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Virtual shindigs, year 3. Join us on Sundays.

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Sunday, May 28, 2006 9:04 PM

IAMJACKSUSERNAME

Well, I'm all right. - Mal

Every Sunday we gather in the AIM room Firefly and thumb our noses at the special hell while watching episodes together.

We start at about 18:00 GMT - you can find the time in your city at http://xrl.us/tgxz
There may be additional earlier vshins soon: http://fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=22881

Serenity (the DBM) comes up in discussion every now and then, so don't join if you want to stay spoiler free.

Software: If you're running on GNU/Linux or Windows you can try the gaim client at http://gaim.sourceforge.net/downloads.php and if you're running MacOS try iChat or http://www.adiumx.com

Account: If you don't have an AIM account yet you can get one at http://www.aim.com by clicking on the "Don't have a screen name? Get one FREE" link.

Invite yourself to the Firefly room, or if you're struggling just send a message to ImJacksNickname or mrskborg asking for an invite.

If you're using gaim: go to the "Buddy List" window, "Buddies", "Join a chat...", put Firefly in the room input box, and click the "Join" button.

If you're using AOL's AIM client: go to the "Buddy List" window, select "People", select "Send Chat Ivitation", in the "screen names to invite" field put your screen name as well as any friends you'd like to invite, in the "Chat room" field type Firefly

If you don't have your DVDs or tapes handy, feel free to join us anyway for a chat.

Note to self: update the time link after DLS switches.

After a proposal by Shiny http://fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=5409#66949 that flans join an instant message room and watch episodes together, we had our very first vshin on 2004-06-01. We've been going strong for 2 years, and Sunday 2006-06-04's vshin will be the start of year 3. The threads:

2004-05-26 http://fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=5409
2004-05-29/2005-06-29 http://fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=5464
2004-06-08 http://fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=5589
[...] 2004-07-20 http://fireflyfans.net/showblog.asp?b=640 [...]
2004-08-08/2004-08-29 http://fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=6636
2004-08-29/2005-02-01 http://fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=6922
2005-02-06/2005-03-27 http://fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=8767
2005-04-03/2005-07-31 http://fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=9331
2005-04-22 http://fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=9423
2005-08-07/2006-05-28 http://fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=11803
2006-06-04/2007-05-13 http://fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=21070

Next thread: http://fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=28706
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6 sharp, ish.

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Friday, June 2, 2006 1:33 AM

IAMJACKSUSERNAME

Well, I'm all right. - Mal

Magdalene, if you can organize some flans from Oz, NZ, Japan, etc.; y'all can do your vshin in the same room a couple of hours before we do ours. Be sure to post what you watched and how it went in this here thread.
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GMT, ish.

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Sunday, June 4, 2006 4:09 AM

I just want to chime in and say how much fun the Sunday VShindigs are. You get to meet and chat with fellow Browncoats, discuss plot points and your impressions of the show, and of course watching an episode or two is a great way to pass a Sunday morning/afternoon/evening (depending on your time zone).

Yeah, but not boring like I just made it sound!

MAL "You only gotta scare him."
JAYNE "Pain is scary..."

http://www.fireflytalk.com - Big Damn Podcast, by fans, for fans, starring fans

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Sunday, June 4, 2006 7:41 AM

IAMJACKSUSERNAME

Well, I'm all right. - Mal

On 2006-06-04 we watched Out of gas to start our 3rd year of vshins. We maxed at 9 in the room, and welcomed virtual shindig newbie TeH.
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Sunday, June 11, 2006 6:00 AM

IAMJACKSUSERNAME

Well, I'm all right. - Mal

On 2006-06-11 the gang watched Trash with vshin newbie TimeLordRivendell.
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Well, I'm back from finishing the Lord of the rings extended DVD set.

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Sunday, June 18, 2006 7:18 AM

IAMJACKSUSERNAME

Well, I'm all right. - Mal

On 2006-06-18 we watched Safe. We maxed at 7.
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fuggedaboutit

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Sunday, June 25, 2006 7:38 AM

IAMJACKSUSERNAME

Well, I'm all right. - Mal

On 2006-06-25 the special ones watched Out of gas. Max=7.
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Some folk call it a slingblade, I call it soccer.

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Sunday, July 2, 2006 7:06 AM

IAMJACKSUSERNAME

Well, I'm all right. - Mal

On 2006-07-02 we watched Our Mrs Reynolds. Max=9.
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Canada day, 3 days before USA day.

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Sunday, July 9, 2006 7:17 AM

IAMJACKSUSERNAME

Well, I'm all right. - Mal

On 2006-07-09 we watched The train job. Max=8.
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Bendy, ish.

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Sunday, July 16, 2006 7:21 AM

IAMJACKSUSERNAME

Well, I'm all right. - Mal

On 2006-07-16 we watched War stories. Max=9.
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Fry cook opportunity.

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Sunday, July 23, 2006 7:43 AM

IAMJACKSUSERNAME

Well, I'm all right. - Mal

On 2006-07-23 only 3 flans showed up, and the vshin was a wash.

