In Memoriam - Quote Graveyard

[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: Support the Downs! ~

... now that all is done and dusted and the Barrow Downs team have claimed their rightful victory.

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

[HerenIstarion]

RIP

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[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!

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

[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.