# Time for another "Explain Your Sig" thread. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 14, 2010, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-another-explain-your-sig-thread/528988 "2010-02-14T20:41:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-another-explain-your-sig-thread/528988/1 "2010-02-14T20:41:24Z")
I started to repeat an A.A.Milne poem in my head and realized that it was because I’d (subliminally) noticed it at the end of one of Reality Chuck’s posts. “You must never go down to the end of the town if you don’t go down with me.” … is what “James James Morrison Morrison Weatherby George Dupree” said to his M. It’s a wonderful poem: \* James James Morrison Morrison Weatherby George Dupree Took great Care of his Mother, Though he was only three. James James Said to his Mother, “Mother,” he said, said he; “You must never go down to the end of the town, if you don’t go down with me.”\* [removed copyrighted material] So, thanks for changing your sig, Chuck, and I’d love to hear (from anyone who has a sig, or recognizes one) about those other phrases we’ve all been wondering about… ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-another-explain-your-sig-thread/528988/2 "2010-02-14T20:53:58Z")
Moved Cafe Society --\> MPSIMS; edited down copyrighted material. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-another-explain-your-sig-thread/528988/3 "2010-02-15T03:20:26Z")
Oh, ok – I figured a sig would be poetry, lit or a pop culture reference. So it would be a café thang. But it IS mundane… so thanks for the move. And sorry if I quoted too much of the poem. I encourage everyone to [read it](http://ingeb.org/songs/jamesjam.html). Or better yet, buy Milne’s poetry books like _“When We Were Six”_. Delightful stuff. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-another-explain-your-sig-thread/528988/4 "2010-02-15T04:22:58Z")
You’re welcome. And I choose various quotes for sigs depending on how they strike my fancy. ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-another-explain-your-sig-thread/528988/5 "2010-02-15T05:28:20Z")
My signature is a gift from the Godly Moderator known only as **Xash**. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-another-explain-your-sig-thread/528988/6 "2010-02-15T05:51:19Z")
[Steve Prefontaine](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Prefontaine) was one of the toughest runners in history. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-another-explain-your-sig-thread/528988/7 "2010-02-15T17:24:23Z")
Mine is from a really bad horror movie, but thought it was really good advice in life. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-another-explain-your-sig-thread/528988/8 "2010-02-15T17:53:13Z")
It was a compliment from a poster I respect. Sorta. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-another-explain-your-sig-thread/528988/9 "2010-02-15T18:22:29Z")
I’ve had the same sig (not that I ever include it anymore) for the 9 or so years I’ve been here. Originally it was from a “Stupid Warnings on Retail Items” thingie I ran across somehere, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized it was the perfect disclaimer for life. ---
**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:** [February 15, 2010, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-another-explain-your-sig-thread/528988/10 "2010-02-15T19:05:44Z")
It’s an anagram. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-another-explain-your-sig-thread/528988/11 "2010-02-15T19:28:01Z")
I think my sig. explains itself. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-another-explain-your-sig-thread/528988/12 "2010-02-15T19:49:03Z")
Hmmm… let me see what it is right now… Ah, yes. Currently it’s, “Zut alors! I have missed one!” It’s from _The Little Mermaid_, when Louis the chef discovers Sebastian hiding in his kitchen. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-another-explain-your-sig-thread/528988/13 "2010-02-15T20:23:32Z")
I always forget to check the show sig option but I have two things in my sig, one because I got tired of being called “dude” and the other because I like animals but religion, not so much. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-another-explain-your-sig-thread/528988/14 "2010-02-15T21:34:28Z")
I’m not even sure what my sig is right now… Edit: Ah. I think it’s self-explanatory. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-another-explain-your-sig-thread/528988/15 "2010-02-15T21:43:00Z")
Posting to remember what mine is, too. ETA, ah yes. Wisdom from Bill Adama. I’ve been thinking of changing it lately, though. I’m considering “You know, if you really want to be honest, the examined life isn’t all that much to write home about, either.” ---
**Author:** ![xash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-another-explain-your-sig-thread/528988/16 "2010-02-16T00:19:39Z")
> [@Covered\_In\_Bees](#): > > My signature is a gift from the Godly Moderator known only as **Xash**. I might have to make that my sig 😛 But the self-referencing sig might asplode the SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-another-explain-your-sig-thread/528988/17 "2010-02-17T22:42:35Z")
One of the only _cool rules_ I remember from my less-than-legal pharmaceutical sampling days, followed by the only rule I remember from the game Dealer McDope. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-another-explain-your-sig-thread/528988/18 "2010-02-17T22:56:44Z")
Because it is the truth. ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-another-explain-your-sig-thread/528988/19 "2010-02-17T23:13:46Z")
> [@ministryman](#): > > One of the only _cool rules_ I remember from my less-than-legal pharmaceutical sampling days, followed by the only rule I remember from the game Dealer McDope. That _is_ an awesome sig. Oh, I remember what mine is now. An self-deprecating comment, referencing the mafia community here. > [@5\_time\_champ](#): > > Because it is the truth. You don’t believe the media’s liberal what? ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2010, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-another-explain-your-sig-thread/528988/20 "2010-02-17T23:39:33Z")
Mine comes from a character that I made up way back in the mid-1970s when I was in Junior High – “Gytalf the Utmost”, a warrior-mage who collected magical artifacts. (He wasn’t a villain, but would sometimes come into conflict with heroes and heroines; at other times, he might ally himself with the heroes in order to overcome a magical threat.) I always wanted to look like Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees, so this idealized version of myself was good-looking with “handsome rock star” features. He would generally wear Renaissance-type clothing. He was equally proficient in martial arts, medieval-type weaponry, and the arcane arts! Here is a pic of “Gytalf the Utmost” KOing my character “Panther Girl” – the Marvel heroine and Avenger, the Wasp (Janet Van Dyne Pym) is already on the floor. I commissioned the incredibly talented Brazilian artist Al Rio to do the pic for me. [http://qurls.com?i=46953](http://qurls.com?i=46953) Here is another pic of him, this time without a beard, performing a sleep spell on Panther Girl, the Wasp, and my character, “Occulta, the Witch of the Silvery Star”. [![](https://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x69/gytalf2000/Superheroine-in-Peril%20Commissioned%20Art/Gytalf_the_Utmost_Defeats_Panther_G.jpg) ](https://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x69/gytalf2000/Superheroine-in-Peril%20Commissioned%20Art/Gytalf_the_Utmost_Defeats_Panther_G.jpg) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-for-another-explain-your-sig-thread/528988.md?page=2)