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POSTED BY: WISHIMAY
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Sunday, August 05, 2012 6:52 PM

I henceforth claim this thread for all the Newbs, Lurkers, and people just barely dipping their toes in... Any old peoples wanna just post for old time's sake too, go for it...

Welcome :cheers:

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Tuesday, August 07, 2012 2:35 AM

MOOSE

Hello!

:smokin:

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Tuesday, August 07, 2012 6:55 AM

WISHIMAY

S'up?

:glasses:

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Tuesday, August 07, 2012 7:24 PM

TRAVELER

to our verse.

http://www.imdb.com/list/1pzry-tpdaI/

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Wednesday, August 08, 2012 5:51 AM

DEATHPAIN

Hey there, im a noob to the firefly community and just wanted to say hi to all the browncoats out there.

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Wednesday, August 08, 2012 9:42 AM

BROWNCOAT1

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

Welcome DeathPain.

_______________________________________________

Holding the line since December '02!

X.O. / Battalion O.I.C.

http://76thbattalion.homestead.com/index.html

http://76thbattalion.proboards.com

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Wednesday, August 08, 2012 11:04 AM

DEATHPAIN

So it seems there is alot of firefly stuff happening in the states, especially with comic con and the browncoat ball but there seems to be little over the water in the UK. Is there any UK browncoats around that can point me in a direction to what happens over here. Or is there as little as I fear ?

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Wednesday, August 08, 2012 11:50 AM

WISHIMAY

Welcome Deathpain :cheers:

Have you checked out a thing called "Facebook" I hear there are many Browncoats about, though I don't dare go there meself... Also, It seems that typing in your area, and the word Browncoat in a search is somewhat helpful.... or U.K. Fireflyfans... We have a dozen or so that come here frequently...

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Friday, August 10, 2012 3:05 AM

DEATHPAIN

Actually I had a brief look on that thing called Facebook. I say brief because eventually someone I dont want to speak to ends up noticing im on and then I leave again : )

Im in the midlands anyway, and closest place I have seen so far is London. Dont know if there is anyone about closer...

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Saturday, August 18, 2012 4:45 AM

SHINYGOODGUY

Hey there Newbs, Greetings and salutations! Isn't Firefly the best dang TV series never to have a second season (Damn you Fox!) and the verse is rife with Browncoats of all shapes, sizes and colors........so sit a spell.

This is also a hoot and a holler to all the O.B.s - Original Browncoats. Still kicking after all these years!

SGG

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Tuesday, November 20, 2012 7:47 PM

WISHIMAY

Bumpin thread for recent newbs to come in and relax a spell...

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Tuesday, November 20, 2012 11:56 PM

AFRICOAT

lol I should have started here but I went straight for the chat .

Anyway I'm South African and hoping to meet other firefly. Hopefully I can win the lottery and fund a sequel to Firefly :)

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Wednesday, November 21, 2012 8:43 AM

REAVERFAN

I've been here a while, but don't post much.

I'm one of those people who didn't know about Firefly at all until a few years ago when I stumbled on it on Hulu. I didn't watch much TV back when it was on. I've probably watched the whole series 20 times since then, and it's still more entertaining than any show out there.

Like most of you, I loved it from the get-go and wondered how such a great show could have been cancelled so fast. The Friday night "death slot," the network, etc., just made me angry. How many people would have gotten into it if they'd just promoted and scheduled it better? We'll never know.

For me, good shows are hard to find, and I've never joined a fansite for any other show, let alone one that was gone before I ever saw it. I like Firefly that much.

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Wednesday, November 21, 2012 10:40 AM

WISHIMAY

When they announced more Star Wars films, I couldn't help but think, THAT SHOULDA BEEN US :pissed:

I think we would have been as big as Trek eventually too...

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Sunday, November 25, 2012 9:29 AM

FLORALBUNNY

Welcome to all who are new to this mighty pretty crew. Atop the Mule, which is parked near the upper end of the ramp, are a cooler full of jugs of Mudder's Milk and an array of baskets of strawberries. Everyone coming aboard is welcome to partake. Next, you stash your stuff in one of the designated wheeled cages and keep a key. Stop by the Virtual Browncoat Locker and let us issue you a perfectly fitted coat. Now you're looking shiny. Next, freshen up (sorry the line's so long but after all there are by now over 47000 crew signed on!) and brave the airy-scary steps and catwalk up to the galley. In the galley we maintain a buffet that you can question to your heart's (and stomach's) content: mangos, papayas, pineapples, bacon-wrapped oysters, 'tater salad, fresh bao, wife soup...most anything you want. The shimmerwine fountain is at the aft end of the table. Please keep your feet well away from the underside of the table at that point. Something seems to have been living under there for eight or so years, and it may be dangerous.

