# Best signature line ever **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 10, 2003, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-signature-line-ever/160330 "2003-03-10T16:22:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-signature-line-ever/160330/41 "2003-03-11T06:53:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by World Eater \* > \*\*I like the one that says “God is my co-pilot, but we crashed in the Andes and I had to eat him”. Thats a poor paraphrase of it, but you know the sig I’m talking about. \*\* Thanks, **World Eater** , and you got pretty close. This one’s just for you… ---
**Author:** ![auntnut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f6c823/32.png) [@auntnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntnut)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-signature-line-ever/160330/42 "2003-03-11T07:02:33Z")
I have two favorites that I have used on other boards: Be Alert!! The world needs more Lerts. Save the Whales!! (collect the whole set!) ---
**Author:** ![auRa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c4cdca/32.png) [@auRa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auRa)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-signature-line-ever/160330/43 "2003-03-11T07:35:15Z")
I like mine too. It just captures the essence of the struggle of mankind and… stuff. ---
**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-signature-line-ever/160330/44 "2003-03-11T07:53:08Z")
I’ve about quit using mine, but I’ll add it here. If anyone has suggestions for a new one, I’ll take them. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-signature-line-ever/160330/45 "2003-03-11T08:14:07Z")
That rings a bell, **auRa**. Where’s it from? Terry Pratchett? I’d bet it’s British, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Noxxer2k3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/76d3ee/32.png) [@Noxxer2k3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noxxer2k3)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-signature-line-ever/160330/46 "2003-03-11T08:51:24Z")
i like my sig. stole it from a bumpersticker. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-signature-line-ever/160330/47 "2003-03-11T09:05:34Z")
I refuse to show my sig in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Cougarfang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@Cougarfang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cougarfang)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-signature-line-ever/160330/48 "2003-03-11T09:08:16Z")
I used to collect sigs that appeal to me in a disinfected Word document, all labeled and everything. Maybe I should start again…? A couple of favorites: > [@](#): > > Originally sigged by **tanstaafl** > If obscene words are routinely beeped out on televison, what has the Road Runner really been saying to the Coyote all these years? > [@](#): > > Originally sigged by **Sublight** > Hereafter, when Sublight speaks, I listen. -Kreekurmudgeon > Hearafter, when Sublight farts, I listen. -Go alien > Hereafter, when Sub lights his farts, I listen. –jjim And from another board I go to called the Council of Elrond: > [@](#): > > MODERATORS: they can move in and out of any users still hard-wired to their system. Inside the Council of Elrond forums, they are everyone, and they are no one! We have survived by hiding from them and by running from them, but they are the gatekeepers. They are guarding all the doors, they are holding all the keys which means that sooner or later, someone is going to have to fight them. > > I won’t lie to you: every single man or woman who has stood their ground, everyone who has fought a moderator has died. But where they have failed, you will succeed. > > I’ve seen a moderator punch through a concrete wall, users have emptied entire clips at them and hit nothing but air - yet their strength and their speed are still based in a world that is built on rules, because of that! they will never be as strong or as fast as you can be! ~Mik ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-signature-line-ever/160330/49 "2003-03-11T16:50:55Z")
The only place I use mine anymore is when I post in GQ, because it somehow seems to fit that forum better. But for this thread, I’ll make an exception. ---
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-signature-line-ever/160330/50 "2003-03-11T17:07:03Z")
Any one which the poster does not put a quote about themselves in the Sig line. Extra demerits for these multi-line self-inflicted pats on the back: * * * **random poster 1** : that was somewhat witty, I want to bear your children. **random poster 2** : **elf6c** your intellect would have made Einstein weep in shame over his inferior gift. **random poster 3** : Your posts have elevated you to God-like status, may I start a chursh in your honor? Comes off as needy, IMHO. The again, I use Ralph Wiggam quotes, so what the heck do **I** know? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-signature-line-ever/160330/51 "2003-03-11T17:50:41Z")
Some of my favorites have already been mentioned, especially the one about God in the plane crash. That just tickles me silly. As stated above, mine is from The Muppet Show - quite a few episodes, actually, during the _Veterinarian’s Hospital_ sketch. I’ve considered many, many times changing it, but it is easily recognizable and makes a hell of a lot of sense to anyone who’s read more than a few of my posts. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-signature-line-ever/160330/52 "2003-03-11T19:38:53Z")
I haven’t posted my sig in quite some time, but love the Muppet Show and Smurf references. Only in a SDMB could someone make a Smurfian or Muppetian reference and get away with it. ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-signature-line-ever/160330/53 "2003-03-11T19:43:46Z")
And I apparently forgot how to post my signature - Until now. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![vl\_mungo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@vl\_mungo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vl_mungo)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-signature-line-ever/160330/54 "2003-03-11T20:53:02Z")
I too am partial to **mhendo’s** God in the Andes sig. As with pretty much everyone else who posted here… I like mine. Maybe I should change my sig line to something I hate, just to be different. Here’s a sig I like from another board… _“The old drug-his-prunes, fake-the-fight, ransack-the-apartment, and switch-places-with-the-Admiral trick”_ Get Smart ---
**Author:** ![bristlesage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/edb3f5/32.png) [@bristlesage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bristlesage)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-signature-line-ever/160330/55 "2003-03-11T21:44:43Z")
Mine is not funny, and I hardly ever use it. But I like it very much. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-signature-line-ever/160330/56 "2003-03-11T22:06:40Z")
**Philster** : Will you be pooping on it [sneakily](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=56612)? ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-signature-line-ever/160330/57 "2003-03-12T01:12:44Z")
Mine is pretty old, I haven’t used it in ages, but the first line, at least, is a Weirddave original. ---
**Author:** ![Janx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Janx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Janx)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-signature-line-ever/160330/58 "2003-03-12T03:14:32Z")
I think mine just about sums it all up, but MY 2 faves are: \*\*Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he will drink for the rest of his life! \*\* And one I just saw tonight, made me wanna steal it! \*\*It takes a big man to cry, but it takes an even bigger man to laugh at that man. \*\* I don’t know whooOOOooos they are though. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-signature-line-ever/160330/59 "2003-03-12T03:46:59Z")
I still get a kick out of imagining Murray Gell-Man making the statement below. Gell-Man won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1969. Isaac Newton basically invented physics (and the math to go with it). ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2003, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-signature-line-ever/160330/60 "2003-03-12T04:43:41Z")
I like the möbius sig. You’ve seen it, you know you have. There came a moment once upon a time when I liked mine. Long long time ago. My sig at that point was the self-referential “Use Signature (set in Preferences)”. Yeah, that was my sig. So there was a thread about nicknames, such as Richard becoming Dick and Margaret becoming Peggy and so on, and I explained that it was baby-talk: certain sounds, like “r” and “m”, are hard for babies to make, so they are mapped to “d” or “l”, and “p” or “b”, or left out. Also shortened. Margaret becomes Maggie becomes Peggy. And for this particular post, after a long time of using an unchanged sig, my sig was: “Use sinny tool (set in Peffy Sess)” 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-signature-line-ever/160330.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-signature-line-ever/160330.md?page=4)