You Know You're Addicted to Farscape When....

[GoddessPrime]

Okay, I'm not sure if this thread has been done in this forum but I think I'll give it a try. If anyone has better ones (which they most certainly will be), post them.

-You've actually mailed your bra to make a point
-You saw the ending of Bad Timing, you actually screamed (even though you were watching it on your laptop in a public place)
-You've begun wearing black leather exclusively
-You've named all your guns Winona
-Green slugs have actually become attractive
.....
(If anyone has any more, they'd certainly be better than mine)

[Orion]

i watch 2 or 3 episodes a day...(and im not exaggerating)
some days i can only get to see one..
simply because uk t.v is a load of dren,today(so far)i have watched .crichton kicks and ,the way we weren't
next up is season of death

so you can understand how i can recite every episode .....word for word

*sigh* i need to get out more

[Illusions]

-You have inner monologues with a creepy pale guy wearing a dominatrix outfit
-You get angry when Pilot doesn't respond to your commands while driving your car
-You only date women clad in black leather (extra points for the woman having combat training, and more if she's named Aeryn)
-You start cursing using words like 'Frell' and 'Dren', and tell time using 'microts', 'arns', and 'cycles'
-You try to pull a Sikozu and end up smashing into a wall and falling on your ass...

[Mirth]

- You refer to your employee's as DRD's ;)

- You can be heard screaming "INITIATE STARBURST" everytime you get on a highway (or Public Transport)

- When stopping for directions you look around suspiciously and ask "Which way to the nearest Gammick Base?"

- You're such a big fan of Rygel's, you carry a helium balloon at all times....just in case

- You try and claim donations to SaveFarscape as a Tax Write-off (U.S. only, i guess)

- You have a bumper sticker that says "My other Car is a PK Prowler" (or Levithan) (or Farscape Module)

- You have a "I brake for Wormholes" bumper sticker...and you do!

- Suddenly everything becomes an intro to Farscape, example: "My name is Mirth, a Network Admin. A problem hit, and the Server was Shot (low voice: shot) through a wormhole. Now im lost (lv:lost) in some distant office, in a server room (lv: a LIVING server room) full of alien error logs, Help Me (lv: help me). Listen, please, is there anyone else at the support desk listening? Im being Hunted (lv: hunted) by an insane Financial Director. Im doing everything i can! Im just looking for a way to restore....

[holoslicer]

You known that your addicted to farscape when

- You refer to all Malls as "Commerce Planets"
- Your bumper sticker says "My other car is a Leviathan" (not sure on spelling)
- You name your dog / cat / <insert pet here> "Sparky"
-You ask for food cubes in the canteen at lunch time

[soccerscaper]

Mirth you cracked me up!!! :rollin: :rollin: :rollin: :rollin:

[InfinateElement]

You know you're addicted to Farscape when...

You find out that the child you're carrying is a girl and the first name that comes to you is Moya.
which btw is the truth in my case. And even though I found it in a baby name book, all my friends know where it really came from. BTW...in Irish Moya means GREAT and is a form of Moira or Mary :aok:

[Mirth]

couple more...

- You start calling in sick to work (over the summer), with "Sebacian Heat Delirium" as your excuse

- You walk into a local bar, order 2 Raslac's....and the barkeep knows what to bring you

- You don't keep change in your car for fear it will sprout legs and starting eating your ship.

- You start feeding your iguana birdseed in hopes of creating your own Scarren army

- Your pick up lines include "Wanna share Unity?", "That aint no Qualta blade..." and "Wanna get 'irreversibly contaminated' with me?" (sorry, these were REALLY Bad)

- Your constantly thrown out of buildings for checking the woman's bathroom (or men's if your female) cause, you know, you "Won't Get Fooled Again"

- When driving, you will not respond to anyone unless they call you 'Pilot'

- Your spell-check program doesn't have a problem with any of the above words, with the exception of "Wanna"

[Roland]

Originally posted by InfinateElement
You know you're addicted to Farscape when...

You find out that the child you're carrying is a girl and the first name that comes to you is Moya.
which btw is the truth in my case. And even though I found it in a baby name book, all my friends know where it really came from. BTW...in Irish Moya means GREAT and is a form of Moira or Mary :aok:

My future daughter is going to be called Aurora!

Beacuse she is going to be a "mean peacekeeper machine". :)

[Frunium Slip]

Your addicted to Farscape when you stop and ask for directions, and when they say they don't know, you pull your pulse pistol and keep screaming 'Katrazi' at them.

[Kaelin]

When you refer to your boss as Scorpius

When you have little toy DRD's stickied glued to various places around your desk and computer and swear you think you saw one move it's antenna eyes questionably.

If you see an ally cat constantly in your yard and no one else ever sees it and you decide to name it Harvey(this is happening to me!)]

If you have named your car Talyn.

If you have ever uttered a Crichtonism and passed it off as your own among non-scrapers.--I once told someone, "You do NOT get the toaster."

If your computer's Harddrive is labeled after a Farscape character.

If you have already lived out season 5, episode one in your head, thinking out every scene, every moment and every piece of dialog and wonder how close you were to what was invisioned.

if you have ever watched a bad television show and wondered what would happened if the scripts got 'Farscaped.' And start laughing when you imagine 'Eric' from "That 70's show" saying '..but you do NOT get the keys to the Porche' to his father.

[grinner]

Originally posted by Kaelin
If you have named your car Talyn.

What if you named your car Moya?

[Kaelin]

Then its safe to call you an addict

[Xallanthia]

-You buy a model pulse pistol... then (accidentally) pull it on a University Public Safety officer (this happened to a friend of mine)
-You can recite the commentaries from the DVDs

[AgentSun]

LOL. congrats to your friend, xallanthia!

if i had the DVDS i bet i could recite the commentaries...

[trubador]

Originally posted by Mirth
- Suddenly everything becomes an intro to Farscape, example: "My name is Mirth, a Network Admin. A problem hit, and the Server was Shot (low voice: shot) through a wormhole. Now im lost (lv:lost) in some distant office, in a server room (lv: a LIVING server room) full of alien error logs, Help Me (lv: help me). Listen, please, is there anyone else at the support desk listening? Im being Hunted (lv: hunted) by an insane Financial Director. Im doing everything i can! Im just looking for a way to restore....
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!:D :D :D :D :D

... and when in the server room (aka the cold room) you suddenly shout out, "Hey, Pilot! Is there something wrong with the atmospherics? It's a little warm in the cold room."
(I do NOT miss working in server rooms doing tech support at 3AM!!!).

[DorothyGail]

You're driving down the road and, after - how many weeks? - you suddenly figure out what that scene in La Bomba, with John asking Aeryn to kill Scorpy ("I'll give you my bike if you'll kill him?").....was all about? <Oh! They were making sure he was the REAL Scorpy, and not a bioloid!>

Words like Frell and Drannit come to mind in the course of normal conversation, you use them, and the people you're talking to don't bat an eye.

Everytime you're seen on the computer, there's this BB with the brown screen background........!

[Evie]

*cowers in fear*

Well, I am a single mom, so I have every other weekend 'off' and I actually go out.

So I've missed like half the episodes.... Trust me, I'm not happy about that, but I am still a huge fan and I talk about FS all the time.

*please don't hurt me*

[vf-xx]

Originally posted by Evie
*cowers in fear*

Well, I am a single mom, so I have every other weekend 'off' and I actually go out.

So I've missed like half the episodes.... Trust me, I'm not happy about that, but I am still a huge fan and I talk about FS all the time.

*please don't hurt me*

Sokay college made me miss the last half of season 2 and the first half of season 3 so it happens.

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- when you try to assist Moya and their crew with other sci-fi memorabilia lying around (like a Valkyrie toy :D)

- when you try to calculate the mass of moya based on screenshots and scaling to human size.

[sparkyXVI]

you've ever had to explain to your boss what "frell" means

refer to your boss as "sparky" to co-workers

if someone get in your way, you start yelling "my side, your side, my side, your side!"

[Fourty_Two]

If you name your fencing sword 'Winona' :D

... and you cry when it breaks the DAY before the last episode of farscape

When you spend a quarter of your spring break making a pulse pistol

When you delete all your games and utilities so you can fit all of your Farscape eps on your harddrive

When you actually stay up untill 11:00 to watch reruns of farscape that you already have on your harddrive.

[sparkyXVI]

you've ever had to explain to your boss what "frell" means

refer to your boss as "sparky" to co-workers

if someone get in your way, you start yelling "my side, your side, my side, your side!"

[talyn3]

If you consider crackers to be sacred.

If you've considered buying two sets of DVD's so you can watch one set and keep the other sealed for posterity.

If everyone you know knows where you are at 8 pm on friday and they are forbidden from calling for that hour. Even though your taping the ep.

You wish your doctor was a Diagnosan

When you hear "I'm your Daddy!" you immeadiatly think of a 7 foot tall guy with tenticles.

[Frunium Slip]

Oh my God!

All my friends did know where I was on Fridays at 8 PM, and they knew not to call, and I was taping the episodes.

Geezz Liouse!

I'm gonna need some serious counseling to get through this.

[Third EYe]

You have over a 100 posts on a site named savefarscape.com


When your girlfriend asks you "Why do you watch that crap?" and you reply " I don't even know you anymore"



I use to have to lock my door, unplug the phone, and shut all the lights off, pull the blinds, so I could watch Farscape. I then got Ultimate TV, and just started watching the eps later. At the time, I didn't think it was unusual behavior. I still don't.

