Are you from Texas or Oklahoma? It's time we had a Shindig. by Stillshiny

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Are you from Texas or Oklahoma? It's time we had a Shindig.

POSTED BY: STILLSHINY
UPDATED: Wednesday, November 3, 2004 11:27
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Tuesday, September 28, 2004 11:51 AM

Ever walk around wondering if anyone else in your area is just as nuts over Firefly & Serenity as you? Do you wear your Firefly & Serenity shirts and go home dejected because nobody said "Hey, your a browncoat like me?" Do you enjoy hearing about all the cool Shindigs, and then loathe & despise all those people because you didn't get to go. Well.....those days are over..

JimNightshade & I we're discussing that it's high time something happened in this area. When I say area I'm looking mostly at North Texas & Oklahoma. But any other folk who would be willing to make the drive would be glad to join in. So If you're out there, let your voice be heard!

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Tuesday, September 28, 2004 12:33 PM

Count me in. And I know there are alot of dallas browncoats around these parts. Who else lives in or around Texas/Oklahoma? Post up!

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Wednesday, September 29, 2004 2:59 AM

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Wednesday, September 29, 2004 11:48 AM

hmmmm. lets try this again....

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Wednesday, September 29, 2004 12:45 PM

I'm in the DFW area

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Wednesday, September 29, 2004 12:58 PM

DFW area here too.

Now I ask what is more Dallas Texan than Technology and cowboys? HUMMMM?! NOTHING that's right.

So Serinity society was based on how badass us Texan's are. Don't worry Oklahoma your badass by default for being a neighbor that doesn't call the cops on us. ;)

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Wednesday, September 29, 2004 3:56 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Stillshiny:
Do you wear your Firefly & Serenity shirts and go home dejected because nobody said "Hey, your a browncoat like me

I have TOTALLY done this! I had one dude look at me and go, "Cowboy Bebop?"
I said, "No," and then he goes, "Your shirt --- is it Cowboy Bebop?" like it had to be Bebop and I just didn't know what I was talking about.
I love me Bebop, but he really ticked me off -- perhaps because he was acting like I was a girl who couldn't possibly know what Cowboy Bebop was.

I know a coupla Browncoats here, but both are mamas, so I don't know if we'd be able to make it to a shindig. We'd be there in spirit, though. :)

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

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Wednesday, September 29, 2004 4:18 PM

as long as we don't go to texas for said shindig, i'm in. can we have it here? I rarely have time to travel anywhere, so pick a place in or near town.

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Wednesday, September 29, 2004 4:23 PM

Texas badass? Hmmm. That never crossed my mind. No offense, but Texas is a world away.

I'm in no way claiming that OK is better. It's just not Texas.

I'm going to regret this post, aren't I?

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Wednesday, September 29, 2004 4:57 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by thatweirdgirl:
Texas badass? Hmmm. That never crossed my mind. No offense, but Texas is a world away.

I'm in no way claiming that OK is better. It's just not Texas.

I'm going to regret this post, aren't I?

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Yes, yes you are. In my days I've traveled across the country. Road trip to NY, train ride to LA, and up the elk mountains of the great rockys. Of all the places I've been and seen, Texas is the best place I know of. Good weather, nice people and, not to mention all the pretty girls. If we have a shindig, I vote Texas. There are already about 20+ browncoats in this area alone. I can think of no other place better suited for a firefly shindig.

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Wednesday, September 29, 2004 6:43 PM

Oh count me in! I was working yesterday and too tired to read everything and missed this thread. (This always happens to me!)
I can round up the Plano Dallas TX Firefly Meetup bunch, I know they would all love a shindig! There's I think 14 Browncoats showed last month.
Perhaps if any of you on this thread are near enough to can attend the next meet Saturday, this could be covered in probably great detail. :)

Woot! :D

Keeper of Jayne's goggles. 8)

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Thursday, September 30, 2004 3:24 AM

Wanna try to see if we can bring this more Northish (not a word, I know) but if nothing else we could bounce between the two states. Very happy to see the response. Glad to see a few OK folk too. Let's just see what more develops here.

Question for THATWEIRDGIRL: you north or south of Tulsa?

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Thursday, September 30, 2004 10:02 AM

Ok, looks like most of these responses were evening based. So we'll put the post out again. For those who responded...I'm making a list.

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Thursday, September 30, 2004 10:46 AM

A Shindig sounds pretty cool. I live in the Dallas area.

Mom lives in OK City, though. So if the swapping back and forth thing happens and the forth place is OK city, then I'm still in.

WierdGirl... why so down on TX? It's not a bad place (in the sense that it hasn't killed me in 48 years). And there's some decent folk here as well. As evidence, I offer... Browncoats!

