Damnit, explain the reason for your DU Sig line please

Because I really wanna know!!

My sig line:

My favorite Bloom County cartoon - because that old man pretty much represents every Neo-con puke I've ever met.

I have a favorite quote from Abbie Hoffman, who is a hero of mine (hell, I named a cat after him)

That Unfit for command was some googlebomb that someone was trying to setup about 6 months ago - not sure if it ever worked

And finally our world could use more cowbell - and especially our posts here at DU

The blank white space shows the basis for policy in king george and poodle boy's administrations.



O.K. I admit, I just haven't been arsed to think of something suitably witty to stick in there yet.

wearing a thong and well, what would you all REALLY do if i got rid of my nekkid, stair-climbing smiley?

And since nobody opted for the title of "Official Bear", I took it.

The second part is my user name replicated on a 1968 Texas license plate, which was the year of my birth. It was also the year of a world's fair in San Antonio called Hemisfair. I only included 6 letters of my user name because that's all that is allowed on Texas plates. :-)

I vote you put him back into your sig line!

I shrunk him down and used him as my avatar. I'll put him back soon.

:P

is a a quote from Hunter S. Thompson. It perfectly encapsulates who I aspire to be, moment to moment, day to day.

... from a track by my favorite recording artists, the Scottish duo Boards of Canada.

This narrative is barely discerable and is apparently a hypnosis session. :)

Oh, the track is called "The Devil is in the Details".

Mine's pretty self explanatory :).

i have no clue who said it but it's so fitting.

E Pluribus Unum - Our America

As a national motto E Pluribus Unum rocks. At all levels of it's meaning, whether it is a citizens relationship to their government; or America's relationship to the rest of the world, it says that there is no aristocracy, no right to rule. Just that we are one out of many. We can be replaced, we may be superseeded but we all have the right to count and be counted.

I think it is the Democrats motto. In God We Trust is an abberation. Just like the Republican party who wave it like a bloody flag.

for dissing my boys Robert Plant and Jimmy Page

:eyes:

and a photo of myself to see what a homo looks like.

That dude looks totally gay. :P

I know a bunch who joined right after 9-11 thinking they would get those terrorists. That ideal has obviously gone far astray.

is comparing the current administration to Nazi Germany. I know it isn't PC but bite me. I don't care. Nazi Germany is the most well known fascist government in history. We are falling into fascism right now, right here in the US of A. Hence, my sig line..........

And I should change it. I've had it for way too long.

Words to live by, although my favorite quote is from Henry Ford circa 1903:

"WHETHER YOU THINK YOU CAN OR YOU CAN'T, YOU'RE RIGHT."

So my signature line is also on my emails just little group of words to remind myself and everyone that *Energy does indeed follow intent*

From the book 'Anguished English' by Richard Lederer (a great book, if you are the linguistic type, BTW...very entertaining). I found it to be both funny and profound.

I change it occasionally to my alternate: 'Where are we going? And what's with this handbasket?' IIRC another DU'er had that and I swiped it :blush:

It means what it means- both politically and personally.

Obviously, it is a reference to the film The Matrix. The red pill makes you wake up out of the false dream-world. The blue pill puts you back to sleep.

Ralph ... because he's cute & smarter than the president.

And my favorite Senator Byrd quote from a May 2003 floor speech.

To my journey in faith. How I had faith, I questioned it. I analyzed "God," and ultimately rejected it. An omnipotent, omnibenevolent, yet easily offended by the slightest of transgressions on ANYONE's part ?

IF there is something "godlike" out there, it doesn't care as much as we'd like to believe it does. Religion is nothing but egomania. Faith = Hubris.

Don't mean to rain on your parade but we got our asses kicked in November.

and losing in november doesn't make everyone here a "looser" either; it just provides an impetus to take back seats in 2006 and do better in 2008.

a "loser" is a Republican, or, more narrowly, someone who posts at FreeRepublic.

And by stealing the vote, you kill democracy, making it impossible for us to have a peaceful revolution. The only other choice is to take to the streets and forcefully regain democracy.

I'm just waiting for the rest of the country to wake up.

Which is something I'm sometimes in the mood for, but not often. Do people think we'll actually forget we're at DU?

Sheesh.

