Forum signatures

[Rev. Jordan T. Maxwell]

what does the signature at the bottom of your posts mean? where does it come from? what is its secret origin and what mysteries will it reveal?

"Sweetness Prevails" is a play on the "England Prevails" slogan from V for Vendetta (can you tell i enjoy that book? :p)...only instead of fascist Albion prevailing, it's the qualities of being highly sweet. pretty easy. and it just sounded kinda cool in my head.

[Brad Hawkins]

I don't have one. That testifies to be emptiness of my soul.

[Matt]

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[wiggies]

Go

Here's to the small things that give pleasure.
Here's to the everyday things that bring a smile.
My hands are complicated thoughts.
My hands are complicated,
but my feet just wanna go.

Here's to the finer points that mean everything.
Here's to the details that so often get overlooked:
the way one day fades into another;
the way simple desires get expressed

(What's the bus that goes by here?)

Here's to the best things.
Here's to the things that give God pleasure.
Here's to the things that make God smile.
The small victories are big ones.
And as one day fades to another,
as the past fills up with failure,
it all adds up.

--Pere Ubu, from The Art of Walking

[sara farr]

[kbadr]

Mine is from a Black Sabbath song, about the band working itself to death, that I always particularly liked and becomes more apropos with each passing year.

[Meghan W]

In addition to teaching full time, my alternative teaching license mandates that I also take graduate classes, which means that twice a week, I get to go straight from teaching school to sitting in a classroom for four hours being taught to do what I already do full time.

Anyways, at one of these classes, my roommate looks at my earrings, which are tarnished silver hearts, and says,

"I like those. They look fatigued, but classy."

Which we thought also related pretty well to our lives. Teachers: perpetually fatigued, but trying to keep it classy.

[mpbrockman]

I would imagine mine is pretty self explanatory. While it might be viewed as unnecessarily cynical, for me personally it's more of a testament to the overly idealistic, optimistic and trusting kid I was than it is the statement of a bitter adult.

That Chamfort would choose forty as his aphoristic turning point has always fascinated me though. It was well after forty that he, after enjoying various favors of the French court for much of his adult life, threw himself into the center of the French Revolution. This would seem to me hardly the act of a true misanthrope. His statement of disillusionment only makes sense in the light of the rise of Robespierre, the subsequent "Reign of Terror" and Chamfort's arrest for anti-Jacobin rhetoric - all which would have occurred after he turned fifty.

Then again, Chamfort was (like Oscar Wilde or Dorothy Parker) known mostly for his epigrams and bon mots. This quote may just have been another smartass remark of his that happened to be written down.

Which means I've spent waaaay too much time wondering about this.

[Spots]

Mine is from a Black Sabbath song, about the band working itself to death, that I always particularly liked and becomes more apropos with each passing year.

Reminds me of this Tuco quote from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly:

"If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?"

[Aden]

Mine is an inside joke from college. I went through a phase where everything I said sounded like a product endorsement as long as I ended it with that one rhetorical question.

[PyroDan]

Mine is a quote from a Bukowski poem (can't recall the poem or collection) about a retched lot of souls in a bar, and how they existed in their misery, all together, and yet he still felt all alone.

To me that is how I see comedians for the most part, wonderful funny people together, yet still alone in the misery that birthed their humor and uneasy with it.

Rather pessimistic, and not 100% accurate, but it is based on my own feeling and knowledge of where my humor originated.

[hujhax]

I don't actually have a real signature on the forums.  Instead, I have shift-windows-s set to output my email signature with a little bit of BBCode added onto it.  As for the email signature, I have a script that picks out a random quote from my quotes file every ten minutes -- and as for the quotes file, I just add quotes to it whenever something catches my eye, and yank quotes out whenever I get bored with them.  More info here.

*shrug*



--
peter rogers @ work | http://hujhax.livejournal.com

You say, "Looks like somebody has too much time on their hands," but all I hear is, "I'm sad because I don't know what creativity feels like."
        -- Dan Wineman

[Rev. Jordan T. Maxwell]

I don't actually have a real signature on the forums.  Instead, I have shift-windows-s set to output my email signature with a little bit of BBCode added onto it.  As for the email signature, I have a script that picks out a random quote from my quotes file every ten minutes -- and as for the quotes file, I just add quotes to it whenever something catches my eye, and yank quotes out whenever I get bored with them.  More info here.

*shrug*



--
peter rogers @ work | http://hujhax.livejournal.com

You say, "Looks like somebody has too much time on their hands," but all I hear is, "I'm sad because I don't know what creativity feels like."
        -- Dan Wineman

....ahem.

NERD!

[Terry]

Raxacoricofallapatorius is the home planet of the Raxacoricofallapatorians. (Doctor Who)

It's also my favorite word to say out loud.

[Rev. Jordan T. Maxwell]

Raxacoricofallapatorius is the home planet of the Raxacoricofallapatorians. (Doctor Who)

It's also my favorite word to say out loud.

"what's the sister planet of Raxacoricofallapatorius?"

"Klum."

"Klum?"

"Klum."



(also, why in the world is an improvisor with a Doctor Who planet as their signature NOT signed up for the Geeky Pants Mash Up tomorrow night? it boggles the mind...probably something to do with the wibbly lever...)