over the hill gang??? by mphillips

I'm a member, not gonna say EXACTLY how old I am, bein' a lady and all, but I'm there with you, mphillips.

" You hold. Hold til I get back." Mal

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Wednesday, February 8, 2006 2:40 PM

BITTERBIERCE

Oh thank God. I thought I was one among a bunch of children. You are not alone, I think at least a group of us are in our thirties or above. I've never been a "fan" of anything in my life 'till Firefly. Not because I never looked -I did like a good little nerd- but because all the dream/fantasies like LOTR and the like never lived up to their billing. The promises never panned out.

Acquaintance; n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to-
Ambrose Bierce

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Wednesday, February 8, 2006 2:46 PM

VETERAN

Don't squat with your spurs on.

George Allen, Sonny Jurgenson.. Bill Kilmer.. Where?

.....Oh you just me old people ...well middle aged... well not so much old and not young people ...like me. (43)

BTW I think Gina and Adam are 40ish

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Wednesday, February 8, 2006 3:27 PM

BITTERBIERCE

Jayne's 44! Or at least according to his INDB profile.

"Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another" -HL Mencken

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Wednesday, February 8, 2006 3:43 PM

SAVEWASH

Now I am learning about scary.

Me, too. Hate to admit it, try to act like I'm about 30, but I am a bit over 40. I've been a rabid fan of many things in my life, but I think that since I'm now at an age where I really understand life (ha, ha, I wish), this time it's for real. I mean, it's not because I'm young and stupid anymore, it's because I'm old and have good taste. Right?

Right?

"Now I'm learning about scary." - Wash

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Wednesday, February 8, 2006 4:16 PM

DAMROD

Another one here. Not by much. Only as old as you feel!!!!!

Have a better one!!!

Always bring grenades!!!

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Wednesday, February 8, 2006 4:38 PM

DARKJESTER

Add another to the older-ones list. I was about a week old when President Kennedy was riding past the School Book Repository.

MAL "You only gotta scare him."
JAYNE "Pain is scary..."

http://www.fireflytalk.com - Big Damn Podcast

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Wednesday, February 8, 2006 4:59 PM

So far I think I'm the oldest 1956

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Wednesday, February 8, 2006 5:03 PM

Only by a smidge Hixie... 1957, since we're bein' all truthsome and such.

" You hold. Hold til I get back." Mal

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Wednesday, February 8, 2006 5:12 PM

ASARIAN

"Year" is a vestigial mode of time measurement based on solar cycles. It's not applicable. But still, I'm happy to know I cycled that shiny Object in Space at least as many times as a few other folks here. :)

--
"Mei-mei, everything I have is right here." -- Simon Tam

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Wednesday, February 8, 2006 5:17 PM

Well, it is good to see that not everyone on this site is in their twenties. I don't feel as bad.

MAL --- "I need that in Captain Dummy talk, Kaylee"

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Wednesday, February 8, 2006 5:20 PM

NCBROWNCOAT

A week from Friday I turn 46. Can a woman admit to that age?

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Wednesday, February 8, 2006 5:21 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

Quote:
BITTERBIERCE

Acquaintance; n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to-
Ambrose Bierce

LOVE it! I'm yet another over-40 Whedon fan. 43 last August.

Glad to see at least a few people other than me have heard of Ambrose Bierce and H.L. Mencken.

Mike

Saint: n. A dead sinner, revised and edited.
-Ambrose Bierce, A Devil's Dictionary

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Wednesday, February 8, 2006 5:28 PM

Yup! You can.

I happen to like being in my 40's. A little bit of knowledge has kicked in, I don't make so many mistakes....I discovered Firefly/Serenity.... yup, the best decade so far!

" You hold. Hold til I get back." Mal

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Wednesday, February 8, 2006 5:49 PM

DC4BS

I'll be there in a bit over 2 more years...

On my 1st birthday, Neil Armstrong took his "One small step."

Gota love it! What a present.

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dc4bs

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Wednesday, February 8, 2006 6:04 PM

NCBROWNCOAT

I just want to wish you a happy birthday now in case I forget next week (Alzheimer)

If everybody's thinking alike, somebody isn't thinking. --- General George S. Patton

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Wednesday, February 8, 2006 6:21 PM

KAREL

Flying on duct tape and a damaged registry.

Forty-four this month.

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Wednesday, February 8, 2006 6:40 PM

CLIOMUSE

You know what they say in Hollywood, 40 is the new 30. (Too bad I can't afford the plastic surgery!) 40 and proud of it.

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Wednesday, February 8, 2006 6:43 PM

MPHILLIPS

Now I don't feel so bad.. Nice to know Serenity/Firefly crosses generational boundries..cool

mphillips

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Wednesday, February 8, 2006 6:44 PM

MPHILLIPS

oh, and born in 1958

mphillips

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Wednesday, February 8, 2006 7:21 PM

STILLTHEREWAITING

Don't feel/think any different from when I was 18. Look a might different, however. I'm booking into the >50 crowd.

