Your Signature

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 11:43 am

those of you who add one to your incredibly witty, charming and insightful remarks--who, what, when, where and why? I can get the elvis ones most of the time, but others...well, they leave me wondering.

for instance, my own--found it on a job applicant's resume and it just resonated with my pizza obsession. damn the low carb life.

Poppet · Post by **Poppet** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 12:52 pm

honey, i do NOT envy you your time reading resumes.

they must be some of the scariest things to read.

my sig is a line from a song by one of our own board members.

it said to me 'wanna be your sig! make me your sig!' so i did.

Pov · Post by **Pov** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 4:16 pm

If I were to have a signature, it would be following. It was on a bumper sticker on a car driven by one of the characters in the movie "Saved":

JESUS LOVES YOU.
Everyone else thinks you're an asshole.

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 5:03 pm

My signature is always a lyric, just something that suits the way I feel. The current one is from Lloyd Cole's song CUT ME DOWN.

King Hoarse · Post by **King Hoarse** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 5:39 pm

I just came to think of this poem a friend of mine wrote and dedicated to me as a joke about me being some sort of protest singer when reading wehitandrun's lyrics and the replies in Tin Pan Alley. Also, being a singer in a band that not a lot of people listen to (with good reason) makes you feel that way sometimes. What I'm saying is, what WHAR does makes a lot more sense than the guy described below.

PS. This is my poor translation of his Swedish original. DS.

laughingcrow · Post by **laughingcrow** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 6:45 pm

My sig is always changing, so is my ickle facey thing as well...just cos it keeps me amused...but I like to have weird obscure things and lyrics basically....so for example, a lyric from Massive Attack (Maggie this, Maggie that, Maggie means inflation), or a quote from the one and only Alan Partridge like the one now!
I am slowly beginning to realise that Im addicted to this site...cos I do most of my work on a comp with internet access...it keeps me from slipping into insanity, that and I love you all so much. Awwwww, pass the tissues...........and the Jaffa Cakes too while you're up.

PlaythingOrPet · Post by **PlaythingOrPet** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 3:56 am

Mine was inspired by Otis's infectious love of all things Franz Ferdinand. Oh, and the huge picture of Terry Wogan in the song's video.

laughingcrow · Post by **laughingcrow** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 5:02 am

Did you know that Wogan is a derivative of Wodin, the anglo-saxon equivalent of Odin, the Norse God!!! Thus Terry Wogan must be a God!

crash8_durham · Post by **crash8_durham** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 5:41 am

Mine, of course, is my own disclaimer which hopefully points out that nearly everything written on these forums are opinions.

Copenhagen Fan · Post by **Copenhagen Fan** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 6:09 am

Mine's from a Warren Zevon classic...........and very appropos!

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 7:14 am

Pov, I've seen that bumper sticker and did in fact use it for a signature for a very short while. A very good choice! another bumper sticker I liked came from the carpool line at my kid's school: DON'T MAKE ME VIOLATE MY PROBATION.

Otis Westinghouse · Post by **Otis Westinghouse** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 6:27 pm

PlaythingOrPet wrote:Mine was inspired by Otis's infectious love of all things Franz Ferdinand. Oh, and the huge picture of Terry Wogan in the song's video.

Good to know it's infectious. Apparently Wogan objected to the ref to BBC2 as he's a strictly BBC1 man, which is very funny. He didn't object to the sarcastic ref to his deference and laughter.

I'm with Mug on liking song lyrics for sigs, but the current one, in honour of Bloomsday, is the closing words of the novel in question, so Noise isn't the only one with a quote from a literary classic right now.

LJ?

lapinsjolis · Post by **lapinsjolis** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 7:04 pm

The Latin loosely means-'If you're not swinging don't bother ringing.'. The French maybe incorrect but means-'Don't speak, kiss me.' If anyone understood it they didn't heed my request.

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 3:37 am

I want to know where Dr. J's sig comes from.... and I think it's time to change mine.

verbal gymnastics · Post by **verbal gymnastics** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 4:07 am

lapinsjolis wrote:The Latin loosely means-'If you're not swinging don't bother ringing.'. The French maybe incorrect but means-'Don't speak, kiss me.' If anyone understood it they didn't heed my request.

Well you'll know why I haven't rung

...

...and I'm a happily married man. There are far more qualified men than me to heed your request though!

bambooneedle · Post by **bambooneedle** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 6:42 am

From the last verse on Tunnel Of Love, possibly my favourite Bruce Springsteen album. Here it is: http://www.brucespringsteen.net/songs/V ... esDay.html

taz · Post by **taz** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 10:29 am

mines from a tom waits song (go figure)...and fits me pretty accurately most of the time.

lapinsjolis · Post by **lapinsjolis** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 1:23 pm

VG-Thwarted again, for such a glorious reason. I think it's time to get my doorbell fixed or change my signature at least!

King Hoarse · Post by **King Hoarse** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 6:33 pm

Bamboo, Valentine's Day's on my Bruce Top 5, and as far as I know the only song from one of his official CD's that's never been played live. Go figure. I sent a cassette of me playing it to my girlfriend last Valentine's. The year before she got Steve Earle's namesake song. We live together now, so this time (Willie Nelson's) Valentine was played live. Any suggestions for next year?

Taz, I've been checking my disintegrating Bukowski paperbacks for that quote, and now I realize it's "Till The Money Runs Out." Shame that Tom didn't do the soundtrack for "Barfly."

DrJ · Post by **DrJ** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 3:25 am

selfmademug wrote:I want to know where Dr. J's sig comes from.... and I think it's time to change mine.

It's an onamatapoeic rendering of the noise at the end of the music used on Countdown. And I thinks it's time to change it too. I used to use "Crying wont bring your dog back, unless your tears smell of dog food" which was a Simpsons thing and "The Key of S. Write that down in your copybook." which came from the brilliant Look Around You tv series. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/lookaroundyou)

DrJ

verbal gymnastics · Post by **verbal gymnastics** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 3:31 am

DrJ wrote:It's an onamatapoeic rendering of the noise at the end of the music used on Countdown.

Ah it all makes sense now! Unlike Richard Whiteley.

bambooneedle · Post by **bambooneedle** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 10:48 am

King Hoarse wrote:Bamboo, Valentine's Day's on my Bruce Top 5
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I sent a cassette of me playing it to my girlfriend last Valentine's. The year before she got Steve Earle's namesake song. We live together now, so this time (Willie Nelson's) Valentine was played live. Any suggestions for next year?

King Hoarse, maybe you could write a good one and, as part of your Valentine's Day romancing (roses, going out on a gondola or whatever), perhaps play it only once each time it comes around. Or just keep playing it to her all day... drive her batty until lust takes over.

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 3:43 pm

Thanks Dr. J, I can rest easy now!

'Boo I love that quote.

Goody2Shoes · Post by **Goody2Shoes** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 8:51 am

I use my signature to send subliminal messages to various board members.

Except to Bambooneedle, as our transcontinental psychic waves make such heavy-handed techniques unnecessary.

Not really. Usually they are lines from songs (currently 'Azure') that are somewhat descriptive of my current state of mind, or from songs that are going through my head for whatever other reason. Sometimes they are lines from books or movies.

In my case, it's random and not remotely brilliant.

verbal gymnastics · Post by **verbal gymnastics** » Fri Jun 25, 2004 9:12 am

Poppet wrote:my sig is a line from a song by one of our own board members.

Things haven't been the same since he learned to ride a bike have they Poppet?