Just in Case anyone’s interested, here’s a list of my old retired sig lines:
Used SDMB Sig Lines:
Tell Zeno I¡¦m willing to meet him halfway.
¡§Stop Slouching towards Bethlehem!¡¨
– The Mother of the Beast
¡§Of course,¡¨ said my grandfather, pulling a gun from his belt as he stepped from the Time Machine, ¡§There¡¦s no paradox if I shoot You!¡¨
¡§I give up!¡¨ said Pierre de Fermat¡¦s friend, ¡§How do you keep a mathematician busy for 350 years?¡¨
Are you always being bothered by pesky killer cyborgs from the future? Get the Shell Terminator Strip!
After Voyager’s return Seven of Nine and the other eight members of her Borg Pod were put on trial for complicity with the Borg Collective. We know they are innocent and in good faith! Free the Earnest Borg Nine!
Once again, Dyslexia heads its ugly rear.
Remember, Folks, I’m an Amateur. Don’t try this at Work.
True Story: We were driving south through Providence, RI on I-95 when I saw a big yellow sign that read No Exit 5.
The first thought that popped, unbidden, into my head was “Sequelmania strikes Jean Paul Sartre!” (retired Nov. 30 2001)
Tonight’s show will not be seen so that we may bring you a special presentation. Join Berkeley Breathed’s beloved penguin from Bloom County as he takes you on a tour of the Netherlands! It’s Mr. Opus’s Holland! (Retired Dec. 17, 2001)
Those Who Cannot Repeat the Past are Condemned only to Remember It. (Retired April 16, 2002)
Obscurity is in the Mind of the Beholder.(retired May 7, 2002)
Sick Transit – the Glory of the World (Retired May 22, 2002)
Open Course. Amateur Driver. Do Not Attempt. (Retired June 17, 2002)
The Barbizon School of Physics. Be a Physicist (or look just like one)! (Retired July 8, 2002)
The uncongealed form of Lord Voldemort surveyed the Gryffindor students arrayed before him: Harry Potter, Ronald Weasley, Hermione Granger, and even Fluffy, the Cerberus-headed watchdog. “Darn you! I’d have gotten away with it, if it hadn’t been for you meddling kids and that Dog!” (Retired July 23, 2002)
Rule #3: Always take a Nap during the weekly Seminar.
Rule #10: Always put things back after you’re finished playing with them. But don’t put them back where you found them, because somebody else might find them there.
ƒÞ From “Everything I Needed to Know about Life I Learned in Grad School” by Robert Fulminate(retired August 29 2002)
“Existence, Boo-boo, is like a pic-a-nic basket.”
ƒÞ Yogi Bear
(retired September 25, 2002)
The Exercise Instructor looked out of the telescreen at Winston Smith and glared.
“You, Smith, W. You’re not giving enough! I’m a mother of three and I pledge at least $50 every time! Enough for a Tote Bag!” Behind her a poster proclaimed “Big Bird is Watching You!”
Winston Smith hated Pledge Week in Oceania.
–retired September 30, 2002
Oh, sure, Ninja Death Star Scrabble is fun, all right. Until someone loses an I.
–retired October 9, 2002
Practice Safe Sects!
Remember, when you achieve Oneness with a deity, you’ve also achieved Oneness with every being that deity has achieved Oneness with!
– retired October 28, 2002
“But Master Obi-Wan, What do you mean by ‘Serpentine’?”
---Alanarkin Skywalker
—retired November 14, 2002
Does it matter which edition of a play you use? To find out, we secretly replaced these actors’ Pelican editions of Macbeth with Folgers Shakespeare. Let’s see.
– retired December 12, 2002
Japanese Scientists have learned that the reason Godzilla was so angry was because of all of the cars being dumped into Tokyo Bay by Intelligence Chief “Tiger” Tanaka
– retired Dec. 18, 2002
Remember – Every Time you Hear Fingernails Scratching on a Blackboard, a Devil gets his Horns.
ƒÞ retired December 30, 2002
“But Gandalf — We saw you go over the edge at Khazad-Dum!”
“Didn’t I tell you the truth about Balrogs? Balrogs Bounce!!”
ƒÞ retired Jan 13 03
–“Daddy, my imaginary friend’s friends are telling her that I don’t exist!”
---absolutely true line our five-year-old daughter **MilliCal** came up with just before Christmas. I'd love to know who's writing her material.
ƒÞ retired January 20, 2003
Sauron probably could have defeated Green Lantern, but he thought that Evil looked Tacky in Yellow (despite the advice of Robert W. Chambers).
– retired Feb. 10, 2003
I’ve searched the Internet, and find thirteen people in the U.S. listed under the surname “Godot”. None of them are doctors, which is a good thing. How old would the magazines be in their waiting rooms?
– retired Feb. 25 2003
“Damn You, God! Why must these Little Blue Men be the instruments of Your Glory, and not ME?”
“That’s just SMURFY, Mr. Salieri!”
— The Smurfs and The Magic Flute
(well, it wasn’t, but it shoulda been.)
— retired March 19, 2003
So, Oh me Droogs, this Molodoy Ptitsa drops a house on the Starry Baboochka, then takes up with a Gent in a tin Shlem, a scaredy Kot, and this Veshch made of straw, and they all go visit the Choodessny Charlie in Emerald City.
–The Clockwork Orange of Oz
– retired April 8, 2003