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How did you make your Browncoat name?

POSTED BY: LITWOLF689
UPDATED: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 12:35
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Monday, September 19, 2005 12:12 PM

LITWOLF689


Saw this posted on the Official Movie board and just had to post the same thing here.

Ill start:

I am completely obsessed with wolves. One day, I played a game with my brother on the computer and I wanted my name to be Little Wolf. It was too long so I shortened it to Litwolf. The numbers are my birth day and year.

Many people who know me really well think the 'Lit' stands for 'literary' because I love to read but its just short for Little Wolf.

What about you?

"Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FREAKIN' SHOW! I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damnit." ~Joss

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Monday, September 19, 2005 12:30 PM

NEEDY

The road to Hel is paved with good intentions


Neat post

I'd love to come up with a great explanation for my screenname... but I haven't got one. Put simply, I chose "Needy" because its the name I go by at other forums - and I like to keep things simple for me

Although, the name Needsalt(of which Needy is short for, and which I go by at the official board) stems from the tv show First Wave. It was somewhat of a staple of the show because salt came in handy against the alien foes who just couldn't handle it. Though, to be honest, I chose needsalt because I was trying to prove to myself (after trying so many different usernames whilst registering at Delphi forums and being told all were taken), that I wouldn't be able to be accepted with the most obscure name. Turns out I was wrong

Still, I gotta say, considering my position on my crew's ship is Male Companion, Needy is quite an appropriate nickname



Needy. Male Companion a.k.a. First Boy Whore of Destiny

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Monday, September 19, 2005 12:39 PM

PIFFLE101


I love whenever Willow or Spike says Piffle in Buffy.
But Piffle means nonsense and I just added 101 just in case anyone else had it. But no one did. So it's pretty much nonsense 101..lol Which makes absolutley NO SENSE! Which is pretty much whatever comes out of my mouth.

There ya have it.


"It's okay to leave them to die."
"I'm a leaf on the wind."
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Im required to do this: Serenity is coming. 9/30/05

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Monday, September 19, 2005 12:44 PM

REAVERMADNESS


As kind of a play on bad movie (Reefer Madness) and yet is applicable to the show.

When I die I want to go peacefully in my sleep like my grandpa. Not screaming and yelling like everyone else in the car he was driving.

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Monday, September 19, 2005 12:44 PM

REAVERMADNESS


As kind of a play on bad movie (Reefer Madness) and yet is applicable to the show.

When I die I want to go peacefully in my sleep like my grandpa. Not screaming and yelling like everyone else in the car he was driving.

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Monday, September 19, 2005 12:52 PM

STARPILOTGRAINGER


Star Pilot Grainger is the protagonist of a series of 6 short novels, written in the 70s, by SF Author Brian Stableford. They're sort of space opera/adventure/biological mysteries, for the most part.

He's a pilot of spacecraft who was marooned on an alien world, and while he was there, he was infected by an alien mind symbiote that was also stuck there. When he was rescued, he was saddled with a huge debt by a legal judgement on behalf of the corporation that wasted time and resources rescuing him (they were looking for something else and thought he was that). Grainger was interesting to me because he's cynical, sarcastic, fiercely independent, and messed up in a lot of ways, and yet he's almost a complete pacifist (I bought the first book because it was listed as an example of pacifist characters in science fiction), and the mental symbiote wants to improve and socialize him but he won't have any of it because he's stubborn.

I happened to be rereading a collection of all of them when I signed up here, and was thinking about roughly basing a character in a hypothetical Firefly based RPG on him at the time, so I chose that as my name.

Star Pilot Grainger
"Remember, the enemy's gate is down."
LJ: http://www.livejournal.com/users/newnumber6 (real)
http://www.livejournal.com/users/alternaljournal (fictional, travelling through other worlds)
Unreachable Star: http://www.unreachablestar.net - Comics & SF News/Reviews/Opinions
This week: My spoiler-free Serenity review

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Monday, September 19, 2005 12:58 PM

THECRAZYIVAN


Mines pretty self explanatory...

"Here's something you can't do..."
Good ol Crazy Ivan gettin em outta trouble from those nasty ol reavers

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Take me out to the black.....

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Monday, September 19, 2005 1:01 PM

SHINY


Don't know where mine comes from...

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Serenity is coming. 9/30/05.

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Monday, September 19, 2005 1:28 PM

DROCCULARI


Trying to remember a different user name depending on where I am makes my head spin, so this is one of a small handful of names I go with. In this case, it's the name of a character in a story I sketched out years ago but never wrote. I use other names from that story for low security passwords, so if I ever actually write it, I'm screwed.

