When I was in my late thirties, I closed an account at a credit union that I opened when I was in my early teens, almost 25 years earlier. They pulled a copy of my signature when I opened the account, and my it looked exactly the same as it does now.
Cordelia: I get it now. You're all spies. Probably all Russian. And you've brainwashed me, and want me to believe we're friends so I'll spill the beans about some nano-technology thingy that you want. Gunn: So I look Russian to you? Cordelia: Black Russian. Angel: That's a drink.
'Hell Bound'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Tom Scola - May 21, 2012 3:41:07 pm PDT #6137 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
-t - May 21, 2012 3:41:39 pm PDT #6138 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
See, my maiden name and married name (which I didn't legally change to but use in some social stations) are both S-squiggle-ff. Convenient!
I actually have several possible signatures because I experimented a lot with my handwriting and calligraphy in high school. I try to be consistent on legal documents, which is the mostly squiggle. I do wish I had some kind of occasion to bust out the Cyrrilic signature, though, it looks cool.
Steph L. - May 21, 2012 3:55:45 pm PDT #6139 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Tim, who has a 9-letter German last name, signs his full name as a "T" and one long squiggly dash. I can forge his signature SO EASILY.
Of course, I don't really have any *need* to, but I like knowing that I can.
Jesse - May 21, 2012 3:59:38 pm PDT #6140 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I had a coworker whose first name started with an A whose signature was basically a star and a squiggle. I'm sure she came up with it at 13 or whenever the rest of us did, and it just makes me laugh.
Amy - May 21, 2012 4:01:13 pm PDT #6141 of 30001
Because books.
My dad's initials are two Hs, so he used to draw two vertical lines, and then a horizontal one through them. Not for legal stuff, though.
sarameg - May 21, 2012 4:03:11 pm PDT #6142 of 30001
My mom used to forge my dad's sig in order to deposit his paychecks. Which was utterly ridiculous because it looked NOTHING like his sig (it had all the letters!) but it was never questioned.
askye - May 21, 2012 4:06:37 pm PDT #6143 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
One place I worked at did handwritten checks (small business) half the time the owner couldn't spell my last name right and occasionally she just left it off completely but the bank still cashed the checks.
erikaj - May 21, 2012 4:10:45 pm PDT #6144 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
My mother, for an honest person, is quite the forger.She wouldn't even have to trace Don's signature to get it right.
Burrell - May 21, 2012 4:17:57 pm PDT #6145 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
My signature has only passing relations with my actual last name. I tend to become Norah SheMNllly.
billytea - May 21, 2012 4:25:12 pm PDT #6146 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Talk of forging signatures always reminds me of perhaps my absolute favourite West Wing exchange:
Margaret: Can I - can I just say something for the future?
Leo: Yeah.
Margaret: I can sign the President's name. I have his signature down pretty good.
Leo: You can sign the President's name?
Margaret: Yeah.
Leo: On a document removing him from power and handing it to someone else?
Margaret: Yeah! Or... do you think the White House Counsel would say that was a bad idea?
Leo: I think the White House Counsel would say it was a coup d'etat!
Margaret: Well...I'd probably end up doing some time for that.
Leo: I would think! And what the hell were you doing practicing the President's signature?
Margaret: It was just for fun.
Leo: We've got separation of powers, checks and balances, and Margaret vetoing things and sending them back to the Hill!