In Memoriam - Quote Graveyard

[Nuranar]

I lay aside this gem of that peerless mistress of wit and humor, Jane Austen:

Her face was so lovely, that when, in the common cant of praise, she was called a beautiful girl, truth was less violently outraged than usually happens. ~ Sense and Sensibility


Now for a change of gears, if not of era...

[Elennar Starfire]

Prismatic glow of fiery rainbow spark
brings colour, and contrasting shows the dark.

Now that I've written another sonnet, I'll just use it's ending couplet instead.

[Orual]

I've just replaced Meg...

Christine, you must have been dreaming
Stories like that can't come true
Christine, you're talking in riddles...and it's not like you.
Meg, "The Phantom of the Opera"

...with Dream (or Morpheus) from Neil Gaiman's "Sandman" series, and I finally found an avatar to match!

[Evisse the Blue]

"Well I wish it could be Winter every day,
When the snow starts falling and the Russians start to skate"

I really liked this one, and it fit the holiday mood very well. :)
In case you don't already know :D , the original song (by Wizzard) did not go like this, it was "I wish it could be Christmas every day, when the bells start ringing and the band begins to play".

[elronds_daughter]

Alas, I lay to rest my "CIA" sig...
Elrond's other daughter. Who works for the CIA. Whups, now I have to kill you.

[Lhunardawen]

Too lonely. Farewell...
Be the leaf. Fall gracefully when your time comes to let go...

[Estelyn Telcontar]

I lay to rest the location I used briefly during the "days between the years", an unnoticed change, I guess...suspended in a temporal vacuum

[Fordim Hedgethistle]

Dig and be Dug
In Return

It has served me well for many months, but it was time for a change.

The new siggy is offered with apologies to Squatter, from whom I gained my inspiration. In my defense, I translated this particular passage into Old English a number of years ago and have been waiting for an opportunity to use it.

[Lindolirian]

Okay okay, but you can't run off like that without telling us poor, uneducated waifs what it means!

[Fordim Hedgethistle]

Heh heh -- ain't gonna tell: at least not yet. There are a few people around here who can probably figure it out. Squatter could easily translate it!

I will give a hint, however: think killer robots. . .

[Gil-Galad]

I shall rest my Trogdor Quote to rest, but the tought is still here....

[elronds_daughter]

Farewell....

It is much easier to
Change your tune
When your song ain't being played

[Maeggaladiel]

Time to lay this weary sig to rest.
<-- Men DO make passes at elves who wear glasses!

And of course, the latest death in the family...
"Doctor, what do we do?" /"Increase the Flash Gordon noise and put more sciencey stuff around."
Ah, my faith in the medical profession runs deep like a mighty underground river of lava.

[elronds_daughter]

Alas, I bid farewell to
everybody with your fist raised high
let me hear your battlecry tonight
stand beside or step aside
we're on the front line

But I replace it with something similar.

[Elennar Starfire]

RIP, lovely couplet.

These tears you've shed for all that now is gone
will shatter into frost again at dawn.

And I continue with another siggy of my own creation.

[Evisse the Blue]

"Who tied my hands to the wheel? The zodiac turns over me
Somewhere there my fate revealed - I hear but how will I see"

It's from a Nightwish song called "The Siren". Wonderful song, great lyrics.

[Rilwen Gamgee]

Alas, my old signature must lay to rest; I would keep it, but there's the 3-line rule to consider... Analogies are wonderful :cool: :

"A film is like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One might say, 'Oh, I don't like it.' One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin." -- Denzel Washington

As to my new one, it's quite a lovely psalm-- and a long one, at that! My signature is but a snippet.

[Lindolirian]

"A good reputation is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth." I liked this one because of the attitude toward reputation which is a lot like it is here on the Downs, and also because of the day of death thing which goes right along with the morbid theme. But I got tired of it. :rolleyes: I'm still leaving the other one up because it's not ready to come down yet.:)

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

1. Aragorn (http://69.51.5.41/showthread.php?t=5249&page=5&highlight=pointless#post362078): What do you expect? You're a stupid and pointless character.

2. Théoden (http://69.51.5.41/showthread.php?t=5249&page=5&highlight=breakneck#post361958): So eat, drink and be Pippin! Forget the fact that tomorrow we may be needed to ride our horses at breakneck speeds!

3. Sauron (http://69.51.5.41/showthread.php?t=5249&page=5&highlight=Obi-Wan#post362586): Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father.

4. Éomer (http://69.51.5.41/showthread.php?t=5249&page=5&highlight=talking#post359604): Is it just me, or does he keep talking, like we're listening or something?

5. Beacon man #1 (http://69.51.5.41/showthread.php?t=5249&page=5&highlight=stuck#post365342): How did we get stuck with this job anyway?

6. Merry (http://69.51.5.41/showthread.php?t=5249&page=5&highlight=oxymoron#post350218): Raised to the ground? Isn't that an oxymoron?

7. Aragorn (http://69.51.5.41/showthread.php?t=5249&page=5&highlight=water#post364148): But it’s near the water. I’m afraid of the water.

8. Boromir (http://69.51.5.41/showthread.php?t=5249&page=5&highlight=refreshments#post364376): I'm just here for the refreshments.

9. Faramir (http://69.51.5.41/showthread.php?t=5249&page=4&highlight=place#post310424): In place of a dark lord, you will have a QUEEN! Not dark, but beautiful and terrible as the...

10. Faramir (http://69.51.5.41/showthread.php?t=5249&page=5&highlight=killed#post349135): Uh . . . Orcs killed him?

These are quotes from the New Movie Script (http://69.51.5.41/showthread.php?t=5249&page=6) project.

Too much links. The golden letters blind me.

[Rimbaud]

Never saw moons knew the meaning of the sea.

Ah, Nick.

[The Saucepan Man]

The dough-faced ploughboy coughed and hiccoughed his way through Loughborough.A wonderful illustration of the complexities of pronunciation in the English language, courtesy of a letter in my daily newspaper.

But now for something completely different ...

[Mithalwen]

Brooke replaced Brooke....

so farewell then "Most individual and bewildering ghost" maybe I will be a bewildering ghost in my next death........ it was a hard call...


and while I am at it..I am ready for another change ....so I may as well add this now

"Frost, with a gesture, stays the waves that dance" ..

[Nuranar]

Farewell to thee, O plain-spoken sailor-man!

Name a shrub after me. Something prickly and hard to eradicate.

Super-points to whoever can identify the source for this next one. (It ain't gonna happen. ) :smokin:

[Sophia the Thunder Mistress]

~ Vincent Gilmore, Solicitor, in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White

Give me an Uber-point, for I have read thy blog. :cool:

I did love your old quote though. Nominated it for Best Sig myself!

Sophia

[Nuranar]

Cheater! Tricksy! False!

;)

I should have added a proviso, Thou shalt keep thy mouth shut if thou readest mine blog.

I did love your old quote though. Nominated it for Best Sig myself!

I noticed that, I did. Thank you kindly, dear. Points on both counts! (Nothing stingy about me, no sir!)

Nuranar

P.S. It still wouldn't have happen without the blog! :p

[the phantom]

I am laying this quote to rest-
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
I like that quote. Can't remember where I heard it, though. :p

While floating around the Downs lately I've noticed several members ushering in the Valentine's Day season with romantic/flowery love-related sigs, and I decided that I, too, would honor the day with my signature.

So, during the next few days, my signature will display some of my favorite quotes about love.

[Ainaserkewen]

Yes, love is imagination isn't it.

I'm putting to rest my latest:
"You have the right to think whatever you want and I have the right to kill you for it."

It was shocking for the length of time I needed it to be. Plus it was a great tribute to my History Teacher. Thanks Mr. Rajotte, now I can answer more Jeopardy questions!

[Evisse the Blue]

"Tasty is as tasty does"
---Mom
Ah, the wisdom of the elders...(Mom's not that old though...but she's way smarter than me).

[Firefoot]

My newest old and buried sig: "Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising/ I came singing in the sun, sword unsheathing.
To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking:/ Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!"

[Gil-Galad]

I pass my Monty Python quote for a newer, more personal one...

[the phantom]

I will lay aside this quote...
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
...and replace it with another entertaining Valentine's Day/love quote.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

For all that I liked my song lyrics, it is time to pay homage to my favorite cartoon.

So goodbye, Life may be storm/should it be calm today/then be ready for tomorrow and hello Dr. Orpheus.

Fea

[Estelyn Telcontar]

I'm laying aside my current Arwen quote: ...he saw the elven-light in her eyes and the wisdom of many days... for a temporary P.D.Q. Bach spree.

[Mithalwen]

Prigioniera ho l’alma in pena,ma si bella è la catena, che non cerca liberà. Mesto, infermo, il cor sen’giace,ma il suo mal così gli piace,che bramar pace non sa.
Arrivederci, la catena is not so bella at the moment .....

