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

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GUYWHOWANTSAFIREFLYOFHISOWN

Wednesday, April 5, 2006 3:45 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by sab39:
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...]

You do know that means "all the planets in space flushed into my butt" right

it's my insanity that keeps me sane hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

SAB39

Wednesday, April 5, 2006 4:32 PM

Quote:
You do know that means "all the planets in space flushed into my butt" right

Yep, I know that. But nobody who hears me say it would! (even if they know Chinese, because I guarantee I'm not saying it with the correct enunciation...) Besides, what does it matter? It worked for Wash...

Last night I clicked on a link on a website and immediately reflexively said "Tai-kong suo-yo duh shing-chiou sai-jin wuh duh pee-goo did I ever not ask for Acrobat Reader!"

DANIELFYRE

Saturday, April 8, 2006 1:25 AM

...When you walk in to the hospital where your MRI is you see someone smiling and think "Does anyone smile in hospitals? Its the core everyone's rich and happy" And boy I will tell you this hospital reminded me of the one on Ariel a lot.

...You know someone from Canton MA and call said person the hero of Canton.

-Dan

Ain't that just shiny?

JWHEDONADDICT

Saturday, April 8, 2006 1:39 AM

That happened to me a couple of times with Firefly/Serenity.

It's freaky/embarrassing how many times that happened to me with Buffy.

DANIELFYRE

Saturday, April 8, 2006 2:41 AM

One more I forgot:

...When you see somethin fly off someone else's car on the highway you think to yourself, "Was that the primary buffer pannel did the primary buffer pannel just fall off my gorramn ship?"

-Dan

Ain't that just shiny?

SUZIEBLUE

Saturday, April 8, 2006 4:36 AM

you walk into a room where there is a tv and playing on said tv is an animated logo in an orangy brown colour in a script like font and you think hoorah, firefly is on, then get supremely sad when you realise it is a programme about psychics who arn't river, and not firefly at all.

when you are on jury duty and you take your computer with you so that you can watch firefly in the copius amounts of down time. and then find your mind wandering towards firefly related day dreamings when you really should be paying attention to what the witnesses are saying...

ROLANDREYNOLDS

Saturday, April 8, 2006 7:37 AM

...you're asked to give a eulogy at a funeral and when you go to write it, you open with:

"Here lies ________, now somewhat less attractive now that they're all corpsified and gross..."

BRIGIDSIDHE

Sunday, April 9, 2006 8:10 PM

Got another one...

... when you go with a guy you don't know too well to his prom and it doesn't go too well, you think, "At least there's no dueling."

... when you get home from said prom, you hang your poufy dress (blue, not pink) on your wall, despite the bad time.

No, this must be what going mad feels like.

LADYKNIGHT

Tuesday, April 11, 2006 11:10 PM

- you sing filk songs to get you through Dance class.

- your extra credit dance routune in said dance class is to Ballad of Serenity.

- you're STILL harping on a frend of yours to E-mail you so you can send them a link to download eposodes and praying they'll make her buy the series.

- If it's brown, and a clothing item, you want it.

- your friends know this fact about you.

- One of said friends actully BOUGHT you a brown coat (sadly, not a duster) and you havn't taken it off except for to go to bed since.

- You havn't had a conversation that DIDN'T in some way refrence Firefly in a VERY long time.

SLIP

Wednesday, April 12, 2006 6:57 AM

You are a Browncoat if......

'Gorram' no longer registers as a typo in your word processor spell check.

In Wash/Zoe style, you actually address your spouse as 'Husband', 'Wife', or particularly in the latter, 'Lambie-toes'.

You announce dinner as 'standard fare', or 'protein in all the colours of the rainbow'.

You tell people who annoy you that you can 'kill them with your brain'... and if you're too polite to say it out loud, you're thinking it.

You've ever checked your bed for 'space bugs'.

You've ever blamed 'space monkeys' for anything.

ROLANDREYNOLDS

Wednesday, April 12, 2006 10:26 AM

You push your grocery cart up and down the aisles for hours, but you just can't seem to find the product labeled "Wife Soup".

SERENITYSLITTLEANGEL

Wednesday, April 12, 2006 3:25 PM

..... your (male) drama teacher reveals that he's ambidextrous, and you can't help but remark - "Came in handy when you were twelve." (Outtake by Alan Tudyk)

..... to this day you can't watch the bit of the movie when

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Wash dies

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..... a little girl comes up to you on the street to ask what the picture on your shirt means (it's the Serenity chinese symbol). What should have been a five or six word explanation turns into a desperate plea for her to get her mummy to buy the DVDs of both the series and the film. She promises to go ask.

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LEAFY

Wednesday, April 12, 2006 4:47 PM

You're watching your DVD of "Full Metal Jacket," and you get to that part of the film and you say, "What is Jayne doing in Vietnam? And why are they calling him Animal Mother?" Then you sit back and smile and nod, because it makes perfect sense.

MORWEN112

Wednesday, April 12, 2006 9:51 PM

Wow...first post on a Firefly/Serenity site ever!
I'm a bit of a newbie to the 'verse...but here goes-

You're a Browncoat if........

A few days after seeing the movie for the first time, you're able to quote it directly and at length.

You get into a heated battle with your twelve year old little brother about how the Alliance is NOT ripped off of Star Wars....(Star Wars Alliance=good, Serenity Alliance=bad) because he refuses to watch the movie...

You used "Gorram" and "shiny" twice each the day after seeing the movie.

You spend hours doing extra chores (if you still live with your parents) because it'll get you that much more cashy money to get the complete DVDs of the show and movie, so that you'll finally know what all the more experienced Browncoats are talking about...(I must confess ignorance to the whole juggling geese thing )

You're taking advantage of your family's MoviePass with Blockbuster to keep the rented copy of Serenity until you can buy your own

You're choreographing a modern/Irish step dance to the end credit music...()

You've already got a Firefly fanfic going and are currently working up the courage to post it.

You suddenly realize that songs you've been listening to for years have hidden Firefly-related meanings...and promptly find ways to work them into your fanfic.

