The First Annual VIRTUAL Shindig! by Malicious

I Vote aim chatroom! That would be kick ass fun!

So, for all you people who don't have AOL, go to www.aim.com and from this website you can download aim(Aol Instant Messanger) for free. They don't ask for your credet card or anything, and it won't mess up your computer at all.

So yeah, go onward and download the Aim-y goodness!

THEN we'll talk online shindig!

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Four out of five dentists reccomend calling Ebo a girl.

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Wednesday, May 26, 2004 1:52 PM

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Originally posted by Shiny:
You know, if you REALLY wanted to make a virtual shindig work, we could get everyone to log into a IM chat room (or the chat here at FFF.net) and have them all start watching the same episode(s) at the same time. Then we could commence with the funny commentary at the appropriate times. Whuddaya think?

That would be so KOOL!!! I am such a GEEK!! But I would be up for it. Anyone??

Mal-licious

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Wednesday, May 26, 2004 2:03 PM

THATWEIRDGIRL

Just give me a time and an episode.

www.thatweirdgirl.com

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Wednesday, May 26, 2004 2:11 PM

Chatrooms confuse me but I'm willing to try.

And I'll bring, hmmm...dunno yet. But it's a good idea Mal-icious, one time I was away I had a video conference virtual birthday party, that was fun telling people on a little screen to do another shot. Hehehe.

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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:
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Wednesday, May 26, 2004 2:16 PM

KARENKAY99

This sounds like very much fun!! I'll bring fruit & ff pretzels & michelob ultra (on a diet, you know).

just give me details and i'll be there.

gotta go watch a bad movie on scifi. adam's in it.

"They say the snow on the roof is too heavy. They say the ceiling will cave in. His brains are in terrible danger."

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Wednesday, May 26, 2004 2:17 PM

Well for days my birthday's Tuesday...*coughcough*

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Wednesday, May 26, 2004 2:25 PM

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Originally posted by karenkay99:
gotta go watch a bad movie on scifi. adam's in it.

Gargantua!! He's a marine biologist and his son the slave, I mean his son the intern, his name is Brandon! I just saw the first part of it. It sucked! He looks soooo different.

Mal-licious

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Wednesday, May 26, 2004 2:28 PM

You know, I think we're allll booked up on Tuesday. Yup, all my slots (on my calandar!) are filled. Might be able to squeeze in a virtual birthday party in NOVEMBER though.

Mal-licious

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Wednesday, May 26, 2004 2:28 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Malicious:
Quote:
Originally posted by karenkay99:
gotta go watch a bad movie on scifi. adam's in it.

Gargantua!! He's a marine biologist and his son the slave, I mean his son the intern, his name is Brandon! I just saw the first part of it. It sucked! He looks soooo different.

Mal-licious

That's silly, Marines don't have to study biolo...ohhh yeah. Nevermind.

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Thursday, May 27, 2004 1:57 AM

KARENKAY99

Quote:
Originally posted by Malicious:
Quote:
Originally posted by karenkay99:
gotta go watch a bad movie on scifi. adam's in it.

Gargantua!! He's a marine biologist and his son the slave, I mean his son the intern, his name is Brandon! I just saw the first part of it. It sucked! He looks soooo different.

Mal-licious

yep. it sucked.

"They say the snow on the roof is too heavy. They say the ceiling will cave in. His brains are in terrible danger."

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Thursday, May 27, 2004 3:41 AM

CYBERSNARK

Quote:
Originally posted by Malicious:
When do we want to have it? I can't do it this weekend (Memorial Day), but next weekend is good for me--June 4th,5th and 6th (And the weekend after that. And after that. As is any other weekend until infinity and beyond, but that's a long Gunhand-type story).

Next weekend is bad for me. My graduation is on the 8th, so that whole weekend will be manic preparation, running across town repeatedly, and trying to justify to relatives why I have no ("real") job yet ('cause writing doesn't count, on account of it not being an abusive, soul-crushing torture that pays millions per week).

