What would you name a Firefly?

POSTED BY: christhecynic
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CHRISTHECYNIC

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 5:31 AM

Let’s say you took after certain Star Trek fans and rebuilt a part of the Firefly set (or all of it if you have the money, time, insanity, and know-how.) Now you’ve got a ship, Midbulk transport, standard radion-accelerator core, classcode 03-K64, "Firefly", what would you name it?

Personally I wouldn’t feel justified in calling it Serenity unless every detail was perfect. I don’t care how obsessive you are; it simply can’t be done.

So, you build your recreation, but if you don’t call it Serenity what would you call it?

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Yes I am looking for ideas. No I have not built a new set on my non-existent previously unoccupied land, so don’t bother asking for a visit.

On the other hand...

If anyone has had (or will have) the money, time, insanity, know-how, and inclination to rebuild the entire set please invite me over some time, or many times, or just let me live in one of the rooms.

In fact invite me over even if it is just part of the set.

HOTPOINT

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 6:06 AM

I think Lampyridae would be a good name.

Firefly... in the Latin

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TJACK

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 6:18 AM

I've already named the ship in my head... The Far Venture
There's another thread here for other ship names. If I remember rightly we've got enough for a merchant fleet.

CHRISTHECYNIC

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 6:31 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Tjack:
There's another thread here for other ship names. If I remember rightly we've got enough for a merchant fleet.

Ah, I did not know that.

Also I wanted to know more what you would name a firefly as a Firefly fan, as opposed to, say, whatever the used ship salesman was trying to sell Mal as an RPG character, or whatever.

Perhaps the distinction makes no difference, perhaps it does.

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Other than Lost Cause, Caelum (sky, in the Latin) is all that I can think of.

The name Lost Cause symbolizes in my mind the unwillingness to give up on something good because it is unattainable.

As for Caelum, you can’t take it from me.

I could never see naming a firefly anything that didn’t somehow relate to the show.

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By the way, I thought of something just a moment ago. Firefly did really seem to be a lost cause for a time, but we didn’t give up, and neither did the crew, and so Serenity is coming.

We’ve done the impossible, and that makes us mighty.

3HEADEDMONKEY

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 9:03 AM

I'd call it:

Zug Zug the Rug Monster

ZOOT

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 9:07 AM

I'd call it Spindle ... not entirely sure why ....

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FRAY101

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 9:51 AM

Serendipity.

Although I suppose that's a little close in sound, if not meaning, to Serenity to be all that original!

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RELFEXIVE

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 11:33 AM

Verisimilitude.

Or Junker.

Or Youthful Indiscretion.

Or Gunboat Diplomat.

Or Only Slightly Bent.

Or Just Another Victim Of The Ambient Morality.

Or A Ship With A View.

Or Perfidy.

Or Stranger Here Myself.

Or No Fixed Abode .

Okay, so that's slightly too many Culture ship names. But they're so good!

"My God - you're like a trained ape. Without the training."

FRAY101

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 11:43 AM

You thought about that way too much! I like Perfidy...

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CHRONICTHEHEDGEHOG

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 12:34 PM

My roleplayers have had 2 firefly's over the last year, the first was called 'Daisy', the one they got on Sunday was called 'Merlin'. They've also had the 'Vendetta', the 'Du-Khang', the 'Tien-Shyr' and an unnamed generic Alliance vessel.

RELFEXIVE

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 12:35 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by fray101:
You thought about that way too much! I like Perfidy...

Me too, just because it's such a non-heroic name

"My God - you're like a trained ape. Without the training."

OPTIMUS1998

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 1:03 PM

Bob.

i've always liked the name bob. i named my car bob.

...May have been the losing side, Still not convinced it was the wrong one.

CANTON

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 1:21 PM

I think The Matthias would do well for me. I've always liked that name but I don't think I'll meet a woman who will let me name our offspring in that manner. . .

MANTICHORUS

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 1:33 PM

"Omnia mutantur." Everything changes, in the Latin.
OR Longinus.
OR after one of my favourite writers/fictional characters... the Gaiman (after Neil Gaiman), for example.

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STATIC

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 1:35 PM

"Voodoo Child"

"Infantile Regression" (name that movie!)

