You are a Browncoat if............................ by imaleaf

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You are a Browncoat if............................

POSTED BY: IMALEAF
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Friday, March 3, 2006 6:51 AM

You start referencing FF/Serenity scenes as analogies for real-life moments.

Example:
I was explaining to my wife how I felt about a potential employer contacting me about wanting to move forward in the interview process because I was basically their only candidate.

First thing that popped into my head during this explanation was the Simon/Kaylee scene from "The Message", where Simon is trying to give Kaylee a compliment, but as usual, flubs it by saying he likes her because she's basically the only available female on the ship.

S'plained to the wife that I suddenly felt like Kaylee in said scene...got a big laugh.

:^)

-Jonestein

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OPERATIVE: ...and I am unarmed.
MAL: Good.
(BLAM!)
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FIGHT TO RE-LIGHT!!
www.browncoatsriseagain.com
www.fortworthbrowncoats.com
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Friday, March 3, 2006 12:05 PM

DONCOAT

-- you're driving in heavy commuter traffic, trying to decide whether to change lanes, and say to yourself, "No, I'm all right." And that's instantly followed by, "I'm all right."

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I don't disagree on any particular point.

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Friday, March 3, 2006 3:56 PM

MCALLEN

When running errands, this song by Grand Funk Railroad:

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/g/grand-funk-railroad/62096.html

comes on the radio and you are amazed that it seems as though the lyrics were written specifically about Mal for the Firefly/Serenity video that is playing in your head.

MAL: We're still flying.
SIMON: That's not much.
MAL: It's enough.

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Friday, March 3, 2006 4:14 PM

CHRISISALL

....while you're driving on the highway, and a big rock gets kicked up and plants a BIG crack on your windshield, and instead of cursing or screaming you quietly say "What was that...?"

*True story*

Chrisisall, missing his primary buffer panel

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Saturday, March 4, 2006 6:08 AM

SERENITYSLITTLEANGEL

... you dream that Mal brings you pancakes in bed - and when you wake up you can't help but look around for them. When you don't find them, or him, you proceed to cry hysterically for ten minutes - before your mother runs into the room and, instead of asking you what's wrong - she just puts "Shindig" on.

... the proudest moment of your life was when your six year old cousin replies to your wish that the rain would stop - "Well, I'd like to be king of all Londinum and wear a shiny hat."

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Saturday, March 4, 2006 6:43 AM

EVILPHOENIX

You giggle when seeing Serenity adult diapers.

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Saturday, March 4, 2006 7:44 AM

VITABRAND

you named your Pitbull Zoe(y)

Honestly, she got that name before I knew about firefly, but it's very existential don't you think? (grin)

Vita

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Saturday, March 4, 2006 8:20 AM

BRIGHIT

...you squeal loudly when you see that one of your IGCSE English Mock exam questions tells you to 'write a story set in the future.' And write a story which has characters named Mal and Summer, and a spaceship named 'Serenity.' And then you get an A + for it...

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Saturday, March 4, 2006 8:22 AM

KEVAR

On a down-day at school you give your students (and yourself) a treat by showing them the first episode.

. . . Now I have a list of students wanting to borrow my DVDs!

Soon, the whole high school will be using words like "shiny"

(does "Gorram" count as swearing in class and do I have to send them to the office?)

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Saturday, March 4, 2006 8:46 AM

REAVERINA1985RIVIERA

Quote:
Originally posted by IsaacShepherd:
You know you're a Browncoat when you refer to the vehicle you drive as your Boat.

Yep. My daily driver is an 1985 Crown Victoria, it IS a boat (land yacht)
Quote:

or when you're piloting your Boat and see smoke comming from a vehicle in front of you and begin to conclude that the vehicle is operating without containment.

or after realizing the vehicle is operating without containment and you yell "Reavers!" and put the petal to the floor dodging traffic recklessly to avoid the "Reavers".

When I'm in my Riviera, I'm the one they're avioding.

Quote:

IS

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How many Jaynes does it take to change a light bulb?

