# Shodan gives us all his regards. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 10, 2012, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825 "2012-07-10T19:58:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/81 "2012-07-10T22:52:45Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#): > > On the retardation scale, signing off message board posts is about the level of Special Olympic Curling, except not really because that would be awesome. You’re not dissing on curling, I hope. Don’t know about the Special Olympics, but there is wheelchair curling. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/82 "2012-07-10T22:59:43Z")
> [@Harborwolf](#): > > I’d like to know why people are letting signatures get to them so much. I usually prefer to save my emotions for the actual meat and potatoes of the post. Why bother getting irked by the parsley garnish that is the signature? Not all of us are as emotion-deprived as you obviously are. Me, I have more than enough emotional reserve to get angry at both signatures _and_ posts. And my computer chair. And the lamp. And that dog that keeps staring at me. Fuck you, dog! ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/83 "2012-07-10T23:02:58Z")
> [@Dave\_Hartwick](#): > > Vinyl Turnip, Nzinga, et al who are complaining about the topic, you must’ve known exactly what the thread was about when you saw the title. Why’d you open it? And then post to it, thereby extending the life of a topic you think tedious? That seems stupid. I am not complaining about the topic. I think it’s dumb, but I don’t have a problem with dumb threads; they are often fun. My post was to point out that VT wasn’t making a joke, but was instead making a complaint…that the topic is dumb. Which it is. But I don’t have a problem with that, in particular. I did think it was slick of Monkey to try and paint VT’s post as a failed joke, so I wanted to let him know I saw that slick shit. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/84 "2012-07-10T23:04:36Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Don’t know about the Special Olympics, but there is wheelchair curling. Wheelchairs on ice? I’m not doubting you, but that would seem a bit problematic to me. How the hell do they go down the ice with the broom if they are on wheelchairs? unless… Are they special Zamboni wheelchairs? Because that would kick ass. Special Olympic kids playing shuffleboard on ice with Zamboni wheelchairs. I’d buy a ticket to see that. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/85 "2012-07-10T23:07:13Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > Wheelchairs on ice? I’m not doubting you, but that would seem a bit problematic to me. How the hell do they go down the ice with the broom if they are on wheelchairs? > > Are they special Zamboni wheelchairs? Because that would kick ass. Special Olympic kids playing shuffleboard on ice with Zamboni wheelchairs. I’d buy a ticket to see that. Studded wheelchair tyres. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/86 "2012-07-10T23:13:31Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > Studded wheelchair tyres. You gotta admit, though. It would be cooler if they were on Zambonis. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/87 "2012-07-10T23:19:27Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > …And that dog that keeps staring at me. Fuck you, dog! Whatever you do, don’t stare back. You’ll come to at the Piggly Wiggly, wondering why you were buying all these pork chops and soup bones. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/88 "2012-07-10T23:22:31Z")
> [@A Monkey With a Gun](#): > > You gotta admit, though. It would be cooler if they were on Zambonis. You’re getting it all wrong! The zambonis are the sweeper broom guys in front of the curling wheelchair dude. And he has a freeze ray. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/89 "2012-07-10T23:30:20Z")
Thought that was the Great Zambonis, the frozen high wire act? Great act, but towards the end, they were slipping… ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/90 "2012-07-10T23:33:33Z")
I usually find the sign-off to be the best part of a Shodan post. Hugs and Kisses, Septicakes ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/91 "2012-07-10T23:36:19Z")
> [@Dave\_Hartwick](#): > > Vinyl Turnip, Nzinga, et al who are complaining about the topic, you must’ve known exactly what the thread was about when you saw the title. Why’d you open it? And then post to it, thereby extending the life of a topic you think tedious? That seems stupid. > > I’m curious myself as to the answer to Monkey’s question. Shodan doesn’t seem stupid to me, so why have such a dumb thing at the end of each and every post. And then XT and Captain Kirk come in and remind me that their taglines are even stupider. It would work if you were making a big, long, heartfelt post, but on a short, ordinary one it’s fucking dumb. Dumb things bother me sometimes, especially when some fool is getting up in your face with the dumbness. > > Today, 07:16 AM > \*\*Dumbass \*\* > Fucking stupid > Charter Member > > blah blah I like redundancy blah blah just in case you forgot my stupid fucking handle here it is again > > -dumbass > > That doesn’t even have the supposed snarkiness that Shodan’s “Regards” has, which, based on context, I guess I’m supposed to sometimes read as “Go fuck yourself”. No, it’s just repetition. And, to hear XT say it, there is no reason for it. It’s just a habit. It’s not even automated. Wow. I have to admit, I never considered that someone would get worked up over me adding 3 characters to the end of my posts. Now that I’m aware of your concerns, however I’ll…I’ll… Naw. If folks thought I was a dumbass merely because I used a signature then I’d be ahead of the game around here. 😛 That someone would get worked up over that, of all things, just makes me have a warm glow inside about humanity. -XT ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/92 "2012-07-10T23:41:45Z")