You realize that you are now part of another fantasy and/or sci-fi dorkdom (as my sister calls them)...in addition to being a Potterhead, Ringer (Lord of the Rings), Trekkie, etc...and feel ridiculously happy about it.

You tell your parents about the above revelation and they cry in despair...

You resolve to convert your fellow X-Files fans into Browncoats because, after all, Fox betrayed X-Files too...they just waited to gain our trust first...

You are shocked to hear that your best friend, who has a complete Buffy DVD set and almost all of Angel and who also worships Joss Whedon, has never heard of Serenity OR Firefly...and promptly insisted upon her watching the movie..

New to the 'verse but ready and more than willing to learn...

Morwen

SERENITYSLITTLEANGEL

Thursday, April 13, 2006 10:53 AM

..... every song you hear is now "So Wash" or "So Simon/Kaylee" or "So Mal", and so on.

..... you have actually written a Firefly sonnet, and can't believe you haven't mentioned it before.

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RAVENHAIR

Thursday, April 13, 2006 12:49 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Leafy:
You're watching your DVD of "Full Metal Jacket," and you get to that part of the film and you say, "What is Jayne doing in Vietnam? And why are they calling him Animal Mother?" Then you sit back and smile and nod, because it makes perfect sense.

Yes! My husband and I were watching FMJ and there's a scene where the soldiers are looking down at the bodies of the dead and Animal Mother utters an unforgettable line. He's holding his gun, ammo crisscrossing his chest, and GRENADES hanging off his vest! I just looked at my husband who was probably thinking the same thing judging by the grin on his face. I laughed, "Hey, it's young Jayne!" I mean, it's like looking at Jayne's past even though he says he never fought in no war.

Mal: We're still flying.
Simon: It's not much.
Mal: It's enough.

KUANGZHEDE

Thursday, April 13, 2006 1:14 PM

You are man, but you still watched Lifetimes "Window on the Hill" for Jewel Saite. I consider it my greatest personal sacrifice for the cause to this day.

Kuang Zhe De

SHINYMOM

Friday, April 14, 2006 2:56 AM

When reprimanding a student who will not be quiet, you say, "You're on the raggedy edge of getting a referral."

You have a five disc DVD player and three Firefly episodes and Serenity are always in it.

You wear a Firefly tee shirt under your school sweatshirt, and feel wicked because it says,"On September 30, violence is going to ensue".

You listen obsessively to the Signal, Firefly Talk, and Week in Whedon, on your hour and a half commutes.

You gloat because you get to cross Jayne Avenue twice each school day.

You give copies of Serenity to people who probably aren't remotely interested, but you still have hope.

You finally found a Browncoat group in your town.

You fall asleep almost every night watching Safe or Jaynestown.

"Chow's in ten...no need to dress."

J6NGO1977

Friday, April 14, 2006 4:09 AM

besides the every day comments of 'Shiny' and saying 'y'all' instead of the correct queens english. I play EVe online. All my ships are called Firefly (Serenity would be to obvious), I talk in the local chat channel like Mal reynolds and I never shut up about Firefly to other players 'Hey you are a new player, do you like Firefly' lol. If they say yes and I say 'my fave episode is Out Of gas', I then get no response. I realise then they don't get it :(

PHOENIXROSE

Monday, April 17, 2006 8:49 AM

You say "zu fu ni" when someone sneezes.

Yes. Yes, I do. Almost as soon as I found out wheat it meant I started. Might not be totally correct usage, but I don't give a good gorram!

Ah, yes. And if saying "gorram" and "shiny" are second nature to you. Hee.

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One day.
One plan.
One army of Browncoats.

On June 23rd, we aim to misbehave.

TALYNDERRE

Monday, April 24, 2006 11:36 AM

... you tickle your girlfriend while she drowses on your chest and tell her "sleepiness is weakness of character, ask anyone" with a grin.

... you manage to work in, with the same girlfriend, "here lies ***, my autumn flower," light smack on the bum, giggle giggle, "somewhat less attractive now that she's all corpsified and gross..." and then said girlfriend, right on cue despite never having seen the episode, creams you with a pillow.

... you sing Hero of Canton at the top of your lungs while driving back to school.

... your Browncoat little sister, whom you just converted, joins in. Your Browncoat father, another recent convert, just rolls his eyes at the two of you.

Semper Paratus, mac.

YORIK

Monday, April 24, 2006 1:11 PM

You are a Browncoat if.... you want a long brown coat. As I indeed do!

~Yorik Kirmah

STILLSHINY

Monday, April 24, 2006 1:35 PM

For what it's worth I thought I'd drop this link in here.

If the color Brown makes you really happy & the color Blue makes you really nervous.

If people no longer ask what "Shiny" "Gorrammit", or "Rutting" means because you've already explained it several times.

If any any of the following websites are in your favorites folder www.fireflyfans.net, www.serenitymovie.com, or www.browncoats.com.

If you have ever uttered the phrase “I’m a leaf on the wind,” while driving.

If you have ever rummaged through a thrift store to find an long brown coat, a pair of coveralls, a western style toy gun & holster, or plastic dinosaurs.

If you have ever found yourself humming "The Hero of Canton“ or "The Ballad of Serenity", and thought "If I hum louder maybe I'll meet another Browncoat!"

If you are no longer trying to curse in Chinese, it just comes naturally.

If you've seen any of the following movies and could care less who the "star" of the show was. The Matrix Reloaded, I-Robot, Independence Day, Saving Private Ryan, or Dodgeball.

If when you visit the local DVD store you feel compelled to walk by the "F" section.

If you were really mad at Joss Whedon for several days & got over it, because after all "In Joss We Trust." Than this just might be the shirt for you.....

http://www.spreadshirt.com/shop.php?op=article&article_id=863349&view=
181

http://www.spreadshirt.com/shop.php?p=1&op=articles

"We had ties that could not be broken, except by the passing of time. Like a rock. A broken time rock. And you're very special to me, my broken time rock people." - Nathan Fillion

Stillshiny's Shop - I'm thinkin we rose again
http://www.spreadshirt.com/shop.php?sid=4728

HONGKONGBROWNCOAT

Monday, April 24, 2006 6:58 PM

You're insanely jealous of people who are in the process of watching the BDS / BDM for the first time....