Two. One to try to put it in and another to find a bigger hammer.

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Saturday, March 4, 2006 9:36 AM

SINGATE

You have never even thought of writing fanfic before when you suddenly come up with ideas for several "episodes". You try to ignore them but after a while it feels like those Hands of Blue guys are using their little device on your head. So you start writing one to relieve the pressure but the damn thing just keeps coming! As of this moment my word count is around 3000 and I'm not even close to finished!

Edit: Now up to 7500 and still nowhere near finished!
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We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

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Saturday, March 4, 2006 10:28 AM

FAKESOUNDOFPROGRESS

You Ignore the strange looks you get when annoucing to half the class that they're all a bunch of Ta Ma De's despite the fact that they all claim to be doing each others.

You go clothes shopping and refer to the various items as 'pretties'

The Moment of the Rose and the Moment of the Yew Tree are of equal duration

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Saturday, March 4, 2006 2:31 PM

GRAYALBATROSS

When you have worked out how to draw the theme song in pictures.

As a gift, your parents went to the movie store and...

Phase 1: Mom distracts clerk with stupid questions.

Phase 2: Dad carefully removes very giant Movie poster and walks out.

Not really (the guy just gave it to them). But that's what they told me.

You have a very vivid picture:
Mal is wearing a feathered headress. Wash has a very long feather on his head that bobs comically whenever he moves. They are on the bridge. Mal has some sort of spell book and there is a green fire and incense. Wash is holding a four-legged sheep-thing and is shaving it.

Mal: Are you shaving the vector?

Wash: I'm doing it, it's not enough!
I then laughed so hard that people asked me if I was OK.

Also: Action figures? T-shirts? WHERE???????????

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When in doubt, consult the hamster.

Also, I can kill you with my brain

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Saturday, March 4, 2006 2:35 PM

JACHT

On your I-tunes, the most played tracks are The Firefly main tune and the Fruity Oatey Bar Tune.

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Monday, March 6, 2006 4:02 AM

SERENITYSLITTLEANGEL

Quote:
(does "Gorram" count as swearing in class and do I have to send them to the office?)

No, it should be encouraged. Same goes for swearing in Chinese. Some kind of shiny reward should be in order.

...... on a long walk you find a house called "Washburne Cottage" and you can't resist going up to the house and knocking on the door - just in case Alan Tudyk happens to live there.

Sadly, there was no one in. I'll check again another day.

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Monday, March 6, 2006 4:05 PM

SINSIN

You are a Browncoat if....

...you're watching a rugby match featuring a team called the Border Reivers and instantly think that that's where Firefly's Reavers must come from.

...you say as much to your dad (he's used to your obsessions)

...he tells you that actually, Reiver is an old Scots word meaning essentially mountain bandit, one of the wild forest folk who lived outside the law and attacked local settlements.

...you're so delighted by this response that you can barely follow the rest of the game, but note with relief that the Reivers lose.

...you remind yourself that Firefly's Reavers are a lot scarier that the rugby team the Reivers, who suck.

...you resolve to get out more.

...you break said resolution in ten minutes by popping in, "Bushwhacked," to remind yourself what the Reavers were like when they first appeared.

If you can't do something smart, do something right.

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Monday, March 6, 2006 4:49 PM

JAYNESBUNKWOMAN

...if you are seriously considering changing your already personalized license plate to something firefly related, incurring great costs to do so.

...if you are seriously considering having the serenity logo be the anchor of a lower back tat - would be my first!!

all above are true!! Being considered, not yet acted upon!

I'll be in Jaynes bunk

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Monday, March 6, 2006 5:00 PM

DOGGIE

you know your a browcoat if........

reading some of these posts makes you feel sad, happy and proud all at the same time

luv you guys

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Monday, March 6, 2006 5:17 PM

JOCKOCKEYOCK

.....you cry after watching the last episode
.....make a firefly calender for no odd reason
(look at Natvanya's calender she and i made it)
http://www.fireflyfans.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=8459
***there are 12 calender pics for each month
.....force your friends and little sister to watch firefly
.....when you no longer think like a person and ask yourself what would river, wash, simon, kaylee, mal, zoe, book, inara, jayne would do in any situation may it be driving to school, writing a paper talking to people or giving blood.......