Oh, and don't forget to sign up for your turn at chores!

bun

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Sunday, November 25, 2012 9:52 AM

MUTT999

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Originally posted by FLORALBUNNY: Something seems to have been living under there for eight or so years, and it may be dangerous.

Umm, that would be me. Not too dangerous. Just don't feed me after midnight.

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Sunday, November 25, 2012 4:18 PM

KARLALUCKOW

I am with you. Never watched it until a couple of years ago and now have re-watched all the episodes many times. We lived in a place we only had 3 channels.. :(

This is by far one of the BEST shows ever on Tv in my opinion. I hope and pray something can be done to bring it back. My idea: I read on a blog, a way to get a show "noticed" is to get it current.. well with all the T.E.O.T.W.A.W.K.I. (Armageddon/Zombie Apocalypse stuff) going on right now it would be a GREAT time I think, that would bring it to current issues and give good cause to bring it back. Just watched the reunion show and the writers still had a LOT of GREAT ideas to work with... So, that's my thought on it. Glad I found this page. :)

Karla

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Monday, November 26, 2012 7:09 PM

FLORALBUNNY

Glad you are here with us, KARLALUCKOW. I hope you'll find a few kindred spirits among the many crazed 'coats who dwell here. Been a while since anyone started a party, but there's life among the masses yet.

I have a nice, big llama who enjoys parties, and a portable fumarole for additional heat where it's needed.

And there is the captioning.

And (shudder) the politics and general rabble-rousing.

MUTT, I thought the sub-table dweller was DOG13 or whatever he called himself. Lordy, what a long time ago that was. Well, don't bite any toes - - you've no idea where they've been.

Hodgeberry wine for all when we open the first few bottles next week!

bun

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Tuesday, November 27, 2012 5:12 PM

KAREL

Flying on duct tape and a damaged registry.

Yay, Wishy! Carrying on for Astriana (before your time). :smile:

"Whatever is wrong with you is so right for me." -- Marillion.

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Tuesday, November 27, 2012 6:28 PM

WISHIMAY

Wouldn't ya love to know what happened to some of the old-timers?

Browncoats never die, they just get lost in the black for a while...

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Wednesday, November 28, 2012 10:01 AM

FLORALBUNNY

...out scavenging among the rimworlds, adventuring, smuggling black-market beagles, collecting scars and stories, lifting strawberries off Shepherds in back alleys, ferrying doctors out to those in need, taking cows one last time...

bun

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Thursday, November 29, 2012 8:19 PM

FLORALBUNNY

Bumping this up to collect any newbies or lurking old(b)ies. Come on up the ramp; you know you want to. Say hello and get a coat plus all the other perks. If we go by Lilac, we'll drop in and acquire paper brollies for the lot of you.

bun

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Thursday, November 29, 2012 9:08 PM

WISHIMAY

...and I'm postin' just to say Hi! Bun... Did you have a swell year this year? Only a dozen or so more days 'till the suppose-ed end of the Mayan calender, yanno... Did you lay in extra strawberries and Ice Planets??

And....Did you ever fix that singed turtle? :wink:

The closest I ever came to a tagline was "Stupid happens here- WELCOME TO EARTH! (Soon to be Earth-that-was :crap:)

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Sunday, December 09, 2012 2:51 PM

KKWHEELCHAIR

Yeah im new on here watched Firefly a few times over just didn't think of coming on here.

You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with until you understand who's in ruttin' command here.

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Sunday, December 09, 2012 4:58 PM

WISHIMAY

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Originally posted by KKwheelchair: Yeah im new on here watched Firefly a few times over just didn't think of coming on here.

Yep, amazing how many things are percolating just under the surface of the 'net... We're glad you made your way through the maze to our little corner, and I see you made it to chat (not so busy on weekends, but fairly steady through the week.) Feel free to root around and make yourself comfy! I got the key to the supply closet, so I'll just give you your Virtual Browncoat now >> :biggrin: See if that's jes' to yer likin'....

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Tuesday, December 11, 2012 2:48 PM

FLORALBUNNY

Hi, Wishie!

'Tis a season of excitement, already underway and groaning with freight.

We'll be starting in on the ice-planets and all the strawbs I can liberate by around 12.12.12, as one of our number is turning (ssssh!) 40 (ssssh!) that day.

If we survive that, there will be nine more days of partying until the Mayans come back for us. Then there will be the Fiscal Cliff. And upon the Feast of the Epiphany my own 427th birthday. May be able to fix that turtle myself after all, without waiting for Jayne to sharpen up his technique. Just (yesterday!) had eye surgery and am champing at the bit to get started back at the beadwork, mini-crochet, all that fancy stuff after years of blurs and smears.