[AgentSun]

LOL.

everytime you see a box of crackers, you want to fill the shopping cart with all that you can, just so when you get home, you can unpackage them all and stack them just like they were in the episode.

you suddenly want that old 70's wood paneling on your house walls so that they'd be brown like moya.

you go to home depot and ask them how you can take your door off its hinges and hinge it in the middle so it swings open left and right.

[grinner]

Originally posted by talyn3
If you've considered buying two sets of DVD's so you can watch one set and keep the other sealed for posterity.

If you have one set from the US and one set from the UK just so you can see the different extras

[qtshel]

It's the giggling out loud when thinking about differnent eps and the looks I get... trying to explain Crichton dressed up as a ... hmmm... superhero to defeat Traltixx- or Crichton in Aeryn's body starting to check things out... geez... I could just go on and on! :rollin:

[Kerrigan]

... when, no matter how upset or angry you are at them, anyone can get under your skin by saying Farscape is the best thing ever (I'm a sucker, I know, I know)

... when you name your notebook Rygel because it's beautiful, powerful, small, shiny, clever... :D

[samati75]

Originally posted by DorothyGail
Everytime you're seen on the computer, there's this BB with the brown screen background........!

D'oh!

[ctheokas]

When your significant other, who isn't a fan of the show, starts using words like Frell and Yotz, even though you may not.

Whenever you hear a song you like you think about how you could use it to make a Farscape music video.

When you're having a discussion about something, and the only references you cite are Farscape eps (Me: "You see, when it comes to the evolution of specific words in a given language, I can't help but think of the Farscape episode, "The Ugly Truth," from season 2, where...")

You've dropped the word pregnant from your vocabulary, and go exclusively with the phrase "with child."

[FireDancer]

-You feel sad there's really no attractive blue women in the world.
-Peacekeeper no longer means our brave people in Kosovo.
-You make sure iguanas stay away from flowers.
-You go on a pirate ship at an amusement park and suddenly start chanting 'my side, your side.'

[kymom5613]

when you look at license plates (I'm on the road A LOT) and start seeing Farscapian themes...
499 DRD (no expl nec)
7105 HZ (Hezmana)
231 ASU (bit of a stretch, but Aeryn Sun)
the list goes on and on...
Sis-in-law calls it "Fire Escape" and I just shake my head.....But, I guess it applies, when necessary to escape the "reality", I use the "Fire Escape" method!

[TenDeuChen]

my drives are called:

A: Wong Drive
C: Drowned
D: Archaic
G: Daedalus
H: Icarus

but...I'm just now thinking of changing c and d to something farscape related...

you're addicted to farscape when:
whenever you're asked to say grace you say one of zhaan's chants...

[Third EYe]

You respond to a thread titled

"You Know You're Addicted to Farscape When...."

[aodhamair]

-You've been exausted all week from staying up until 1am to watch Farscape from the very beginning. (nevermind the fact you tape it, too!)
-You've travelled many miles and paid $35+ to go to a Sci Fi con plus $20 each to get autographs of whichever Farscape castmembers are there.
-You've apologized to coworkers for your language after saying "frell", realizing afterwords that they don't know what it means.
-You don't look forward to Fridays as much anymore.

[Mirth]

*sigh* i REALLY miss Farscape Fridays.....

You Know You're Addicted to Farscape When....:

- someone mentions half-nekkid blue people, you DON'T think of Smurfs (or Antartic pr0n)

- you're working on your own Displacement Drive back in the garage (Infinite Possibilities)

- you've got another bumper sticker that says either "OZME" or "Powered by Froonium" (Revenging Angel)

- when eating Jell-O the first 2 things you can think of are "Prowlers" and "Wormholes"

- You'll never eat clams again...EVER! (after season4 anyway) ;)

- during any conversation about TV, you manage to work in something to the effect of "Damn SciFi for canceling Farscape....Damn Them!!"....even during sports....

- you have a problem watching your DVD's because everytime you read the epi titles, the entire story flashes in you mind...and you qoute it for the next hour

[Roland]

...You actually play with your Farscape action figures! :D

[AgentSun]

and make up episodes with them!

[RescueFarscape]

...someone asks you why you've been grinning like a fool all day long and you have to figure out how exactly to explain the amusing sight of a Sebacean-Scarren hybrid in a fluffy bunny suit expressing his views on an Earth religion to yet another man in a bunny suit...and the wrestling...:rollin:

[Kaiwaz]

-If you've ever been hanging with non-scaper friends and started swearing (in Scaper) at the TV when a "Scare Tactics" or "Tremors Series" commercial came on.

-If you're constantly asking people if what they're doing is a "french revolution kind of thing".

-If you constantly inform people of the "fine programing we have coming up for 2004 on the Sci-Fi Channel..." (with overly official and heavily sarcastic tone).

-If you ever find the way to work the words "Go away harvey, you're not real!" Into a normal conversation with non-scapers and make it work... bonus points if it's "Go away scorpy".

-If you find yourself running around the local grocery store humming "Ride of the Valkyries" while coasting down isles on your cart.

-If you say "Frell" and "Dren" so much that your friends, family and co-workers start using them as well.

[PilotAeryn157]

1.You stay up to watch Farscape at midnight...even though it pissed off your roomate....even though you taped all the eps long ago.... AND you have season one and two on DVD......and you still watch them so you can remind yourself Farscape is still there

2. You manage to work it into odd conversations
"Baseball....yeah reminds of when Chrichton first found out about unrealized realities and mentioned that the cubs are winning the world series"{Extra points because I live in Chicago}

3. The recipients of the qoutes think this is a real person because I don't mention it's a TV show

4. You almost burst into tears today after seeing a Farscape article on the TV guide website.

5. You watch the Simpsons and when you see Smithers you can only think of Braca, not the other way around

[Third EYe]

If you are watching Farscape, fall asleep and then dream you are watching Farscape, then wake up and you are still watching Farscape, BINGO, you have a problem.

Which brings us to recovery...... Hey! Stop, come back.

Step one: We have admited we were powerless over the Flax and that our wormholes have become unmanagable.

Step two: Came to beleive that a pulse pistol as great Winona could restore us to sanity.

Step Three: Made a descision to turn our will and our lives over to Moya as Pilot help us understand her.

Step Four: Made a fearless and thorough inventory of Rygels quarters.

Step Five: Admited to Moya, ourselves and to another Scaper the exact nature of our thongs.

Step Six: We were entirely ready to let Rygel remove all defects of his character.

Step Seven: Humbly asked Talyn to help remove some of the Peacekeepers shortcommings.

Step Eight: Made a list of all aliens we had harmed, and then invited them to join a coalition.

Step Nine: Made direct ammends wherever possible, except to the Scarens, whom we loathe.

Step Ten: Continued to take personal inventory of Rygels quaters.

Step Eleven: Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with the ancients and unlocke our knowledge of wormholes.

Step Twelve: Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to all Scapers, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.


I will starting another 12 step group soon, this one is for people addicted to 12 step groups. See you all there.

[farscape1211]

Third eye:

All we need now is coffee and donuts

PS - is this a non-smoking meeting

(oh - I remember - NO smoking in my head)

[RescueFarscape]

When your life becomes an unending game of 'Six Degrees of Farscape.'

Heard 'Love is in the Air' at a store today. Hmmm...'Love is in the air...'Strictly Ballroom'...Baz Luhrmann...Australia...Farscape...

A coworker said, 'I don't drink enough water.' Hmmm...'Don't drink enough water...beliefnet quotes...'A person can live forty days w/o food, three days w/o water, about eight minutes w/o air, but only one second w/o hope...hope...Crichton...Farscape...

[jfranka]

....you actually censor yourself from saying "Frell" in front of your seven-year-old because you don't want him to swear...

....you've named your Palm Pilot, what else? Pilot.

....you've named your cell phone 1812 because that's what it rings when someone calls.

.....you program your voice dialer on your cell phone to call people using Farscape charactors. e.g. "Pilot" calls my voice mail, "Jool" calls my ex-wife, "Moya" calls my mom, "D'Argo" calls my best-friend, "Aeryn" calls my girlfriend, "Rygel" calls my work, "Zhaan" calls another female friend of mine, etc....

.....you put in a plexiglass oval window in your computer case and put a blue light inside the computer, then wrap a blue wire-light around the outside of your computer and say "Talyon, starburst!" when you turn it on. (I should post a picture of my computer.)

....a customer is yelling at you on the phone, and you think to yourself, "Can I be as patient with this person as Scorpy would be?"

(These are things that I actually do, by the way............)

[DorothyGail]

You retire early, plan a trip to Australia with the wife, because you liked Farscape so much.

[This is a true story! A guy in my store, conversation went through pilots, airplanes, movies, acting, Australia,.....Farscape!? He'd heard it had not been renewed, but didn't know the specifics. I gave him the www.savefarscape addy. He'd been too busy to spend much time surfing] <are you out there, yet? are you lurking? :wave:

[Roland]

... you name your band's new drum machine "Dominar Rygel XVI"

[trubador]

Originally posted by jfranka
...you program your voice dialer on your cell phone to call people using Farscape charactors. e.g. "Pilot" calls my voice mail, "Jool" calls my ex-wife, "Moya" calls my mom, "D'Argo" calls my best-friend, "Aeryn" calls my girlfriend, "Rygel" calls my work, "Zhaan" calls another female friend of mine, etc...
:D :D :D Now THAT'S clever!!! :P :P :P

Originally posted by Roland
... you name your band's new drum machine "Dominar Rygel XVI"
THAT'S COOL!!! Maybe that should be the name of your BAND.