You finish up a successful conference call with 10 people on the other side of the world and accidentally say "shiny!" only to be met with dead silence....

You've sat in meetings from hell and fervently wished you could break out the device the blue hands' dudes have that liquifies everyone's insides....

OK, I need that in captain dummy talk

FUTUREMRSFILLION

Monday, April 24, 2006 9:00 PM

Your work email signature has a reference to Serenity/Firely (which you forget about) and forward an email to the CEO of your company - coincidentally called Alliance.

"Tracy Gibson-Lake ı Service Specialist ı
Alliance Communications Management - Outsourced Telecommunications Management
CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential or proprietary information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, immediately contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message

One day.
One mission.
One army of Browncoats.

On June 23rd, we aim to misbehave!"

AND said CEO is not amused and you don't care.

One day.
One mission.
One army of Browncoats.

On June 23rd, we aim to misbehave!

Nathan doesn't know it yet, but I am his one true love! Is that weird?
(he will believe, he will believe)

STILLFLYIN

Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:38 PM

While working on a play, you and a fellow browncoat start talking about putting on a Firefly play, and begin discussing who would play which BDH. You get Simon

SERENITYSLITTLEANGEL

Wednesday, April 26, 2006 10:06 AM

... while on a school holiday to Italy, you get really homesick. To cheer you up, your friend (who will not be converted, no matter how hard you try) offers to listen to you describe Firefly. You instantly pull a folder out of your overflowing suitcase - filled with scripts, pictures and fanfics. You then realise you can't watch the DVDs - and have to settle for reading the scripts in your best character voices - and acting out your favourite scenes. And singing the theme tune, and Hero of Canton. You completely forget you were ever sad.

Sadly - she still refuses to watch the DVDs you offer her. Ahh well - I'll get her one day. She thinks Sean is cute.

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TRISTAN

Wednesday, April 26, 2006 5:03 PM

{Pardon for the break-in...TalynDerre, is that Semper Paratus a reference to the Coast Guard?}

To the theme of the post:

You loan out your Firefly DVD in the hopes of converting a friend, but after a day, you begin to pine for your DVDs...hoping the friend is taking good care of them...

One day.
One mission.
One army of Browncoats.
On June 23rd, we aim to misbehave.
http://serenityjune23rd.com/

ELOISA

Wednesday, April 26, 2006 6:48 PM

Tristan, I feel just the same... I loaned my copy of the BDM to my sister (who has her own copy of the series) and I miss it so much...

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TRISTAN

Wednesday, April 26, 2006 7:03 PM

Well, Eloisa, the good news is that I happen to have two copies of the BDM (people knew what to get me for Xmas!), so I know it's there when I need it...but the series...it's out there all by it's lonesome, doing it's best to spread the love...it's like sending out your kids for school the first time (I would imagine, not having kids of my own).
I know they'll be back.

One day.
One mission.
One army of Browncoats.
On June 23rd, we aim to misbehave.
http://serenityjune23rd.com/

WISHUPONAWASH

Wednesday, April 26, 2006 7:38 PM

You know your a Browncoat when you constanly day dream about Firefly/Serenity every waking moment, you can't do anything else and that pile of Uni work just keeps growing.......

.......or is it just me?

BOWIE

Thursday, April 27, 2006 2:34 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Dinky:
Quote:
Originally posted by BelowZero:
...you cried yourself to sleep when you discovered Nathan had a girlfriend!....

Or when you found out that Summer was Single though you still had no chance...

Though I don't know if she's single or not... I'm just assuming /shrug.

"Th3re !s n0 spo0Ne." -The Matricks

Nathon has a Girl friend!??????

(Cries) :censord:

:(

If you play Nationstates.net check out the region Firefly.

SERENITYSLITTLEANGEL

Thursday, April 27, 2006 1:24 PM

It's sad but true.

On the lending issue. I had to buy extra copies of the DVDs so I could lend them to people. I didn't trust anyone to take care of them.

It's very sad.

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JUDE

Thursday, April 27, 2006 2:49 PM

when you see someone in a suit and think the alliance is on to you. hee hee

jude AKA THE KILLER LEPROCHAUN

ELOISA

Thursday, April 27, 2006 8:51 PM

I have a "lending copy" of the series - currently with my ex-boss, who when I asked her which was her favourite episode responded by naming nine of the fourteen - but not of the BDM. My own daft fault for not being prepared enough, in other words.

You are a Browncoat if........... your mental phraseology for convincing yourself you have enough of or a lot of something is to say you have "a crate" of it. This is fine in some cases, for instance apples, but not when you're in the toiletries aisle in the supermarket and realise you just told yourself you have a crate of ladies' sanitary products.

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SERENITYSLITTLEANGEL

Friday, April 28, 2006 3:00 PM

... you spend literally hours begging your friend to watch just one episode. You pick the Pilot - cos it's the first - and should be first. Within ten minutes, said friend asks you if she can borrow the series. You promise to buy her one of her own for her birthday.

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1TOSMILE

Friday, April 28, 2006 6:52 PM

You scour the net looking for any news or items to view that pertain to Firefly/Serenity or Joss Whedon.

You reach out to talk with other browncoats to feel a part of it. Since you don't want Firefly/Serenity to fade into the black.

SERENITYSLITTLEANGEL

Saturday, April 29, 2006 2:41 PM

... you find excuses to put Firefly quotes in all your exam-texts. You've even found a way to code the lyrics to the Ballad of Serenity into your Drama notes. Anything for a bit of Browncoat support.

Only problem now is that, instead of learning quotes from "The Tempest" (the exam is off-book), you just remember quotes from Firefly. It's even more difficult now that I know Joss named Miranda after the character in said Shakespeare play. At least I won't forget the quote:

"O brave new world
That has such people in 't"

Good old Joss.

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BRIGHIT

Saturday, April 29, 2006 3:12 PM

God, I love all of these!