I had a whole supply of taglines around here somewhere (rummage, rummage) but haven't seen them in a couple of years.

Hope your year has been a good one, memorable, productive... ...Which makes me think of a tag-line!

Earlier today I posted (elsewhere) a wry memory of what had been a painful, embarrassing experience. I found myself laughing as each nuance, each new phrase suggested itself. Then I cut out anything which would identify me or others involved and it was still funny. It then occurred to me that at the time it happened I had told my family "In twenty years this is probably going to be hilarious." I should have had that needlepointed for the wall and engraved on cards.

So, for you, no matter how bad it gets, that line or this one: "Comedy is tragedy plus time." - - Carol Burnett

bun

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Tuesday, December 11, 2012 3:03 PM

FLORALBUNNY

Big, fuzzy welcome to KKWheelchair, #47780 to sign on.

That browncoat looks shiny on you - - always a good fit from the virtual locker. We have here the traditional Milk - - and strawberries, dewy-fresh from the fruit-locker of a large ship docked nearby. Turns out one of the keys from my extensive collection fit their starboard sally-port lock a treat, and it was pick-and-stick from there to the goodies and swiftly out again.

I had to purchase the ice-planets on the up-and-up but they're just as good, and the selection is broad, tending to the exotic. You'll find them on the bottom shelf of the cooler when you've stashed your stuff and come up for the questioning of the buffet.

Wife soup is on the simmer, hot cheese is in the chafing dish, shimmerwine is in the fountain at the aft end of the galley table; as always, we ask that you steer clear of whatever may be living under there.

bun bastards singed my turtle

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Tuesday, December 11, 2012 7:54 PM

WISHIMAY

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Originally posted by FLORALBUNNY:

And upon the Feast of the Epiphany my own 427th birthday. May be able to fix that turtle myself after all, without waiting for Jayne to sharpen up his technique. Just (yesterday!) had eye surgery and am champing at the bit to get started back at the beadwork, mini-crochet, all that fancy stuff after years of blurs and smears.

Well, happy early birthday! May it be kind to all your 427 years... Eye surgery is on my list of things nightmarish -just the dentist gets me worked up- so my sympathies on that part...But, glad to hear modern science is working for someone, anyhow. Rest up now, and eat your carrots- so you can see the end of the world very clearly :laugh:

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Wednesday, December 12, 2012 4:02 AM

DUN

nods head

Compared to some of the brownies I be A newbie.

You buy this ship, treat her proper, she'll be with you for the rest of your life And I have a Big Stick which I like to shake alot.

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Wednesday, December 12, 2012 8:44 AM

FLORALBUNNY

DUN!! At 28612 out of so many more thousands why have you no coat?? What are you doing, hanging around down here?

Wishie, get this not-so-newb a coat and I'll scare up some Milk and strawberries. Now, I know you know your way around the buffet or you'd be one of those corpsicles we had to drape across our snout on one of our passages through Reaver Territory. Smell that? Yep, fresh bao.

Wishie, I think the dentist is next for me. Shudder, shudder. Meanwhile, just can't stop looking at stuff as focus sharpens bit by bit. Was so scared of this but science advances so fast one can't keep up.

bun

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Wednesday, December 12, 2012 12:54 PM

KKWHEELCHAIR

Yes i know all about some of the stuff that you can find in gallerys. some people out their have minds that belong in a "special hell".

You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with until you understand who's in ruttin' command here.

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Wednesday, December 19, 2012 10:58 AM

FLORALBUNNY

Bump for more newbs and lurkers.

bun

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Wednesday, December 19, 2012 12:24 PM

WISHIMAY

Dun lives in chat...we go waaay back. Yanno what they say when Irish eyes are smiling.... :evil: Never gives a staight answer ta anything if he can help it....Not that I'm an innocent by any means...

It's funny how people can not meet each other for years around here.

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Wednesday, December 19, 2012 2:11 PM

FOLLOWMAL

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Originally posted by FLORALBUNNY: Bump for more newbs and lurkers.

bun

*hugs FloralBunny tight* You are the best welcome-r ever in the history of Browncoat-dom. "Coats and eats and drinks and merry making. :) I always enjoy your wine.

http://www.kidsneedtoread.org

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Wednesday, December 19, 2012 2:12 PM

FOLLOWMAL

I was sort of wondering if any of the folks from the OB, which has shut down have lurked or hitched a ride here?

Anyone? Bueller?

http://www.kidsneedtoread.org

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Wednesday, December 19, 2012 8:52 PM

MOOSE

Well, dang. Didn't even know the OB had shut down. I was just over there a couple of months ago. That's kinda sad.