Uh-Ohhh.... now you've done it, Roland.... my mind's starting to race, thinking up names for new rock bands made up of Farscape fans.... hmmmmmmmm....

[Third EYe]

Luxan Tenticles
PK Blues Trio
Moya (a funk fusion type sound)
Caged Scarens
Winona Judd??
John Crichton Experiment

[AgentSun]

how about the John Crichton Band. you'll be original because of out all The __________ Band s out there, you'll be the only one without a member named John Crichton!

[grinner]

Originally posted by Third EYe

Winona Judd??
John Crichton Experiment
I think Winona is named after Winona Ryder not Winona Judd. I like the John Crichton Experiment though... something like Alan Parson's Project?

[trubador]

The Aurora Chair
EMC (Electro Magnetic Candy)
Clockwork Nebari
TBRC ('Til the Blood Runs Clear)
Quattle Mullusks
The Plakovoids
Fried Dentics
I-Yensch
Aeryn & The Gooey Prowler Pilots
Blue Assed Bitch (sorry...)
Froonium Drive
The Coolant Rods
Erp!
Vork

[Third EYe]

The Frellers
Dren Heads
Minvok Moon (gotta be jazz)
Talyn's Talons
The Starbursts (cover band or ABBA like)
Bare Naked Scorpius
Grey Ladies
Chiana (solo artist, like madona)
Beasty Yotz

[Spedoinkel]

-- When someone mentions the UN peacekeepers you instinktivly look over your shoulder.
-- Whenever someone starts to annoy you, you slowly move you hand to your thigh holster.
-- When ever the name Winona is said, ypu ask "who got shot?"
-- You actually writ the script for the final episode.

More bandnames:
PK and the Mauraders (strech)
Wormhole To Nowhere
Photogasam
The DRDs
Leviathon Hybrid
Yellow Blots of Light

[FireDancer]

More Band Names:
Peacekeeper (Think 80's hair metal)
Leviathan
Tayln and the Hyrbrids
Xhaan (Like Zwan but without the Smashing Pumpkin guy)
Captain Scorpio's Psychedellic Dream Chair
Drannit

You know you're addicted when:
-You wear leather, people ask you if you're into The Matrix, and you just give them a blank stare
-You refer to the USS Nimitz as a command carrier
-You wonder if you twinned yourself, would you still only have to pay one income tax?

[trubador]

Originally posted by Spedoinkel
-- You actually write the script for the final episode.
:think: Hmmmmmmm........ did the real DK just un-lurk himself???

[Roland]

Thank's for the name advises for the band!

But I think "In The Mist" will have to do for now.

The name for the drum machine is beacuse it's "small and brutal".

If we change band name it will be to "The Blue Assed Bitches" :)

[RedKarma]

- You wake up in the middle of the night and yell:
"Pilot! Why have we stopped?!"




RedKarma
Down the hall from Stark

[sparkyXVI]

STARBURST!
The next logical step in the jefferson airplane, jefferson starship, and starship evolution
::ducks and runs from the pun patrol::

[witchdoctor]

Originally posted by grinner
If you have one set from the US and one set from the UK just so you can see the different extras

You mean there are extra "extras" on the UK DVD's?!
Boy is my wife gonna be pissed when I buy a bunch of DVD's I already own. How am I going to explain this one,,,

[witchdoctor]

Originally posted by Third EYe
You respond to a thread titled

"You Know You're Addicted to Farscape When...."

You know you're addicted to Farscape when you not only respond, but you don't think anything you read in the thread is unreasonable, addictive behavior or anything out of the ordinary. Rather, you read, smile, and think oh yeah, I've done that, or else, "I wish I thought of that. "

[grinner]

Originally posted by witchdoctor
You mean there are extra "extras" on the UK DVD's?!
Boy is my wife gonna be pissed when I buy a bunch of DVD's I already own. How am I going to explain this one,,,
There are better extras on the British releases. Actual deleted scenes and stuff like that.

[Clockwork_Memories]

hmmm how about this
- You've turned your scifi hating girlfriend into a scaper... plus she is now willing to dress like a peacekeeper with you.
- You've actually tried to make one of the costumes yourself... for everyday wear
- ((This one happened to me today)) You get asked the cliche question, if you could have lunch with any three people alive or dead you choose: any two members of the farscape cast, and Bonnie Hammer in order to bitch her out for the cancelation.

[Third EYe]

Originally posted by witchdoctor
You know you're addicted to Farscape when you not only respond, but you don't think anything you read in the thread is unreasonable, addictive behavior or anything out of the ordinary. Rather, you read, smile, and think oh yeah, I've done that, or else, "I wish I thought of that. "

You're deep.

And I'm getting those UK DVDs.

[AnnK]

You dream about Farscape - and YOU'RE a character in the show...

You take a family trip and since you just got your Farscape figures, you take little John along for the ride... when it seems to take a long time to get there, you ask little John - "so where are those wormholes?" (recently happened)

You keep checking the FedEx tracking number on your shipment to complete your set of figures - they should be here today!

You come to this board WAY too much!

Your husband fears he has created a monster and actually tells you - "You're Obsessed" and it's his fault you even started watching the show!!!

[Mrelia]

Originally posted by Kaiwaz
-If you find yourself running around the local grocery store humming "Ride of the Valkyries" while coasting down isles on your cart.
Ummmm...I did that BEFORE Farscape...NOW it's the 1812 Overture.

- You're actually going to upgrade your computer so you can make your own Farscape videos (Southern Culture on the Skids "Camel"..."Come all you pharohs, let us walk, through this very desert, in search of truth & some pointy boots and maybe a few snack crackers!") ZZ Tp's "Tube Snake Boogie" also comes to mind.

- All your computer sounds are Farscape quotes.


Even More Bandnames:
Wormhole Surfers ;)
Prowler
Tongue Trick
Energy Rider
The Frellnicks
Smashing Mivonks
Stark Overload
Three-Eyed Witch
The Flax
Budong
...these bands and more are booked at my new club...The Pilot's Den!

[AnnK]

Oh - and our computer is named Pilot - with a little picture of Pilot and everything!

[Twich]

Okay..this thread has thrilled AND frightened me to no end....and that in and of itself is thrilling AND frightening.....

[Roland]

Your moving a couple of weeks, you pack everyting down in boxes.

But not the Farscape stuff beacuse you know you will watch/read them tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, the day after the day after tomorrow etc. etc. etc.

[kymom5613]

(This JUST happened) - Traveling through Atlanta during rush hour (don't even ask why we didn't take the bypass...) and even my sis-in-law started asking "Where are those wormholes?!?!?"

Wished for big ole gun from Scarran ship to move those frelling trucks out of my way.

Wished I had my DVDs (that I'm supposed to receive for Mother's Day) so that I could pop them into the portable DVD player we had "on board" so I could at least listen to my show...(sniffle)

Have named my Jeep Liberty "Blue ass bitch" as she is Patriot Blue! (Can't say it in front of my kiddos though! They are like tape recorders!)

And, yes, I too related to MOST of what people wrote in this thread!

Don't need a twelve step program though, need a 22-44 step SEASON/S!!!!!

[ichinen]

Your Ninja are on their way to Sci-fi headquarters to do some "negotiating"...

[Twich]

....when you spend hours pouring over gratutitous John Crichton threads at Kansas....

[tribsaint]

...late at night...

[Xallanthia]

...or gratuitous shippy threads........

[Twich]

Yeah. *sigh*

[tribsaint]

*hands twich a tissue to wipe off that drool* :D

[RescueFarscape]

When you're running errands and forget where you were headed because of the gratitous pictures posted that morning...

[Twich]

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D

[vegwedge]

You know you're addicted to Farscape when...

a) you took less than to weeks to watch the series from the beginning even though you were still watching first air episodes on fridays

b) you've done this more than once

c) you've done this 5 times in the last 2 years

d) the 5th time was directly after the 4th time because you introduced the series to your brother and he became as addicted as you are to the show.

vegwedge

[Mrelia]

You're looking at cordless drill holsters & wonder if you can get one in black leather with thigh straps...

[who45]

You're driving to work (the place you've worked at for 9 years) and thinking about the last episode of Farscape you saw then you suddenly realize that you missed the turn off to your building 10 minutes ago. *head hanging feet shuffling* I really did that.

[FireDancer]

You order a leather jacket on the internet and convince yourself its because its on sale and is top quality, when you really just want to look like a Peacekeeper.

(Wouldn't that be an interesting new subculture, 'Peacekeepers-Are They Ruining America, a Dateline Exclusive)

[Roland]

Originally posted by FireDancer
You order a leather jacket on the internet and convince yourself its because its on sale and is top quality, when you really just want to look like a Peacekeeper.

(Wouldn't that be an interesting new subculture, 'Peacekeepers-Are They Ruining America, a Dateline Exclusive)

Not only America! I bought leather coat, trousers and JC belt!
My girlfriend made me a peacekeeper vest (as JC wears) and several Comms!

[ctheokas]

Originally posted by Mrelia
- You're actually going to upgrade your computer so you can make your own Farscape videos (Southern Culture on the Skids "Camel"..."Come all you pharohs, let us walk, through this very desert, in search of truth & some pointy boots and maybe a few snack crackers!")

