You are a Browncoat if............................

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JONESTEIN

Friday, March 3, 2006 4:51 PM

You start referencing FF/Serenity scenes as analogies for real-life moments.

Example:
I was explaining to my wife how I felt about a potential employer contacting me about wanting to move forward in the interview process because I was basically their only candidate.

First thing that popped into my head during this explanation was the Simon/Kaylee scene from "The Message", where Simon is trying to give Kaylee a compliment, but as usual, flubs it by saying he likes her because she's basically the only available female on the ship.

S'plained to the wife that I suddenly felt like Kaylee in said scene...got a big laugh.

:^)

-Jonestein

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OPERATIVE: ...and I am unarmed.
MAL: Good.
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DONCOAT

Friday, March 3, 2006 10:05 PM

-- you're driving in heavy commuter traffic, trying to decide whether to change lanes, and say to yourself, "No, I'm all right." And that's instantly followed by, "I'm all right."

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I don't disagree on any particular point.

MCALLEN

Saturday, March 4, 2006 1:56 AM

When running errands, this song by Grand Funk Railroad:

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/g/grand-funk-railroad/62096.html

comes on the radio and you are amazed that it seems as though the lyrics were written specifically about Mal for the Firefly/Serenity video that is playing in your head.

MAL: We're still flying.
SIMON: That's not much.
MAL: It's enough.

CHRISISALL

Saturday, March 4, 2006 2:14 AM

....while you're driving on the highway, and a big rock gets kicked up and plants a BIG crack on your windshield, and instead of cursing or screaming you quietly say "What was that...?"

*True story*

Chrisisall, missing his primary buffer panel

SERENITYSLITTLEANGEL

Saturday, March 4, 2006 4:08 PM

... you dream that Mal brings you pancakes in bed - and when you wake up you can't help but look around for them. When you don't find them, or him, you proceed to cry hysterically for ten minutes - before your mother runs into the room and, instead of asking you what's wrong - she just puts "Shindig" on.

... the proudest moment of your life was when your six year old cousin replies to your wish that the rain would stop - "Well, I'd like to be king of all Londinum and wear a shiny hat."

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EVILPHOENIX

Saturday, March 4, 2006 4:43 PM

You giggle when seeing Serenity adult diapers.

VITABRAND

Saturday, March 4, 2006 5:44 PM

you named your Pitbull Zoe(y)

Honestly, she got that name before I knew about firefly, but it's very existential don't you think? (grin)

Vita

BRIGHIT

Saturday, March 4, 2006 6:20 PM

...you squeal loudly when you see that one of your IGCSE English Mock exam questions tells you to 'write a story set in the future.' And write a story which has characters named Mal and Summer, and a spaceship named 'Serenity.' And then you get an A + for it...

KEVAR

Saturday, March 4, 2006 6:22 PM

On a down-day at school you give your students (and yourself) a treat by showing them the first episode.

. . . Now I have a list of students wanting to borrow my DVDs!

Soon, the whole high school will be using words like "shiny"

(does "Gorram" count as swearing in class and do I have to send them to the office?)

REAVERINA1985RIVIERA

Saturday, March 4, 2006 6:46 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by IsaacShepherd:
You know you're a Browncoat when you refer to the vehicle you drive as your Boat.

Yep. My daily driver is an 1985 Crown Victoria, it IS a boat (land yacht)
Quote:

or when you're piloting your Boat and see smoke comming from a vehicle in front of you and begin to conclude that the vehicle is operating without containment.

or after realizing the vehicle is operating without containment and you yell "Reavers!" and put the petal to the floor dodging traffic recklessly to avoid the "Reavers".

When I'm in my Riviera, I'm the one they're avioding.

Quote:

IS

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How many Jaynes does it take to change a light bulb?

Two. One to try to put it in and another to find a bigger hammer.

SINGATE

Saturday, March 4, 2006 7:36 PM

You have never even thought of writing fanfic before when you suddenly come up with ideas for several "episodes". You try to ignore them but after a while it feels like those Hands of Blue guys are using their little device on your head. So you start writing one to relieve the pressure but the damn thing just keeps coming! As of this moment my word count is around 3000 and I'm not even close to finished!

Edit: Now up to 7500 and still nowhere near finished!
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We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

FAKESOUNDOFPROGRESS

Saturday, March 4, 2006 8:28 PM

You Ignore the strange looks you get when annoucing to half the class that they're all a bunch of Ta Ma De's despite the fact that they all claim to be doing each others.

You go clothes shopping and refer to the various items as 'pretties'

The Moment of the Rose and the Moment of the Yew Tree are of equal duration

GRAYALBATROSS

Sunday, March 5, 2006 12:31 AM

When you have worked out how to draw the theme song in pictures.

As a gift, your parents went to the movie store and...

Phase 1: Mom distracts clerk with stupid questions.

Phase 2: Dad carefully removes very giant Movie poster and walks out.

Not really (the guy just gave it to them). But that's what they told me.

