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Thread: Best Sig
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Simon
Editor
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Can you wow the world in just four lines? Is there a sig out there which just blows the rest away? Tell us here. Eligible sigs are ideally current. Sigs which are not current, but which are claimed to have appeared during 2008, will need at least two shipmates to verify the claim on this thread.
When nominating on this thread, please follow the format shown in the next post. Your post should simply contain your nomination and nothing else.
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Eternal memory
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Simon
Editor
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NOMINATION
I nominate: Shipmate's board name
For: Best Sig
Sig: Enter sig text here
My reasons for nominating: Your comments in full here
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Eternal memory
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Alfred E. Neuman
What? Me worry?
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NOMINATION
I nominate: Pimple
For: Best Sig
Sig: "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods" (Einstein?)
My reasons for nominating: Pimple borrowed it from a post I made in Purg and I hope to bask in reflected glory. Also, it summarizes my position on egotistical spiritual judgment and my one direct experience of the godhead.
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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NOMINATION
I nominate: Myself, Lyda*Rose
For: Best Sig
Sig: Maybe we should just stop trying to eff the ineffable. ~Timothy the Obscure
My reasons for nominating: I've really liked this line since I first read it. I had thought that Timothy had used it for his own sig, but I was mistaken. He told me that he thought he'd used it in one of the trinitarian discussions perhaps last year. So I couldn't nominate it as a quote since it might be out of the time range and we had no idea where it was anyway. But since I'm using it as my sig now, it's up for this nomination.
Timothy's a quiet guy, but he usually has some thoughts well worth reading.
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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marmot
Mountain mammal
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NOMINATION
I nominate Lyda*Rose, too, but for this sig;
quote:
This is simply a reminder that what we are called to is not our stuff. ~Brother Joseph Brown on the loss by fire of Mt. Calvary Retreat House
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Join me in "The Legion of Bad Monkeys"
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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Thank you, marmot. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
My heart broke when I saw Mt. Calvary's smoking remains on the news. But trust those wise monks to eke some lemonade out of pitiful lemons.
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"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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Sandemaniac
Shipmate
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Nomination:
I nominate: Honest Ron Bacardi
For Best Sig:
Sig: "Anglo-cthulhic"
Reason: The spectacular double-take I did about three posts later when Mr Brain convinced Mr & Mrs Eyeballs what they'd really just read.
AG
[ 15. December 2008, 08:48: Message edited by: Sandemaniac ]
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rugasaw
Shipmate
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I agree Anglo-Cthulhic is a great sig.
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Treat the earth well, It was not given to you by your parents. It was loaned to you by your children. -Unknown
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Zwingli
Shipmate
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Anglo-Cthulic is clever, though it would work better as a title.
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Zwingli
Shipmate
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NOMINATION
I nominate: leo
For: Best Sig
Sig: "A good catholic is not one who wears vestments and hates nonconformists but one who wears Christ and loves everyone."
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North East Quine
Curious beastie
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I know this isn't the sort of sig you're looking for, but I'm a complete sucker for the georgeous "Baby pictures!!!" in Bullfrog's sig line. Total heart-melt.
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leo
Shipmate
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quote:
Originally posted by Zwingli:
NOMINATION
I nominate: leo
For: Best Sig
Sig: "A good catholic is not one who wears vestments and hates nonconformists but one who wears Christ and loves everyone."
Cheers - though I have occasionally been bought to book when I have posted something that contradicts its sentiments.
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Zwingli
Shipmate
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Several times I've read it and thought that I should apply it to myself - though in reverse, if you know what I mean. Which is sort of why I nominated it - it speaks to me, even though it isn't aimed at me
[ 17. December 2008, 00:00: Message edited by: Zwingli ]
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JB
Independent Thinker
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NOMINATION
I Nominate: Moo
For: Best Sig
Sig: Two pints make one cavort.
Simple, funny, and completely true.
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You live, you learn
You learn, you live
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Taliesin
Shipmate
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NOMINATION
I nominate: Rat
For: Best Sig
Sig: Ring the bells that can still ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in
(Leonard Cohen)
My reasons for nominating: This was inspirational at a time I needed inspiring. It introduced me to a Leonard Cohen song I didn't know, and provided another 'quotable quote' for my classroom wall.
