# Sigs..., well, they're tiresome; nevertheless...

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 13, 2004, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigs-well-theyre-tiresome-nevertheless/244910 "2004-05-13T04:42:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigs-well-theyre-tiresome-nevertheless/244910/1 "2004-05-13T04:42:06Z")

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I haven’t been a fan of them, and I’ve used them only sparingly. But I’ve seen a couple over the years that I now wonder about. Are these folks gone?

Who had “My hovercraft is full of eels?”

One of my favorites (let me again stress that I generally disfavor them) was:

“Strangers have the _best_ candy.”

Who was that?

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**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigs-well-theyre-tiresome-nevertheless/244910/2 "2004-05-13T05:34:56Z")

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I don’t recall either of those, but I do want to share a brilliant sig that I saw on a different message board:

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“Arguing with anonymous strangers on the internet is a sucker’s game because they invariably turn out to be, or to be indistinguishable from, arrogant self-righteous sixteen year olds possessing infinite amounts of spare time.” -Neal Stephenson

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**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2004, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigs-well-theyre-tiresome-nevertheless/244910/3 "2004-05-13T13:49:26Z")

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I’ve found my sig to be quite useful, especially in GD.

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**Author:** ![peri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/67e7ee/32.png) [@peri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peri)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigs-well-theyre-tiresome-nevertheless/244910/4 "2004-05-14T02:43:48Z")

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“My hovercraft is full of eels?” was used by Torgo, who is no more.

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**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigs-well-theyre-tiresome-nevertheless/244910/5 "2004-05-14T04:09:33Z")

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Who had the one that said roughly:

rictus grin… punch myself in the solar plexus… a laugh is a laugh

?

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**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sigs-well-theyre-tiresome-nevertheless/244910/6 "2004-05-14T04:21:21Z")

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[torie?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?find=lastposter&t=253791)