Laugh while you can, monkey-boy.

If I were you, I'd run!
If you were me, you'd be good-looking

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Wednesday, February 8, 2006 10:01 PM

RUXTON

Hey, all you youngsters, I'm in my seventh decade and have been a fan of Whedon and everything he's done since the very first episode of Buffy.

So there.

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Thursday, February 9, 2006 12:18 AM

THEREALME

Uh, that would be 1960 for me. I like nice round numbers.

Say, while one is in the process of becoming "over the hill", at least we get a nice view from the top!

TheRealMe, First Officer of the Sereni-Tree

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Thursday, February 9, 2006 2:49 AM

ECGORDON

There's no place I can be since I found Serenity.

Quote:
Originally posted by mphillips:
oh, and born in 1958

mphillips

My younger brother was born that year. As for me, born 1950.

wo men ren ran zai fei xing.

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Thursday, February 9, 2006 4:06 AM

Wow, thats really great!!!!

This confirms that I am not nuts-- and if I am, at least I have really good company.

MAL --- "I need that in Captain Dummy talk, Kaylee

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Thursday, February 9, 2006 4:16 AM

JAYTEE

I'm gonna try and yank the title here of the oldest Browncoat but I'm sure someone will challenge me for it. I was born in May of 1954. Doing that math that makes me almost 52. In the words of Sgt Hulka, "Any of you wanna come up here and knock me off?"

Jaytee

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Thursday, February 9, 2006 5:15 AM

ECGORDON, in the post above was born in 1950

But its great that there are alot of us older fans that come here.

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Thursday, February 9, 2006 5:50 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by SAVEWASH:
...it's not because I'm young and stupid anymore,
it's because I'm old and have good taste. Right?

Of course! Well said. At least half right, too.
Should we have a name here or somethin?
Phools Over Phorty? POPS?
Not to say that many of us aren't MOMS. Hm...
Mentals Over Menopause?

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Thursday, February 9, 2006 5:56 AM

SPINLAND

I'll be 45 next week. Glad to be among grown-ups!

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"That's what governments are for, [to] get in a man's way." -- Malcolm Reynolds

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Thursday, February 9, 2006 6:52 AM

JAYTEE

Ruxton posted above said they were in their seventh decade which means they are in their seventies. I should have read all of the thread before posting. Obviously there are several people older than I am in here which makes me feel real good.

Jaytee

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Thursday, February 9, 2006 6:59 AM

ARCLIGHT

48 and still flyin'. Know some other over 40's and 1 50+, but they aren't on the boards (does that mean they aren't Browncoats?)
BTW Jaytee, (aka Sgt. Hulka), Ruxton at 70+ knocked you off with a feather.

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Thursday, February 9, 2006 7:02 AM

RAVENHAIR

i'm two years short of 40 (can i still post here)and proud to be hitting the next decade in stride!

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Thursday, February 9, 2006 7:33 AM

FLYWITHMECAPTN

This is excellent! I thought there was something wrong with me. I'm soooooo hooked on FF and this whole 'verse thing, I thought I was abnormal. To be honest, I thought I was gonna be the oldest.

OK, OK, I'm getting to my age. Born 1961. Same year the movies Breakfast at Tiffany's and The Guns of Navarone were released.

Anyway, it's like Bill Crystal says, "It's not how you feel Darling." "It's how you look." "And I must say Darling, you look marvelous!" "All of you."

Oh, and Karel, Happy B-Day this month.

"Don't forget to call him "Sir." He likes that."

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Thursday, February 9, 2006 7:59 AM

I'm fifty. But people tell me I look like I'm 40.
Someone here said 40 is the new 30, so... I'm kind
of like 30.
I'm having a lot of trouble admitting this.

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Thursday, February 9, 2006 8:20 AM

MPHILLIPS

maybe we can get a badge or something denoting our advanced status...

mphillips

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Thursday, February 9, 2006 8:28 AM

CHRISISALL

Quote:
Originally posted by Spinland:
I'll be 45 next week. Glad to be among grown-ups!

From your posts I'd have sworn you were a kid!! Soundin' all spry and such.
I'll be two years older'n Jayne next week!

But I ain't growed up!

It's not the years it's the milage Chrisisall

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Thursday, February 9, 2006 10:48 AM

RUXTON

JayTee,

You are mistaken. How old are you when you're in your first decade? Eh? What are the possible ages?

