# Signature Lines **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 23, 1999, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-lines/8894 "1999-09-23T15:57:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Stevie\_Rave\_On](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Stevie\_Rave\_On](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stevie_Rave_On)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 1999, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-lines/8894/41 "1999-10-01T16:41:00Z")
My sig line is from the movie “Spinal Tap”. One of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen. This movie is filled with quotable sayings. * * * It’s such a fine line between stupid and clever. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 1999, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-lines/8894/42 "1999-10-01T16:55:00Z")
I guess my sig is a bit longer than average, but when I read the quotes that are paraphrased in my sig, I found it really deep and meaningful. I could shorten it to just the last line, but without the Sherlock Holmes reference, it kind of loses its meaning. So until I find something significantly better, it stays. But I’ll only use it once per thread, and on subsequent messages, use only my name. * * * Chaim Mattis Keller [ckeller@schicktech.com](mailto:ckeller@schicktech.com) “Sherlock Holmes once said that once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible. The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it that the merely improbable lacks.” – Douglas Adams’s Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 1999, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-lines/8894/43 "1999-10-02T05:46:00Z")
Does anyone know where my sig is quoted from? * * * “So what you are telling me, Percy, is that something you have never seen is _slightly less blue_ than something else that you have never seen.” ---
**Author:** ![Louie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@Louie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Louie)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 1999, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-lines/8894/44 "1999-10-02T06:06:00Z")
Might as well… * * * The more beautiful the rose, the more thorns it hides underneath. - [Louie](http://members.aol.com/lou826/quote.htm) [Fun with HTML (tutoral)](http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/000194.html) ---
**Author:** ![Louie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@Louie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Louie)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 1999, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-lines/8894/45 "1999-10-02T06:54:00Z")
Oops, I meant this… * * * The more beautiful the rose, the more thorns it hides underneath. - Louie [Fun with HTML (tutoral)](http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/000194.html) ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 1999, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-lines/8894/46 "1999-10-02T14:15:00Z")
Lets see if my sig line works… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 1999, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-lines/8894/47 "1999-10-02T14:30:00Z")
I’ve just added my old AOL sig to my profile. As kids, me and my siblings operated a short-lived lemonade stand, and we happened to live near a small patch of undeveloped woodland. There were always garter snakes slithering into our backyard, so we would catch them and try to sell them along with the lemonade! I think we made one, maybe two sales… * * * Lemonade 10 cents Snakes 50 cents ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 1999, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-lines/8894/48 "1999-10-02T14:58:00Z")
Let’s try this again, using one complete brain cell. * * * \People change not because they see the light but because they feel the \*\*heat[/].\ ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 1999, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-lines/8894/49 "1999-10-02T15:04:00Z")
Oh bother * * * \*\*People change not because they see the light but because the feel the heat. \*\* ---
**Author:** ![BenDover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c77e96/32.png) [@BenDover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BenDover)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 1999, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-lines/8894/50 "1999-10-02T15:29:00Z")
Shirley, ‘they’ has a ‘y’ on the end. ::ducking and running:: * * * I have as much authority as the Pope; I just don’t have as many people who believe it! - George Carlin ---
**Author:** ![BunnyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 1999, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-lines/8894/51 "1999-10-02T18:18:00Z")
I don’t use mine very often but it’s from one of the few Charles Dickens books I read and actually enjoyed (he can be so LONG-WINDED!!) and it just touched me as very poignent. It’s said when the lead character loses her brother. * * * 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” ---
**Author:** ![gary\_horaczek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@gary\_horaczek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gary_horaczek)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 1999, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-lines/8894/52 "1999-10-02T18:54:00Z")
My signature is from John Lennon’s Double Fantasy album. His last release while alive. * * * “Life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans”-John Lennon 1980 ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 1999, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-lines/8894/53 "1999-10-02T22:06:00Z")
I used to work as a security guard for one of the most humorless and Draconian companies in Southern California. One of the pettiest people I’ve ever met was a particularly petty field inspector who ragged me a great deal. A lot like Frank Burns of M_A_S\*H. But I got him to laugh when, just before he left, I told him my signature line: * * * “If you drive an automobile, please drive carefully–because I walk in my sleep.”–Victor Borge ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 1999, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-lines/8894/54 "1999-10-03T02:25:00Z")
What the hell!? I was under the impression that HTML didn’t work in our sig lines. If it does, my helpful-and-informative sig line will be replaced by my cryptic-and-confusing ASCII representations of the characters in my name. Excuse me, I’m of to my test thread… PS Cow God, I watched you build that thing in a test thread back in my lurker days. I don’t blame you for using it whenever you can. * * * * * * 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? ---
**Author:** ![the\_first\_supraliminal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f475e1/32.png) [@the\_first\_supraliminal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_first_supraliminal)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 1999, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-lines/8894/55 "1999-10-03T13:20:00Z")
I made mine up all by myself! * * * There’s **always** another beer. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 1999, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-lines/8894/56 "1999-10-03T14:28:00Z")
I like 'em **all**. Keep them, please! The little story of snakes & lemonade is a delightful bit of Americana. The Dirk Gently quote, though long, is worth it. All the one-liners are good; some are excellent. P.S. to radar ralf: The complete quote is **I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a pre-frontal lobotomy.** ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 1999, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-lines/8894/57 "1999-10-03T14:31:00Z")
I just posted here, but it didn’t show up. What gives? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 1999, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-lines/8894/58 "1999-10-04T05:01:00Z")
This is a test. If this were an actual reply, I would make the same comments I made before that did not get here for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 1999, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-lines/8894/59 "1999-10-03T20:40:00Z")
I found mine in a book of quotes. Just wait til I get to the good ones by Dan Quayle 😃 * * * Nobody said things would be easy,and nobody was right-George Bush. ---
**Author:** ![psycat90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@psycat90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psycat90)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 1999, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-lines/8894/60 "1999-10-03T20:54:00Z")
excuse me, uuummmm, i’m new here and this was the first thing that came to mind, maybe if i read more…j/k 🙂 * * * so you found a girl who thinks really deep thoughts. what’s so amazing about really deep thoughts? Tori Amos [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-lines/8894.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/signature-lines/8894.md?page=4)