# Never mind me, just testing a new sig

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-mind-me-just-testing-a-new-sig/1419>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [April 13, 2000, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-mind-me-just-testing-a-new-sig/1419 "2000-04-13T18:07:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2000, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-mind-me-just-testing-a-new-sig/1419/1 "2000-04-14T05:52:00Z")

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Let’s see how this looks, shall we?

Esprix

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[Ask the Gay Guy!](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/001376.html) (or, if you prefer the Jesusfied version, [Asketh the damn Priest Guy!](http://www.askjesus.org/ask.cgi?http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/001376.html))  
“Never assume a malicious intent when stupidity will explain just as well.”

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**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2000, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-mind-me-just-testing-a-new-sig/1419/2 "2000-04-14T05:54:00Z")

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Let’s try it the other way 'round

Esprix

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“Never assume a malicious intent when stupidity will explain just as well.”  
[Ask the Gay Guy!](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/001376.html) (or, if you prefer the Jesusfied version, [Asketh the damn Priest Guy!](http://www.askjesus.org/ask.cgi?http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/001376.html))

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**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:** [April 13, 2000, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-mind-me-just-testing-a-new-sig/1419/3 "2000-04-13T18:07:00Z")

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I like it the first way better. In the second one, it kinda looks like you want people to “Ask the Gay Guy” about being stupid rather than malicious.

Just MHO of course.

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**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-mind-me-just-testing-a-new-sig/1419/4 "2000-04-13T18:33:00Z")

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Ooo, I was looking at framing, not context. Hmmm, I suppose It could be cause and effect - the first one is “Ask the Gay Guy, and you’ll say something stupid,” the second is “Want to say something stupid? Ask the Gay Guy!” I suppose out of the two options, the first is better! 😃

Let me try something first…

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“Never assume a malicious intent when stupidity will explain just as well.”  
[Ask the Gay Guy!](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/001376.html) (or, if you prefer the Jesusfied version, [Asketh the damn Priest Guy!](http://www.askjesus.org/ask.cgi?http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/001376.html))

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**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-mind-me-just-testing-a-new-sig/1419/5 "2000-04-13T18:34:00Z")

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How’s this? Does it differentiate between the two ideas enough?

(Thanks for the input, Manhattan. I’m coming to visit your name this weekend. :D)

Esprix

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## [Ask the Gay Guy!](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/001376.html) (or, if you prefer the Jesusfied version, [Asketh the damn Priest Guy!](http://www.askjesus.org/ask.cgi?http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/001376.html))

“Never assume a malicious intent when stupidity will explain just as well.”

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**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:** [April 13, 2000, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-mind-me-just-testing-a-new-sig/1419/6 "2000-04-13T18:45:00Z")

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Yes. That way works best.

And if you’re going to be in the Apple this weekend, you should join the NYC-area Dopers for [Dinner](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum4/HTML/006163.html) .

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[NYC IRL III](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum4/HTML/006163.html)  
is on April 15th. Do you have what it takes?

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**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-mind-me-just-testing-a-new-sig/1419/7 "2000-04-13T20:02:00Z")

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Alas, Saturday night I’ll be partying it up in the Hamptons, and Friday night I’ll be partying it up in Manhattan. I was supposed to be partying it up tonight, but plans fizzled. ☹

Sorry I’ll miss it. Send my regrets!

Esprix

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## [Ask the Gay Guy!](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/001376.html) (or, if you prefer the Jesusfied version, [Asketh the damn Priest Guy!](http://www.askjesus.org/ask.cgi?http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/001376.html))

“Never assume a malicious intent when stupidity will explain just as well.”

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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2000, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-mind-me-just-testing-a-new-sig/1419/8 "2000-04-13T21:08:00Z")

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> [@](#):
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> Originally posted by Esprix:  
> Hmmm, I suppose It could be cause and effect - the first one is “Ask the Gay Guy, and you’ll say something stupid,” the second is “Want to say something stupid? Ask the Gay Guy!”
> 
> with the sig  
> “Never assume a malicious intent when stupidity will explain just as well.”  
> Ask the Gay Guy! (or, if you prefer the Jesusfied version, Asketh the damn Priest Guy!)

Esprix, the way I read your sig was “if you want an explanation from someone stupid, ask the gay guy.” 😉

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**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2000, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-mind-me-just-testing-a-new-sig/1419/9 "2000-04-14T15:11:00Z")

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> [@](#):
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> Originally posted by **Arnold Winkelried** :
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> Esprix, the way I read your sig was “if you want an explanation from someone stupid, ask the gay guy.” 😉

Yoink! Good thing I changed it!

