What do you get out of signatures?

[Relique du Madde]

I think that bird poop on your car is the equivalent of having a ketchup stain on your shirt, not a bumper sticker. Bumper stickers are more like temporary tattoos.

As far as signatures go, I like mine in grape.

 

[Jeff Wilder]

I like both funny signatures and bumper stickers. Guess I'll never fit in with the intellectual elites of society.

Well, it's easier when one realizes that both "intellectual" and "elite" are actually complimentary words.

 

[jaerdaph]

Well, it's easier when one realizes that both "intellectual" and "elite" are actually complimentary words.

Actually, they're complementary (they complement or complete each other), not complimentary (as in a freebie you get, or when someone says something nice about you). And no, I don't know that because I'm a member of the intellectual elite (although I am summa cum laude), but because of a very funny commercial I saw tonight with Chevy Chase:

HomeAway's "Hotel Hell Vacation" Trailer (featuring the on Yahoo! Video



Or maybe they are compliments...

 

[Jeff Wilder]

Actually, they're complementary (they complement or complete each other), not complimentary (as in a freebie you get, or when someone says something nice about you).

I'm aware of the difference, and I meant "complimentary." It's become a very odd fashion for some folks to consider being intelligent and educated some form of character flaw. Likewise for being "among the best."

"Intellectual" and "elite" are words that should be used to praise people -- i.e., to compliment them -- and it's surreal how some folks have convinced some other folks of the exact opposite.

 

[jaerdaph]

I'm aware of the difference, and I meant "complimentary." It's become a very odd fashion for some folks to consider being intelligent and educated some form of character flaw. Likewise for being "among the best."

"Intellectual" and "elite" are words that should be used to praise people -- i.e., to compliment them -- and it's surreal how some folks have convinced some other folks of the exact opposite.

Oh I know you know - I was just making a funny (and failed LOL!) by implying they couldn't be compliments. Plus Chevy Chase commercial makes me laugh.

But I agree with you - they have been given an undeserved negative connotation by certain people for reasons not allowed to be discussed on EN World.

 

[Jeff Wilder]

Oh I know you know - I was just making a funny (and failed LOL!) by implying they couldn't be compliments.

It's not your fault. I probably would have caught the joke, were it not for the fact that as I was writing the original reply, my thought process went something like, "Comple- ? No, compli-. Right. Compli. Comple- is for angles. Definitely compli-." For some reason, "complimentary" and "complementary" have always made me think twice (or more).

Which, come to think on it, probably disqualifies me from being part of the intellectual elite.

 

[jaerdaph]

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Which, come to think on it, probably disqualifies me from being part of the intellectual elite.

No, it just means we're the Chevy Chase type of intellectual elite. And that's a good thing in my book.

 

[amysrevenge]

She was born on a mountaintop in Tennessee, the greenest State in the Land of the Free.

How was the local bear population during her childhood? Minus one?

(My folks are in Tennessee right now on vacation)

 

[Mark]

This thread keeps confusing the hell out of me.











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[Mr. Wilson]

My .sig is to remind me to enjoy the simple things in life and not to lose perspective on what is important.