I once tried to change my sig line, and there was nearly a panic (and Wally tried to steal it - the lawsuit didn’t get the Court TV coverage I expected, however), so I think I’ll always have to be…
Yer pal,
Satan
I’m tempted to change mine, but it was a pain in the ass to design and I feel like I haven’t gotten my money’s worth yet.
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Thanks, Ike! It’s my favorite song – especially the version off the immortal jazz album, John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman. Coltrane is, of course, a god, and Hartman’s deep, rich voice seems to be the perfect vehicle for “Lush Life.” I sing in exactly the same range as Johnny Hartman, which may bear on why I like him so much. Pity he only made about a half dozen albums.
Maybe I should do a cookbook called “Living the Lush Life”, full of recipes that include alcohol as an ingredient. grin
Sorry everyone…we now return you to your regularly scheduled thread already in progress.
Live a Lush Life
Da Chef
Chef: I think the problem was that, of the approximately seven dozen versions of “Lush Life” I have, 99% are instrumental. (Best recording is a toss-up, but I’d probably go with the lordly, jaw-dropping piano/bass/drums treatment on the late Phineas Newborn’s A WORLD OF PIANO. Ol’ Phineas is an orchestra unto himself.)
Odd coincidence: SaxFace (nee Melanie) and I had lunch together yesterday, and she told me that HARTMAN & COLTRANE was HER favorite album too. Looks like I’ll have to dig my copy out and give it another spin…something’s trying to tell me something.
Satan: “Yer pal, WallyM7” ? Nahhhhhh…it just doesn’t have the same ring…
Uke
No, no…the best instrumental version is also Coltrane’s. The title track of the album “Lush Life.”
I’m sure everyone in here is wondering who the hell started poking the jazz nerds with a stick and woke them up.
Live a Lush Life
Da Chef
I bounce around a lot with plenty of lines from The Simpsons and Life in Hell but my current sig is from a recent Popeye strip.
“Popeye? Hm? He’s not much of a judge of women!” King Blozo
mine, the only sig line I’ve ever had as an SDMB member (and which I still use in email at times, depending on which program I’m using for email) is from Wayne Knight. Although he played three (that I’m aware of) animated characters in 1999, this one was from his blurb in tarzan.com where he described his experience as portaying the elephant Tantor.
“I’m just too much for human existence – I should be animated.”
–Wayne Knight
This is the first time that I have used a sig line. It was easy to find a source though, The Simpsons.
Your Freelance Simpsons Expert, hightechburrito
How could I charge full price to the man whose lust for filthy magazines kept me in business through that first shaky year. Oh, by the way, here’s your new issue of “Gigantic Asses.”
-Apu Nahasapeemapetilon
Mine is from Willow. The “quotees” are Rool and Franjean, the brownies.
My last sig quote (“I get along well with everyone.”) was from Fletch’s Fortune, said by Fletch.
The other line of the sig is, of course, my deity title and date of appointment.
Your Official Cat Goddess since 10/20/99.
“We are here! You are saved!” --R. & F.
I just figured out a few days ago how to have a sig line, and I just came up with mine and this is my first post. Wish me luck.
You, you…hetero. Go make a baby, you woman lover!
— Dillan
David: It sucks…(also)
I started out using a line from one of my favorite comediennes, Lily Tomlin: “The problem with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.”
Then, just to piss off MC because of his stupidity in the “Food For A Starving World” topic, I changed it to the Anne Frank quote I’m currently using…
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” - Anne Frank
I have a whole bunch of sig lines.
I just cut and past them in, as the whim moves me, from a Word file which I also use to write my replies. (it also has the HTML code for centering my signature at the end of my post, and the little line of dashes that makes my pasted sig look line the one that SDMB adds.
When I get tired of them, I go shop for more, on the web, or from my library.
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Then there is this one, which is my default sig, in my profile.
I hate quotations.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
I use my sig with all my e-mail, because e-mail is virtual mail. It also fits with my interest in physics. And I am not the real Dr. Matrix. He was invented by Martin Gardner and apparently he (Dr. Matrix) died in the 80’s. So I am the virtual DrMatrix.
There are some pretty clever sig lines on this board, but I think the best sig lines belong to **NanoByteM/b>
Ray (always something clever and fitting)
Virtually yours,
DrMatrix
Tris, what a good idea! I’ll have to do that-I like to change my sig (which I haven’t done in a million years) but hate spending the time finding something witty or moving.
Mine is from Dombey & Son by Charles Dickens. I just thought it was a very beautiful description of the loss of a loved one through death.
And can it be that in a world so full and busy, the loss
of one weak creature makes a void in any heart, so
wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth
of vast eternity can fill it up!
-Charles Dickens “Dombey and Son”
Chef, yeah, I love that whole album. I love Coltrane. I love Hartman. I love “Lush Life”. I love Strayhorn. I did notice your sig line, btw.
That song, coincidentally, is really hard to play on a saxophone. It just sounds like a monotone scale. I wish I had some soul.
Uke doesn’t get his kicks from Coltrane, though. We’ve had numerous discussions about him. I can’t convince him - maybe he’ll listen to you.
My sig line refers to my former name on this message board (which was Melanie). I’ll think of something more original in the future when I get some soul.
Formerly unknown as “Melanie”
I just changed my sig after TubaDiva edited my posts twice in the Pit. 
[Note: Opinions offensive to Christians may have been edited out by TubaDiva. ]
My current .sig (new for 2000!) comes from a background vocal in a song by the Swedish musician Magnus (http://www.magnus.se).
It means, “look, and you shall begin to see…”
“Rigardu, kaj vi ekvidos…” -Magnus
“The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers” gave me mine. Truer words have never been spoken. (Shhhh, don’t tell GuanoLad. He might start feeling sad for me.)
“Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope.”
My old one was from Muppets in Space but I think Im gonna change it!
-Frankie
I’m not a shrimp, I’m a King Prawn.
-Pepe the Prawn