[the phantom]

Now that Valentine's Day is past, it is time to get back to a more phantomish siggy. I lay this one to rest...
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

You are one lucky duck! Oh, it must be dreamy to have a costumed nemesis, chasing you, wringing his gloved hands in concern of your every move.
~Dr. Orpheus


This is only a temporary rest for my nemesis signature, but as a sign of respect...

[Gil-Galad]

Anti Orc-Slaying in the New Year


was a short-lived sig of mind...so much hatred towards orcs... well i added a new one of course

[Nuranar]

I hereby lay to rest this curiously discussion-provoking statement made by Vincent Gilmore, solicitor, in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White:

"No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman."

And now for another immortal morsel of wisdom, this time from the lips of that sober sage, Bertie Wooster. :eek:

[Imladris]

I hearby lay to rest both sig and SA avvie:

Dream is alive, I can run up the hills every night,
Go around and see another side of the tree
All I want is to be untamed and free, howl and (dream)

Lovely song that. :)

[Lhunardawen]

I have denied this quote its death for too long...now at last I allow it to rest.

An early Valentines' Day tribute:
Roses are red, violets are blue,
Some poems don't rhyme...and this is one of them.

[Evisse the Blue]

I will lay to rest this beautiful quote from a song by Joe Dassin:

"Si tu n'existais pas, / J'essaierais d'inventer l'amour,
Comme un peintre qui voit sous ses doigts / Naître les couleurs du jour. / Et qui n'en revient pas."

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

No longer needing to pay respects to the [un]dead, I bring back Dr. Orpheus. Although I must admit it's nice to know Crystal Heart's not dead.

[Ainaserkewen]

Rest in pieces...
Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are. Every syllable rings true if you think of the media and all those terrible reality shows out there.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

And now that my nice little bit of mischief went off without a hitch... here's another.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

And so I lay to rest

RIP Crystal Heart
Whoops... my bad.

In favor of... yet again... some mischief. Eventually I suppose I may once again pick a signature to last more than a few days. Although I do plan to soon launch a cartoon heya to David Bowie in the near future...

[Gil-Galad]

my shortest lived quote that i think no one noticed that all

"My Karma ran over my Dogma"


well i hope my next one is more notcied

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Seemingly unable to leave well enough alone, I, yet again, feel the need to change my signature. And so

RIP Inktomi Slurp Spider
is laid to rest, having earned the desired reaction. I shall now try for a wee bit of Monty Python-esque action.

[the phantom]

It is time to bury my current sig-
"Arrogant and right is surely better than humble and wrong."
Yes, it is time for a new sig.

But wait... did I say new? Not new- but rather an old sig who's revivification was requested by a couple of my good friends here on the Downs. ;)

[Evisse the Blue]

"nothing is lost, nothing whatever; memory accumulates treasures, stored-up secrets grow in darkness and dust, and one day a transient visitor at a lending library wants a book that has not once been asked for in twenty-two years."

By Vladimir Nabukov.

True and very beautifully said. :)

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

If writers only wrote what they know, the world would be full of stupid books. ~A. Devitt

A nice line from a cool author.

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

In this world you will have trouble.

I intended to keep it for quite a long time; unfortunately, I found a witty quote I couldn't resist using as a sig. So there.

[Nuranar]

"It just showed once again that half the world doesn’t know how the other three quarters lives."
Bertie Wooster

And now for a spot of Lord Peter...

[Evisse the Blue]

"The Paradox of Nightwish: It uses dark words but it makes them sound happy."

by ?
Heard (seen) on an IRC channel while ago. It would be silly if it weren't true. :D

EDIT: And because I hope everyone knows by now Enca made this wonderful avvie, I'll lay this bit to rest as well:

Thanks Encaitare, for the avatar :)

[Elennar Starfire]

Silent shadows never die.

But much-loved siggies do, sometimes.

[Lhunardawen]

I lay this sig to rest...things are not just going to happen and to commemorate my past four years of torture...

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

You mean you're actually graduating from high school?

[Mithalwen]

I have freaked Eomer long enough;)

Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Eomer of the Rohirrim.

So goodbye to Winston, if not the thought police ....

[Amanaduial the archer]

Farewell to my Song of Solomon signature...Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; For my head is filled with dew, My locks with the drops of the night *sigh* I do like that one, and it will probably re-emerge.

And behold the new siggy, an Easter themed on, from a passage about the mysterious Woman with the Alabaster Jar, Mary Magdalene. I just like this particular line...The whole house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume...and so it becomes my siggy.

[Gil-Galad]

i guess my last one is gone, even though only one person pmed me for good luck... :(

[HerenIstarion]

...You shouldn’t listen to all you hear...

[Formendacil]

"Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him." - Proverbs 26:12

Farethee well, first of my avatars....

I would not have replace thee, but as I was posting in this (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread.php?t=11784) thread, I was struck with an idea for a new avatar.

Therefore, in a matter of minutes, thou wilt be no more.

[vanwalossien]

Had the same quote in my sig for a year now, perhaps time for a change, even though it was one of my favourite quotes, said by one of my more odd friends.. :)
"I listen to the voices inside my head, so please speak up"

Had to go though, Douglas Adams is, after all, Douglas Adams. The genius. =)

[Amanaduial the archer]

And here I lay to rest possibly my shortest sig, duration-wise:

The whole house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume But then, it was only meant to be a temporary, Easter style siggy. And along comes my new one, which is from the book I am currently reading: The Plague Dogs, by Richard Adams. Brilliant book, though maybe a little grisly. Snitter, the character who sings this little ditty, is a brilliant character: utterly mad, but all the better for it...

The whitecoats painted a mouse bright blue, and stuffed his ears with sneezing glue.
They shone a biscuit in his eye, to see what lay beyond the sky.
The mouse he knew not what he did, he blew them up with a saucepan lid...

[Firefoot]

Didn't last very long, but another random quote laid to rest:"Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends."

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

A journey of a thousand sites begins with a single click.

My new sig is part of a series of twisted saws. And I mean twisted.

[Maeggaladiel]

Goodbye for now, Groucho.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx

So I don't spam, and since I'm the last one to post, I'll post my newly-deceased sig in this old post. So here goes nada.

Well, you know, you can't make an omelette without... er... destroying a forest. Or something. -Black Mage, 8-Bit Theatre

Gotta love 8-Bit Theatre.

[Lhunardawen]

I think, therefore I get headaches. I don't think anymore. My brain's on vacation.

[dancing spawn of ungoliant]

"Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end."
I kind of liked this quote by Legolas. Kind of...
Anyway, it's time to move on and make way for a new sig.

[Son of Númenor]

A God, a God their severance ruled;
And bade betwixt their shores to be
The unplumb'd, salt, estranging sea.These line in particular resonated deeply with me when I read Arnold's "To Marguerite", but I've decided that at last it is time to exchange it for a more contemporary (though no less pertinent to my own inclinations) quotation.

[Mithalwen]

"Oh, no no no, it was too cold always......
I was much too far out all my life
And not waving but drowning"

I love this one and I find it very moving ....but it has been over a week and I am in a less bleak mood so.....

[Evisse the Blue]

I realized I haven't laid my old sig to rest:

Imi elyë na vanessë Ambaron ya Qualmë nye i Lindir carnë.
Menelnya ontanë sinomë
A laven auta

It's Elvish (Quenya) for:

Sinussa maailman kauneus
Josta kuolema teki minusta taiteilijan
Oman taivaan tänne loin
Anna minun päästä pois

which is Finnish for:

In you is the beauty of the world, of which death made me an artist
My own heaven I created here
Let me get away

Hope I confused you all. ;)
Lyrics by Nightwish, Quenya translation by yours truly. Someone said on this forum (apologies for not remembering exactly who at this moment!) that this song reminds one of LOTR, despite no obvious reference. I agree...

[HerenIstarion]

RIP

"Quand on veut un mouton, c'est la preuve qu'on existe"

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

I'll let Mithalwen's Little Prince signature rest here. It's only right that it can lie next to its sibling.

Everything was revealed to her, I say, I say....

[Lush]

Here I lay down the wisdom of the late, great Tupac Shakur. May both this quote and he rest in peace.

And still I see no changes/Can't a brother get a little peace?/There's war on the streets and a war in the Middle East

:(

[Mithalwen]

Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want.


I believe it but it is time for a change and since it isn't happening elsewhere I will change my sig ;)

[Ainaserkewen]

Vrei sa pleci dar nu ma, nu ma (http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/numa.php) iei, Nu ma, nu ma iei,
nu ma, nu ma, nu ma (http://www.campusbreak.com/content/flash/flash.php?flash=anims/napoleonnumanuma.swf) iei.


I'm putting this to rest for awhile....just until I'm done gloating over mopping the floor at Band Comp. this year...