I instead listened to Junger's The perfect storm commentary (much better than Petersen's). This movie felt more Firefly to me than Serenity (BDM) did. No James Bondish silliness - just folk on a boat trying to survive, and getting their asses kicked going up against an impossible to survive wave.
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Big waves.

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Sunday, July 30, 2006 7:02 AM

IAMJACKSUSERNAME

Well, I'm all right. - Mal

On 2006-07-30 we watched the Serenity episode. Max=11.
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Jayne, the teletubby gone horribly wrong.

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Sunday, August 6, 2006 6:30 AM

IAMJACKSUSERNAME

Well, I'm all right. - Mal

On 2006-08-06 we kept with the DVD order, watching The train job. We had 2 newbies in one, and a 7 account room max.
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Solid, ish.

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Sunday, August 6, 2006 4:26 PM

I was gonna post asking if there was any interest in organizing a group farther west (18:00GMT = 03:00 my time), but I figured that a new thread would be the best place to put it.

BTW, this is something really small but the AOL AIM client for OSX was not really worth using last time I tried it. It looks and behaves like the AIM Express client. IMHO, you are better off using iChat (apple's IM client) or the OSX port of gaim, Adium ( http://www.adiumx.com/). Lots of customization options and it has a bunch of OSX-like eye-candy goodness

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Sunday, August 6, 2006 11:07 PM

IAMJACKSUSERNAME

Well, I'm all right. - Mal

goat, Magdalene from Australia also wanted to organize an earlier vshin, see if she's still interested. You could maybe use the same room, and vshin a couple of hours before we do ours. Be sure to post how it went in this here thread.

Thanks for the Mac clients info, I've changed the instructions.
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East, ish.

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Monday, August 7, 2006 12:02 AM

BABYWITHTHEPOWER

It's funny. I had been a part of these back when I was stationed in Germany, but stopped when I came stateside, then I joined this forum a few weeks ago. Just tonight I was talking to a co-worker about the group I used to do that with and I never knew it was you guys here. ImJacksNickname was the one that always invited me to them. My handle here is the same as my AIM screen name.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I'll be in my bunk.
http://www.myspace.com/babywiththepower

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Monday, August 7, 2006 12:16 AM

BUMP!!
Hey jack, its jtrek1. Sorry, missed todays (yesterdays) ep. Kids still taking up alot of time here. Try next Sunday!

Everyone dies alone.

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Saturday, August 12, 2006 11:03 AM

IAMJACKSUSERNAME

Well, I'm all right. - Mal

Quote:
Originally posted by JRC:
Hey jack, its jtrek1. Sorry, missed todays (yesterdays) ep. Kids still taking up alot of time here. Try next Sunday!

This is not a shameless bump! I'm posting to tell jtrek that I like kids - they taste like chicken.
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Starberry, ish.

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Sunday, August 13, 2006 8:25 AM

IAMJACKSUSERNAME

Well, I'm all right. - Mal

On 2006-08-13, still with the DVD order, 8 of us watched Bushwhacked and 4 Shindig. YT's back, and we maxed at 11.
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Place mats!

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Sunday, August 20, 2006 7:45 AM

IAMJACKSUSERNAME

Well, I'm all right. - Mal

On 2006-08-20, 3 of us watched the next ep in the DVD order: Safe. Max=7.
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Sunday, September 17, 2006 9:18 AM

IAMJACKSUSERNAME

Well, I'm all right. - Mal

On 2006-09-17 YT, mrsK, and Jack kept with the DVD order and watched Our Mrs Reynolds. Al just watched us watch.
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Sleepy, ish.

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Sunday, September 17, 2006 2:43 PM

any news for an earlier group? i'd be interested, as the current one is at 6am monday mornings my time :(

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Sunday, September 17, 2006 9:46 PM

IAMJACKSUSERNAME

Well, I'm all right. - Mal

Hippie, try to contact goat http://www.fireflyfans.net/showprofile.asp?u=21552 and Magdalene and see if you can organize something earlier.

Feel free to post in this thread a bit before it starts so it's on the front page, and afterwards how it went.
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Jubal, ish.

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Sunday, September 24, 2006 9:06 AM

IAMJACKSUSERNAME

Well, I'm all right. - Mal

On 2006-09-24, 5 of 8 watched Jaynestown and 3 of 7 Out of gas.
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Mal/Wash've shared more bodily fluids than Mal/Inara

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Sunday, October 29, 2006 7:54 AM

IAMJACKSUSERNAME

Well, I'm all right. - Mal

On 2006-10-29 six of nine watched Ariel.
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Non-toxic, ish.

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Sunday, November 5, 2006 6:01 AM

IAMJACKSUSERNAME

Well, I'm all right. - Mal

On 2006-11-05 we watched War stories. Max=7.
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Remember, remember, the 7th of November.

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Sunday, November 5, 2006 10:46 PM

I've just downloaded aim & will try & make it to the next virtuaal shindig next Sunday (12/11/06 or for Americans 11/12/06).

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Things are about to get interesting...Define interesting...Oh GOD oh GOD we're all going to die.

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Sunday, November 19, 2006 8:51 AM

IAMJACKSUSERNAME

Well, I'm all right. - Mal

On 2006-11-12 we watched Heart of gold.

