# Sig lines **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 8, 2000, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sig-lines/36143 "2000-10-08T11:41:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Commander\_Fortune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Commander\_Fortune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Commander_Fortune)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sig-lines/36143/1 "2000-10-08T11:41:55Z")
How come when I change my sig line in my profile, the sig line in some of my older posts change too? My sig line until about 4 posts ago both credited matt\_mcl for the Esperanto name translation as well as relating a factoid about sweat glands. Now when I look back to posts made _weeks_ ago, my new sig line appears where once, my old one was. I don’t understand. ---
**Author:** ![barflyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dc4da7/32.png) [@barflyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barflyer)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sig-lines/36143/2 "2000-10-08T15:06:21Z")
For a guy with an old signup date, you sure don’t come to this forum a lot. It’s been covered in at least 4 threads since I’ve been here. The answer: It does that “now”, it didn’t in “antedeluvian” eras, when Cecil’s post show him as a Guest. Look up the “details” if you must, but there are none different from the above. ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sig-lines/36143/3 "2000-10-08T17:59:34Z")
Ever since we started using vBulletin software, sig lines have no longer been part of the post, but rather a characteristic of each member. Thus, each person only has one at a time, which is added to each post when the page is generated. Thus, every time you have used your signature since 4/27/00 will now show your current signature. I still have the same signature I had then, so it doesn’t make much of difference for me. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2000, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sig-lines/36143/4 "2000-10-09T23:39:51Z")
Sig test… ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2000, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sig-lines/36143/5 "2000-10-10T03:44:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by barflyer \* > \*\*For a guy with an old signup date, you sure don’t come to this forum a lot. It’s been covered in at least 4 threads since I’ve been here. > > \*\* BTW, Commader Fortune is not “a guy”. ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2000, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sig-lines/36143/6 "2000-10-10T05:26:55Z")
Just checking something… ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2000, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sig-lines/36143/7 "2000-10-10T05:36:16Z")
Evilbeth: FYI, I think it’s “Pooh-Bah” ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2000, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sig-lines/36143/8 "2000-10-10T09:25:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DRY \* > \*\*Evilbeth: FYI, I think it’s “Pooh-Bah” \*\* Hey, _I’m_ the…whatever it’s called! I’ll spell it how I want!! 😉 Thanks! I’ll fix it! ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2000, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sig-lines/36143/9 "2000-10-10T09:26:59Z")
How’s this? ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2000, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sig-lines/36143/10 "2000-10-11T07:24:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by evilbeth \* > \*\*How’s this? \*\* Just right. By the way, I happen to know the spelling of “Pooh-Bah” because it was the title I was given as commissioner of my fantasy hockey league. I needed to know the proper spelling and found it in the dictionary (also learned that it was from The Mikado, a Rogers and Hammerstein play). [sub]Normally, if it isn’t Shakespeare, I couldn’t give a shit.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sig-lines/36143/11 "2000-10-12T00:17:42Z")
Doobie, doobie, do… ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sig-lines/36143/12 "2000-10-12T17:15:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DRY \* > (also learned that it was from The Mikado, a Rogers and Hammerstein play). Having just **seen** _Topsy-Turvy_, I can state with a fair bit of confidence that _The Mikado_ is not a Rodgers and Hammerstein play. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2000, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sig-lines/36143/13 "2000-10-12T19:57:17Z")
Everybody knows it’s Rodgers and Hart! Or maybe it’s Hollywood and Vine. Cash and Carry? It’s Gilbert and Sullivan, of course. your humble TubaDiva "I’ve got a little list . . . " ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2000, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sig-lines/36143/14 "2000-10-13T06:50:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gadarene \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by DRY \* > > (also learned that it was from The Mikado, a Rogers and Hammerstein play). > > Having just **seen** _Topsy-Turvy_, I can state with a fair bit of confidence that _The Mikado_ is not a Rodgers and Hammerstein play. 🙂 \*\* > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TubaDiva \* > \*\*Everybody knows it’s Rodgers and Hart! > > Or maybe it’s Hollywood and Vine. > > Cash and Carry? > > It’s Gilbert and Sullivan, of course. > > your humble TubaDiva > "I’ve got a little list . . . " \*\* Open mouth, insert foot. :eek: I have no idea why I typed “Rogers and Hammerstein”. Geez, I can’t believe I managed to mix that up in the time it took me to close the dictionary, put it back on the shelf, and type “Rogers and Hammerstein” (it’s pretty obvious I looked it up; I’ve never even seen the Mikado). Oh, as a baseball fan, if I were going to goof it up, I should have typed “Tinker to Evers to Chance” (Yeah, yeah–Harry Steinfeldt was the third basemen. THAT much I knew.) Anyway, mea summa culpa.