Signature Thread
What's your sig? What's it mean, whats the significance, why did you pick it?
Mine at the moment, along with my title and location (I like to keep them themed), is from I Don't Like Mondays by the Boomtown Rats. I picked it cause I felt that it was time for a change, and I was listening to the Rats (though actually, the song I was listening to was Someone's Lookin' At You, but I figured more people would recognise I Don't Like Mondays).
On the left is an alien-related rebus pun. On the right is a periodically updated quote from the
Bob the Angry Flower webcomic. I'm not affiliated in any way other than being a fan.
I picked it because it keeps me remembering just how he thinks of us and his office.
But, lately, his behavior does that just fine.
Um. Mine are just cause I like French. My sig is the french equivalent of 'Great minds think alike' and my title is 'Voice of Truth'- mostly 'cause I'm pretentious like that. Actually, I just like saying voix de vérité.
Frank Zappa, A Token of My Extreme, from the album Joe's Garage. These are words to live by. He explains it better than I could:
Mine is a quote from a book that I think everybody should read.
It's actually quite scary to find out how our financial system works.
This particular statement was so very much me that I've kept it for several years.
I am also promoting a friend's pet project.
It's taped to the wall in our department, I walk past it everyday and it's sort of turning into a professional motto
The left- LJ controls
Underneath, I usually put some pro-liberty or antiwar/anti-statist propaganda.
Stephen Colbert is my hero. It's in the opening credits for his show. I'm one of them-there 'heroes' he's always lauding.
I don't have a signature because I don't feel that strongly about any one thing to have it appear on all my posts. Also, I tend to skip over everyone else's signatures, so I'm not sure they get read anyway.
I don't have a signature because I don't feel that strongly about any one thing to have it appear on all my posts. Also, I tend to skip over everyone else's signatures, so I'm not sure they get read anyway.
this is why i have no tattoos
tricky thing about this thread is that sigs change. your explanation gets all fucked up when you change it. mine at present is out of 10 years gone by led zeppelin, but by the time you read this, it's just as likely to be some made up tripe that made me chuckle. anyone remember my horribly annoying signature that was like 14 inches tall and all different fonts and colors? sometimes i like to make a statement.
On the left is part of my job - a vertometer is what I use to find the power of lenses. The bottom, as LJ says, changes. RIght now it's
"Grab can, lift arm, stack can, turn around"
From Joe Jackson's Instant Mash
My favorite, and I'll go back to it, I'm sure, is "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent".
It's taped to the wall in our department, I walk past it everyday and it's sort of turning into a professional motto
Dark matter does not exist.
User Signature: Be just and fear not.
I agree with lumberjim on this one, except I came to a different conclusion. This is *so* true, that I may get a tattoo. Words to live by. I have wolf to thank for revealing them to me, and she in turn, graciously credits the orginal author, the guy who writes the copy for the church billboard in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. I thank you again, wolf. :)
The User Title, under the Member Name, is a gift from lumberjim. I'll probably change it someday. I don't often change either of them. In fact each of these is only the first change from their original text from when I joined the cellar.
LJ gets the credit for my user title at the moment and I rarely change it, except when he bestows a new one!
Sig "Living on the edge ... of civilisation" is where I am both geographically and mentally, thanks, and I like it. I'm pondering changing it to "Living it up on the edge of civilisation" .... whaddaya think? Later readers will know whether I changed it or not ... ;)
My user title is just because I was too scared to face the LJ challenge. So I thought I'd make a feature of it.
My sig is just a great line from a poem. Will change it pretty soon to be..... another great line from a poem. Versatility is not my middle name. Actually.... that may be my next user title.
Versatility? Not as hot as Sundae Girl... not as many condiments go with it.
I am on the LJ user title bandwagon (excellent work so far on his part) at present, but my sig has usually been a quote of some sort that ties to my user title. I'm not using quotes at the moment, but I still like to have the two items bearing some relation to one another. I sort of think of it as two halves of the same (ass)hole. :D
My sig: "That which does not kill me had better run pretty damn fast"
I use it on several different boards and it has two meanings.
Originally, it was "That which does not kill me only makes me stronger". This was a motto of mine as a result of surviving years of parental and then spousal abuse. However, as I matured, I became less timid and passive. I found my voice and began to speak up and fight injustice and abuse in any form. I discovered I can be quite effective in this when I am outraged enough. So, I changed my motto to it's current form. :D
It's secondary meaning relates to the online MMORPG I play - Everquest. I play a silk caster, the squishiest of them all. My character dies extremely easily however I am also a raid leader which means I lead between 50 and 70 RL people (also playing their characters) into battle against the game's baddest bad guys. So if something attacks me, it better kill me or I will sic the entire raid force on it's butt and turn it into nothing but a grease stain (so run fast!!).
