My Other Signature 

I can be a sarcastic bastard at times. In June 1997, someone used this humongous signature in a mailing list posting (particulars hidden to protect the guilty):

 _____________________________________________________________________
 |                                                                   |
 |      MACEDONIA IS GREECE-FREEDOM TO CYPRUS AND NORTH EPIRUS       |
 |           XXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXX e-mail:XXXXX@XXXXXXXXX.gr            |
 | Web authorer and maintainer of http://www.XXXXXXXXX.gr/sigs/amiga |
 |  AMIGA 1200-Blizzard 1230 50mhz+FPU 68882 50mhz-26 MB RAM         |
 |  1.2 GB 3.5' HARD DISK-SCSI II Controller-4XCDROM Toshiba         |
 | Workbench 3.1-MACSytem 7.0.1(Shapeshifter 3.7)-Windows 3.1(PCTASK)|
 |     /\    |\    /|---  /----    /\      |-- |    | |    |---      |
 |    /  \   | \  / | |  |        /  \     |  ||    | |    |     /\  |
 |   /----\  |  \/  | |  |   _   /----\    |-- |    | |    |--  /    |
 |  /      \ |      | |  |  | | /      \   |\  |    | |    |    \    |
 | /        \|      |---  \___|/        \  | \  \__/  |___ |___  \   |
 |                                                               /   |
 | =============================================================/    |
 |___________________________________________________________________|

Ye ghawds, his ‘Amiga Rules’ ASCII ‘art’ alone was longer than the accepted maximum of four lines. And he was a web authorer (sic), too. Ooh, and if you're really observant you'll note how he claims his hard drive is 3.5 feet, not inches.

I replied normally, but with this signature instead of my normal one:

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,88’                                                                      ‘88.
88’     Alexios Chouchoulas, also known as the ‘Unpronounceable One’.      ‘88
88  E-mail: alexios@vennea.demon.co.uk             alexiosc@dai.ed.ac.uk    88
88          alexios@tardis.ed.ac.uk       morgul@acrogate.ath.forthnet.gr   88
88  WWW: http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/~axc/     http://www.vennea.demon.co.uk/   88
88       http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~alexios/MACHINE-ROOM/                  88
88  Web author, maintainer, member of the WWW authors' Guild, complete and  88
88  utter bastard, waster of bandwidth, installer of partial Linux distrib  88
88  utions,  Befunge hacker, hater of spam,  antichrist, BOFH,  reciter of  88
88  RFCs.  I have hardware, too: Oric Atmos Apple IIe c=64/16/Plus4/VIC-20  88
88  Acorn Electron/BBC Master 128k DEC Rainbow 100 Oric Telestrat IBM 5150  88
88  OKI IF-800 Sinclair ZX81/Spectrum 16k/48k/+2A Cambridge Z88 NEC PC8401  88
88  Toshiba HX-10 MSX TRS-80 CoCo 2 Amstrad CPC-6128 Plus Binatone TVMk-10  88
88  Radofin Programmable Acetronic MPU-1000 Atari 2600 VCS/7800 VCS   and   88
88  just too many PC-type things to care.                                   88
88                                                                          88
88   Repeat after me, kiddies: "Netiquette says ‘signatures may be up to    88
88.  four (4) lines long’." ― "Eimai mia mikrh soupiera".                 .88
‘88.                                                                      .88’
  ‘"8888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888"’