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 
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.
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
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)
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.
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).
Mine, like many here, is transient. If I see something that I like the sound of (especially out of context) I steal it.
My ethereal signature is very Zen.
uni57 (Dave)
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]
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
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
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.
Stealing from the thief
In my sig line I just rip off harpers posts
Re: Stealing from the thief
Borges,
That’s terrible. You should be ashamed.
uni57 (Dave)
If I see something that I like … I steal it. - Harper - Borges
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 shows a random quote each time, but that quote is just slightly too long…
Phil
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.
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.
You are absolutely right! The sig line is off.
Btw,
The “667, neighbour of the beast” that Jagur once had was great.
Morten
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