Who's got the best signature?

[Rimbaud]

Oh, oh, oh! Rimbaud has another of those lyrical lines from Nick Drake.

Yes, well spotted Bb. And also congratulations, as this post was your 2000th. I'm suitably honoured.

[Gil-Galad]

as am i Bethberry...congrats on your 2000th post and your very intrigueing siggy

[Bêthberry]

Thankies, Gentlemen and I am please you feel honoured Rim. Alas, Gil-Galad I cannot take credit for the invention of my sig; it was lifted. But I am rather pleased with it. Move over Shakes and tell Bill Gates the news.

Time was around here when 2000 posts would be looked at with some consternation as frightfully forward and suggesting just the hint of frivolity. There are still some of the first Dead who relish their low post count. I seem to recall burrahobbit grinning that poor Mr. Underhill accruded an unseemly number of posts in the moving of threads to this new software.

This reminiscence brought to you by Rockers Anon.

[HerenIstarion]

Aye, I remember my feelings of awe, when I met galpsi for the first time - he had 1K something posts at the time when most fertile of the rest of us had 500 odd at most (excluding Mr. BW, who was around same number with galpsi, but than he was a founder and had to post a lot to draw ppl in. Yes, actually, there were times where BD lacked membership )

Congrats Bb

Not to stray off topic, I grasp this chance to niminate Guinevere's:

It's a dangerous business, starting up your computer. You step into the Internet, and if you don't keep your eyes, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.

Truth, truth, truth...

[The Saucepan Man]

Originally Posted by Rilwen Gamgee

And Mr. Saucepan's abundant use of ough's is almost overwhelming! Ah, the wonders of alliteration...

Why thankee Ms Gamgee.

Although it's actually a kind of anti-alliteration, as each 'ough' is pronounced differently, giving seven different forms of pronunciation for the same set of letters. I wish that I could lay claim to having come up with it myself, but I nicked it from a letter in my daily newspaper.

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

Which newspaper, pray tell? Perhaps I should read a paper which encourages such clever letters. Most of the letters in my paper are about how terrible the roads are at this time of year.

Ok, they're bad. We get the point!

[piosenniel]

Saucy

How is "Loughborough" pronounced?

[Amanaduial the archer]

Originally Posted by piosenniel

Saucy

How is "Loughborough" pronounced?

Isn't it 'Luff-Buh-Ruh'?

[mark12_30]

If so, that would rhyme with "cough", and I think the point is that all the ough's are different. I'll wager on the Scottish "Lochboro."

Saucy?

[Bêthberry]

Just imagine: Boroughhobbit.

[Ainaserkewen]

Sounds like "Keeping the Faith" to me. And yep, it's a great quote. A humorous Irish 'blessing,' as far as I know.

You can't hear it very well, the bartender has a very heavy accent, but it's so wonderfully quirky. Good movie too.

I think the point is that all the ough's are different

That's the english language for you. I think there is an email forward going around that something like Saucepan's quote. Why is this language so messed up anyway?

[The Saucepan Man]

Originally Posted by Eomer of the Rohirrim

Which newspaper, pray tell?

That'll be The Independent. Can't think why I read it - far too highbrow for the likes of me.

Originally Posted by piosenniel

How is "Loughborough" pronounced?

Aman has it spot on. ''Luff-Buh-Ruh' it is.

Originally Posted by mark12_30

If so, that would rhyme with "cough", and I think the point is that all the ough's are different.

Ah, but 'cough' is pronounced 'coff'.

Originally Posted by Ainaserkewen

Why is this language so messed up anyway?

That's what I love so much about it.

Although a subsequent letter did assert that 'hiccough' was a corruption and that it should in fact be spelled 'hiccup'.

Hmm. After all that, I suppose that I should nominate a favourite signature myself. There is in fact no context. Bêthberry wins hands down for cleverness and brevity (and it had me stumped when I first saw it). Not to mention that her 'Boroughhobbit' comment is hilarious. I think we should adopt it as the official spelling.

