# Zeeshan, a word please? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 13, 2000, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zeeshan-a-word-please/29216 "2000-08-13T21:50:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Zeeshan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c4cdca/32.png) [@Zeeshan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeeshan)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zeeshan-a-word-please/29216/21 "2000-08-14T00:06:28Z")
**tubagirl** please read my previous post.I don’t wanna piss anyone off.I am cocky by nature but not an asshole and i certainly don’t wanna offend you or anyone else.I have already stopped using the sig and would appreciate it if anyone could suggest a sig for me to use since you robbed me of my previous one. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@Bill\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_H)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zeeshan-a-word-please/29216/22 "2000-08-14T00:18:38Z")
**Zeeshan** , thanks for changing it. That was pretty bad. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zeeshan-a-word-please/29216/23 "2000-08-14T00:20:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zeeshan \* > Hey by the way if i put a url tag around a url then how can i write some text like i don’t want the whole address to be displayed only the name i write? You do this . [[sup][/sup]url=“[http://www.address.com](http://www.address.com)”]text[/url[sup][/sup]] and it will come out like this [text](http://www.address.com) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![tubagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b77776/32.png) [@tubagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tubagirl)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zeeshan-a-word-please/29216/24 "2000-08-14T00:20:44Z")
Zeeshan, If you read… we posted at the same time. Before you rescinded your sig line. As for new sigs. I prefer to get mine off of web pages on Oscar Wilde (master of sarcasm), and Ogden Nash (player of words). I get humorous ones off those. But they might not be your taste. BTW-- I’m sorry you feel I robbed your sig. But thank you anyway… ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zeeshan-a-word-please/29216/25 "2000-08-14T00:38:44Z")
I don’t know where you stand on religion but there are some great quotes from famous atheist’s [here](http://www.primenet.com/~lippard/atheistcelebs/) ---
**Author:** ![FreakFreely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/48db29/32.png) [@FreakFreely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FreakFreely)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zeeshan-a-word-please/29216/26 "2000-08-14T00:50:33Z")
So you’ve decided to change it, which is probably for the better. Personally, the line I’ve always used is “There ain’t no black or white anymore. Now it’s all about green. And green never discriminates.” You can take that if you like. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zeeshan-a-word-please/29216/27 "2000-08-14T01:31:29Z")
I like my sig ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zeeshan-a-word-please/29216/28 "2000-08-14T01:42:15Z")
Zeeshan, I think you handled yourself pretty well here. A lot of newbies would have taken offense at their words being misconstrued the way yours were, and would have been really upset that someone brought them up in the Pit. You, on the other hand, explained yourself, and then listened to constructive criticism, and that’s damn cool in my book. So cool, in fact, that just for you I dug out my dusty, musty copy of Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations. “Capitalism, it is said, is a system wherein man exploits man. And communism–is vice versa.” --Daniel Bell “No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.” --Whitney Moore Young, Jr. “She would of been a good woman,” The Misfit said, “if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.” --Flannery O’Connor, from “A Good Man is Hard to Find” “In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.” --Anne Frank “Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.” --Martin Luther King, Jr. “We are cruel enough without meaning to be.” --John Updike “We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.” --Carl Sagan I think that should cover pretty much all the bases. If you want any more suggestions, just holler–this was only about 15 pages of about 800 worth of quotes. ---
**Author:** ![Zeeshan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c4cdca/32.png) [@Zeeshan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeeshan)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zeeshan-a-word-please/29216/29 "2000-08-14T02:22:37Z")
Thanx guys i will definitely use your suggestions.I like the Anne Frank quote a lot.I am definitely gonna use it.I think i’ll also add the url of this thread to my sig. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zeeshan-a-word-please/29216/30 "2000-08-14T02:57:34Z")
My little $.02– I’m glad you changed your sig and all, but it is still too damn long. ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zeeshan-a-word-please/29216/31 "2000-08-14T04:47:33Z")
Hey, Zee!! I’m going to sue you for plagiarism!! Your sig is one of my aunt’s favorite sayings.🙂 BTW, his original sig sounds like something Chris Rock would say. ---
**Author:** ![enilorac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3bc359/32.png) [@enilorac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enilorac)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zeeshan-a-word-please/29216/32 "2000-08-14T05:30:03Z")
u know there is some truth to that sig, that’s probably why people are finding it offensive. i mean lets face it we americans claim our country to be this great nation were everyone it doesn’t matter what color their skin can live together harmoniously is utter bullshit. there that was my $0.02. ---
