TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: babylon5
to: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
from: Jan
date: 2009-12-18 08:20:02
subject: Re: Is there a B5 eqilvalent to the word `Trekkie`?

In article ,
SLerman says...
>
>On Dec 17, 4:10=A0pm, Truth_Seeker  wrote:
>> I was wondering if there is any official way for B5 fans to call each
>> other, similar to the way "Star Trek" fans refer to themselves as
>> "Trekkies".
>>
>> "Babbie" certainly doesn't sound appropriate and
"Babyloner" sounds a
>> little lonely, so I've simply come up with "B5-er" (just
a suggestion
>> unless there is no established word yet).:-)
>
>I vaguely recall seeing the term 5-er (or Five-er) used sometimes. I
>think "person with good taste" has also been used.
>

JMS wrote:
----------------------
From: jmsatb5{at}aol.com (Jms at B5)
 Subject: BABYLON 5 PILOT EPISODE ON CFT
      To: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated  
    Date: 2/3/1994 6:05:00 AM      

Most B5 viewers that I've heard from call themselves Fivers, when
they identify themselves as anything other than what they are, people of
infinite taste and sensibility....

jms 
------------------------

"B5 fan" has always worked for me.

Jan


-- 
“Shared pain is lessened; shared joy is increased; thus do we refute entropy” 
--Spider Robinson

Check out http://wedreamforjeanne.blogspot.com/ for ways to help Jeanne Robinson
fight cancer.
--- SBBSecho 2.12-Win32
* Origin: Time Warp of the Future BBS - Home of League 10 (1:14/400)
SEEN-BY: 10/1 11/200 331 34/999 120/228 123/500 128/2 187 140/1 222/2 226/0
SEEN-BY: 236/150 249/303 250/306 261/20 38 100 1381 1404 1406 1410 1418
SEEN-BY: 266/1413 280/1027 320/119 393/11 396/45 633/104 260 267 640/954
SEEN-BY: 690/682 734 712/0 313 848 800/432 801/161 189 2222/700 2320/100 105
SEEN-BY: 2320/109 200 5030/1256
@PATH: 14/400 5 140/1 261/38 633/260 712/848 633/267

SOURCE: echomail via fidonet.ozzmosis.com

Email questions or comments to sysop@ipingthereforeiam.com
All parts of this website painstakingly hand-crafted in the U.S.A.!
IPTIA BBS/MUD/Terminal/Game Server List, © 2025 IPTIA Consulting™.