You have a very vivid picture:
Mal is wearing a feathered headress. Wash has a very long feather on his head that bobs comically whenever he moves. They are on the bridge. Mal has some sort of spell book and there is a green fire and incense. Wash is holding a four-legged sheep-thing and is shaving it.

Mal: Are you shaving the vector?

Wash: I'm doing it, it's not enough!
I then laughed so hard that people asked me if I was OK.

Also: Action figures? T-shirts? WHERE???????????

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When in doubt, consult the hamster.

Also, I can kill you with my brain

JACHT

Sunday, March 5, 2006 12:35 AM

On your I-tunes, the most played tracks are The Firefly main tune and the Fruity Oatey Bar Tune.

SERENITYSLITTLEANGEL

Monday, March 6, 2006 2:02 PM

Quote:
(does "Gorram" count as swearing in class and do I have to send them to the office?)

No, it should be encouraged. Same goes for swearing in Chinese. Some kind of shiny reward should be in order.

...... on a long walk you find a house called "Washburne Cottage" and you can't resist going up to the house and knocking on the door - just in case Alan Tudyk happens to live there.

Sadly, there was no one in. I'll check again another day.

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SINSIN

Tuesday, March 7, 2006 2:05 AM

You are a Browncoat if....

...you're watching a rugby match featuring a team called the Border Reivers and instantly think that that's where Firefly's Reavers must come from.

...you say as much to your dad (he's used to your obsessions)

...he tells you that actually, Reiver is an old Scots word meaning essentially mountain bandit, one of the wild forest folk who lived outside the law and attacked local settlements.

...you're so delighted by this response that you can barely follow the rest of the game, but note with relief that the Reivers lose.

...you remind yourself that Firefly's Reavers are a lot scarier that the rugby team the Reivers, who suck.

...you resolve to get out more.

...you break said resolution in ten minutes by popping in, "Bushwhacked," to remind yourself what the Reavers were like when they first appeared.

If you can't do something smart, do something right.

JAYNESBUNKWOMAN

Tuesday, March 7, 2006 2:49 AM

...if you are seriously considering changing your already personalized license plate to something firefly related, incurring great costs to do so.

...if you are seriously considering having the serenity logo be the anchor of a lower back tat - would be my first!!

all above are true!! Being considered, not yet acted upon!

I'll be in Jaynes bunk

DOGGIE

Tuesday, March 7, 2006 3:00 AM

you know your a browcoat if........

reading some of these posts makes you feel sad, happy and proud all at the same time

luv you guys

JOCKOCKEYOCK

Tuesday, March 7, 2006 3:17 AM

.....you cry after watching the last episode
.....make a firefly calender for no odd reason
(look at Natvanya's calender she and i made it)
http://www.fireflyfans.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=8459
***there are 12 calender pics for each month
.....force your friends and little sister to watch firefly
.....when you no longer think like a person and ask yourself what would river, wash, simon, kaylee, mal, zoe, book, inara, jayne would do in any situation may it be driving to school, writing a paper talking to people or giving blood.......

The court of this obsession, is abstracted from possession which when the worlds of outside in fall.

GHANIMAPIRATE

Tuesday, March 7, 2006 11:53 PM

...while packing for Spring Break, you wrap the Firefly Box set in lots of clothing, so it won't get frayed.

...after immediately waking up from a Firefly dream and still being in the half asleep/ half awake mode, you think ' I don't have a brown coat.., how can I call my self a browncoat, when I don't have a brown coat !?

Mal- Tactics, woman. Needed her in the back. Besides, those soft cotton dresses feel kinda nice. There's a whole airflow.
Inara: And you'd know that because...?
Mal: You can't open the book of my life and jump in the middle. Like woman, I'm a mystery.

FOLLOWMAL

Wednesday, March 8, 2006 12:23 AM

*pops into this thread and says hi to GhanimaPirate and hands a shiny new browncoat to
a soldier needin' one*

We all have to have one of these. I'm proud to wear mine and glad you're on my side.

I love your nick by the way... my favorite character in Dune. Have used a variation of that nick myself, minus the pirate part.

" You hold. Hold til I get back." Mal

CAB1729

Wednesday, March 8, 2006 4:24 AM

...after 30 whole days without watching FF, you pop in Bushwhacked and get teary-eyed and happy to see them havin' fun playin' the game, just like the thrill you get when you meet up with a good friend who moved away years ago.

...every time you see the word Serenity you look again in the hopes it's something related to the 'verse.

...you spend waaaay too much money on a new computer and printer and speakers and cable stuff because you're spending waaaay too much time online for firefly at work. (Which is why you were away from FF for a month in the first place!)

Anger on one side, sadness on the other.
Nobody knows about the third side.

FOLLOWMAL

Wednesday, March 8, 2006 4:46 AM

Welcome back, Cab! Good to see you again!

" You hold. Hold til I get back." Mal

CAB1729

Wednesday, March 8, 2006 8:33 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by FollowMal:
Welcome back, Cab! Good to see you again!
...

Thanks for the welcome! Don't know 'bout the "back", that was my 1st post on this site, I'm ashamed to say.

I'm usually over at BC or Goners.

