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over the hill gang???

POSTED BY: MPHILLIPS
UPDATED: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 07:11
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Saturday, February 11, 2006 4:11 PM

ARCLIGHT


When I first read GELASSENHEIT's idea of "Greycoats" I thought that it was a great idea. Am reconsidering. I think such a title could become devisive. Could put a wedge of sorts between us and the base. I am a Browncoat. I will always be a Browncoat. And as a Browncoat I hold. I hold until Joss tells me to stack arms. The fact that I am 48 years old does not change the color of my coat, just the color of my hair. Our age changes but the color of our coats does not. We are all Browncoats.
All that being typed I do think we, on the down slope, should establish and distinguish ourselves somehow with a name of our own and a badge to acknowledge it. But I do not think Greycoats is it.
With such we, the over the hill people, can welcome the newly aged members into what will be our ever increaseing numbers.
So "Greycoats" I vote no.

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Saturday, February 11, 2006 5:01 PM

LVS2READ


Add me to the list! 46 in May!

So, mphillips, you gonna design that patch I been readin' 'bout? *g*


"I love my captain."

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Saturday, February 11, 2006 10:13 PM

RIVER6213


The word for today is "impale"

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Sunday, February 12, 2006 4:22 AM

BOOKADDICT


It's nice to know we've got a club out there...I turned 44 in January. And am still as weird as I ever was.

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Sunday, February 12, 2006 5:40 AM

MPHILLIPS


Quote:

Originally posted by RiveR6213:
The word for today is "impale"



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Sunday, February 12, 2006 6:46 AM

OLDFOGEY


Quote:

Originally posted by mphillips:
Quote:

Originally posted by RiveR6213:
The word for today is "impale"



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RiveR6213 is having some sort of personal crisis
today. See thread "Oh God, I Want to Destroy Everyone."
Cyber-sympathy may or may not help. Meantime
she's apparently posting random unhappiness all
around.


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Sunday, February 12, 2006 6:50 AM

OLDFOGEY


Quote:

Originally posted by arclight:
The fact that I am 48 years old does not change the color of my coat, just the color of my hair. Our age changes but the color of our coats does not. We are all Browncoats....
So "Greycoats" I vote no.



O-kaayyy, back on topic.
Yeah I see your point too. Instead of Greycoat
Division maybe Silverback Squad? Is silverback ok?
On hair color --leaving that one alone.

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Sunday, February 12, 2006 7:41 AM

JAYTEE


Ok, how about the Silver Brigade?

Jaytee

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Sunday, February 12, 2006 11:10 AM

AKUKODOGO


Only bits of my hair are that lovely silver blonde, but it is good to see the numbers of mature veterans be acknowledged.
To River - I hope today is a better day, just hold there, we are all tooooo pretty to die, go out there and aim to misbehave.

Noble as a grape

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Sunday, February 12, 2006 11:27 AM

CAPERCAILLIE


signing in at 47....how did that happen?

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Sunday, February 12, 2006 6:01 PM

RESE


Wait for me! You know how long it usually takes us womenfolk to "put on our face", well at the advanced age of 53 (in July) it takes me a wee bit longer, provided I can remember where I put it! Gee, guess that makes me the matriarch of this happy, little ship (at least for now). So, please don't leave without me! I have new stories to share! My Browncoat is not old, it's just broken in and comfy -- doesn't squeak anymore. Well, at least the coat doesn't squeak anymore . . .

I'm hopelessly devoted to all things Firefly and Serenity. I shop! I buy all things devoted to same. Buffy, Angel, too. I'm helping the Whedon's put their kids through college!

My husband asked, "Are you ever going to stop crying when you watch this movie?" Guess I never will. As I said, I'm hopelessly devoted! Let's just hope that he never finds out about being in Jayne's bunk -- I can still dream, can't I?

