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10-15-2006, 11:47 AM | #681 |
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Adieu to one of the most ironic lines in the most hilarious literary hoax of the Twentieth Century:
It is necessary to understand that a poet may not exist. Ern Malley . The original Angry Penguins, too. Replaced with a line from another genius of humour: I once absentmindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing with a bottle of chili sauce. Terry Pratchett.
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10-20-2006, 09:33 PM | #682 | |
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meltdown
This was was quickly scared away by the seasonal ghosties and ghoulies.
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10-25-2006, 07:29 AM | #683 | |
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I've had this sig for many years. Time to change it, at least temporarily.
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11-02-2006, 04:28 PM | #684 | |
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Chris Van Allsburg provided an ominous seasonal offering:
Another seasonal thought: Quote:
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11-21-2006, 05:57 AM | #685 |
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Really excellent quotes recently, Bethberry.
I have altered the wording of mine, as reading a better translation of Art Poetique provided a better fit with the original.
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11-23-2006, 06:10 PM | #686 | |
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I am retiring my Animal Crackers quote for this:
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a funny thing, about snowflakes and stars . . .
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01-02-2007, 07:16 PM | #688 | ||
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Well now, it appears I am single-handedly keeping this thread alive. Go me.
Adieu to the seasonal one from Dylan Thomas: Quote:
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01-06-2007, 11:15 AM | #689 | |
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In anticipation of my fifth death day this coming week, I am laying my current signature to rest and going back to my very first one - to be seen in post #1 of this thread! (Actually, I can't use the first one in its entirety - the Gandalf/Pippin quote is too long, so I have taken only the second part.)
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01-06-2007, 11:26 AM | #690 | |
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the first post...that's like an age ago
Anyway, I thought that my Quote:
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02-23-2007, 05:40 AM | #691 | |
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03-13-2007, 04:40 PM | #692 | ||
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This must be the shortest tenure one of my signatures has ever had - about four hours - but farewell
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03-22-2007, 10:20 PM | #693 |
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06-29-2007, 01:30 PM | #694 | ||
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I'm back
and I'll get a new signature in honor of the occasion. Besides, I don't think I ever asked him if I could quote him. So I'm going to stop using
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08-02-2007, 01:15 AM | #695 | |
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I lay to rest a quote by one of my all-time favourite authors...
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08-02-2007, 03:06 AM | #696 |
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well if i change my sig anytime soon i might aswell post it here.
Not all shadows are made from light... some are made from darkness...
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11-08-2007, 04:36 PM | #697 | |
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Pulling an HI
(That's a rather queer thing to do, resurrecting a graveyard.)
I lay down to rest this quote, which I got from Madeleine L'Engle's An Acceptable Time: Quote:
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11-09-2007, 12:17 PM | #698 |
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Ah but there is a wonderful little short story by Maupassant called "La Morte" in which this happens. Only four pages long but one of his best...
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04-18-2008, 01:54 PM | #699 |
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Given the time lapse I think the double post will be ok..
Graceless, Pointless, Feckless and Aimless
Literature or just sheer flapdoodle ? Stella Gibbons and the Starkadder cows farewell.....
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05-07-2009, 12:00 PM | #700 | |
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Goodbye, sweet purring lolcats
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05-07-2009, 01:56 PM | #701 |
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Ah, Lush, sad to see the lolcats go. But 'we were old friends immediately" seems quite fitting.
Hail Tori and Neil. and the Dream King of course.
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05-07-2009, 06:51 PM | #702 | |
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I do hearby retire...
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Which in fact is a continuation of that very sentiment so my previous sig lives on, as you can see if you look at the very first post in this thread. Brings a tear to me eye it does, placing this gem in my sig.
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05-08-2009, 05:38 AM | #703 |
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Ah, nostalgia, memories...
*hums tune from "Cats"
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05-27-2009, 09:45 AM | #704 |
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I hereby retire my Werewolf sig ("Azaelia of Willowbottom: to live innocently for a few Days, make some bad voting decisions and be lynched by an angry, ignorant mob at the end--Cailin, TIG Dream Team Thread")
in favor of "Wherever I have been, I am back." Well-suited to me, as I'm back at the Downs after what feels like a long hiatus.
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05-27-2009, 09:33 PM | #705 | ||
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Good bye for now to the Warrington Cat.
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06-10-2009, 10:03 PM | #706 |
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I am not going to start a new thread for this so I will just post it here. I remember there being a quote on this site that ended in might have just as well been said by Faramir. I cannot seem to find that quote. Does anyone have the full quote? It was in someones signature.
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06-11-2009, 03:35 PM | #707 | |
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Not wanting to steal his thunder, I will simply say that it is Andsigil's sig. Yes, it's a good quote.
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06-11-2009, 06:54 PM | #708 |
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Thank you for telling me. For some reason I thought it was Boro's sig and he had changed it.
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09-25-2009, 04:08 AM | #709 |
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A great Tori Amos lyric, that was the beginning of a beautiful friendship:
"If you need me, me and Neil will be hanging out with the Dream King."
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11-16-2009, 07:51 PM | #710 | ||
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Time to put dragons to rest.
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11-17-2009, 06:59 AM | #711 | |
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It is with great regret that I retire my wonderful Lay of Leithian quote, at least temporarily, but the temptation was irresistable.
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12-07-2009, 04:44 AM | #712 | ||
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Well, I'm not usually so quick to change my signature that I double post here, but there's a first time for everything! Ring out the old:
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12-16-2009, 05:51 AM | #713 | |
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I'm fickle with my signatures, but that doesn't mean I don't adore them all:
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ETA: You were a genius for starting this thread in the first place, Esty. So many good quotes. So many memories.
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12-16-2009, 03:52 PM | #714 |
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Why thank you! Like any good graveyard, there's plenty of interesting reading to be had here.
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Retired for now, but bound to be back sooner or later (it's just too good):
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Silly makes room for sillier. My last sig (see above) put through the Bad Translator (thanks to Eönwë):
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09-10-2010, 07:47 AM | #717 | |
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"The time has come," the Walrus said, "to retire this here sig..."
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And who knows, I may take it up again some day.
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10-05-2010, 04:23 PM | #718 | ||
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Good-bye to the first extant poem in English.
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Hello to some lines, the provenance of which shall remain known to those who attended Oxonmoot. Quote:
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10-19-2010, 07:40 PM | #719 |
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Changing my location. It's been a while since Adaron left. I hear storms...
hearing only the sigh and murmur of the waves on the shores of Middle-earth And the quote goes with it: ...into the mist a small ship passed away, twinkling with lights.
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"...a support group for wolves who have suffered, wolves who have been tempered by the fire, bold, anxious, and dreamt-of wolves. It is not something sought, but a distinction thrust upon us. "
time for a change from my self-referential Fenris wolf signature.
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