I’m currently on my third sig. My first was a quote from Groucho, but not from one of his movies. IRL, when his films hit big, he was “allowed” to join an exclusive Long Island country club that didn’t usually accept Jews as members. But he was a token and a trophy. They did ask him, however, not to use the pool, since he was Jewish. He replied with, “Since my daughter’s only half-Jewish, can she go in up to her knees?” He also resigned his membership. Clearly, Groucho could be quick, witty and caustic without scripted gags. That quote sums up everything ridiculous and wrong about bigotry, and there is no reasonable answer to it. I love it! Also, since my daughter is half-Jewish, too, I kinda liked it.
My second sig was taken from a post by Milossarian. He was bemoaning the fact that his parents wouldn’t let the kids watch the Three Stooges when they were little. He said, “You hit your brother on the head with a frying pan JUST ONCE and everyone acts like it’s some big federal crime.” This tickled me no end, for some reason, and Milo was kind enough to let me use it.
Now I’m back with Groucho, and a line from Monkey Business. It’s funny, sassy, and lets us know that Groucho knows and enjoys being the burr under the Establishment’s saddle. He’s my hero.
My first sig line was something I adopted fir the thread “Thread.” It was supposed to be so dull it was funny. I don’t think it worked. However, I was too bored at the time to change it . . . plus I had nothing better to say.
My second sig line is, so far as I know, the only thing WallyM7 ever said directly to me. Until I find a better sig line I am keeping this one.
Mine are literary quotes that I thought interesting, subject to change without notice. As I write this, it’s from “Gunga Din” by Rudyard Kipling (But when it comes to slaughter…). Pretty soon I’ll change it to the line that got Slaughterhouse Five banned in certain places.
Ok. This is my new sig. I’d received death threats from my amigos if I insisted on posting lame sigs. Ok, so they weren’t ‘death’ threats per se, but at least ‘big pain’ threats.
Anyway, here is my new sig:
Carpe Diem.
It means “The Carp Died” or “Seize the Day”, whichever you prefer.
Well the first part of mine is humourus. And seems apropriate since I’m a marxist.
The second part was something MysterEcks used to discribe atheists who are overly argumentative. I thought it described me to a tee. So I guess they just sort of fit my personality.
Mine’s from a very bad B sci-fi movie, The Stuff. Our intrepid hero, played by Micheal Moriarity(sp) talking to a group of “bad guys” has just outlined their entire plan. Head bad guy look at our hero and remarks, “Son, your not as stupid as you appear to be.” Our hero deadpans:
Reading all these great sigs inspired me to change mine again … don’t want to become stagnant.
I got this in a collection of funny quotes from women, and I like it because I really enjoy Gilda Radner and this is something I can TOTALLY relate to. Now I can dream that she and I have something in common.
Mine is a quote from a normally very intelligent girl with whom I am friends and with whom I traveled in Europe for 6 weeks this summer. We went to Venice with a group of 4 others for a weekend, and arrived there at around 6:30 AM. We wandered aimlessly around the city for 4 hours, and then she uttered the sentence which struck us senseless with laughter.
The first quote is from Douglas Adams. It describes how I feel about life at the present, and how I hope it stays.
The second one is a string of thought I had one day about how life is both good and bad, and fairly balanced. As usual, it makes little sense unless explained for most people, and is fairly descriptive of my personality.
My current sig, which I will include by hand this time so that when it changes won’t make this post seem entirely nonsensical, is a quote from my father, made to some friends after a particularly heated political debate we had a few months ago. It made us all laugh quite a bit.
Tris
“I taught that boy everything he knows. . . and I’m really sorry.”
Cyrano just happens to be the literary character that I most identify with. Sad but true, I know. I am not sure, however, that I should be calling him a literary character. It’s actually a play. Anyway, he’s charming, witty, a poet, a great fighter, and has a huge nose. Also, he’s in love with a beautiful woman but he thinks there is no way she can love him because of the nose. Not that I think I am all of the things he is, and I don’t have a big nose, but I know where the guy is coming from.