Er -- altho I did come by for the petition a few years back. Didn't have a real email account back then so couldn't sign up. I think. Maybe I did but got dropped?

That was years ago! Who remembers that stuff? My memory only lasts long enuf to keep from doin' the same thing over and over again. Plus, my memory only lasts long enuf to keep from doin' the same thing over and over again.

Anger on one side, sadness on the other.
Nobody knows about the third side.

STEAMER

Wednesday, March 8, 2006 3:07 PM

I took an alternate route to work the other day and passed a big sign that said 'Serenity Farms.' I very nearly pulled over to look and see if the barn had a familiar shape - and the first term that popped into my brain pan was 'barn swallow.'

Later that day I was at work (I have a Train Job ) and I was very slowly tooling along in a 130-ton diesel locomotive while the road foreman walked ahead doing a track inspection. We were on a slight downhill, and as I was following the foreman I suddenly found that I was wearing a perverse Jayne-with-Mal-in-the-crosshairs grin.

I'm trying to wait for summer to come. (Season or actress, wouldn't mind either. ) When August rolls around there will be swarms of fireflies darting around outside my apartment and I've half a mind to catch one and name it Serenity.

On that note, an answer to all you ladies who cried yourself to sleep when you found out Nathan had a girlfriend: My head almost hit the keyboard when I found out Jewel was married.

SUMMER!!!

~

"We'll pass through it soon enough."

SAB39

Wednesday, March 8, 2006 3:56 PM

Quote:
My head almost hit the keyboard when I found out Jewel was married

Me too!

mumble mumble were I unwed mumble mumble, manly fashion mumble mumble...

SAB39

Wednesday, March 8, 2006 5:00 PM

... you have this conversation with your wife on IM:

(16:08:19) wife: new blog entry
(16:10:17) me: shiny :)
(16:11:47) wife: please stop with the firefly shit!
(16:11:53) wife: or else i’ll never watch it again
(16:12:25) me: well, it seemed appropriate, I liked the blog entry
(16:13:27) wife: in the world to which i exist, it’s /never/ appropriate!

... and resolve to never make another firefly reference in front of her so that she'll keep watching

... and realize that's going to take a real effort!

RAVENHAIR

Wednesday, March 8, 2006 10:26 PM

only browncoats will understand...

I got strep for the second time in the last three weeks and I was HAPPY b/c it meant that I could stay home and watch disc 3 and 4 (where I left off the last time I was home sick) and then the BDM!

STEAMER

Thursday, March 9, 2006 11:54 AM

Long as you didn't get the damp lung...

"We'll pass through it soon enough."

SERENITYSLITTLEANGEL

Thursday, March 9, 2006 1:49 PM

Quote:
My head almost hit the keyboard when I found out Jewel was married.

I told my brother and he cried. He's one upset Browncoat at the moment.

..... you spend more time working on Firefly related things (surfing, reading, writing and fanmixing) than on school work AND sleeping combined.

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DONCOAT

Thursday, March 9, 2006 5:42 PM

...you're stopped at a stop sign, and the car in front of you makes an abortive attempt to pull out into traffic. Fortunately the driver stops in time to avoid being creamed, then backs up a bit. But when traffic finally does clear, he starts to move -- still backward! As the car approaches your bumper, you yell...

"Forward! Forward would be better!"

(No contact was made, and I gave myself a good chuckle.)

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I don't disagree on any particular point.

SAB39

Thursday, March 9, 2006 6:02 PM

... you didn't realize until the second viewing that when Mal tells the operative "Like to kill you myself if I see you again", some people might think the missing word was "I'd"...

RAVENHAIR

Saturday, March 11, 2006 1:54 AM

every time another member of the family puts in a dvd to watch, they find the BDM or BDS in the dvd already!

SERENITYSLITTLEANGEL

Saturday, March 11, 2006 9:57 AM

Quote:
every time another member of the family puts in a dvd to watch, they find the BDM or BDS in the dvd already!

....No one in your family is allowed to watch a DVD other than the BDS, BDM, or something with our BDHs in it. "A Knight's Tale" is pretty popular in our house.

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MARLINGREY

Saturday, March 11, 2006 10:12 PM

.... you keep wondering which character is the most like you. Maybe River or rather Kaylee.

.... you don't live in the US but you desperately want to go there cos there's a Firefly/Serenity convention. (I'd love to...)

"Please god make me a stone." ~ River

BROWNCOATSANDINISTA

Sunday, March 12, 2006 12:16 AM

If you are currently organising a two day long shindig so you can get all of your un-converted friends converted by way of all Fourteen episodes, and then the BDM on a 51" screen. And then wondering if you'll need to make it three days to watch the commentaries as well.

Or when, for any Catholics or other confessioning persons here, your confession goes like this -

"Forgive me Shepard, For I have sinned."
"How long has it been since your last confession?"
"Two days."
"And how have you sinned, my son/daugher?"
"I talked in the theater."

If anyone gets nosy, then...Shoot em.
Shoot em sir?
Politely.

SERENITYSLITTLEANGEL

Monday, March 13, 2006 1:14 PM

..... "Malicious" now has a completely different meaning for you. When your history teacher says "Luther didn't have a Malicious intent" - you look confused for a second and then burst out laughing. Everyone stares.