I thought I was the only one! Camel Walk is an awesome song. I love the line at the end "Little Debbie, Little Debbie! I'm a comin' on home, baby, cause you make me wanna walk...like a camel."

That would be a great video. Right now I'm cobbling (is that how you spell it?) one together for Judy Was a Punk by the Ramones. I'm doing that first because it's only a minute and a half. Once I'm happy with that I'll work my way up to longer songs. I think that qualifies as addictive behavior.

[vegwedge]

your bodily functions are in the same key signature as the latest Farscape theme song.

vegwedge

[haesan]

. . . if you ever brought a brown van or a yellow Volkswagon beetle or a red sports car just to use the license plates "MOYA," "TALYN," or "IMA DRD."

. . . if more than ten people asked you if a family member had died based on your severe depression shortly after September 6 2002.

. . . if you proposition women (or men) by offering to share unity.

. . . if you cuss in Farscape-tongue without realizing it.

. . . if you dug up your kid's old muppet doll, named it Rygel, and started conversing with it on a regular basis. (And then tried to feed it.)

. . . if every train of thought you could ever have would end up on something Farscape-related.

. . . your neighbors are so sick of hearing about Farscape that they invite Jehovah's witnesses in for lunch instead of you.

. . . and then you feel betrayed and burn their stomachs with a clothes iron (while screaming something about marriage branding).

. . . and finally, you know you've REALLY watched too much Farscape when . . . the environmental controls (air conditioning) in your car malfunction and you take the car to the mechanic and ask, "could she be pregnant?"

[scape-ism]

_____________________________________________

. . and finally, you know you've REALLY watched too much Farscape when . . . the environmental controls (air conditioning) in your car malfunction and you take the car to the mechanic and ask, "could she be pregnant?"
__________________________________________________ _
Haesan,
I have to send this to my husband. His air conditioner is broken....lol. He would actually say this to our mechanic!....I laughed out loud when I read your post! Thanks!

[marandken]

You know you're addicted to Farscape when
-your 9 year old son believes that ROCK-PAPER-SCISSORS is from Farscape; invented by John.

[JadedLegend3]

- You find an old ink pad from a project you had to make for college...notice it's silver and by the time you realize it you've painted your whole left arm silver in an attempt to become a Nebari. (...um...yeah...did that....)

-You named your car after any character of the show. (Chiana in my case. Cute little all black Hyundai Accent...I picked black b/c of all the black in Farscape, and knew I would name it "Chiana" before I bought her...yeah, I know, I said "her.")

-You notice that after a while you start to talk like Aeryn (or CB...whichever) and get frelling pissed when you can't perfectly imitate the sexy voice. (Damn those Aussies and their sexy voices! ;)

----------------------------
As for me, I just started watching Farscape at the beginning of the fourth season. But, I just bought the Season 1 dvd box set. And, I sent my bra to Bonnie Hammer like a good little scaper.

Jacqui :rollin:

[Xev]

Originally posted by AnnK
Your husband fears he has created a monster and actually tells you - "You're Obsessed" and it's his fault you even started watching the show!!!

Ditto that!

Plus:

-You bring Farscape into all possible conversations...

-You're cubie, that has only watched one episode ever, knows the storyline for the entire series

-You find amusing Farscape info on the net and it email to your cubie, because heck if I found it that funny she's going to too...right?

need to learn how to spell...errr...:)

[RescueFarscape]

...you already own all the single volume season one DVDs but bought the box set anyway.

...you have two Best of Season One sets just in case the first one gets lost.

...you now know the entire twisted history of the line, "Codes? We don't need no stinkin' codes!"

[AgentSun]

you only buy calvin klein boxers

you name your children after the characters (what's your middle name, little boy? crichton!)

want to make a shirt with IASA logo on it so when people ask what it is, you can use it to start a conversation on Farscape...i actually want to do this, but i so far have not found a logo big enough to do so!

are actively campaigning NASA to name a space shuttle the Farscape One.

saw a yellow VW beetle and really wanted to change it's license plate to DRD or paint it red white and blue and make it 1812.

your friends are late to your house and you immediately think that a budong must have them or they were sucked in by a wormhole.

if you're lost you try to consult pilot instead of your map

[Mrelia]

OOOOO! DRD VW bugs!!!!

[memo]

You know you have problems when you call your wife Aeryn in bed.:D

[JadedLegend3]

...when your mother/father/significant other/ sibling/ walks into a room and finds you arguing with your imaginary neural clone (imaginary because you haven't met any of those nice folks that can zap one of those buggers right in there :P )

...when you take your cell phone back to the store and demand a new one simply because yours does not play the 1812 Overture....by the way, my new phone arrives no later than May 5th! :rollin:

Happy Easter, Scapers!!!

:love: Jacqui

[Xallanthia]

When you go to the Easter service, and the sermon is titled "To Be Continued...", and you immediatly think of Bad Timing and how that could relate... how many FS charachters have come back from the dead? Or at least, the mostly dead? (yeah, this is me this morning :))

[SweetpeaAeryn]

Originally posted by AnnK


Your husband fears he has created a monster and actually tells you - "You're Obsessed" and it's his fault you even started watching the show!!! [/B]


Oh my gosh!!!!! That is soooooo what happened with me and my boyfriend!!! He thinks I'm completely crazy!!!

:cry2:

[SweetpeaAeryn]

Originally posted by AgentSun


you name your children after the characters (what's your middle name, little boy? crichton!)

[/B]


Names planned for future children.....
Talyn (Aaron.... family tradition thing...)
Moya Aeryn (yes, two with a derivation of Aaron as a middle
name...)
Chianna (Marie)
.... thinking about Talikaa (?)
Olivia (Nikol)

[Third EYe]

I'm gonna name my first born after me if he's a he. If a she, she will be known as pilot. If I have 2 boys, one will be the 3rd, and the other Pilot.


Yeah right, my soon to be wife would slice me in half and mail my parts to seperate continents.

[Blackfel]

You know you're addicted to Farscape when:

Every time something good happens you raise your arms in the air and yell "Can I get a HELL YEAH?"

You unzip, pull it out, point it like a gun, and shoot...then yell "By the Hynerian Gods, that is GOOD!"

Blackfel

[JadedLegend3]

BUMP!!! :bgb:

[trubador]

... After taking your Mega-B-Complex vitamins, then next time you go to take a pee you think you're Rygel in "Thank God It's Friday, Again."

(sorry folks) :P

[Mrelia]

:rollin: :rollin: :rollin:
I thought I was the only one!

[trubador]

... You SWEAR that Matala (in Back and Back and Back to the Future) is played by Grace Slick.

(No, wait.... THAT'S if your addicted to Jefferson Farscape) :P

[Digger]

You have a dream (this actually happened last night) where, after Viacom purchases skiffy, you and several other people from this site get letters (which we then call "Golden Tickets") from Sumner Redstone requesting their presence in NY at a meeting to find out why we love this show so much and to confince them that bringing it back would be a good idea. Which of course, you do.

[Grippy]

--You have watched Farscape for 11 hours straight.
--During Die, Me, Dichotomy you cried so hard you gave yourself a headache
--You put a great deal of time and effort into "converting" people. (i.e: my 12 year old brother who hated the show and now begs to watch episodes with me)
--You explain why Farscape is so great to everyone you meet, on the street, in a line for a concert, on the internet, at work, etc, and you're persuasive enough that they actually listen to you!
--You plan your summer vacation so you can go to a 'Scaper convention ('Scapercon in Chicago, I'm crossing my fingers!)
--You search the internet exhaustively for anything remotely relating to Farscape
--You experience immense relief when reading this post that your behavior is not at all abnormal, and in fact there are many people who are just like you.
--When you saw Claudia do the tounge thing in "Won't Get Fooled Again" you almost passed out
--When you moved, you had a container that was only for your Farscape-related stuff
--The season four title sequence either gives you goosebumps, makes you cry, or both

All things I've actually done! :goof:

[scorpy808]

I am so glad that I am not the only one ....

Here are a couple more to add to this:

... every night since you received your DVD box sets you turn to your spouse and say, "so which episode are we going to watch tongiht?"

... while doing housework you get lost thinking how great it would be to have drds to do all that "maintenance" stuff for you.

... you started planning your costumes for the next convention while you were sitting at the last convention.

... you've actually been able to make it through touch situations in life by pretending you were a character off the show.

[RescueFarscape]

...you get your first grey hair, like the color so much (a really rather pretty silver) that you refrain from pulling it out and decide to name it Chiana.:P


(24 and silver-haired. Ah well. At least I'm a bit ahead of the curve in something);)

[fernschaft]

You know you're addicted to Farscape:

when you spend hours on BB's typing in useless dren (did I say dren?) about a show which is off the air!

when you start saying things like "what the hezmana" and "you trelk" .

when you spend hours trying to figure out how much you're addicted to the show.

when you can't admit it.

when you go through the 12 step program.

when someone offers you a starburst(candy), you grab on to something and yell "pilot, why are we in starburst?"

When you start pronouncing words with an Australian accent.

when you pronounce the word sun like soon and pilot like pie-lot.

[JadedLegend3]

Originally posted by fernschaft
You know you're addicted to Farscape:

when someone offers you a starburst(candy), you grab on to something and yell "pilot, why are we in starburst?"

When you start pronouncing words with an Australian accent.

when you pronounce the word sun like soon and pilot like pie-lot.


