A Firefly Moment by Channain

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A Firefly Moment

POSTED BY: CHANNAIN
UPDATED: Wednesday, May 12, 2004 11:02
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Wednesday, April 21, 2004 3:06 PM

America loves a winner!

Just watched 'Smallville ' while preparing for Angel. When Clark has to plunge that big ole needle into her heart..., thoughts immediatly flew back to OoG, Mal in the infirmary. I'm sure it had something to do w/ getting ready to watch our HERO coming up on ANGEL.....heh heh

" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. Worked that out myself. "

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Friday, April 23, 2004 12:13 PM

DARKJESTER

I work in the Purchasing department of an RV company, but I'm also responsible for the production schedule - keeping track of what units are coming in the door when, and with what options. If a dealer wants a unit with an unusual option (no air conditioner, for example) we have a process for approving the "Special" change order. I had a salesman call today and ask for a "Special" change order, and I SWEAR he sounded just like Book reminding Mal of "the SPECIAL hell....".
OK, it looks kinda lame written down, but it was funny at the time....

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

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Friday, April 23, 2004 7:11 PM

DANALYNN26

I had a firefly moment at work the other day. I was looking up file notes and our clients attorney first name was Serenity. It immediately made me smile. It was also made me unable to focus on my job for the next few minutes.

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Friday, April 23, 2004 9:20 PM

STATIC

So. . .I had a rare opportunity recently to fly 'back seat' with our Brigade Commander in the front seat. Sort of his 'last hurrah' before he hands the mission over to our replacements. . .We've made the run to several of the more remote fire bases, which many of us firefly-minded pilots refer to as 'the rim' or 'the border worlds', and as we're coming back home to Kandahar (our little Persephone, I guess), we have to hold a pattern for a few moments as a bunch of Marine Corps helicopters come in.

We're sitting here, watching a whole mess of USMC aircraft cruise past us, new to the mission and such, and I comment that with the Marines here with their helos and Harrier jets, and our replacements bringing more aircraft than we had, I was surprised there'd be space for all of them.

The Colonel, who is NOT a Firefly-type, says somewhat wistfully (I bet most of you have guessed already)

"Yep. . .gettin' awfully crowded in my sky."

Shiny!

==================================================
"Wash. . .we got some local color happening. A grand entrance would not go amiss."

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Friday, April 23, 2004 11:08 PM

HEB

I was sitting in Physics class yesterday, pretty much falling asleep, when my physics teacher suddenly referred to the equations of general relativity as 'wacky fun'.

That woke me up; I couldn't stop grinning. Which I think slightly worried my physics teacher who I'm sure already thinks I'm freak since he found out that I skived one of his lessons to go to a buffy convention.

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Saturday, April 24, 2004 10:50 AM

ANKHAGOGO

Ok, some friends and I were playing this odd little card game. Some people are secretly "Mafia", and they "kill" other players. Then everyone has to figure out who the Mafia people are.
During one round,I kept getting accused of being Mafia, and, when I asked why, one guy said, "Because I think you are."
I replied, kinda drawling, "Thinkin' don't make it so."
One of the girls just cracks up and when she finally gets under control, says, "That sounded just like Mal."
Yay!

Also, if anyone else noticed? On the first Angel episode with Adam Baldwin, Spike said "fixin' to", and Angel said something about "philosophize". I think it's a correct form of the word, but just the way he said it made it really sound Firely-y.

"We're just happy to be doin' good works."

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Saturday, April 24, 2004 11:11 AM

HOWDYROCKERBABY1

Today i was searching through these old inspirational calendars and i found on that said
"There is no such thing as being too independent" -Victoria Billings.

I thought it was such a great quote.

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Here's to Jayne, the box dropping man-ape-gone-wrong-thing"
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

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Saturday, April 24, 2004 11:12 AM

MISGUIDED BY VOICES

I know it ain't a Firefly moment - but this thread has reminded me.

Back when I was doing my degree, I opened one of my last exam papers, and one of the questions involved a contractual dispute between Sheridan, Sinclair and Franklin.

"I threw up on your bed"

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Saturday, April 24, 2004 1:05 PM

DUCKIE

I had a Firefly Moment at work last night. I work the Front Desk at a hotel, and this weekend is my turn in the rotation for midnight shift. At about 1 in the morning a taxi dropped off a young woman who'd been drinking downtown and she promptly threw up on the sidewalk and collapsed for a little lie-down in said pool of bile and liquor (it was pretty clear she'd not eaten anything... possibly all day). Her friends put her in a cab in that condition and sent her back by herself - that really made me mad, but that's a separate and irrelevant story. She was still somewhat conscious and knew what room she was in. Up stairs of course. I half-carried/half-walked her down the hall, and when I got to the bottom of the stairs and looked up, my first thought was - to steal a Kayleeism - "I tried to get her up the stairs. She was just... *heavy*." I did manage to get her up there, though. I just felt bad that when she couldn't crawl, she couldn't find one of her so-called "friends" to carry her.

