Xander ,'Dirty Girls'
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
My mother, for an honest person, is quite the forger.She wouldn't even have to trace Don's signature to get it right.
My signature has only passing relations with my actual last name. I tend to become Norah SheMNllly.
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!
I kept my married name cause I didn't want to go back to signing my 14 letter/2 hyphen maiden name. Though, I think I can still forge my dad's signature. My current signature sometimes ends in a star. Too lazy to pick up the pen to go back and cross my t's.
This is what CJ did today.