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Thursday, February 9, 2006 1:32 PM

JAYTEE

ok, I did the math and now I have a headache. So either your in your sixties or I'm worse at math than I previously suspected. Why not just come right out and say your age or is "vagueness" an admirable trait when you get to that age bracket? :-) I'll admit I like to generalize a bit. When some people ask me how old I am I just reply, "I remember when Eisenhower was President" and alot of the younger folk go, "Who?" and I just say, "Ike, Gen. Eisenhower of WWII or depending on your point of view, the last honest Republican to serve in the Oval Office."

Jaytee

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Thursday, February 9, 2006 2:37 PM

NCBROWNCOAT

Thanks!

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Thursday, February 9, 2006 6:05 PM

BITTERBIERCE

Quote:
Originally posted by SAVEWASH:
Me, too. Hate to admit it, try to act like I'm about 30, but I am a bit over 40. I've been a rabid fan of many things in my life, but I think that since I'm now at an age where I really understand life (ha, ha, I wish), this time it's for real. I mean, it's not because I'm young and stupid anymore, it's because I'm old and have good taste. Right?

Right?

"Now I'm learning about scary." - Wash

In my experience, I have trouble even identifying 32 year old's from 42 year olds, especially with medical technology etching into our faces nowadays. You know, if you're going to lie about your age, make it fun- imply you're 20.

Me personally, I like both sides. Anyone under-35: young whippersnapper doesn't know a GODdamn thing about the universe. Anyone 36 and over: you're too old too even fart dust, quit trying to outthink this younger and nimbler feller. Oddly enough, those two ages go up every year on my birthday (for instance, next year old people will be 37 and over).

I will say one thing completely off topic; I enjoy being around people my age now in social settings.
I like them and value them more than I used to. Because my Gen X age bracket never had any generational loyalty like the Boomers did, we never had that sad loyalty (someone once said "generational loyalty is the most debased form of all loyalty and patriotism"). But it also means when we finally want to be around our own kind, it's nice and fresh. At least it is for me. Growing up, I didn't think I would like my generation as adults. I thought we'd be wrecks. I was wrong, I'm happy to say. We're cleverer than other generations, and not nearly as immoral or sad as I thought we'd be. Nice to see some of my tribe.

Ok, tangent ends now!

"The truth is that neither sex, without some fertilization by the complementary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor. Man, without a saving touch of woman in him, is too doltish, too naive and romantic, too easily deluded and lulled to sleep by his imagination to be anything above a cavalryman, a theologian or a stock-broker. And woman, without some trace of that divine innocence which is masculine, is too harshly the realist for those vast projections of the fancy which lie at the heart of what we call genius. Here, as elsewhere in the universe, the best effects are obtained by a mingling of elements" -HL Mencken

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Friday, February 10, 2006 9:17 AM

MADJACKTHEPIRATE

Quote:
Originally posted by mphillips:
just on the what makes you feel old thread and was wondering how many over 40 fans (like me ) are out there...

mphillips

Raising hell for 57 years.

His brains are in terrible danger.

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Friday, February 10, 2006 5:36 PM

GELASSENHEIT

Quote:
Should we have a name here or somethin?
Phools Over Phorty? POPS?

How about Greycoats?

Almost reaching 40 myself, but not quite there yet.

Gelassenheit means Serenity

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Saturday, February 11, 2006 10:41 AM

ARCLIGHT

Quote:
Originally posted by Gelassenheit:
Quote:
Should we have a name here or somethin?
Phools Over Phorty? POPS?

How about Greycoats?

I was thinking "Silverbacks". But Greycoats may be better.

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Saturday, February 11, 2006 11:21 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Gelassenheit:

How about Greycoats?

I like that. Do you think everyone understand that
we are also still Browncoats?

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Saturday, February 11, 2006 11:25 AM

OldFogey, I think we should be the Greycoat Division in the Browncoat Army. And yea, I want a patch to designate my belonging in it, cuz I'm proud of it!

How's that?

Oh, and yea, as per your post the other day, I DO think we share similar points of view.

" You hold. Hold til I get back." Mal

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Saturday, February 11, 2006 11:46 AM

MICO

Count me in! I'll be 50 this year. I'm looking forward to being a wise old woman. I'm pretty sure I can handle the old part; I'm still working on the wise part.

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Saturday, February 11, 2006 12:35 PM

RUXTON

JayTee said,

"Why not just come right out and say your age -- or is "vagueness" an admirable trait when you get to that age bracket?"

It ain't admirable, it's essential, especially when a) I don't look it, and b) my taste in women runs to those a third my age. Don't want to scare anyone off needlessly. And yes, your math is correct. Doctors commonly refer to folks in a certain age bracket by referring to their "decade." The second decade, i.e., the second ten-year period of life, is from 10 to 20.

BTW, I've seen good evidence that Ike was perhaps not totally honest.

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Saturday, February 11, 2006 1:19 PM