# Sigs! Remember them on the old board? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 26, 2024, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigs-remember-them-on-the-old-board/999361 "2024-03-26T00:11:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigs-remember-them-on-the-old-board/999361/21 "2024-03-26T03:20:12Z")
I think I typed one in, but I was too shy to use it, so it was turned off. And I don’t remember what it was. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigs-remember-them-on-the-old-board/999361/22 "2024-03-26T03:55:33Z")
i had two together one was based on Bernie wards signoff when he was on KGO in SF "It is usually better and easier to get forgiveness than permission " and a paraphrased lyric from one of my fav new order songs "there’s no point in telling me the wisdom of a fool cant and won’t set me free " ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigs-remember-them-on-the-old-board/999361/23 "2024-03-26T04:00:28Z")
**rjk** and I had a matched set after we got married **rjk** : Roped in by a Texan Me: Wanna see my rope tricks? ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigs-remember-them-on-the-old-board/999361/24 "2024-03-26T04:01:44Z")
Mine wasn’t very original. I was aware of the issue where if you changed your .sig it would update all your old posts with the new one, so I always just pasted it in as part of my post. And I never came up with a new one before I quit using it, not too long before we switched over to Discourse, IIRC. So I was able to find the exact text I used when I went searching. I see at some point the double hyphens (old Usenet practice) got munged into a single n-dash or m-dash. Oh, that’s Discord still doing it in fresh posts. – That’s my post; hope you liked it! ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigs-remember-them-on-the-old-board/999361/25 "2024-03-26T04:03:43Z")
funny when I came back to the boards after a very long absence most people didn’t use sigs anymore and they were considered an annoyance … ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigs-remember-them-on-the-old-board/999361/26 "2024-03-26T04:08:38Z")
Years ago—maybe 2001 or 2002—there was a thread game where you said something silly or funny about the poster directly above you. I posted, and a little while later, somebody came in behind me, with this: “Spoons cannot be beat. Unless you want to be charged with assault and battery, of course.” That became my sig, though I rarely used it. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigs-remember-them-on-the-old-board/999361/27 "2024-03-26T06:54:52Z")
I was boring, my sig was (usually) a link to my external movie review website (now defunct). I vaguely recall occasionally having a “clever” sig, or maybe a couple, but I have no memory of what it, or they, might have been. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigs-remember-them-on-the-old-board/999361/28 "2024-03-26T11:47:41Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Now we have avatars and little titles. I had to read that twice .. 😳 I was going to say that they take up a lot of space in a thread, 'specially with short/terse posts (particularly in thread games), but this .. > [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > or (the preferred practice) just the first time you posted in a thread. could mitigate that. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigs-remember-them-on-the-old-board/999361/29 "2024-03-26T12:52:14Z")
That’s an upside to the new custom titles. They take up no space. They also have the downside the vBulletin sigs had: if you change your title then every past post of yours is now displayed with your new title. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigs-remember-them-on-the-old-board/999361/30 "2024-03-26T12:57:12Z")
Mine was what’s in my custom title now. Who had “God _was_ my co-pilot…until we crashed in the Andes and I had to eat him.”? That one made me laugh every time I saw it. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigs-remember-them-on-the-old-board/999361/31 "2024-03-26T13:02:52Z")
Back in the days of dinosaurs, or at least the days of Unix mainframes, my .sig (for those of you both old enough and geeky enough to know what a Unix .sig file was) was: “Electrical engineer, computer geek, and no-talent bum musician”. I can’t remember if I had that on my SDMB profile or not. I probably did. That is obviously way too long to use as an email address or a user name, so I shortened it to engineer\_comp\_geek. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigs-remember-them-on-the-old-board/999361/32 "2024-03-26T13:16:04Z")
I recall **alphaboi867** ’s, which was rendered in rainbow colors. At first I was puzzled because it seemed to be an anti-links thing, thanks to the light color of the shade of yellow he used for for the third and fourth characters: “No Golf No Masters”…thought he hated the entire idea of Augusta National, esp. if playing it under a rainbow… ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigs-remember-them-on-the-old-board/999361/33 "2024-03-26T17:14:22Z")
And on the original board, Alt.fan.cecil-adams on Usenet the sigs were just a few words placed in the middle of your name. Like: "Beck (still driving) dawrek. They would often reflect the topic under discussion. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigs-remember-them-on-the-old-board/999361/34 "2024-03-26T18:46:40Z")
I remember having a line from Blackadder II about turnip-shaped thingies. But the one I used most was, _“This is my signature. There are many like it, but this one is Mine.”_ ---
**Author:** ![De\_La\_Rue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@De\_La\_Rue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/De_La_Rue)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigs-remember-them-on-the-old-board/999361/35 "2024-03-26T20:23:43Z")
Was Divemaster the one with the diver’s creed? (“If you have to cheat, CHEAT death! If you have to steal, STEAL another dive!”) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigs-remember-them-on-the-old-board/999361/36 "2024-03-26T20:43:36Z")
When I first started using the Star Wars reference, my sig was an anagram for “May the force be with you.” I only used it a few times. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigs-remember-them-on-the-old-board/999361/37 "2024-03-26T20:49:14Z")
> [@pjd](#): > > > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > > > Now we have avatars and little titles. > > I had to read that twice … 😳 You’re not the only one. > [@LSLGuy](#): > > …the new custom titles This one, however, I got right the first time. mmm ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigs-remember-them-on-the-old-board/999361/38 "2024-03-26T21:31:16Z")
Perhaps what we all know about the genders of the posters involved subtly colored the way your word recognizer works? Hmm. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigs-remember-them-on-the-old-board/999361/39 "2024-03-26T22:01:21Z")
Hmmm? Myself. Sorry about that. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigs-remember-them-on-the-old-board/999361/40 "2024-03-26T22:06:13Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > And the Great Avatar War is thankfully behind us. There are posters I have on ignore simply because I dislike their avatar. When we had a thread on avatars after the Great Migration, a couple of other posters said the same thing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigs-remember-them-on-the-old-board/999361.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigs-remember-them-on-the-old-board/999361.md?page=3)