Stormie
Simple. I am easily distracted by horses. That is all there is to say about that.
"Sìn a nall na cuaranan sin. -- Cha mhór is fheairrde thu iad, tha iad coltach ri cat air a dhathadh" is Gaelic for "Hand me over those moccasins. -- They will not help you much, they are like a singed cat."
zompist.com is the original source. Looking back, I'm not sure why I thought it was funny...I think I was just tweaking people who use olde worlde sayings in everyday life because they think they're wood elves.
Dark matter does not exist.
eh?:confused:
Stephen Hawking recently wrote that he now believes a "Theory of Everything" to be unattainable, due to the paradox that we cannot remove ourselves, as observers, from the physical universe which we are a part of.
Something like this realization, that we are our own biggest obstacle to understanding, is what I believe Zappa refers to in my signature quote. I think what he means is, you have to free yourself from convention in order to achieve anything of consequence.
Because its one of the best movies lines ever
Simple. I am easily distracted by horses. That is all there is to say about that.
Okay...I cannot go any longer without saying this, and I hope that you aren't offended, HH, as I mean it with the greatest of respect and admiration...
I cannot look at this picture without wishing that I was that horse's back.
sorry...i am so sorry... :blush:
I cannot look at this picture without wishing that I was that horse's back.
:D I guess thats better than wanting to be a girl's bicycle seat. :D
I truly put that in as gentlemanly a manner as I could muster. :blush:
C'mon Elspode admit it. You have a thing for centaurs, don't you.:elkgrin:
I just added 'ηβπ' to the end... which are the shitty characters this font has for Eta, Beta, and Pi...
Eta Beta Pi? Get it?
Changed to some personal sentiments...
9th, I like that siggie. It reminds me of a fave line from a Harrison Ford movie, "Mosquito Coast";
"Only dead things go downstream."
I like quiet, and simple. Rough and loud just don't suit me. Plus, my signature has a bit of comedy in it :)
My new one's from the Chili Peppers' Scar Tissue.
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ftfy
um thanks!
but seriously, I was just fixing it for him. It is his very link, with better tags so it displays properly.
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Oops... damn. finally. hard to do tricky youtube things via phone or ipad.
click play, it starts where my sig begins. this is a really deep song.
for future reference:
I ... choose to Live and to... Lie. Kill and Give and to... Die. Learn and Love and to...Do. What it takes to Step through. - Maynard James
um thanks!
but seriously, I was just fixing it for him. It is his very link, with better tags so it displays properly.
Thanks, but I was apparently all effed up. I posted that on facebook in honor of school starting... that link must have been caught in the iPad's memory. I was trying to link in 46&2 as above.
I appreciate the attempted save though. :)
Followed jim's sig link here...
When I posted here in 2006, my signature, as I recall, was this:
(from Frank Zappa, A Token of My Extreme, the album Joe's Garage)
Some people think that if they go too far,
They'll never get back to where the rest of them are.
Well I might be crazy, but there's one thing I know:
You might be surprised what you find when you go.
My current quote is a double-whammy, because it is one of my favorite musicians (Terry Bozzio, Zappa alumni, developed a completely unique form of music played on the standard parts of a drum kit) paraphrasing one of my favorite thinkers (Joseph Campbell, generalist, comparative mythology, can quote the stories from every culture and explain how they all refer to the same thing):
There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there
it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your
expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever
gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track
The first part, about your "level of facility" I believe applies to every walk of life. Call me lazy, but there are many, many things I've never needed to understand at a granular level. The areas I drill down into, that is different. That is what makes me "me."
This is Terry Bozzio in the late 1990s, around the first time I saw him at a drum clinic:
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Cool Flint. My sig comes from the book "Soldiers Testament", written by a young man after WWI. Damn near the whole book is full of this kind of wisdom. Stuff like you find God in combat because it's like a storm or childbirth...when it starts, it's happening and just try and control it you silly little man. One of the biggest things I lacked and young guys and gals who enter our military today lack is character, we don't want or like to pay the price for character. The only reward for good character is good character. When it comes to a life and death struggle all that wealth and station you come from are meaningless. That is why we get our asses handed to us from a bunch of mountain folk with little to no equipment, who smoke cigarettes all day and still climb up and down the largest mountains in the world. Regardless of their religious beliefs, they do have good character. They are men of their word. I have to respect that.
It's thinking like that, which makes you Top Shirt.