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SERENITYSLITTLEANGEL

Tuesday, March 14, 2006 6:16 PM

Bump

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VISAGEEZA

Tuesday, March 14, 2006 6:35 PM

You've spent ages ripping each episode from the DVDs and re-encoding it to play on your mobile phone, then put all of them on said phone so you can carry the whole series around with you everywhere you go, keep it close to your heart and watch some whenever you feel like it.

BRIGIDSIDHE

Saturday, March 18, 2006 8:48 PM

Here's one no-one's posted yet:

... you've lived in Texas (almost) your whole life, and have only started talking with an accent since first watching Firefly.

Yup. It's a cow fetus.

SILEESPACEMONKEYS

Saturday, March 18, 2006 9:39 PM

Oooh! I have a couple:

You talk about the Serenifly 'verse SO much, that one of you and your best friend's inside jokes is "Fruity Oaty Bars" and she knows part of the song, even though she's NEVER seen the shows or the movie.

Said best friend also allowed you to record yourself singing the Fruity Oaty Bar song and the Ballad of Serenity on her MP3 player.

You are undergoing converting a different friend to the Serenifly verse because you have talked about it so much (also cause she loves Adam Baldwin).

All of your friends know what you are talking about when you talk about Firefly and usually join in the conversations because you have explained so much to them.

You use Chinese curses and your mom gets mad at you because she knows exactly what you're doing. (She's a Browncoat, too, though not as severe as me)

You are getting a job over the summer MAINLY to pay your mom back for buying Serenifly paraphernalia.

You nearly had a heart attack out of happiness when you found out that you could order Serenifly stuff off the cortex.

You call the Internet the Cortex.

"Were there monkeys? Some terrifying space monkeys maybe got loose?"

LALARA

Sunday, March 19, 2006 12:46 AM

I answered yes to every one. You are not only a Browncoat but I thought your list was funny, insightful and so creative.
Firefly Fans continue to amaze me.

LALARA

Sunday, March 19, 2006 12:49 AM

You make "crazy ivans" while driving (even in heavey traffic).

STEAMER

Sunday, March 19, 2006 12:54 AM

You say "gorram", "shiny", and various Chinese phrases everywhere and to everyone, even when you know they're not Browncoats.

~
"We'll pass through it soon enough."

SHEPARD

Sunday, March 19, 2006 6:01 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by themantheycalledJames:
...you get borded and hop over to Firefly fans.net on a sunday mourning...

While you're at work!

Hell. It's special.

SHEPARD

Sunday, March 19, 2006 6:25 PM

Your older daughter calls your younger daughter Mei Mei...

When the younger daughter wears her Browncoat/I Aim to Misbehave shirt to school...

When the same younger daughter gets into discussions with adults about how the government is bad and freedom and independence are more important and can hold her own even though she is only 11...

When the entire call center you & your wife work at uses shiny as an adjective...to customers...

When you name your bike Vera and your car Saffron...

Hell. It's special.

MATTCOZ

Sunday, March 19, 2006 7:28 PM

I had my first firefly speak slip in normal conversation yesterday. My roommate was being clumsy and just had all sorts of bad luck, and I just blurted out "this is not your best day ever".

MICJWELCH

Sunday, March 19, 2006 8:34 PM

I have to try hard not to use the word "shiny" all the time!

"We may experience some slight turbulence, and then... explode."

SAB39

Monday, March 20, 2006 1:17 AM

Quote:
When you name your bike Vera and your car Saffron...

Man... you must really not like your car!

MAGHAFFAR

Monday, March 20, 2006 2:24 AM

You're a Browncoat with your fellow Browncoat friend and all you do is swap lines back and forth. In a crowd of people, you see a nice, older shopkeer type with round glasses and the first thing outta your mouth is "Mr. Reeeeeynooolds... you died, Mr. Reynolds." The poor guy has no idea what you're talking about.

Re: the Firefly theme as Ringtone... I just posted a note on this. Sned me a WAVE and I'll email you back my 7 Shiny Firefly MP3s for Ringtone use...

-- Jonathan M.A.Ghaffar
MAGhaffar@WAYoftheSEEKERS.com
Title email: "7 Shiny MP#s" or somesuch. Dong-ma?
Stay Shiny & Keep Flyin'...

RHODRI

Monday, March 20, 2006 2:35 PM

...You start to wonder if'n y'all can dye your well-worn battered old green waxed duster a faded brown!

BROWNCOAT2006

Tuesday, March 21, 2006 11:03 PM

.... You are depressed when you find out not ONE DAMN PERSON in your school has ever heard of or seen Firefly.....
.... You then plan on forcing at least your friends to watch....
.... Over half the school uses chinese curse words and "shiney" as an adjective just cause' you spout off Fireflyisms so much...
TRUE STORY!!! lol, conversions ain't goin' so well though

POEANDFAITH

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 1:34 AM

...you start taking your learnin' of the chinese language seriously again.