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Thursday, September 30, 2004 1:24 PM

I know what did this...

Hey, I'm in San Antonio, would love to shindig...count me in

"Haven't you killed me enough for one day ?"
- Mal, War Stories

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Thursday, September 30, 2004 3:22 PM

I'm in Houston and would love a Shindig! I know a 2 or 3 browncoats here who might be interested depending on how far we'd have to travel. I'm cool with driving to DFW.

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Friday, October 1, 2004 3:19 AM

OK so I'm not seeing alot of OK folk. Perhaps it may just be time to hook up with the Plano group. THATWEIRDGIRL (love the name & the site) Would Plano be oh so out of the way. Unless we can uncover more OK browncoats we may have to head south. I know my crew would gladly make the 3 - 4 hour trek. So any thoughts. Looking for more.

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Friday, October 1, 2004 12:24 PM

And so if all else fails I'll try to make it down to one of the Plano group meetings. Won't make it Saturday though, wee bit of short notice for me. Still calling all OK & TX Browncoats!!!!

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Friday, October 1, 2004 12:44 PM

I live in Norman, so count me in as an Okie. :)

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Friday, October 1, 2004 12:55 PM

I live Texas-ish. El Paso.

Well no, I lie. Las Cruces--but with all the Texas cars around here I might as well be.

Can I be an honorary Texan?

Because I am an American. And what does an American want? Democracy? Capitalism. I want to sell out and settle down. For one day only, it's a blue light special on Aisle Three. My wormhole technology... and a free set of steak knives... for all the tea in China. And anything you can imagine to pay me... welcome to my cold war.

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Friday, October 1, 2004 9:04 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by MalsDoxy:
Hey, I'm in San Antonio, would love to shindig...count me in

I lived in San Antonio for 17 years. Moved to north Dallas last year. BTW, Summer Glau (River) is from San Antonio also.

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Saturday, October 2, 2004 11:01 AM

I know what did this...

Quote:

I lived in San Antonio for 17 years. Moved to north Dallas last year. BTW, Summer Glau (River) is from San Antonio also.

I had no idea ms glau was from here, thanks for passing that along

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Sunday, October 3, 2004 7:11 PM

We are definitely in at my house! I live in Anna, about 45 miles NE of Dallas.

NiteOtter

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Monday, October 4, 2004 5:56 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Stillshiny:
And so if all else fails I'll try to make it down to one of the Plano group meetings.

It would be great to meet you. We're a persistent bunch - had 2 venues be closed come meet-up time and we still got together at the 3rd.

AND [insert promo here] for anyone from anywhere coming to the Dallas Comic Con - http://www.scifiexpo.com/dcc.asp

please stop by and see us at the Browncoats table in the dealer's room. Contests, prizes, guest book, and shiny stuff for sale!

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Monday, October 4, 2004 6:53 AM

I'm an Okie, and interested in a shindig. I could probably drag together a couple of car loads of folk to come. Most of us would be okay with a drive to Dallas if the day worked out, but OKC would be good too.

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Monday, October 4, 2004 6:58 AM

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Originally posted by KestrelSempai:
Quote:
Originally posted by Stillshiny:
And so if all else fails I'll try to make it down to one of the Plano group meetings.

It would be great to meet you. We're a persistent bunch - had 2 venues be closed come meet-up time and we still got together at the 3rd.

AND [insert promo here] for anyone from anywhere coming to the Dallas Comic Con - http://www.scifiexpo.com/dcc.asp

please stop by and see us at the Browncoats table in the dealer's room. Contests, prizes, guest book, and shiny stuff for sale!

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Would love to make it to the expo. I'll be in Oregon visitin my folks. But keep me posted on the first event in Nov. & I'll do all I can to be there. I'm sure if we keep this thread alive & kickin I won't be the only one.

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Thursday, October 7, 2004 4:20 AM

Personally, I think Dallas makes the most sense. There are sure to be plenty of venues to choose from, and it's half way between the northern part of OK and the southern part of TX. And, bonus, if anybody wanted to fly in from someplace else the airport's right there. Not to mention also being about the same distance west from Louisiana if we wanted to include those folks. So, despite being an Okie myself, that seems to just make the most sense.

(Go Sooners!)