"Layla"

PLACIDITY

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 1:38 PM

hmmmmm

placidity
or
harmony

fox
firefly playa-haters

MANWITHPEZ

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 1:42 PM

Here's a phrase you won't hear me use often but "In my fanfic" Shadow War, I mentioned the names of three other Firefly's that our BDH's ran into during a gig...An older one without the extenders called The Axe, one highly modified red with gigantic swooping bat's wings called Everlasting, and one identical to Serenity except it was clean and painted green, called The Contessa.

I don't think you can ever beat the name Serenity though...

Kaylee: "What's so damn important about being proper? It don't mean nothing out here in the black."
Simon: "It means more out here. It's all I have..."

BROWNCOAT1

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 1:44 PM

I would name her Shenandoah. I have been playing a Firefly RPG for about 2 years now as the captain of a Firefly which I named the Shenandoah after the Confederate naval ship that never surrendered.

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RELFEXIVE

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 2:16 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by BrownCoat1:
I would name her Shenandoah. I have been playing a Firefly RPG for about 2 years now as the captain of a Firefly which I named the Shenandoah after the Confederate naval ship that never surrendered.

Very, very appropriate. Good choice.

"My God - you're like a trained ape. Without the training."

CYBERSNARK

Wednesday, May 25, 2005 2:18 PM

I'd call mine the Rufus T., after the brilliant diplomat and statesman from Earth That Was.

(I'd also offer a discount to any clients who got the joke. )

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TJACK

Friday, May 27, 2005 5:45 PM

The Rufus T. commanded by Capt. Spaulding

THATWEIRDGIRL

Friday, May 27, 2005 5:54 PM

here's a few...

The Tarcis

The Olesia

and...

The F.L.T.

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CLJOHNSTON108

Friday, May 27, 2005 6:46 PM

Laughing Scoundrel (But I think that would raise a flag with the Alliance)

Maybe...

Indomitable

or

Resilient

BROWNCOAT1

Friday, May 27, 2005 8:25 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by RelFexive:
Very, very appropriate. Good choice.

Thank you. I thought so too.

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PURPLEYIN

Friday, May 27, 2005 10:21 PM

im gonna copy half the ships in the sci-fi genre and say 'phoenix', or pick one of the GSV names from an Ian M. Banks novel.

MALINARA4EVER

Friday, May 27, 2005 10:52 PM

The Stepanek (Named after Mattie Stepanek)

BIKISDAD

Friday, May 27, 2005 11:25 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by fray101:
Serendipity.

Although I suppose that's a little close in sound, if not meaning, to Serenity to be all that original!

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"Why would I want to leave Serenity?"
"Can't think of a reason."

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I like it. It's Serenity with a "dip" in it. Maybe one of the three nerds from Buffy joined the crew?

Apathy on the Rise. No One Cares.

GUNRUNNER

Saturday, May 28, 2005 1:23 AM

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NORUDDINWAY

Saturday, May 28, 2005 1:38 AM

I think Gravitas would be a great name...

BLINKER

Saturday, May 28, 2005 1:56 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by optimus1998:
Bob.

i've always liked the name bob. i named my car bob.

Random anecdote:

Someone once asked me, for whatever reason, what I would name a radio station. He was looking for call letters, so in my trademark whimsical manner, I answered "Bob."

Just a couple days later, he walked back up - looking a bit shaken - with the news that local radio station KOOL-FM had suddenly and inexplicably decided to rename itself "Bob." And so they had. They remain "Bob FM" to this day.

It's right up there in my repertoire of odd moments with experiencing an accurate premonition that singer Reba McEntire, whose music I've never even heard, was in imminent danger of breaking her leg.

Far as an appropriate name for a Firefly, I really can't top "Zug Zug the Rug Monster."

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CHRISTHECYNIC

Saturday, May 28, 2005 2:19 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by cljohnston108:
Laughing Scoundrel (But I think that would raise a flag with the Alliance)

Maybe...

Indomitable

or

Resilient

But whilst these spaceships, and other great ones which come to mind, such as the Galactic Fleet Battleships — the GSS Daring, the GSS Audacity and the GSS Suicidal Insanity — are all spoken of with awe, pride, enthusiasm, affection, admiration, regret, jealousy, resentment, in fact most of the better known emotions, the one which regularly commands the most actual astonishment was Krikkit One, the first spaceship ever built by the people of Krikkit. This is not because it was a wonderful ship. It wasn't.