The court of this obsession, is abstracted from possession which when the worlds of outside in fall.

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Tuesday, March 7, 2006 1:53 PM

GHANIMAPIRATE

...while packing for Spring Break, you wrap the Firefly Box set in lots of clothing, so it won't get frayed.

...after immediately waking up from a Firefly dream and still being in the half asleep/ half awake mode, you think ' I don't have a brown coat.., how can I call my self a browncoat, when I don't have a brown coat !?

Mal- Tactics, woman. Needed her in the back. Besides, those soft cotton dresses feel kinda nice. There's a whole airflow.
Inara: And you'd know that because...?
Mal: You can't open the book of my life and jump in the middle. Like woman, I'm a mystery.

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Tuesday, March 7, 2006 2:23 PM

FOLLOWMAL

*pops into this thread and says hi to GhanimaPirate and hands a shiny new browncoat to
a soldier needin' one*

We all have to have one of these. I'm proud to wear mine and glad you're on my side.

I love your nick by the way... my favorite character in Dune. Have used a variation of that nick myself, minus the pirate part.

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

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Tuesday, March 7, 2006 6:24 PM

CAB1729

...after 30 whole days without watching FF, you pop in Bushwhacked and get teary-eyed and happy to see them havin' fun playin' the game, just like the thrill you get when you meet up with a good friend who moved away years ago.

...every time you see the word Serenity you look again in the hopes it's something related to the 'verse.

...you spend waaaay too much money on a new computer and printer and speakers and cable stuff because you're spending waaaay too much time online for firefly at work. (Which is why you were away from FF for a month in the first place!)

Anger on one side, sadness on the other.
Nobody knows about the third side.

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Tuesday, March 7, 2006 6:46 PM

FOLLOWMAL

Welcome back, Cab! Good to see you again!

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

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Tuesday, March 7, 2006 10:33 PM

CAB1729

Quote:
Originally posted by FollowMal:
Welcome back, Cab! Good to see you again!
...

Thanks for the welcome! Don't know 'bout the "back", that was my 1st post on this site, I'm ashamed to say.

I'm usually over at BC or Goners.

Er -- altho I did come by for the petition a few years back. Didn't have a real email account back then so couldn't sign up. I think. Maybe I did but got dropped?

That was years ago! Who remembers that stuff? My memory only lasts long enuf to keep from doin' the same thing over and over again. Plus, my memory only lasts long enuf to keep from doin' the same thing over and over again.

Anger on one side, sadness on the other.
Nobody knows about the third side.

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Wednesday, March 8, 2006 5:07 AM

STEAMER

I took an alternate route to work the other day and passed a big sign that said 'Serenity Farms.' I very nearly pulled over to look and see if the barn had a familiar shape - and the first term that popped into my brain pan was 'barn swallow.'

Later that day I was at work (I have a Train Job

) and I was very slowly tooling along in a 130-ton diesel locomotive while the road foreman walked ahead doing a track inspection. We were on a slight downhill, and as I was following the foreman I suddenly found that I was wearing a perverse Jayne-with-Mal-in-the-crosshairs grin.

I'm trying to wait for summer to come. (Season or actress, wouldn't mind either.

) When August rolls around there will be swarms of fireflies darting around outside my apartment and I've half a mind to catch one and name it Serenity.

On that note, an answer to all you ladies who cried yourself to sleep when you found out Nathan had a girlfriend: My head almost hit the keyboard when I found out Jewel was married.

SUMMER!!!

~

"We'll pass through it soon enough."

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Wednesday, March 8, 2006 5:56 AM

SAB39

Quote:
My head almost hit the keyboard when I found out Jewel was married

Me too!

mumble mumble were I unwed mumble mumble, manly fashion mumble mumble...

