# Testing sig...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-sig/271245>\
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**Created:** [October 26, 2004, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-sig/271245 "2004-10-26T16:01:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2004, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-sig/271245/1 "2004-10-26T16:01:51Z")

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Testing… testing…

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**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2004, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-sig/271245/2 "2004-10-26T16:18:39Z")

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Mine too.

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**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2004, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-sig/271245/3 "2004-10-26T16:29:12Z")

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_ **The Birth of Aphrodite** _

But the members themselves, when Kronos  
had lopped them with the flint,  
he threw from the mainland  
into the great wash of the sea water  
and they drifted a great while  
on the open sea, and there spread  
a circle of white foam  
from the immortal flesh, and in it  
grew a girl, whose course first took her  
to holy Kythera  
and from there she afterward made her way  
to sea-washed Cyprus  
and stepped ashore, a modest lovely goddess,  
and about her  
light and slender feet the grass grew,  
and the gods call her  
Aphrodite, and men do too,  
and the Aphro-foam-born  
goddess, and garlanded Kythereia,  
because from the seafoam  
she grew, and Kythereia, because she came forth  
from wave-washed Cyprus,  
and Philommedea, because she appeared  
from medea, _ **of Hesiod’s Theogony** _

Nice sig… 🙂