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  • Even if you're, like, Harlan Ellison, and hate women, skiffy is still chronologically progressive.

    SeeLight: 2007

  • Even if you're, like, Harlan Ellison, and hate women, skiffy is still chronologically progressive.

    BSG Spinoff 2007

  • So, a couple of days ago, according to this article, the Sci Fi Channel changed its name to Syfy, thereby likely resurrecting the stupid "skiffy" debate.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • So, a couple of days ago, according to this article, the Sci Fi Channel changed its name to Syfy, thereby likely resurrecting the stupid "skiffy" debate.

    Did Anyone Notice...or Care? 2009

  • And it is also fun to use the other term that fans detest, "skiffy," when in an iconoclastic mood.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Steve Perry 2009

  • Jan. 15th, 2010 02: 58 pm (UTC) single data point, but my surrealist story is the one that got SFed, and the adventure skiffy got nothin '. they don't like deranged and non-traditional in general, but maybe they'd like * yours*.

    Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan dandyfunk 2010

  • Etched with Soma's Pen - In honor of old-school skiffy

    In honor of old-school skiffy shweta_narayan 2010

  • Etched with Soma's Pen - In honor of old-school skiffy

    In honor of old-school skiffy shweta_narayan 2010

  • I'm fascinated by cities that are still growing, that are reaching that megalopolis level -- a deep, core skiffy thrill, Megacity One -- but at the same time I'm also fascinated by cities that are older than nations -- the two are not necessarily exclusive.

    MIND MELD: Real-Life Places That Inspire Exceptional World Building 2009

  • Another factor that came into play was whether they were science fiction or fantasy (or skiffy).

    Making Sausages frankwu 2010

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