CHRISTHECYNIC

Saturday, May 28, 2005 2:23 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by thatweirdgirl:
The F.L.T.

The only thing I would ever name that is a building I’m sure will always remain stationary.

Then again I’m … me.

REAVERBOB

Saturday, May 28, 2005 2:26 AM

Great firefly name:
"Golden Nandi" (for the romantic amongst us)
or possibly "Nandi's Randy" (possibly jaynes take on the same concept)

"Oh my god. What can it be? We're all doomed! Who's flying this thing!?" (deadpan) "Oh right, that would be me. Back to work."

CLJOHNSTON108

Saturday, May 28, 2005 9:51 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by christhecynic:
But whilst these spaceships, and other great ones which come to mind, such as the Galactic Fleet Battleships — the GSS Daring, the GSS Audacity and the GSS Suicidal Insanity — are all spoken of with awe, pride, enthusiasm, affection, admiration, regret, jealousy, resentment, in fact most of the better known emotions, the one which regularly commands the most actual astonishment was Krikkit One, the first spaceship ever built by the people of Krikkit. This is not because it was a wonderful ship. It wasn't.

Ahhhh, always good to see another DNA fan!
Good pull!

Have you been listening to the new radio series' on BBC 4?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/

CHRISTHECYNIC

Saturday, May 28, 2005 11:01 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by cljohnston108:
Good pull!

Thank you.

IMEARLY

Saturday, May 28, 2005 1:03 PM

Slave 2

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CYBERSNARK

Saturday, May 28, 2005 2:24 PM

Actually, there already is a Slave 2. Seen in the Dark Empire comics (from the 90s). In one of the Young Jedi Knights novels Fett was flying Slave 5 (which implies the existence of 3 & 4).

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LITTLEKAYLEE

Saturday, May 28, 2005 3:12 PM

ooo tough question...

maybe,
Isis
Idessa
Elysia
Ilori
Davinia

*aka Scooby_Gal from Browncoats*

"Yes sir..Captain Tightpants"

"Well my sisters a ship. we had a complicated childhood."

CHRISTHECYNIC

Saturday, May 28, 2005 3:18 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by LittleKaylee:
ooo tough question...

maybe,
Isis
Idessa
Elysia
Ilori
Davinia

Goddesses all I'm guessing. I'm familiar with Isis, who are the others?

WHITEFALL

Saturday, May 28, 2005 3:46 PM

Well, aside from

Complicated Childhood

I'd name a firefly class... something like...
well i cant think of anything... so more Firefly jokes for me... though i'd probably just call it Pheonix (spelled wrong damnit)

So...

Deathtrap
Hera
Duck Hunt

The Knowledge-is-Power-and-Power-is-Corruption-and-Corruption-is-Crime-and-Crime-Doesn't-Pay-DOH!

Shadow
Independance (though it'd get my ship in trouble... if anyone asks, i named it after a southern town somewhere)
Hypocrit
The Arrogant Cod (sounds like the name of a bar)
Independant Dreams (or, on that note)
The Dream

"Some people juggle geese!" -Ancient Chinese proverb.

CHRISTHECYNIC

Saturday, May 28, 2005 6:51 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Whitefall:
Complicated Childhood

Good name that.

Quote:
Deathtrap

Also quite nice.

Quote:
The Knowledge-is-Power-and-Power-is-Corruption-and-Corruption-is-Crime-and-Crime-Doesn't-Pay-DOH!

Acronyms my friend. KiPaPiCaCiCaCDPD all Cs are hard

Quote:
The Dream

That gave me an idea:
Dreamer of Dreams
just Dreamer for short.

Two ways to take it really, either it’s the person you’re supposed to bludgeon to death with rocks in Deuteronomy, or it’s from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

One way it means that you’ll stand up for what you believe in (like say your god) even if it means your death.
The other means what it sounds like, “We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dreams.”

0REAVER0

Saturday, May 28, 2005 8:18 PM

hmmm... thats hard u need a scary and fierce name so i guess i would name my firefly Bob Dole

0Reaver0

REAVERINA1985RIVIERA

Saturday, May 28, 2005 8:48 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Blinker:
Quote:
Originally posted by optimus1998:
Bob.

i've always liked the name bob. i named my car bob.