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Thursday, October 7, 2004 5:07 AM

there are 40+ of us in Houston http://firefly.meetup.com/32/ and it would not be our first rolling shindig, we drove to Austin Last Friday to hear DigsJAyne play Lux's song.
drop us a line at houstonshindig at yahoo.com and we will add it to our events,
oh and keep your calendars open BIG shindig planned for April 22nd.
also if yall ever get down our way, drop us a line (at above mentioned e-mail addy) and if we don't already ahve a shindig planned for then we will try to throw a shindig together just for the visting browncoat (s)
you might wanna post this on the 'versal board, the prospero board, and on your local meetups.com groups

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Friday, October 8, 2004 9:31 PM

Another San Antonian here. Wow, had no idea Summer was from here... small world! Anyhoo, apparently, San Antonio has its own meetup group: http://firefly.meetup.com/14/ News to me at least, but then I am new to the Firefly fandom. Cheers!

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Monday, October 11, 2004 7:52 AM

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Originally posted by ellydragon:

(Go Sooners!)

Oh wait, I changed my mind. Okies are no longer invited :) Kidding.

Hook 'em Horns!

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Monday, October 11, 2004 3:24 PM

not north or south, but in

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Monday, October 11, 2004 3:32 PM

sorry i came off so horribly towards you tx folks. it was a bad day for me. I'm just not particularly fond of the place. Been there loads of times. Maybe it's the family that lives there? Can't gaurantee I'd get time off to visit a shindig out of state, but I'd love to try. Even if it's in TX.

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Monday, October 11, 2004 6:18 PM

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Originally posted by thatweirdgirl:

sorry i came off so horribly towards you tx folks. it was a bad day for me. I'm just not particularly fond of the place. Been there loads of times. Maybe it's the family that lives there? Can't gaurantee I'd get time off to visit a shindig out of state, but I'd love to try. Even if it's in TX.

www.thatweirdgirl.com

It's OK. We won't hold it against you that you're from Oklahoma. Well we might, but it's all in good fun :)

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Tuesday, October 12, 2004 3:29 AM

My hope is that we have enough Browncoats in the woodwork up here in OK to do our own thing. But if not we could hook up with the TX group. And perhaps on occasion we could join up both groups. I'm curious to meet the Plano group because I have friends in Dallas I want to shanghi(sp) into the meetup & I know they would have a great time as well.

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Tuesday, October 12, 2004 4:29 AM

Well, if we're going to be doing it in Oklahoma, one cool place to look could be Guthrie. While it's kind of out of the way, it's still got that great frontier downtown, with enough of a town around it to support having a number of people flock there all at once.

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Thursday, October 21, 2004 3:39 AM

So while I try to piece together something for us OK folks, When is the next Plano Shindig? I'm gonna try to make it.

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Thursday, October 21, 2004 10:32 AM

Take two: So while I try to piece together something for us OK folks, When is the next Plano Shindig? I'm gonna try to make it. Unless I'm filming video promotions for our church Youth Retreat.

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Thursday, October 21, 2004 12:35 PM

Shoot, I grew up near Austin, but I'm in Maryland now. Too bad, I'da loved to come up and meet some Browncoats

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Thursday, October 21, 2004 6:25 PM

I'm in Tulsa, part of the local Star Wars fan force. But i'm going to get them those not already hooked on Firefly hooked soon (won't take long)

I doubt i'd get together or anything but hey, i participated in the thread and that's what matters.

"How did your brain learn human speech?"

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Thursday, October 21, 2004 6:56 PM

Im living in Atlanta, but I'm from Houston.

If you guys ever put something together, I'll make every effort to be there.

Hope to hear from you soon.

They didnt call it the dark ages because it was dark.

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Friday, October 22, 2004 3:58 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by NomAnor01:
I'm in Tulsa, part of the local Star Wars fan force. But i'm going to get them those not already hooked on Firefly hooked soon (won't take long)

"How did your brain learn human speech?"

Glad to hear I ain't the only one in Tusla / Broken Arrow area.

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Friday, October 22, 2004 3:52 PM

Woo-hoo! I wanna go! I'm in West Texas and it's a six hour drive but I wanna go!!!

Pick me!!

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Friday, October 29, 2004 4:28 AM

Had this sent to me. I think we need to try to make it. I plan to do all I can to be there and am gonna try to bring along a few friends. Well here's the link. It's in Tulsa folks.

http://firefly.meetup.com/117/events/?eventId=3410347&action=detail

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Friday, October 29, 2004 8:42 AM

yoo hoo. I'll make ya famous.

Had this sent to me. I think we need to try to make it. I plan to do all I can to be there and am gonna try to bring along a few friends. Well here's the link. It's in Tulsa folks.

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Saturday, October 30, 2004 9:38 AM

So I'll put this up here.

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Saturday, October 30, 2004 3:52 PM

OK Take two.

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Wednesday, November 3, 2004 11:27 AM

So when are the Dallas area meetups? My spouse and I would be interested.

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