I am now laying to rest this beautiful HP quote :

Rohirrim definitely are great poets, but I wanted a new sig.

I was attached to this quote, and will probably return it, but I wanted a time with the new sweet one I found, so fare thee well for a little while....

Enough of this paen to ThePantom! I lay to rest this quote.

In honour of the season I offer this. Interpret its use as you will....

I thank Kath for encouraging foolery such as

but I must now lay it to rest in favor of something a bit more fun. :D

Ah, so true! :D

But it's time for a change.

Now that the Middle-earth Football World Cup finals have reached the second round, the competition is hotting up. So my new sig takes the opportunity to urge everyone here to get behing their local team. :smokin:

I loved you, Red Mage, but I believe I love Jack Sparrow more. I shall lay thee to rest now.

To be replaced by...

I watched that movie again last night and remembered how much I love that little miscreant.

I have started a fad, and latin quotes are now populer...
 

So I obviously must stop using one

R.I.P.
I'm bringing in something for christmas.

EDIT: now that's gone, too.

I now say goodbye to a sig I quite enjoyed:
It's from The Fiddler of Dooney, by W.B. Yeates, and rather expresses my outlook on things. The band I linked to in it (which is one of my absolute favorites) recites the whole poem on one of their CDs, and I really love it.

Seeing as it's already getting on to the third Sunday in Advent, it's time I changed to my Christmas sig.

Farewell! Time to replace you with something more appropriate with the season.

Now I lay it down to sleep...

Mr. Wyclef Jean & Co. helped me through the grief of losing my cousin and my godfather's daughter this autumn. It's a beautiful version of "No Woman No Cry," and I highly recommend it.

Is laid to rest until better times, when I'm free to touch the harp more often than I do now

Putting this away till next semmester.

Retiring this one for now; maybe it'll come back later. I do so adore it.

RIP
christmas is over, and I now turn my eyes elsewhere (when I can spare them from my new books and video games). an election is coming, and I want my opinion known. I fear all the other Canadian wights will now want to lynch ME for ruining our reputation.

I hereby lay to rest ...

... now that all is done and dusted and the Barrow Downs team have claimed their rightful victory. :D

Instead, a quote from John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.

One of my favourites of his, no less. Due credit and thanks to littlemanpoet for reminding me of it. :)

To put to rest my Christmassy one-liner...

I don't know, it has always been a favourite hymn line of mine. However, Christmas is past and although advent is still going, I shall put away Christmassy things from my signature at least. I yield it to a few lines from W.H. Auden, whose words were set to music in the lovely 'Hymn To St. Cecilia'. I can't help thinking of the music as I read the words...

'Tis indeed a shame that a change of your signature goes retro to past posts, I'd like to have a new one every post.
I quickly retired:
:confused:

RIP

Christmas is over so it is high time I changed my signature.
This Christmas greeting that I send
Comes from a heart that's warm and true.
May gladness and contentement blend
To make a perfect day for you.

Farewell, you shall be missed. :(

Since it's now Epiphany and Christmas is officially over, I lay to rest my Christmas sig, from one of the most beautiful pieces of music I've ever heard.
Since the robotics season started yesterday morning, I'm going to use something more appropriate to that. :D

I'm retiring my current sig because it is old and I'm sick of it... ;)

The old:The New:
The ironic thing is that the new one is old as well, posted sometime back in October. I liked it then, when I first read it, because it's pathetically true, but went on to forget it. I then stumbled across it again today while wandering through some older threads and decided it was time for a change.

old Paul's stopped being quite so pathetic. I'm still not cheering for him, but I'll find another signature

R.I.P.

'Last Post' playing.
 

1. Balrogs are: a. acrophobic; b. winged; c. misunderstood.
   
   
2. Legolas is: a. the Jar-Jar Binks of The Lord of the Rings; b. blonde; c. misunderstood.
   
   
3. Daga is: a. short for 'Depressed Adults's Group Activity;' b. Filipino for 'mouse;' c. something you'll never find out. :p

Yep, couldn't resist the lure of multiple-choice questions. Unfortunately I ran out of steam and came up with only two . . . until daga'y who be short asked his fateful question. So, I had a third multiple-choice question.