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

I lay to rest the short-lived, but no less beloved, The Boondock Saints quote:

Now you will receive us. We do not ask for your poor, or for your hungry. We don’t want your tired and sick. It is your corrupt we claim...
But since I fell in love with The Pax Cecilia (google it, foo ;) ) this winter, I've been waiting to use their lines for signatures. So now I have a piece of the segment that goes thus:

"i stole my inspiration from a lonely ghost road, someday this curse will catch up with me. and someday i will fit my memiors in the palm of your hand. meredith, meredith, someday you will fit my memiors in the palm of your hand, and they will accompany you as you give up hope. and meredith, all my life you'll be humming lullabies into my ear in such a disjointed and quivering melody, and on my deathbed you'll be screaming repentance to the rhythm of my slowing heartbeat. god, i have never known a thought so lovely."

[Lhunardawen]

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." Thank you, George Bernard Shaw. Now there's something to defend me when I'm being unreasonable. Oh, and thank you too, Gen. Mike Rodgers of Op-Center.

[Evisse the Blue]

I lay to rest:

"Nightfall
Quietly crept in and changed us all"
(Blind Guardian)

I can really see this song being played at the end of the world.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

.all my life you'll be humming lullabies into my ear in such a disjointed and quivering melody, and on my deathbed you'll be screaming repentance to the rhythm of my slowing heartbeat...
I retire you early... Fluorescence A.D. 1429: Burning the Body of Joan of Arc, you are still one of my favorites, even though your creators saw fit to saddle you with such a long name.
My new one is from the same band, but instead comes from the song MDCCLXXV. Or was it The Crux Candide? Crazy CD intertwines tracks almost flawlessly.

[Elennar Starfire]

RIP, Hollow Kingdom quote.

"Forks are absurd! They insult your food. They make it think you're killing it twice." ~Marak

My new one's Nightwish lyrics. Thankies, Evisse, it's all your fault. :D

[HerenIstarion]

It is no longer (http://www.geocities.com/gl_century/wedding_civil/wedding.html) appropriate to be after impressing young women, so my former quote should be laid to rest from now on:

Poetry is like hermits - No point freezing your nadgers off while communing with the Infinite unless you could rely on a lot of impressionable young women to come along occasionally and say Gosh (http://geocities.com/gl_century/reverse.html)

It was fun, but now is over. We move to new horizons with Mark 10:8 :D

[Evisse the Blue]

RIP:

Do I bathe in wonders, do I dwell in dreams, Have I been touched by spirits finding me when I'm asleep, The melody of moments keeps me awake at night, The eyes of storytellers following me secretly, My senses capture me
From the very beautiful song "Senses Capture' by Norwegian band Leaves Eyes.

I realized that for a while now I've only been quoting songs in my sigs, and keeping them a relatively short time. :rolleyes:

RIP, Hollow Kingdom quote.



My new one's Nightwish lyrics. Thankies, Evisse, it's all your fault. :D

Hihi. Can't say how happy this makes me :D *hugs Elannar*

[Bêthberry]

Way past time to put this one to rest, even though no one has seen the link between it and Barrow Wight's avatar. Sometimes I am just too subtle. ;)


Do you believe in U.F.O.'s, astral projections, mental telepathy, E.S.P., clairvoyance, spirit photography, telekinetic movement, full-trance mediums,the Loch Ness monster, and the theory of ... Numenor?

New one on the way, I guess, when I find something appropriate.

[Ainaserkewen]

Here comes a candle to light you to bed and here comes the chopper to chop off your head...

I rather liked this quote, I wonder if anybody knows where it's from.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

...seventeen hours after the last sunrise seen, the trails of you evaporate into themselves; into the breaths we never took, into the night that never stopped waiting for dawn...


I'm extremely fond of this signature, and it will no doubt come back... but first I have a few others to get out of my system.

[piosenniel]

Here comes a candle to light you to bed and here comes the chopper to chop off your head...

It's from an old nursery rhyme and a children's game called Oranges and Lemons (http://www.rhymes.org.uk/oranges_and_lemons.htm).

Fun to play and appeals to the more gruesome side of a child's personality.

~*~ Pio

[Ainaserkewen]

I found that out secondly after I'd heard the quote and only those words in two interesting places: The movie Closet Land and Orwell's 1984.

[Mithalwen]

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

Despite the praise ... I have been accused by someone of being too girly so ... :D

[dancing spawn of ungoliant]

It's everywhere hiding the listener. Without it I could not live. Silence. (http://www.sonataarctica.info/)


I came up with a more appropriate one...

[Lhunardawen]

From A.S. Exupery's The Little Prince...I must endure the presence of two or three caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

[Holbytlass]

"...who's got their claws in you, my friend,
into your heart I'll beat again." Crash (DMB)
Tol-in-Gauroth


This lyric from Dave Mathews Band, Crash I found to be quite fitting. Most obvious the 'claw part', as in wolves; the 'my friend' because I was innocent and concerned for other innocents.
The 'into your heart, I'll beat again' because I was the seer and after my death all would be looking back to all that I said and therefore I would 'live' again.

[Evisse the Blue]

"Golden apples from the grove fall down the tree/
And make all the Bacchants gather in Arcady/To dance on the Festival of the Tragedy/And eat the fruits of ecstasy"

Lyrics from (if you'll pardon the disagreeable repetition) 'From the Dionysian Days' - by Therion. I love this song. The world still has need of Arcady. :)

My new one is very tongue in cheek but I can't be held responsible for it, oh no. :p Blame Mr Ezra Pound. I intend to keep it for a longer while *crosses fingers*

[Lhunardawen]

I hate Math and anything that reminds me of it, so I'll get rid of this:
To learn, sometimes we must unlearn.
It's actually a lesson I learned to make my Math class less of a torture chamber than it actually is.

But now I'm beginning to think I should assign this to Mordor (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread.php?t=11894) instead... :D

[Holbytlass]

The one who's barely there
Is the one to be 'ware
Tol-in-Gauroth III


When Shelob, Oddwen and I were the wolves and we went with the strategy of all of us being "quiet".

[Amanaduial the archer]

I lay to rest...

The whitecoats painted a mouse bright blue, and stuffed his ears with sneezing glue,
They shone a biscuit through his eye, to see what lay beyond the sky,
The mouse he knew not what he did, he blew them all up with a saucepan lid...

Wonderfully weird: a quote from Snitter, one of the main characters in Richard Adams' 'The Plague Dogs', one of my favourite books. I liked that siggy very much, but hey, time to move on...

[mark12_30]

Farewell to:

Indeed my friends, none of you have any weapon that could hurt me. Be merry! We meet again. --Gandalf

[dancing spawn of ungoliant]

Ah, enough with anagrams and WW games... for a while.

Join the Bandwagon!
dancing spawn of ungoliant - (http://www.arrak.fi/ag/index_en.html) awful posting cannonading

It's time for something new.

[Elennar Starfire]

Never sigh for a better world, it's already composed, played, and told. Every thought the music I write, everything a wish for the night.

*sniffle* That song makes me cry...but now it's time for my revenge on Falky. She really did sing that! *points down at new siggy*

[Nuranar]

To be used no more (on this forum, at least):

Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
~ Lord Peter Wimsey

But I'm not finished with Lord Peter yet. ;)

[Fordim Hedgethistle]

It's time to give my siggy a well-deserved rest:

Iċ scēawode Þingas Þa ġē lēode noldon cunnan: hildescipu byrnende be eaxle Orionis; iċ wlāt sæ-bēacnas glitinian in deorcum Tanhauseres ġeat nēah. Eall Þāra sīða sīen ġē-losod in tīde, swylce swā tēaras in rīne. Tīd tō sweltan.

Nobody ever told me if they successfully translated it...it's the dying speech of Roy Batty from Blade Runner:

"I have seen things that you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion; I have seen C-beams glittering in the dark near Tanhauser's Gate. All of these moments will be lost, like tears in the rain. Time to die."

[Mithalwen]

It's time to give my siggy a well-deserved rest:



Nobody ever told me if they successfully translated it...it's the dying speech of Roy Batty from Blade Runner:

"I have seen things that you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion; I have seen C-beams glittering in the dark near Tanhauser's Gate. All of these moments will be lost, like tears in the rain. Time to die."


Well an unfamiliarity with that opus proved a handicap - the new one is a doddle though :D

[dancing spawn of ungoliant]

This was a really special sig for me but it's time to move on. Farewell.The Warg and Warg Rider Appreciation Thread is proud to sponsor dancing spawn of ungoliant This space has been rented by Eomer of the Rohirrim, Esq.

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

It was an honour, dancing spawn. And the whole signature style was so very inventive of you (even if you didn't originally have that intention ;) ).

[Orominuialwen]

Here I lay to rest a signature that has served me well for several months:"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." --A.A. Milne It quite aptly describes the state of my room, as well as my mind!