[HerenIstarion]

and it had me stumped when I first saw it

I still don't get it (yeah, this coarse and uneducated persons wonders, he does, what may it all be about?)

[Bêthberry]

Add some Ham to that pretty omlet in your siggy, HI, and that will let you answer the question of what my sig is to be.

*blushes furiously at Saucey's words of praise*

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by the phantom

I like Boromir88's new one-

I'm wondering... is he taking a shot at Michigan (because he's from Ohio) or is he a Michigan transplant that is lamenting the poor play-calling?

MU and OSU- how many times has one of them ruined the season for the other team?

A lot, and I hope it continues.

Death to the Big X!!

I asked him about it, being a confused brit, and , being a confused brit, I didn't really understand the answer .. but I think it was a lament.....

[HerenIstarion]

Add some Ham to that pretty omlet in your siggy, HI, and that will let you answer the question of what my sig is to be

Ah, I alway suspected that my knowledge with regards to math symbolism was somewhat rotten. But now knowing what is the question, I vote for bb, epecially if there are two beers to comy by as well, which makes voted for more smooth and pleasant, and nominate Bb's signature for a gold prize on this here thread

bb || !bb =?

[Evisse the Blue]

Your cummings sig is one of my favourites at the moment, Mith. Here it is, for posterity:
"I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance"

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

I have noticed that Mithalwen often picks a new and delightful signature quite often. The imagination buzzes in this one. My favourite one was about the pink Christmas Tree.

[Elennar Starfire]

Evisse's is lovely.

I hope this match never ends. When the match ends the memories begin.

For some reason it reminds me of a very disturbing and thoughtful version of "The Little Match-Girl" I read once...

Also Fea's

Out on the roof to inquire of the sky, the existance of ghosts in my life... who's to blame, you or I? No one would answer me, they'd just stare with the weight of the world I pretend not to feel.

[Bêthberry]

HI,

But now knowing what is the question, I vote for bb, epecially if there are two beers to comy by as well, which makes voted for more smooth and pleasant, and nominate Bb's signature for a gold prize on this here thread

2 beers you want
2 beers you ask
I c u haunt
2 Bs by cask.



I thank you humbly, sir, for your regard. I like omlets and sonnets, you know.

Beerbeery

[Evisse the Blue]

Originally Posted by Elennar

For some reason it reminds me of a very disturbing and thoughtful version of "The Little Match-Girl" I read once...

Me too! We're on the same wavelength here, it seems. I mean, let me clarify: the original quote has nothing to do with this: it's about a match as in 'game' (I liked the quote in itself too for the nostalgy of it - like Gimli says, that there is little and cold comfort in memories of pleasant things, once the real things are gone), but at the same time, I remembered the Little Match Girl and how she clung to her last matches while dreaming of wonderful things (that story traumatized my childhood you know, my children won't get to read Andersen, that's for sure). So this quote has a double significance for me, but both are really sad, or at least nostalgic.

[mark12_30]

Firefoot and Eomer's song. Bravo!

Makes a nice match with the new Avatar, Firefoot... Great set.

[Elennar Starfire]

(that story traumatized my childhood you know, my children won't get to read Andersen, that's for sure).

The Andersen version is not half as traumatising as the version I read...let's just say it wasn't appropriate for children in the slightest. Don't ever let your children read the "adult fairy tales" until they're in high school and can no longer be traumatised by anything.

[mark12_30]

C7A:

The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those who sang the best. Henry David Thoreau

Amen, amen, amen.....

[Elennar Starfire]

Eswen's is quite amusing...

Friendly Reminder, Rule number Six: As a general rule, do not solve puzzles that open portals to Hell.
Rule number two: Never read a book of demon summoning aloud, even as a joke.

[Rimbaud]

Whosever's includes this gem: "Especially if there are rabbits in the aria".

That is one opera I'd love to see.

[HerenIstarion]

Gollum_2003:

Vegetarians eat vegetables. I'm a humanitarian.