LOL Those are great. My ma handed me a starburst candy yesterday and I did get a little concerned. And I subconsciously yelled my first Farscape "bad word :P " yesterday, too.
Definately end up talking like I'm from Oz after pronlonged hours watching Farscape. heheh And the sun/pilot words.

Jacqui

[fernschaft]

I just know that I probably fit most of the addictive actions, which most of the people have suggested. Just the mere fact that I am here responding is proof of the addiction.

Thanks for your comments JadedLegend3.

[SweetpeaAeryn]

You know you're addicted when....

you and your roommate go to your literature class together and talk to eachother about how FS relates to the books we're reading.

he he... really happenes with me, on like, a weekly basis...

[JadedLegend3]

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:
uh oh...I cought Tiriel-itis! LOL

Jacqui

[Xallanthia]

....when you break up with your bf and think of John and Aeryn... *sigh*

[Twich]

....when you read a thread like this and feel comforted that you are not alone...

[tribsaint]

...when you're so desperate for a fix that you show all the kids you tutor this messageboard...and they look at you oddly...(hi from tribby's second hour ;) )

[Twich]

Hi Tribby's second hour!

[trubador]

... cloud formations remind you of Farscape places and characters: .... the cloud on left looks a little like a Sheeang... that one in the east looks just like M'Lee... that one over there looks like Rygel with only one whisker (kinda like in Thank God It's Friday Again when Aeryn accidently snaps the whisker off of a cryo-suspended Rygel)....... and... uhhh... wait a minute.... THAT'S not a storm cloud..... that's a BUDONG!!!! RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.... (and then, of course, it starts to rain and you think it's Budong vomit, and you thank the goddess that Stark fed it some electromagnetic candy.... whewwww!).

[JadedLegend3]

...you're sitting in your Renessaince Literature class today and the reading that you are covering is called "Leviathan" so you draw a little picture of Moya in your $75.50 lit book
...in the same class your friend mentions the author, Crichton and you say, "John?" and she says, "...um, no...Michael." Whoops.


Ah the end of the semester! :joy: it brings stupidity with it! LOL


Jacqui

[fernschaft]

Very good Jadedlegend3. I never thought about how much in a class would remind one of Farscape. Again, when I see the starburst commercial, I grab on the chair.
When I see U.N. Peacekeepers in the news, I think of Command Carriers and soldiers who kill without remorse and who could be killed for disobeying orders.

good one again.

[Grippy]

When you have altered your computer backgrounds, icons and sounds for a Farscape theme.

[chri-baby]

you know your addicted to Farscape when:-

you find yourself comparing all the men you date to John Crichton.

you start telling your kids bedtime stories that begin with "there once was an astronaut called john who was pulled into a wormhole that took hime to a far away region of the galaxy".

you decide to grow your hair to half way down your back and dye it black.

jeans start to look dull and impractical compared to black leather.

you ask your husband if he loves and are disappointed when he does not say "beyond hope".

[grinner]

Originally posted by Mrelia
You're looking at cordless drill holsters & wonder if you can get one in black leather with thigh straps...
You can. I saw one at a Dewalt store. It looked like it would be a little to big for a pulse pistol, but it was black leather with a thigh strap.

[Mirth]

You know you're addicted to Farscape when:

-Your roommate suggests you try Crack to help get over your Farscape Addiction

-you reach for your pulse pistol when people start to mention your name and "obsessive-compulsive disorder" in the same sentence...and you actually have one on hand ;)

-

[palascaper]

You're addicted to Farscape when:

Your friends stop calling because now your only topic of conversation is how great Farscape is.

[Twich]

When you arrange for the US Military to stock it at bases around the world....

[Frellster]

The light grey African Grey parrot at the pet shop that gets very excited when you walk in and leans against you to cuddle, was on her pearch, cocked her head to the side (the way birds do) and reached out her beak to bite someone she didn't like who got a little to close - you say," Chiana, I wouldn't do that if I were you " - the bird started laughing - you didn't even consciously name the bird.

[SweetpeaAeryn]

Originally posted by Mirth
You know you're addicted to Farscape when:

-Your roommate suggests you try Crack to help get over your Farscape Addiction


-

That's great!!!! I think my roommate is close!!!

[witchdoctor]

You come to a BB such as this and quibble over small points, such as whether a minor character made it out of a blown up Gammak base (as DentArthurDent and I just did in the females hotties thread), and it isn't considered odd or obsessive. I love this show. I'm glad there are other people who feel the way I do about Farscape and will take the time to debate small points like that.

[Frunium Slip]

Originally posted by witchdoctor
You come to a BB such as this and quibble over small points, such as whether a minor character made it out of a blown up Gammak base

What the frell do you mean quibble over small points, and minor character? :train:

Addicted, I'm not addicted. Obsessive maybe but not addicted.
:sniper:

[SweetpeaAeryn]

You know you're addicted when....

you go to First Aid training and they mention, in passing, what to do if someone were to completely lose a limb... and you immediatly think that you can just kinda tie it back on and tell them to concentrate on healing themselves like with Sikozu and it takes you a couple seconds to realize that that won't work with humans.....

That seriously just happened to me today

[cleverfox]

Oh fellow Scapers, you're gonna love this...
Especially the last paragraph!!!
Taken without permission from AlterNet.com, SORRY!

*****
Mad Icon Disease

By Liz Langley, AlterNet
May 1, 2003

My DNA strand has a bunch of typos in it. As a result I'm inattentive and nervous. On the upside I treat this for free by using Denial and Avoidance. I don't watch the news for days, can't tell you the names of some of my relatives or what many of my colleagues actually do for a living.

I can tell you where Jackie Chan went to school (the China Drama Academy), that David Lynch hates cooking smells (he won't allow food to be cooked in his house) and that before he became America's best chat catalyst, Bill Maher appeared in the movie, "Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death." I pick up this stuff like a pop culture Swiffer, while real events slide off my brain like it was Scotchguarded. As Oscar Wilde, a celeb I could discuss for days, once said, "Through Art and Art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence."

In other words, real life sucks; movies are much better.

This belief puts me in the running for a new mental disorder – Celebrity Worship Syndrome, or "mad icon disease," which was discovered recently by Dr. John Maltby of the University of Leicester. Dr. Maltby's findings appeared in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, and you want to believe him just for being in such a fabulously titled publication.

CWS comes in three levels: mild, which means you like to talk about your favorite celebrities with your many real-life friends; moderate, which means you believe you have "an intense personal type relationship" with a celebrity; or severe, whose sufferers, Dr. Maltby says, "feel they have a special bond with their celebrity, believe their celebrity knows them and are prepared to lie or even die for their hero." The technical term for level three is "ca-rrrrazy."

This study doesn't just consider celebs of J-Lo level ubiquity, either; many people in the study professed unseemly attachments to one of Tony Blair's cabinet ministers.

In a story in the London Daily Telegraph, Dr. Maltby says that this interest in celebrities is not just entertainment for some people but has "a clinical component," and is probably due to the dominance of TV and the breakdown of family and community; people are replacing the real people in their lives with celebrities.

Of course the severe loony-stalker level of CWS is deranged but it's hard to believe that merely liking to talk about stars or even a star requires the label of "disease." And honestly, if family, community and reality were all they were cracked up to be there wouldn't be a need for celebrities in the first place; you'd be so entertained by the people across from you on the couch you wouldn't have a TV. Let's examine the facts:

Your favorite film star will never ask you for a ride, charge you a tax or demand that you come over for Christmas and then nag you the whole time about your wasted potential; this is the job of friends, community and family. True, stars will not listen to your problems when you're down, but often real people won't either. And on the upside, you can change channels on celebrities. It's a relationship in which you always have the remote.

If talking about people you've never actually met is a syndrome, then all my teachers were mental cases; none of them knew Socrates or Hemingway but they could talk about them until you wanted to kill yourself, too.

Celebrities are a great bonding tool. You may have major rifts with someone over religion or politics, but you can always find common ground in a discussion about Michael Jackson.

Hollywood, in fact, is so divorced from your reality that it can make you divorced from it, too, for a solid two hours if the movie is good. Movies are what you take when you can't afford or don't care for drugs.

In Woody Allen's "Shadows and Fog," a magician says of his illusions, "People need them like they need the air." That's the role celebrities play in our lives; they're the adult version of imaginary friends (except we pay them millions). Escapism is less a choice, it seems, than an instinct.

Honestly, if you prefer to talk only about reality – war, disease, poverty, murder, misery, politics, corporate theft, duct tape – I'd venture to say you're crazier than anyone who ever held a vigil at Graceland or showed up at a sci fi convention. :rollin: Over the years I could have been spotted in either one of those places. It's better than taking Zoloft and watching CNN.

Liz Langley is a freelance writer who lives in New York City.

[fernschaft]

Interesting article. I think that I fit at least the mild form of it. However, I care less for the celebrity value of Farscape than for the value of the story. I wonder if Dr. Maltby has a theory on addiction to certain Fantasy or escapism or TV shows like Farscape.

[RescueFarscape]

I would like to see a dissertation on Farscape addiction and its major role in the decline of work productivity.
:ewink:

*yes, i am ca-rrrrazy*

[cleverfox]

LMAO, RescueFarscape!

I'll start working on it. Do you think any Scapers would be willing to take some time out of their busy work schedules to be interviewed for my dissertation?

-cf

[RescueFarscape]

:lol

I've got one for you, about the day after I discovered the gratuitous John thread at Kansas.:ewink:

[cleverfox]

Hm. And how would you describe your symptoms?
If your answer is "frell yes" to more than one of the following questions - you may have FARS: Farscape Addictive Repetitive Syndrome:

Do you experience:

*Complete lack of concentration at work while surfing Farscape related websites?