Thank you, mphillips, for starting this thread. I'd be lurking forever if not for you. Consider yourself hugged! (Now, if someone could just show the old lady how to use these cute little emoticons . . . )

"old enough to BE in Jayne's bunk"

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Sunday, February 12, 2006 6:28 PM

FOLLOWMAL




Hey, Rese, we're so glad you quit lurking and joined us.

Glad you already have a 'coat.

You can either type in the : + the word between or copy and paste it in the post where you want it to use the emoticons. I copy and paste, it's easier.

You can also get a cool pic by your name, say of Jayne by going up to the top to the place where it says MyFirefly and going to edit profile and adding an icon from the bottom right.

I'm a Mal gal myself, but I got a certain appreciation for Jayne.



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

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Sunday, February 12, 2006 6:45 PM

WYOBAR


Quote:

Originally posted by mphillips:
maybe we can get a badge or something denoting our advanced status...

mphillips

checking in at 51years old and i would love if you would design a patch-love your work

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Sunday, February 12, 2006 6:52 PM

ANNMTM


I'll be 53 in May. First time posting here, BTW. Hello, all!

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Monday, February 13, 2006 9:07 AM

FOLLOWMAL


Hey, AnnMTM, welcome to the 'verse.

*hands out a shiny Browncoat to AnnMTM*

You're gonna love it here and we are very glad to have you.
Make yourself to home and there will be lots of conversations and food ( well, protein in every color of the rainbow) along.



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

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Monday, February 13, 2006 9:19 AM

TAYEATRA


Ok... so I don't qualify to join your club but I'm just going to throw in a name suggestion?
How about grey patched browncoats or something similar.

Dark Angel, Firefly, Buffy, Angel, Enterprise, Farscape... anything else you'd like to cancel?

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Monday, February 13, 2006 11:56 AM

HERA


Reporting for duty. Here and 43. Nice to know there are others amongst the Browncoats of like persuasion.

1962 was a nice year to be born, as I remember it.

"Wanna?" – Mal to Kaylee, Out of Gas

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Monday, February 13, 2006 12:08 PM

HERA


Quote:

Originally posted by flywithmecaptn:
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.



Here's a shout at you flywithmecaptn. I was born in '62, and Guns of Navarone was a favorite of my brother and I. Ah, the days before VHS and DVD, when you could only see movies like that after the ten o'clock news. Yet once, I must confess, I saw it on the big screen during the summer movie series at the Paramount here in Austin. So cool to see it as it were meant to be -- in all it's Cinemascoped glory.

"Wanna?" – Mal to Kaylee, Out of Gas

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Monday, February 13, 2006 12:23 PM

GRIZWALD


1962... Just a coupla months younger than Adam Baldwin. :)

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Monday, February 13, 2006 12:25 PM

GRIZWALD


Quote:

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!


The Grizzled Veterans. That's us.

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Monday, February 13, 2006 12:30 PM

HERA


Quote:

Originally posted by grizwald:
1962... Just a coupla months younger than Adam Baldwin. :)



I was aware he was close to my age, but that's pretty darn close. My brother met Adam while he was working on "The Patriot". Said he was a really nice guy.

"Wanna?" – Mal to Kaylee, Out of Gas

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Monday, February 13, 2006 12:30 PM

OLDFOGEY


Quote:

Originally posted by grizwald:
Quote:


The Grizzled Veterans. That's us.



...grizzled? Colorful and appropriate for, um,
grizzled-type people. But, uh... grizzled?

Veterans sounds ok tho. Anyone lives to be 50 is
a veteran of somethin.



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Monday, February 13, 2006 12:31 PM

FLYWITHMECAPTN


Quote:

Originally posted by Hera:
Quote:

Originally posted by flywithmecaptn:
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.



Here's a shout at you flywithmecaptn. I was born in '62, and Guns of Navarone was a favorite of my brother and I. Ah, the days before VHS and DVD, when you could only see movies like that after the ten o'clock news. Yet once, I must confess, I saw it on the big screen during the summer movie series at the Paramount here in Austin. So cool to see it as it were meant to be -- in all it's Cinemascoped glory.





