Signatures?

[vortex_oow]

Hey everyone. Now that we've had a thread about our avatars, I was wondering where those signatures came from? What inspired those witty remarks?

What do mine mean, you ask? Well, Una rota addo gaudeo mean "one wheel adds happiness", and UTRIS means Unicycle Teleportation Relay and Intentory System.

lol, just search the forums to understand.

Now, your turn :D

[Scott Smith]

well it was a gloomy day in midsummer and the wind was blowing rather hard. I had just eaten a rather large bean burrito from a certain taco resturant. nobody was around so i decided to let one rip and turns out i almost suffocated myself from loss of air or something, im not to sure how it happened or if it was even possible at the time. thats my story.:)

[phil]

Right now... I don't have one. My previous sig had had its day, but as yet I don't have a replacement.

As for the previous one... well, cattle prods do solve all of life's little problems. No argument...

Phil

[nikkifrog]

Mine's from Stupid.com. Not that I ever go there...

:)

Nikki

[James_please02]

some trials rider i know said this and ever since he keeps trying to claim that as a bike has twice as many wheels; it can jump twice as high. he's not that intelligent (thats why he rides a bike)

[UniBrier]

Started as a Homer Simpson quote I found somewhere on the internet: "If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing. You just stick that guitar in the closet next to your short wave radio, your karate outfit and your unicycle and we'll go inside and watch TV." - Homer

Due to influence by a certain fetish group it was modified to: "If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing. You just stick that Muni in the closet next to your giraffe, your Coker and your spiked heels....red faux leather and we'll go inside and post on RSU."

Fetishes are so short lived, time for a change.

[hell-on-wheel]

I can't remember where I first heard this, but it's become my automatic response whenever I fall off my uni (or injure myself any other way).

[harper]

Mine, like many here, is transient. If I see something that I like the sound of (especially out of context) I steal it.

[uni57]

My ethereal signature is very Zen.

uni57 (Dave)

[Klaas Bil]

Mine (but only from Usenet) are automagically picked from a database that is currently populated almost exclusively with the trivia posted in this forum by Phil and Gaus (ISTR). It used to be Echelon triggers. The sig picker program is still available at
<www.xs4all.nl/~klaasbil/echelon.htm> then click 'download page'.

Klaas Bil
[no sig line for forum posts]

[gauss]

When I used to sit night desk in a dorm this girl would always wander in drunk sit down in the lobby and talk forever. Sometimes her drunk friends would join and people would talk about whatever drunk sorority girls talk about. I decided to see what the minimum number of words needed was to sustain a conversation without the other person suspecting that you are up to just that. "Yes" and "no" have to be in because they are so common. You find they will ask a string of questions where the answers are all yes, then they ask, " is all you can say is yes?" It's nice to be able to immediately reply "No!" like they have insulted you. Sometimes you are asked a question where the answer is not yes or no. Then you make 'em guess. Use yes and no to guide them to the answer. Usually when you break out "guess" the game is almost over cause they are going to be on to you pretty soon. If they refuse to guess, then exclaim, "NO, dude, GUESS!" Which brings us to "dude". People often expect a response when they say something outlandish or sad. Dude is such a useful word to convey sympathy, suprise, anger, amusement, to warn someone that that their ex boyfriend is coming up the sidewalk, or a big damn pipe is falling from the ceiling, to convey mistrust, disillusionment, general laments, boredom, ambivolence, averice.

So there you have it. The fruit of my painful research. Sometimes I add "why." It is useful just to keep things rolling and serves well to annoy people. You can use it to stay on topics that are interesting, like "So my sorority sisters say that I am easy." You could reply "dude" to show that you relate to being betrayed, but wouldn't you rather have some details? "Why?" is definately the way to go here.

Obviously this doesn't work as well on sober people. Since I never dealt with sober people at night desk, I never pieced together an appropriate list. It does work indefinately on drunk people because they are generally amused with themselves. It works a little while on sober people, but they catch on. Try it.
gauss

[GILD]

simmilar to harper, i grab a quote i like when i see it and stick it in
i've unashamedly used it for some social commentary, general merriment and thought provocation
the current one is a nice short version of what motivational speakers will take 30minutes to explain

[unisteve]

My sig is just a bunch of stuff I've made up over time. I think it's cool. So there. And I like unicycles and the Lord of the Rings.

[Borges]

In my sig line I just rip off harpers posts
:D

[uni57]

Originally posted by Borges
In my sig line I just rip off harpers posts
:D Borges,

That's terrible. You should be ashamed.

uni57 (Dave)

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If I see something that I like ... I steal it. - Harper - Borges

[phil]

Unisteve - I really like your "I live on the edge. Sometimes I fall off" quote. It's brilliant!

I've been trying to think of some way to steal it for ages... my website (http://www.flippet.org) shows a random quote each time, but that quote is just slightly too long...

Phil

[harper]

Originally posted by phil
Unisteve - I really like your "I live on the edge. Sometimes I fall off" quote. It's brilliant!

I've been trying to think of some way to steal it for ages...

I have to agree, this is one of the finest ones out there. It is too good to steal, I would feel ashamed. I regularly tell people about unisteve's sig file. then they ignore me.

[unisteve]

Wow. I had no idea that sig was so well-received. (Except for that one time when someone sent me a message about it... I can't remember who, though.)

I just made that sig up one day when I was bored. (I find that I'm most creative when I'm bored. Aren't we all?) And I'll be really unhappy if someone can prove that I wasn't the first person to say that.

