A Firefly Moment

POSTED BY: Channain
UPDATED: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 21:02
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MALICIOUS

Saturday, May 1, 2004 1:46 AM

At work today, someone from another area was visiting the woman who sits next to me. In her hand was a spherical object. It appeared to be a styrofoam ball with fake flowers glued to it. It was hanging from a string and may have been a decoration for a wedding or some such. Anyhoo, when I glanced at it, I thought, "Her food is definitely problematic."

Mal-licious

GUNHAND

Saturday, May 1, 2004 2:53 AM

Okay this one is so bizare that if I wasn't there I wouldn't believe it was true, but I was there and it's all true...

I'm currently at "home" as in where I grew up, to help my mom out with some house repairs. So today she says to me,"Want to go for lunch?" I thought for all of 2.2 seconds, free food usually gets a faster response time but I also decided that since the weather here was for once fairly decent (weather being why I went literally about as far from here as is possible and still be in the contiguous 48) I wanted to drive my own Jeep with the top down, something I managed to do here all of maybe 10 times in the 5 years I had it up here. Even though I thought it was a mite chilly, but she agreed thinking we were having a heat wave. So I go and pull the top, doors, everything off and we set out to go into town.

Yeah that's a long setup, but trust me it's worth it...

Anyhow, we stop to pick up a couple of her friends that wanted to see me, appearently they still think I'm 5 and wanted to pinch my cheeks and have lunch with me since I'm a world famous...okay small town boy made good and GOT THE HECK OUT famous. So off we go to town to get some lunch, me and the ladies.

I get to town and get on the road that leads to the strip where all the fancy dining establishments are, hit a red light. Well it's 3 lanes there, one coming the other way, a turning lane and a straight through lane. I'm minding my own business, inflicting sonic doom on the poor ladies (well not really but I don't think any of them ever heard Pantera before...) and all of a sudden this car decides he's going from the right hand turning lane into my lane...right in front of me. Now. While we're stopped. Now this sort of thing doesn't phase me much, I'm used to big city driving and all but the guy didn't signal, didn't motion he wanted in, didn't even LOOK and the next thing I know I'm slamming into reverse to avoid having a Ford Galxy 500 convertable circa 1970 on my bumper like a trussed deer.

Now I'm not the most subtle of men on my best days. Nor the kindest, gentlest or most restrained at experessing my displeasure. So before I knew it the stereo's off, I'm literally standing up holding the roll bar to make sure he can see me and out of my mouth comes...

"Huh choo-shang tza-jiao duh tzang-huo!" now if you know your Firefly Mandarin, well that's pretty nasty stuff.

Shocked silence from the back seat, guy finally looks in his rearview, my mom is laughing her off because she's watched Firefly...

The guy's eyes locked with mine, I could see his bald pate glowing in embarasment, so I add a final shot...

"Dong ma?!"

More laughing from my mom in the passenger seat...and hysterical laughing from the car that's now parked next to me as soon as the "Dong" came out of my mouth, by the time I finished "Ma?" I was looking at the car next to me. This car being a Chinese restaurant delivery car with two very attractive young ladies in it literally laughing so hard they were crying and nodding. Guessed they "Dong ma'd."

I sorta stood there for an extra second. Sat back down. Looked over and tipped my hat to them and then the light changed. They waved and gave me a thumbs up as we went on our merry ways...

I think tommorow I'm gonna go for some Chinese.

So there's my big Firefly Moment of the day...hell I doubt I'll top that one, like, ever.

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"Oh hey, I got an idea. Instead of us hanging
around playing art critic till I get pinched by
the Man, how's about we move away from this
eerie-ass piece of work and get on with our
increasingly eerie-ass day, how's that?"

My eerie-ass website:
http://gunhandsfirefly.homestead.com/Index.html

ANNIK

Saturday, May 1, 2004 2:59 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by BlazingBug:
I went to see Kevin Smith speak day before yesterday, which he does as all Q&A.

I don't even recall which person asking which question it was, but at one point Kevin asks them a question back like, "Well, have you...?"

And the guy replies, "Not so much."

My brain just automatically derailed to Firefly.

"Wacky fun..."

I teach at a technical college and had a student say the same thing in response to something I'd said to my class. It threw me off so badly that I just stood there, silently smiling at the memories for a moment.

Then I shook my head and said, "Ah, the joys of chemo brain!" (my catch-all excuse for these moments), and got some genuine laughs at my own expense.

Well worth it.

Cheers,
Annik

HOWDYROCKERBABY1

Sunday, May 2, 2004 2:18 AM

my latest moment happened like 4 seconds ago. I went to www.bolt.com and the question of the day was: "Democrat or Republican? Or do you see yourself as an independent?

it made me giggle

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Here's to Jayne, the box dropping man-ape-gone-wrong-thing"
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

MALICIOUS

Sunday, May 2, 2004 2:40 AM

I am registered as an independent!! I am a TRUE BROWNCOAT! Take that Democrat/Republican Alliance!

Mal-licious

ANNIK

Sunday, May 2, 2004 3:20 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Malicious:
I am registered as an independent!! I am a TRUE BROWNCOAT! Take that Democrat/Republican Alliance!

Mal-licious

LOL! All the more funny since IRL, Fillion is *Canadian*.

:-)

Cheers,
Annik

GUNHAND

Sunday, May 2, 2004 4:43 AM

Last night I had a serious bout of insomnia, so I needed to watch something and at the ungodly hour I was needing to watch TV all that was on was infomercials.

So I decided to watch a DVD, "Basic" to be precise because I'd seen it so many times so I wouldn't have the urge to have to stay up to see how it ends.

For the hell of it I put on the director's commentary, he's explaining the opening shot of the Canal and saying,"The mix of music with this little southern girl voice is there to clue the audience in that we're trying to play sly with this film."

That had me laughing for a good 10 minutes, and certainly put an odd spin on the rest of the movie...

~-~-~-~-~-~-~-
"Oh hey, I got an idea. Instead of us hanging
around playing art critic till I get pinched by
the Man, how's about we move away from this
eerie-ass piece of work and get on with our
increasingly eerie-ass day, how's that?"

My eerie-ass website:
http://gunhandsfirefly.homestead.com/Index.html

GUNRUNNER

Sunday, May 2, 2004 5:19 AM

I guess this could be considered a Firefly moment, my Virtual Sailor buddies and me are writhing the script for “VS: The Movie” (not a real movie) and I’ve tried to include as many Firefly references and Chinese cussing as possible.

Here is the vs forum thread (More Firefly references)
http://forums.simflight.com/viewtopic.php?t=22525&sid=670e668b9ecd66ac
8015663309bb4290

Here is the final cut (Not so much)
http://www.freewebs.com/vsthemovie/

The Firefly CCG Web Site:
http://mywebpage.netscape.com/Bllm119/firefly_ccg_web_site.htm
>Help out today!

MILORADELL

Wednesday, May 12, 2004 8:30 PM

Posting this for my husband:

Quote:
So walking by our new neighbor on our floor (at work), and I notice outside the door is a big wooden box, roughly the size of a coffin, and the first thing that popped into my head was, “Why’d you guys go and order a dead guy?” It made me smile. Just thought I would share my shiny moment.

****
"I have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat." - Rebecca West, 1913

HEB

Wednesday, May 12, 2004 9:02 PM

Was reading the latest issue of New Scientist magazine in a very quiet library yesterday. My shouts of 'ooh ooh I know what that means' did not go down well when it started talking about the amygdala. Luckily my only other browncoat friend was there so I could share my pride at actually knowing something.

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