All my fanfics at http://www.freewebs.com/witch_annie/

MALSTOLEMYHEART

Saturday, April 29, 2006 9:42 PM

You know you're a Browncoat when...

It's Spring Weekend on your campus and all you want to do is stay in and watch Firefly episodes for the 100th time.

You think of your friends in terms of how likely it is that you'll be able to convert them.

You love strawberries even more than ever and try to eat tomatoes with chopsticks like Mal did in the pilot episode.

You look up night courses at local high schools and community colleges that teach Mandarin Chinese just in hopes of coming up with new and interesting swears.

You put up quotes from the BDS and BDM as away messages in hopes that your friends will ask about the references.

You own 9 copies of the comic (one for each character).

You say "gorram it" and "shiny" in regular conversations in spite of the strange looks received.

You sing the Firefly theme whenever you shower and your roommates love you all the more for it.

You feel a sense of vengence whenever people around you talk in the theater because you know they're going to that special level of hell.

You stay up all night to write a paper and end up writing fanfics instead.

You spend hours reading fanfics by other Browncoats and feel serene in knowing ther are others out there in the 'Verse just like you.

Mal: Never goes smooth. How come it never goes smooth?

SERVANTOFKUSHIEL

Sunday, April 30, 2006 12:47 AM

You're already trying to figure out which of the crew you want to be for Halloween.

You think a Chinese paper parisole is a wise investment.

You wonder if learning Chinese would enhance your viewing pleasure.

WANTEDFILLON

Sunday, April 30, 2006 5:21 PM

you believe a wedding should involve a wreath, drinking your partner's wine and dancin around the fire.

your friends who haven't seen firefly yet (gorram them!)replace the foul language they usually use with the special browncoat ones you teach them

"captain, could you take the helm? i need this man to tear all my clothes off"
"work, work, work"

SERENITYSLITTLEANGEL

Monday, May 1, 2006 1:22 PM

... you have coursework due in three hours, you haven't even started your last piece, and you're simultaneously on these boards and three Firefly LJ communities.

Why must Firefly be so shiny and schoolwork so bad?????????????

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DEWRASTLER

Monday, May 1, 2006 1:43 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Malstolemyheart:

You put up quotes from the BDS and BDM as away messages in hopes that your friends will ask about the references.

I do this all the time.

One day.
One plan.
One army of Browncoats.

On June 23rd, we aim to misbehave.

MALSTOLEMYHEART

Monday, May 1, 2006 9:05 PM

Just ignore this post -- it isn't real -- it's a figment of your imagination...

whooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!

MALSTOLEMYHEART

Monday, May 1, 2006 9:10 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Dewrastler:
Quote:
Originally posted by Malstolemyheart:

You put up quotes from the BDS and BDM as away messages in hopes that your friends will ask about the references.

I do this all the time.

One day.
One plan.
One army of Browncoats.

On June 23rd, we aim to misbehave.

It works!!!

My friends especially like "Some people juggle geese!"

Mal: One of you is gonna fall and die. And I'm not cleaning it up.

SERENITYSLITTLEANGEL

Tuesday, May 2, 2006 8:50 AM

... based on a recent survey of your friends/family:

5 - refuse to watch Firefly because of personal reasons
2 - refuse to watch Firefly because they don't want to end up like you (quoting constantly and swearing in Chinese)
1 - has watched Firefly and isn't too keen (why???)
1 - is the shiny Browncoat who introduced you to Firefly - gotta love her
21 - were forced (some at gunpoint) to watch Firefly and are now rootin', tootin', Firefly quotin' converted Browncoats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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FIREFLYNUTTER

Tuesday, May 2, 2006 11:57 AM

{this is wat me mum did after I converted her} brought her bed sheets becuase they were named 'serenity' and then when she walked into a bed store, when looking for a new mattress, and brought the one called 'serenity'... I couldn't stop laughing for ages... i was so proud :D

(NB it took me weeks to convince her to watch it and then when she did, she loved it and tries to convert all her friends by offering out my DVDs all the time {cept my friends usually have them})

->U have rips of firefly and Serenity on ure MP4 player so u can watch them at anytime (as long as u have battery)
->U quote so much firefly u start to forget to use proper english
->You take said MP4 player to work and impress all ure chums (who aren't as techno savvy) and sneak in playing the movie for them all at smoko (i got quite a few people to convert after that {to the movie, not to purchasing an Mp4 player :D})
->You spend so much time on this forum that before u noe it, you're back at work the next morning planning wat ure gonna reply that nite

JAZZ

Tuesday, May 2, 2006 12:43 PM

...you want to buy an iPod Video because the only thing better than having all your music on hand at all times is having all your music, Firefly and the BDM on hand at all times - battery permitting.

...your computer is so ancient that iTunes won't work on it, and you're beyond the point of simple upgrades, so you're going to have to buy/build a shiny new computer just (okay, mostly) to aid in getting mobile Firefly.

...you can't decide which Firefly/BDM quote/reference to have engraved on the back of said iPod.

(It's all true, and my wife thinks I'm crazy. She's probably right.)

...you're dismayed at the array of duster coats on eBay because so few are brown, and even fewer are even close to the right look. So your wife offers to make you one. (She may think I'm crazy, but she's still awesome.)

I liked the one about changing your existing personalized license plate to another one that's Firefly-related. I'm considering that too... sadly, the obvious (but very shiny) FIREFLY is taken, so if I go for it I'm going to have to get more creative.

Quote:
You reach out to talk with other browncoats to feel a part of it. Since you don't want Firefly/Serenity to fade into the black.

So true. I'm not exactly a social creature but this is something I can't keep all quiet about. Even if what we have now is all we'll ever have, it can't be left to fade into unknown history.

GEE

Tuesday, May 2, 2006 1:46 PM

... if you finally borrowed the series and movie two weeks ago and now own both as well as a pair of shiny t-shirts much to the distress of your other half

... you seriously wondered about writing to the bbc to see if in their wisdom they would be interested in using your license fee to fund another series but in the course of researching discovered problems in both the way the beeb accept show ideas and that Joss was closing Mutant Enemy to work on movies and was concerned with what he wanted to do next.

