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Eleanor Roosevelt and Unknown.

I live every day by both :-)

I've had three that I can remember. One was a silly one from Richard Feynman (a scientist I like a lot.) One was a quote from a book -- I got the quote from the NYT Book Review of it. It was about how it is much easier to change how people view reality than to change reality. It's spoken by the villain (sort of) of the book, I quoted it not because I agree it is something that should be done but because I think it's something that IS being done all the time and it sucks. I think that's a big part of what modern politics is.

This one is from an editorial in Scientific American's April (read: April Fool's Day) edition that I first saw here and then was quoted again in a great Op-Ed by Paul Krugman -- that's when I made it my signature. Similar to my previous signature, it encapsulates so much of what I think is cuckoo these days. Evidence is just a distraction. Ample evidence for an opponent's position can be ignored -- lack of evidence for one's own position means nothing.

I'm just an old coot.

The first one had a link to follow, but the link stopped working, but I decided to leave the rest there just for the hell of it.

The second one is something Bi-Polar Bear said to me one day and I liked it so much, I had to add it. :-D

My signature changes fairly frequently. Sometimes it's a quote I admire or identify with. And sometimes it's a secret message.

It is a quote from Ayn Rand, a writer whom I admire immensely. The quote itself is a great bit of wisdom, and its concept has helped me many times when I was embroiled in a conflict.

Intrepid-I love your Eleanor Roosevelt quote.Id noticed it before and is oddly true!Id never thought about it before.

mine changes as often as my avatar, sometimes they are related sometimes not

right now it's the chorus from gram parsons song, return of the grevious angel

One of mine lists who it's quoted from, and the other was from the old "Hooked on Phonics" commercials.

The Ali G quote was from a Harvard commencement speech he gave. The admin there must have loved the students who got Ali G to speak.

Mine consists of links which will take you to the A2K FAQ, The A2K Help Forum, and the A2K Terms of Service. Don't remember the last time I changed it - its been a couple years, anyway.

...What?

I originally wanted this:
"As democracy is perfected, the office of the president represents, more and more closely the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron".

H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)

But I was told it was too many letters. The motto I used is from the one class I took in latin in which we read a translated version of Winnie the Pooh. It just seemed to sum up my life. I also have it painted over a doorway in my house.

I think the glorious day is now ;-)

I forgot - somehow - some reason -

My signature is always the same. I never change it....

When I accuse my dad of being wrong on something, he responds with what is now my sig... So I use it 'cause I think it's funny.

Tin-Tin . . . oh my dog, Tin-Tin is in this thread ! ! !

as for the topic, i change my when i get bored with the old one, or a new one strikes my fancy . . .

I used to read translated Tin-tin comics all of the time when I was a kid. Got 'em from the library. Funny how Tin-Tin is inextricably tied to the memory of my grandmother. Tangent, sorry.

Central District football club (Australian Rules) although it is now a very successful club in terms of performance was once what is colloquially called in Australia a bunch of "easybeats". Despite the fact that they were habitually beaten easily by their opponents their supporters - including myself - stuck loyally to them. This has created a quasi-mythology about the club.

During one game the team was - as usual - being hammered. They were playing so badly that even their fans booed the players. One player, Brendan Maguire, was fixed on by disgusted fans. During a break in the play the coach addressed the team with fans listening on. He was trying to urge the team on to better things but apparently found it difficult to muster the fiery rhetoric that would change the game in their favour. Commenting on the general performance of the team Coach Hicks (still with the club and a legend) was heard to say "Brendan Maguire is playing quite well". The fans fell about laughing and that moment passed into both history and mythology. It even gave rise to "BM" a club fan magazine (this is long before the internet) in which the repeated failures of the club were celebrated in a good-humoured fashion. Those days gave rise to a very strong supporter base for the beleaguered club. They were good days. They are not days I care to see afflict my club again.