Well, now I'll try to keep this non-Romeo Shakespeare line for as long as possible. ;)

Next season, we will rule.

Maybe, but you are missing a "matter" (or perhaps maettr) in your siggie I believe.

And by the way, the Steelers rule NOW!! GO STEELERS!!!!

Indeed I am. Thankyou Farael.

EDIT: East-coasters! WOOT!

I love that sentence...the fun part is my dyslexic husband can't read it at all.

and...I don't care who won the Super Bowl, I wish I hadn't had so much to drink...

No one gave me an answer to my question, so I guess I'll get a new signature. sigh,

I guess nobody knows.

Well, this was pretty short-lived, I guess, but Orlando Gibbons' 'The Silver Swan' goes to rest in favour of something shorter and rather less profound - and if anyone knows what this is from, I may love you forever. Well. Anyway.

Shpadoinkle!

I couldn't resist. Alferd Packer is well known in the state I'm from.

Shpadoinkle

The sky is blue and all the leaves are green.
The sun's as warm as a baked potato.
I think I know precisely what I mean,
When I say it's a shpadoinkle day.

And as I ride with my girl,
She's my best friend in the whole world!
We'll move along, set our goals high
With eyes full of hope as we aim for the...

Sky is blue and all the leaves are green.
My heart's as full as a baked potato.
I think I know precisely what I mean,
When I say it's a shpadoinkle day!
When I say it's a happy-go-moinkaly lucky shpadoinklely...dayyyyyy.

- Cannibal - the Musical -

...you're amazing. Just...*sighs happily and turns on 'Cannibal! The Musical'*

Yup...;)

I abandon the splendidly arrogant motto of the de Coucys with much regret:

'Roi je ne suis,
Ne duc, ni comte aussi,
Je suis le sieur de Coucy.'

but since they were Frenchmen fighting under the banner of St Denis they're not appropriate today...to be replaced with

And euer as he rode, his hart did earne/To prove his puissance in battel brave
Upon his foe, and his new force to learne;/Vpon his foe, a Dragon horrible and stearne.

Finally, though I own it for some time, I've managed to actually read Thud!

Therefore, it's time to change sigs, and I leave my Jesus Christ Superstar one to rest here:

Requiem
 

I refuse to believe that nobody reacted! It's utter refuse! :p

Oh, it's fantastic, isn't it? The Vimes books are still the best - I mean, the witches make a close second, but Vimes will always be the best :)

This seems as good a place as any to put my very first signature:

It's the feeling that there must be some unknown story behind the poem that is so intriguing... A very brief extract from Walter de La Mare's 'The Listeners' - lovely poem, not sure why I like it so much, but it is one of my favourite poems.

It is done. I now retire my
Have you wished someone a HAPPY BIRTHDAY today?!

Fitting to me I started with Durelin and ended with Gurthang a couple of my werewolf playing buddies. I looked at the calendars so much that sometimes I thought people were changing their birthdates on me, a nod to Sleepy Ranger who actually did and fessed up to it!

Doing this for a year was not only to make my mark but an exercise in goalkeeping. I wondered if I could do it for a whole year. I did my best. Sometimes the process became tedious and other times it's what got me popping out of bed. I fretted when I had to go on holiday and didn't have access and I cursed the six weeks when my computer was down (end of April all of May) even though it was beyond my control I felt like I tripped at the finish line.

The Barrow-Wight may be a bit humbuggish about birthdays ;) but to have a glorious death there must be a birth, a beginning for that end. And this is my end. Anyone wishing to pick up this torch I give you my blessings and my sympathies!

I'm replacing this bit of wisdom from James Madison: with a Groucho Marx quote

I'm laying to rest

in favor of

Farewell, Dantean Ulysses...