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05-13-2009, 01:54 PM | #3321 |
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I really like Rune's
The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea
Simple but has a lot of truth in it - but maybe I am biased since I live so close ot the sea.
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05-14-2009, 03:31 AM | #3322 | |
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05-16-2009, 08:00 PM | #3323 | |
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I rather like Groin's new one:
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05-17-2009, 12:48 AM | #3324 | |
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I really like Mithalwen's!
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05-17-2009, 08:06 AM | #3325 | |
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But yes I like it too, Hamlet is probably my favourite play ever.
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05-22-2009, 09:27 AM | #3326 | |
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So, I noticed this new signature the other night and was promptly confused and now don't know what a signature is.
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05-22-2009, 09:28 AM | #3327 | ||
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I like that play, too. I studied it half the semester and I really, really enjoyed it.
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06-13-2009, 09:38 PM | #3328 | |
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Nogrod's
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06-14-2009, 06:59 AM | #3329 |
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06-14-2009, 11:11 AM | #3330 |
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Indeed it is and though it was Ophelia's speech I was thinking of - I probably first encountered it through the Agatha Christie! I had all the childhood illnesses that kids are mostly now vaccinated against in sequence when I was about 8 or 9 and read a lot of Agatha Christie which started an enduring addiction to Detective Fiction. I didn't read Hamlet til I was doing A-levels when it was the set Shakespeare and we studied it so thoroughly that much has stayed in my mind so many years later.
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06-20-2009, 09:55 AM | #3331 |
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Well seeing as how I just got a part as Mad Hatter as well as one of the Tweedles
Kuruharan's signature made me laugh; "The time has come,” the Walrus said, “to talk of many things: Of shoes – and ships – and sealing-wax – of cabbages – and kings – And why the sea is boiling hot – and whether balrogs have wings"
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06-20-2009, 02:43 PM | #3332 | |
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Mith's signature made my day, and it makes me smile everytime I see it.
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06-20-2009, 03:12 PM | #3333 |
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That's brilliant!
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06-20-2009, 03:18 PM | #3334 |
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I never thought I'd quote Terry Wogan but it has made me chortle since I heard it so had to share. I remember in linguistic class having to give all possible interpratations of various sentences including "time flies"....
Anyway I am glad it is liked. Edit - Phew Wogan was quoting Groucho Marx!
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06-22-2009, 03:21 PM | #3335 |
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I love Phantom's pedantic observation of the regulations.
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06-22-2009, 07:53 PM | #3336 |
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Okay, I just changed my signature, so here is the old one: Or at least it's source. It's a poem by Walter de la Mare called "The Listeners":
The Listeners 'Is there anybody there?' said the Traveller, Knocking on the moonlit door; And his horse in the silence champed the grasses Of the forest's ferny floor: And a bird flew up out of the turret, Above the Traveller's head And he smote upon the door again a second time; 'Is there anybody there?' he said. But no one descended to the Traveller; No head from the leaf-fringed sill Leaned over and looked into his grey eyes, Where he stood perplexed and still. But only a host of phantom listeners That dwelt in the lone house then Stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight To that voice from the world of men: Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair, That goes down to the empty hall, Hearkening in an air stirred and shaken By the lonely Traveller's call. And he felt in his heart their strangeness, Their stillness answering his cry, While his horse moved, cropping the dark turf, 'Neath the starred and leafy sky; For he suddenly smote on the door, even Louder, and lifted his head:- 'Tell them I came, and no one answered, That I kept my word,' he said. Never the least stir made the listeners, Though every word he spake Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house From the one man left awake: Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup, And the sound of iron on stone, And how the silence surged softly backward, When the plunging hoofs were gone. Sorry I had to include the entire poem, but there are two reasons (maybe three.) 1. The first two lines have been my signature for nearly five years, and that endurance deserves some respect. 2. I was asked (once) where the lines came from, and I thought it would be appropriate to share it. 3. (yeah, I guess it is THREE!) It's a really good poem, and I think that people who enjoy good writing (like Tolkien) will like this too! (at least I hope so!) Thanks radagastly
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06-29-2009, 08:16 PM | #3337 |
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Ok just watched the linked video on Rikae's signature officially making hers the best!