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Sunday, November 19, 2006 8:58 AM

IAMJACKSUSERNAME

Well, I'm all right. - Mal

On 2006-11-19 we finished the DVD order run with Objects in space. Max=9.

Next week the movie for the first time ever in a vshin?
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Sunday, November 26, 2006 8:07 AM

IAMJACKSUSERNAME

Well, I'm all right. - Mal

On 2006-11-26 we watched Serenity (the BDM) for the first time in a vshin. Max=5.
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Thankfullish.

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Sunday, November 26, 2006 9:27 AM

Ithink your statement just made meh join :)

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Sunday, November 26, 2006 9:43 AM

uh, this is confuzzling. I don't get it. my username is xiikelaique. Can you help?

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All A R O U N D You
you're S U F F O C A T I N G
the e m p t y shape in Y O U
s t e a l s your b r e a t h

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Sunday, November 26, 2006 10:41 AM

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT

Jeez, I keep catching this thread , and mean to get organized and show up. But I work nights, and especially now that I have Sunday off, I sleep in 'till NOON California time. Saw a proposal for an earlier starting time, how about later?

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Sunday, November 26, 2006 10:54 AM

IAMJACKSUSERNAME

Well, I'm all right. - Mal

Only saw your post now Kelai - I've added your AIM username to the invite list so expect some invites if you're online next time.
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RSVP, ish.

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Sunday, November 26, 2006 10:58 AM

IAMJACKSUSERNAME

Well, I'm all right. - Mal

Some of the western hemisphere flans probably stay in the room when the rest of us catch some zzzs after the vhsin, so have a look, and feel free to report on what you saw in this here thread.
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Ungorly hour, ish.

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Sunday, December 3, 2006 7:43 AM

going to try this out I got Gaim & the Join a Chat screen has an Exchange box the default is 4. Does this matter?

My screen name was taken so after a few tries I ended up with barmellinbrownco

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Sunday, December 3, 2006 8:44 AM

IAMJACKSUSERNAME

Well, I'm all right. - Mal

On 2006-12-03 we watched Trash. Max=8.
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People loved those!

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Sunday, December 3, 2006 1:05 PM

The default exchange 4 worked.

I hung around after Trash to watch the Message. I usually stay away from chats because I type slowly & cant spel, but this was fun I don’t know any Browncoats around here so it was nice to watch Firefly with 7 other Browncoats.

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Sunday, December 10, 2006 7:24 AM

IAMJACKSUSERNAME

Well, I'm all right. - Mal

On 2006-12-10 YT, barmellinBrownco, and me couldn't join the room. JMB, logged in with AOL, had no problems tho.

We went to the Serenity room instead, and will use it until the Firefly room is unfoxed.

We watched Serenity (the episode). Max=8.
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Block the room and chuck the key, but you can't take the sky from me
There's no place I can be, since I found Serenity

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Sunday, December 17, 2006 7:01 AM

IAMJACKSUSERNAME

Well, I'm all right. - Mal

On 2006-12-17 we watched The train job and Bushwhacked. Max=9.
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Jesus, Mary Magedeline, and no John.
Easy as a lion.

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Sunday, December 17, 2006 1:47 PM

Next Sunday is Christmas Eve.

Is it still on? I'm interested in coming by. It's 10 AM my time, and if you ask me, Firefly is the best way to start any day.

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Sunday, December 17, 2006 10:43 PM

IAMJACKSUSERNAME

Well, I'm all right. - Mal

Very few people showed up 2 years ago. Feel free to join the few stragglers for a Chinese food vshin - the more the merrier.
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Monday, December 18, 2006 10:40 PM

Not making any promises yet, but seeing as how I've been watching Firefly repeatedly during my Christmas break, might as well do it pseudo-not-alone.

~

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Sunday, December 24, 2006 7:08 AM

IAMJACKSUSERNAME

Well, I'm all right. - Mal

On 2006-12-24 we watched Out of gas and Our Mrs Reynolds. Max=8.
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Bigger than Jesus.

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Sunday, December 31, 2006 7:29 AM

IAMJACKSUSERNAME

Well, I'm all right. - Mal

On 2006-12-31 we watched War stories. Max=5.
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"Then you're saying you're from the future, too, is that right?"

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Sunday, January 7, 2007 8:04 AM

IAMJACKSUSERNAME

Well, I'm all right. - Mal

On 2007-01-07 we watched Safe. Max=5.
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Light it.

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Sunday, January 14, 2007 8:09 AM

did the time changer or something? I went to the serenity room & the only 2 people there were rude. The firefly room seemed to work but theres no one there.

I did mention the part where the engine overheats and we all die, right? Don't think I woulda left somethin' like that out.
Tales from the Verse http://talesfromtheverse.com Blue Moon www.fireflyfans.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=7703

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Sunday, January 14, 2007 8:37 AM

Sorry Bar, I'm in Firefly now, but nobody else is

MAL "You only gotta scare him."
JAYNE "Pain is scary..."

http://www.fireflytalk.com - Big Damn Podcast

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