S.A.
"We're all dreaming. ... Don't make faces."

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Monday, April 26, 2004 12:03 PM

CHANNAIN

i DO aim to misbehave

Yesterday, my friend and I were watching Twister, a movie that can make me a little crazy - got chased by an actual twister once upon a time. Toward the end of the movie, the newscaster said something about the tornado heading toward Canton County.

Yup - you can probably guess what I said next.

"The hero of Canton, the man they call.... MEEEEEE."

We have art so as not to die of truth ~ Neitzsche
http://www.mnartists.org/artistHome.do?rid=7922

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Monday, April 26, 2004 2:19 PM

MALICIOUS

Quote:
Originally posted by Duckie:
I had a Firefly Moment at work last night. I work the Front Desk at a hotel, and this weekend is my turn in the rotation for midnight shift. At about 1 in the morning a taxi dropped off a young woman who'd been drinking downtown and she promptly threw up on the sidewalk and collapsed for a little lie-down in said pool of bile and liquor (it was pretty clear she'd not eaten anything... possibly all day). Her friends put her in a cab in that condition and sent her back by herself - that really made me mad, but that's a separate and irrelevant story. She was still somewhat conscious and knew what room she was in. Up stairs of course. I half-carried/half-walked her down the hall, and when I got to the bottom of the stairs and looked up, my first thought was - to steal a Kayleeism - "I tried to get her up the stairs. She was just... *heavy*." I did manage to get her up there, though. I just felt bad that when she couldn't crawl, she couldn't find one of her so-called "friends" to carry her.

S.A.
"We're all dreaming. ... Don't make faces."

Duckie

You are somewhat of a big damn hero for doing the "right" thing by that poor girl, despite her probably bein' a bit on the aromatic side...

My latest Firefly moment came this past Saturday after my son washed and waxed my car. My sister said, "It's so shiny!" I just said, "Ain't it just."

Mal-licious

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Monday, April 26, 2004 3:38 PM

DUCKIE

Duckie

You are somewhat of a big damn hero for doing the "right" thing by that poor girl, despite her probably bein' a bit on the aromatic side...

Well, my shift finishes at 7.... I could smell bile ALLLLLL night, 'cause I got some on my shirt. The next night I actually had alot more problems with rowdy people and such, but since everyone kept their bodily fluids to themselves I actually counted it as an improvement.

S.A.
"We're all dreaming. ...Don't make faces."

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Monday, April 26, 2004 5:02 PM

MENELUIN

Ah... today on the way to work, I saw a guy in a coat that happened to be brown. Reminded me of Mal, and how cool it might be to have an actual long, fitted brown coat. So I mentioned this to my friend who works with me (who also, btw, got me interested in Firefly, wonderful girl) and we proceeded to talk about how neat it would be to find a coat.

We were loud.