**Author:** ![FreakFreely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/48db29/32.png) [@FreakFreely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FreakFreely)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zeeshan-a-word-please/29216/33 "2000-08-14T06:44:07Z")
enilorac, I gotta disagree. As many of us have said before, we got the point of the sig. Some of us just felt that he’d cause less waves if he changed _that one word_. And when I said that, it wasn’t for my own sake, it was for his. It really didn’t offend me, but I could see how it would offend some others. I just thought he might like to avoid some of that. Zee- I agree with Green Bean, it’s too damn long. And saying “got taken to the pit due to a thought provoking sig” is probably even more offensive than your last sig, especially to me. See, it suggests that the only reason people said you should change it was because it was thought-provoking. Which suggests that we’re stupid and/or ignorant. And in a place devoted to fighting ignorance, that’s a pretty hefty insult. But hey, it’s your sig. Do what you like with it. ---
**Author:** ![enilorac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3bc359/32.png) [@enilorac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enilorac)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zeeshan-a-word-please/29216/34 "2000-08-14T07:59:44Z")
freakfreely: oops reason why i should read the posts more clearly. yes that word is offensive but i think the sig wouldn’t have carried the same force if you were to substitute it. anyway thanks for pointing out that u guys just wanted that word changed i was too anxious to post and didn’t read the previous posts well enough. ---
**Author:** ![Zeeshan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c4cdca/32.png) [@Zeeshan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeeshan)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zeeshan-a-word-please/29216/35 "2000-08-14T11:50:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FreakFreely \* > \*\* And saying “got taken to the pit due to a thought provoking sig” is probably even more offensive than your last sig, especially to me. See, it suggests that the only reason people said you should change it was because it was thought-provoking. Which suggests that we’re stupid and/or ignorant. And in a place devoted to fighting ignorance, that’s a pretty hefty insult. But hey, it’s your sig. Do what you like with it. \*\* Aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh what do you want me to make it now?Why don’t you just dictate a set of words i can use as my sig.First it was the word “nigger” (justified) now its the word “Thought provoking” :confused Either i should just forget about keeping a sig or we should formulate some sig rules on the board so that “ignorant” guys like me who have the tenacity to use such offensive words as “thought provoking” would refrain from using such words. I think i am gonna go jump off a bridge now.Hey wait a sec.Thats not such a bad sig. Bye Zeeshan ---
**Author:** ![Zeeshan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c4cdca/32.png) [@Zeeshan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeeshan)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zeeshan-a-word-please/29216/36 "2000-08-14T11:52:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by capacitor \* > \*\*Hey, Zee!! I’m going to sue you for plagiarism!! Your sig is one of my aunt’s favorite sayings.🙂 > > BTW, his original sig sounds like something Chris Rock would say. \*\* Hey i never claimed it was my own work.I don’t know where it came from but it was just there in the back of my head.Hey your aunt’s probably the only one with her head in the right place 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Alphagene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zeeshan-a-word-please/29216/37 "2000-08-14T12:02:01Z")
It **is** really a long sig. Unnecessarily long. I count eight lines, three of which are separators. We here at Evil Mod Incorporated frown upon long sigs. In my mind, two lines should be sufficent. Three is pushing it. Besides, it’s a well known fact that no matter how witty, poignant or meaningful your sig is, it gets boring after about three viewings. Your sig has three chapters: two quotes that are conceivably at odds with each other (People are essentially good at heart but they should still kiss your posthumous ass?) and a link to a thread where you are the subject. I’d suggest picking one and ditching the other two. We’d appreciate it. ---
**Author:** ![Zeeshan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c4cdca/32.png) [@Zeeshan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeeshan)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zeeshan-a-word-please/29216/38 "2000-08-14T12:19:43Z")
ok i’ll remove it but first… you must see it once more…Here you go 😃 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zeeshan-a-word-please/29216/39 "2000-08-14T12:23:34Z")
Zeeshan, you idiot. It’s gonna change anyway when you later it. Look at your previous posts in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![gillygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3e96dc/32.png) [@gillygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gillygirl)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2000, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zeeshan-a-word-please/29216/40 "2000-08-14T12:28:49Z")
Why doesn’t anyone say anything about Satan’s sig being so long? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zeeshan-a-word-please/29216.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zeeshan-a-word-please/29216.md?page=3)