Ah, I remember too before DVD's and VHS.
I remember my first 8 tracks were Rush and Aerosmith. Now listening to Rush on CD, I still wait for the beak in the song, where it switched from track to tack.



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

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Monday, February 13, 2006 12:36 PM

CHANNAIN

i DO aim to misbehave


Quote:

Originally posted by Veteran:
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

40 isn't as old as it used to be, that's for sure and for certain.

I'm 38 with the spine of an 80 year old - does that mean I can get grandfathered in or something?

Veteran
You had a bunch of categories once for those of us who have been here since before, during and just after cancellation. I know "veteran" falls in there, as the ones who were there before cancellation, but I forget the rest.

See? See? That sould get me my very own Over the Hill cap right there! I'm thinking Jayne-style, only maybe black and white instead of orange and pink *bleh*

I draw...therefore I am. http://www.mnartists.org/Nora_Leverson
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Monday, February 13, 2006 12:37 PM

GRIZWALD


My eldest child calls LPs "those really big CDs".

*sigh*

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Monday, February 13, 2006 12:39 PM

GRIZWALD


Quote:

...grizzled? Colorful and appropriate for, um,
grizzled-type people. But, uh... grizzled?



OK, so I am speaking for myself. If it weren't for Nice 'n' Easy, I'd be grizzled.

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Monday, February 13, 2006 12:39 PM

EMBERS


Quote:

Originally posted by ecgordon:
As for me, born 1950.



also confessing to 1950...
in fact my birthday was LAST Monday

and Chrisisall: It IS the mileage...
way WAY too much mileage (LOL)

I am proud to be a Browncoat and a Whedonphile

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Monday, February 13, 2006 1:06 PM

ANNMTM


FollowMal--Thanks for the welcome and the coat. I'll wear it proudly.

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Monday, February 13, 2006 1:17 PM

MPHILLIPS


Or how about waiting for the radio to fade out when going under a bridge??

mphillips Browncoat grey division

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Monday, February 13, 2006 1:19 PM

MPHILLIPS


that was directed at flywithmecaptain

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Tuesday, February 14, 2006 1:28 AM

RESE


Had a chuckle at your last post, mphillips.

What goes around, comes around . . . .

Now my XM Satellite radio cuts out while going under bridges!

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Tuesday, February 14, 2006 7:55 AM

ARCLIGHT


Lots of old farts "delurked" because of this thread. Great job MPHILLIPS.

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Wednesday, February 15, 2006 5:55 PM

VETERAN

Don't squat with your spurs on.


Hey Channain!

Haven't seen you around these parts in a long while. I've been a member of this board since Februay '03. I think you were here first. I lurked for a few weeks and joined the board just after the cancellation. It was very theraputeic, kind of like joining the team at the bar after losing a playoff game.

I remember a few names: Succatash, Sarahecht, Drakon, Archer, Johnny Reb, Ginobiffarino. Used to have a lot of discussions about Western's and the Civil War back then.

It's kind of fun to see new people still coming to the board and starting up "new threads" that we ran through two or three years ago.


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Wednesday, February 15, 2006 6:51 PM

NOSADSEVEN


I'm not qualified to join your gang yet either, but come with a name suggestion...

How about the 57th Over-the-Hillers, AKA the Balds and Grey-haired Vets Brigade?

~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ain't. We. Just.

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Wednesday, February 15, 2006 9:38 PM

OLDFOGEY


Quote:

Originally posted by nosadseven:

How about the 57th Over-the-Hillers, AKA the Balds and Grey-haired Vets Brigade?




Not bald. Not gray anymore.
I'd have been too old for active duty 500 years from
now so it's not likely I could ever be in the 57th.
Maybe something with fewer syllables? There's times
I can't say that many in the right order.





