Happy birthday to River! by Steamer

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Happy birthday to River!

POSTED BY: STEAMER
UPDATED: Sunday, December 23, 2007 09:04
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007 8:29 AM

STEAMER

Sheng Ri Kuai Le to you,
Sheng Ri Kuai Le to you,
Happy birthday, my sweeeeetie....
Happy birthday to you!

If you want to call this proof, here it is.

The field headers look like they're written in Chinese and can't be read without a spectrograph, but a one-time discussion brought us to the conclusion that the "19dec00" field denotes River's date of birth. Anybody wanna help me hunt down the fortuitous prop-maker who made this, and get it out of him (not specific as to how)?

Happy birthday, River! *starts making soup to preclude the blowing-up of everything*

River's fixing
Book is balking
Preacher man
Just keeps walking
FIREFLY

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Wednesday, December 19, 2007 9:52 AM

ANDMAN

I only see three dates on there, 19dec00, 22aug15 and 4jun18. The body says that she was admitted in 2515 (that'd be the 22aug15), so presumeably the 4jun18 is when simon got her out, so definately 19dec00 indacates that she was born on the 19th December 2500, (which also ties in with the fact that she's "A mentally traumatised 17 year old girl" (born on 19th dec, so anything before that date in 2518 and she's still technically 17), so HAPPY BIRTHDAY RIVER TAM!!! (Yes, We know that day is a vestigial mode of time measurement based on solar cycles, which isn't applicable to you, but so what, it's still an excuse for cake!!! (No GLaDOS involved for all you portal fans out there

))

Anybody who disagrees with any of this violently can do so. But no matter what you do, "You can't take the sky from me".

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Wednesday, December 19, 2007 10:50 AM

RIVERFLAN

HAPPY B-DAY RIVER!!!

Now you're eighteen, which means you're a legal adult in our culture

Don't know how it works in the future, though.

Don't really have much to add to this thread, so I'll end with another

HAPPY B-DAY!

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Wednesday, December 19, 2007 4:36 PM

CHRISTHECYNIC

Quote:
Originally posted by andman:
day is a vestigial mode of time measurement based on solar cycles, which isn't applicable to [her]

I didn't get her anything

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Wednesday, December 19, 2007 8:43 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN

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Originally posted by andman:
I only see three dates on there, 19dec00, 22aug15 and 4jun18. The body says that she was admitted in 2515 (that'd be the 22aug15), so presumeably the 4jun18 is when simon got her out, so definately 19dec00 indacates that she was born on the 19th December 2500, (which also ties in with the fact that she's "A mentally traumatised 17 year old girl" (born on 19th dec, so anything before that date in 2518 and she's still technically 17), so HAPPY BIRTHDAY RIVER TAM!!! (Yes, We know that day is a vestigial mode of time measurement based on solar cycles, which isn't applicable to you, but so what, it's still an excuse for cake!!! (No GLaDOS involved for all you portal fans out there ))

Anybody who disagrees with any of this violently can do so. But no matter what you do, "You can't take the sky from me".

Those dates don't seem to jive with the other established dates of BDS or BDM.

The Pilot states River-in-the-Box is 17. The introductions for the first 3 broadcast episodes reportedly state it is 2517 (I have not seen these yet), -edited out incorrect ref.

All of these seem to agree that, if River's birthday was Dec 19th, then it was in 2499.

Also, nothing would make 2517 (dates when River is aboard Serenity) consistent with a 2518 escape date.

I didn't get her anything.

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Wednesday, December 19, 2007 9:52 PM

HUGHFF

River's older than she looks (and Kaylee's younger)

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Thursday, December 20, 2007 4:31 AM

STEAMER

Quote:
Originally posted by RiverFlan:
Now you're eighteen, which means you're a legal adult in our culture

Well, if you really wanted to be picky about it, she's more like 20.

If she was 17 at the time of the BDM (two years ago) turning 18 at the end of that year....well, there's already an overabundance of confusion over the timespan in the series, so let's put the picky aside and rub soup in each other's hair.

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Some lousy days
Simon needs his
Secret phrase
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Sunday, December 23, 2007 9:04 AM

RIVERFLAN

Well, since I happen to be eating this loverly tomato soup with crackers and spices and grilled cheese sandwiches... Got you first! *runs away before getting soup in the hair that's already impossible to brush, 'cause of the fact that it tangles if someone looks at it funny...*

And Steamer, is it just me, or does your poem change in your sig? And if it does, is it an animation or do you make up poems on the spot?

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