:P

That's what I do for a living. i run the steam plant for a paper mill. As of tomorrow, if things go well, I will be also running a power plant and therefore I can be called ELECTRTOBABE! Wish me luck, my work has been stressing me out and making the most able attempt to subjugate my (whats left of it) personality...I feel like I joined the damn Navy or something...I got spanked for answering the phone "Boilerbabe International, how can i help you??" And that's just only part of the stupid shit they are putting me through. I would like to think that i am one of those lucky people that still has a job, but, I also would love to just get the #@$% out.

XXXOOO
BOILERBABE INTERNATIONAL

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I just can't figure out how to seperate them

:D

It sorta works. Good enough.

2) One of my all-time favourite quotes from Family Guy.

RandomKoolZip ate my baby. :cry:

from Joe Strummer, but sundog pointed out that since i added the little devil girl, it took up two lines so, I jumped on the RKZ bandwagon. The smilie is obvious. The devil girl is because no matter how hard I try to stay out of trouble, it manages to find me anyway :hi:

Also, I wanted to make it clear I wasn't an American.

But I love you guys.

i got a questionable content gif, because that webcomic (questionablecontent.net) kicks ass...

then i got a south park character of myself...

and i have a voltaire quote, and a quote from a tool song. both are quite meaningful.

*shrug*

:blush:

Am getting ready to run an electrical plant like tomorrow////anyways we'll see////will always be the boilerbabe regardless

:)

to corporate christians, and their radical cleric leaders, I became convinced they are taking us backward.

OH BTW the color is #800000, maroon in honor of **.:evilgrin:

And a picture of "The One And Only".

All of his music was about love and relationships.

His music was sensual without needing to be oversexualized.

His music was beautiful is so many different ways.

Most of all, he was a class act. His loss will never be filled.

The Netmusique link is for my favorite internet radio station, Jazzmusique.

Check it out.

but right now I chose to be profound in my sig by quoting a great American teacher whose simple quote can change the world if enough people followed his advice.



The last time I changed it, it was a quote from Howard Beale, he of Network fame, about TV being an illusion, and people were the reality. Even thirty some odd years later, the movie Network is very relevant, perhaps even more so, with all the reality shows on nowadays. Here are some choice quotes from Network (eerily on the mark!)

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Howard Beale: You're beginning to believe the illusions we're spinning here, you're beginning to believe that the tube is reality and your own lives are unreal. You do. Why, whatever the tube tells you: you dress like the tube, you eat like the tube, you raise your children like the tube, you even think like the tube. This is mass madness, you maniacs. In God's name, you people are the real thing, WE are the illusion.

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Howard Beale: Right now, there is a whole, an entire generation that never knew anything that didn't come out of this tube. This tube is the gospel, the ultimate revelation; this tube can make or break presidents, popes, prime ministers; this tube is the most awesome goddamn propaganda force in the whole godless world, and woe is us if it ever falls into the hands of the wrong people, and that's why woe is us that Edward George Ruddy died. Because this company is now in the hands of CCA, the Communications Corporation of America; there's a new chairman of the board, a man called Frank Hackett, sitting in Mr. Ruddy's office on the twentieth floor. And when the 12th largest company in the world controls the most awesome goddamn propaganda force in the whole godless world, who knows what shit will be peddled for truth on this network?



If you've never seen Network, I suggest you rent it and get chills down your spine.

Here are the lyrics.

it's not the right time to be sober.
now the idiots have taken over,
spreading like a social cancer. is there an answer?

Mensa membership exceeding.
tell me why and how are all the stupid people breeding.
Watson, it's really elementary,
the industrial revolution
has flipped the bitch on evolution.
the benevolent and wise are being thwarted, ostracized. what a bummer.
the world keeps getting dumber.
insensitivity is standard and faith is being fancied over reason.

darwin's rollin over in his coffin.
the fittest are surviving much less often.
now everything seems to be reversing, and it's worsening.
someone plopped a steamer in the gene pool.
now angry mob mentality's no longer the exception, it's the rule.
and I'm startin to feel a lot like Charlton Heston
stranded on a primate planet,
apes and orangutans that ran it to the ground
with generals and the armies that obeyed them.
followers following fables,
philosophies that enable them to rule without regard.

there's no point for democracy when ignorance is celebrated.
political scientists get the same one vote as some Arkansas inbred.
majority rule don't work in mental institutions.
sometimes the smallest softest voice carries the grand biggest solutions.

what are we left with?
a nation of god-fearing pregnant nationalists
who feel it's their duty to populate the homeland,
pass on traditions,
how to get ahead religions,
And prosperity via simpleton culture.

the idiots are takin over.