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

++Nilpaurion I'm-A-Werewolf-And-Proud-Of-It Felagund.

Originally by Anguirel.

. . . and . . .

++Nilpaurion "Kill Me Now" Felagund

Originally by Encaitare.

Good bye! I have to return the ++es to Werewolves--and reps.

(Although my precious lynch rate will remain in my sig.)

[HerenIstarion]

Time to lay to rest my previous"

they are no more twain, but one flesh (http://www.geocities.com/gl_century/wedding_civil/wedding.html)

Not that I do not feel that way any more :), but I'm in the habit of changing sigs in every two months of so, so it is the time to move on

My next one will be

Are you ghoulie or ghostie or wee student beastie?

Said by Peeves the Poltergeist to Harry Potter the Invisible. As my newly acquired Harry Potter VI is cradled by my bedside appreciated and caressed as I read through first 5 to get a better taste before I plunge in to savour the new one, it is time to have HP sig again. This particular one fits to BD as well, given our main theme, and amount of studens present, and seeing as they are invisible apart from their posts on my screen :D

[Dimturiel]

Here I am laying to rest my first signature, which represents a part of one of my favourite poem by Tolkien:
For still there are so many things
That I have never seen
In every wood, in every spring
There is a different green,

This stanza has always brought tears to my eyes. I give all my respect to the one that can put such thoughts into such beautiful and simple verses.

[Lhunardawen]

I lay to rest one of the most hurtful signatures I've ever had:

So, though it crushes me to say this, Lhunardawen is near the top of my list (http://www.livejournal.com/users/melatariel). -Eomer of the Rohirrim, Werewolf VII

At least we were both afflicted by his words. :p

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Now I lay this sig to rest
And hope the next one is the best
And makes its way to the sig page
Where t'ward Mario, 'Mer will rage.

Покойтесь с миром, жареные голуби, ибо смерть Ваша по предписанию Всадника была не напрасна! Нет, дорогие птицы, коль дали Вы подпись мне, гордитесь!

Oh, and for anyone who wanted the actual translation (and it should be very close to perfect, since Heren helped me with the grammer)

Rest in peace, dear grilled doves, for your deaths by the decree of the Rider were not in vain. No, you have given me a new signature, and for that, dear birds, be proud.

[The Only Real Estel]

Having just discovered this thread I must ask forgiveness to a great deal of my favorite sigs for not giving them a proper burial. But I will rectify that for two here & now.

My very first Tol-In-Gaurhoth sig (at least that I can remember):

In Tol-in-Gaurhoth (Isle of Werewolves), you can count on...
Becoming a liar. I suspect that very few times will telling half-truths & avoiding direct questions keep you alive for long. (used once)


Though it may not have been completely accurate...

And possibly my favorite Tol-In-Gaurhoth sig:

In Tol-in-Gaurhoth (Isle of Werewolves), you can count on...
Throwing up. The BW takes pride in describing each death scene from the night before in great detail, almost as if you're there...& that's not necessarily good! (used once)

Enjoy your rest, I may bring you back. ;)

[mark12_30]

When Bilbo was ninety-nine, he adopted Frodo as his heir, and brought him to live at Bag End...

A good quote, and one I may revisit.

[Bêthberry]

I lay to rest:

~Don't try to lay no boogie-woogie on the King of Rock and Roll.

RIP Long John Baldry~

I take up:

what does the arrow know
but the bowstring

[Elennar Starfire]

I've never been able to keep the goofy ones very long...I get impatient with them! So goodbye, my cheeky piper quote.

"If you can't play while wearing a thong, what kind of half-arsed piper are you?"

"That was CHEEKY, Brian. Very CHEEKY."

[ohtatyaro]

A lot of people are idiots at the age of fifteen (http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/home.asp)
I'm fifteen. I'll grow outta it.

Is laid to rest, as it is no longer accurate :)

[Orominuialwen]

I now lay to rest my old signature: "On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "Oromin (http://www.livejournal.com/~orominuialwen): she's quiet and creepy..." ~Fea, MM I really love the quotation from Le Petit Prince and may return to it one day. (For those of you who don't speak French, it means "One doesn't see well except with the heart. The essentials are invisible to the eyes.")

The other part of my signature still cracks me up. Feanor said it about me when we were wolves together in WW5, and I loved it (and the similar things said about me in later games) that I used it in my avatar, which I do plan on retaining for a while.

My new signature is the first verse of a song that the cast sang in one of the tavern scenes in a production of Henry IV I recently went to. My friend (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/member.php?u=4767) made a most excellent Prince Hal.

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

From the 8th to the 22th of August, 2005, dear Kath left the Downs temporarily as she went on vacation. During that time, I was distressed! How do I dispell the longing sighs that would come from coming across a post of hers? Being of an eminently weird disposition, I thought the solution would be to use some of her quotes as sigs.

Since she has since come back, I lay them to rest.


Hey Nilpaurion I just translated your little poem and it really does fit! Especially if you put in next to the picture of Saruman in bright pink robes . . . ~Kath

As to my suspicions, I would still like to hear . . . a bit more from Nilp as his only post claims he is here as his alter-ego, so we already know he's in two minds! ~Kath

Sorry I've been having trouble thinking of one. Next time I guess I'll make sure I have one to hand! You can take it Nilp. ~Kath

I think Nilp would be pale . . . as if he's spent a little too much time indoors on the computer, or fighting to see which personality is going to come out on top today. ~Kath

Now I know you're insane! And that picture in your last post Nilp, was that you as a kid because if so you were so cute! ~Kath

Nilp - voted for himself but since we know he is an innocent we'll just have to agree that he's insane. ~Kath

[The Saucepan Man]

I rather liked this one, as it kind of went with the idea of my current Wolfpan Man avatar:

He had saucepans and kettles hung all over him, he wore a saucepan for a hat, and he crashed two saucepans together as he danced!

'Do you think he's dangerous?' said Joe, in a whisper.But I have been itching to use this one ever since Durelin uttered it and, now that Werewolf IIX is over, I can:

SaucepanMan says too much, and really has no idea what he's doing.
- Durelin, Werewolf IIXWise words of general application. :D

[Meneltarmacil]

Alright, I'm through withBeware the Cows of Doom! MOOOOOOOOOO!!!! for the moment, and have gotten a Werewolf one instead.

[Dimturiel]

I think the time has come for me to have a new signature so I have decided to lay this one to rest, although I think that I may have it again.
Banners flowing in the west,/ In the distance horns are blowing,/Tears of sadness, come to rest,/Tears of joy, start flowing.
It's the first stanza from a poem of mine called " Return of the king.".

[Elennar Starfire]

Dust of the galaxies take my hand
Lead me to my beloved's land...
Join my soul the Hunter in the sky

No longer applies. :( More appropriate quote now (don't ask, for I shan't explain).

[Glirdan]

Well, time for me to search for another sig from the WW game, so here I am to lay this one to rest.

Glirdan has got my suspicions up. He(?) talks a lot but does little more than agree with what others have posted and repeat the accusations and points that others have made. Might he be a beast trying to stay inconspicuous?- Saucy, Werewolf IX

Buh bye quote from Saucy, who was first to accuse me!!

[The Perky Ent]

If practice makes perfect, and nobody is perfect, why practice?

Alas, that it must depart to Elvenhome. *sigh* Oh well...I still have it on a bumper sticker!

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

I had two sigs in my native language quite a while ago, and I forgot to put them here. Until now.

Napapangiti, hindi ko alam ang dahilan. (I can't help but smile, but I do not know why.)

I just picked this line from some local song because it is in Filipino, and it was Linggo ng Wika (Filipino Week) then.

Kung every time sinasabi [>sasabihin] mo yung name ni Kath binibigyan mo 'ko ng piso, milyonaryo na 'ko ngayon. ~Abby (If everytime you said Kath's name you gave me a peso [name of local currency], I'd be a millionaire now.)

Said by my sister Lhuny-tunes once while we were chatting about random stuff over chips. Right now she's the fourth . . .

Third.

What?

Right now she's the third, no longer the fourth, richest woman in the world.

WHAT?!

Enedwaith, after that I had a sig in Quenya, but I'm not laying it to rest, because I plan to use it agan.

[Glirdan]

Well, I'm laying this sig to rest in order to for me to find something to do with my WW occupation.

Glirdan is my main suspect. He has been pointing fingers a lot, especially to the quiet, inexperienced ones, and seems to want to be good friends with everybody, agreeing and nodding a lot, changing his mind randomly... Cailín, WW IX

I'll miss you my dear quote. But I'm going on to big and better things.

[wilwarin538]

Wow just noticed what this thread is about. It might take me awhile to mention all of my past sigs. :rolleyes: But I will mention my two favorites:

I'll go to your funeral if you go to mine.

and

I dream of a better tomorrow. Where chickens can cross the road without having their motives questioned.