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Monday, September 19, 2005 1:33 PM

DRU




I go under different names on different boards. Depends on my mood when I was signing up. On this board, I use DRU. Dru was one of my favorite characters on Buffy the vampire slayer.

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Monday, September 19, 2005 1:34 PM

SLAYER730


Mine's from Buffy, obviously. ("You know, the Slayer? Slayer comma the. Look it up.")

730 is a bit of prophecy that Faith spouts way back in "Graduation Day, pt. II". She says Buffy's "Little Miss Muffet counting down to the 7-3-0". In exactly 2 years from that season 3 finale (730 days), Buffy makes the ultimate sacrifice - killing herself to save the world in the season 5 finale "The Gift".

The series could have ended there...but I guess Joss had another 730 to go! ha ha ha

It's the shortened version of my usual screenname: Sunnydale_slayer730


***Never judge a book by its movie***

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Monday, September 19, 2005 1:42 PM

SPIKEANDJEZEBEL


Mine is the names of my cats, one of whom is named for a Whedonverse character.

"I have never understood why it should be necessary to become irrational in order to prove that you care. Or indeed, why it should be necessary to prove it at all." -Kerr Avon

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Monday, September 19, 2005 1:59 PM

HANITRADER


Funny, prior to coming to this thread I had just added a signature to my profile to shed a little light on the Bcoat name.

HaniTrader... Na shi shen-me yi-si!

It's homage to sci-fi author C.J. Cherryh and her series of books revolving around House Chanur. They are a species of roughly felinoid folk that are nieghbors to other folk/spiecies. These stories follow the exploits of the Chanur clan free-traders. Only the women folk go spaceward and do business while the men folk stay at home (they're too unpredictable, labile, and spoiled). House Chanur breaks that trend by dragging a man-cat with them.

'Nuff said. Good series.

Dave.

All Hail to the Hani Cat Traders of Compact Space!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Monday, September 19, 2005 3:18 PM

AKUKODOGO


I am not too clever with names so I took the easy way out and used the names of my dogs, Aku and Kodogo, they are Black border collie kelpie cross, sisters. Aku Kodogo is a negro dancer that has worked in Australia. Kodogo means 'little one' in swahili. None of this is related to the Joss 'verse in any way, I just took the easy way out.

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Monday, September 19, 2005 3:29 PM

THEGREYJEDI


I'm a Star Wars fan. Grey is a pseudonym of mine, and one of my favorite colors. My personal philosophy is at odds with the Jedi philosophy (a man can draw strength from passion and emotion, so he need not deny it, even to maintain control and center.) but I fight the Good Fight. I am certainly no Sith, but Dark Jedi has been made synonymous with Sith, so can't go about using that. Hence The Grey Jedi. Even though that philosophy actually fights for the White more so than do regular Jedi who abhor absolutes. To much relativism in the Jedi for me.

Boy that was long-winded, weren't it.

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Chief Engineer - USS SereniTREE
http://tomeofgrey.blogspot.com
http://www.cafepress.com/thegreyjedi
Real Fans Wait - 09/30/05

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Monday, September 19, 2005 3:31 PM

CALLMEATH


I had just finished watching "Shindig" when I finally decided to join.

"Ath. Can I call you Ath?"

Some people don't get it, though; some of them call me "Call" in the chat when they first meet me.

"Invader's blood marches through my veins like giant radioactive rubber pants. The pants command me! Do not ignore my veins!"

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Monday, September 19, 2005 3:36 PM

RETRO


I've always loved Retro Games. Donkey Kong, Joust, Rampage, whatever. So my usual SN is Retro Gamer, here shortened to just Retro.

"Just because I choose to wander, it doesn't mean that I am lost..."

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Monday, September 19, 2005 3:58 PM

ECGORDON

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


E. C. Gordon is the main character in one of my favorite books by my favorite writer, Robert A. Heinlein's Glory Road. I use it or a variation of the name on almost every forum I visit across the net.

And yes, I also answer to the names Scar, Oscar, Flash and Easy Gordon.




wo men ren ran zai fei xing.

