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

[Lew]

And loving it,

-Qu0ll (Rare, not extinct)
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The convention for sigs, or tag lines, is to set them off with "dash dash
space", that is, "-- ", on its own line, and for the "cute" (in one's own
opinion) comments to follow that line.

Most good news readers, and a few lamer ones such as what I use, understand
this convention and adjust the visual display of messages accordingly.

It also sets off stupid remarks like, "Honi soit qui mal y pense" or "And
loving it" so that they don't appear to be part of the actual point.

 

[Arved Sandstrom]

And loving it,

-Qu0ll (Rare, not extinct)
_________________________________________________
(e-mail address removed)
[Replace the "SixFour" with numbers to email me]

The convention for sigs, or tag lines, is to set them off with "dash
dash space", that is, "-- ", on its own line, and for the "cute" (in
one's own opinion) comments to follow that line.

Most good news readers, and a few lamer ones such as what I use,
understand this convention and adjust the visual display of messages
accordingly.

It also sets off stupid remarks like, "Honi soit qui mal y pense" or
"And loving it" so that they don't appear to be part of the actual point.

Qu0ll's phrase always has me wondering whether he's paraphrasing
McDonald's recent branding campaign, or he's old enough to have enjoyed
Get Smart.

AHS

 

[Lew]

And loving it,

-Qu0ll (Rare, not extinct)
_________________________________________________
(e-mail address removed)
[Replace the "SixFour" with numbers to email me]

The convention for sigs, or tag lines, is to set them off with "dash
dash space", that is, "-- ", on its own line, and for the "cute" (in
one's own opinion) comments to follow that line.

Most good news readers, and a few lamer ones such as what I use,
understand this convention and adjust the visual display of messages
accordingly.

It also sets off stupid remarks like, "Honi soit qui mal y pense" or
"And loving it" so that they don't appear to be part of the actual point.

Qu0ll's phrase always has me wondering whether he's paraphrasing
McDonald's recent branding campaign, or he's old enough to have enjoyed
Get Smart.

Maybe he's just young enough to have missed it by that much.

Would you believe he's even younger than that and he found his parents' old
collection of paperback /Get Smart/ novelizations?

No? Would you believe that he's an historian of classic American television,
and that he has sixteen researchers digging up citations as we speak?

How about four researchers and an overeager intern?

One long-running Google query and far too much coffee?

 

[Knute Johnson]

Qu0ll wrote:
And loving it,

-Qu0ll (Rare, not extinct)
_________________________________________________
(e-mail address removed)
[Replace the "SixFour" with numbers to email me]
The convention for sigs, or tag lines, is to set them off with "dash
dash space", that is, "-- ", on its own line, and for the "cute" (in
one's own opinion) comments to follow that line.

Most good news readers, and a few lamer ones such as what I use,
understand this convention and adjust the visual display of messages
accordingly.

It also sets off stupid remarks like, "Honi soit qui mal y pense" or
"And loving it" so that they don't appear to be part of the actual
point.

Qu0ll's phrase always has me wondering whether he's paraphrasing
McDonald's recent branding campaign, or he's old enough to have enjoyed
Get Smart.

Maybe he's just young enough to have missed it by that much.

Would you believe he's even younger than that and he found his parents'
old collection of paperback /Get Smart/ novelizations?

No? Would you believe that he's an historian of classic American
television, and that he has sixteen researchers digging up citations as
we speak?

How about four researchers and an overeager intern?

One long-running Google query and far too much coffee?

- because I'm old enough!

 

[Daniele Futtorovic]

Time for a different news reader it seems. Any suggestions?

Thunderbird is decent. It lacks a bit on sigs and message filters, and
killfiling is tedious. But it's decent.

 

[Martin Gregorie]

Thunderbird is decent. It lacks a bit on sigs and message filters, and
killfiling is tedious. But it's decent.

When I used Windows I preferred Forte's Agent to any other reader I'd
used.

 

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

Qu0ll's phrase always has me wondering whether he's paraphrasing
McDonald's recent branding campaign, or he's old enough to have enjoyed
Get Smart.

Of course! The old confuse-them-with-the-obscure-catchphrase trick!

 

[Lew]

Of course! The old confuse-them-with-the-obscure-catchphrase trick!

That was actually rather clever. Good show.