Though its very much possible that I will bring them back from the dead in the future. :p

[The Perky Ent]

Curse the 250 Character limit!

I traded my There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who eat at deli's, and those you shouldnt' associate with

with

May the Schwartz be with you!


R.I.P. Fanatical love of deli's! Namarie

[Glirdan]

Yes, I'm giving up another sig. I'm replacing my

"Hurry up!! Everyone sit down!!! Gil, I SAID SIT!!! It's time for our lesson on werewolves...."

for

Coming to a village near you!! A new saga, a new village full of newbies!! WW Junior I!!!!! Viewer discretion is somewhat advised.

This is for... you guessed it.... Werewolf Junior!!!! As a sidenote for this, that saga (if it lasts long enough) will not be starting until WW X finishes.

[Mithalwen]

Farewell (for now to

Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen, Tot und Verzweiflung flammen um mich her!

I am sure it will return but I can never keep my sig long.....

[Glirdan]

I'm only getting rid of my newest addition to my sig:

Told you you'd be sorry if you lynched me!!!

As if people didn't believe me!!! Oh well.

[The Perky Ent]

I didn't do it! You can't prove it! The sheep are lying!

4 8 15 16 23 42

Me cotheri de cotheri deri gadi

May safe passage bear you to Mandos, where you may sleep and be comforted.

[Glirdan]

Buh bye to another quote of mine:

Coming to a village near you!! A new saga, a new village full of newbies!! WW Junior I!!!!! Viewer discretion is somewhat advised.

But it's being replaced by something funner, and to do with the upcoming WWJ game.

WWJ I: A New Saga, A New Beginning...Or Is It??? DUH DUH DUH!!!!!!!

[Bêthberry]

Au revoir Baudelaire et Le Chat


Ils prennent en songeant les nobles attitudes
Des grands sphinx allongés au fond des solitudes,
Qui semblent s'endormir dans un rêve sans fin .

et bonjour Ursula K LeGuin


"Ten years ago, I went to the children's room of the library of such-and-such a city, and asked for The Hobbit; and the librarian told me, 'Oh, we keep that only in the adult collection; we don't feel that escapism is good for children." from Why Are Americans Afraid of Dragons?

I wonder how Tolkien felt rubbing shoulders with other books in the adult collection. :rolleyes:

[Glirdan]

I know this is soon, but hey, I thought of something a little better.

WWJ I: A New Saga, A New Beginning...Or Is It??? DUH DUH DUH!!!!!!!

Rest in peace my sig. You're being replaced by something that has to do with WWJ(of course)

Welcome to Fwedawick. Population 15...for now.

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

Lynch rate: 67%
It was fun while it lasted, but it became an increasingly difficult game to play.

Your actual lynch rate should be 40%, right? If you include Adam's game and your last one, that is.

Well . . .

[Glirdan]

Welcome to Fwedawick. Population 13...for now.

Getting old. Going to be replaced by:

WWJ I Current Village Population: 12 Dead: Glirdan and Wayne

I find it practical because that way, those people who aren't following the game know who died in it. Of course I'm talking about WWJ.

[HerenIstarion]

Are you ghoulie or ghostie or wee student beastie?

laid to rest until better times

[Anguirel]

Alight, traitor knight, for if this mare's son hath failed me, wit thou well a king's son and a queen's son shall not fail thee.

~Sir Gawaine to Sir Launcelot, Le Morte D'Arthur~

Farewell, Sir Gawaine. You will return, but this hilarious statement displaced you-

That Ingwe, sitting at the feet of Manwe like a great blond pudding.

[Orominuialwen]

Goodbye to my beloved drinking song:
We be soldiers three (http://www.ysp.org/)
Pardonnez-moi, je vous en prie
Lately come forth from the Low Country
With never a penny of money. (http://www.livejournal.com/users/orominuialwen)


I am replacing it with something I have planned on doing for a long time.

[Bêthberry]

Some lines must be commemorated:

My new siggie, courtesy of the phantom's latest Werewolf game:


When you read my posts in Werewolf X (I was a wolf in that game) you will find that I barely lied at all.

The key is to tell truths that don't lead to the truth.
__________________
TOL-IN-GAURHOTH XII, Erbar Telamarth


which puts to rest a little bit of Tolkien reception history:


I went to the children's room of the library . . . and asked for The Hobbit; and the librarian told me, 'Oh, we keep that only in the adult collection; we don't feel that escapism is good for children.' Ursula K Le Guin

Thank you, Ursula LeGuin

[Dimturiel]

I am now laying to rest this beautiful HP quote :Let us step out into the night and pursue that flightly temptress, adventure.

[Thinlómien]

[I]"Who shall gather the smoke of the dead wood burning
or behold the flowing years from the sea returning?" Rohirrim definitely are great poets, but I wanted a new sig.

[Nurumaiel]

I was attached to this quote, and will probably return it, but I wanted a time with the new sweet one I found, so fare thee well for a little while....

A child of seven is excited by being told that Tommy opened a door and saw a dragon. But a child of three is excited by being told that Tommy opened a door. ---Ethics of Elfland, G.K. Chesterton

[Bêthberry]

Enough of this paen to ThePantom! I lay to rest this quote.


When you read my posts in Werewolf X (I was a wolf in that game) you will find that I barely lied at all. The key is to tell truths that don't lead to the truth.~~
--the phantom, TOL-IN-GAURHOTH XII, Erbar Telamarth


In honour of the season I offer this. Interpret its use as you will....


Twas in the moon of wintertime when all the birds had fled . . . .

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

I thank Kath for encouraging foolery such as

morir, dormir... dormir, talvez soñar
but I must now lay it to rest in favor of something a bit more fun. :D

[The Saucepan Man]

SaucepanMan says too much, and really has no idea what he's doing.
- Durelin, Werewolf IIXAh, so true! :D

But it's time for a change.

Now that the Middle-earth Football World Cup finals have reached the second round, the competition is hotting up. So my new sig takes the opportunity to urge everyone here to get behing their local team. :smokin:

[Maeggaladiel]

I loved you, Red Mage, but I believe I love Jack Sparrow more. I shall lay thee to rest now.

My plans are ALWAYS practical! It's the laws of physics that get in the way of my success! ~Red Mage, 8-Bit Theatre

To be replaced by...

Elizabeth is safe, just like I promised. She's set to marry Norrington, just like she promised, and you get to die for her, just like you promised. So you see we're all men of our words... Except for Elizabeth, who is in fact, a woman. ~Jack Sparrow I watched that movie again last night and remembered how much I love that little miscreant.

[Bergil]

So I obviously must stop using one

R.I.P.
absolutum obseletum - if it works it's out of date

I'm bringing in something for christmas.

EDIT: now that's gone, too.

[Orominuialwen]

I now say goodbye to a sig I quite enjoyed:
For the good are always the merry,
Save by an evil chance,
And the merry love the fiddle (http://www.barnowlband.com/)
And the merry love to dance (http://www.livejournal.com/users/orominuialwen/).
It's from The Fiddler of Dooney, by W.B. Yeates, and rather expresses my outlook on things. The band I linked to in it (which is one of my absolute favorites) recites the whole poem on one of their CDs, and I really love it.

Seeing as it's already getting on to the third Sunday in Advent, it's time I changed to my Christmas sig.

[Dimturiel]

I'm hearing images,/I'm seeing songs/No poet has yet ever painted- ABBA, I let the music speak. Farewell! Time to replace you with something more appropriate with the season.

[Lush]

Now I lay it down to sleep...

"My drink's my only remedy, For pain of losing family, But while I'm gone Shorty, Everything's gonna be alright, Everything's gonna be alright."

Mr. Wyclef Jean & Co. helped me through the grief of losing my cousin and my godfather's daughter this autumn. It's a beautiful version of "No Woman No Cry," and I highly recommend it.

[HerenIstarion]

...less doth yearning trouble him who knoweth many songs, or with his hands can touch the harp - his possesion is his gift of glee which God gave him...

Is laid to rest until better times, when I'm free to touch the harp more often than I do now

[Roa_Aoife]

Finals week is upon us. The thought of utopia has faded. The decay which this institution so loves has taken a toll on my already feeble carcass, in result of consuming repulsive dining hall rations. Survival is a dim hope...God help us all...

Putting this away till next semmester.

[Maeggaladiel]

All shall tolerate me and feel indifferent!
Retiring this one for now; maybe it'll come back later. I do so adore it.

[Bergil]

RIP
A little disorder of the stomach makes <my senses> cheats.You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. There's more gravy then grave about you.
-Ebaneezer Scrooge.
christmas is over, and I now turn my eyes elsewhere (when I can spare them from my new books and video games). an election is coming, and I want my opinion known. I fear all the other Canadian wights will now want to lynch ME for ruining our reputation.

[The Saucepan Man]

I hereby lay to rest ...

