Also, the set-up (the 'I love the end of the day' bit) was from Consuela: Consuela "We Need Natter 7 and We Might Take Yours" Jan 23, 2003 8:16:58 pm EST

In Firefly - Watch As the Buffistas confuse abbreviations and continue to prove our one track mind...

wolfram

I saw a really frightening statistic in this week's tv guide (at my wife's doctor's office so I don't have it) which states, among other things, that around 30% of people thought the women on JM get what they deserved and 49% of people thought the women on JM shouldn't mind the prank because they had fun.

Susan W.

OK, did anyone else see JM, think James Marsters, and have their brains go to a very strange place?

p.m. marcontell

Yeah.

When people start talking about their ADs, it also confuses me.

wolfram

Big D'OH.

Laura

We really have to insist that JM be reserved for Marsters.

Cindy

I went to the JM=James Marsters place, too. It's a nice place. Much better suited to me than Joe Millionaire.

sj

OK, did anyone else see JM, think James Marsters, and have their brains go to a very strange place?

So happy to hear it wasn't just me.

wolfram

I'm never going to live this one down.

sumi

I thought that same thing - - it took me a while to recall the reality show w/those initials. (See, I'm trying to forget it's existence.)

Cindy

What gave it away were the statistics:

30% of people thought the women on JM get what they deserved and 49% of people thought the women on JM shouldn't mind the prank because they had fun.

I'm thinking a higher percentage of people than 30% would think that women on James Marsters get what they deserve.

Matt

Wouldn't about 50% be thinking "she's not getting what she deserves—she's getting what I deserve!"?

Narrator

Ok, the mistaking "Joe Millionaire" for "James Marsters" can be particularly tricky if you are reading quickly and think that the "a" in "prank" is an "i".

Not that I would have made such a reading error. Oh no, not me.

billytea

Great. Now I'm imagining Spike being trained in etiquette by Paul Hogan. "Nah, mate - try it again. 'That's not a canine...'"

Ellen in Natter.

Weekly Wine and Cheese Party tonight at work. Maybe cute co-worker will cut me off a slab of brie again. sigh If only I remember the Secret Language of Cheese. I remember Gouda = Fidelity. And Smoked Gouda = Smoked Fidelity.

I think it's only fair to edit the above to reflect Java's true gender.

Whups. Sorry.

(Why did I think Java was a man when I wrote that? I knew she wasn't and yet, for that brief moment...I'm insane.)

(Why did I think Java was a man when I wrote that? I knew she wasn't and yet, for that brief moment...I'm insane.)

You are? I hadn't noticed. t /sarcasm

By the way, I think that the gender confusion tends to make it funnier, if anything. I'd leave it, with Betsy's note attatched. But then, my sense of humour is strange.

connie neil, in The Great Write Way:

Nothing says Happy Author like hanging your main character.

(Have edited, to add Consuela setting it up, and to mention that Java is not, in fact, a man)

erikaj in Literary, re James Joyce:

I've not read him in any knowledgeable way, Connie. Cried through "portrait of the Artist" in school and was like "Words! Pretty!" with Ulysses. It's like how I know classical music from Bugs Bunny cartoons.

ita in Angel:

I hate when unmenacing people wave weapons.

shrift, in Firefly after the infamous JM confusion when it was pointed out to Wolfram that things can't be changed after they are COMMed:

I do accept bribes to correct things on the random quote generator.

Note: A good bribe will not involve pledging me your first-born child, unless your first-born child is a legal adult and pretty.