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[Catitude]

On 1/25/2014 Ford1224 said:

I'm not thinking about the "siggy" when I read a post, so most of the time, I don't read them. However sometimes I will read a particularly good post and then notice the siggy too.

Some of them are really on target, very thoughtful and inspiring, while others are very funny.

I love yours Ford1224.

[LilacTree]

On 1/25/2014 Opurrra said:

On 1/25/2014 Ford1224 said:

I'm not thinking about the "siggy" when I read a post, so most of the time, I don't read them. However sometimes I will read a particularly good post and then notice the siggy too.

Some of them are really on target, very thoughtful and inspiring, while others are very funny.

I love yours Ford1224.

Thank you. I had to shorten it somewhat to fit the criteria. I wanted to credit the origin, but didn't have the space.

[faeriemoon]

I do.

[missy1]

No

[SoX]

Nope ... only added one to mine because I changed (sort of) my name.

[LilacTree]

On 1/24/2014 onewhiteSparrow said:

On 1/24/2014 beammeupscottie said:

Sometimes I do and sometimes I don't.

beammeiupscottie, Your sig. reminds me of the time in my life that I experienced such things.

"Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as others see us!" ~ Robert Burns.

My secret best friend had pin friends all over the world. I had pin friends all over the world. When we met we learned this about each other. We both agreed to not tell anyone we knew each other. Many years later she died but before she died she gave me a large box and told me to not open that box until she was died for 6 months. I agreed.

Six months after her death I open that box. I found to my shock she had almost the same pin friends I had around the world and in almost every USA States. I sat down and started to read the letters....

I saw how they wrote to her about me. What they thought about me, and what they thought about the Subjects I wrote about. And all that Jazz. It was hard to write to each person knowing their views of me.

Sure I read what they thought of me.... but I also saw how they really are as a pin friend. I saw how they did not hold secrets of anything. I saw how some are your friend to see what kind of information they can get from you.

What did I learn from that? Keep Silent. Trust No One.

I've never heard of this. What is a "pin friend?"

[Lila Belle]

On 1/25/2014 SoX said:

Nope ... only added one to mine because I changed (sort of) my name.

I'm glad you did since there's another poster with a similar name.

Good to know it's you SoX !

[chickenbutt]

One thing I really like, since one of the changes on the board, is that the sig lines are now italicized and in lighter print.

That makes it really nice because the sig lines used to run into the posts and you'd be reading along until you realized that it was the sig line and not part of the post.

[pinkskates4]

On 1/25/2014 Ford1224 said:

On 1/25/2014 Opurrra said:

On 1/25/2014 Ford1224 said:

I'm not thinking about the "siggy" when I read a post, so most of the time, I don't read them. However sometimes I will read a particularly good post and then notice the siggy too.

Some of them are really on target, very thoughtful and inspiring, while others are very funny.

I love yours Ford1224.

Thank you. I had to shorten it somewhat to fit the criteria. I wanted to credit the origin, but didn't have the space.

Love St. Paul

[LilacTree]

On 1/25/2014 Dagna said:

On 1/25/2014 Ford1224 said:

On 1/25/2014 Opurrra said:

On 1/25/2014 Ford1224 said:

I'm not thinking about the "siggy" when I read a post, so most of the time, I don't read them. However sometimes I will read a particularly good post and then notice the siggy too.

Some of them are really on target, very thoughtful and inspiring, while others are very funny.

I love yours Ford1224.

Thank you. I had to shorten it somewhat to fit the criteria. I wanted to credit the origin, but didn't have the space.

Love St. Paul

Actually the full origin is:

This Latin phrase was adopted as the University's official motto in 1890. Translated as "Whatsoever things are true," it comes from the New Testament book of Philippians (4:8), in which St. Paul admonishes the Christians in the Greek city of Philippi: "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things."

I read that this was delivered as a eulogy by a well known atheist named Christopher Hitchens at his father's funeral. And that's where I found it. Beautiful words are beautiful words, no matter their origin.