Snerk. I've been trying to work out where they're from-- they sound like something I've heard before, with perhaps a few consonants rearranged. Fingo and Manty? Fango and Minty?

Does anyone know WHERE in upstate NY?

Am-Chau, I've got someone who might be available to find out if it's the genuine article. It'll be a couple of days or so before I get the 'goods' though. The upstate NY deal is anyone's guess at the moment.

Thanks-- I live in upstate NY, so am very curious.

Does anyone know WHERE in upstate NY?

Now I want to filk "Twistin the night away."

Let me tell you 'bout a place,
somewhere up a New York way,
Where fans are gonna wait
Filmin' the Firefly way.

Filmin the
Filmin the
everything is looking great
Filmin the
Filmin the
Filmin the the Firefly way.

There's a man in western clothes....

"Mingo and Fanty" kind of reminds me of "Shooty and Bang Bang" from the HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy novels.

I've got someone who might be available to find out if it's the genuine article. It'll be a couple of days or so before I get the 'goods' though.

I'll get some good practice at the waiting patiently in, then. Not that I haven't had plenty already.

"Mingo and Fanty" kind of reminds me of "Shooty and Bang Bang" from the HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy novels.

Where in HHttGG? I thought I knew those novels pretty well, but I don't remember this.

Sophia, I'm getting mental images of you gathering a group of Firefly fans in NY and setting out to search the entire city for any signs of FF filming. It would take a long time, but get a systematic search plan and recruit enough people... then, of course, they'd decide to film somewhere else. I just revealed my over-logical scary-stalker side, didn't I?

First book

From a description of the first book:

...Slartibartfast takes Arthur to Ford, Zaphod and Trillian, who are now dining with Trillian’s mice, which were in fact the pan-dimensional beings. The two rodents offer Arthur great wealth in exchange for his brain, which they believe contains the Question as it was part of the Earth’s operational programming. Arthur and the others refuse their offer and decide to leave, only to be cornered by Shooty and Bang-Bang, two intergalactic policemen who are on Zaphod’s trail following his theft of the Heart of Gold....

That'd be it. I've got the scriptbook from the original radio series and they're mentioned by name. In the novel they aren't. Funny characters with a great bit of dialogue.

Ah! Yes, I remember them now. And yes, Mingo and Fanty could have distinct echoes of them.