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What is your signature like? It is just your name in joined-uppy writing? Or a baroque masterpiece? Have you ever forged someone's signature? etc etc

― Archel, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am thinking of changing my surname to something shorter and less full of loopy letters - signing things every five mins at work is getting to be an issue...

― Archel, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A madly right-slanting mass of vertical lines which has very little relation to the words Anna Fielding.

― Anna, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My old housemate could never understand why he kept getting funny looks from supermarket cashiers etc. when he signed switch receipts, often they would make him show ID. As he has a very innocent face and indeed is a fine upstanding citizen he was a bit upset, so we made him show us his card then sign a piece of paper. The 2 signatures were COMPLETELY different, the fool. Mind you the bastard thieves who nicked my bag incl. chequebook made a crap job of faking my signature on cheques & switch receipts but the COMPLICITOUS BASTARDS in the King's Head & Railway Tavern & Victoria Wine could not be arsed to check properly.

― Emma, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

amzingly, after all these years my signature still looks like my name. The 'M' slants somewhat and my middle initial 'E' has got smaller and now is sometimes more like a comma, but otherwise it's pretty legible. I used to forge my mother's signature all the time. In fact, my class at school used to spend morning registration forging each other's parents' signatures, because we had Homework Diaries which had to be signed by parents and checked by the teacher.

― MarkH, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

a horrible squiggle. which is out of place because my actual writing is very neat and precise

― gareth, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My signature is crap: just my name written quickly in my illegible cursive handwriting.

― RickyT, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh dear, I'm not sure I should answer this thread.

― Tom, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

it never occurred to me to shorten/stylise my signature so it's a bastard mess and never looks quite right. EVERY TIME i sign for a debit card buy, i mutter "whoops" or "urk" or something. what a twat.

― Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I got lazy about mine when I used to sign a hundred manuscript rejection slips at a time (the joys of being an editorial assistant). So it's a couple of big loopy capitals joined by swoops. My mother hates it.

― Pyth, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Half joined up, big dash on the James then a dot then the E, then another dot then my (lastnamewithheld).

― jel --, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Tom has the signature of a man who has spent too long riding the spazchariot ha ha. Also he writes funny (handwriting I mean) like some kind of monkey.

― Emma, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

When I first saw Toms signature I larffed and larffed (and so did Isabel and Emma) it is a miraculous wonder of rub. My signature is a big

S

!!!! followed by BLAR BLAR scribble. It is illegible. Ricks is ackshirely quite legible I would sa but there's cursivity for ya.

― Sarah, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mine walks the line between fancy and downright illegible.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I cam up with mine at a startlingly young age.

― Graham, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was very careful when young to try and follow the cursives *exactly* as they were posted in my schoolroom, and my early signature reflects this (I can still see it on my Soc Security card). Time and impatience have changed things (I barely write any longhand anymore, just causes my hand to seize up), so now it's a highspeed version of my name and looks it.

My dad's, though, is beautifully strange. Ms that look like Ws and the world's biggest abstract R.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mine is just really sort of haphazard, but does not look mentalist.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My signature's based on the initials of my (three) forenames, then a break, then my surname. Like Ned, mine was initially very clear but has now morphed into a series of loops and waves (or Dots and Loops haha). That's kind of the point, isn't it? To develop it into something that only you can jot dowbn in 1.5 seconds.

― Jeff W, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I find it simplest to do a big X to save time & trouble.

― Emma, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I changed mine when I was about 13 when withdrawing money from my Post Office savings account with my kiddyidiot one got to be a pain. It became what it is now - a boring fully spelled out one whose concession to stylisation is making it unusually low slung, like a long line that goes up and down a little bit. My sister said it indicated a complete absence of self-esteem.

― N., Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My brother's signature is so distorted that he once entered a ski race where people thought his name was Barvel. (His name is actually Darrell.)

My signature is perfectly legible, but people think it looks like David. Go figure.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I refuse to commit to just one. (it looks like an 8yr old's signature)

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

According to my signature, my name is Cil My. And there's a dot hovering menacingly near the "l".

― Colin Meeder, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

One of the many strange things about deciding to go with a different name is that you get to come up with a new signature completely from scratch!! Wot fun.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought you were just called Tracer online. That's cool.

― N., Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mine is a bit bitty - the Mark and the Casarotto are separate words, but often meld together. I discovered the "o" at the end of my surname is almost impossible to do with one quick swoop of the pen, so I, erm, left it out. Fortunately it's that little bit too illegible for people to address me as Mil Carott, which is I guess what it most looks like.

My dad's is beautiful though - it almost looks Arabic, but tightly together with the most lovely loops. Num.

― Mark C, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mine looks like this: http://www.simeon.demon.co.uk/image/widename.JPG ... takes me a flipping age to sign a check.

― Simeon, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Can I just point out that I've had that file for like 7 years and never had the slightest use for it until today. Hurrah!
Don't even think of using to forge my signature as my current sig is just the S and the B with some outrageous squiggles after it.

― Simeon, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

a pleasure not having a signature

― Chupa-Cabras, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I always used to wonder as a child why adult signatures were all indecipherable. Sadly mine is now the same.

It starts with a barely recognisable A, then struggles on through about half an L before descending into one line. Then there's an N (for Neil), which is probably the most recognisable letter out of the whole farce, yet still isn't clear. It ends with a slight hook which could threaten to be a tiny C but never makes it anywhere near this, followed by a line leading to something which is supposed to be a K yet is in fact just an L.

In conclusion, me = monkey.

― Ally C, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have to sign loads of stuff at work & have adapted my signature for speed: its now become a clockwise 3/4 loop (the D) with a little tail (the rest). The only problem with this is I can't write a signature like the one on my credit card any more. However since hardly anyone checks cards nowadays I only get asked to repeat it about once a fortnight.

― David, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

A cross. I can't write.

― cuba libre (nathalie), Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i have problems with my signature because i always start thinking about it before i actually start signing, which causes me to mess up sometimes. mine is messy enough that it cant be done consciously, that's the problem.

― Ron, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The actual letters in mine have gotten shorter and shorter over time - James lost the M and the E and my surname lost the two end letters. It's very quick to write now and appropriately confident looking.

I used to be quite good at forging people's signatures, when I was 12 or so.. I believe it came in useful once when this kid at school paid me $5 to forge a note from his mother, he was well impressed with the result. Easy to please it would seem.

― electric sound of jim, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mine is pretty cool actually - I make the part of the K that goes like "<" really big and flourishy and then the first letter of my last name is a D so I get to mirror the "<" with a big ">" so it's kind of like a diamond shape with the rest of my name running through the midddle. My initial on the other hand is just a sqiggle. It's devolved over the past six years of initialling neverending bank paper transactions.

― Kim, Tuesday, 14 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Joined-uppy writing with a big gay balloon.

― Sister Disco, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My signature is very nice, I must say - honey I'm an artist! It loops and spikes a couple of times, and generally slants upwards to the right at about 30-45 degrees depending, thus apparently indicating to the amateur graphologist that I am somewhat of an optimist. Hah. However, it's been getting worse because I have to use it lots at my crappy temporary job, so I've abbreviated it for practical purposes to just LizD as a neat little sigil. Ace. Generally my handwriting is much less anal than my mother's (statistician) and less spiky than my dad's, but lands somewhere in- between, handily. My sister still writes like a 10-year old, oddly enough for a thrusting corporate whore.

― that girl Liz, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

12ft lizard: now comes with thrusting action!

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Wednesday, 15 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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