# Sig Test

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sig-test/244889>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [May 13, 2004, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sig-test/244889 "2004-05-13T00:51:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 12\
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**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sig-test/244889/1 "2004-05-13T00:51:59Z")

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Move along, nothing to see here.

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**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sig-test/244889/2 "2004-05-13T00:53:53Z")

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Maybe this time.

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**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sig-test/244889/3 "2004-05-13T01:12:11Z")

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It was there the first time, too…

I liked your old one, the one quoting whatshisname from Futurama.

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**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sig-test/244889/4 "2004-05-13T01:24:58Z")

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For the record, I started using that line back in '98, a year before Futurama debuted. I believe the writers were quoting me.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sig-test/244889/5 "2004-05-13T19:21:49Z")

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Refresh my memory, here… What was the old quote?

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**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sig-test/244889/6 "2004-05-13T20:00:03Z")

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I guessing it probably _wasn’t_ “Bite my shiny metal ass.”

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**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sig-test/244889/7 "2004-05-13T20:53:12Z")

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Somehow “Sweet Zombie Jesus” doesn’t sound right either …

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**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sig-test/244889/8 "2004-05-14T01:51:55Z")

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“Oh no! I should do something…but I am already in my pajamas.”

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**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sig-test/244889/9 "2004-05-14T01:55:43Z")

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Hm, that’s not the one I was thinking of. Weren’t you the one who had " … that’s the wonder of being a scientist!" in his sig?

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**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sig-test/244889/10 "2004-05-14T02:18:56Z")

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No, sorry.

I have never even watched a full episode of the series. Don’t like the Simpsons much either…

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**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sig-test/244889/11 "2004-05-14T02:30:01Z")

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Well slap my snout. I must have the wrong Dr. :o

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**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2004, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sig-test/244889/12 "2004-05-16T02:15:16Z")

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Sorry again for the mixup, **Dr. Fidelius**. In the interests of closure, the doc I was thinking of is **Doc Cathode** , who’s sig is

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> Nothing is impossible if you can imagine it. That’s the wonder of being a scientist!  
> Prof Hubert Farnsworth, Futurama