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Old 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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Old 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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Old 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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Old 11-02-2006, 04:28 PM   #684
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Chris Van Allsburg provided an ominous seasonal offering:

Another seasonal thought:

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There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray, love, remember; and there's pansies, that's for thoughts.
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Old 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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Old 11-23-2006, 06:10 PM   #686
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I am retiring my Animal Crackers quote for this:

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Old 11-30-2006, 09:42 AM   #687
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Silmaril a funny thing, about snowflakes and stars . . .

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Really excellent quotes recently, Bethberry.
Thanks, Rimsy. Yours ain't so bad either.

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To be replaced by more seasonal faire, for which I offer a fuller quotation here than the stingy signature limit allows.

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It was on the afternoon of the day of Christmas Eve, and I was in Mrs. Prothero's garden, waiting for cats, with her son Jim. It was snowing. It was always snowing at Christmas. December, in my memory, is white as Lapland, although there were no reindeers. But there were cats. Patient, cold and callous, our hands wrapped in socks, we waited to snowball the cats. Sleek and long as jaguars and horrible-whiskered, spitting and snarling, they would slide and sidle over the white back-garden walls, and the lynx-eyed hunters, Jim and I, fur-capped and moccasined trappers from Hudson Bay, off Mumbles Road, would hurl our deadly snowballs at the green of their eyes. A Child's Christmas in Wales
There now! There's cats and Christmas and Canada all rolled into one.
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Old 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:

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And hello to something for the new year, which, for a change of pace, contains nothing about cats:

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as intimate -- as fugitive
As Sunset on the snow --
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Old 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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Tolkien predicted the Barrow-Downs forum: "...talks a reader might have with other people who have read the tale; they might lead to sharing of pleasure, or to debate on disagreements; and so lead even to a second reading."
This quote describes what I've found in my years on the Downs!
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Old 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

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signature was a little bit cheesy, so I chose a new, perhaps more fitting one, because I too ask myself what it is that makes people search so much for sheer information
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Old 02-23-2007, 05:40 AM   #691
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Getting rid of this, a bit stale and it probably offended people... but I wonder if anyone ever clicked on the link
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Old 03-13-2007, 04:40 PM   #692
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Old 03-22-2007, 10:20 PM   #693
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This clip is funny in a moronic way.


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Old 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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Old 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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...to be replaced with one from current (re-)reading. I think it's very Downs appropriate!
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Old 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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Old 11-08-2007, 04:36 PM   #697
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(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:
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and replace it with something a little more appropriate for the start of the term.
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Old 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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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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Old 05-07-2009, 12:00 PM   #700
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Silmaril Goodbye, sweet purring lolcats

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This one was given to me by a friend.
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Old 05-07-2009, 01:56 PM   #701
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This one was given to me by a friend.
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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Old 05-07-2009, 06:51 PM   #702
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I do hearby retire...

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...which I got a few compliments on (thus the honor of being commemorated in this thread) in favor of my current offering.

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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Old 05-08-2009, 05:38 AM   #703
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Ah, nostalgia, memories...

*hums tune from "Cats"
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Old 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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Old 05-27-2009, 09:33 PM   #705
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Good bye for now to the Warrington Cat.

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And hello to another fiendishly clever beast.

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Old 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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Old 06-11-2009, 03:35 PM   #707
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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.

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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Thank you for telling me. For some reason I thought it was Boro's sig and he had changed it.
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Old 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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Old 11-16-2009, 07:51 PM   #710
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Time to put dragons to rest.

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Ţä se wyrm onwoc, wroht wćs genďwad.
For something a little more light-hearted:

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Old 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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and each would bear his song aloft, and each a little while be heard,
though rude the note, and light the word.
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Old 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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You should have learned by now: Never be generous to Esty, NEVER! (from a post by Rune)
Ring in the new, which I post here including translation, as a service to all members who don't read German:
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Fortsetzungen sind das Grab der Fantasie. Große Bücher bleiben stets Solitäre, deren Fortsetzung wir uns nur selber erfinden können. (Jörg Schiffmann in LN)
Sequels are the grave of imagination. Great books remain solitaires whose sequel we can only fabricate ourselves. (my translation)
This memorable statement was the conclusion of a newspaper's book review of Eoin Colfer's sequel to Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide books.
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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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ETA: You were a genius for starting this thread in the first place, Esty. So many good quotes. So many memories.
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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Men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men fight for what they meant under another name. - William Morris
Replaced for the moment by
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Come not between the sheep and his pasture! Or he will not slay thee in turn. He will bear thee away on his horns to the pens of lamentation, where the tufts of thy head shall be nibbled, chewed and ruminated on in all eternity.
which came to me this afternoon as I was reconstructing the fence that keeps our two rams from my wife's flower-bed. (I know, it's rather silly...)
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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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In 1942 stupid! Or maybe oil and dead zone.
Incredible, but true.
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"The time has come," the Walrus said, "to retire this here sig..."

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Of shoes – and ships – and sealing-wax – of cabbages – and kings –
And why the sea is boiling hot – and whether balrogs have wings"
However, since it was the quote that began this hallowed thread, it shall ever remain in honor until The End.

And who knows, I may take it up again some day.
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Good-bye to the first extant poem in English.

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Earth took of earth, earth with woe,
Earth other earth to the earth added;
Earth laid earth in an earthen grave.
Then had earth of earth enough earth.

Hello to some lines, the provenance of which shall remain known to those who attended Oxonmoot.

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Wheelbarrows at five
Hearses at daybreak.
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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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