... you are back in work after a week and there are roadworks outside that have been going on for days and you ask, "I bet you wish we had some grenades now,"

... you worry about people picking up your mis-quotes as you have a terrible memory fot that type of thing

SMARTBUTDUMBBLONDE

Tuesday, May 2, 2006 6:50 PM

Yay! just registered! I was reading these and they inspired me to register, so I could post. Lots of real good ones, I feel so proud since so many of them apply to me!
How about these
... your username for everything else is either firefly or serenity.
... you try to convert everyone you have online games or conversations with.
...You try to make said conversions by having your avvie related to serenifly and hope they ask you about it.
... you talk about it so much that even your browncoat best friend gets sick of you
... not only did you manage to convert your other two anti sci-fi best friends, but one of them now has the hugest crush on Adam Baldwin, even though she's engaged
...You rent everything or buy every DVD with a BDH in even if you dont like the actual thing or its only a really small part.
All true, but all I can think of right now.

I love Wash! Bring back Wash!

ELOISA

Tuesday, May 2, 2006 6:54 PM

Welcome, Smartbutdumbblonde! Have a strawberry!

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SMARTBUTDUMBBLONDE

Tuesday, May 2, 2006 6:56 PM

oh! just got some more
... You cry like a baby when

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Wash dies

, even though you've seen the BDM a million times already
... you spend all your money on related merchandise
... You try to get at least one quote into almost every conversation you have.

I love Wash! Bring back Wash!

SMARTBUTDUMBBLONDE

Tuesday, May 2, 2006 6:58 PM

fixed it, nevermind
thanks eloise!

I love Wash! Bring back Wash!

JAZZ

Wednesday, May 3, 2006 12:06 PM

Quote:
... not only did you manage to convert your other two anti sci-fi best friends, but one of them now has the hugest crush on Adam Baldwin, even though she's engaged

Hey, I have a nice big crush on Jewel Staite going on, and I'm married! I just introduced my friend to Firefly and he's gone nuts for it - and has proven his good taste by also developing a huge crush on Jewel.

I think it's gotta be hard for a Browncoat to not have some sort of a crush on at least one member of the crew.

SERENITYSLITTLEANGEL

Wednesday, May 3, 2006 12:35 PM

Hey smartbutdumbblonde!!!!! Have a brownie - they're really good. Where's Followmal??? You need a Browncoat - and the damn warehouse is locked.

To get back on track:
... you used to offer cups of tea to any upset friends - now you offer Firefly.

And (on a side note) you know your Drama performance is beginning to consume your every (non-Firefly) thought when... your brother wakes you up in the middle of the night to tell you that you've been reciting your monologue over and over again, preventing him from going to sleep. (We have really thin walls).

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ANGIEBABY

Wednesday, May 3, 2006 12:39 PM

Hi just joined and found this thread.

I think i have done almmost everything mentioned here! Keep saying "Shiny" when i really like something or my log in and blue tooth all have a firefly reference. But im really glad to discover im not alone

SERENITYSLITTLEANGEL

Wednesday, May 3, 2006 12:46 PM

Hey angiebaby!!! Have some brownies!!! Followmal????? We need you!

*tries to break down the warehouse door*

Curse my weak girlyness.

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HISGOODGIRL

Wednesday, May 3, 2006 1:34 PM

You state your breakfast preferences by announcing that "The Living Legend Needs Eggs."

When you go to the bank, you describe it as "a job".

When you drive out of your driveway, you refer to it as "clearing atmo".

You've googled "Shau Nu".

You clean your guns on the kitchen table. And it turns your wife on.

The sound of a revolver being cocked get you hot.

You refer to your bedroom as "your bunk", your kitchen as "the galley" and the restroom as "the head".

You call your husband "Jayne" during spectacular intimate moments.

When you take your car in to have the shocks replaced, you tell the mechanic there's a problem with your "stabilizers."

You actually attempt to create recipies for Mudder's Milk, fried protein and - God forbid - Fruity Oatey Bars.

You refer to your husband's car as the "spare shuttle".

You look in the sports equipment store for fingerless gloves.

You cannibalize your kid's plastic toy guns to make a convincing replica of "Vera".

You convince your friend in Japan to send you appropriate iron-ons for your Jayne t-shirts.

Your spouse comes in after a night with the boys and you pronounce, "Husband, you been drinkin'!".

Petite red-headed women with big bosoms make you nervous.

The term "boob" has taken on an entirely new connotation.

You've changed the lyricas to Annie Lenox's song "Missionary Man" to "Mercenary Man".

You cross your arms, drum your fingers and glare at authority figures.

One day.
One plan.
One army of Browncoats.

On June 23rd, we aim to misbehave.

SMARTBUTDUMBBLONDE

Wednesday, May 3, 2006 4:42 PM

thanks everyone for your welcomes! just thought of another one

... as intent as you are on converting people, you refuse to lend out your copy of Firefly, because you cant bear the thought of being without it and are convinced that they wont take as good care of it as you do.

Never fly faster than your guardian angel can

ANGIEBABY

Wednesday, May 3, 2006 6:01 PM

Thanks for the welcome!!

I agree, as much as i want more people to watch the show I really don't want to lend them MY copy!
How about watching Adam Baldwin in other shows and it just feels WRONG!!

ELOISA

Wednesday, May 3, 2006 11:08 PM

There's this little game called Worms Armageddon.

So I'm watching River the worm drop a stick of dynamite on George W Bush and Ken Livingstone (mayor of London)'s heads and worrying if I should have moved Inara the worm instead because she's probably going to get shoved into the water before she gets her turn.... and I start thinking, "What the ruttin' hell am I on?"

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LADYSERENITY

Thursday, May 4, 2006 1:18 AM

If you are so depressed that you haven't met any Browncoats in person! Hye any of you fellow browncoats live in Vermont USA?

If you dance River's dance in its entirety in the middle of your livingroom.

If you dream of Serenity and Firefly once a week and then record them all. Some turning into fanfics.

