Who's got the best signature?

[the phantom]

Are male Eldar of the high House allowed?

Royal lineage is a must for all Elvish members, so on that point you are most welcome.

The sticking point for you would be "male". No male has ever gained admittance to the club.

But never fear! There is another option.

Because of rising demand over the past couple years, I have started The Phantom Sidekick Club International (it's male only). Once again, there is a lot of testing and sacrifice required, but should you gain membership you will receive renown nearly equal to Fan Club members.

Not only that, but you can be promoted. You start off as a Toady and can work your way through the ranks (Boot-licker, Suck-up, Lackey, Lackey First Class, Yes-man, Admirer) all the way up to "Sidekick".

Five years after attaining the rank of Sidekick you will be awarded the title "Phantom-friend".

Is 5% of $0 still $0?

Don't worry about it. I don't expect Elvish nobility to work a steady job. Just give me a lump sum of $100,000 and we'll call it good (that should be pocket change for a royal).

[The Saucepan Man]

Can anyone help me? I'm looking for a topic. I know that there was one was around here at one time. But it seems to have got lost ...

Please try to stay on topic or I have no doubt that this thread will be closed.

[Elennar Starfire]

Just one little comment, then I promise to stop my off-topicness. Alright?

Phantom, you nut. I think my mum might have issues about statues in the living room...

[Orual]

I'm rather fond of littlemanpoet's sig.

"Tipping your hat to the squire may be d*** bad for the squire, but it's d*** good for you!" - J.R.R. Tolkien

The asterisks always draw my attention. ^_^

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Chatters - there's no need to post your personal comments here. You have the wonderful possibility of PMing the person to whom they are addressed; please take advantage of that. When the time comes for a big forum clean-up, you may notice your post count diminishing significantly...

[Lhunardawen]

I just found this amusing one by Encaitare...

An F, a A flat, and a C walk into a bar, and they go to order a drink. Yet the bartender refuses to serve them. When they ask why, he tells them: "Sorry, but we don't serve minors here."

Heh heh, indeed.

[Elennar Starfire]

Dangit, ye got here before me with that one.

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

'All right, davem. You have succeeded in being a pest. I thought it was clear enough so I didn't go into it, but I will clarify just for you.' ...Obloquy: 'Boldogs, Gothmogs and Sauron's New Clothes' (davem)

Is that something, or is that something?

I think that's a sig.

But that's still a something. Well, technically.

[Ainaserkewen]

An F, a A flat, and a C walk into a bar, and they go to order a drink. Yet the bartender refuses to serve them. When they ask why, he tells them: "Sorry, but we don't serve minors here."

I love it! I'm using this joke in Band class later.

EDIT(later that afternoon): I used it in class, my teachers thought I was very clever, then I told them where I'd read it, then people mocked me...

[Sophia the Thunder Mistress]

I giggled a bit at davem's sig, but I'm not sure I'd want to take on oblo without very good reason.

And while on the subject of people I wouldn't want to take on, I continue to enjoy burra's sig which hasn't changed in forever:

What's a burrahobbit got to do with my pocket, anyways?

He's even worked his clever links right in.

Sophia

[Elennar Starfire]

It's a very good joke, Encaitare.

[Nimrodel_9]

Hee hee! I quite like Encaitare`s.

[Sophia the Thunder Mistress]

Nuranar 's

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

[Encaitare]

A friend in my music theory class told that joke to me... we all thought it was hilarious. It was too good to pass up.

I used it in class, my teachers thought I was very clever, then I told them where I'd read it, then people mocked me...

Aw, poor Aina...

[the phantom]

I used it in class, my teachers thought I was very clever, then I told them where I'd read it, then people mocked me...

Ha ha!

Serves ya right! You should know better than to give a source for your jokes (or for anything, actually). Just pretend like it's your own material.

Always remember, originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

(this lesson in life was brought to you free of charge by the phantom)

[Lhunardawen]

Originally Posted by Ainaserkewen

EDIT(later that afternoon): I used it in class, my teachers thought I was very clever, then I told them where I'd read it, then people mocked me...

I feel for you, Aina. People always mock me when I mention the Downs.

Originally Posted by the phantom

Always remember, originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Now that's something I'll always remember.

[Firefoot]

Some that I've noticed recently:

Lhun's

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

Evisse's

Tasty is as tasty does
--Mom

Also Child of the 7th Age's

Vintage Quote of the Week: "To go to college without Tolkien is like going without sneakers." NYTimes, January 15, 1967, from the mother of a prospective college student.

Nilpaurion's recently ended series of constantly changing "quotes" of characters has been a steady stream of humor as well.

I'll second Nuranar's choice.

[Lhunardawen]

Originally Posted by Firefoot

Lhun's

Very romantic, isn't it?

[Meela]

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

Very sweet and an inspiration for my own terrible Valentine's poetry: see sig.

Always remember, originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Very useful, I'll keep it in mind.

[Neithan]

Always remember, originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Actually I think this phrase would make a great sig

[the phantom]

Actually I think this phrase would make a great sig

Me too.

Abra-cadabra!!