If the man in the brown coat didn't give us the weirdest look in the world... I don't know who could.

~~~~~~~~
http://www.thepaperbackwriter.com
AIM: KingArthursPiano

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Tuesday, April 27, 2004 12:02 PM

MALICIOUS

I entirely forgot about the Serenity Prayer!

This is what happens each time I say it in my head:

"God, grant me the Serenity...

ummm, where was I? Oh, yeah...
God, grant me the Serenity
to accept the things I cannot change (Fox

)
Courage to change the things I can,
(I [and MANY others] helped get the movie to be made!)
and Wisdom to know the difference..."

Mal-licious

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Thursday, April 29, 2004 2:26 AM

AERONSTORM

I grabbed the mail yesterday afternoon and started giggling when I noticed the postmark on my electric bil: Canton, OH!

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Thursday, April 29, 2004 7:38 AM

WHOODAHN

I had another Firefly moment the other day. I had to do a last minute speech to a class of newly hired guys and as I described my position I told them they would soon learn the chain of command. I had to stop myself from laughing.

"I ain't crazy and I've got papers to prove it"

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Thursday, April 29, 2004 8:00 AM

CHANNAIN

i DO aim to misbehave

Quote:
Originally posted by Malicious:
and Wisdom to know the difference..."

before shooting?

We have art so as not to die of truth ~ Neitzsche
http://www.mnartists.org/artistHome.do?rid=7922

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Thursday, April 29, 2004 8:42 AM

MALICIOUS

Quote:
Originally posted by Channain:
Quote:
Originally posted by Malicious:
and Wisdom to know the difference..."
before shooting?

We have art so as not to die of truth ~ Neitzsche
http://www.mnartists.org/artistHome.do?rid=7922

Exactly. With my eyes closed.

Mal-licious

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Thursday, April 29, 2004 9:09 AM

KNIBBLET

Quote:
Originally posted by Channain:
... Felix Needleworthy and one other costumer in Minnesota measure up to this.
B]

I love Felix' stuff. My friend, Patricia, sews all my gowns (the gorgeous gold satin Ren Gown and my Raspberry Velvet Kate Gown). Felix offered her a job last summer - she couldn't take it because she was pregnant with Aidan.

Glad to know you have excellent taste, Chainnain.

"Just keep walkin, preacher man."

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Thursday, April 29, 2004 3:07 PM

GRIFFIN8116

The other day in Physics one of my classmates was sitting there talking his head off about some of the dumbest things and I got fed up with it after awhile and said, "Roger, your mouth's talking, you might want to see to that." Then I started laughing uncontrollably.

-Griffin

Sean Griffin
Captain of the Diligent

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

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Friday, April 30, 2004 3:46 PM

MALICIOUS

At work today, someone from another area was visiting the woman who sits next to me. In her hand was a spherical object. It appeared to be a styrofoam ball with fake flowers glued to it. It was hanging from a string and may have been a decoration for a wedding or some such. Anyhoo, when I glanced at it, I thought, "Her food is definitely problematic."

Mal-licious

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Friday, April 30, 2004 4:53 PM

GUNHAND

Okay this one is so bizare that if I wasn't there I wouldn't believe it was true, but I was there and it's all true...

I'm currently at "home" as in where I grew up, to help my mom out with some house repairs. So today she says to me,"Want to go for lunch?" I thought for all of 2.2 seconds, free food usually gets a faster response time but I also decided that since the weather here was for once fairly decent (weather being why I went literally about as far from here as is possible and still be in the contiguous 48) I wanted to drive my own Jeep with the top down, something I managed to do here all of maybe 10 times in the 5 years I had it up here. Even though I thought it was a mite chilly, but she agreed thinking we were having a heat wave. So I go and pull the top, doors, everything off and we set out to go into town.

Yeah that's a long setup, but trust me it's worth it...

Anyhow, we stop to pick up a couple of her friends that wanted to see me, appearently they still think I'm 5 and wanted to pinch my cheeks and have lunch with me since I'm a world famous...okay small town boy made good and GOT THE HECK OUT famous. So off we go to town to get some lunch, me and the ladies.

I get to town and get on the road that leads to the strip where all the fancy dining establishments are, hit a red light. Well it's 3 lanes there, one coming the other way, a turning lane and a straight through lane. I'm minding my own business, inflicting sonic doom on the poor ladies (well not really but I don't think any of them ever heard Pantera before...) and all of a sudden this car decides he's going from the right hand turning lane into my lane...right in front of me. Now. While we're stopped. Now this sort of thing doesn't phase me much, I'm used to big city driving and all but the guy didn't signal, didn't motion he wanted in, didn't even LOOK and the next thing I know I'm slamming into reverse to avoid having a Ford Galxy 500 convertable circa 1970 on my bumper like a trussed deer.

Now I'm not the most subtle of men on my best days. Nor the kindest, gentlest or most restrained at experessing my displeasure. So before I knew it the stereo's off, I'm literally standing up holding the roll bar to make sure he can see me and out of my mouth comes...

"Huh choo-shang tza-jiao duh tzang-huo!" now if you know your Firefly Mandarin, well that's pretty nasty stuff.

