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Subject: Re: O/T: Tag lines, or sigs (Was: JNA performance)
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Date: Sun, 08 May 2011 09:54:41 -0700
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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!

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Knute Johnson
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