get your prairie harpy off my boat

It's been awhile since I've watched any Firefly, but for some reason, that line above popped into my head today as I wandered the halls avoiding the work sitting on my desk. Gotta love a man who doesn't mince words, and Captain Reynolds doesn't mince words. It's something I've aspired to most of my life with results varying from nominally successful to abject failure.

"It's my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of son-of-a-bitch or another."

"You don't know me very well, son, so let me put this to you plainly: If I ever kill you, you'll be awake. You'll be facing me. And you'll be armed."

"A government is a body of men, most notably ungoverned."*

My New Year's Resolution is to no longer mince words, my Swedish/midwestern heritage be damned. Going forward, before any words pass my lips, I will think to myself, "What would Captain Reynolds say?"

Jayne, your mouth is talking. You ought to see to that.

*not a direct quotation, but Captain Reynolds quoted by Shepherd Book.


Bonus non-Firefly related quoation overheard just now by the kitchen: "I'd like to attribute all my mental lapses to things I took in the Seventies."

I'd like to attribute mine to things my mom took in the Seventies.