A shirt designed by Fireflyfans for Firefly Fans! by Stillshiny

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A shirt designed by Fireflyfans for Firefly Fans!

POSTED BY: STILLSHINY
UPDATED: Monday, November 8, 2004 08:17
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Friday, August 27, 2004 5:29 AM

I need your help. I want to design a shirt of Favorite Firefly quotes, or Words of Wisdom from the show. Kind of a "All I learned in life I learned from Firefly" theme I have a few quotes or statements in mind. I figure about 10 - 15 statements would be good. Yes, I know this has been done before. But I think it would look great as a list on the back of a shirt. and then a final statement that says "list composed from the fans at www.fireflyfans.net" and even a tag that says

see the movie "Serenity" April 2005

I know I want these four

River - The human body can be drained of blood in 8.6 seconds given adequate vacuuming systems.

Book - It's about faith. You don't fix faith. It fixes you.

Mal - Someone ever tries to kill you, you try to kill 'em right back!

Jayne - Ten percent of nothing is -- let me do the math here -- nothing into nothing, carry the -

Now, I know there are a ton we can think of. I also want to keep this to a "all ages rating" We love our show and want others to know about it. Also, any of you that have had expierence with zazzle or cafe press I'm looking to you for suggestions & advice. Hopefully, we shouldn't run into any LEGAL issues here. I have a few other ideas that I'll launch into if this works. I'm not promising anything right now I'm just putting the thought out there.

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn." --Joss

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Friday, August 27, 2004 6:35 AM

TENTHCREWMEMBER

Could you please just make it stranger? Stranger. Odder. Could be weirder. More bizarre. How about uncanny?

Seems the "Serenity 2005" is an auto-nixer for Zazzle.

That aside, a favorite quote of mine is

"I do the job, then I get paid. Go run your little world."

Sort of sums up Mal's personality succinctly.
He just wants what he feels he deserves and cares not for what the rest of the 'verse is doing.

Oh, and Early's line

"Well, here I am."

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Friday, August 27, 2004 6:40 AM

JAKE7

My favorite line of River's was the one from OOG.

(sorry, I'm paraphrasing here)

"You think we'll die of suffocation. That isn't going to happen. We'll freeze to death first."

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MAL: Everybody's makin' a fuss.

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Friday, August 27, 2004 7:14 AM

ROCKETSURGEON

This isn't help or advice per se but it might help. I think there is a law concerning copyrights, at least in Canada, where you can put just about whatever you want on a T-shirt (including logos) and it is considered a "parody" under the law and thus protected under free speach legislation. Anyone have details on that one? Could be just a rumour.

About quotes, gotta have:
"no power in the 'verse can stop me"
" We did the impossible... and that makes us mighty"
"If wishes were horses we'd all be eating steak"

Another thing to consider is the graphics. Is it too much to put all 10 charactes (yes, the ship too) and serenity/firefly in chinese charactes and planets and spaceports and such? Is there a simple composite of images that really summarises the "feeling" of the show?

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"Here's something you can't do ... [insert cool manoever here]"

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Friday, August 27, 2004 7:37 AM

WILLOWY

Don't like River's quote. Ew. Would much rather see "Also, I can kill you with my brain." for her.

Love the idea of an Early quote, and think that one's perfect.

Mal: "I think my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle."

Book's is too religious. I like his kneecaps quote better.

There are so many good quotes! Its hard to select some though, because taken out of context they don't really make sense. Some from Wash are particularly good. One useable one is "We all know I'm the funny one."

Hope I helped!

"Once, in flight school, I was laconic..."

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Friday, August 27, 2004 8:46 AM

RABIT

Instead of trying to nail down my "favorite" quote (I don't think I could ever do that!!!

), how about I just point you at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303461/quotes, IMDB's Memorable Quotes section on Firefly.

Yeah, I'm lazy...

Rabit

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Friday, August 27, 2004 9:58 AM

ATREYU

"some people juggle geese"

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Friday, August 27, 2004 10:03 AM

BADGERSHAT

Here's a goodie--

"Might've been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."
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Also--
"I believe that woman's fixing to shoot me again"
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"What are we doing here?"
"Oh--crime!"
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"Mmm... wife soup. I musta done good."
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And, of course, the best not-funny quote--
"When you can't run crawl. And when you can't do that, get someone to carry you"

--Jefé The Hat

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--Don't bother trying to predict, figure out, second guess, criticize, or suggest anything that comes from the mind of Joss Whedon, for you shall usually be wrong, and shall find out the Truth and Purpose in due time.
(This is the Truth of Whedoning)
"I like smackin 'em"--Jayne

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Friday, August 27, 2004 10:17 AM

NWUKSTEVE

Going back to the original poster's wish for "Words of Wisdom" quotes, I recommend the Ten Things I Learned From Watching Firefly thread,
http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=4&t=1967 for ideas.

However, you may then need to search further (or watch the episode, what a chore!) to get the exact quote.

Eg, the thread has "Hitting someone with a closed fist can hurt, but it is, on occasion, hilarious".

Whereas the exact quote (according to imdb as referenced by Rabit above) is "You know, they tell ya to never hit a man with a closed fist but it is, on occasion, hilarious."

Not sure if the example satisfies your "all ages rating" requirement, but then I'm not sure about the blood-draining quote either. Or if the figure of 8.6s is scientifically correct.

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Whadyall order a TV series you don't want for?

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Friday, August 27, 2004 10:25 AM

DACUTE1

Would be nice to get at least one quote from every crew member.

Simon-

"No, this is what going mad feels like"

or

"My sister's a ship, we had a complicated childhood"

Kaylee: Wash, tell me I'm pretty
Wash: Were I unwed I would take you in a manly fashion
Kaylee: 'Cause I'm pretty?
Wash: 'Cause you're pretty

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Friday, August 27, 2004 10:56 AM