# Help me find a decent sig! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 9, 2001, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-decent-sig/75597 "2001-08-09T15:04:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Enzyme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b19c9b/32.png) [@Enzyme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enzyme)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2001, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-decent-sig/75597/1 "2001-08-09T15:04:07Z")
O.k. so I’m a long time lurker (well 3 months anyway) and now I feel ready to enter the fray. I need a new sig and I want a good one - one that I feel I can proudly attach to those posts I choose to er, post. Trouble is, I can’t think of a sig that I feel comfortable with. I’d like you guys to help me come up with something. So suggestions please - I’ll probably choose the best dozen or so from your suggestions and then put it to the vote. Some info about me that might help you come up with something: White/Male/29/UK Previous Occupations: Dishwasher/Secondary School Teacher/Web Developer Interests: Philosophy/Ecology/Sci-Fi/Narcotics/Freedom of Expression But hey, it can be anything that you find interesting or amusing. So please help, and thanks! ---
**Author:** ![magdalene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@magdalene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magdalene)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2001, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-decent-sig/75597/2 "2001-08-09T15:11:00Z")
Welcome to the boards, enzyme. This is just my opinion: You don’t need a sig to be cool. If you have one you definitely don’t need to post it with every post. People mostly skim over them after the first time. If there is no brilliant literary (or Simpsons) quote that grabs you immediately, why not just wait until someone says something funny on the boards and quote them? It happens all the time, see below. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2001, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-decent-sig/75597/3 "2001-08-09T15:27:52Z")
Since **mag** mentioned the Simpsons, I’ll go ahead and offer one of my favorite lines from the show: “Oh, well, of course, everything looks bad if you remember it.” Homer Simpson ---
**Author:** ![Enzyme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b19c9b/32.png) [@Enzyme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enzyme)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2001, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-decent-sig/75597/4 "2001-08-09T15:40:04Z")
You’re right Magdalene - I was thinking along the same lines myself but I guess I just have this instinct to fit in. Note to self: Stop doing that! However, I am interested in what the other 'dopers come up with and will use my sig when I feel its appropriate. Both yourself and Superdude’s suggestions are definitely winners though! ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2001, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-decent-sig/75597/5 "2001-08-09T15:43:04Z")
Welcome to the boards 🙂 This one’s re: your username. I am the catalyst. The cats seem to like it. But I do agree with **magdalene**. People make sig-worthy quotes all the time. You just have to nab them first. Fran ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2001, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-decent-sig/75597/6 "2001-08-09T15:45:12Z")
Around here, sigs grow on trees. Welcome to the boards! [sub]I know I’m not adding anything new, I just wanted to show off my sig.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Simetra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Simetra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simetra)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2001, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-decent-sig/75597/7 "2001-08-09T15:47:14Z")
Try [here](http://www.coolsig.com). Welcome to the boards, **Enzyme**. 🙂 ---
**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:** [August 9, 2001, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-decent-sig/75597/8 "2001-08-09T16:29:35Z")
In keeping with your screen name, how about this: “Enzymes are things invented by biologists that explain things which otherwise require harder thinking.” - Jerome Lettvin or maybe “A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.” - G. B. Shaw ---
**Author:** ![Enzyme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b19c9b/32.png) [@Enzyme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enzyme)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2001, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-decent-sig/75597/9 "2001-08-09T16:32:01Z")
Thanks Francesca - that’s a good one. I think pinching something that someone has said is a great idea. I like the originality implied in the idea - rather than taking something from a film or a book. I’ll think about it, but in the mean time - please keep coming up with ideas people! ---
**Author:** ![Syzygy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Syzygy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syzygy)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2001, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-decent-sig/75597/10 "2001-08-09T16:39:31Z")
Something I heard here a while ago, can’t remember where. Helium is known to be a gateway gas to other addictive gasses such as nitrous oxide.