If you wish you sould get your hands on a t-shirt or a real browncoat or SOMETHING that would let others know you are a browncoat. (sigh)

If you hum the ballad of Serenity at work so much your boss starts to whistle the tune and she has no idea what she is doing!

If you say "shiny" to your english instructor when she hands back your final paper with a wonderful grade and she replys " Also I can kill you with my brain" and you grin back like an idiot.

Lady Serenity

MIKEC

Thursday, May 4, 2006 6:35 AM

i've started wearing hawaiian shirts.

do i need help?

ANGIEBABY

Thursday, May 4, 2006 9:52 AM

you get frustrated that there are not enough sites on the web for you to browse

FIREFLYNUTTER

Thursday, May 4, 2006 12:59 PM

you walk into your favourite cd store; and must fight the urge of buying multiple copies of the BDM and BDS... (they're sooooo cheap now :D, and best sellers {apparently, but the sudden price drop did make me check some other popular {and not just stickered ones} titles, and much to my surprise, many had also been dropped in price})

You get home and wish that you had brought all the copies that were on the shelves...

(PS. does any1 have an idea why the box set is now coming in a plastic case; it appears as tho they've dropped the cardboard casing for a cheaper more compact design, altho not as cool. I at first thought it was a speacial edition, and pounced only to discover, no, it was the same and was mightily disapointed that they had dropped the cardboard casing for such a crap case.)

"If it ain't broke, I sure as hell ain't touchin it. 'Less you pay me, then maybe I'll look at throwing you off a cliff, or some such.
Ain't one for messin things that are outa control; sorta like that missile headed this way rite about now..." - Sarge '06

MALSTOLEMYHEART

Thursday, May 4, 2006 10:59 PM

...you find all new ways to become obsessed with the characters. (I just joined my first online RPG -- I'm River).

...you wish more of your friends would become as gung ho about the 'Verse as you are (so that they'll join the game and watch the DVDs nonstop too!)

Mal: One of you is gonna fall and die. And I'm not cleaning it up.

DANIELFYRE

Friday, May 5, 2006 5:40 PM

...when you're sitting in your music 101 class you begin to think of random quotes and write them down. For some reason it takes the prof. literally saying: "So Dante had all these levels of hell and said if you are doin somethin with little boys in the corner you go to this type of hell" to remember the quote about the special hell. Then start laughing at the irony of timing.

-Dan

Ain't that just shiny?

PHOENIXROSE

Saturday, May 6, 2006 7:24 AM

I eat all the fresh fruit I can get my hands on. And I use chopsticks to do it, even when the fruit is slippery. I've gotten very good at using those sticks; I can eat just about anything but soup

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One summer.
One mission.
One legion of Browncoats.

Starting June 23rd, we aim to misbehave.

SERENITYSLITTLEANGEL

Saturday, May 6, 2006 8:59 AM

... when walking to the cinema with your best (Browncoat) friend, you manage to make six seperate Firefly references in about ten minutes. Then, when you're in the cinema, people are talking behind you. You lean over and casually say:

Aren't they... special?

You both precede to dissolve in a fit of giggles. Luckily, it was at a funny point in the movie - and nobody else noticed.

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SIMONT7573

Saturday, May 6, 2006 7:08 PM

You spend two hours reading through this page left with the warm reassuring feeling that; there are people just like you.

When your cousin recomends Serenity to you, you watch it once and then instantly watch it again. Later that night you buy the box set.

You get the box set and decide to watch one episode a day to make it last longer, you end up watching all of them in one day ending at 3am.

You realise that the episodes are set out, top left, bottom left, top right, bottom right, not left to right like you origionally thought, you decide you have to watch them all again.

You volunteer to bring a large collection of films on holiday for your family and "forget" to bring any other DVD's apart for the box set and serenity as a feendish plan to convert them all.

You find out that someone in your physics class is a browncoat then you involve the whole class in discussing the idea of core containment in nuclear powered ships.

You watch the box set with subtitals just to fully understand what they are all saying.

You begin writing your own fic completley forgetting you hate story writing and everything to do with english.

You imagine being the 11th character and how you could save the lives of Wash, Book, Nandy and Tracey while avoiding "out of gas" after working out there would not be enough oxygen on the ship for you and mal to survive.

When converting friends who refuse to buy the box set, just because i say it is sooooo good we have a signed aggreement that if i lend them my copy they return it else they go to the special hell.

The rest of your freinds just retreat into a semi fetal position at any time when you mention anything firefly related.

Yay im all done now....

SMARTBUTDUMBBLONDE

Saturday, May 6, 2006 8:06 PM

Quote:

The rest of your freinds just retreat into a semi fetal position at any time when you mention anything firefly related.

Oh yes, I know that feeling! And my family have gone from mere groans whenever I regurlary manage to work anything Firefly related into the conversation, to rugby tackling and throwing assorted missiles at me!!

I love Wash! Bring back Wash!

DIETCOKE

Saturday, May 6, 2006 9:14 PM

You have a patch, mousepad, and magnet with your local Browncoat logo on it.

You get very upset when you learn you are going to miss the 3rd Annual PA Shindig.

You go through withdrawals when you go for over a month of not seeing your local Browncoats.

NY/NJ/CT Browncoats: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/firefly_nyc

MAMASAID

Saturday, May 6, 2006 9:34 PM

I know this is perverse, but where else can I ask it...my browncoat roomate is getting married, and I was wondering if any bachelorette "gifts" exist? that would totally make her party awesome. I hope we all get the innuendo

DIETCOKE

Saturday, May 6, 2006 9:56 PM

You mean like a "rain stick?"

NY/NJ/CT Browncoats: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/firefly_nyc

SERENITYSLITTLEANGEL

Thursday, May 11, 2006 6:19 PM

..... you channel River during a Drama characterisation lesson. We had to take on the role of a mental patient, and... well. You can imagine the rest.

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KAYLEESTHEGREATEST

Thursday, May 11, 2006 7:04 PM

You usee all firefly lingo including chinease. Like toa goa or gosa

Someday the verse will spit in your soup but at least they gave you soup.
one day
one plan
one mission
one army of browncoats
june 23rd serenity day

-Our mission as browncoats is to make us known.

