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Re: O/T: Tag lines, or sigs (Was: JNA performance)

From	Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: O/T: Tag lines, or sigs (Was: JNA performance)
Date	2011-05-08 12:35 -0400
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Arved Sandstrom wrote:
> Lew wrote:
>> Qu0ll wrote:
>>> And loving it,
>>>
>>> -Qu0ll (Rare, not extinct)
>>> _________________________________________________
>>> Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com
>>> [Replace the "SixFour" with numbers to email me]

>> The convention for sigs, or tag lines, is to set them off with "dash
>> dash space", that is, "-- ", on its own line, and for the "cute" (in
>> one's own opinion) comments to follow that line.
>>
>> Most good news readers, and a few lamer ones such as what I use,
>> understand this convention and adjust the visual display of messages
>> accordingly.
>>
>> It also sets off stupid remarks like, "Honi soit qui mal y pense" or
>> "And loving it" so that they don't appear to be part of the actual point.

> Qu0ll's phrase always has me wondering whether he's paraphrasing
> McDonald's recent branding campaign, or he's old enough to have enjoyed
> Get Smart. :-)

Maybe he's just young enough to have missed it by that much.

Would you believe he's even younger than that and he found his parents' old 
collection of paperback /Get Smart/ novelizations?

No?  Would you believe that he's an historian of classic American television, 
and that he has sixteen researchers digging up citations as we speak?

How about four researchers and an overeager intern?

One long-running Google query and far too much coffee?

-- 
Lew
Sorry about that, chief.

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JNA performance "Qu0ll" <Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com> - 2011-05-08 15:35 +1000
  Re: JNA performance Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2011-05-07 22:48 -0700
    Re: JNA performance "Qu0ll" <Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com> - 2011-05-08 16:03 +1000
      Re: JNA performance Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2011-05-08 09:54 -0700
    Re: JNA performance Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net> - 2011-05-08 13:26 -0700
      Re: JNA performance "Qu0ll" <Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com> - 2011-05-09 08:44 +1000
        Re: JNA performance Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-08 21:17 -0400
        Re: JNA performance Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-08 21:20 -0400
          Re: JNA performance Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-05-08 21:24 -0400
            Re: JNA performance "Qu0ll" <Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com> - 2011-05-09 13:39 +1000
              Re: JNA performance Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net> - 2011-05-08 21:54 -0700
                Re: JNA performance "Qu0ll" <Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com> - 2011-05-09 15:47 +1000
                Re: JNA performance Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net> - 2011-05-08 23:26 -0700
                Re: JNA performance "Qu0ll" <Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com> - 2011-05-09 17:07 +1000
                Re: JNA performance Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net> - 2011-05-10 12:44 -0700
        Re: JNA performance Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-05-09 18:21 +0100
          Re: JNA performance Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net> - 2011-05-09 13:05 -0700
            Re: JNA performance Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-05-09 21:09 +0100
              Re: JNA performance Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net> - 2011-05-09 17:58 -0700
  Re: JNA performance Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-05-07 23:25 -0700
    Re: JNA performance "Qu0ll" <Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com> - 2011-05-08 16:32 +1000
    Re: JNA performance Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net> - 2011-05-08 13:27 -0700
  Re: JNA performance Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-08 07:58 -0400
    Re: JNA performance Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-05-08 19:17 -0700
      Re: JNA performance Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-09 08:36 -0400
        Re: JNA performance Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-05-09 06:34 -0700
          Re: JNA performance Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-09 09:57 -0400
  O/T: Tag lines, or sigs (Was: JNA performance) Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-08 08:02 -0400
    Re: O/T: Tag lines, or sigs (Was: JNA performance) Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-05-08 11:24 -0300
      Re: O/T: Tag lines, or sigs (Was: JNA performance) Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-08 12:35 -0400
        Re: O/T: Tag lines, or sigs (Was: JNA performance) Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2011-05-08 09:54 -0700
      Re: Tag lines, or sigs (Was: JNA performance) "Qu0ll" <Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com> - 2011-05-09 03:37 +1000
      Re: O/T: Tag lines, or sigs (Was: JNA performance) Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand> - 2011-05-09 15:50 +1200
        Re: O/T: Tag lines, or sigs (Was: JNA performance) Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-05-09 08:36 -0400
    Re: O/T: Tag lines, or sigs (Was: JNA performance) "Qu0ll" <Qu0llSixFour@gmail.com> - 2011-05-09 03:37 +1000
      Re: O/T: Tag lines, or sigs (Was: JNA performance) Daniele Futtorovic <da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> - 2011-05-08 19:55 +0200
        Re: O/T: Tag lines, or sigs (Was: JNA performance) Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-05-08 19:30 +0000
          Re: O/T: Tag lines, or sigs (Was: JNA performance) Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net> - 2011-05-08 13:28 -0700
  Re: JNA performance Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> - 2011-05-09 08:54 -0600

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