On a slightly more off-topic note, I was wondering if the plural of "uni" is "uni's" or just "unis", you know just so my LOTR rip-off is grammatically correct.

[Borges]

Borges,

That's terrible. You should be ashamed.

uni57 (Dave)


You are absolutely right! The sig line is off.

Btw,
The "667, neighbour of the beast" that Jagur once had was great.

Morten

[uni57]

Originally posted by Borges
You are absolutely right! The sig line is off.No! I was kidding. I like it. Did you notice my sig ripping off you ripping off harper? (there is no shame in signature theft)

uni57 (Dave)

with no sig of his own...

__________________
If I see something that I like ... I steal it. - Harper - Borges

[harper]

Originally posted by unisteve
Wow. I had no idea that sig was so well-received. (Except for that one time when someone sent me a message about it... I can't remember who, though.)



I did. You had asked me a question about some technical item and I mentioned your sig file in the pm I sent you. If you ever give it up, I have dibs on it.

[ratherbekayaking]

I subscribe to a newsletter that always has a quote of some sort at the end. I cut and paste to a doc any that are meaningful to me, or just plain funny.

The one I presently use seemed somehow appropriate for this forum.

[Borges]

No! I was kidding. I like it.

uni57 (Dave)


I thought you migth ;)
It was just a joke about taking things out of context, but I just remembered some namecalling over a sig line earlier, so I thought I'd better be on the safe side and take it seriously. Sometimes you have to be a little careful when joking with people you don't really know.

I'm glad you liked it

Morten :D :D

[GILD]

>On a slightly more off-topic note, I was wondering if the plural of "uni" is "uni's" or just "unis", you know just so my LOTR rip-off is grammatically correct.

i think, therefore i could be in a lot of trouble, that the rule governing the use of apostrophes is rather unique in the english language in the sense that it is the only rule with no exceptions

the apostrophe is NEVER used to indicate the plural
it is used to indicate possession/ownership and stuff

[Krashin'Kenny]

Mine came from when I used to race motorcycles offroad. A group of us were setting around one night before a race talking about some of our more memorable crashes, when one of our buddies that hadn't been racing very long asked why we didn't just slow down a little instead of taking the risk. I replied "if you ain't crashin, you ain't goin' fast enough!!!!!

[unisteve]

OK then. Thanks very much. This English language is just hard on the brain. I think it might just have been the paranoia of spreading a typo every time I post and then have people think I was illiterate or something... which brings me to my next point: why is illiterate such a big word?

[nikkifrog]

Originally posted by unisteve
which brings me to my next point: why is illiterate such a big word?

And why does the word monosyllable have so many syllables?

Nikki

[spickydoo]

Mine goes with my avatar. It's the poem that pinky wrote in Pink Floyd's The Wall. Makes no sense but I like it.
The one I had previously (If the titanic were made of cheerios, would it have sunk?) was something that I thought about while sitting through a grade 13 algebra class. Again it makes no sense but .......

[Checkernuts]

Mine is a Modified quote from H20 one of my favorite bands.

Its kinda modivational so go out and start sticking it to the man...

[hell-on-wheel]

Originally posted by spickydoo
It's the poem that pinky wrote in Pink Floyd's The Wall. Makes no sense but I like it.


Interesting, I didn't know it was in the Wall, but I wouldn't doubt it. The reason is, it's also lyrics from "Money" on Dark Side of the Moon, only they're a little different and in slightly different order. Here's how they appear in the album sleave:

New car, caviar, four star daydream,
Think I'll buy me a football team.

Money get back
I'm alright Jack keep your hands off my stack.

Makes a little more sense in that context....man Pink Floyd is cool.

[UniBrier]

Originally posted by hell-on-wheel
man Pink Floyd is cool. Man, I need to get the DVD. Found this quote on a PF site:

Teacher: What have we here, laddie? Mysterious scribblings? A secret code? No! Poems, no less! Poems, everybody!
[class laughs]
Teacher: The laddie reckons himself a poet!
[reads poem]
Teacher: "Money get back / I'm all right, Jack / Keep your hands off my stack / New car / Caviar / Four star daydream / Think I'll buy me a football team." Absolute rubbish, laddie.
[whacks him with a ruler, growls at Pink]
Teacher: Get on with your work.

I'm going to listen to my old vinyl Dark Side of The Moon Now.

[GILD]

>Interesting, I didn't know it was in the Wall, but I wouldn't doubt it. The reason is, it's also lyrics from "Money" on Dark Side of the Moon, only they're a little different and in slightly different order.

considering 'the wall' has more than a touch of the autobiographical about it, it does make sense for him to quote some of his old lyrics
the jumbled order also makes a heap of sense
so many songwriters haul out the old books of poetry when they need a phrase to fit a particular hook, i'd be surprised if waters didn't do the same occasionally

does anyone know of other examples of PF lyrics appearing in the wall?

[spickydoo]

I dont know about lyrics but some of the animation is used or is from other pink floyd songs/videos. The leaf that is falling and turns into a man and back again is from wish you were here. I watched the movie with audio commentary from Roger Waters and Gerald Scarfe(the animation director). It was really cool to hear where they came up with some of the ideas. DVD is so cool and well worth it.

[Sofa]

I think that the reason that quote is 'sort of' like the one from 'money' is because 'The Wall' is based on his life.

One of 'the bricks' was his teacher laughing at his poems. And this poem evolves into a very famous song.

[unisteve]

Oh, anyone (especially Harper cuz it mentions harpers all through it) feel free to steal my new sig add-on about the harpers from Dol Amroth. ;) No, really. Spread the joy.