Are there any Canadian Browncoats?!?! by Smoke

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Are there any Canadian Browncoats?!?!

POSTED BY: SMOKE
UPDATED: Friday, November 4, 2005 15:50
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Saturday, October 29, 2005 7:53 PM

Out of everyone I know, there are no fans of FF/Serenity. Am I all alone In ontario when it comes to FF/Serenity?!?!?

Smoke em if you got em.

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Saturday, October 29, 2005 8:06 PM

SHINYRT

me, 2 of my friends and my sister in toronto

Let's moon 'em.

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Saturday, October 29, 2005 8:31 PM

SMOKE

Shiny, I'm from Barrie lol

Smoke em if you got em.

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Saturday, October 29, 2005 8:54 PM

COZEN

Adding in myself brings the total to 5. I think that's a fair and representative sample. Don't you think too?

Bracebridge/Toronto. Not necessarily in that order.

You might want to google canadianbrowncoats.

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"You think somebody wouldn't go see somebody if they didn't want entertainment?"

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Sunday, October 30, 2005 2:35 AM

BISHAMON

St. Catharines, Ontario here. :)

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Sunday, October 30, 2005 4:24 AM

LUCKYSPENCER7

dude, duh!

there's a Yahoo! group for us too. you can probably find some people in you area if you check it out:

http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/canadianbrowncoats/

me, I'm from Montreal. we've got our own board over here:

http://www.lucky-stars.ca/board

;)

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Sunday, October 30, 2005 4:51 AM

STARPILOTGRAINGER

Yeah, I'm another Torontoillian.

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This week: My spoiler-free Serenity review

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Sunday, October 30, 2005 6:48 AM

CYBERSNARK

Cornwall Ontario, reporting in.

Corner of No and Where.

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We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.

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Sunday, October 30, 2005 7:13 AM

SIGMANUNKI

Not in Ontario, but we're neighbours! In Manitoba I am I am

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"We're in a giant car heading into a brick wall at 100 miles/hr and everybody's arguing about where they want to sit."
-David Suzuki

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Sunday, October 30, 2005 7:18 AM

JOSSISMYBOSS

Toronto.
And some people I turned on to the show are from Ottawa, North Bay, Calgary, Banff, Winnipeg, London, Sarnia, New Brunswick.....

Yep. Canada loves the Firefly.

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Sunday, October 30, 2005 7:19 AM

REXJAYNE

Hey, not Toronto,
but East Coast Browncoat here..
Halifax, NS.

I know there are a lot of fans here, but i don't know about actual browncoat numbers.

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"let's not be excludin' people, that'd be rude"

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Sunday, October 30, 2005 8:16 AM

SERAPHSERPENT

There's a bunch of us who go to school in London, although we're from other parts of Ontario originally.

I'd say we're pretty well represented since the theatre was decently full every time I went.

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Thursday, November 3, 2005 8:32 AM

QUEENOFTHENORTH

Well, I'm not from Ontario -- much farther out west. Right in the middle of the prairies, Alberta. How's that for the corner of No and Where?

I give to you the Seeker of Serenity, the Valkyrie Warrior, the Gourmet Cook and the Truth Scoper.

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Thursday, November 3, 2005 8:37 AM

SAFEAT2ND

Ontario here too. But I'm sorry to say, the only reason I drive to Toronto is if I have Hockey, Baseball or Football tickets.

I find more than enough to do in "farmland".

Originally an east coaster.

Safeat2nd, Chief Handyman of Destiny

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Thursday, November 3, 2005 9:28 AM

SIGMANUNKI

Quote:
Originally posted by queenofthenorth:

Right in the middle of the prairies, Alberta.

Um, the prairie provinces are Man, Sask, AB. So, how are you in the middle?

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"We're in a giant car heading into a brick wall at 100 miles/hr and everybody's arguing about where they want to sit."
-David Suzuki

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Thursday, November 3, 2005 11:01 AM

WERZBOWSKI

Yo... Ottawa Browncoat here, and I know 3 more in the city as well.

"Let's be bad guys."

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Thursday, November 3, 2005 11:03 AM

KELLAINA

There's a lot of Canadian Browncoats - last I heard there were over 400 registered at the Yahoo group.

Quote:
There's a bunch of us who go to school in London, although we're from other parts of Ontario originally.

UWO or Fanshawe?

Hell with this; I'm gonna live! - Kaylee "Serenity"

If nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do. -"Angel"

Browncoat? Canadian? Join us:
http://movies.groups.yahoo.com/group/canadianbrowncoats/

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Thursday, November 3, 2005 11:11 AM

QUEENOFTHENORTH

Quote:
Originally posted by SigmaNunki:
Quote:
Originally posted by queenofthenorth:

Right in the middle of the prairies, Alberta.

Um, the prairie provinces are Man, Sask, AB. So, how are you in the middle?