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Monday, September 19, 2005 5:22 PM

STILLSHINY


It really has to do with attitude. No matter what "crap" life tries to throw at you, you stay "shiny". It's about moving forward with a positive outlook. It's also a nod to the idea of "Still Flying"

"We had ties that could not be broken, except by the passing of time. Like a rock. A broken time rock. And you're very special to me, my broken time rock people." - Nathan Fillion

Stillshiny's Shop - I'm thinkin we rose again
http://www.spreadshirt.com/shop.php?sid=4728

Listen to "The Signal" www.serenityfirefly.com

Serenity is coming. 9/30/05


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Monday, September 19, 2005 6:53 PM

NEEDLESEYE


Mine's about sewing. It's my name on any board. Not really Firefly related.
There thats simple :}

Keeper of Jayne's goggles. 8)


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Monday, September 19, 2005 8:28 PM

EMMA


i was born with mine

extremely dimensionally transcendental

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Monday, September 19, 2005 8:51 PM

OURMRREYNOLDS


I love Saffron but am a guy, so I adapted the title of her first episode. The actual funny part is when people's brains automatically put in the "s" that they "know" should be there. For a confirmed hetro male, I sure deal with a lot of gender confusion on this board. I never changed it because the exchanges with confused people are inevitably high-larious. For me. They just get embarassed most of the time.

Cynicism is the smoke that rises from the ashes of burned out dreams.
"I am planning on growing a big black moustache. I'm a traditionalist."

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Monday, September 19, 2005 10:56 PM

RELFEXIVE


Mis-typed 'reflexive'.

Thought "Rel Fexive - cool Star Wars name!"

Used it as a username ever since.



"My God - you're like a trained ape. Without the training."
"Come a day there won't be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all..."
I know the secret.
http://www.theshadowdepository.co.uk/index.htm

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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 12:24 AM

THESOMNAMBULIST


Mine I chose from the 1929 Expressionist film:

The Cabinet of Dr Caligari although of course most folks think it's from Angel and the episode where he sleeps in alot and has dreams of Darla.

But it isn't.

In the film, The Dr has a Sleepwalker or Somnambulist who he has trained to rise up and wonder about attacking people and killing them... sorta. Anyway I love the film for it's stylised look. It's one of my favourite Silent films.

It's derived from Latin: Somnus - to sleep Ambulat - to walk...

Simple really :)

Cheers
The
Somnambulist

www.cirqus.com

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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 2:14 AM

SERENITYPUNK


ummmm

well

im a punk who love serenity

taa daaaaa

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Carol
Hater of men
you think you know....you have no idea
Am I Bovvered!!!!
My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being, hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint

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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 2:20 AM

UNCHARTEDOUTLAW


Well Uncharted came as an homage to Farscape...the fandom from whence I came. The Outlaw part was just something Western and Firefly-ish. :)

http://norcalriviera.blogspot.com - blog
http://firefly.firehead.org/norcalriviera - videos
http://www.cafepress.com/norcalriviera - store

River: "So we'll integrate non-progressional evolution theory with God's creation of Eden. Eleven inherent metaphoric parallels already there. Eleven. Important number. Prime number. One goes into the house of eleven eleven times, but always comes out one. Noah's ark is a problem."

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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 3:28 AM

ZOOT


This is so embarrassing! Everyone has reasons – Yet I have not a one!!

It could easily have been Blancmange or Turnip or Hirsute (only I'd never spell it right twice) or Codswallop or Herpes (actually yes, I like Herpes, not the actual infection of course, you understand) or Cardsharp or pretty much any word I liked .... I’m capricious like that …


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Okay, I'm lost, I'm angry, and I'm
armed.

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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 3:34 AM

SPINLAND


Spinland Studios is the now-dormant graphic arts studio I founded that, for a couple of lean years, was my primary source of income. I still like the name.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
I don't know what your problem is, but I bet it's hard to pronounce.

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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 4:25 AM

FREMDFIRMA


It means "Contractor".
(has historic connotations of mercenary?)

Which is kinda what I am, instead of selling my soul to a single cab company, I paid for all my licenses and permits out of my own pocket, and have the little stick-on magnetic plates for the city permits.

I can drive any cab, for any company, anywhere in this state, any time I want, so long as they agree to the terms of the days contract and have a free cab available.

These days tho, thinkin about retiring because the price of fuel has driven the profit right out of what I do... I kid you not, some fast food employees now make more take-home pay than I do.

Gee, thanks for supporting independant businessmen (with a 46% tax rate!) unca sam!

*cusscussfussmuttergrumble*

-Frem

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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 4:25 AM

BUBBLEOFEARTH


A quote from Flora Thompson's Lark Rise at the beginning of John Crowley's book Little, Big (which is amazing).