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07-22-2009, 11:33 AM | #3338 |
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Respect....
I wanted to honour Fea for being, I believe the first Fenris Wolf and Bar. Remember darling that it is the brave bold wolf that so often gains this status and you are the bravest and boldest wolf of all. Kudos.
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07-28-2009, 05:15 PM | #3339 | |
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I would like to give a thumbs up to Nogrod for having the signature that he has. I know the feeling.
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07-31-2009, 09:06 PM | #3340 | |
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I really like alatar's sig:
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07-31-2009, 09:19 PM | #3341 | |
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I really like Eonwe's. It is true and touching and there are some other personal reasons I might mention another time.
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Two of my favorites are Morthoron's
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I also second TGEW about Nog's new one. Hakon, yours is rather nice as well, but do you mean character as in e.g. Aragorn, Hamlet, Madame Bovary or as in letter, rune, tengwa? Anyway, I'd like to add that we write blindfolded with invisible ink (in my experience, at least).
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08-01-2009, 03:09 PM | #3343 | |
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08-01-2009, 04:55 PM | #3344 |
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Thank you. I mean a character as in a person. It is just something I noticed lately in my own life how that I keep making decisions about who I am. It makes me feel like I am just creating another character for some story I am trying to write.
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08-13-2009, 07:51 AM | #3345 |
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Hakon, I really like your sig, it's especially true for people who write a lot. It seems like, in life, everyone is a side character in the biggest book ever.
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08-13-2009, 09:14 AM | #3346 |
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Thank you Nessa. I have a funny story about people being characters. It is both funny and embarrassing.
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08-15-2009, 09:29 AM | #3347 | |
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davem's current signature is both clever and Tolkien-relevant - I love quote parodies!
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08-15-2009, 09:47 AM | #3348 | |
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I like pitchwife's. It's very relevant these days.
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08-20-2009, 10:58 AM | #3349 | |
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Thank you Hakon.
I would also like to nominate, Laurinquë's Quote:
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08-24-2009, 03:08 AM | #3350 |
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08-27-2009, 02:51 PM | #3351 | |
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There's something very appropriate to a Tolkien forum in alatar's new siggie from Houseman's A Shropshire Lad. Nice pick, blue wizard.
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08-28-2009, 04:31 AM | #3352 | |
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For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even the memory of them is forgotten. - Ecclesiastes 9:5
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Thanks to you both. Both choices were obvious, as they speak of the dead, and so seemed appropriate for the Downs. What surprised me was that Bêthberry was able to identify the author of the second/current sig via a few lines.
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09-03-2009, 12:03 AM | #3353 | |
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I do not want to sound hurtful in the least, but I must say that Eönwë's signature made me do a double take the first time I read it; the bit about the Night Guard saving people automatically made me think he must be referring to the saving of their teeth from grinding. I understand now, but it was rather amusing.
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09-03-2009, 06:53 AM | #3354 | |
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I hadn't even though of that. And using your modly powers for that one, eh?
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09-17-2009, 12:35 PM | #3355 | |
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I like Nienna's:
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09-17-2009, 02:10 PM | #3356 |
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Eonwe, is your current signature from a poem?
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09-20-2009, 01:55 PM | #3357 |
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It's a song. Let's see which Downer can name it first...
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09-20-2009, 05:38 PM | #3358 |
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Not much of a challenge when Google exists. Not my typical cup of tea, but the song's got a nice rhythm to it, and a strong set of lyrics.
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09-20-2009, 05:40 PM | #3359 |
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Loves Jethro Tull... *an old hippie anyways*
(I actually made a version of the song that I left just on the point where those words would have been next - it was already like 5 minutes or so...)
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09-20-2009, 06:21 PM | #3360 |
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Actually it's to be heard in here...
Thick as a Brick it is (even if the stuff gets "thicker" only at 3 minutes and something when the electric guitar and the rest come in... ).
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