Random anecdote:

Someone once asked me, for whatever reason, what I would name a radio station. He was looking for call letters, so in my trademark whimsical manner, I answered "Bob."

Just a couple days later, he walked back up - looking a bit shaken - with the news that local radio station KOOL-FM had suddenly and inexplicably decided to rename itself "Bob." And so they had. They remain "Bob FM" to this day.

Here in Madison, 105.1 The Buzz recently changed their name to 105.1 Charlie FM.

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REAVERINA1985RIVIERA

Saturday, May 28, 2005 8:53 PM

The Lightning Bug, because it's just another name for a firefly.

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AGREY

Saturday, May 28, 2005 9:04 PM

As to the part about building a full-sized Firefly, my overly rich cousin, Riley Billings, after getting his ENTIRE family hooked on the show, managed to convince them to try and do it.
All was going well.
The ship, while outwardly appearing to be a Firefly-class vessel, was actually wuite different internally, as Riley, one of his numerous cousins working in set construction, could have had "Serenity" perfectly re-created, decided that that was too easy, and designed what he would do with a Firefly if he had to own one. He designed a ship that could outrun Cruisers, outmaneuver most other Fireflys, and outshoot your average Reaver POS (or at least have a fair chance in a firefight), and, to top it all off, could play "Ride of the Valyries" at 150 dB (in atmosphere) or flood the com channels with it (out of atmosphere).
It took him a good year to pull everything together and finally get the shell built, install major systems (or their simulators), and provide power, water, and air, along with getting the viewports to show a "Space" display. Being Riley, he kept the thing secret (not hard when contracting out to family and building it on your own couple hundred square miles of Montana), and was only five or six weeks from finishing.
All that was left was the trimming details and fitting out (paint job, non-essential furniture, foodstuffs, odds& ends) and to get the external special effects (engines & weapons) on-line.
It was looking nice, and I actually slept in the thing for two nights at his behest. A little chilly in winter, but survivable, and the amount of fun I had when playing with it (the controls worked, at least as much as possible, and from the cockpit, you would swear you were in space) was an experience nearly unmatched in my life.
Unfortunately, Riley probably should have called it something other than the "Rusty Vorpal Trashscow", but, his since of humor being what it was (and the backstory he had for this ship being what it was) he couldn't bring himself to name it anything else.
Unfortunately, Riley failed to account for the fact that the sewage system his family had installed the year before was A) Not designed to support that much wait, and B) Had the main sewage tank almost directly below where the "'Scow" was built. The engineers that built the sewage system were amazed that it supported that much wait for that long.
On December 22nd, 2004, a bored pyrotechnics expert and two of his assistants decided to test the new "Weapons Fire" effects that they were making for the "'Scow".
The day before, the sewage system had apparently given in and partially collasped, settling the forward part a good 20 feet, giving the "'Scow" a mild list forward and letting a great deal of methane began seeping up into the gigantic creation.
Pyrotechnics and large volumes of methaned do not mix.
At 1135, the pyrotechnics guys tested out their new effect, using a remote control so they could observe the flames from half a mile and judge the effect from that distance (Riley had quite a few requirements).
Instead, they got to see a very impressive fireball and a great Firefly-class's death scene which lit up enough to be seen all over Riley's property. It also spread wreckage for quite a ways and launched a smaller sewage tank 24.5 miles to land on top and crush two pigs, three hens, a cow, and a brand new H2. The rather startled neighbor was busy attempting to sue for quite awhile (although he eventually accepted the settlement)-but only after getting over being drenched in long-distance sewage.
Riley has since learned to check placement on his projects.
His newest one being building a scale-model Firefly that will fly and hover. So far, nothing above 1/50th has survived more than three flights, and his first 1/10th managed to wipe out the guest house's garage (which was luckily empty). I understand that he is sticking to the smaller models for now.
As for what I would name my Firefly, Silver Lining, Phoenix Dreams, or Flaming Knucklehead would have to be it.
Oh, and Riley was heard to say th

FORRESTWOLF

Saturday, May 28, 2005 10:53 PM

Actually, Fray, Serendipity is the name of the Firefly vessel in the Neverwinter Nights campaign I run. It's funny, but the player of the captain (Cy Law) has YET to see Firefly (I think he's saving it up), and CHOSE to name his ship Serendipity. The similarity to the real name was rather eerie, and yes, I think it's a great name, too!