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Wednesday, March 8, 2006 7:00 AM

SAB39

... you have this conversation with your wife on IM:

(16:08:19) wife: new blog entry
(16:10:17) me: shiny :)
(16:11:47) wife: please stop with the firefly shit!
(16:11:53) wife: or else i’ll never watch it again
(16:12:25) me: well, it seemed appropriate, I liked the blog entry
(16:13:27) wife: in the world to which i exist, it’s /never/ appropriate!

... and resolve to never make another firefly reference in front of her so that she'll keep watching

... and realize that's going to take a real effort!

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Wednesday, March 8, 2006 12:26 PM

RAVENHAIR

only browncoats will understand...

I got strep for the second time in the last three weeks and I was HAPPY b/c it meant that I could stay home and watch disc 3 and 4 (where I left off the last time I was home sick) and then the BDM!

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Thursday, March 9, 2006 1:54 AM

STEAMER

Long as you didn't get the damp lung...

"We'll pass through it soon enough."

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Thursday, March 9, 2006 3:49 AM

SERENITYSLITTLEANGEL

Quote:
My head almost hit the keyboard when I found out Jewel was married.

I told my brother and he cried. He's one upset Browncoat at the moment.

..... you spend more time working on Firefly related things (surfing, reading, writing and fanmixing) than on school work AND sleeping combined.

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Thursday, March 9, 2006 7:42 AM

DONCOAT

...you're stopped at a stop sign, and the car in front of you makes an abortive attempt to pull out into traffic. Fortunately the driver stops in time to avoid being creamed, then backs up a bit. But when traffic finally does clear, he starts to move -- still backward! As the car approaches your bumper, you yell...

"Forward! Forward would be better!"

(No contact was made, and I gave myself a good chuckle.)

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I don't disagree on any particular point.

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Thursday, March 9, 2006 8:02 AM

SAB39

... you didn't realize until the second viewing that when Mal tells the operative "Like to kill you myself if I see you again", some people might think the missing word was "I'd"...

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Friday, March 10, 2006 3:54 PM

RAVENHAIR

every time another member of the family puts in a dvd to watch, they find the BDM or BDS in the dvd already!

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Friday, March 10, 2006 11:57 PM

SERENITYSLITTLEANGEL

Quote:
every time another member of the family puts in a dvd to watch, they find the BDM or BDS in the dvd already!

....No one in your family is allowed to watch a DVD other than the BDS, BDM, or something with our BDHs in it. "A Knight's Tale" is pretty popular in our house.

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Saturday, March 11, 2006 12:12 PM

MARLINGREY

.... you keep wondering which character is the most like you. Maybe River or rather Kaylee.

.... you don't live in the US but you desperately want to go there cos there's a Firefly/Serenity convention. (I'd love to...)

"Please god make me a stone." ~ River

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Saturday, March 11, 2006 2:16 PM

BROWNCOATSANDINISTA

If you are currently organising a two day long shindig so you can get all of your un-converted friends converted by way of all Fourteen episodes, and then the BDM on a 51" screen. And then wondering if you'll need to make it three days to watch the commentaries as well.

Or when, for any Catholics or other confessioning persons here, your confession goes like this -

"Forgive me Shepard, For I have sinned."
"How long has it been since your last confession?"
"Two days."
"And how have you sinned, my son/daugher?"
"I talked in the theater."

If anyone gets nosy, then...Shoot em.
Shoot em sir?
Politely.

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Monday, March 13, 2006 3:14 AM

SERENITYSLITTLEANGEL

..... "Malicious" now has a completely different meaning for you. When your history teacher says "Luther didn't have a Malicious intent" - you look confused for a second and then burst out laughing. Everyone stares.

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Tuesday, March 14, 2006 8:16 AM

SERENITYSLITTLEANGEL

Bump

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Tuesday, March 14, 2006 8:35 AM

VISAGEEZA

You've spent ages ripping each episode from the DVDs and re-encoding it to play on your mobile phone, then put all of them on said phone so you can carry the whole series around with you everywhere you go, keep it close to your heart and watch some whenever you feel like it.

