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

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On 05/08/2011 09:35 AM, Lew wrote:
> 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?
>

:-) - because I'm old enough!

-- 

Knute Johnson
s/knute/nospam/

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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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