For the record, there's an old image of the Serendipity and her original crew at:

http://www.fireflyfans.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=2707

She's still flyin', too!

CLJOHNSTON108

Sunday, May 29, 2005 1:12 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by AGrey:
Unfortunately, Riley failed to account for the fact that the sewage system his family had installed the year before was A) Not designed to support that much wait, and B) Had the main sewage tank almost directly below where the "'Scow" was built. The engineers that built the sewage system were amazed that it supported that much wait for that long.
On December 22nd, 2004, a bored pyrotechnics expert and two of his assistants decided to test the new "Weapons Fire" effects that they were making for the "'Scow".
The day before, the sewage system had apparently given in and partially collasped, settling the forward part a good 20 feet, giving the "'Scow" a mild list forward and letting a great deal of methane began seeping up into the gigantic creation.
Pyrotechnics and large volumes of methaned do not mix.

That's... quite a story, son.
A true tale of woe (if it is true).
Did anybody take pictures of this masterpiece?

(BTW, the word is "weight", not "wait")

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LITWOLF689

Sunday, May 29, 2005 1:16 AM

Good question. I think Id name my ship No Limits or High Fly.

"Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FREAKIN' SHOW! I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damnit." ~Joss

ROCKETJOCK

Sunday, May 29, 2005 7:05 AM

For some reason all my favorite ship names use the Japanese term Maru, which means only "the ship named".
Route 66 Maru
Snarkhunter Maru
Robert Anson Maru

I'd also like to name a ship The After You; you can really impress a lady on the second date by coyly admitting, "I named my ship After You."

"Do you know what the definition of a hero is? It's somebody who gets somebody else killed." -- Zoë Warren

BATMARLOWE

Sunday, May 29, 2005 10:11 AM

The Slayer.

SUBGUY

Sunday, May 29, 2005 11:57 AM

I know this is a little off track of the topic, but I'm planning to buy a pleasure boat within the next few months, and I already know for certain her name is going to be Serenity.

Captain Pete

REKA

Sunday, May 29, 2005 3:45 PM

Heh. Along those lines, I have a boat named Daisy, so I rather liked that suggestion by someone earlier in the thread.

I haven't thought of a name for a Firefly yet, though. I'll get back to y'all when I do...

EMMA

Sunday, May 29, 2005 4:00 PM

Dreamscape

(I gave a short answer - whoop whoop)

extremely dimensionally transcendental

THEREAVER

Sunday, May 29, 2005 5:11 PM

Silver Angel

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ZOID

Monday, May 30, 2005 12:58 AM

If I had a Firefly, I'd name her, "Star Wars VII: The Return of the Sequels."

That way, if a major motion picture studio ever decided to make a movie about my ship and her crew of seriocomic misfits, everyone on the freakin' planet would blindly rush to see it.

I'm surprised no one has thought of this before...

Promotionally,

zoid

P.S.
Maybe I'll get a clause put in my contract that the movie must premiere in a theatre situated on a clifftop, overlooking the sea.
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NEEDLESEYE

Monday, May 30, 2005 6:53 AM

I'd name my firefly Sacagawea.

EBONEZER

Monday, May 30, 2005 3:11 PM

Mine would be the good ship antidisestablishmentarinism.

In the Take Turns Writing thingy the ship is names Sidere which means (literaly) 'run away' in latin. I think.

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TENTHCREWMEMBER

Wednesday, June 1, 2005 1:42 AM

How about the Rumrunner as an homage to pirates of old on Earth-that-was.

of course, I'd probably really name it Geese Juggler but in mandarin.

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INNOCENCEMAINTAINED

Thursday, June 2, 2005 10:09 PM

Well... I can't name it Conor, I already named my laptop that.

Perhaps Tundra, since that's my favorite word in the english language. Or Ishmael, as a Moby Dick reference, although I still want to name a cat Ishmael someday...

Temporary Insanity always had a nice ring to it, though. Or Loquacious Freedom, although I do think both would make better band names.

Pondersome....