Now I’ve added a space for when Wally gets around to gracing me with a sig

Esprix

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## [Ask the Gay Guy!](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/001376.html) (or, if you prefer the Jesusfied version, [Asketh the damn Priest Guy!](http://www.askjesus.org/ask.cgi?http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/001376.html))

## “Never assume a malicious intent when stupidity will explain just as well.”

{This space reserved for a Genuine WallyM7 Sig™}

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**Author:** ![sdimbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sdimbert/32/20204_2.png) [@sdimbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sdimbert)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2000, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-mind-me-just-testing-a-new-sig/1419/10 "2000-04-14T15:58:00Z")

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Just testing a sig line…

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_“I was not making fun of you personally; I was heaping scorn on an inexcusably silly idea – a practice I shall always follow.”_  
-Robert A. Heinlein

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2000, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-mind-me-just-testing-a-new-sig/1419/11 "2000-04-17T15:57:00Z")

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test

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[image][http://members.aol.com/ljgrafix/rainbow.gif[/image]](http://members.aol.com/ljgrafix/rainbow.gif%5B/image%5D)  
“I don’t want realism. I want magic!” - Blanche DuBois

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2000, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-mind-me-just-testing-a-new-sig/1419/12 "2000-04-18T22:28:00Z")

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## Sig Test

[http://members.aol.com/ljgrafix/rainbow.gif](http://members.aol.com/ljgrafix/rainbow.gif)

“I don’t want realism. I want magic!” - Blanche DuBois

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2000, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-mind-me-just-testing-a-new-sig/1419/13 "2000-04-18T22:29:00Z")

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Sig Test

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[http://members.aol.com/ljgrafix/rainbow.gif](http://members.aol.com/ljgrafix/rainbow.gif)

“I don’t want realism. I want magic!” - Blanche DuBois

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2000, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-mind-me-just-testing-a-new-sig/1419/14 "2000-04-18T22:32:00Z")

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Sig Test

[http://members.aol.com/ljgrafix/rainbow.gif](http://members.aol.com/ljgrafix/rainbow.gif)

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2000, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-mind-me-just-testing-a-new-sig/1419/15 "2000-04-18T22:33:00Z")

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Sig Test

[http://members.aol.com/ljgrafix/rainbow.gif](http://members.aol.com/ljgrafix/rainbow.gif)

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“I don’t want realism. I want magic!” - Blanche DuBois

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2000, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-mind-me-just-testing-a-new-sig/1419/16 "2000-04-18T23:57:00Z")

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[http://members.aol.com/ljgrafix/rainbow.gif](http://members.aol.com/ljgrafix/rainbow.gif)

“I don’t want realism. I want magic!” - Blanche DuBois

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2000, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-mind-me-just-testing-a-new-sig/1419/17 "2000-04-19T00:01:00Z")

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## Sig Test

[http://members.aol.com/ljgrafix/rainbow.gif](http://members.aol.com/ljgrafix/rainbow.gif)

“I don’t want realism. I want magic!” - Blanche DuBois

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2000, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-mind-me-just-testing-a-new-sig/1419/18 "2000-04-19T00:02:00Z")

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Sig Test

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[http://members.aol.com/ljgrafix/rainbow.gif](http://members.aol.com/ljgrafix/rainbow.gif)

“I don’t want realism. I want magic!” - Blanche DuBois

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2000, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-mind-me-just-testing-a-new-sig/1419/19 "2000-04-19T00:05:00Z")

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Sig Test

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[http://members.aol.com/ljgrafix/rainbow.gif](http://members.aol.com/ljgrafix/rainbow.gif)

“I don’t want realism. I want magic!” - Blanche DuBois

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**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2000, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-mind-me-just-testing-a-new-sig/1419/20 "2000-04-19T16:02:00Z")

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Love that rainbow smilie!

Now, is my sig as it stands too long? Manhattan? Cajun?

(Or is this akin to, “Does this dress make me look fat?” :D)

Esprix

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## [Ask the Gay Guy!](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/001376.html) (or, if you prefer the Jesusfied version, [Asketh the damn Priest Guy!](http://www.askjesus.org/ask.cgi?http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/001376.html))

## “Never assume a malicious intent when stupidity will explain just as well.”

{This space reserved for a Genuine WallyM7 Sig™}

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