*Poof!*

(in a puff of white smoke, the phantom's sig changes)

[Encaitare]

I feel for you, Aina. People always mock me when I mention the Downs.

Ah, same here. My sister thinks we're all freaks -- she looks over my shoulder as I'm in the CbC thread and goes, "How can you read all this?" Even my best friend, who is an LotR dork as well, makes fun of me for it from time to time. Oh well... such is the price. *insert martyr smilie here*

[Neithan]

Ah yes, when I first joined the Downs I was at home and I took a lot of crap for it. But right now I am on my own in a college dorm room and I don't have to deal with that stuff.

My sister thinks we're all freaks

She is quite right you know. But I, for one, am proud to be a freak.

[Lhunardawen]

Originally Posted by Neithan

She is quite right you know. But I, for one, am proud to be a freak.

Nay, I'm proud to be a geek.

Oh, no. Not that word again.

[Elennar Starfire]

Oddwen's is so very snarky...

The roses are wilting, the violets are dead, the sugar bowl's empty, and so is your head.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

No worries, Neithan. After all, we are all nerds now.Signature-wise, I like the phantom's newest.

[Lhunardawen]

I believe Oddwen's and Meela's sigs are very appropriate for the Day of Hearts.

[Encaitare]

Oh, I do rather like Oddwen's. Valentine's Day is a nice idea but it's soooo commercialized.

[Ainaserkewen]

So true, Encaitare. The only reason I would never get rid of Valentine's day is the chocolate...well, that and the whole Saint Valentine thing...

Oh, and thanks for your sympathy. I get mocked for everything these days...it's very depressing.

Oddwen's is so very snarky...Quote:

At least it rhymes...wait, there's no sugar?! NOOooo! Oh, why do the sweet die young?!

Serves ya right! You should know better than to give a source for your jokes (or for anything, actually). Just pretend like it's your own material.

Don't you start too! It's one thing to be funny and have a room of people in stitches, but it's that much harder to turn it around on yourself instantly after. You've hurt my feelings Mr. Phantom, you didn't even write me back...*sniff*

Some poems don't rhyme... and this is one of them.

It's like that joke,
"There are three kinds of people in this world, those who can count and those who can't." I believe that was a signature in the past as well.

[Assasin]

I like Oddwen's: The roses are wilting, the violets are dead, the sugar bowl's empty, and so is your head!
Some people might not get mine, the first part's a German happy birthday song, and the second part's from The Pirates of the Carribean.

[Encaitare]

Whoa, Aina. Your new one is... interesting.

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

It's like that joke,
"There are three kinds of people in this world, those who can count and those who can't." I believe that was a signature in the past as well. (Aina)

It's from NightKnight. Unfortunately, he's not as active as he used to be. I dunno why . . .

Whoa, Aina. Your new one is... interesting. (Encai)

Interesting, indeed.

[Nuranar]

Yes, Aina, very - intriguing, shall we say? (I hate to sound like an echo.) May I ask, where did you find it?

[Ainaserkewen]

History 12. My teacher likes to give quotes for all the people we're to remember to make it easier. This was one of Lenin's obviously. It seems the time of year that my Highschool turns a little Marxist because of the overzealous History students. There are communist Russia quotes on all the side chalkboards and Blackballing lists in people's binders. Learning is fun.

Why am I using such a...er, shall we say aggressive quote? I suppose I just find the idea extremely interesting.

[Finwe-89]

I have the best signature! Jk

[Encaitare]

Ah, good old communism, and all those other lovely forms of government. What I love is how the teachers hand us "Mein Kampf" to read for history class and then tell us to be accepting of others.

And just because I don't like Orwell, I put his books next to Marx's on the bookshelf. Hah!

Yup, no life...

It is a cool quote, though, in a really twisted sort of way. And it's rather a bit of a change from the rest of the LotR-themed or song-lyric sigs.

[Rimbaud]

Ah, Mein Kampf. The funniest joke in the otherwise fairly bland satire Churchill: The Hollywood Years was certainly a British effete mistaking Hitler's political diarrohea for a more salacious tome: Me in Kamp F. Gorgeous.

[Finwe-89]

In Holland we have a cut version of ''Mein Kampf'' because they are afraid that people will use the ideas Hitler used

[Esgallhugwen]

Really the governmental theories (ie: Communism) in themselves are good, it is simply how the "Leaders" interpret and manipulate the theory to their own desires. Intentions may even start out good but power can be very corrupting (sorry for the cliche).


Saucepan Man

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

and also,

Feanor of the Peredhel

Life may be storm...
Should it be calm today,
Then be ready for tomorrow.

Hello Canadian weather!

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Hello Canadian weather!

And Upstate New York weather. But the lines are actually from a song that's commonly mislabelled. The song is called Valley of Misery, and is by a band called Darcane (formerly known as Holochaust (<-name changed for political reasons, I believe)), but is commonly thought to be an unreleased Metallica song originally supposed to be on the album Saint Anger. As if anyone really wanted to know. But it's a good song. Just about the only way to get it in the USA though (if you have no credit card or don't trust the web services) is through the so inconveniently illegal Kazaa. Sad that some of my favorite bands are impossible to find around here.

Fea