VOLK564

Friday, May 12, 2006 6:14 AM

...You complement your date by saying that she looks "Pretty...pretty. Especially with engine grease all over your face." (That one went down well, lemme tell ya! )

...Your mom always wanted you to be a doctor, and now you do too...not to save people's lives or anything, but just so you can say cool stuff like "Your patient should be dead!" and "How do I know you won't kill me in my sleep?"

...you keep your FF/BDM dvd's in a seperate stack from the rest of your DVD's, so they're always handy.

...on your AP European History examination, when asked about the role of the state in the "modern era," you seriousley considered mentioning the Alliance.

...you're a student pilot, and your instructor puts you into a stall, and while preforming the normal recovery procedures, you begin muttering "leaf on the wind, leaf on the wind, leaf on the wind..."

...you know all the words to not only the theme song, but also "Hero of Canton," and "Fruity Oaty Bars."

...you find yourself spending more and more time in Hot Topic, despite the fact that you hate the place, on the off chance they have that hilarious new budda shirt from Serenity.

JEHANE

Friday, May 12, 2006 5:53 PM

... you walk down a street in Manchester, UK, basically enjoying your vacation until you come across a huge blue advertising for "Alliance" and you go "WTF? The Alliance is now taking over Manchester as well??". Then you realise that "Alliance", in this case, is an insurance company.

How's business?
None of yours.

DEEPGIRL187

Friday, May 12, 2006 6:01 PM

...when you start a new class, the first thing you think of is how you can convert your fellow classmates or how the Firefly might be applied to the subject (which in this case is abnormal psychology).

At last.
We can retire and give up
this life of crime.

BLAZESOLO

Friday, May 12, 2006 7:42 PM

....You've searched every gun shop around for a gun like Mal's and can't find one ........ I fit so meny of those. I live in Arizona too and have a nice long Brown Coat !!! Don't get ta wear it much unless I wanna use it as a portable sauna.

I wear a blaster under my BrownCoat

SEADOG

Friday, May 12, 2006 7:55 PM

...you have told your client, "Take the deal and you can go on your 'merry."

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Ever been with a warrior woman?

SERENITYSLITTLEANGEL

Saturday, May 13, 2006 9:07 AM

.... you see a greengrocers called "Reynolds" and automatically think: "So that's what Mal's family did on the Earth-That-Was."

.... you start referring to the planet as "Earth-That-Was"

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DANIELFYRE

Sunday, May 14, 2006 5:54 AM

I got yet another one

...You find yourself in AC Moore and happen upon some toy dinosaurs and act out the "this land" scene for your girlfriend's brother.
...While in the same section you see toy geese as well...which you begin to juggle for your girlfriend while saying "see...I told ya...some people juggle geese"
...You make a juggling geese refrence at least once a day and have gotten others to do so too, but not only do "some people juggle geese" but "REAL MEN JUGGLE GEESE" also gets said quite often. Speaking of which I think that would make a really good bumper sticker...

-Dan

REAL MEN JUGGLE GEESE!

PHOENIXROSE

Sunday, May 14, 2006 3:59 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by deepgirl187:
...when you start a new class, the first thing you think of is how you can convert your fellow classmates or how the Firefly might be applied to the subject (which in this case is abnormal psychology).

There's a whole thread about our heros as psychological symbols. I'm sure you could sell it!

I have new ones for myself, too!

Bought a long brown leather coat.
Ordered patches to sew onto said coat.
Read many debates on which way the Browncoat insignia patch should go, eventually watched the opening of the pilot frame by frame in order to get it right (upside-down triangle, right side up star, as it happens)
Tortured fingers in order to sew patches on.
Bought a Serenity logo tee to wear under coat.
Wears coat everywhere possible now, even though summer weather is starting.
Is very sad that no passerby has commented on it yet.
Can only be happy that she is not the only one!

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One summer.
One mission.
One legion of Browncoats.

Starting June 23rd, we aim to misbehave.

FIREFLYFOREVERX7

Sunday, May 14, 2006 6:16 PM

...your best friend is so sick of you saying 'firefly' or 'serenity' that she hits herself in the head with the nearest object every time it is mentioned.

...you have so many friends wanting to borrow the series that you have a waiting list on your refrigerator.

...you walk into the ice cream shop with your friends, say to the guy working there "have you seen firefly or serenity?" the guy says "saw serenity and loved it, haven't watched firefly yet." you spend litteraly the next 3 1/2 hours eating ice cream and talking to the guy aout the BDM and convincing him to buy the series.

...you go back to the ice cream shop the next day, there is a different guy working there. you ask him if he saw the movie or the show. he says no and you insist he does so. he says maybe. you go to best buy the next day. you are looking at dvds and the same guy walks up to you (he works at best buy too!) and says "hey look, its serenity" referring to you.

both true stories lol!

CAROlYN*

SPICKY

Sunday, May 14, 2006 6:27 PM

...you take your teenage son and his friends to see Slither and then make them all watch Firefly DVDs 'cause they've got Nathan in too, friends go home and get their parents to buy Firefly

...the children at the school where you work start saying shiny

MERCURY002

Sunday, May 14, 2006 6:37 PM

... if you have sat and read all of these comments in one sitting, well maybe a light browncoat

Simon:"If the battle was so horrible, why did he name the ship after it?"
Zoe:"Once you've been in serenity you never leave"

SHINYYUKARI

Monday, May 15, 2006 1:02 AM

...If you ever thought the guitarist of your favorite band would LOVE the series and BDM.

"I fully promote and love watching Tre be the greatest rock drummer in the world."~Billie Joe Armstrong
"Okay! Everybody not talking about sex, in here. Everybody else, elsewhere."~Wash
Browncoats are the coolest fans I've ever seen.

PHOENIXROSE

Monday, May 15, 2006 8:54 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by spicky:

...the children at the school where you work start saying shiny

Brilliant!

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One summer.
One mission.
One legion of Browncoats.

