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POSTED BY: annik
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ANNIK

Wednesday, May 26, 2004 10:18 PM

Hi Browncoats! I just got a letter from EW (re: the letter writing campaign on another thread).

**Entertainment Weekly is considering your letter for publication on our Mail page. We are writing to ask for your permission to do so, and we also want to confirm the following:
(and they do so: name, email, etc.)

Just for your enjoyment and edification, I'm reposting my letter below.

**Dear EW:

**Unlike many of my fellow Firefly fans, I'm delighted Fox and Mr. Whedon have
parted company. Firefly on Fox meant Firefly scattered over the television
schedule like a mosquito on a windshield, plus commercials. Thanks to fan
demand, we have a very shiny series of commercial-free DVDs and an upcoming
feature film that will kick the go-se out of Fox's pathetic attempts to kill
this fine creation.

**Respectfully,

I don't know if this publication comes up unaltered into Canada ... so can someone keep an eye on it and let me know if actually does get published? TIA!

Cheers,
Annik
... my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.

SHINY

Wednesday, May 26, 2004 11:05 PM

HOORAY FOR ANNIK!!!!!!!!!!!

(I guess all of our other letters were too long...)

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MALICIOUS

Thursday, May 27, 2004 12:01 AM

Do they even know what "go-se" means??

Mal-licious

GUNHAND

Thursday, May 27, 2004 12:19 AM

I doubt they know what it means, which makes it even more hi-lerious they're gonna print it.

~-~-~-~-~-~-~-
"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

KARENKAY99

Thursday, May 27, 2004 12:36 AM

shiney!! we get ew. i'll watch for it.

"They say the snow on the roof is too heavy. They say the ceiling will cave in. His brains are in terrible danger."

ANNIK

Thursday, May 27, 2004 4:40 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Gunhand:
I doubt they know what it means, which makes it even more hi-lerious they're gonna print it.

Heh heh heh ... that's exactly what I was counting on. Joss ain't the only one who can get around the censors with foreign-talk.

Sadly, I didn't even try to use 'sanguine', which, while English, is a relatively obscure word with ancient roots ... and ... oh, darn it! Sorry ... got my college teacher hat on by mistake.

Cheers,
Annik
... my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.

ANNIK

Thursday, May 27, 2004 4:43 AM

One more thing, for those of you who don't live in mosquito-infested places (some of you don't, right???)

My own 'in joke' was comparing Fox's scheduling to a mosquito on a windshield.

The old joke goes:
Q: What's the last thing that goes through a mosquito's mind when it hits the windshield?
A: It's @$$hole.

(Pardonnez mon Anglais, please!)

Cheers,
Annik
... my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.

GUNHAND

Thursday, May 27, 2004 4:45 AM

Actually I've known all about "sanguine" for a long while now. It's in a line in a Megadeth song and I made sure I looked it up to know all the possible meanings for it. This was in High School which was...damn it was a long time ago.

I always "slip past the censors" in conversations where I want to really say what I'm truly thinking and yet not be ejected from the room. I'm particuliarly fond of using Farsi for this since no one ever has a clue what I'm babbling about.

~-~-~-~-~-~-~-
"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

GUNHAND

Thursday, May 27, 2004 4:47 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by annik:
One more thing, for those of you who don't live in mosquito-infested places (some of you don't, right???)

My own 'in joke' was comparing Fox's scheduling to a mosquito on a windshield.

The old joke goes:
Q: What's the last thing that goes through a mosquito's mind when it hits the windshield?
A: It's @$$hole.

(Pardonnez mon Anglais, please!)

Cheers,
Annik
... my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.

Eeek, don't bring up mosquitos! Mosquitos were the root cause for me being gone for most of the week in a very odd (and long story-ish) way.

But that's a funny joke anyhow.

~-~-~-~-~-~-~-
"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

Thursday, May 27, 2004 3:04 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Gunhand:
Actually I've known all about "sanguine" for a long while now. It's in a line in a Megadeth song and I made sure I looked it up to know all the possible meanings for it. This was in High School which was...damn it was a long time ago.

I always "slip past the censors" in conversations where I want to really say what I'm truly thinking and yet not be ejected from the room. I'm particuliarly fond of using Farsi for this since no one ever has a clue what I'm babbling about.

Heh heh ... I usually accomplish the same by sticking with English. My favourite local letter-to-the-editor that got published was about this enormous statue of a baseball bat some doofus put up near our community ... and absolutely *nowhere* near the baseball field (of any sort ... pro or kids). We (community members) thought it was pretty stupid.

The letter went thusly:

**What were the powers-that-be thinking when they erected that shiny new monolith on the corner of my neighbourhood at 97 street and 118 ave? Oh well, I guess now we can ask, "Is that a baseball bat in your pocket, or are you just happy to see us?"

Other backstory: our neighbourhood is considered 'inner city'. I'd be willing to bet that IRL, Nathan Fillion first heard about prostitues and whores from the reputation of our community (his family lives in a bedroom community next to our city ... or so I've read ... never met any of them!). So ... many of us found it highly ironic that a giant phallic symbol would be 'errected'

on the corner of this region. LOL!

Cheers,
Annik
... my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.

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