---A little later, remembering man's earthly origin, "dust thou art, and to dust thou shalt return," they liked to fancy themselves bubbles of earth. When alone in the fields with no one to see them, they would hop, skip, and jump, touching the ground as lightly as possible and crying, "We are bubbles of earth! Bubbles of earth! Bubbles of earth!"---

It makes me well up all hopeful and sad at the same time, and nobody ever seems to have it on other boards. (Once someone saw it & knew right away what it was from... he was so excited to find someone who'd read Little, Big, we became fast friends right there & then.)

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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 4:41 AM

STATIC


One of my responsibilities with my National Guard unit is that of Communications guru. I'm familiar with most radio communications devices currently employed by the US Military, hence my name "Static".

Of course. . .SOME folks will say it's because "That's all you hear if he's messed with your radio". . .but these are the same people that stand around a SINGCARS radio like a bunch of dogs watchin' television (Puzzled look, head cocked to one side) without me to tell them what the funny sounds are.

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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 4:48 AM

N0SKILLZ


N0Skillz has been my name for everything that will let me use it since the first non-beta release of Counter-strike (my first game i've played online)... and for a bit more info, I used DangerousDumbass before that.

It also fits, cuz i pretty much have no skills in videogame, and other more important things (like conversation IRL)



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Guam Premiere Outlets- Sept 30th, can't wait
*Andersen AFB, Guam*

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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 5:07 AM

SLAYERFAN1975


When I started watching BUFFY I wanted to join a few sites online. I actually ended up joining some horror message boards first so wanted the reason known why I was there. I didn't think at first that on some sites folks would think I was a SLAYER fan (the band) Anyways, I've been slayerfan for 4 years now and since FIREFLY is part of Whedonverse thought I would just keep it :)

We're deep in space, on the corner of no and where.

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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 5:12 AM

CALLYGAL


The name I use on this board is actually my Battlestar name because mine was taken here. (Cally is one of the deckcrew on the new Battlestar Galactica) My name on all the other boards is a much more respectable Whedonverse name - BlackEyedGirl. Xander calls Willow it in Grave - I have a fondness for evil!Willow. Also good!willow and Goddess!willow. Willows of any kind in fact.

I'm not nice. I'm just highly susceptible to guilt

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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 5:16 AM

COSMICFUGITIVE


I wanted to create a subtle user name that was relevant to the show.

I started thinking of everything related to Firefly. The first word that popped into my head was 'Cosmic', although, it seemed too short. :(

I needed another word to add to the end of it. The word 'Fugitive' popped into my head.

One of my favourite characters on the show is River.

It was a natural fit! :)


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“Ah, the pitter patter of tiny feet in huge combat boots. SHUDDUP!” – Mal, ‘War Stories’

“Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.”
- David Duchovny.

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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 5:25 AM

LETOV


Way back when I first set up an e-mail account on yahoo. I was in the middle of reading the Dune series. Tried Leto and it was taken. Tried Leto_II, taken, Leto_III and Leto_IV seems to wordy so I jumped to Leto_V. Now I use it for everything. Here I couldn't use an underscore to LetoV it is.

- Leto_V

"Well, my days of not taking you
seriously are certainly coming to
a middle." - Mal

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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 6:12 AM

NAKEDANDARTICULATE


So here's how it is.......Pretty obvious.I remember watching the series (on Fux) and when I heard Nathan deliver the line--"But she was naked...and...articulate!" I just could not stop laughing for atleast 5 minutes.So when I join any firefly board(whedonesque,fff.net)i'm usually under that name,except on the fox board I go by 2by2handsblu.


"It's about how much freedom you can take away from somebody before they either fold or fight," Whedon says. "It's about the right to be wrong and the nature of human beings, that they need the freedom to be wrong. That they cannot be made to be better or perfect."--Joss Whedon on Serenity

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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 6:38 AM

BROWNCOAT1

May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.


Quote:

Originally posted by Litwolf689:
I am completely obsessed with wolves. One day, I played a game with my brother on the computer and I wanted my name to be Little Wolf. It was too long so I shortened it to Litwolf. The numbers are my birth day and year.





I love wolves. I have pictures, statues, books, paintings, you name it, all over the house.

Very shiny name Litwolf.

My name is not so inspired. When I first logged on here, the user name "Browncoat" was taken, so being lazy at the time I took "Browncoat 1".

__________________________________________

"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."

Richmond, VA & surrounding area Firefly Fans:

http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/richmondbrowncoats/

http://www.richmondbrowncoats.org


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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 6:49 AM

LADYSHELLEY


I've had this screen name for years, it was bestowed on me in the Sentinel fandom.(That's the UPN show not the horror movie.) It stuck and I've used it ever since.