Green sword on the shirt, Yellow boots are gleaming
Talking ‘bout Middle-earth, Keeps us all still dreaming
~ MEFWC (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread.php?t=12380&page=1&pp=40): Support the Downs! ~... now that all is done and dusted and the Barrow Downs team have claimed their rightful victory. :D

Instead, a quote from John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.

I would arrest anybody who uses the word State (in any sense other than the inanimate realm of England and its inhabitants, a thing that has neither power, rights nor mind); and after a chance recantation, execute them if they remained obstinate!One of my favourites of his, no less. Due credit and thanks to littlemanpoet for reminding me of it. :)

[Amanaduial the archer]

To put to rest my Christmassy one-liner...

O hush your noise, ye men of strife, and hear the angels sing... I don't know, it has always been a favourite hymn line of mine. However, Christmas is past and although advent is still going, I shall put away Christmassy things from my signature at least. I yield it to a few lines from W.H. Auden, whose words were set to music in the lovely 'Hymn To St. Cecilia'. I can't help thinking of the music as I read the words...

Blessed Cecilia, appear in vision To all musicians, appear and inspire:
Translated Daughter, come down and startle Composing mortals with immortal fire.

[Garin]

'Tis indeed a shame that a change of your signature goes retro to past posts, I'd like to have a new one every post.
I quickly retired:
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. Matt Groening
:confused:

[HerenIstarion]

RIP

Choose!© by Freedom® Ltd

[Dimturiel]

Christmas is over so it is high time I changed my signature.
This Christmas greeting that I send
Comes from a heart that's warm and true.
May gladness and contentement blend
To make a perfect day for you.

Farewell, you shall be missed. :(

[Orominuialwen]

Since it's now Epiphany and Christmas is officially over, I lay to rest my Christmas sig, from one of the most beautiful pieces of music I've ever heard.
O magnum mysterium / et admirabile sacramentum, / ut animalia viderent Dominum natum jacentem in praesepio. / O beata Virgo, cujus viscera meruerunt / portare Dominum Jesum Christum. / Alleluia! (http://www.livejournal.com/users/orominuialwen/)

Since the robotics season started yesterday morning, I'm going to use something more appropriate to that. :D

[Azaelia of Willowbottom]

I'm retiring my current sig because it is old and I'm sick of it... ;)

The old:"Azaelia of Willowbottom: A bad feeling. I can't help it. Too innocent with all her cute little flowers."-Cailin, Werewolf IX

The New:
"Azaelia of Willowbottom: To live innocently for a few days, make some major voting mistakes and be lynched by an angry, ignorant mob in the end." ~Cailin, T-I-G Dream Team

The ironic thing is that the new one is old as well, posted sometime back in October. I liked it then, when I first read it, because it's pathetically true, but went on to forget it. I then stumbled across it again today while wandering through some older threads and decided it was time for a change.

[Bergil]

old Paul's stopped being quite so pathetic. I'm still not cheering for him, but I'll find another signature

R.I.P.
lynch ++Paul Martin
what, the liar said he wants votes?

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

Balrogs are: a. acrophobic; b. winged; c. misunderstood.


Legolas is: a. the Jar-Jar Binks of The Lord of the Rings; b. blonde; c. misunderstood.


Daga is: a. short for 'Depressed Adults's Group Activity;' b. Filipino for 'mouse;' c. something you'll never find out. :p

Yep, couldn't resist the lure of multiple-choice questions (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showpost.php?p=364027&postcount=484). Unfortunately I ran out of steam and came up with only two . . . until daga'y who be short asked his fateful question (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showpost.php?p=441956&postcount=1928). So, I had a third multiple-choice question.

Well, now I'll try to keep this non-Romeo Shakespeare line for as long as possible. ;)

[Roa_Aoife]

Hail to the Redskins!

It's staying there till the Superbowl is over. Get used to it.


Next season, we will rule.

[Farael]

Next season, we will rule.

Maybe, but you are missing a "matter" (or perhaps maettr) in your siggie I believe.

And by the way, the Steelers rule NOW!! GO STEELERS!!!!

[Roa_Aoife]

Indeed I am. Thankyou Farael.

EDIT: East-coasters! WOOT!

[JennyHallu]

I love that sentence...the fun part is my dyslexic husband can't read it at all.

and...I don't care who won the Super Bowl, I wish I hadn't had so much to drink...

[gralin musicteeth]

No one gave me an answer to my question, so I guess I'll get a new signature. sigh,

Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?

I guess nobody knows.

[Amanaduial the archer]

The silver swan, who living had no note,
As death approached, unlocked her silent throat,
Leaning her breast against the reedy shore,
Sang her first, her last, and sang no more


Well, this was pretty short-lived, I guess, but Orlando Gibbons' 'The Silver Swan' goes to rest in favour of something shorter and rather less profound - and if anyone knows what this is from, I may love you forever. Well. Anyway.

Shpadoinkle!

[Envinyatar]

I couldn't resist. Alferd Packer is well known in the state I'm from.

Shpadoinkle (http://www.cannibalthemusical.org/sounds/shpadoinkle.ram)

The sky is blue and all the leaves are green.
The sun's as warm as a baked potato.
I think I know precisely what I mean,
When I say it's a shpadoinkle day.

And as I ride with my girl,
She's my best friend in the whole world!
We'll move along, set our goals high
With eyes full of hope as we aim for the...

Sky is blue and all the leaves are green.
My heart's as full as a baked potato.
I think I know precisely what I mean,
When I say it's a shpadoinkle day!
When I say it's a happy-go-moinkaly lucky shpadoinklely...dayyyyyy.

- Cannibal - the Musical -

[Amanaduial the archer]

...you're amazing. Just...*sighs happily and turns on 'Cannibal! The Musical'*

Yup...;)

[Anguirel]

I abandon the splendidly arrogant motto of the de Coucys with much regret:

'Roi je ne suis,
Ne duc, ni comte aussi,
Je suis le sieur de Coucy.'

but since they were Frenchmen fighting under the banner of St Denis they're not appropriate today...to be replaced with

And euer as he rode, his hart did earne/To prove his puissance in battel brave
Upon his foe, and his new force to learne;/Vpon his foe, a Dragon horrible and stearne.

[HerenIstarion]

Finally, though I own it for some time, I've managed to actually read Thud! (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060815221/sr=8-1/qid=1148560475/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-8441461-7863221?%5Fencoding=UTF8)

Therefore, it's time to change sigs, and I leave my Jesus Christ Superstar one to rest here:

Save tomorrow for tomorrow, think about today instead

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

Refuse to be thrown in a can.
What do I mean?

I refuse to believe that nobody reacted! It's utter refuse! :p

[Laiudanama]

Finally, though I own it for some time, I've managed to actually read Thud! Oh, it's fantastic, isn't it? The Vimes books are still the best - I mean, the witches make a close second, but Vimes will always be the best :)

This seems as good a place as any to put my very first signature:

"Tell them I came, and no one answered, that I kept my word," he said.
Never the least stir made the listeners, though every word he spake
Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house from the one man left awake

It's the feeling that there must be some unknown story behind the poem that is so intriguing... A very brief extract from Walter de La Mare's 'The Listeners' - lovely poem, not sure why I like it so much, but it is one of my favourite poems.

[Holbytlass]

It is done. I now retire my
Have you wished someone (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/calendar.php?) a HAPPY BIRTHDAY today?!

Fitting to me I started with Durelin and ended with Gurthang a couple of my werewolf playing buddies. I looked at the calendars so much that sometimes I thought people were changing their birthdates on me, a nod to Sleepy Ranger who actually did and fessed up to it!

Doing this for a year was not only to make my mark (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread.php?t=12982) but an exercise in goalkeeping. I wondered if I could do it for a whole year. I did my best. Sometimes the process became tedious and other times it's what got me popping out of bed. I fretted when I had to go on holiday and didn't have access and I cursed the six weeks when my computer was down (end of April all of May) even though it was beyond my control I felt like I tripped at the finish line.

The Barrow-Wight may be a bit humbuggish about birthdays ;) but to have a glorious death there must be a birth, a beginning for that end. And this is my end. Anyone wishing to pick up this torch I give you my blessings and my sympathies!

[The Elf-warrior]

I'm replacing this bit of wisdom from James Madison: "The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse." with a Groucho Marx quote "Well, all the jokes can't be good! You've got to expect that once in a while."~Captain Spaulding in Animal Crackers

[Carnimírië]

I'm laying to rest

"When you talk, people can't tell if you're spelling the words right."

in favor of

Sister of The Elf Warrior

[Anguirel]

Farewell, Dantean Ulysses...

Considerate la vostra semenza:
fatti non foste a viver come bruti,
ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza.

[Bêthberry]

Adieu to one of the most ironic lines in the most hilarious literary hoax of the Twentieth Century:

It is necessary to understand that a poet may not exist. Ern Malley (http://www.ernmalley.com/) . The original Angry Penguins, too.