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Thursday, May 27, 2004 3:47 AM

XENARC

Might be better to go with a plain old IRC or some such instead of AIM, to keep from excluding people. Wouldn't be in the spirit of things to punish the Independants who won't use Core/Alliance programs.

XenArc

(edited for typo)

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Thursday, May 27, 2004 3:55 AM

KUGELBLITZ

AYep. Good point.

Maryland Blue Crabs? Most of the crabs you buy in Maryland now come from Louisiana.

Hmmm, how about some really fine Triple Bock beer and a huge wheel of Stilton Cheese and some fresh French Bread? Not Maryland-y but maybe some crabcakes on the side would help.

"We are exporting democracy because we have all of this unused democracy lying around at home. Why not make some money doing it?"

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Thursday, May 27, 2004 5:28 AM

BLEYDDYN

For those who do use AIM, I've been trying to remember to log into a room called simply 'Firefly' whenever I'm online. So feel free to join in at any time.

My AIM name is bleyddyn@mac.com

--Bleyddyn

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Thursday, May 27, 2004 6:28 AM

DELIA

Quote:
Originally posted by Kugelblitz:

Maryland Blue Crabs? Most of the crabs you buy in Maryland now come from Louisiana.

So long as they aren't Cicadas just pretending to be crabs. . .

Sounds like fun -- I'm in. I'll bring a dizzying array of baked goods because (and this is the best part) virtual pastries have NO calories.

Delia

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ANYA: Don't be ridiculous. Martha Stewart isn't a demon. She's a witch.
XANDER: Please, she-- Really?
ANYA: Of course. Nobody could do that much decoupage without calling on the powers of darkness.

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Thursday, May 27, 2004 8:49 AM

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Originally posted by Delia:
Quote:
So long as they aren't Cicadas just pretending to be crabs. . .

Heck, with enough Old Bay and a few beers, who cares??

Mal-licious

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Thursday, May 27, 2004 6:12 PM

DELIA

Quote:
Originally posted by Malicious:
Originally posted by Delia:
So long as they aren't Cicadas just pretending to be crabs. . .

Heck, with enough Old Bay and a few beers, who cares??

That's going to take more than a few beers, Mal-licious. Although I hear they're supposed to be pretty good sauted in butter with a little garlic. I'm on a no bug diet right now, though.

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ANYA: Don't be ridiculous. Martha Stewart isn't a demon. She's a witch.
XANDER: Please, she-- Really?
ANYA: Of course. Nobody could do that much decoupage without calling on the powers of darkness.

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Thursday, May 27, 2004 6:12 PM

CAGEYBEE

i love a party! especially one that turns into a riot featuring my band! we'll be there.

band: bring your riot gear and extra reeds/guitar strings/drum sticks, etc.

also, because i live in the (actual!) ice cream capital of the world, i will bring fish...just kidding. i'm bringing ice cream, what does everyone like?

me

~Mal- "how drunk was i last night?"
~Jayne- "i don't know. i passed out."

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Thursday, May 27, 2004 6:44 PM

IRC...AIM...he understands but he does not comprehend.

I never could get those gorram things to work. So I'll need lots of help. Yeah I know I always need some sort of help...probably professional.

But I'll try, I'll try.

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Thursday, May 27, 2004 6:47 PM

THATWEIRDGIRL

Isn't there a chat room here, on FFF? Why don't we just use that.

www.thatweirdgirl.com

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Thursday, May 27, 2004 7:06 PM

I can never get into that

chat room here on fff.net. It pisses me off major big time.

Any anyone (gunhand) who needs help with AIM, I'd be happy to oblige.

My e-mail is Seabiscuitsglory@hotmail.com

Aim is BrokenGriGri

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Thursday, May 27, 2004 7:33 PM

SHINY

If we really want to make this accessible to everyone, we probably ought to have it monthly or something, so no one feels left out. Like, the first tuesday of every month or whatever. And publicize it over at the OB and fireflymovie.com and browncoats.com and everywhere else. Could put a schedule up with which episode which month, and how to get to the chat room, etc. I'm just an idea man -- someone go work out the details. < mal > Do it now! < / mal > ;)

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Thursday, May 27, 2004 7:39 PM

Ohhh ohhh! Start it this coming Tuesday, it's the first Tuesday of the month and my Birthday!