*Poorer relationships with your co-workers when they approach you with deadlines that may interfere with your daydreaming about Farscape?

*Failure to return calls promptly because you're "just trying to get the end of a thread?"

* Postponement of important responsibilities such as paying your bills, sending out your wedding invitations, feeding your pets or children because you're completing your "masterwork" which could be a Farscape fanfiction submission, a music video for a Farscape con or writing over 100 letters to the Sci Fi Channel or Viacom?

Ah. My research is just beginning.

-cleverfox

[fernschaft]

I wonder how FARS spreads. Is it by close contact, is it airborne, is it from E/M radiation from a television set? Is it through the internet?

Considering that the internet is worldwide, this could become a Pandemic very quickly.

We may need the scanner, on Moya, to determine whether or not one has any signs or symptoms.

In any case, you forgot to mention that FARS can turn into FARSCAPE, Farscape Addictive Repetitive Syndrome Causing Additonal Planetary Escapism. This is the really serious condition.
This condition puts Schizophrenia to shame. In this case, someone with FARSCAPE does not even notice people, unless they are in alien costumes. This person only uses words like starburst, pulse rifle, Tavloids, frell, I mean Tavleks. This person does not work at all, because someone with this condition is spending too much time on BB's such as this one. A person with FARSCAPE has his Favorites button loaded with BB's with Farscape subject matter and cannot break away from the computer, except to eat crackers-- they are not just crackers! Frell, I think I may be coming down with this myself.

If you or anybody you know has such symptoms, seek mental health advice immediately! Either that or just make sure you or this person has the whole set of DVD's, so that you or this person can be weaned off of Farscape and cure the FARSCAPE.

Wait, why would someone want to?

[trubador]

Originally posted by fernschaft
I wonder how FARS spreads. Is it by close contact, is it airborne, is it from E/M radiation from a television set? Is it through the internet? Considering that the internet is worldwide, this could become a Pandemic very quickly.... In any case, you forgot to mention that FARS can turn into FARSCAPE, Farscape Addictive Repetitive Syndrome Causing Additonal Planetary Escapism. This is the really serious condition.

:rollin: :rollin: :rollin: :rollin: :rollin: :rollin: :rollin: :rollin: :rollin: :rollin:

[Grippy]

I definatly have the full blown FARSCAPE syndrome, and I'm not complaining! :rollin:

[No One]

you know you're addicted when you'll watch an ep of CSI Miami just to see a cast member on tv again.

[eriugobragh]

You know you're addicted to Farscape when you want to buy a DVD player just to buy the Farscape DVDs! Nevermind that you have all the episodes on tape...I want my extras, dammit!!!!

[cleverfox]

Everyone stay calm!

The FARS alert has only reached Code Green, I repeat Code Green. Do not let overblown media reports frighten you unnecessarily. We've all heard the reports from our internet news sources, but I must stress, there is no need for panic!

The spread of FARS has not reached epidemic proportions. This is due to the untimely cancellation of the series "Farscape." All those with FARS should continue the spread of this contagion through the internet and as much one-on-one contact as possible with the uninfected populace.

Remember, development of the acute syndrome FARSCAPE can prevent the spread of FARS, so occasionally treat your FARSCAPE in order to keep your job.

See below for your guide to the Code Alerts:

Code Blue (Zhaan): all is well, praise the goddess
Code Green (Rygel): feeling a little sick and particularly gaseous, so watch out, stay alert.
Code Red (peacekeepers): Stay very alert, be suspicious of everyone, maintain a soldier-like bearing.
Code Black (Scorpius): danger is near. Get the hell out of dodge.

This has been a FARS alert.

-cleverfox

[trubador]

Originally posted by cleverfox
Everyone stay calm!

The FARS alert has only reached Code Green, I repeat Code Green. Do not let overblown media reports frighten you unnecessarily. We've all heard the reports from our internet news sources, but I must stress, there is no need for panic!.....

Code Blue (Zhaan): all is well, praise the goddess
Code Green (Rygel): feeling a little sick and particularly gaseous, so watch out, stay alert.
Code Red (peacekeepers): Stay very alert, be suspicious of everyone, maintain a soldier-like bearing.
Code Black (Scorpius): danger is near. Get the hell out of dodge.

This has been a FARS alert.

-cleverfox
:rollin: :rollin: :rollin: :rollin: :rollin: :rollin: :rollin: :rollin: :rollin:

[trubador]

Yah know you're addicted to FS when...

... you process a waybill for shipping to Utah on the internet, and when you type the letters "UT" you think you're sending a package to Crichton & Aeryn.

[Xallanthia]

You're playing that annoyingly addictive game, TextTwist, and you try words like Frell, Dren, Moya, DRD...

[njak]

- you see someone wearing a WWJD t-shirt (necklace, bracelet, keychain, etc.) and you think,

"WHAT WOULD JOHN DO?"

:D

[fernschaft]

What do the letters UT have to do with John and Aeryn?
I'm sure there is a deep significance, but it's over my head.

[cleverfox]

Uncharted Territories!

[fernschaft]

Oh, thanks. I always think of Universal Time, when I see UT.

[Farscapegoat]

You know your addicted when...
-Your greatest regret in life is missing an episode of Farscape... in reruns
-You have to tell yourself time and time again that the talons on birds are not tiny Leviathan gunships
You eat nothing but plain crackers, (or grahm crackers which you refuse to believe are not food cubes)
-You label your recliner the Aurora chair
- You threaten to tounge people and can't comprehend how that can be taken as creepy
-You offer your friends pizza and margheritas, tell yourself no one has margheritas with pizza, wonder if John said it the other way round, chuckle, and when your friends give you confused/dead stares you go into a crazy Crichton laugh
-You steer every conversation with non-scapers to how much most T.V. shows are wretched, and offer them an alternative (I've been doing that repeatedly, even to some of the same people i've done it to before)
-You take time to add to a list about Knowing if your addicted to Farscape when you have "hard work" to do
-You still don't do the "hard work" you need to because you want to write more campaign letters

[JadedLegend3]

how bout when you wait to get a second job for the summer, now that classes are out, just so you can make the trip to the NYC Henson office and deliver them a Congrats basket of goodies?


Jacqui :love:

[Astro599-SpaceCoyote]

My level of addiction was not an option!

I'm so addicted that I dream Farscape.
No, really, I had a dream with Stark and Zhaan! I can't remember who else was there, but Stark and Zhaan definitely were.

And Farscapegoat, you sound like me! I do that kinda stuff all the time.

Nice to know I'm not alone.

[Grippy]

...when you think of Avril Lavigne's song "Skater Boy" and instead of thinking "Skater Boy" you think 'Scaper Boy, and start to make up parody lyrics!

[SweetpeaAeryn]

Originally posted by Grippy
...when you think of Avril Lavigne's song "Skater Boy" and instead of thinking "Skater Boy" you think 'Scaper Boy, and start to make up parody lyrics!

I wanna hear those!! :)

[RescueFarscape]

SweetPea, Scaper Boi wrote some lyrics back in December. ;)

The scaper boy song!
Just thought i'd post this to lighten everyone's mood a little!


scaPer boi (to sk8er boi by avril lavigne)

he was a fan
of this one show
in a faraway universe
it's called farscape
on sci-fi friday
but on the last day
of season four
he didn't know
that they secretly canned his show
some sci-fi execs
stuck up their nose
and cut the budget for leather clothes

(chorus)
he was a scaper boy
they said see ya later boy
it isn't cheap enough for us
farscape went from outer space
to all over cyberspace
but still cost more than it's worth

five years from now
they sit at home
unwatched abandoned and alone
turn on the TV
guess what they see
farscape on again finally
call all the fans
they already know
the VCRs are ready to go
they go to nielsen
and check out the crowd
watching this show they turned down

he was a scaper boy
they said see ya later boy
it didn't rate enough for us
now a phantom menace
is snurching their audience
all thanks to the fan network
(repeat)

sorry sci-fi you missed out
well tough luck that show's ours now
farscape's now on UPN
tying up the story ends
too bad that you couldn't see
just how great this show could be
so much more than meets the eye
all the magic is inside

please watch farscape
on january 10
we need a big audience
we're working hard
to save our show
got to get a two point oh

ben met the scaper boy
he said see ya later boy
come backstage and meet rygel
I'll be in the studio
singing this song you wrote
about the fans who saved our show
(repeat)

[trubador]

AWESOME!!!!!!

[Astro599-SpaceCoyote]

I went back and read some of the earlier pages to this thread, and I'm scared because there are so many things listed here that I do. Like swear with frell, dren, yotz, hezmana and fahrbot.

I call theives snurchers.

I have my friends call me Astro. I have this one friend, who has an IQ of like 200. She literally knows everything... I call her Pilot.

Anytime anyone says anything to me, it makes me think of something from one ep or another. And then I try to explain it, and I sound like a fahrbot because of course they don't know what I'm talking about.

I day dream about walking up walls like Sikozu.
I sometimes find myself talking on the phone like I'm Chiana.
I drive my car like John drives his module.
My car's name is Sputnik.
I constantly quote Rygel.

And I have named myself Astro because sometimes I really feel like Stark. Going crazy, no one understands, and I have my own weird language that no one else can figure out. I live in my own head. I wig out (that's been happening more and more often since Farscape was cancelled).

