# Ahem, I Need Help With A Special Project **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 18, 2000, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahem-i-need-help-with-a-special-project/41686 "2000-11-18T00:04:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tatertot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@tatertot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tatertot)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahem-i-need-help-with-a-special-project/41686/1 "2000-11-18T00:04:57Z")
Can’t tell you right now what it is or what it is about, but rest assured when the time is right, I’ll let you in on the secret. I need signatures from as many Dopers as possible, you can just scan them in and e-mail them to me. No need to use your real name, just your board name is fine, and I promise not to use them for fraudulent purposes. If you don’t have access to a scanner, just e-mail me and say you want to participate and I’ll sign for you. I’m good at forgery. 😃 You may e-mail them to me at: [tatelong@yahoo.com](mailto:tatelong@yahoo.com) And please, feel free to bump this thread with whatever is on your mind. This could be a combo tater’s evil plot/MPSIMS thread! Woo Hoo! :::goes to bed smirking about her evil plot::: ---
**Author:** ![Ad\_Noctum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b19c9b/32.png) [@Ad\_Noctum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ad_Noctum)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahem-i-need-help-with-a-special-project/41686/2 "2000-11-18T00:06:43Z")
are you serious? ---
**Author:** ![tatertot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@tatertot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tatertot)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahem-i-need-help-with-a-special-project/41686/3 "2000-11-18T00:11:08Z")
No, I just thought this would be a cool way to get attention. 😉 Of course I’m serious! I wish I could tell y’all what it is, but it’s a _secret_ and I don’t know which of you can be trusted. Rest assured, when you find out what it is you will be greatly amused and glad you participated. Unless you’re just no fun, that is. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahem-i-need-help-with-a-special-project/41686/4 "2000-11-18T00:36:44Z")
I trust ya, **Tater**. I’m in. I don’t have any of that high-fallutin’ scanner stuff, so just go ahead and make my screen name look all manly and stuff. No hearts where the “a’s” go or smiley faces at the end or anything… ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahem-i-need-help-with-a-special-project/41686/5 "2000-11-18T00:38:53Z")
Yeah, you can fake mine (real sloppy and left-handed script). ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahem-i-need-help-with-a-special-project/41686/6 "2000-11-18T00:42:15Z")
I’ll send mine to you soon. I guarantee you I could give you a fake name and you wouldn’t know the difference. That’s how bad mine is. My roommate has assessed my signature as follows: “If you got a chicken doped up on crack, and you severed both talon-things, it would still be able to write better than you, Patrick.” ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahem-i-need-help-with-a-special-project/41686/7 "2000-11-18T00:42:54Z")
Sure, I’ll scan it right now. ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahem-i-need-help-with-a-special-project/41686/8 "2000-11-18T00:43:21Z")
Wow, I had never actually written the word “obfusciatrist” before. It feels weird to try and “make” a signature so it came out just looking like I had written the word. My real signature was more an evolution with only slight pieces of forethought. But regardless, I don’t have a scanner so I can’t participate. I thank that tatertot is going to make a petition encouraging her to eat chocolate and needs to fake support. ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahem-i-need-help-with-a-special-project/41686/9 "2000-11-18T00:48:32Z")
I’ll send in mine to you as soon as I’m done printing out this damned play that I need to read for thespian competition. [160 pages!] ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahem-i-need-help-with-a-special-project/41686/10 "2000-11-18T00:57:45Z")
Maybe not. I’m having technical difficulties. I’ll get it to you tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahem-i-need-help-with-a-special-project/41686/11 "2000-11-18T00:58:25Z")
ok tater, I don’t have a scanner either but if you make a biiiiiiiiiig “W” and follow it with a scrawl that ends with a “g” you’d get a close approximation of it. Sigh. I even sign my name like a guy. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahem-i-need-help-with-a-special-project/41686/12 "2000-11-18T01:11:13Z")
I’m in - I’ll do a scan in the morning and send it on its merry way… ---
**Author:** ![ENugent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4af34b/32.png) [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahem-i-need-help-with-a-special-project/41686/13 "2000-11-18T01:13:24Z")
You can do mine, Tater. Make the t at the end real squiggly - that’s the only distinctive thing about my signature. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahem-i-need-help-with-a-special-project/41686/14 "2000-11-18T01:19:05Z")
Forge away, schweets. Big loopy L, tiny apostrophe, and a scribble for the rest. 🙂 I don’t own a scanner, and I’m not going to pay $10 at kinko’s to do it, but forge all ya want. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahem-i-need-help-with-a-special-project/41686/15 "2000-11-18T01:36:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ssskuggiii \* > \*\*I’ll send in mine to you as soon as I’m done printing out this damned play that I need to read for thespian competition. [160 pages!] \*\* somehow “thespian” competition doesn’t sound nearly as fun as “lesbian” competition… warning, above post assisted by Nyquil ---
**Author:** ![Catrandom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@Catrandom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catrandom)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahem-i-need-help-with-a-special-project/41686/16 "2000-11-18T01:40:03Z")
I’m afraid you’ll have to sign mine, as well. Sort of a big C followed by a squiggle will do for either my screen name or my real name. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahem-i-need-help-with-a-special-project/41686/17 "2000-11-18T01:43:33Z")
Dopers–I know what this is about. **tater** ’s on the level. **tater** –signature coming tomorrow, when I have access to the scanner at work (heh, heh). ---
**Author:** ![Primaflora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Primaflora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Primaflora)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahem-i-need-help-with-a-special-project/41686/18 "2000-11-18T01:45:23Z")
just fake mine too. I would like it to be incredibly ornate and Renaissance looking. Kinda Elizabeth the Virgin Queen’s signature. Hell, I can’t do it so somebody must be able to do it for me 😉 ---
**Author:** ![robinh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@robinh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robinh)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahem-i-need-help-with-a-special-project/41686/19 "2000-11-18T01:47:12Z")
Go for it, though you’ll have to forge. (We’re not _that_ high-tech here at home.) The _R_ is quite large and distinct, followed by a small sqiggle, a verticle line to represent the _b_, followed by a longer squiggle. If you’d like to use a last name as well, it’s a large and distinct _H_, small sqiggle, 2 verticle lines, more squiggles. ---
**Author:** ![Mamapotomus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/94ad74/32.png) [@Mamapotomus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mamapotomus)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahem-i-need-help-with-a-special-project/41686/20 "2000-11-18T02:11:11Z")
I can’t say I have any kind of distinct style, I’ve never even written my screen name, much less signed it. If you need it, it’s yours. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ahem-i-need-help-with-a-special-project/41686.md?page=2)