Lady Shelley
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http://www.redhawke.org

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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 6:58 AM

RIVERLIKE


I have a tendency for River-like episodes so... it seemed the obvious choice.

River - Doesn't matter. It'll still be there... waiting...

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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 8:21 AM

JINGTSAI


Hi. I'm new here, at least officially. I've been guesting for awhile. I'm also fairly new to the Fireflyverse--which is a little embarrassing since I've been a Whedon and a Sci-fi fan for years and years. Where was I in 2002? But I never in my life before fell for anything so hard or so fast, and I'm doing my gorram best to drag anyone and everyone I know along for the ride. Anyway, my Browncoat name, obviously, comes from Wash's reaction, in Chinese, to Saffron's sabotage job on Serenity. Jing tsai = brilliant, which also implies, well, Shiny!



JingTsai in NC
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I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe.

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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 8:24 AM

SERENITYMEIMEI


Well, River is one of my favorite characters. And since she is sort of seen as the child on Serenity, and everyone tends to look after her, I decided to use my favorite Mandarin phrase Mei-Mei and add it after Serenity.

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"Just remember, they tried to kill us...they did kill us...and here we are. We have done the impossible, and that makes us mighty. " -- Joss (message before the Serenity screenings)

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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 8:29 AM

DESKTOPHIPPIE


Well, I've worked in various office jobs since I left college, which was always at odds with my hippie outlook on life. I've recently made a career jump and become an IT trainer. I mostly teach beginners, people who have no idea what they're doing and are usually terrified, so I call myself the Desktop Hippie since I teach them how to live in peace and harmony with their computers. Man.

"I'm a bloodsucking fiend! Look at my outfit!"

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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 8:30 AM

MELEAUX


The first 3 letters in my name are mel I liked mellow but being from cajun country (Geaux Tigers) I modified it accordingly, I've thought that Cara-Mel might be a good alternative or perhaps Pell-Mel.

She understands, she doesn't comprehend

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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 8:50 AM

MONTANAGIRL


I couldn't think of anything interesting, so I went with the very prosaic montanagirl, since that's where I live and what I am.

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"Do you accept gifts from strange men?" -Brisco
"Well, strange is no problem, but I draw the line at men I don't know." -Dixie

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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 9:20 AM

SAFEAT2ND


Mines fairly obvious.

I'm a big baseball fan and softball player. But, I chose it mainly because last year during a league game, I tried to leg a single into a double and on the slide into second, I broke my wrist, but I was safe. That's all I was concerned about. In fact I ended up finishing the game and playing the second game right afterwards.

My wife, on the other hand, no pun intended, didn't think it was that funny when she had to take me to the hospital the next day cause my hand was literally the size of a softball.

Safeat2nd, Chief Handyman of Destiny

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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 10:13 AM

ODDNESS2HER


From the Objects in Space line where Mal says, "I find River pleasant enough myself, but there is an oddness to her."
Seemed an apt description of me.

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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 11:17 AM

CALLMESERENITY


It's my name.

And also, my brother is CallMeAth and he convinced me to come here after he hooked me on the show and I couldn't think of anything clever, and for crying out loud my name IS Serenity, so it just made sense to use his CallMe and add my name after. Kind of like a surname. In China, the surname comes first.

But I get called "Call" or "CallMe" sometimes, and once someone asked if I was a "CallGirl" or a "CallBoy" which I did not fine humourous.

Serenity, First Officer of Destiny

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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 12:35 PM

ANFA



Mine means 'storm' in Irish. I took it from the Keltaid series of books by Patricia Keneally Morrison that I fell in love with years ago. The Queen, Aeron, was nicknamed Aeron Anfa because of her way of ruling and her capacity for swift vengence upon her enemies.

Let's just say there are times I see similarities between us . . .


" We're just too pretty for God to let us die."

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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 12:35 PM

HJERMSTED


When I was a teen, I thought up an "alias" with a fake Scandinavian sounding name: Ned Hjermsted. I thought I was being clever, but it turns out Hjermsted is an actual last name (at least in Denmark).

Pronouncing it the Danish way... the J is silent and the D at the end sounds like a very hard L.

Hjermsted has just sort of stuck around all these years and I still use it particularly when someone else has already claimed the handle "mattro" on a board or service.

"Hjermsted" does have a nice outer planet ring to it, wouldn't you say? A moon colonized by descendants of northern Europe perhaps? or the name of their settlement?



mattro

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