Shocked silence from the back seat, guy finally looks in his rearview, my mom is laughing her

off because she's watched Firefly...

The guy's eyes locked with mine, I could see his bald pate glowing in embarasment, so I add a final shot...

"Dong ma?!"

More laughing from my mom in the passenger seat...and hysterical laughing from the car that's now parked next to me as soon as the "Dong" came out of my mouth, by the time I finished "Ma?" I was looking at the car next to me. This car being a Chinese restaurant delivery car with two very attractive young ladies in it literally laughing so hard they were crying and nodding. Guessed they "Dong ma'd."

I sorta stood there for an extra second. Sat back down. Looked over and tipped my hat to them and then the light changed. They waved and gave me a thumbs up as we went on our merry ways...

I think tommorow I'm gonna go for some Chinese.

So there's my big Firefly Moment of the day...hell I doubt I'll top that one, like, ever.

~-~-~-~-~-~-~-
"Oh hey, I got an idea. Instead of us hanging
around playing art critic till I get pinched by
the Man, how's about we move away from this
eerie-ass piece of work and get on with our
increasingly eerie-ass day, how's that?"

My eerie-ass website:
http://gunhandsfirefly.homestead.com/Index.html

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Friday, April 30, 2004 4:59 PM

ANNIK

Quote:
Originally posted by BlazingBug:
I went to see Kevin Smith speak day before yesterday, which he does as all Q&A.

I don't even recall which person asking which question it was, but at one point Kevin asks them a question back like, "Well, have you...?"

And the guy replies, "Not so much."

My brain just automatically derailed to Firefly.

"Wacky fun..."

I teach at a technical college and had a student say the same thing in response to something I'd said to my class. It threw me off so badly that I just stood there, silently smiling at the memories for a moment.

Then I shook my head and said, "Ah, the joys of chemo brain!" (my catch-all excuse for these moments), and got some genuine laughs at my own expense.

Well worth it.

Cheers,
Annik

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Saturday, May 1, 2004 4:18 PM

HOWDYROCKERBABY1

my latest moment happened like 4 seconds ago. I went to www.bolt.com and the question of the day was: "Democrat or Republican? Or do you see yourself as an independent?

it made me giggle

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Here's to Jayne, the box dropping man-ape-gone-wrong-thing"
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

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Saturday, May 1, 2004 4:40 PM

MALICIOUS

I am registered as an independent!! I am a TRUE BROWNCOAT! Take that Democrat/Republican Alliance!

Mal-licious

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Saturday, May 1, 2004 5:20 PM

ANNIK

Quote:
Originally posted by Malicious:
I am registered as an independent!! I am a TRUE BROWNCOAT! Take that Democrat/Republican Alliance!

Mal-licious

LOL! All the more funny since IRL, Fillion is *Canadian*.

:-)

Cheers,
Annik

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Saturday, May 1, 2004 6:43 PM

GUNHAND

Last night I had a serious bout of insomnia, so I needed to watch something and at the ungodly hour I was needing to watch TV all that was on was infomercials.

So I decided to watch a DVD, "Basic" to be precise because I'd seen it so many times so I wouldn't have the urge to have to stay up to see how it ends.

For the hell of it I put on the director's commentary, he's explaining the opening shot of the Canal and saying,"The mix of music with this little southern girl voice is there to clue the audience in that we're trying to play sly with this film."

That had me laughing for a good 10 minutes, and certainly put an odd spin on the rest of the movie...

~-~-~-~-~-~-~-
"Oh hey, I got an idea. Instead of us hanging
around playing art critic till I get pinched by
the Man, how's about we move away from this
eerie-ass piece of work and get on with our
increasingly eerie-ass day, how's that?"

My eerie-ass website:
http://gunhandsfirefly.homestead.com/Index.html

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Saturday, May 1, 2004 7:19 PM

GUNRUNNER

I guess this could be considered a Firefly moment, my Virtual Sailor buddies and me are writhing the script for “VS: The Movie” (not a real movie) and I’ve tried to include as many Firefly references and Chinese cussing as possible.

Here is the vs forum thread (More Firefly references)
http://forums.simflight.com/viewtopic.php?t=22525&sid=670e668b9ecd66ac
8015663309bb4290

Here is the final cut (Not so much)
http://www.freewebs.com/vsthemovie/

The Firefly CCG Web Site:
http://mywebpage.netscape.com/Bllm119/firefly_ccg_web_site.htm
>Help out today!

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Wednesday, May 12, 2004 10:30 AM

MILORADELL

Posting this for my husband:

Quote:
So walking by our new neighbor on our floor (at work), and I notice outside the door is a big wooden box, roughly the size of a coffin, and the first thing that popped into my head was, “Why’d you guys go and order a dead guy?” It made me smile. Just thought I would share my shiny moment.

****
"I have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat." - Rebecca West, 1913

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Wednesday, May 12, 2004 11:02 AM

HEB

Was reading the latest issue of New Scientist magazine in a very quiet library yesterday. My shouts of 'ooh ooh I know what that means' did not go down well when it started talking about the amygdala. Luckily my only other browncoat friend was there so I could share my pride at actually knowing something.

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