So I can watch Firefly with y'all and you can watch my typing skills degrade as the booze kick in in a celebratory fashion.

Bunch of my friends are coming over but they love Firefly too, except the one guy who ain't seen it yet and is looking to. So a good time could be had by all.

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Thursday, May 27, 2004 7:59 PM

CAGEYBEE

i will only attend if a good time is ASSURED to be had by all.

me

~Mal- "how drunk was i last night?"
~Jayne- "i don't know. i passed out."

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Thursday, May 27, 2004 8:02 PM

Hey I'll be there so how can it go wrong?

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Thursday, May 27, 2004 10:38 PM

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Originally posted by Gunhand:
Hey I'll be there so how can it go wrong?

Oh, jeez, that does it. We are in for it!

And I am definitely not the person to set up ANYTHING even remotely computer related, but here goes: TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 2004, GUNHAND'S BIRTHDAY, WE WILL ATTEMPT TO HAVE A MASS FIREFLY EPISODE VIEWING-WHILE-CHATTING THINGY. I go to bed really early on school, I mean WORK nights of course, so what time is good for you people? I'm on the east coast so...8:00 eastern daylight time ok? Also, what ep? If we do the obvious thing and watch Serenity, it can only be the first hour for me! But that's ok! Think this will work?

Mal-licious

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Thursday, May 27, 2004 11:05 PM

ARIES

to this i say whoooooohooooo, gotta love the music and why not incorperate the watching of the firefly series too....makes a great party fav. dont ya think..

"your such a boob"

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Friday, May 28, 2004 12:38 AM

HEB

Quote:
Originally posted by Malicious:
Quote:
Originally posted by Gunhand:
Hey I'll be there so how can it go wrong?

8:00 eastern daylight time ok?

Mal-licious

Is that like 1 in the morning in the UK?

Well, my sister's a ship... we had a
complicated childhood

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Friday, May 28, 2004 8:58 AM

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Originally posted by heb:
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Is that like 1 in the morning in the UK?

I haven't the foggiest idea what time it would be. I'm only 70% sure that it would be 5:00 in California, so.....

Mal-licious

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Friday, May 28, 2004 9:24 AM

ASTRIANA

Quote:
Originally posted by heb:
Quote:
Originally posted by Malicious:
8:00 eastern daylight time ok?

Is that like 1 in the morning in the UK?

If you're on Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), then Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) is 4 hours behind you - as opposed to Eastern Standard Time (EST) being 5 hours behind - unless you have Daylight Savings Time where you are. So:

8:00pm EDT = 12:00am GMT

Also, California is on Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) right now, so:

8:00pm EDT = 5:00pm (PDT)

However, if you're in Arizona or Hawaii, you don't have Daylight Savings Time, and you subtract 1 hour less than you normally would, so:

8:00pm EDT = 2:00pm HST (Hawaiian Standard Time), or
8:00pm EDT = 5:00pm MST (Mountain Standard Time)

(I don't really know most of this, but I use these really good resources:
http://www.timezoneconverter.com/index.shtml
http://www.worldtimeserver.com/
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/ )

~A~
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...I'm still free,
You can't take the sky from me.

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Friday, May 28, 2004 9:36 AM

...and that concludes our lecture on "Time Around the World"

Mal-licious

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Friday, May 28, 2004 9:38 AM

ASTRIANA

ah, well...

~A~
El Jefe Magnifico's Mistress... of Communications and Harems...

...I'm still free,
You can't take the sky from me.

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Friday, May 28, 2004 9:50 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Astriana:

ah, well...