Replaced with a line from another genius of humour:

I once absentmindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant and, with great presence of mind, they brought Thousand Island Dressing with a bottle of chili sauce. Terry Pratchett.

[Bêthberry]

This was was quickly scared away by the seasonal ghosties and ghoulies.


I once absentmindedly ordered Three Mile Island dressing in a restaurant, and with great presence of mind they brought Thousand Island Dressing and a bottle of chili sauce.

[Mithadan]

I've had this sig for many years. Time to change it, at least temporarily.

"And tales and rumours arose along the shores of the sea concerning mariners and men forlorn upon the water who, by some fate or grace or favour of the Valar, had entered in upon the Straight Way and seen the face of the world sink below them..."

[Bêthberry]

Chris Van Allsburg provided an ominous seasonal offering:


She lowered the knife and it grew even brighter. (http://hrsbstaff.ednet.ns.ca/davidc/6c_files/documents/mysteries/Harris%20Burdick/justdesert.htm)

Another seasonal thought:


There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray, love, remember; and there's pansies, that's for thoughts.

[Rimbaud]

Really excellent quotes recently, Bethberry.

I have altered the wording of mine, as reading a better translation of Art Poetique provided a better fit with the original.

[The Elf-warrior]

I am retiring my Animal Crackers quote for this:

"Killing the Barrow Wight won't solve anything!"

[Bêthberry]

Really excellent quotes recently, Bethberry.


Thanks, Rimsy. Yours ain't so bad either.

And now the season of remembrance has passed and so goes


There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray, love, remember, and there's pansies, that's for thoughts.

To be replaced by more seasonal faire, for which I offer a fuller quotation here than the stingy signature limit allows.


It was on the afternoon of the day of Christmas Eve, and I was in Mrs. Prothero's garden, waiting for cats, with her son Jim. It was snowing. It was always snowing at Christmas. December, in my memory, is white as Lapland, although there were no reindeers. But there were cats. Patient, cold and callous, our hands wrapped in socks, we waited to snowball the cats. Sleek and long as jaguars and horrible-whiskered, spitting and snarling, they would slide and sidle over the white back-garden walls, and the lynx-eyed hunters, Jim and I, fur-capped and moccasined trappers from Hudson Bay, off Mumbles Road, would hurl our deadly snowballs at the green of their eyes. A Child's Christmas in Wales (http://www.undermilkwood.net/prose_christmas.html)

There now! There's cats and Christmas and Canada all rolled into one. :D

[Bêthberry]

Well now, it appears I am single-handedly keeping this thread alive. Go me. :p

Adieu to the seasonal one from Dylan Thomas:


It was snowing. It was always snowing at Christmas. December, in my memory, is white as Lapland, although there were no reindeers. But there were cats. A Child's Christmas in Wales (http://www.undermilkwood.net/prose_christmas.html[/URL)

And hello to something for the new year, which, for a change of pace, contains nothing about cats:


as intimate -- as fugitive
As Sunset on the snow --

[Estelyn Telcontar]

In anticipation of my fifth death day this coming week, I am laying my current signature to rest and going back to my very first one - to be seen in post #1 of this thread! (Actually, I can't use the first one in its entirety - the Gandalf/Pippin quote is too long, so I have taken only the second part.)

Tolkien predicted the Barrow-Downs forum: "...talks a reader might have with other people who have read the tale; they might lead to sharing of pleasure, or to debate on disagreements; and so lead even to a second reading."
This quote describes what I've found in my years on the Downs!

[The Might]

the first post...that's like an age ago :D

Anyway, I thought that my

He who arises in Might
signature was a little bit cheesy, so I chose a new, perhaps more fitting one, because I too ask myself what it is that makes people search so much for sheer information

[Elmo]

and Eru Illuvatar said from upon high (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC73PHdQX04) - "Tee hee, isn't smiting fun" Getting rid of this, a bit stale and it probably offended people... but I wonder if anyone ever clicked on the link :D

[Anguirel]

This must be the shortest tenure one of my signatures has ever had - about four hours - but farewell

The Americans eat cranberry sauce with their turkey at one of their jollifications - Independence Day or something. Quite good it is, too.

-W.M.W. Fowler

I shall revive that at some point, but necessity, and the poignant wit of Patrick Boyle, Earl of Glasgow, demands its replacement -

"As a hereditary peer, I have already been abolished once and I don't particularly want to be abolished again. Not quite yet anyway. It really is very unsettling."

[The Elf-warrior]

This clip is funny in a moronic way.

A sea monster ate my ice cream! (http://youtube.com/watch?v=79c5JKjAQFg)

[Bergil]

and I'll get a new signature in honor of the occasion. Besides, I don't think I ever asked him if I could quote him. So I'm going to stop using

". Get rid of the monkey and we might have an opportunity to test the mettle of the organ grinder and be better placed to assess what he has to offer."
-The Saucepan Man

in favor of

I support...something.

[Estelyn Telcontar]

I lay to rest a quote by one of my all-time favourite authors... "Why, a woman can think of a hundred different things at once, all of them contradictory! (http://www.xanga.com/Estelyn)" (Georgette Heyer)
...to be replaced with one from current (re-)reading. I think it's very Downs appropriate!

[FeRaL sHaDoW]

well if i change my sig anytime soon i might aswell post it here.

Not all shadows are made from light...
some are made from darkness...

[Lhunardawen]

(That's a rather queer thing to do, resurrecting a graveyard.)

I lay down to rest this quote, which I got from Madeleine L'Engle's An Acceptable Time:
But if I knew everything, there would be no wonder, because what I believe in is far more than I know.
and replace it with something a little more appropriate for the start of the term.

[Mithalwen]

(That's a rather queer thing to do, resurrecting a graveyard.)

.

Ah but there is a wonderful little short story by Maupassant called "La Morte" in which this happens. Only four pages long but one of his best...

[Mithalwen]

Graceless, Pointless, Feckless and Aimless
Literature or just sheer flapdoodle ?

Stella Gibbons and the Starkadder cows farewell.....

[Lush]

Feanor: I made me a gemstones, and iz awsum. Ceiling Cats: We can has Silmarils? Feanor: No can has. All mine. Melkor: Oh hai. I can has Simarils. Ur hed asplode now. Kthxbai! Feanor: Iz Morgoth! Killeded my father!

This one was given to me by a friend. :)

[Bêthberry]

This one was given to me by a friend. :)

Ah, Lush, sad to see the lolcats go. But 'we were old friends immediately" seems quite fitting.

Hail Tori and Neil. and the Dream King of course.

[Kuruharan]

I do hearby retire...

Bringing back some of my classic...me!

...which I got a few compliments on (thus the honor of being commemorated in this thread) in favor of my current offering.

Which in fact is a continuation of that very sentiment so my previous sig lives on, as you can see if you look at the very first post in this thread.

Brings a tear to me eye it does, placing this gem in my sig.

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Ah, nostalgia, memories...

*hums tune from "Cats"

[Azaelia of Willowbottom]

I hereby retire my Werewolf sig ("Azaelia of Willowbottom: to live innocently for a few Days, make some bad voting decisions and be lynched by an angry, ignorant mob at the end--Cailin, TIG Dream Team Thread")

in favor of "Wherever I have been, I am back." Well-suited to me, as I'm back at the Downs after what feels like a long hiatus. :)

[Bêthberry]

Good bye for now to the Warrington Cat.


" 'I was the Cheshire Cat,' he replied with a slightly aggrieved air. 'But they moved the county boundaries, so technically speaking I'm now the "Unitary Authority of Warrington Cat", but it doesn't have the same ring to it.' "

And hello to another fiendishly clever beast.


Þä se wyrm onwoc, wroht wæs genïwad.

[Hakon]

I am not going to start a new thread for this so I will just post it here. I remember there being a quote on this site that ended in might have just as well been said by Faramir. I cannot seem to find that quote. Does anyone have the full quote? It was in someones signature.

[Eönwë]

I am not going to start a new thread for this so I will just post it here. I remember there being a quote on this site that ended in might have just as well been said by Faramir. I cannot seem to find that quote. Does anyone have the full quote? It was in someones signature.


Not wanting to steal his thunder, I will simply say that it is Andsigil (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/member.php?u=6290)'s sig. Yes, it's a good quote.

[Hakon]

Thank you for telling me. For some reason I thought it was Boro's sig and he had changed it.

[Lush]

A great Tori Amos lyric, that was the beginning of a beautiful friendship:

"If you need me, me and Neil will be hanging out with the Dream King."

:)

[Bêthberry]

Time to put dragons to rest.


Þä se wyrm onwoc, wroht wæs genïwad.

For something a little more light-hearted:


Seriously old school.