...You've ever used tagnames like XxWashxX, LeafOnDaWind, or ThisLandsPilot for your online flight sim games.

...You've named your semi-auto paintball gun 'Vera', and switch sides mid-game if the coin is good enough.

...Just to see how hard it really is, you've skewered an apple with a knife and ate it like that.

...you keep a lot of rosemary in your cupboard, just in case the money gets tight..

*Dear Diary... Today, we were kidnapped by hill folk never to be seen again. It was the best day ever.*

JOSSISAGOD

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 4:30 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Fitz:

-You stare at your car for hours dreaming up possible alterations that could be made to make it more like the good ship serenity

Men of Honour - Im a good man ... I guess I'm ok ... well I'm alright...

Been There, Done That! I even thought of E-mailing MTV's "Pimp My Ride"(Here across the pond in the U.S. of A) 'cause I don't actually have the money to spend on modifications.

JOSSIS(Most Definitely)AGOD

AFTERGLOW

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 4:54 AM

...If you recognize someone you are email penpals with on this board!! HI GhanimaPirate!!!!!!

Oh, so very shiny!!

GHANIMAPIRATE

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 5:17 AM

Hey you!!

Mal- Tactics, woman. Needed her in the back. Besides, those soft cotton dresses feel kinda nice. There's a whole airflow.
Inara: And you'd know that because...?
Mal: You can't open the book of my life and jump in the middle. Like woman, I'm a mystery.

SERENITYSLITTLEANGEL

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 10:40 AM

... to pass the time, you try to recite the eps in:

* Airing order
* Reverse airing order
* DVD order
* Reverse DVD order
* Alphabetical order and
* Reverse alphabetical order

Then the cast / characters in

* Alphabetical order
* Reverse alphabetical order
* Age order
* Reverse age order
* Hotness order (guys/girls separate - very difficult)

and so on. It's a good way of passing half an hour. Only problem is - now I have to figure out new ways of ordering them.

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LADYKNIGHT

Wednesday, March 29, 2006 12:32 AM

How's this...

...while going over your math notes...you realize that you've used the word gorram to describe any concept that irratated you.

...You've put together River's diolouge from Objects in Space into a monolouge for a workshop your acting class is doing.

...You're writing a fanfic for another fandom and almost have someone say gorram.

...Go Se is your standard responce when something goes wrong.

...you and your friend are laughing hysterically in class and tossing random quotes back and forth...all from Firefly.

...90% of your conversations with said friend (also a browncoat) are about Firefly.

BLACKJOKE

Wednesday, March 29, 2006 3:25 PM

You cannot look at a strawberry without thinking "Oh, Grampa".

SERENITYSLITTLEANGEL

Wednesday, March 29, 2006 5:41 PM

..... your housemistress asks your friend: "What did I say about putting your feet on the sofa?" You answer for him - "That it was manly and impulsive?" To your great surprise, she replies, with a wicked smile on her face, "Yes, only the exact words I used were 'don't'."

I've never been more proud to be in her house.

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TAYEATRA

Wednesday, March 29, 2006 6:08 PM

...Your first thought when the fire alarm goes off (we're currently averaging once a week- i'm in uni accommodation), is gorramit where are my firefly disks.

You then proceed to evacuate these disks with you just in case it's an actual fire. This is opposed to a jumper or phone/keys etc.

Dark Angel, Firefly, Buffy, Angel, Enterprise, Farscape... anything else you'd like to cancel?

JONESTEIN

Wednesday, March 29, 2006 8:07 PM

You get incredibly depressed when your friends don't become obsessed with the show like you are.

-Jonestein
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OPERATIVE: ...and I'm unarmed.
MAL: Good.
(BLAM!)

FIGHT TO RE-LIGHT!!
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AZHEA

Wednesday, March 29, 2006 8:22 PM

You order a Zoe replica necklace knowing it will either mark you as a Browncoat to other Browncoats, or will prompt people to ask you about it so's you can tell them alllllll about Firefly and Serenity.

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I look out for me and mine... that don't include you 'less I conjure it does.

VERITASROSE

Wednesday, March 29, 2006 9:25 PM

You spend your only 5 minute break in your 14 hour workday singing Hero of Canton with your boss in his office... often.

SERENITYSLITTLEANGEL

Thursday, March 30, 2006 1:01 PM

... after you finally work out how to get the Firefly theme tune as your ringtone, you set it to go off at random intervals, just so people will ask you what it is. Six people have asked so far!!!! I'm working on converting them all - it just means that I may have to lend out my other copy of the series (my lending one is doing the rounds somewhere else).

.... your aunt finally has her baby (a little girl!!!! 7 pounds even.) and despite her heart being set on Tabitha for her first name, you manage to get Zoe for middle!!!!!!!!!!! She wouldn't go for River, Kaylee, Inara or even Jayne!!

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DANIELFYRE

Thursday, March 30, 2006 1:10 PM

....While taking a quiz on spirituality and "religiosity" during a guest speaker's lecture on the subject the first thing you think (upon reading the word religiosity) is: "Holy crap...we are the fuzzy wuzzies"

-Dan

Ain't that just shiny?