KJ

.....just thought this quote was a fitting reminder in light of his suicide....because it was so hard to accept that he took his life...and that on some level I can see how and why some choose that route eventhough I couldn't...I've stared the edge down and gone over it a degree or two m'self in the past...pain and the inability to endure it...s'all relative...just wanted to keep him here for awhile longer and remind m'self if no one else...that survival in this new age of illusion is so very difficult...gotta keep on fightin' the good fight...until we just can't anymore....if that makes any sense at all to anyone else but me...sigh...s'aight Bubba! :)

I liked this line from the poem Out There Somewhere by Henry Herbert Knibbs. So sue me.

OUT THERE SOMEWHERE
by Henry Herbert Knibbs

As I was hiking past the woods, the cool and sleepy summer woods,
I saw a guy a-talking to the sunshine in the air;
Thinks I, he’s going to have a fit -- I’ll stick around and watch a bit;
But he paid no attention, hardly knowing I was there.

He must have been a college guy, for he was talking big and high, --
The trees were standing all around as silent as a church --
A little closer I saw he was manufacturing poetry,
Just like a Mocker sitting on a pussy-willow perch.

I squatted down and rolled a smoke and listened to each word he spoke;
He never stumbled, reared or broke; he never missed a word,
And though he was a Bo like me, he’d been a gent once, I could see;
I ain’t much strong on poetry, but this is what I heard:


“We’ll dance a merry saraband from here to drowsy Samarcand.
Along the sea, across the land, the birds are flying South,

And you, my sweet Penelope, out there somewhere you wait for me,

With buds of roses in your hair and kisses on your mouth.


“The mountains are all hid in mist; the valley is like amethyst;
The poplar leaves they turn and twist; oh, silver, silver green!
Out there somewhere along the sea a ship is waiting patiently,
While up the beach the bubbles slip with white afloat between.


“The tide-hounds race far up the shore -- the hunt is on! The breakers roar,
(Her spars are tipped with gold and o’er her deck the spray is flung);
The buoys that rollic in the bay, they nod the way, they nod the way!
The hunt is up! I am the prey! The hunter’s bow is strung!”


“Out there somewhere, --” says I to me. “By Gosh! I guess that’s poetry!
Out there somewhere - Penelope - with kisses on her mouth!”
And then, thinks I, “O college guy, your talk it gets me in the eye,
The North is creeping in the air; the birds are flying South.”

And yet, the sun was shining down, a-blazing on the little town,
A mile or so ‘way down the track a-dancing in the sun.
But somehow, as I waited there, there came a shiver in the air;
“The birds are flying South,” he says. “The winter has begun.”


Says I, “Then let’s be on the float; you certainly have got my goat;
You make me hungry in my throat for seeing things that’s new.
Out ere somewhere we’ll ride the range a-looking for the new and strange;
My feet are tired and need a change. Come on! It’s up to you!


“There ain’t no sweet Penelope somewhere that’s longing much for me,
But I can smell the blundering sea and hear the rigging hum;
And I can hear the whispering lips that fly before the outbound ships;
And I can hear the breakers on the sand a-booming ‘Come!’”


And then that slim, poetic guy, turned and looked me in the eye:
“...It’s overland and overland and overseas to -- where?”
“Most anywhere that isn’t here. " I says. His face went kind of queer:
The place we're in is always here. The other place is there."

He smiled, though, as my eye caught his. “Then what a lot of there there is
To go and see and go and see and go and see some more.”
He did a fancy step or two. Says he, “I think I’ll go with you --”
... Two moons, and we were baking in the straits at Singapore.

Around the world and back again; we saw it all. The mist and rain
In England and the dry old plain from Needles to Berdoo.
We kept a-rambling all the time. I rustled grub, he rustled rhyme --
Blind baggage, hoof it, ride or climb -- we always put it through.

