congratulations to you for successfully entering a quotable quote into your e-mail signature ("sig") file

"Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain."

^ from a purchasing agent in a mass email today about P-Card training

lol i got one of these recently:

"There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life"

"Learn to love your inner doofus." - Soni Pitts

^ from a Planning Commissioner asking me to deliver her agenda packet to her house because she will be out of the office on Friday

Back in the day when I was a tech writer instead of Aimless, I used to use this quote in my sig:

"Thanks to the internet, misinformation now travels faster than ever before!" - me

Some time in 1996 I got a request from a college instructor to use this quote in a course he was teaching. Granted, of course.

"I'm very sorry and from now on I'm going to pay complete attention to everything" Paris Hilton

lol my course director at uni

I used to have "If there's one thing I can't stand, it's up" as a sig file but only on Usenet, and everyone did it in the olden days.

When i was in high school my signature for my email was "Assholes and elbows people, you know the drill" from Aliens.

Now it is of course "it's game over man, game over" from Aliens.

Ugh this girl in my grad program who I fucking can't stand had "You must be the change you want to see in the world." by Gandhi. Puke.

my sister puts this dumb thing on all her emails, which annoys me because of it's length, and also because it's completely antithetical to my philosophy of how life should be lived: "Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, a bottle of wine in the other. body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "Woo Hoo, what a ride!""

Great thread idea. I will have a look at work tomorrow - I get tons of these.

At work they made us all go on Microsoft Messenger, so everybody has these quote things flash up when they log on.

"Everything works out in the end. If it hasn't worked out, it's not the end!"

^ that one also has

[sender's name]
Mary Kay - Independent Beauty Consultant

above the inspiring quote

awesome.

when i was in like 10th grade i had

“If you tremble indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.”

and also some deep cut from somewhere in gandhi's autobiography

mine in high school

"I am the surprise at the bottom of your cereal box."

ppl were doing this in high school?????

my thoughts exactly. Also, I wouldn't be such a hater of the Gandhi quote if it weren't attached the to the girl in question. ugh.

high school wasn't that long ago for me.

"What? No. We can't stop here...this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson.

Been my sig since the day I read that he passed. I normally get random cool people replies from fellow HST fans. Once a customer emailed me back asking me if I knew that HST didn't kill himself at all, that it was a giant coverup, quoting this two-page website of some conspiracy theorist HST fan. I can't remember exactly what my reply was but it wasn't kind. WTF.

This reminds me: I edit a magazine for a small health NGO, and have been amusing myself by inserting random quotes in tiny type in amongst all the masthead stuff, on what I thought was the safe assumption that nobody ever read it. In the last issue I had this whole wodge of stuff from 'Withnail & I': "Warm up? We may as well sit round this cigarette. This is ridiculous. We’ll be found dead in here next spring ... This place has become impossible. Nothing to eat, freezing cold and now a madman on the prowl outside with eels."

Anyway, someone finally spotted it and complained to my boss, and I got into more trouble than I though it warranted. Though nobody has yet noticed the issue which includes the entire lyrics to Underworld's 'King of Snake' included in the credits, which was inspired by this thread: K-K-K-K-K-KING OF SNAKE

Finally remembered this thread when I got this in a signature:

"Dreams become reality, but only if you let them."

thinking about inserting this into my signature:

“In East Hampton, I’m a nudist and I eat meat,” Baldwin—a vegetarian—had said before my visit, expanding on the idea that he lived a quite different life on Long Island than he did in New York. “I shoot deer with a bow and arrow. I smoke the deer meat and eat it every morning with my eggs and toast. I am a homosexual. I listen to rock music, loud.” We had met at his house. Baldwin was wearing sandals; his shirt was untucked. There was nobody else at home.

"The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in." - Dennis Potter

i've been using "Yours" a lot (isn't there another email signature thread?)

I think that's more of a valediction than a sig.

Alternatives to "best regards"

see i don't know, i feel it could be used a simple means of affection, in lieu of the formal "best" or stiff "sincerely"

but then i also worry that ppl think i'm being too personal, or something. like, am i really theirs? how close do i want to get here?

oh ok thx

one lady at work simply has "Just do it; Play the game!" as hers. I just don't know what to think of that.

that lady at yr work is actually my dad

LET'S DO THIS! as we walk into a place to get a sandwich.

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial “we.”

—Mark Twain

The facilities planning director of the school district I'm working for has a "<><" next to his name. Is that what I think it is? Is he "witnessing" to all who shall read his emails?

i'd like to see an 'oral history' of when it became utterly herblike to use a .sig, cuz everyone and their mom used them in the 90s and they were ~★~★meaningful★~★~

personally i suspect the reign of webmail, the default placement of the signature either above or below quoted text probably made things awkward once everyone just started replying right at top instead of below/interspersed w/ the quoted original in teh old style. maybe seeing actual header slots in your own email made it seem like the reply, 'x wrote...', etc. all ought to cluster near the top of the message body.