SHINY1

Thursday, March 30, 2006 9:53 PM

You know you are a Browncoat if........

You are out eating dum sum and get excited when they come by with bow. The first thing you think is, "Is that fresh bow? Quaint!"

Anyone seen wearing blue gloves you automatically believe to be with the alliance and are therfore untrustworthy.

You try to convert as many people as possible.

Edit: I love the Reynolds Wrap someone mentioned. I will never see it the same way again

SERENITYSLITTLEANGEL

Friday, March 31, 2006 12:32 PM

.... further to your new definition of Malicious, the words Malevolent, Malevolence, Malady, Maladjusted, Malcontent, Maleficient and every other word beginning with "Mal" now has a completely different meaning - and produces floods of giggles.

.... you've begun to develop a phobia of blue gloves.

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KUANGZHEDE

Friday, March 31, 2006 2:26 PM

picked up 'Voodoo for Dummies' at the book store, and late at night you draw pentagrams on the floor, place pictures of Wash and Book inside it, with samples of their hair and small amounts of their blood (don't ask, was not easy), sacrifice a live chicken, in an attempt to bring them back from the dead only to create a very large mess to clean up in the morning.

Kuang Zhe De

SLICEANDDICE

Saturday, April 1, 2006 5:40 AM

how about these,

...... when you see police offer, your fingers start twitching and your only thought is 'gorran alliance'......
......you sing the 'fruity oaty bar song' at the top of your lungs while shoping.....
......the chinse caligraphy on the food down the ethnic asle sends chills up your spine.....

This is our secret place
Outer space, outer space
Our home forever is outer space
-"Cosmos (Outer Space)" BY T.A.T.U.

STEAMER

Saturday, April 1, 2006 6:31 AM

When something gets screwed up, you mutter to yourself "Crap," and then you immediately go "SUMMER!!!"

~
"We'll pass through it soon enough."

PURPLEPEBBLE

Saturday, April 1, 2006 12:36 PM

- you spend over half an hour reading every gorram post on this wayyyyy long thread that makes you laugh at every turn. and you can identify with every single point!

- you can't help but smile and feel proud when you think of yourself as such.

- you refuse to remove your 'browncoat' bracelet, that proudly identifies you, for any reason.

~x~x~x~x~x~x~x~x~x~x~x~x~x~x~x~x~x~x~x~x~x~x~x~x~
"Why did you leave?".... "Why didn't you ask me not too?"

REAVERINA1985RIVIERA

Saturday, April 1, 2006 1:09 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Fitz:

-You stare at your car for hours dreaming up possible alterations that could be made to make it more like the good ship serenity

I'm looking for a small die-cast Serenity to make into a hood ornament.

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How many Jaynes does it take to change a light bulb?

Two. One to try to put it in and another to find a bigger hammer.

CAB1729

Saturday, April 1, 2006 8:52 PM

...you start dreaming about llamas.

___________________________________________
Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace?
Calvin: Too few role models.

SLICEANDDICE

Saturday, April 1, 2006 10:12 PM

one more just remembered.....

.... go to build-a-bear, make a bear, and name it hotaru......

(hotaru means firefly people)

This is our secret place
Outer space, outer space
Our home forever is outer space
-"Cosmos (Outer Space)" BY T.A.T.U.

SLICEANDDICE

Saturday, April 1, 2006 10:12 PM

one more just remembered.....

.... go to build-a-bear, make a bear, and name it hotaru......

(hotaru means firefly people)

This is our secret place
Outer space, outer space
Our home forever is outer space
-"Cosmos (Outer Space)" BY T.A.T.U.

FOLLOWMAL

Saturday, April 1, 2006 10:23 PM

You get a new car...first new car you've ever had in your life and because it's silver and has a cargo hold ( opens in the back) you name it Serenity and you've never named a car before
(never!).

And you are going to purchase a Serenity dogtag to hang on the mirror and a decal to put in your window.

And you play the Firefly song as loud as you can going down the road! And you channel Wash as much as you can while you drive.

And only here would I expect to be understood for this!

" You hold. Hold til I get back." Mal

WASHBURNEFAN

Saturday, April 1, 2006 10:25 PM

...You take a trp to Hong Kong in order to repeat some hardly memorized Chinese-Phrases, instead only realizing that the phrases are in Madarin, not Cantonese...

(True story, turns out instead of saying "some people Juggle Geese" I actually said, "Only geese hug three turnips")

...You seriously contemplate naming your paintball-gun Vera...

...You keep small plastic dinosaurs on your desk and in your lapel for good luck...

...You risk going to the special hell while seeing Spamalot, and whispering to your Fireflylovingfriends that Alan Tudyk sometimes makes a guest apperance in this play. Then immeadiatly look for Sir Lancelot with a Hawaiin T-Shirt...

...You literatly faint when seeing said actor on stage, just without a Hawaiin Shirt...

...You hear from people on the boards that Alan Tudyk was in 28 days, but think that they said 28 days later, and start carefully working on finding a zombie with a hawaiin shirt...

...You see I,Robot on Cable and expect Will Smith to say, Sonny-Ahhh curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal...