I've probably missed something. But I can't think of it. Oh well.

[Grippy]

Nice lyrics...dated tho...

[trubador]

DATED???.... DATED!!!????.... (*sigh*)..... grmmbl mmbl grmmbl how can any song that's only two years old be considered "dated" grmbl mmbl grmmbl..... KIDS, these days!!! (*sigh*)...

[Grippy]

:rollin: no no, you misunderstand me. What I meant was that the watch farscape on Jan. 10th bit was dated, not the song! Avril's not been out long enough to've been considered dated!

and i'm not THAT young, :D

[palascaper]

Speaking of Farscape dreams....

I had a dream that I was trying to talk William Shatner into watching Farscape!

[trubador]

Originally posted by Grippy
:rollin: no no, you misunderstand me. What I meant was that the watch farscape on Jan. 10th bit was dated, not the song! Avril's not been out long enough to've been considered dated!

and i'm not THAT young, :D
Okay... you're forgiven :D

P.S. I love your avatar! :P

[Grippy]

you know you're addicted to Farscape when you become fascinated with OBRHG's tounge, and try to learn how do to that thing she does!

:D

Thanks Trubador!

[trubador]

Originally posted by Grippy
you know you're addicted to Farscape when you become fascinated with OBRHG's tounge, and try to learn how do to that thing she does!

:D

Thanks Trubador!

OBRHG's tounge... HUHHHH?????.... ummmm... what we have here is a failure to communicate.

[Twich]

Um...wow.

I was just gonna post something about my daily post count average..but it's so...BORING after that...

[SweetpeaAeryn]

Originally posted by trubador
OBRHG's tounge... HUHHHH?????.... ummmm... what we have here is a failure to communicate.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe that it stands for Our Beloved Raven-Haired Goddess. :D

[SweetpeaAeryn]

RescueFarscape

Thank you so much for the lyrics!! They're great!!!:aok:

[trubador]

Originally posted by SweetpeaAeryn
Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe that it stands for Our Beloved Raven-Haired Goddess. :D
:D :aok: :aok: :aok: :aok: :aok: :D

[SweetpeaAeryn]

:D :D Yay!! :D :D

[Grippy]

Sorry for being confusing....found that term over on Kansas....:O

I mean the tounge thing she does in "Won't get fooled again"
I wanna learn how to do that!

[trubador]

Well, you can always try it out on me... so long as you're the FEMALE of your species. :D

[Grippy]

:D

[Astro599-SpaceCoyote]

you know you're addicted to Farscape when you find a list of seventy clues (that you're addicted to farscape) that make no sense to anyone else, yet you know what each one of them is talking about and you think the list is hilarious.

the list:

http://perriverse.dreamhost.com/farscape/fanfic/seventyways.html

[Farscapegoat]

Some more...
-You consider taking a file & plier to your teeth and not brushing your teeth so that they look like Scorpy's
-When someone mentions Einstein you think of "Unrealized Reality" and not the world famous scientist
-You watch the first half hour or so of "Pitch Black" repeatedly to see CB (Warning spoiler!) but shut it off right before she dies
-When someone tries to scare you by yelling BOO! you reflexively say dong
-You wish to take back "real" swear words only because you didn't use Scaper swears
-You think ancient Mythology (or the bad Alien ripoff) stole the name Leviathan from Farscape
-When you see crackers in the store you feel the urge to horde or shoot them
-You use the word "Yatz" and when someone says "Do you mean Yatzee?", you sigh, shake your head and walk away
-When the terms denial and withdrawl are only used with new Farscape episodes in your mind
-You laugh and cry at the title "Bad Timing"

[Pilot's babe]

You use frell and dren in everyday conversation, and on internet message boards that have nothing to do with Farscape.

When you are called for dinner you say "half a microt" and you really do say microt instead of minutes (well microt sounds cooler).

When listening to songs, which have lyrics that form a connection to Farscaoe in your mind, you instantly rewind them and fantasise about what clips would fit where in a Farsape music video, even though you don't even know how to make videos.

Your screensaver is Farscape, and whenever anyone asks about it you start ranting about the betrayel on Sci Fi's part and get so worked up you are practically spitting all over the other person who kinds of steps back a pace and looks at you like you're a complete and utter loon. I'm talking seriously overwrought, squeaking "They killed it, they just killed it" and you knows loads of random quotes from articles proving that Farscape got frelled.

When you're at a boring lecture to distract yourself sometimes you mutter "My side, Your Side" a whole load of times, and then try to hide your sniggers when you get funny looks from the people around you.

You find something odly sexy about Pilot.

When listening to totally random songs like Oasis singing "you and me are gonna live forever" you start crying, and when asked why you sniff about still being in mourning for Farscape and J/A.

When you drop Farscape jokes and phrases into the conversation and take credit for them if the people don't know about Farscape.

Whenever you watch a crap tv show, even though you're living in the UK, you still mutter how could Farscape be cancelled and dren like this exists.

(Okay this is kind of sick) but you wonder about how much people will regret Farscape's cancellation in 50 years time. Like on her deathbed when Bonnie Hammer is in the Old People's Home will there will nurses walking up to her saying, "So why did you cancel Farscape". And do you quietly snigger at the thought.

And yep I have done all of the above. And hee next time I go shopping I am so gonna start muttering "You go away you're not real Scorpuis". I am so easily amused :rollin:

[trubador]

Originally posted by Farscapegoat
-When someone tries to scare you by yelling BOO! you reflexively say dong!
:rollin: :rollin: :rollin: :rollin: :rollin: :rollin:

Originally posted by Pilot's Babe
You find something oddly sexy about Pilot.
:rollin: :rollin: :rollin: well, your log-in name kinda gives you away :rollin: :rollin: :rollin:

[RedFoxx]

Hi new to the forums...strange place to start but ..

You know when your addicted to farscape when...

You convince your wife that your first born child should be called Aeryn or Talyn.

little baby Aeryn is now 19 months old :)

[RescueFarscape]

Welcome Redfoxx!

:bounce:

Baby Aeryn! That is so cool. And a little late, but...CONGRATS!

[DorothyGail]

On the way to see "X-Men" (because Matrix Reloaded was sold out), you are thinking that you wish you were going to see Farscape instead.

On the way home, you think about how you could have stayed home instead and watched that one episode of Farscape you haven't seen yet, or even one of the ones you've only seen once.......or one of the ones you've only seen twice.....:D

[Pilot's babe]

Originally posted by trubador

:rollin: :rollin: :rollin: well, your log-in name kinda gives you away :rollin: :rollin: :rollin:

Well in my defence it's Pilot's voice and personality that I find kind of hot. I can look past appearances. Like in The Way We Weren't when he's telling Aeryn about his past and wanting to see the stars. And in the finale episode when John is telling him about his plan and Pilot says, "Your maths is impecable Commander" I found that sexy. I'm kind of strange huh :rollin:

[Astro599-SpaceCoyote]

Originally posted by RedFoxx
Hi new to the forums...strange place to start but ..

You know when your addicted to farscape when...

You convince your wife that your first born child should be called Aeryn or Talyn.

little baby Aeryn is now 19 months old :)

neat!
I'm gonna name my daughter xanthie and call her xan (zhaan) for short. :bgb:

[PKprowlerPilot]

Originally posted by Kaelin

If your computer's Harddrive is labeled after a Farscape character.



How about all of you computer's drives including the computer icon itself?

Or when people mistake you for being crazy when you try to act out your favorite Stark scene.

Writing a persusive essay on Saving Farscape for an English class. I acutally did this back in October. The Essay (http://pkprowlerpilot.tripod.com/farscape/id37.html)

[Farscapegoat]

I hope you got a good grade PKprowler Pilot, it's a nice, very persuasive essay.

[tamarind]

Originally posted by trubador
Well, you can always try it out on me... so long as you're the FEMALE of your species. :D

Well will Stanz do <she's the female of her species you know> lol

__________________
"I think I'm also being chased by an insane military commander but it's hard to tell. It's really dark up here."- Danny@tough pigs

[PKprowlerPilot]

I did get a good grade on it in fact. A 96. I even had to make a powerpoint presentation and present it to the class. Now that was nerve wrecking but well worth it.

[Grippy]

I'd hope I'd be preferable to Stanz....LOL.

My dad had a sebaceous cyst on his neck that was operated on today and I asked if it was a Sebacean cyst...

[trubador]

Originally posted by Grippy
I'd hope I'd be preferable to Stanz....LOL.

My dad had a sebaceous cyst on his neck that was operated on today and I asked if it was a Sebacean cyst...
:lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol

Well, in any event... I hope your dad's okay.

[Grippy]

He is, he didn't even have to stay overnight!

[Astro599-SpaceCoyote]

Originally posted by PKprowlerPilot
Or when people mistake you for being crazy when you try to act out your favorite Stark scene.



you have no idea how many times that's happened to me. Even my friends who watch Farscape asked me what was wrong.

[GoddessPrime]

Wow, I can't believe this thread is still being added to. Over 50 days so far.....

Way to go me! I think I'll add some thing else....


You know you're addicted to Farscape when the multiplayer name you use for Raven Shield is AerynSun.

Oh, also, when my clan matches with other clans I randomly IM everyone with messages like "Save Farscape," "Watch Farscape," etc.

Its fun.

