as the sender. The message ended up to be spam about mood swing medication.

I received that spam-mail too.

IAMJACKSUSERNAME

Sunday, September 21, 2003 12:53 PM

The music, lyrics, and Eddie's voice on Pearl jam's "Thumbing my way" from their Riot act album. It's a strecth, but...

I have not been home since you left long ago
thumbing my way back to heaven [...]
I cant be free
with what's locked inside of me
if there was a key,
you took it in your hands
there's no wrong or right,
but I'm sure there's good and bad
the questions linger overhead [...]
all the rusted signs
we ignore throughout our lives
choosing the shiny ones instead
I turned my back
now there's no turning back [...]
I smile, but who am I kidding?
I'm just walking the miles
every once in a while get a ride
thumbing my way back to heaven

--
I am Jack's username
"Were there monkeys? Some terrifying space monkeys maybe got loose?" - Mal

KAYTHRYN

Sunday, September 21, 2003 4:44 PM

I was just sitting in my bosses office (I work at a construction place) typing something for him when one of our field workers came in to talk to him. I wasn’t really listening to them until this caught my attention.

Field guy: We gotta hurry up and get that round pipe for DLZ ordered before the end of the week.
Boss: Work on something else now, piece ‘a round pipe’s nothing.
Field guy: It’s nothing till you ain’t got one, then it seems to be everything.

Little things like that have happened to me dozens of times at work so I’m not sure if it’s just that I’m bored all day and my mind wanders, of it they’re starting to make fun of me.

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

INIRE

Sunday, September 21, 2003 7:35 PM

Local radio has been playing a tune called 'Serenity' 'by Godsmack. Not really a big GS fan, but this song could be on the FF:The Movie soundtrack, easy.

"Well, if that happens you ket us know"

STILLSHINY

Monday, September 22, 2003 12:54 PM

Working on my house over the weekend, Listening to U2. Bullet the Blue Sky, "From the "firefly" the red orange glow, see the face of fear running scared in the valley below"

ah, monday, ugh!

Mal: “See how I'm not punching him? I think I've grown!”