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Thursday, February 16, 2006 8:03 AM

FLYWITHMECAPTN


Quote:

Originally posted by mphillips:
that was directed at flywithmecaptain



Or, or, when your left speaker is shot and your listening to Black Water by the Doobie Brothers and all you hear is; Hand.....Hand...Hand......Moma.....with you all night long

Drove me crazy.......

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

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Thursday, February 16, 2006 8:08 AM

FLYWITHMECAPTN


I like Master Browncoats....?

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

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Friday, February 17, 2006 1:48 AM

FILLYGIRL

Operative: "Its worse than you know..." Mal: "It usually is."


Just thought I'd check in, born in 1951....makes me MUCH older than I feel, I also was afraid I was too old to be doing "this sort of thing"...very glad to know there are lots of us

...it's worst than you know...Operative
...it usually is.....Mal

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Saturday, February 18, 2006 9:06 AM

MPHILLIPS


Hah..there is more of us than I first thought..Strength in numbers...

m(figuring out a patch)phillips

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Saturday, February 18, 2006 11:31 AM

FOLLOWMAL


Quote:

Originally posted by flywithmecaptn:
Quote:

Originally posted by mphillips:
that was directed at flywithmecaptain



Or, or, when your left speaker is shot and your listening to Black Water by the Doobie Brothers and all you hear is; Hand.....Hand...Hand......Moma.....with you all night long

Drove me crazy.......

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



I laughed so hard at this, FlyWithMeCaptn that I about fell out of my chair! My daughter came running to see if I was ok. Thanks for that!

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

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Saturday, February 18, 2006 11:32 AM

FOLLOWMAL



M,
I really wanna patch. That'd be grand!

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

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Saturday, February 18, 2006 11:33 AM

SHEPHERDDAVID


Good to know we aren't all missing out on such a terrific show. I have my birthday on 2/28 and will be 56. I think Shepherd is doing just fine as a role model of what a veteran of life can do.

ShepherdDavid

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Sunday, February 19, 2006 9:02 PM

FLORALBUNNY


Silver Fox Division?
...just a thought...
...since I am one...
...kinda...
(hands out strawberries to the newly Coated)

bun
-- bastards singed my turtle --
----- why's the rum gone? -----

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Monday, February 20, 2006 4:01 AM

FLYWITHMECAPTN


Quote:

I laughed so hard at this, FlyWithMeCaptn that I about fell out of my chair! My daughter came running to see if I was ok. Thanks for that!



You're welcome!! Bet if felt good too.


I'm with FollowMal, I really want a patch too!!!!




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

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Monday, February 20, 2006 8:38 AM

SHINEYSHINDIG


Over the hill?
Who's over the hill??
Not sayin' I am.. well, okay.. maybe.


Let's be bad guys

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Monday, February 20, 2006 9:51 AM

FLYWITHMECAPTN


Quote:

Originally posted by shineyshindig:
Over the hill?
Who's over the hill??
Not sayin' I am.. well, okay.. maybe.



Aww, come on.....Spill it......

we did....don't you want a patch too?


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

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Monday, February 20, 2006 10:13 AM

SHINEYSHINDIG


okay, only because I'd really like that patch..
the secret number is four zero..

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Monday, February 20, 2006 10:27 AM

SHO


I'll break 40 in August, so not quite there, yet. But, I'm also glad to know that I'm not the only one here out of my twenties. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but now I know we have the full range of the demographic!

I've been fan of a few things over the years, or I thought I was. But, now I know it was just a shadow of what fanaticism can be. In a good way, of course. We have to get this show back into production!

"We've done the impossible. That makes us mighty"

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Monday, February 20, 2006 10:28 AM

PENGUIN


I'm another 1958 Browncoat!


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Monday, February 20, 2006 10:50 AM

FLYWITHMECAPTN


Quote:

Originally posted by shineyshindig:
okay, only because I'd really like that patch..
the secret number is four zero..



Aw, see......that wasn't so bad.


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

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