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Robert Armin
All licens'd fool
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Nomination
I nominate: Seeker 963
For: Best Sig
Sig: "Faith is not a work. It is a being present when a revelation takes place." Stephen Sykes The Story of Atonement
To me this is simple and profound. And I happen to think that Sykes is an under-rated modern theologian, but that's another story.
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Jahlove
Tied to the mast
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NOMINATION: Petros
For: Best Sig
Just because you don't know what's going on doesn't necessarily mean that someone else does.
Reasons: There are so many excellent ones on board but this has caught my eye recently and puts a smile on my face whenever I see it - and is, of course, so very, very true.
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“Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.” - Mark Twain
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Sir Kevin
Ship's Gaffer
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Nomination: Sir Kevin
For: Best sig
See below:
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession.
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Chelley
Ship's Old Boot
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NOMINATION
I nominate: Rev per Minute
For: Best Sig
Sig: "If God had meant women to play Doctor Who, then Jesus wouldn't have just chosen men to be his disciples. Or something like that." (comment on Guardian website)
My reasons for nominating: It's good on so many levels - pure amusement factor, and then the load of other levels that I really can't express adequately! ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif)
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"I love old things, they make me feel sad."
"What's good about sad?"
"It's happy for deep people!"
Sally Sparrow to Kathy - Doctor Who
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Ye Olde Motherboarde
Ship's Mother and Singing Quilter
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I guess my sig is a little too much for liberals. ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
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In Memory of Miss Molly, TimC, Gambit, KenWritez, koheleth, Leetle Masha, JLG, Genevieve, Erin, RuthW2, deuce2, Sidi and TonyCoxon, unbeliever, Morlader, Ken :tear: 20 years but who’s counting?..................
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Jack o' the Green
Shipmate
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quote:
Originally posted by Chelley:
NOMINATION
I nominate: Rev per Minute
For: Best Sig
Sig: "If God had meant women to play Doctor Who, then Jesus wouldn't have just chosen men to be his disciples. Or something like that." (comment on Guardian website)
My reasons for nominating: It's good on so many levels - pure amusement factor, and then the load of other levels that I really can't express adequately!
I've always loved it as well. Seconded.
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Angel Wrestler
Ship's Hipster
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NOMINATION
I nominate: Angloid
For:
Brian: You're all individuals!
Crowd: We're all individuals!
Lone voice: I'm not!
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The fact that no one understands you does not make you an artist.
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Angel Wrestler
Ship's Hipster
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I came asking for help. There's another sig I'd like to nominate but I can't remember the exact words, nor to whom it belongs.
It's something like, "If I were a bird, I would sing the song of a bird ... but I am a man so I sing praises to God."
eta: I did look for it but I got dizzy scrolling all around.
[ 25. December 2008, 01:25: Message edited by: Angel Wrestler ]
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The fact that no one understands you does not make you an artist.
(unknown)
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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Zappa:
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If, indeed, I were a nightingale, I should be singing as a nightingale; if a swan, as a swan. But as it is, I am a rational being, therefore I must be singing hymns of praise to God. (Epictetus: Diss 1.16.20).
Do I get chocolate for being helpful?
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Beautiful Dreamer
Shipmate
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quote:
Originally posted by Zwingli:
NOMINATION
I nominate: leo
For: Best Sig
Sig: "A good catholic is not one who wears vestments and hates nonconformists but one who wears Christ and loves everyone."
Agreed, this is an awesome sig, as well as an idea that would apply to every denomination.
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More where that came from
Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time!
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Angel Wrestler
Ship's Hipster
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quote:
Originally posted by PeteC:
Zappa:
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If, indeed, I were a nightingale, I should be singing as a nightingale; if a swan, as a swan. But as it is, I am a rational being, therefore I must be singing hymns of praise to God. (Epictetus: Diss 1.16.20).
Do I get chocolate for being helpful?
Thank you! And sure, you can have some chocolate ; dig in!
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The fact that no one understands you does not make you an artist.
(unknown)
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Spiffy
Ship's WonderSheep
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quote:
Originally posted by Ye Olde Motherboarde:
I guess my sig is a little too much for liberals.
Conversely, mine is a little too much for the conservatives.
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Looking for a simple solution to all life's problems? We are proud to present obstinate denial. Accept no substitute. Accept nothing.
--Night Vale Radio Twitter Account
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