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"We're in a giant car heading into a brick wall at 100 miles/hr and everybody's arguing about where they want to sit."
-David Suzuki

Sorry, I guess I should clarify that. I meant in the middle of Alberta's prairies.

Whoops. Anyways, it's still the corner of No and Where. Where you from?

I give to you the Seeker of Serenity, the Valkyrie Warrior, the Gourmet Cook and the Truth Scoper.

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Thursday, November 3, 2005 11:23 AM

20THCENTFOXHATER

I'm from Winnipeg, and there is no Browncoat chapter here that I know of. Yet there are a lot of Firefly/Serenity fans at University of Manitoba. I for one wold like to set one up myself.

"I aim to misbehave."

"I swallowed a bug."

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Thursday, November 3, 2005 12:19 PM

SIGMANUNKI

Quote:
Originally posted by queenofthenorth:

Sorry, I guess I should clarify that. I meant in the middle of Alberta's prairies. Whoops.

Ah. I probably shouldn't put a

in the post as well. Re-reading it, it seems much more agressive than I intended.

Quote:
Originally posted by queenofthenorth:

Anyways, it's still the corner of No and Where. Where you from?

Manitoba

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"We're in a giant car heading into a brick wall at 100 miles/hr and everybody's arguing about where they want to sit."
-David Suzuki

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Thursday, November 3, 2005 12:34 PM

VANCOUVER

Quote:
Originally posted by Smoke:
Out of everyone I know, there are no fans of FF/Serenity. Am I all alone In ontario when it comes to FF/Serenity?!?!?

Smoke em if you got em.

I guess it depends on whether by "Canada" you mean "Ontario", or if you are going by the definition more generally accepted by the rest of the world. (Your subject line says "Canadian"; your posting says "Ontario".) Since you're from Ontario, you probably mean Ontario. Maybe this isn't the time or place to rob you of your ignor--sorry, your INNOcence, but Ontario is actually not all of Canada. I know this is like telling George Bush that America is not the only country on the planet, but if you look it up on a map, you will find it's true! In fact, if you look way over to the left, you will see that Vancouver (my signature) is, yes, part of Canada! Believe me, we don't like it any more than you do--but until Ontario fulfills its destiny by joining the US, yes, there must be tons of Canadian Browncoats. The movie review in the Vancouver area's main entertainment paper, for instance, was written by one.

(Well, other fans, I'm civil most of the time, but this whole Ontario=Canada really gets up our noses, here in what Ontarians fondly call The Rest of Canada.)

Vancouver

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Thursday, November 3, 2005 12:35 PM

QUEENOFTHENORTH

No worries. So, Manitoba. That's cool. Never been there. But then, I never get to go anywhere. Lots of Firefly fans there?

Edit: Vancouver, I'd have to agree with you. That whole Canadian Browncoats/ is there any from Ontario kinda ticked me off too. I didn't know if I'd be welcome, since I'm from The West, but I bumped anyway. It's what I do.

I give to you the Seeker of Serenity, the Valkyrie Warrior, the Gourmet Cook and the Truth Scoper.

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Thursday, November 3, 2005 1:15 PM

TMURRIE

Edmonton Alberta, where even though we're the capital, our Premier doesn't live here.

Not that I'm complaining

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Thursday, November 3, 2005 1:34 PM

RIVER6213

I'm seriously thinking of renouncing my American citizenship and becoming a Canadian.

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Thursday, November 3, 2005 2:15 PM

LASHER99

Sydney, NS reporting in here. Converted 3 of my students to the cause

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Thursday, November 3, 2005 2:19 PM

STARDUDE

I's from Turrana...

The Big Smoke.

"We all live and die alone..."

- Captain Reynolds

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Thursday, November 3, 2005 3:47 PM

JOEBLOUGH

myself and 2 friends makes 3 more.

hey, maybe we could harass chum into picking up the series -- they ran lexx for 4 years!!

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Thursday, November 3, 2005 4:49 PM

20THCENTFOXHATER

To date, I have converted three people I know to being a fan of Firefly to some degree

.

And I've only been a fan for about 4 weeks

.

"I aim to misbehave."

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Thursday, November 3, 2005 4:57 PM

ROLANDREYNOLDS

Saskatchewan. -Really- in the middle of the prairies. Low population density sucks...

“When peace comes to mean the absence of conflict on the one hand, and when conflict with an unjust and racist political order is a moral imperative on the other, then it is not difficult to understand that the better class of human beings are, in fact, deeply committed to disturbing the peace and creating conflict.”
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Thursday, November 3, 2005 5:45 PM

SIGMANUNKI

Quote:
Originally posted by queenofthenorth:

No worries. So, Manitoba. That's cool. Never been there. But then, I never get to go anywhere. Lots of Firefly fans there?

It's flat and slightly hilly in places. Can't say you're missing much. But, then again, we probably all feel that way about where we grew up/live.