[Estelyn Telcontar]

It is with great regret that I retire my wonderful Lay of Leithian quote, at least temporarily, but the temptation was irresistable.

For every minstrel hath his tune; and some are strong and some are soft,
and each would bear his song aloft, and each a little while be heard,
though rude the note, and light the word.

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Well, I'm not usually so quick to change my signature that I double post here, but there's a first time for everything! Ring out the old: You should have learned by now: Never be generous to Esty, NEVER! (from a post by Rune)
Ring in the new, which I post here including translation, as a service to all members who don't read German: Fortsetzungen sind das Grab der Fantasie. Große Bücher bleiben stets Solitäre, deren Fortsetzung wir uns nur selber erfinden können. (Jörg Schiffmann in LN)
Sequels are the grave of imagination. Great books remain solitaires whose sequel we can only fabricate ourselves. (my translation)
This memorable statement was the conclusion of a newspaper's book review of Eoin Colfer's sequel to Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide books.

[Lush]

I'm fickle with my signatures, but that doesn't mean I don't adore them all:

I want your love. And I want your revenge. I want your love. I don't wanna be friends.

GaGa 4-eva.

ETA: You were a genius for starting this thread in the first place, Esty. So many good quotes. So many memories.

[Estelyn Telcontar]

ETA: You were a genius for starting this thread in the first place, Esty. So many good quotes. So many memories.
Why thank you! :Merisu: Like any good graveyard, there's plenty of interesting reading to be had here.

[Pitchwife]

Retired for now, but bound to be back sooner or later (it's just too good):
Men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men fight for what they meant under another name. - William Morris
Replaced for the moment by
Come not between the sheep and his pasture! Or he will not slay thee in turn. He will bear thee away on his horns to the pens of lamentation, where the tufts of thy head shall be nibbled, chewed and ruminated on in all eternity.
which came to me this afternoon as I was reconstructing the fence that keeps our two rams from my wife's flower-bed. (I know, it's rather silly...)

[Pitchwife]

Silly makes room for sillier. My last sig (see above) put through the Bad Translator (http://www.conveythis.com/translation.php) (thanks to Eönwë):
In 1942 stupid! Or maybe oil and dead zone.
Incredible, but true.:eek:

[Kuruharan]

"The time has come," the Walrus said, "to retire this here sig..."

"The time has come,” the Walrus said, “to talk of many things:
Of shoes – and ships – and sealing-wax – of cabbages – and kings –
And why the sea is boiling hot – and whether balrogs have wings"

However, since it was the quote that began this hallowed thread, it shall ever remain in honor until The End.

And who knows, I may take it up again some day.

[Bêthberry]

Good-bye to the first extant poem in English.


Earth took of earth, earth with woe,
Earth other earth to the earth added;
Earth laid earth in an earthen grave.
Then had earth of earth enough earth.


Hello to some lines, the provenance of which shall remain known to those who attended Oxonmoot.


Wheelbarrows at five
Hearses at daybreak.

[mark12_30]

Changing my location. It's been a while since Adaron left. I hear storms...

hearing only the sigh and murmur of the waves on the shores of Middle-earth

And the quote goes with it:

...into the mist a small ship passed away, twinkling with lights.

[Mithalwen]

"...a support group for wolves who have suffered, wolves who have been tempered by the fire, bold, anxious, and dreamt-of wolves. It is not something sought, but a distinction thrust upon us. "

time for a change from my self-referential Fenris wolf signature.

[Galadriel55]

It's interesting to see the different siggies people used to have.

I changed mine quite a few times. I'm not sure I remember which ones I had. Some of them:

*Elen sila lumenn omentielvo

*Wise and fearless and fair

*дороги трудны но хуже без дорог

*It's the work that's never started as takes longest to finish

*Everyone falls sooner or later. It's where you land that makes the difference.

And my current sig, which I'm going to change soon: I am alive for two reasons. The first I won't mention, and the second - so that I could read Tolkien.

Hm. I feel that I missed a few. I changed it more often than that.:confused:

[Galadriel55]

Bye bye old siggy!

Не копи печали про запас
~Олег Митяев

[Pitchwife]

G55, has Google Translate been drinking again, or does your old sig really mean "No copy of sorrow in store"?:D

[Galadriel55]

Pffffffffff! :D That's what you get when you translate literally, and kind of using synonyms. It really means something like "Don't store your sorrows for later".

[Azrakhor Akallabeth]

My translator says, "Don't save grief for an emergency." Makes sense to me. I always whip mine out in Traffic Courts, whenever I look in my wallet, and when I consider what my someday future mother-in-law will look like. :(

[Galadriel55]

"про запас" actually means "for a back-up" or "for a case of emergency". However, it is more accurate in the overall meaning the way I translated it, I think...

*pulls hand away from keyboard: must...not...discuss...Russian...!!!...*

OK. Seriously. I'm probably boring y'all to death with my Russian. Why does it keep coming up in so many threads that I post in? I have to stop.

[Galadriel55]

Looks foul, and feels foul as well.

Between major and minor there is but half a tone.

Она хоть бывшая, но поданная русская ~ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H_D_yR5aoA)

To avoid problems with Google Translate (which is probably drunk again :D), the latter one means She, though the former, is true/loyal/something-I-can't-translate Russian.

I think my new signature is very appropriate, considering that those Downers who are in school/Uni are going though the same pains as I (hetic studying and exams). It means, Hold on, people! Summer is comming soon! :p

[Kuruharan]

Here lies...

He was terrible at intrigue. Forgot which goblet he'd put the poison in. Wasn't finished gloating to his enemy when he keeled over.

...which I stole from some Dragon Age DLC (I think...I actually don't remember).

I replace it with

Nobody has more control over you than you yourself

[Formendacil]

It has been a very long run (almost three years, if I am right), but my quote from Sigurd and Gudrun has been replaced.

'Wake now, wake now! War is kindled. Now helm to head, to hand the sword. Wake now, warriors, wielding glory! To wide Valhöll ways lie open.'

[Kuruharan]

I hereby do lay to rest:

A government's job is to disappoint those whom they govern.

A statement made by a friend of mine intending to be satirical...but is completely true in every way.

I replace it with this:

...wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the Forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.
- The House at Pooh Corner

[Galadriel55]

I hereby do lay to rest:

A government's job is to disappoint those whom they govern.

A statement made by a friend of mine intending to be satirical...but is completely true in every way.

Isn't that a statement made by some...one? I remember reading it while searching up someone's famous quotes. Maybe it's morm's qoute's author. But then there are so many true quotes of that nature about the government that maybe it just sounds similar.

[Kuruharan]

Isn't that a statement made by some...one?

Why yes. It was a statement made by a friend of mine who currently lives in Kentucky. ;)

I remember reading it while searching up someone's famous quotes. Maybe it's morm's qoute's author. But then there are so many true quotes of that nature about the government that maybe it just sounds similar.

It probably just sounds similar, or maybe my friend was quoting somebody and I didn't realize it.

[Kuruharan]

...but necessity compels.

Here lies

...wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the Forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.
- The House at Pooh Corner

To be replaced by

The greatest piece of music ever written. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytWz0qVvBZ0)

[Pitchwife]

Exit (after a long time, and still beloved) Dead Moon:
It's OK (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLGqmIfuRwU), you don't have to run and hide away / It's OK, we've all seen better days / It's OK, OK OK OK / It's OK, we love you anyway. - Fred Cole
Enter Blyth Power:
All my fingers ached to hold that pen again
All the ink was frozen on the page

[Kuruharan]

In my excitement about the Ten Year Anniversary Werewolf game, I forgot to properly memorialize the greatest piece of music ever written.

Alas.

Now, however, the game is finished (for over a month now) and I think it fitting, since it had a brief time in the sun (and nearly a year to the day too), to revive...

...wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the Forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.
- The House at Pooh Corner

Here lies...

The TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY EXTRAVAGANZA! (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread.php?t=18881)

Forever shall the fame of that game be sung!

[Kuruharan]

Here lies...

...wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the Forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.
- The House at Pooh Corner

I have chosen something a little more uplifting this time...

[Galadriel55]

Laying down this signature - the most long-lived signature so far:

"There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want." - Bill Watterson
Celebrating the 5555 (http://forum.barrowdowns.com/showthread.php?t=18477)th

To be replaced with this unearthed gem:

"If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault." ~Orson Scott Card

[Kuruharan]

Life changes have, alas, not permitted me to be too active on the Downs recently...or indeed this year when I look at my posting history. :o

However, today in my internet rummagings I came across in a very old blog a very Tolkienesque sounding phrase that I do hereby adopt as my new signature for a time:

...finding a path that cannot be found, walking a road that cannot be seen, climbing a ladder that was never placed, or reading a paragraph that has no...

Therefore, I do lay to rest what has been a rather long-standing signature of mine:

Something's waiting in the bushes for us! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RySHDUU2juM)

May it rest in peace.