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Saturday, March 18, 2006 10:48 AM

BRIGIDSIDHE

Here's one no-one's posted yet:

... you've lived in Texas (almost) your whole life, and have only started talking with an accent since first watching Firefly.

Yup. It's a cow fetus.

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Saturday, March 18, 2006 11:39 AM

SILEESPACEMONKEYS

Oooh! I have a couple:

You talk about the Serenifly 'verse SO much, that one of you and your best friend's inside jokes is "Fruity Oaty Bars" and she knows part of the song, even though she's NEVER seen the shows or the movie.

Said best friend also allowed you to record yourself singing the Fruity Oaty Bar song and the Ballad of Serenity on her MP3 player.

You are undergoing converting a different friend to the Serenifly verse because you have talked about it so much (also cause she loves Adam Baldwin).

All of your friends know what you are talking about when you talk about Firefly and usually join in the conversations because you have explained so much to them.

You use Chinese curses and your mom gets mad at you because she knows exactly what you're doing. (She's a Browncoat, too, though not as severe as me)

You are getting a job over the summer MAINLY to pay your mom back for buying Serenifly paraphernalia.

You nearly had a heart attack out of happiness when you found out that you could order Serenifly stuff off the cortex.

You call the Internet the Cortex.

"Were there monkeys? Some terrifying space monkeys maybe got loose?"

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Saturday, March 18, 2006 2:46 PM

LALARA

I answered yes to every one. You are not only a Browncoat but I thought your list was funny, insightful and so creative.
Firefly Fans continue to amaze me.

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Saturday, March 18, 2006 2:49 PM

LALARA

You make "crazy ivans" while driving (even in heavey traffic).

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Saturday, March 18, 2006 2:54 PM

STEAMER

You say "gorram", "shiny", and various Chinese phrases everywhere and to everyone, even when you know they're not Browncoats.

~
"We'll pass through it soon enough."

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Sunday, March 19, 2006 8:01 AM

SHEPARD

Quote:
Originally posted by themantheycalledJames:
...you get borded and hop over to Firefly fans.net on a sunday mourning...

While you're at work!

Hell. It's special.

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Sunday, March 19, 2006 8:25 AM

SHEPARD

Your older daughter calls your younger daughter Mei Mei...

When the younger daughter wears her Browncoat/I Aim to Misbehave shirt to school...

When the same younger daughter gets into discussions with adults about how the government is bad and freedom and independence are more important and can hold her own even though she is only 11...

When the entire call center you & your wife work at uses shiny as an adjective...to customers...

When you name your bike Vera and your car Saffron...

Hell. It's special.

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Sunday, March 19, 2006 9:28 AM

MATTCOZ

I had my first firefly speak slip in normal conversation yesterday. My roommate was being clumsy and just had all sorts of bad luck, and I just blurted out "this is not your best day ever".

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Sunday, March 19, 2006 10:34 AM

MICJWELCH

I have to try hard not to use the word "shiny" all the time!

"We may experience some slight turbulence, and then... explode."

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Sunday, March 19, 2006 3:17 PM

SAB39

Quote:
When you name your bike Vera and your car Saffron...

Man... you must really not like your car!

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Sunday, March 19, 2006 4:24 PM

MAGHAFFAR

You're a Browncoat with your fellow Browncoat friend and all you do is swap lines back and forth. In a crowd of people, you see a nice, older shopkeer type with round glasses and the first thing outta your mouth is "Mr. Reeeeeynooolds... you died, Mr. Reynolds." The poor guy has no idea what you're talking about.

Re: the Firefly theme as Ringtone... I just posted a note on this. Sned me a WAVE and I'll email you back my 7 Shiny Firefly MP3s for Ringtone use...

-- Jonathan M.A.Ghaffar
MAGhaffar@WAYoftheSEEKERS.com
Title email: "7 Shiny MP#s" or somesuch. Dong-ma?
Stay Shiny & Keep Flyin'...

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