You’re not dissing on curling, I hope.
Don’t know about the Special Olympics, but there is wheelchair curling.
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!
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.
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.
Studded wheelchair tyres.
You gotta admit, though. It would be cooler if they were on Zambonis.
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.
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.
Thought that was the Great Zambonis, the frozen high wire act? Great act, but towards the end, they were slipping…
I usually find the sign-off to be the best part of a Shodan post.
Hugs and Kisses,
Septicakes
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
<crosses off G4 on his “Regards, Shodan” thread bingo card>
I thought he was just being polite.
Signatures, like avatars, cab be turned off. Unless some idiot decides to include it in the text of the actual post.
I don’t get worked up about sign-offs, only ellipsis.
Computer? Enhance!
Larger.
Okay. Uh, now rotate it one-hundred-eighty degrees.
Uh, nope. Flip it back, but a scosche bigger and focus on that area right there.
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?
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.
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Perfect! Just as I thought. An ellipsis has three dots, not four.
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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)
Is it? Well, I never…
Everyone has to have a hobby. 
-XT
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 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. 
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