[Astro599-SpaceCoyote]

you know you're addicted to Farscape when you get on the web and look for stuff like this:

Farscape characters retire (http://umsa7.ums.edu/~anniew/farscape/retire.html)

Christmas in the Uncharted Territories (http://umsa7.ums.edu/~anniew/farscape/xmas.htm)

[tribsaint]

When you'd rather skip the school assembly to pick up the latest DVD...

I did NOT just say that. ;)

[encata]

when in physics you do a semester project on wormholes just so you can but a savefarscape icon on the power point

when you and your friend can have an entire intellectual conversation on Farscape quotes

[encata]

When you have organized a mass cult dedicated to worshiping Farscape

When you write a 10 page introduction to the main characters just so your friend can understand the two episodes that you forced her under the pain of death to watch. Then she asks for more and you do it

When you are at school and someone starts eatting crackers and you gotta laugh cause hey they are crackers

You get very happy when you see a Eagle Talyon expecialy if it is a red one with black

When you and a friend start quoting Farscape at the same time in the middle of class and no one looks at you like your crazy because they are so used to it " You do not get the toaster"

[KNS]

Well, I work in a medical records department at a small hospital, and my co-workers are begining to throw around ugly words like "obsessed" and "fanatic" when it comes to my attraction to FS. I admitt I may be slightly addicted , as I think anyone is who:
-- reffers to missing medical charts as having "gone vork"
-- asks new transcriptionists if they prefer to be injected with translator microbes in the right or left heel (so they they can understand doctors' dictation)
--when asked if you know how to unjam the copier, you reply in a snotty voice "that's tech work"

[Farscapegoat]

-You go to see Matrix Reloaded again and leave after the scene with Braca
-You watch Phantom of the Opera and wonder where Stark got that organ.
-You don't worry about heart diesese because after all your a Luxan you have a spare.
-When your body feels stiff you worry that your Amnexus fluids may have solidified
-You have a perverse fear of opening lockets for fear you might not be the love of Aeryn Sun's life.
-You persist in telling people your pocket knife is a Qualta blade
-You wonder if the Blue Man group is related to Zhaan

[trubador]

Originally posted by Farscapegoat
-You watch Phantom of the Opera and wonder where Stark got that organ.

:rollin: :rollin: :rollin: :rollin: :rollin: :rollin:

[PKprowlerPilot]

Here some more.

-Decorating notebooks and binders with nothing but Farscape pics. I'm gulity of this. :)

-In science class, having so many Farscape moments.

[Astro599-SpaceCoyote]

you post links to pages that won't open................ And you wish they did because you laughed so hard at them that you snorted and got a cramp in your side. (damn umsa boards)

and crackers................ always crackers. Even my mom laughs at crackers....... and that's the only ep of Farscape she's ever seen.

[Carey22]

-You persist in telling people your pocket knife is a Qualta blade. :lol

i've been trying so hard to convince people I know of this. :lol

[Astro599-SpaceCoyote]

you call someone a frelling fahrbot and you actually expect them to be insulted.

when you open any sort of bottle you hold your breath-- just in case someone is trying to kidnap you, make some drugs, and auction you off.

you have 20 buttons decorating your backpack-- and they're all Farscape.

You go to a Farscape party, and you're completely shocked when they don't have any Stark buttons or posters.

you think crashing a Farscape party was the highlight of your weekend-- then you go home and brag for a year about kicking ass at the trivia contest; and all of your scaper friends are suitably impressed, even after hearing the story ten times.

[Futures Scribe]

When your roommate looks at you and asks which episode you're going to watch tonight, after living with your eema for about 3 days.

I can not count the ones that I've read that I actually do.

Edit: And the ones I wished I had done.

Currently, my hard drives are named Goldilocks(18G), Papa Bear(60GB), Mama Bear(60GB smaller by about 100MB), and Baby Bear(47GB). Occasionally I rename them and will do that when I go home. Guess what my theme will be this time?

Yeah, I am frelling obsessed and HELL YEAH AM I PROUD OF IT.

[Farscapegoat]

-Instead of asking people to turn on the lights you yell "I neeed more light!" a-la T'raltixx
-You don't trust nurses named Petina, new bosses named Logan or policemen in red high heels. Then again i don't think there are many who would trust policemen in colorful women's footwear.
-You check halloween masks for messages from your dead twin

(These following ones are real, something i did or i thought, no exaggerations)
-You are very proud of twentieth post on this site but also jealous of everyone with more, in other words, everyone.
-You think of Farscape when you see cornucopias because they look kinda like wormholes
-While watching a Farscape rerun you swear you see Lani John Tupu for just a second in one of the commercials (No the commercial is not for Farscape, like Skiffy had many commercials for Farscape)

[trubador]

Originally posted by Farscapegoat
... i don't think there are many who would trust policemen in colorful women's footwear.

-You check halloween masks for messages from your dead twin...
:rollin: :rollin: :rollin: :rollin: :rollin: :rollin:

[Frunium Slip]

You don't wear a Farscape t-shirt to work, and people notice.

People start referring to you as that Farscape fan.

Nobody ever asks what do you want to watch tonight, because they allready know the answer, the only question is which ep?

Other fans start asking you for daily campaign updates, even though you've given them the internet sites, and you actually print copies of important info for them.

Your mother asks when you're coming over so she can see the new DVD's too. And then she hints about seeing them all over from the beginning... again.

[Xallanthia]

I think this was already said... or something similar... but:

-you scored "Leviathan Pilot" on FS mag's quiz... that's 100 points or more (I scored 115)

-you put the info on the Henson family buying back Jim Henson Company in your buddy info

-you regularly update your buddy info with farscape quotes intended as political/social commentaries (ie (actual excerpt from my info), "curious holiday, Easter. Religious leader dies, comes back from the dead, and you end up celebrating [with the Easter Bunny]. ... Either you believe, and therefor, bunnies are unnecessary, or you don't. In which case... chocolate?")

-all possible AIM away messages have a farscape theme (I don't have one for sleeping yet... any suggestions?)

[Astro599-SpaceCoyote]

Originally posted by Farscapegoat
-Instead of asking people to turn on the lights you yell "I neeed more light!" a-la T'raltixx


I do that all the time. And then I feel the need to go to the cabinet and get some crackers to eat, just to complete the feeling.

[scorpy808]

... when you should be working and instead you're whiling away hours looking at and posting to this message board!

... you get cranky if you don't get your nightly dose of Farscape (from the DVDs you've amassed) ... and then the next day all you can think about it "doubling" your dose that night to make up for it.

... you start relating more and more of "real life" occurances to Farscape (ie. sentences that start out, "This is like that one time in Farscape when ..."

[RedKarma]

Nobody remembers what you used to watch before Farscape.... and neither do YOU.


RedKarma
Down the hall from Stark

[Farscapegoat]

-Whenever you see a crocodile you think about painting it black and wearing it as a faux Scorpius suit
-You spend time thinking about what the difference between Yatz and Hezzmadah really is
-You know Rygel and Pilot are real organisms, not puppets. They're real I say, REEEEAAAAL!!!
-The greatest Reason you have for getting high speed internet, finally, is to be able to download Farscape until you can scrounge up enough $ to get the DVDs
- You see nothing unusual about a bald, blue lady meditating naked in a prison cell.
-You forget "Won't Get Fooled Again" was the name of some song by some band.
-You never see blue or red glowsticks as anything else but coolant rods
-You feel the back of your head and think "Where the hezzmadadah are my tendrils!"
-You see Dr. and think DRD
-You pull on your parents chest just to make sure they're not an ancient
-You try to convince yourself every bad day is just an Unrealized Reality
-You become addicted to posting reasons why your addicted to Farscape

[Xallanthia]

you watched some commercial today where they were talking about Wormholes and how that would make them able to deliver their IT stuff better.... and the guy says, "Now I just gotta work out the quantum mechanics" and I swear I thought, "just ask John"

[Sabriel Santini]

This is for Encata

You know your best friend is addicted to Farscape when she spends countless hours perfecting exremely detailed pictures such as this

[Astro599-SpaceCoyote]

Originally posted by RedKarma


RedKarma
Down the hall from Stark

what are you doing in my room?



kidding. :P

[haesan]

Holy Frell! This thread is on its FIFTEENTH page! Yotz!

. . . . Okay, that's it, peoples. It's time to find a Banik and cross this thread over to the other side (or at least the bottom of the board). I am now starting a NEW "You Know You're Addicted to Farscape When . . . " thread. Please, please, PLEASE, be merciful, and let this tired, old thread live its last days in peace.

[waltersgirl]

what's wrong with keeping this thread going?

[haesan]

Nothing, I suppose, if no one minds a big, long sloppy thread like this. Personally, though, I think it's good BBoard etiquette to transplant geriatric topics into shiny, new threads where they can roam free like wild gazelles. Or something.

[waltersgirl]

we don't moderate like that here.

[grinner]

Originally posted by haesan
Holy Frell! This thread is on its FIFTEENTH page! Yotz!

. . . . Okay, that's it, peoples. It's time to find a Banik and cross this thread over to the other side (or at least the bottom of the board). I am now starting a NEW "You Know You're Addicted to Farscape When . . . " thread. Please, please, PLEASE, be merciful, and let this tired, old thread live its last days in peace. How do you get fifteen pages? I only see 6. What do you have your post tread amount set at?

[haesan]

waltersgirl:

"moderate?" Where did you get that? I thought I was performing a routine board function. (Apparently, no one cared, but no harm done.) "Moderate" has a harsh ring to it.

[Jul]

nope, we let threads get a