# Show me your fancy sig - **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 14, 2000, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-your-fancy-sig/36897 "2000-10-14T16:06:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Yue\_Han](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/eada6e/32.png) [@Yue\_Han](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yue_Han)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-your-fancy-sig/36897/21 "2000-10-17T03:14:49Z")
One year for Hanukkah, I made an ASCII menorah. It was cool… I got an email about it. With vBB, I had to fix it up a little: ```auto @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .\_\_\_\|/_/_/_/. _______/.\______ Hanukkah sig. (No, I'm not Jewish) ``` I also had the first verse of “Jabberwocky” for a while, but the only email I got was someone correcting my spelling. > [@](#): > > 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves > Did gyre and gymble in the wabe. > Mimsy were the borogroves, > And the momeraths outgrabe. And my very first sig, (under the screenname Ai\ Yue- Ha .) > [@](#): > > * * * > > The Ai\ Yue- Ha > FAQ: > > 1. Eye You-way Han > 2. It’s Chinese. > 3. The symbols are tone marks. > 4. No, I wasn’t drunk when I registered. > 5. Just call me John, OK? –John ---
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-your-fancy-sig/36897/22 "2000-10-17T05:54:14Z")
My first sig was: We are the children of the 80’s. We are not the first lost generation, nor are we today’s lost generation. Or something like that. Then, I quoted Coldfire, with: You can’t accidentally create a handicapped baby whilst smoking weed. And now, I’m with: ---
**Author:** ![SterlingNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@SterlingNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SterlingNorth)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-your-fancy-sig/36897/23 "2000-10-17T08:10:38Z")
I’ve yet to figure out how to transfer my Armadillo art signature from the Fathom board to here without it collapsing on itself. If you want to see the [test thread](http://fff.fathom.org/ubb/Forum12/HTML/000101.html), be my guest. ---
**Author:** ![JimmyNipples](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb9ed0/32.png) [@JimmyNipples](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimmyNipples)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-your-fancy-sig/36897/24 "2000-10-17T12:36:04Z")
I think I was trying to be anti-technology or something… ---
**Author:** ![tshirts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@tshirts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tshirts)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-your-fancy-sig/36897/25 "2000-10-17T20:32:47Z")
There’s lots of great sigs in the **test threads on ATMB**. I always like to go there first when I log on, just to see what people think up for sig lines. Here’s a recent one I liked: > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ladybug \* > \*\*Just testing the new sig. \*\* > [sub]\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ > I’m too much of a lady to let you know you’re bugging me. – sig courtesy of 2sense > “A scavenger hunt? How terrible. I don’t believe in hunting scavengers.” – Bubbles, “Powerpuff Girls” > “Does the information superhighway have a rest stop? I’ve gotta go potty!” – “Digimon”[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![tshirts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@tshirts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tshirts)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-your-fancy-sig/36897/26 "2000-10-17T20:49:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SterlingNorth \* > **I’ve yet to figure out how to transfer my Armadillo art signature from the Fathom board to here without it collapsing on itself. If you want to see the [test thread](http://fff.fathom.org/ubb/Forum12/HTML/000101.html), be my guest.** Here’s one way to do it. I leave it to you to see if it works in a sig. `````auto ------------------ .:: 7777: : - . /:' / / / /' ` :: >/|/ .', | | | | ` / ( e\ SterlingNorth -==~-'`---Xm````-mr ' ` -_\ One of these days somebody is actually going to notice that if you convict an innocent person and execute him, the problem is that the murderer is still free. ````` The other main trick is to replace blanks with “hard blanks”= Alt0160 typed as Altkey down 0 1 6 0 Altkey up But watch out- The hard blanks cannot be copied out of the post window without converting to “soft blanks” that are stripped out. To get a row of hard blanks, store them in Notepad and copy from there. Not elegant, but it works. ---
**Author:** ![Stupendous\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Stupendous\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stupendous_man)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-your-fancy-sig/36897/27 "2000-10-17T20:53:11Z")
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**Author:** ![Stupendous\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Stupendous\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stupendous_man)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-your-fancy-sig/36897/28 "2000-10-17T20:54:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Stupendous man \* > \*\*- \*\* Damn it to the bowels of bloody hell! The box unchecked after I previewed it. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalMuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecccb3/32.png) [@DigitalMuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalMuse)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2000, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-your-fancy-sig/36897/29 "2000-10-18T01:46:00Z")
Mine is pretty cool:) In my opinion at least. ---
**Author:** ![bdubs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/da6949/32.png) [@bdubs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bdubs)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2000, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-your-fancy-sig/36897/30 "2000-10-18T01:57:56Z")
My signature was stolen, but I wish I came up with it. ---
**Author:** ![bdubs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/da6949/32.png) [@bdubs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bdubs)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2000, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-your-fancy-sig/36897/31 "2000-10-18T01:59:33Z")
sig? Are you down there? ---
**Author:** ![mrblue92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@mrblue92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrblue92)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2000, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-your-fancy-sig/36897/32 "2000-10-18T02:24:58Z")
I’ve been trying this new on for size… How does it look? ---
**Author:** ![bdubs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/da6949/32.png) [@bdubs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bdubs)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2000, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-your-fancy-sig/36897/33 "2000-10-18T02:39:14Z")
My sigs aren’t showing I feel naked ---
**Author:** ![Season\_Strange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Season\_Strange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Season_Strange)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2000, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-your-fancy-sig/36897/34 "2000-10-18T06:43:32Z")
Did you preview your post? After the preview you have to click the Show Signature box again. ---
**Author:** ![bdubs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/da6949/32.png) [@bdubs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bdubs)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2000, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-your-fancy-sig/36897/35 "2000-10-18T21:20:18Z")
If this works, you are a true gentleman Mr Strange. ---
**Author:** ![SterlingNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@SterlingNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SterlingNorth)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2000, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-your-fancy-sig/36897/36 "2000-10-18T21:35:29Z")
Well, whaddyaknow… It worked! Thanks for tip **tshirts**. ---
**Author:** ![SterlingNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@SterlingNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SterlingNorth)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2000, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-your-fancy-sig/36897/37 "2000-10-18T21:43:25Z")
Oh, the reason ```auto ``` won’t work is I added extra spaces since the font face is proportional. [sub]will the brackets work?[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![magdalene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@magdalene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magdalene)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2000, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-your-fancy-sig/36897/38 "2000-10-18T21:46:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Escanaba \* > \*\*Here’s one from \*\*Zenster \*\*that here was just a thread puzzling over. > > * * * > > Christianity is a symptom of the disease it’s trying to cure. > > Long-ass _braggadocio_ sig dropped under > threat of spanking from **magdalene**. > > **Swiddles** ’ Patron Saint of **[recipes](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=39219)**. \*\* Escanaba, there are currently 2 IMHO threads devoted to the first line. Let me explain the second line. Zenster used to have a list of every poster who had ever acknowledged him in his Sig…So and so’s favorite poster! So and so’s new hero! It kind of bugged me (sorry Zenster) so I threatened him with a spanking if he didn’t change it. He punished me with the middle line, which, IMHO, is technically still bragging. 😃 And pretty fuckin’ long. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-your-fancy-sig/36897/39 "2000-10-19T09:55:48Z")
Thank you, **ShakenBake**. I would have found my way here eventually, and graced you all with my famed sig file. ---
**Author:** ![ShakeNBake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@ShakeNBake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShakeNBake)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-your-fancy-sig/36897/40 "2000-10-19T22:46:38Z")
Looks better when you do it, too. I forgot that cut and paste misses the special codes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-your-fancy-sig/36897.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/show-me-your-fancy-sig/36897.md?page=3)