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By the way, very funny comment. If it weren't for the damned mood swings, I would have fallen out of my chair. For now, I'm just crying and laughing at the same time.

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Originally posted by Omelet:
By the way, very funny comment. If it weren't for the damned mood swings, I would have fallen out of my chair. For now, I'm just crying and laughing at the same time.

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hehheh... ...'s all part of The Service glad i could help. BTW, VERY good trick that ...laughin'/cryin' simultaneously thing ...makes me think of today's "Ballard Street," q.v., http://www.comics.com/creators/ballardst/index.html (that's date sensitive - only good for today, ummm... "Friday the 13th") - I couldn't figure out how to include the whole image in this post but... couldn't do it.

I DID try to reply yesterday but, for some reason fireflyfans.net simply would not work for me (??) I mean, I could see everyone's posts but, for some reason, it categorically refused to allow me to reply. Sorry...

Always eager to provide The Service so I don't revert into "stupid, inbred stacks of meat"-hood

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Originally posted by chronicthehedgehog:
The Operative is paid "30 coin" to betray Mal. Not a long step from 30 pieces of silver.

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Originally posted by Omelet:
...though my mood swings persist. Usually to stop them by others means I usually resort to watching Firefly, specifically Sean Maher, to help me get through this time of the month...

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Originally posted by KthScherer:
right after saying "please get up" she seems to start talking in Chinese but actually says "oh, Sean Maher" when Simon touches her back (1:16:49) and then moves on to Chinese (or at least I think it's Chinese).

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Originally posted by Unsardonic:
... it WOULD be subtle, but it is, in fact, Chinese, specifically, as transliterated by Ying's Pinyinary's "Serenity" page ( http://fireflychinese.home.att.net/movie1.html),
"WUOshang mayer, maysheen, BYEN shr-to"

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right after saying "please get up" she seems to start talking in Chinese but actually says "oh, Sean Maher" when Simon touches her back (1:16:49) and then moves on to Chinese (or at least I think it's Chinese).

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Well, "yeah... y'know what(?)," to quote Nicole Sullivan's 'Vancome Lady' from "Mad-TV" ... it WOULD be subtle, but it is, in fact, Chinese, specifically, as transliterated by Ying's Pinyinary's "Serenity" page ( http://fireflychinese.home.att.net/movie1.html),
"WUOshang mayer, maysheen, BYEN shr-to"

I mean, that certainly seems as if she would be saying, "Sean Maher," if you look at the transliteration's section, "WUOshang mayer..." Ying translates all of that particular phrase as meaning, "I will close my ears and my heart and I will be a stone," which is pretty much, what River utters immediately after, translating the Chinese to English in the same speech.

Sorry to bubbleburst


HOHOHO

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So much for my first post.

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Originally posted by christhecynic:
This is really like a home and even though you'll (probably) never meet anyone here in the real world you will make real friends.

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Jayro wrote:
Wednesday, January 11, 2006 03:49
In one of River's flashbacks, we see the teacher telling the children to lie down, and the class obeying without fuss. Is this her subconscious brain interpreting or 'acting out' what it knows about the Miranda population?

Also, River is the only one who rebels againt the teacher's command - she has an 'aggressor' response, just like the tenth of a percent who turned into Reavers. Is this a metaphor, or is it suggesting that River, had she been raised on Miranda, would have become a Reaver herself?

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Originally posted by DonCoat:
Emphasis on "probably". However, if you go to a fan convention at some point, I guarantee you'll see something new -- or at least, some of your fellow FFF browncoats.

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Originally posted by KthScherer:
Sigh. Bubble burst duly noted. So much for my first post.

(And thanks. I figured if I posted I'd find out if I was right or not. Didn't think I'd find out so quickly, though!)

So it may not be subtle or non-subtle or anything at all really, but I still find it fun!

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...though my mood swings persist. Usually to stop them by others means I usually resort to watching Firefly, specifically Sean Maher, to help me get through this time of the month...

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Ah... y'know, for an allegedly "perceptive" person, ya'd think I'd have figured out your "good trick" of simultaneous laughing/crying... my sympathies, actually.

If it's any consolation, I have encountered Sean, actually, shopping in my local grocery store (I have mentioned elsewhere I live on the Sunset Strip). It was morning so the store was mainly empty & he was checking out, the only person there. I got in line behind him and... well.. I hadn't recognized him, y'see(?). All I saw was a handsome young man checking out, dressed all in white.