...You take Spanish Class for the sole purpose of learning how to say "Firefly" in Spanish...

...You later find out that it is "Mosquito de Fuego" and are understanding why it didn't do so well in Mexico...

...You start a Firefly Fan Club in school, and are crushed that you only have 48 members...

That's all for now.

Hahaha! Mine is an evil laugh... Now die!

REAVERMAN

Saturday, April 1, 2006 10:36 PM

.... The only music you listen to is heavy metal, but your favorite song is the Firefly theme.

.... You're taking a guitar class next semester just to learn to play the theme song.

.... your five year old brother threatens you with the chain of command.

.... you've considered learning to juggle after seeing some geese.

.... you've used the phrase "Yes, and I'd like to be the king of all Londinium and wear a shiny hat" to a random person, and they understood the reference.

.... you start having withdrawl symptoms when you lend both of your copies of the series out(headaches, twitchiness, inability to focus on anything not Firefly related).

.... your best friend's brothers wear Serenity t-shirts to a slipknot concert and convert four people(it really happened!).

.... your best friend can do a really good bass guitar rendition of the Firefly theme.

.... you call Bridget in your English class Yo-Saff-Bridge, and she laughed and started talking to you about Firefly.

.... you spend your spare time alternately thinking up Firefly fan fiction, and damning certain Fox execs to the special hell.

.... You and your best friends talk about the "special Hell with the Mormons that come to your door(one of them got it!).

You're welcome on my boat. God ain't.

MRSELLARS

Saturday, April 1, 2006 10:40 PM

...you have a bumper sticker on your truck that says "Gorram Reavers!", and both the Firefly and Serenity soundtracks on CD in the cab.

RESE

Sunday, April 2, 2006 1:00 AM

Oh, FollowMal! Be careful with the hanging of the very shiny "shiny" Serenity dogtags from Jessi on the rearview mirror -- I still can't see properly out of my left eye, and it's my good eye! Like a laser from the heavens above it was! Perhaps only on cloudy days . . . . .

What kind of car is it, by the way?

FOLLOWMAL

Sunday, April 2, 2006 1:19 AM

I will tuck the dogtags under on sunny days, my friend and on cloudy ones let 'em shine!

I'm embarrassed to say it's a 2006 Honda CR-V.

But since I'm a woman of advanced-y age, and my hubby had most to do with wanting it ( it's not his now, you know, it's my Serenity!) I'll not feel too bad. It's my first new car ever and probably my last.

The only thing more fun would be a classic car all decked out.

" You hold. Hold til I get back." Mal

LILKAYLEE29

Sunday, April 2, 2006 1:27 AM

You go to whedonesque.com each day to get latest info on joss and our shiny BDH's.

You spend lots of time searching the internet for fanvids, pics, firefly filk songs, and sound files from firefly and serenity to put on your computer.

You take said firefly/serenity pics and sound files and set to wallpaper and change your sound scheme so that when you boot up your computer you hear the fruity oaty song and the ballad of serenity when you shut it down later.

I'm a leaf on the wind....Watch how I soar.

Wash: Captain, don't you know kissin' girls makes ya sleepy? Mal: Sometimes I just can't help myself.

LILKAYLEE29

Sunday, April 2, 2006 1:47 AM

You watch a Nash Bridges rerun on USA network and its an episode where he talks to a chinese informant and then says "xie xie" when he thanks the guy for the info and you snicker and say "Xie Xie, cap'n!"

You post many times at fireflyfans.net or another shiny Firefly/Serenity related site.

You buy not only the Firefly box set, but the Big Damn Movie, the Serenity TPB, and soundtracks from
both Firefly and Serenity, and Buffy and Angel DVD's
to get the whole verse experience.

You couldn't wait to see Serenity, saw it, went completely crazy obsessed until the dvd came out then watched it nonstop every day for several weeks after.

You can't wait to see Slither, but upset it's not playing in your area, Gorrammit!!

You break out your copy of 28 Days just to watch Alan's character be hi-lariously funny. lol

I'm a leaf on the wind....Watch how I soar.

Wash: Captain, don't you know kissin' girls makes ya sleepy? Mal: Sometimes I just can't help myself.

KT

Sunday, April 2, 2006 1:58 AM

Browncoat Recruiter...

That's too funny about the brown duster coat cause I got one too I bought over 20 years ago which has sat in the closet..and now I'm wearing it proudly. Got some new boots to match too.

To continue the thread though..

You know you're a browncoat if - you look at a can of beans in a whole new way and you start cutting your apples before you eat them just in case...

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"See, this is another sign of your tragic space dementia, all paranoid and crotchety. Breaks the heart."

LILKAYLEE29

Sunday, April 2, 2006 2:19 AM

Just thought of these:

You can't seem to get the fruity oaty bar song out of your head, then you randomly start singing it out loud everywhere you go.

Every time you bite into a strawberry, you reenact the Kaylee eating strawberry scene.

I'm a leaf on the wind....Watch how I soar.

Wash: Captain, don't you know kissin' girls makes ya sleepy? Mal: Sometimes I just can't help myself.