[Bêthberry]

Well, it is good to see that Squatter has not been frittering away his time away from BD. Here's his latest:

"MMD Hér þurh searucræftas aþóhton and beworhton þá Nold-ielfe gimmas missenlice, 7 Féanor Noldena hláford worhte þá Silmarillas, þæt wæron Eorclanstánas." Godéðles géargetæl

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by HerenIstarion

Gollum_2003:

Vegetarians eat vegetables. I'm a humanitarian.

My cousin has a Simon Drew poster which is less scary but funny: "I am not a vegetarian because I love animals, I am vegetarian because I hate plants"

Eomer - the Pink Christmas tree exists and lights up my dreary afternoons at work! I love it dearly. Of course the sig is a rip off of "Oh Tannenbaum, O Tannembaum, wie treu sind deine Blatte?

I am very fond of e.e. cummings and I often use him for sigs - partly perhaps because I was outraged that such a wonderful poet could exist and not be included on any syllabus I had studied in eleven years of Literature classes from Secondary school to university. I love the fact that his poems reflect teh range of the human experience from the frankly crude to the sublimely spiritual. I think I had "Love is the voice under all silences, the hope that has no opposite in fear" for a while but the current one expresses a little of my attidude to life - and possibly also explains the failure of my teaching career!

[Ainaserkewen]

Whosever's includes this gem: "Especially if there are rabbits in the aria".

What!?

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Thanks for the kudos, Elennar. It's part of a Gary Jules song; Ghosts. That song tends to leave me singing in the shower... in my bedroom... in my kitchen... I rather like it.

I like your siggie, Aina... I once used that toast at a family Christmas party.

Fea wanders away singing "I'm runnin' along the rocks of the river... and the water's as cold as the snow...."

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

Gollum_2003:

Vegetarians eat vegetables. I'm a humanitarian. (H-I)

I found a joke like this along with "How come you park in driveways and drive in parkways" and "How come you recite in a play and play at a recital".

The English language is so absurd.

[Lhunardawen]

If the plural of foot is feet and tooth is teeth, how come the plural of phone booth is not phone beeth?

Is the opposite of progress, congress?

But I'm not complaining. It makes English an even more interesting subject.
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Anyway, to get back on topic, I found this crazy one from Silmiel of Imladris:

Figwit on his name: Are you suggesting that I have the wit of a fig?

Methinks Maeggaladiel will explode when she sees this one...

[Ainaserkewen]

Is the opposite of progress, congress?

Yes.

In terms of world languages, is English the only screwy language, or is this a common thing that we just like to complain about?

[Elennar Starfire]

The English language is a source of constant amusement...

[Mithalwen]

English is not screwy it is merely greedy and absorbs words from other languages it comes into contact with either from England being invaded or the English invading other lands. As a result we have a rich vocabulary. The words you meention are surely of Latin origin? and so a legacy of the first of the two truly rememberable dates in English History......

Progress is the opposite of regress and digress is closer though not perfect as an opposite to congress....

But what I really want to know is why do we say unkempt and disgruntled but never kempt and gruntled ( unless we are referring to Bertie Wooster's Aunts)

[mark12_30]

This from Lhunardawen:

"Be the leaf. Fall gracefully when your time comes to let go..."

Lovely, poignant, profound.


And I have to reiterate for the I-don't-know-how-many'th-time: Firefoot.

Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising / I came singing in the sun, sword unsheathing.
To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking: / Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!

Perhaps the first LOTR poem I memorised, and the one with which Eomer took my heart by storm... (at the time-- it **was** almost three decades ago.)

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

It's wonderful isn't it? I have that passage written on my wall.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

As mark so nicely swiped the two I had planned on writing, I shall have to gracefully remark with just this: "I agree." Lhuna's got me thinking, and Firefoot's is one of my favorites. Very nice.

Fea

[Carnimírië]

Suldaledhel's sig makes my mind itch wondering what it refers to. . .