Ah, another Coleridge fan How about Poe? The Raven makes a nice long
sig (giggling)

And OB Food: Four and twenty blackbirds can be baked in a pie!

Jill

Bob wrote:
> "sf" > wrote in message
> ...
>> On 6 Apr 2005 07:28:22 +0200, Wayne Boatwright
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> sf, this is not meant in any way to be an admonishment or overly
>>> critical,
>>> but most accepted Usenet faqs recommend that the length of sigs be
>>> limited to
>>> 4 lines. Your new sig seems to come in somewhere around 15-16
>>> lines (with
>>> wordwrap), which does seem to be a bit excessive. It's
>>> particularly noticable when the post itself is considerably
>>> shorter.
>>>
>>> Regards...
>>
>>
>> Thanks, Wayne. I'm not a fan of big sigs. It isn't my style, but
>> I'm
>> in a certain "mood" right now. I plan to delete it soon.... but not
>> tonight.
>>
>> Aside: I find it interesting that my sig line wrapped in another
>> group but not in this one. Weird.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make
>> our election between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude"
>>
>> If we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and
>> in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and
>> our amusements,
>> for our calling and our creeds...we [will] have no time to think, no
>> means of
>> calling our miss-managers to account but be glad to obtain
>> subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks
>> of our fellow-sufferers.
>> And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from
>> principle
>> in one instance becomes a precedent for another till the bulk of
>> society is
>> reduced to be mere automatons of misery.
>>
>> And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation
>> follows that and in its train wretchedness and oppression.
>>
>> Thomas Jefferson,
>> Author of The Declaration of Independence, Founding Father and Third
>> U.S. President
>
> :-)