I originally started there, but I hated the format. I found this place and that was that. :smile:

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Thursday, December 20, 2012 8:08 AM

FOLLOWMAL

Quote:
Originally posted by Moose: Well, dang. Didn't even know the OB had shut down. I was just over there a couple of months ago. That's kinda sad.

I originally started there, but I hated the format. I found this place and that was that. :smile:

It seems to be off line totally. :( It's shut down before and then come back, so I'm crossing my fingers. Lots of memories there. This place is home for me....no matter how long I stay away, I come back to lurk, post and enjoy.

http://www.kidsneedtoread.org

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Sunday, December 23, 2012 3:01 PM

FLORALBUNNY

OB up, but shows no new discussions, as far as I can tell. Snif.

FM, thanks for the compliment, but you're the one who kept the key to the coat storage for many years. And (wo)manned the files of extra 8 x 10s of our BDHs. And sent me a copy of Nathan's appearance (which I still have, BTW) on CraigyFerg all those years ago when my dialup couldn't handle moving pictures and I didn't have a TV...LOL!!!

We never could get a welcome thread stickied to pg. 1, so we started many a time, and here is this so far down the board already.

Have a mah-velous holiday, my dear, and your family as well.

bun we need to have Nathan ride Secretariat. heh.

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Sunday, December 23, 2012 3:08 PM

FLORALBUNNY

Merry Merry whatever works in your Universe, Wishie, Moose, newbs, anyone reading. We're making the fudge as chocolate-y as possible and sprinkling little colored thingies in all directions. Captain's gonna turn off the gravity just for a few minutes so we can chase them. Be sure to tie down or contain anything loose - - there are cupboards and loops everywhere for your convenience. Barf bags, too, if you are of the E-Z persuasion. Collect a supply in the galley. Warning will be broadcast over the ship's PA system.

bun little silver thingies, too.

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Monday, December 24, 2012 4:01 AM

MOOSE

Ow!

I really hate it when the Cap'n doesn't announce when he turns grav back on...:crap:

Merry Christmas everyone!

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Monday, December 24, 2012 1:02 PM

FLORALBUNNY

Yeah. Best when he warns and then cranks it on just a little at a time.

bun Got to go down and find a cow. We need cream to whip for the desserts. Shuttle 2 in an hour if you have errands to run.

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Wednesday, December 26, 2012 1:31 PM

FLORALBUNNY

Bumping up for newbs.

bun

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Monday, December 31, 2012 5:44 PM

FLORALBUNNY

And another bump.

bun munching a strawberry

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Tuesday, January 01, 2013 4:21 PM

WISHIMAY

<> Watch where yer bumpin missy...and ye got no excuses, I know you can see me standin' here, now...And leaving strawberry stems out all over the place!!? The nerve of some people :tongue:

Yeah, it's time to clean up last years mess, and I ain't especially looking forward to it...OR backwards to it...

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Tuesday, January 01, 2013 4:34 PM

VERSEEXPLORER

I am one of the old timers that hasn't been around for awhile. It's always great to know that fff.net is here for Browncoats to connect.

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Tuesday, January 01, 2013 8:28 PM

BRENDA

Not a newbie. Knew about the show from the beginning. Just a refugee from the closing down of the OB.

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Thursday, January 03, 2013 8:51 AM

FLORALBUNNY

Newbies and refugees and recent arrivals and whatever, WELCOME!

We're glad to see you, and you look mighty shiny in your virtual browncoats, drinking up the supply of Mudder's and chomping away on the strawberries we have put out for you. Come on up to the galley when you're ready for an ice-planet or a questioning of the buffet. We'll pour more shimmerwine into the fountain for you and heat up the cheese once again. Other odd little parties are going on in secret nooks and crannies all over, but you have to find them. Track down the rackets to their sources.

bun

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Thursday, January 03, 2013 9:00 AM

SOMETHINGCLEVER

My dear wife got me "Done the Impossible" for Christmas, and I just wanted to stop in and give a big "THANK YOU" to the Firefly community. You see, I didn't know a thing about the the show when it originally aired. I didn't learn of the 'verse until I saw the BDM in the theater. Of course, I immediately went out and got the series on DVD and have watched the show repeatedly since. Without this community making such a ruckus, the movie probably would never have been made, and I would never have known about this fantastic and all to brief show.

So thank you all. Your enthusiasm and relentless drive continues to breath life into Firefly and I am eternally grateful to each every last one of you.

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Thursday, January 03, 2013 12:48 PM

REAVERFAN

What's OB?

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Thursday, January 03, 2013 12:57 PM

BRENDA

Reaverfan,

The OB is or was the "Official Board" for Firefly. It got shut down 2 weeks before Christmas and was a really shiny place.

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