Starting June 23rd, we aim to misbehave.

SPICKY

Monday, May 15, 2006 9:01 AM

Thanks Phoenixrose

I thought so too, and I do all I can to encourage it....no harm in it I figure, and early exposure can only mean an army of potential Browncoats. Figure though as their average age is 6 gotta keep the flag flying a while longer

Spicky

CHOO1701

Monday, May 15, 2006 10:04 AM

....you ask every sci fi fan you see: "Have you seen Firefly"...

...You convert the local comic book store owners, and your friends dad.

...You have a Mal Microhero avatar on another forum.

...You patent the design for the Firefly Class transport.

...your prepared to write a fanfic when a year ago you would have died about the thought

...You take a 3D design course so you can work for Zoic and copy their high poly Serenity Mesh

...the meaning to life is: "Why are there two versions of the CGI Firefly class ship?"

...the RPG you write has a distinct 'verse feel to it (including the ship )

NIRWIN

Monday, May 15, 2006 11:19 AM

You learn to play 'the Hero of Canton' just so you can go along to your local 'jam night' and see if you can flush out any firefly/serenity fans, cause browncoats are the coolest.

---
Nirwin

CHOO1701

Monday, May 15, 2006 11:33 AM

...you want to go to Japan and campaign for Firefly Manga!!!

...and smile when you see Serenity still on the local rentals DVD charts (but sadden as it goes lower down )

...you try to explain to your English teacher that ther latset good book your reading is on Fireflyfans.net

CAPTRULZ

Monday, May 15, 2006 11:54 AM

Quote:
you know exactly what note of the ballad of serenity you have to answer your cellphone by before the call goes to voicemail
Quote:

I can so relate to this. The same goes for the 'Hero of Canton' song!!!

You are a Browncoat if......

You have a DVD night and spend the majority of it in half-screams with your best friend because you have just discovered she is a closet fan and you didn't know it.

Your at work and you mention you need to by a comic from the store (at nine in the morning) and the person next to you replies with "I have to by the Serenity comic". You then spend the next 8 hours of your shift in near hysteria talking everything FF, Serenity and Joss.

You spend the last 10 minutes of your shift bluetoothing the "Ballad of Serenity" and "Hero of Canton" to afore mention workmate.

You watch a Southern-accented movie, like Sweet Home Alabama, and all you can hear is Nathan's voice not that of the actual actors.

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HIPPIEBROWNCOAT

Tuesday, May 16, 2006 5:36 AM

You own a bumper sticker that reads, "I am a leaf on the wind; watch how I soar."

Your uptight boss knows what you mean when you say, "Shiny!"

You waitress and say "Shiny!" to your tables searching for fellow browncoats.

You find yourself rummaging through your father's closet (i'm a girl) and taking out his huge Hawiian shirt before going to see Slither (just to see Nathan).

You see Slither and yell "Go Captian Tightpants!" in the theatre. Then you ponder what makes the Special Hell so gorram special.

Oh, i am a tweaked one, yes i am...

ALLIETHORN7

Tuesday, May 16, 2006 9:15 PM

Okay, I'll try: Your a Browncoat if...
...You find yourself singing the firefly theme song at school...
...You randomly curse people out in Chinese...
...You work in said Chinese in everyday conversations...
...If you know all of the great-good-middlingly good quotes from all the episodes and the BDM by heart.

-Danny

ALLIETHORN7

Tuesday, May 16, 2006 9:16 PM

Okay, I'll try: Your a Browncoat if...
...You find yourself singing the firefly theme song at school...
...You randomly curse people out in Chinese...
...You work in said Chinese in everyday conversations...
...If you know all of the great-good-middlingly good quotes from all the episodes and the BDM by heart.

-Danny

MOOGLEYB

Monday, May 22, 2006 12:29 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by imaleaf:
...you are going to go see Slither in theaters (instead or renting or downloading) just because Nathan Fillion is in it

And I dragged my semi-browncoat boyfriend (though he did get annoyed when I kept quoting Firefly and then proceeded to tell him that Nathan "oozes sex-appeal from every pore").

...During your frenc writing exam the only name you could think of giving your made-up singer was "River Tam".

...Whenever you ask your friends to guess what you did last night they always answer "you watched Serenity" and they are always right.

... You've created a conversion chain-reacter (ie. You convert oen frind, who converst another, who converts another...)

... You have a firefly/serenity costume party for your 18th birthday.

...Simon guest-stars in all of your dreams, no matter what they're about.

...you have gone up to numerous people and told them that their coat is kind of a brownish colour. You yelled and hugged one of your converted friends when he replied "It was on sale"

...Despite being a Buffy fan of epic proportions you can't help looking at caleb and seeing Mal.

...You threatened to break up with your boyfiend of 18months after he told you never to use "faux chinese" again (All I said was "dong ma?")

...you quote from outtakes and bonus features as much as from actual episodes/BDM (see my name)

...For your boyfriend's first birthday since you've been together you get him the firefly series. Later that year you get him Serenity for Christmas.

...you're already planning setting up a Firefly society when you start university (Also, I'm going to try and blag my way into the already existant Chinese society)

Quote:
Originally posted by BelowZero:
*sigh* You get called into the principal's office because your 8 year old Browncoat son called a classmate a "backbirth" and proceeded to tell him (and the principal) that "my mom can kill you with her brain."

That is exactly why I should never have kids.

Quote:
Originally posted by Mercury002:
... if you have sat and read all of these comments in one sitting

Yeah, I did that. It's taken me 2 hours but I did it!

Quote:
Originally posted by reaverman:

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

That actually happens?! How dare they?!

Quote:
Originally posted by BelowZero:
...you cried yourself to sleep when you discovered Nathan had a girlfriend!....

I MUST know who that is! Someone, please tell me who she is so I can kill her!

Side note: My cousin, a huge Buffy fan, actually owns the firely series and hasn't watched it. Does that strike anyone as criminal?

MOOGLEYB

Monday, May 22, 2006 12:33 AM

Eugh, it was way too late when I posted the above, hence the typos. Sorry

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