GUYWHOWANTSAFIREFLYOFHISOWN

Monday, April 3, 2006 2:18 AM

you keep all your firefly/serenity DVDs on your bed at night

I'm guilty of that because no matter how close I get to the 'verse I want to get closer

I am NUT and I go from to in 10 seconds flat

JIGMAN

Monday, April 3, 2006 3:04 AM

So many many posts, could not read them all, so I do not know if this one has already been done:

...you get a faraway look in your eyes and nobody can talk to you while the song 'Serenity' by Godsmack is playing.

(P.S. Yes, the song was playing while I wrote this)

All good things must come to an end.

EMBERS

Monday, April 3, 2006 3:13 AM

you cry when you hear the song:
"I'm Gonna See Serenity"

listen to 'I'm Going To See Serenity':
http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/artistdetails.php?BandHash=a0
c814e1229742ce77ed4497cbf4631c

AFTERGLOW

Monday, April 3, 2006 4:34 AM

You're saving cashy money to be able to hopefully go to Dragon*Con to meet Summer and Adam

You want a cell phone now only so that you can have the Fruity Oaty Bar commercial as your ringtone.

Hey, I've converted one of the folks at work. She has disc one and loved it so much she called me tonight. Have to get disc 2 back from the other person who's gotten into the series so she can see it. Soon as I have a little extra $$ gonna buy another set of the series. Shiny!

SLICEANDDICE

Monday, April 3, 2006 7:11 AM

You purchase the equipment to make your own rign tone from a mp3 because you cant find the fruity oaty song as a ring tone

MAGHAFFAR

Monday, April 3, 2006 8:11 AM

On your trip to Magic Mountain [or amusement park of your choice here]
to combat the nausea you start to feel on the roller coasters you ride,
you imagine you are Wash being a "leaf on the wind"
as you run the Alliance / Reaver gauntlet from the BDM.
Really enjoyed Viper -- best "serenity piloting"
experience I had, if a bit short.

SERENITYSLITTLEANGEL

Monday, April 3, 2006 8:27 AM

Quote:
Every time you bite into a strawberry, you reenact the Kaylee eating strawberry scene.

..... you buy strawberries for the pure reason of re-enacting the Kaylee scene.

.... you've printed your own Firefly-quote T-shirts and wear them everywhere - trying to convert some more people.

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20 conversions and counting!!!

REAVERMAN

Monday, April 3, 2006 9:14 AM

... You sing the firefly theme quietly wherever you go, just hoping someone will ask you about it.

... the first thing you ask when a friend comes over is "Hey, wanna watch a movie?"(*holds up BDM*)

... you cackle incessantly, then say "Mine is an evil laugh!"() at the most random times.

... you buy a leather gunbelt just to wander around the house wearing it (it makes you feel so cool, but probably makes you look like a nerd)

... It cuts you very deeply when you show someone Firefly, and they dont like it.( )

... This is your immediate reaction to the person announcing that they dont like Firefly: .

... You have smutty dreams about some of the crew (*cough* Summer Glau *cough*)

... you think of certain Fox executives every time you see a gun store.

"You're welcome on my boat. God ain't."

WICCA303

Tuesday, April 4, 2006 5:48 PM

loved all the above posts, laughed so much my sister came in to see what was wrong, then rolled her eyes and slammed the door when she saw me on fff.net.

You know you're a browncoat when...

....you quote firefly/serenity so much at work that people who've never seen the show tell you they're gonna duct tape your mouth and dump you in the hold for a month.

My boss said this, after i said "shiny" to the news that we were going to the pub for lunch. He also mentioned the chain of command when i complained about a job he asked me to do.

SERENITYSLITTLEANGEL

Tuesday, April 4, 2006 5:59 PM

.... you actually cried when you realised that you cannot go to the Serenity 3 con. I'm talking hysterical, inconsolable for two days tears.

DAMN SCHOOL!!!!!!

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20 conversions and counting!!!

WICCA303

Tuesday, April 4, 2006 6:06 PM

Thoough of another:

you are so caught up in reading/writing on the boards that you forget to eat. ( just realised haven't moved from my computer since i got home from work and i was hungrey then, just thiought i'd have a quick look at what was new.

I love My Captain!

SAB39

Tuesday, April 4, 2006 7:45 PM

You spend all day practicing saying "Tai-kong suo-yo duh shing-chiou sai-jin wuh duh pee-goo" so you'll be able to use it later to curse at your bus home being late...

(yes, I really did)

[edited to add: and boy did I ever get a chance to use it, since some hwoon-dan drove a tractor trailer into the overhead wires on the train tracks...]

KUANGZHEDE

Wednesday, April 5, 2006 1:42 PM

you make friends and loved ones watch firefly and they don't like it. So you no longer consider them friends or loved ones, and you scream curses at them in chinese about how they are alliance whores, chasing them out of your house with your custom made "chain of command."

Kuang Zhe De

BOONDOCKSHQ

Wednesday, April 5, 2006 2:57 PM

You're still looking for that crappy little town where you are the HERO...

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