Thank you, Astriana! I think we all learned a lot, didn't we class? (students all nod)

Mal-licious

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Friday, May 28, 2004 11:36 AM

DEBBIEBUK1

What about a 24 hour Firefly marathon (all episodes twice or something?), we could start in Aus with Serenity, Finland up to say Out of Gas, by around UK DVD-watching time be well up to HoG, then start again. Can't do the sums, but I know at work we always schedule meetings with our East coast guys around 2pm UK which is sort of 9am EST I think. Maybe not every month but it would be fun to try a couple of times.

Then do it all again just before the BDM comes out and get lots of extra publicity.

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Friday, May 28, 2004 11:41 AM

KARENKAY99

Quote:
Originally posted by Malicious:
Quote:
Originally posted by Astriana:

ah, well...

Thank you, Astriana! I think we all learned a lot, didn't we class? (students all nod)

Mal-licious

(nodding) is there goin' be a quiz?

"They say the snow on the roof is too heavy. They say the ceiling will cave in. His brains are in terrible danger."

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Friday, May 28, 2004 12:24 PM

HEB

Thanks.

I think we're in daylight savings time at the moment.

I don't mind staying up though if it could be an hour earlier that would be a bit better for us Brit fans. That's if we're welcome to the virtual shindig.

Well, my sister's a ship... we had a
complicated childhood

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Friday, May 28, 2004 1:29 PM

NUR

Desperatly wishing I could get in on this. Sadly no. Home away from home (university home) has no DVD player...no cable either so I can't even watch Firefly on t.v. All I got is my t.v and VCR ...anyone want to send me tapes?

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O my Lord! bestow wisdom on me, and join me with the righteous.
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Friday, May 28, 2004 1:51 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by heb:
Thanks.

I think we're in daylight savings time at the moment.

I don't mind staying up though if it could be an hour earlier that would be a bit better for us Brit fans. That's if we're welcome to the virtual shindig.

Heb,

Earlier is ok by me! The only pre-requisite for being allowed to attend is that you like Firefly. Oh, I guess another would be that you have the ability to watch the DVD and chat at the same time, wouldn't it?

BTW---ANYONE!!! Do I play the DVD on the computer whilst I chat? Or do I hafta bring the TV and the DVD player into the computer room? Or do I run back and forth from the TV room to the computer room? Somebody HELP! I'm starting to have a virtual panic attack!

Mal-licious

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Friday, May 28, 2004 1:53 PM

KarenKay,

Yes! There is a quiz! The Firefly personality test. Go take it and try to be Mal!

Mal-licious

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Friday, May 28, 2004 1:59 PM

Nur,

We will try to communicate with you with our BRAINS!

Mal-licious

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Friday, May 28, 2004 2:47 PM

Wait! Time out.

Wheres this gonna be? AIM? The FFF.net chatroom? This thread? or are we just going to stand outside our respective houses and yell?

If we do AIM, I'm willing to get a list of screen names and host it.

But whatever you all want to do is just peachy.

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Friday, May 28, 2004 4:10 PM

Ebo,

From what I have gathered, the chat thingy on this site doesn't work for (I think) Shiny. The PLAN is to do it on AIM. I am crabbycat23. I haven't clue one how to go about it, though, so any help you can give a (hopefully) fellowine club member, would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you,

Mal-licious

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Friday, May 28, 2004 4:58 PM

The chat thing on this site has never worked for me either.

The best way I can see to go about this is for everyone to go online at the appointed time, then I'll just send out generic chat invite to all the firefly people on my buddylist. The only problem I see is that people have to be invited in, so its pretty critical that you get your screen name off to me so i can invite you in. This inviting thing also has a plus side, no disgruntaled fans can come along and go, "What the hell is this? Firefly sucks!"

Once everybody is in we can all start whatever episode we want to watch at about the same time.

Hows that sound?

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Four out of five dentists reccomend calling Ebo a girl.

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Friday, May 28, 2004 5:02 PM

Perhaps you should start a thread just for the screen names for the AIM viewing, to make it easier to locate them? Just a thought.

*edit* Oh! I think it's a plan!

Mal-licious

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Friday, May 28, 2004 5:29 PM