Signatures - verbal diarrhoea
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It's a geek/nerd thing going on - its the only way most of these guys have of trying to impress - usually failing miserably especially when they start quoting each other, mentioning hamsters, Chuck Norris or praying to the geek god JSOP
If you're no geek, you have no place in the Lounge. We don't need on stinkin' normals in here.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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Bumper-stickers for forum posts.
Martin Hart Turner wrote:
Is all this stuffing necessary?
Necessary? Who cares? You're overthinking something into a problem. Marc
Marc: Yes, you're probably right, I just got out of bed the wrong side :) I'm not overthinking the problem, I just felt like I needed a small, unimportant, uninteresting rant!
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Have you noticed that peoples signatures are getting longer and longer, more and more quotes, and often surpass the actual message length by a factor or more that 4! Is all this stuffing necessary?
Martin Hart Turner wrote:
Is all this stuffing necessary?
No more necessary than an web forum.
Sovereign ingredient for a happy marriage: Pay cash or do without. Interest charges not only eat up a household budget; awareness of debt eats up domestic felicity. --Lazarus Long Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. --Ralph Charell
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Marc: Yes, you're probably right, I just got out of bed the wrong side :) I'm not overthinking the problem, I just felt like I needed a small, unimportant, uninteresting rant!
:-D [edit]Hmm. It seems to take a few minutes for the CP servers to update one's sig. Well, check back later for that great line:
Martin Hart Turner wrote:
I'm not overthinking the problem, I just felt like I needed a small, unimportant, uninteresting rant!
Marc
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If you're no geek, you have no place in the Lounge. We don't need on stinkin' normals in here.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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Hey, I wear my bigotry with pride. I'm not sexist, ageist or racist, so that doesn't leave me with much room to play with. I had to have something to hang an ism on (and having been overweight, I wasn't going to be fatist).
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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Mine is unchanged for nearly 4 millenia and has been handed down through the male line since 1188 BC.. In it's original form, granted as a Cartouche to me ancestors by the Pharaoh Setnakhte, it consisted of the three pictograms for panic, chaos and destruction under the outstretched wings of, what appears to be, an african swallow.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
I think he lied to you - those pictograms actually give the air speed of an african swallow... :D
There are three kinds of people in the world - those who can count and those who can't...
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Hey, I wear my bigotry with pride. I'm not sexist, ageist or racist, so that doesn't leave me with much room to play with. I had to have something to hang an ism on (and having been overweight, I wasn't going to be fatist).
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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Martin Hart Turner wrote:
Is it a sort of male dominance thing? You know, who can be the most witty? Who considers themselves the clown at the party?
No. Well, it's not a contest, I just add stuff that makes me laugh, or, in the case of the OSX comment, that reflects my overall state of mind.
Martin Hart Turner wrote:
Is it a follow the leader thing? One can't be seen not to have an elaborate signature, it's just no right, after all, all the other people have one.
I dunno, I've been here 10+ years, and I've had quotes in my sig for as long as the site has supported them.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. "! i don't exactly like or do programming and it only gives me a headache." - spotted in VB forums. I can do things with my brain that I can't even google. I can flex the front part of my brain instantly anytime I want. It can be exhausting and it even causes me vision problems for some reason. - CaptainSeeSharp
Christian Graus wrote:
I dunno, I've been here 10+ years...
Oi! 148 or 149 days (depending which side of the planet you're on) until the 10th birthday celebrations begin.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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peterchen wrote:
You should strife for short, poignant, funny and interestng signatures that are nonetheless shorter than the body of themessage
Peter, it's 'strive' not 'strife' and 'the message' not 'themessage'
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
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