Just for a con I’d like to know (yes, he crossed over long ago;
And he was right, believe me, Bo!) if somewhere in the South,
Down where the clouds lie on the sea, he found his sweet Penelope,
With buds of roses in her hair and kisses on her mouth

Besides, it's so much fun to listen to newly-minted far-right icon a la Raygun, JPII, smack down warmonger Bush** from beyond the grave!

and should have been the first words out of Kerry's mouth every time he spoke during the 2004 campaign.

:hi: ;)

is one of my favorite poets and the line i used seems to go pretty well with this site.

You REALLY want to know? OK, here it is: My sig line is a quote that I read many years ago when I was a young lass; it impressed me then, and I've always tried to live by it. Certainly I have NOT always succeeded, and sometimes I failed because I wanted to fail...But my nobler,gentler side loves the sentiments expressed here. As I've grown older and seen how people's attitudes can really affect the folks around them, I've tried more often to live by this. And by using it for my sig line, other people will read it, and maybe they will be affected for the good by it...

:hi:

:kick:

or in Phe's case, former DUers. :) Except the line about THE Sith Lord...that's just been my personal motto for years and years. :evilgrin:

Not much more to it than that.

The conservation movement is a breeding ground of communists
and other subversives. We intend to clean them out,
even if it means rounding up every birdwatcher in the country.
--John Mitchell, US Attorney General 1969-72

Latin for damnation of memory. Thought it sounded cool and the concept of rewriting history intrigues me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio_memoriae

so sayeth nsma

and Dem2theMax gave me the yin-yang symbol.

was in favor of individual ownership of small arms as an expression of true democracy.

:D

and I love my little blinky eyes.

My websites because advertising is always good, and the lounge lizard because I'm a Lounge Lizard, :hi: :hug: :woohoo:

The pic represents the fact that the forces of evil occupy the White House.
The Jefferson quote just replaces "tyrants" with their intellectual brethren "freepers".

That guy's gut is hysterical. :rofl:

I change my sig fairly often.

the quote is very fitting. :)

OK, now I remember. It's the URL for the website that hosts my original fiction. "Who Do You Burn For?" is a marketing tag but it's also a quotation from a ritual that the evil mastermind does with her main henchman while she's screwing him.

Hey, you asked,

The Plaid Adder

Conservatarded state who can't even get their MIHOP election right.

and the quote comes at a time in the movie where once again Wonka is being challenged by a naughty girl. To me it says that we can do anything, and challenging that is fruitless (hehe fruitless - anyone know the movie well enough to get that?).

:loveya:

A week ago it were "my" two soccer clubs, now it is the silhouette of the city I love.

I figured each DUer should have the opportunity to know that.

and 2. it's a line from one of my favorite children's books, When Cats Dream by Dav Pilkey.

My sig is subject to change . . . . :hi:

There's a picture first from churchsigngenerator.com, using a famous Reverend Lovejoy quote for inspiration. Then there's the Dark Magician (anime fan--and I freely admit that I play the Duel Monsters card game), and my proclamation of "Liberal, atheist, and proud."

Finally, there's my George Bernard Shaw quote--I saw it in my Logic text and thought it was funny.

:woohoo: :applause: :popcorn: :woohoo: :applause:

and.. he happens to be cor-rect!:smoke:

I may get bored with this quote and change it sometime. We'll see.

What else can I say?

Plus I like to think I'm clever with that bumpersticker.

david

Where he warns of a "Pax Americana"..which is ,btw, where we sit today,Warlords!:puke:

The quote is self explanitory.

boom boom

boom boom room; also hooker, but as well has a, uh hmm, fornication-esque thread attached somewhere about & aside from a blue's club; but then there's...

boom boom, as in: boom boom lafayette (or some such) = good name for a bubble dancer imo



http://www.boomboomblues.com/home.html

:D

:evilgrin: :silly:

And I am unwilling to admit that I am.

It's called "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas." I remember reading the passage, then reading it again and saying to myself, "Yes."

the gif is a 'leftfist' signifying my, um, 'far fringe, holier than thou, ivory tower' leftist values. :) :hi:

repuke between the ages of 18 and 50.

Quite overdue for a change actually (like the avatar) but I can't think of anything I like better. (Well, I REALLY liked my last email sig, but nobody here responded at all when I used it as a subject line: If I look like a monkey and I smell like one too, is it my birthday?)