have you changed your signature?

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― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 29 April 2005 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

NEVER.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 29 April 2005 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

my signature now is just my initials, usually unintelligible.

― cutty (mcutt), Friday, 29 April 2005 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

unless you mean, like, irl. but no, i like the name i picked on ilx, thank you.

xpost - cutty, wait, you're in med school now? ha

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 29 April 2005 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

you can change your signature.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 29 April 2005 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean, with pens.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 29 April 2005 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, well in that case, yeah, it's different now from when i was younger.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 29 April 2005 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

yes

― Open your eyes; you can fly! (ex machina), Friday, 29 April 2005 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

My signature has been gradually devolving since I turned 12. At this rate I'll just be passing out on things instead of signing them.

― stephen morris (stephen morris), Friday, 29 April 2005 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I want a new signature.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 29 April 2005 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Mine has been devolving as well. It used to be nearly legible, with a very clear "J" and "C", but now it's basically half a "J" with a horizontal line after it.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 29 April 2005 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

At the age of 18, I changed my signature when I was travelling and still had $2,500.00 in traveller's checks with my old signature. Hilarity ensued. (Stupid teenager)

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 29 April 2005 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Mine doesn't have letters anymore. I've been signing credit receipts with the Slayer logo lately.

― stephen morris (stephen morris), Friday, 29 April 2005 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, i change it every couple of years. i get tired of writing the same way after a while. I just recently completely revamped the way i write lower case a's and g's.

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Friday, 29 April 2005 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

yes but not recently

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 29 April 2005 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess you have to make handwriting experts earn those dollars.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 29 April 2005 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember reading handwriting analysis books when I was little and they said you could change your personality by changing your handwriting!

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 29 April 2005 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

|_| |_|____

This is what my signature looks like.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 29 April 2005 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Does anyone end their signature with punctuation?

― stephen morris (stephen morris), Friday, 29 April 2005 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

kind of

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 29 April 2005 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Mine is now just an N, an A, and then a squiggly line. There, now you can all copy my signature.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 29 April 2005 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember reading handwriting analysis books when I was little and they said you could change your personality by changing your handwriting!

I became more gruff after I stopped dotting my 'i's with little hearts.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 29 April 2005 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

My signature has gotten a lot lazier over the years. I no longer bother to write out all the letters in my last name - I just do the first few and then approximate the rest with a wavy line.

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 29 April 2005 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I actively changed how I write numbers throughout my life - I switched to the European-style "7" and the pointy triangular "4"in middle school, added a foot to my "9" in high school, and I go back and forth between the sideways-infinity "8" and the one circle on top of another "8".

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 29 April 2005 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

It has made me more continental.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 29 April 2005 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Champagne?

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 29 April 2005 17:41 (twenty-one years ago)

CHAM-PON-YA

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 29 April 2005 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

One of the 28216983 occasions on which my mother has angrily accused me of trying to emulate my father was for having a signature without a space in the middle, "as if you were the prince of wales or something". (NB: my father is not the prince of wales)

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 29 April 2005 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Only recently I started using my first initial and last name for my signature, rather than my whole first name. Why I started doing this 30 yrs in, I have no idea. It just happened one day!

― mcd (mcd), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

every single time i sign a paper.

actually one tosser at the post office claimed it was a fake one! hah! i used to sign my school reports with my dad's signature since he refused to do it. :-)

― nathalie in a bar under the sea (stevie nixed), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I just realized mine makes no sense. And hasn't for many many years. It's supposed to be first initial and last name, but really, it's a doodle.
Thanks ILX!

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

yes. my last name is a two-parter, so i got tired of scribbling out the whole non-flowing thing. now it's just " A. V ____ L____"

― ()ops (()()ps), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Art VandeLay???

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)

"Prince of Wales"?

― Allyzay do not obtain to make download of yours MP3 (allyzay), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I kind of did this too. After taking a high-school drafting class I consciously switched to writing pointy-topped 4's and curly 9's written in one swoop. People always give me shit about this and it drives me crazy! I had my paycheck deposited into somebody else's account at the bank one time because the teller thought my pointy-topped 4 was a nine! When are nines EVER POINTY old bank lady?

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Friday, 29 April 2005 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, gradually all the letters have disappeared from my sig but "Wm Cp." When I write a check somewhere and my wife is with me, she mocks my signature to the checkout person. "Will you get a load of that, he should be a doctor," etc.

― Curious George (Bat Chain Puller) (Rock Hardy), Friday, 29 April 2005 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)

My signature's more or less the same as it's been since I got one established (when I started working life), except that it's devolved into a scribble, the T doesnt even look like a T anymore, more like a C backwards.

I dont even know why we all bother with signatures anymore - who checks them? I sign off on my credit card for eg, and wave the back of the card at the cashier so they can compare it, but THEY NEVER EVER DO. I've never had my sig scrutinised or questioned, and I've sure as hell signed it badly/drunkenly so it was totally wrong more than once before.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 30 April 2005 03:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess if you tried to challenge a charge they would probably look at your signature vs. one of your old ones.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Saturday, 30 April 2005 04:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I switched to writing German-style 1s and 7s when I was 16, after a trip to Germany. It rebounded on a friend of mine who used to copy my homework sometimes; on one particular physics exercise, he copied all the 1s in the calculations as 7s, making what he had done very obvious to the teacher.

― caitlin (caitlin), Saturday, 30 April 2005 08:13 (twenty-one years ago)

My first boss made me do euro-style 7s cause he couldn't read my writing. And I think signatures devolve over time for a lot of people. Been teasing my wife about this lately, her characteristically neat & orderly handwriting becomes an artfully illegible scribble when she signs on the dotted line.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Saturday, 30 April 2005 10:13 (twenty-one years ago)

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