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**Author:** ![FE3O4ENAIL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ba9def/32.png) [@FE3O4ENAIL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FE3O4ENAIL)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/93 "2012-07-10T23:45:02Z")
I thought he was just being polite. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/94 "2012-07-10T23:49:27Z")
> [@Baal\_Houtham](#): > > Heh. Neither “regards” nor the notion of icons bothers me, but now I’m curious if there are people who petition for icons and rail against signatures. They both just add personalization to a message and, if anything, the signatures do it in less cutesy fashion. Signatures, like avatars, cab be turned off. Unless some idiot decides to include it in the text of the actual post. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/95 "2012-07-10T23:59:28Z")
> [@XT](#): > > I have to admit, I never considered that someone would get worked up over me adding 3 characters to the end of my posts. Now that I’m aware of your concerns, however I’ll…I’ll… > > Naw. If folks thought I was a dumbass merely because I used a signature then I’d be ahead of the game around here. 😛 That someone would get worked up over that, of all things, just makes me have a warm glow inside about humanity. > > -XT I don’t get worked up about sign-offs, only ellipsis. > [@XT](#): > > I’ll…I’ll… Computer? Enhance! > [@XT](#): > > I’ll…I’ll… Larger. > [@XT](#): > > I’ll…I’ll… Okay. Uh, now rotate it one-hundred-eighty degrees. > [@XT](#): > > ˙˙˙˙ll,I ˙˙˙ll,I Uh, nope. Flip it back, but a scosche bigger and focus on that area right there. > [@XT](#): > > I’ll… Perfect! Just as I thought. An ellipsis has three dots, not four. It is also a single character itself, not simply three periods: … Great work detectives, be sure to add the tiny beeping and blooping noises to the analysis in post—hang on, Lieutenant, I just received an anonymous tip that someone on the Internet is spelling “a lot” as one word. Quick, does anyone have the link to Hyperbole and a Half on their person? ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/96 "2012-07-11T00:00:04Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > Not all of us are as emotion-deprived as you obviously are. Me, I have more than enough emotional reserve to get angry at both signatures _and_ posts. And my computer chair. And the lamp. And that dog that keeps staring at me. Fuck you, dog! Oh sure. Pick on the emotionally deprived. I’d be really upset and hurt, but I wasted my daily allotment of emotions by being irritated at the post I quoted and a typo that I saw in the comments of a youtube video I was watching. So no emotional response for you, buddy. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/97 "2012-07-11T00:06:19Z")
[QUOTE=cmyk] Perfect! Just as I thought. An ellipsis has three dots, not four. [/QUOTE] I was trying to heighten the sense of drama…the next one would have been 5 periods! (either that, or perhaps I fat fingered it on the iPad. Hard to say :p) > [@](#): > > It is also a single character itself, not simply three periods: … Is it? Well, I never… > [@](#): > > I don’t get worked up about sign-offs, only ellipsis. Everyone has to have a hobby. 😉 -XT ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/98 "2012-07-11T00:16:22Z")
Oh no, it’s not a hobby, I’m a bonifide officer on the Ellipsis Task Force. Our motto is… Um… Something Something Ellipsis. ---
**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:** [July 11, 2012, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/99 "2012-07-11T00:19:32Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > The sign-off was: > > Valete, > Vox Imperatoris I believe Valete is a Latin imperative, meaning “Park your own damn car.” On the signature thing, i generally don’t let it bother me. The folks who do it ( **Shodan** , **mtgman** , **XT** , etc.) have been around so long now that i barely even notice it in their posts anymore, except when i quote them, because i usually refuse to include the signoffs in the quote so i have to delete them. When i am prompted to think about it, however, such as when someone starts a thread like this, i have to admit that (a) i don’t really understand why anyone would do it, given that it’s very clear from the board software who is making the post, and (b) i think that it’s pretty stupid and pointless and a bit annoying. My opinion on the matter doesn’t really have anything to do with Doper personalities or politics. I think that **mtgman** ’s “Enjoy, Stephen” signoff is at least as idiotic and attention-seeking as **Shodan** ’s “Regards” signoff, and yet i definitely have much more in common, politically etc., with the former than the latter. And while there’s something less stupid about a simple signature, the fact that i think **XT** is a good guy doesn’t stop me from thinking that his signoff is pointless. Of course, plenty of people around here do things that others find annoying. I happen to know, because it’s been mentioned before, that my failure to capitalize the first-person singular subject pronoun when it appears in the middle of the sentence drives a few people to distraction. That’s just how it goes, I guess. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825/100 "2012-07-11T00:22:05Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > Oh no, it’s not a hobby, I’m a bonifide officer on the Ellipsis Task Force. > > Our motto is… Um… Something Something Ellipsis. I totally believe you and once I see your official badge I’ll be happy to only use (3) dots in the future instead of 2, or 4 (sort of like the Holy Hand-Grenade, right?). I’m still looking for the single key press that will give me (3) (not one or two or four but three!) dots on this new fangled iPad thingy… -XT [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shodan-gives-us-all-his-regards/627825.md?page=6)