I didn't recognize him because of the hair: it was a big, spiky poof of dry, black hair & I didn't think about it... then he talked &, By Gawd, 'if it isn't Simon Tam,' I thought. So I looked closely at him and, sure enough, it was him - it's just, I guess he doesn't keep that wet, combed-back Simon hair in real life, eh? Anyway, he seemed really shy or reserved to me, like he would be uncomfortable with strangers coming up & recognizing him & introducing themselves, especially as he was in the middle of a complex function... perhaps it had already happened enough to him to make him uncomfortable so, he seemed edgy & I just respected his space & let him do his thing.

Now, since then, I've regretted that reserve on my part - you'd think I could have at least thanked him for bringing us Simon, I realized later... Or perhaps been a little more flip and asked him if he was headed to a "THX-1138" theme party... That was because of the all-white thing: he wore a plush white sweater, white pants & matching white shoes and had a cartful of orchid plants, all blooming with dozens of flowers & every single one of them were white - it was quite a striking image; made me wish for a camera.

I actually did think... "a wedding" or "a funeral" but, a "THX-1138 theme party," would have at least been funny. On the other hand, if it was a funeral, "funny" might have been really uncomfortable, eh? And the possibility of a funeral might have been what was behind his discomfort. Of course, for all I know, that's just how he dresses in civilian life & he happens to like lots of white orchids, who knows(?), all I know is, I still regret not thanking him for bringing us Dr. Tam

freakin' THANK the actors, ya DUDES , THANK 'EM!! "or your friends will think you're a stupid, inbred stack of meat."

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Sigh. Bubble burst duly noted. So much for my first post.

(And thanks. I figured if I posted I'd find out if I was right or not. Didn't think I'd find out so quickly, though!)

So it may not be subtle or non-subtle or anything at all really, but I still find it fun!

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Yeah... sorry for the - I mean, obviously you were looking out for the cool poop on the disc and, of course, you found something fun so, I'm still for the bubble-bursting.

Anyway, I can't recommend the Pinyinary enough to help you fill in a lot of story blanks (which is why I included the link) and, as Doncoat (& others) suggested, the Visual Companion.

Now, you DID fall victim to an entertaining Anglo-habit which is, listening to some sort of (usually) Asian language and hearing English in it. When I lived in Japan that would sometimes be what we did for entertainment: watch Japanese TV and faux-translate into the nearest ridiculous-English, whatever showed up on the screen. One of the best was a commercial wherein, the lovely young housewife is home at the stove in the perfect suburban kitchen when, her handsome young businessman comes home from the office. She turns to him and, with the most radiant, angelic smile ever says, just as clearly as possible what, for all the world sounds exactly like, "I stayed home to pee!" I watched this countless times & each time her statement was very clearly the same... we were laughing so hard, we had no idea what was being sold or ever found out what was said.

Stay home to pee(!) "or your friends will think you're a stupid, inbred stack of meat."

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Originally posted by Grimlock:

My brother does the same thing to the Russian lyrics from the main title to Hunt for Red October. His transmutilation being a less polite variation on boink "boink the bed."

I know, I known. He's my brother.

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Originally posted by Grimlock:

My brother does the same thing to the Russian lyrics from the main title to Hunt for Red October. His transmutilation being a less polite variation on boink "boink the bed."

I know, I known. He's my brother.

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Awww... damn... it's been quite a few years since I've seen that defintiely-lovely movie. I don't recall the sequence you're talking about so that I might comprehend what your brother is, in fact, 'transmutilating.' Wait-wait-wait... is he 'transmutilating' or is he 'manifestering?' Either way... "It's good to be The Neologist!!!!"

hehhehheh

Be a neologist "or your friends will think you're a stupid, inbred stack of meat."

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Originally posted by Jayro:
In one of River's flashbacks, we see the teacher telling the children to lie down, and the class obeying without fuss. Is this her subconscious brain interpreting or 'acting out' what it knows about the Miranda population?

Also, River is the only one who rebels againt the teacher's command - she has an 'aggressor' response, just like the tenth of a percent who turned into Reavers. Is this a metaphor, or is it suggesting that River, had she been raised on Miranda, would have become a Reaver herself?




River the reaver...? I don't know, it just sounds funny....lol
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