Don't know if I'd say a lot of fans, but I know a number and they know more, etc. So, we probably have our fair share.

@Vancouver:
Ah, good old sarcasm. I know it well

Even used it against one of my professors yesterday

Class tomorrow may prove interesting.

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"We're in a giant car heading into a brick wall at 100 miles/hr and everybody's arguing about where they want to sit."
-David Suzuki

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Thursday, November 3, 2005 9:40 PM

REXJAYNE

RiveR6213:

No need to renounce, join the ranks of the dual citizens! It's great fun. Really pisses off the customs guys at the border.

And yeah.. there's something east of Ontario too.
We may have no jobs, crappy government and a decimated fishery, but we're statistically the happiest people in this big wide country.

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Let's not be excludin people, that'd be rude. - Jayne

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Friday, November 4, 2005 4:54 AM

BISHAMON

Quote:
Originally posted by RiveR6213:
I'm seriously thinking of renouncing my American citizenship and becoming a Canadian.

That reminds me of this pic:

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Friday, November 4, 2005 5:20 AM

QUEENOFTHENORTH

Hehe. That reminds me of a joke I heard a comedian say. He said that Canada's bigger and on top, and if we were in prison, America would be our bitch.

No offense to the Americans, it's just funny. Also, Sigma, you aren't missing much here either. Though I like it, it's nothing special. There's a few fans here too.

I give to you the Seeker of Serenity, the Valkyrie Warrior, the Gourmet Cook and the Truth Scoper.

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Friday, November 4, 2005 6:32 AM

VANCOUVER

Quote:
Originally posted by RiveR6213:
I'm seriously thinking of renouncing my American citizenship and becoming a Canadian.

We would be happy to have you. I agree with the posting about dual citizenship being better though: it's great fun crossing the border with Canadian i.d. showing American birth, and being questioned about why you "lost" your US status. They can't believe anything short of draft-dodging or committing a felony could make anyone voluntarily claim to be a Canadian when they could say they're American.

Gee, this has turned into quite the political thread, hey? There's hardly anything about Firefly, even. I guess I contributed to that with my snark at the original Ontario=Canada bit. (Thanks, other non-Ontarians, for affirming that your Canada includes...well, Canada. Remember during the last referendum, when all those people had signs saying "My Canada includes Florida"? That was my favourite part of that particular episode in Cdn history. I wonder if anyone has told Florida about that. "Um, hey, Jeb...")

But seriously, besides me, there's now my sister, her friend, my brother (just converted over the weekend, with a mere ONE episode viewed, due to multiple young children), my three young friends in the BC interior, and a concession worker at a local theatre who hadn't seen it until I told him I'd return my Junior Mints if he didn't vow to see Serenity. Though I can't guarantee that he became a Browncoat...

Not to mention all those thousands of Canadians keeping Firefly at or near the top of the DVD sales list, despite the fact that the major suppliers (e.g. Future Shop) are being ridiculously incompetent at keeping it stocked, and the fact that it costs $60 here. (Still think you want to cross over, River?) Like I've said in previous postings, the stores that ARE getting it in are getting big boxes of it that sell out within hours. Last time I checked, which was last week, there wasn't a copy to be had in the Vancouver area--not in Vancouver itself, not in Richmond. This isn't good for current or future sales, but it says something about recent ones.

Vancouver

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Friday, November 4, 2005 6:43 AM

SAFEAT2ND

Here's an Ont. resident that doesn't believe Ontario=Canada. I've been on the TCH from one coast to the other. Had relatives in Vancouver B.C. and more in St. John's NFLD. It costs as much to fly to NFLD as it does to fly to B.C.

Now if I had my own Firefly class transport...
But then I'd miss all the scenery. And it's breath taking, let me tell you.

Here, the Firefly DVD sets are on the top ten wall at HMV as the #3 DVD. $29.99Can.

Safeat2nd, Chief Handyman of Destiny

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Friday, November 4, 2005 7:05 AM

MIZALAINA

New to Firefly/Serenity, but I'm in love with it. I live in the Annex in Toronto. My friend Lenore turned me on to it, and I am undertaking a project to convery all of my friends to Firefly fandom.

I have to believe, after watching the show, that Kaylee's character was based on me. :)

Alaina

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Friday, November 4, 2005 7:22 AM

QUEENOFTHENORTH

Welcome to the 'verse! I am pretty new also, but it's an awesome place! I also think Kaylee is pretty close to me.

I give to you the Seeker of Serenity, the Valkyrie Warrior, the Gourmet Cook and the Truth Scoper.

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Friday, November 4, 2005 3:50 PM

MERCENARY

Another BC boy here. Northern British Columbia to be precise.

Quite a few Firefly/Serenity fans here in my small town. I peg the number at 20. Thats just the folks I know.

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