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"Sometimes the only sane response to an insane world is insanity." - Fox Mulder

CHRISTHECYNIC

Thursday, June 2, 2005 10:11 PM

You know this obsession of yours is obsessive.

Neat how that works out really.

INNOCENCEMAINTAINED

Thursday, June 2, 2005 10:19 PM

Obsessions are what I do best, love.

Trust me, my Conor obsession is a casual interest compared to the deepest fathoms of all my previous obsessions.

Speaking of obsessions, isn't Firefly a rocking show?

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"Sometimes the only sane response to an insane world is insanity." - Fox Mulder

CHRISTHECYNIC

Thursday, June 2, 2005 10:50 PM

Aren't you happy I got you hooked?

Anyway, my names for ships
Dreamer of Dreams – It’s a great name.
Teller of Tales – Dreamer’s sister ship
Lost Cause – What was once a ship but is now a stationary home.
Caelum – still sounds cool

CHRISTHECYNIC

Thursday, June 2, 2005 10:52 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by cljohnston108:
Have you been listening to the new radio series' on BBC 4?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/

How did I miss this?

There's a new radio series?

CLJOHNSTON108

Friday, June 3, 2005 3:14 AM

Actually, this is the last of the series!

The Quandary Phase & Quintessential Phase cover So Long, and Thanks For All The Fish & Mostly Harmless.

Last year, the Tertiary Phase covered Life, The Universe, and Everything. Sorry I wasn't here to tell you about that one!

Of course, you can always listen to the Original here!
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CHRISTHECYNIC

Friday, June 3, 2005 3:25 AM

I have the original on cassette.

Looking it (the website) over I very much wish they had continued where they left off, not followed the books by saying that only Zaphod remembered it and it was passed off as a drunken psychotic episode by the one he told.

MRSMACK

Friday, June 3, 2005 8:13 PM

I first thought the Freedom, but that was a little sticky in my mind, though it does have a nice ring.

Then I thought the Indefatigable, named after Horatio Hornblowers ship of the line.

But noone would have known where it came from, and it is hard to say.

So Finally I decided on the Icarus.

So that I may remember to be be humble and thoughtful, and to always cling to what little common sense God has given me.

CHRISTHECYNIC

Friday, June 3, 2005 8:25 PM

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Originally posted by MrSmack:
So Finally I decided on the Icarus.

So that I may remember to be be humble and thoughtful, and to always cling to what little common sense God has given me.

Or just make sure your ship has aquatic capabilities.

NUTLUCK

Tuesday, June 7, 2005 6:56 PM

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Originally posted by optimus1998:
Bob.

i've always liked the name bob. i named my car bob.

I second this, i would defently name it Bob, if that names good enough for New Earth it is good enough for a Firefly.

CHRISTHECYNIC

Tuesday, June 7, 2005 7:11 PM

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Originally posted by Nutluck:
I second this, i would defently name it Bob, if that names good enough for New Earth it is good enough for a Firefly.

Well you have to name a planet Bob, there is no other name for one.

The only reason the planets in Firefly are not named bob is that there are so many, that was the real cause for the war you know. The central planets had agreed that no planet would be named bob because if one was the inhabitants of the others would feel jealous.

When colonization started in the border moons one named itself Bob. It was decided then and there, well actually then and on a central planet, that such things should not be allowed and the only way to prevent them was to rule everything.

TROGMAN

Tuesday, June 7, 2005 7:54 PM

Here are my few:

Gutsy Dispatch
Passagio
Antedeluvian
Swordsman's Skill
Tried and True
Urge for Going (any Tom Rush fans out there?)

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My God, it's full of stars!
(Chapter 39 of the book)

TALLGRRL

Tuesday, June 7, 2005 8:42 PM

I'd name a Firefly - "Lily Sloane". Or just "Lily".
Lily Sloane was the brilliant engineer who, with Zephraim Cochran, discovered Warp Drive.

(Just showin' a sistah some love.)

"Take me, sir. Take me hard." -- Zoe

HIGHIRON02

Tuesday, June 7, 2005 11:26 PM

I am partial to Kobayashi Maru.

We got you partially surrounded.

CYBERSNARK

Tuesday, June 7, 2005 11:41 PM

Way-to inspire confidence & trust.

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