The short time I have been on this site I have had great fun reading all the postings. But the way we all sign off is also very interesting. Some are self explanitory...others are not.

Yesterday I got a PM from another member about mine and this got me to wondering where they all came from. It would be fun to know.

Mine is from one of my dad's favorite sayings. I find it appropriate on an internet forum as it suggests be careful about who you consider an expert. It's the kind of line only a genius would use

Jeff

Had soooo many college psych students that "knew it all." The tag line came to me a long time ago, use it in class, so just put it on here.

My Air Force call sign.

lawndart

I grew up shooting Trapdoor Springfields with Dad, so I have a fondness for Trapdoors.

The signature graphic is from my days calling artillery and mortar fire as a Forward Observer with the FIST, or Fire Support Team.

I like Bullsprig's of "Rose lipped maidens and light foot lads" which was Karen von Blixen's toast in the men's club as she was leaving Africa. It is from an A.E. Housman poem from 1905.

Mine is just a nickname I had as a halibut fisherman in alaska , not that I have posted much yet

I can be a very, very, very, very mean person... which, sometimes, is what's required to resolve some situations.

Russ

Mufasa, Thanks! I love the movie and I have always liked the toast.

Sprig

FYI Bullsprig is a Male Pintail Duck

Bullsprig,
The complete poem is "With Rue My Heart is Ladened" a beautiful tribute friends who have crossed over.
Mufasa

oops should have read that more carefully, thought you were talking about user names. never have put a tagline in... will have think of one

I made mine up as a way to tweak the antigunners.

My favorite is from my father:
"If you're going to be stupid, then you'll have to be tough!"

I picked mine up at despair.com, a sight full of wise -and cynical- sayings!

The one time I met Fred Bear, got to talk with him for a bit. Something I will never forget, by the way. When he signed my bow for me he wrote "Good Hunting!" Fred Bear....

I added "as always," just to make it my personal tag.....

I've always considered Shakespeare's St. Crispin's Day Speech from Henry V to be one of the two best pieces of prose ever written in the English language.

St. Crispin's Day Speech
Henry V. . . .William Shakespeare

WESTMORELAND
O that we now had here
But one ten thousand of those men in England
That do no work to-day!
KING HENRY V
What's he that wishes so?
My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin:
If we are mark'd to die, we are enow
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
God's will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.
By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,
Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;
It yearns me not if men my garments wear;
Such outward things dwell not in my desires:
But if it be a sin to covet honour,
I am the most offending soul alive.
No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England:
God's peace! I would not lose so great an honour
As one man more, methinks, would share from me
For the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!
Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made
And crowns for convoy put into his purse:
We would not die in that man's company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
This day is called the feast of Crispian:
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian:'
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars.
And say 'These wounds I had on Crispin's day.'
Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember with advantages
What feats he did that day: then shall our names.
Familiar in his mouth as household words
Harry the king, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,
Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember'd;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

The other was Travis' letter from the Alamo.

"No good deed goes unpunished" Need I say more?
I really think it should be one of
"Murphy's Law's".

My name "Foxfire" mean's to wander aimlessly.

My screen name comes from having spent the huge majority of my Army career in tanks.

I have 2 tag lines and they are my 2 favorites. The John Wayne quote came from a speech he was giving to a group of GI's while fiming "Green Beret's"

The other I heard from my old company commander in his "pump up speech" just before we rolled our tanks across the border. I am not sure where he came up with it but it has stuck with me for 14 years now.

Mama named me..but dad called me a lot of other names, was pretty confusing until I left home, I really thought my name was numb nuts for several years!

One is pretty self explanatory, and the other is from the introductory quote in a chapter of the novel, "Lamb"-probably the best book I've ever read, but that's neither here nor there. Anywho, I just fell in love with the quote, since I believe it's 100% true.

Mine is from a Limp Bizkit song...It just seemed like a good frame of mind when someone is trying to get at you: "I'd love to be the one to disappoint you when I don't fall down"

You can try, but I won't fall...

My name is Joe & I live in Wyoming. Hence WyoJoe. I am not very politicly correct so my tag line pretty much reflects my philosophy.

Mine comes from the bible (obviously). I got so tired of the anti's asking me; "is it right for a Christian to kill animals, part of Gods creation"

Idiots need to read the book.

Hey, maybe that should be my new "tag line" lol

I think mine applies to most folks, and I know it does to me!

The picture is from a Birthday card my three year old grand daughter gave me, because it had a bufflao on it, my favorite animal in all the world!

quote:

Originally posted by Russell E. Taylor:
I can be a very, very, very, very mean person... which, sometimes, is what's required to resolve some situations.

Russ

"The doing of unpleasant deeds, calls for a man with an unpleasant nature"

Russell, that line is from the movie BIG JAKE staring John Wayne. It was spoken by Morene O'Hara when she decide who would take in the ransom money to get Little Jake back. She was speaking of BIG JAKE (John Wayne)

Mine is a spoof on the old orange juice commercials.

BOWHUNR

I heard the quote in my tagline from my Dad. He said it was on a sign overhanging the door of the boiler shop on board the ship he was on in the Navy. And it makes sense; to me at least...

I like to make knives..

Obviously, Edgar and the Raven never made it into Tanzania.

Mine is in response to all the various threads we have had on this and other forums regarding "what is the Best Cartridge for hunting________." You fill in the blank. I think we chase our tails after a while trying to have the perfect setup. I have done a bit of tail chasing myself. This is a reminder to myself as well as everyone on the forum to practice, practice, practice and know your animal anatomy. Make that first shot count and the rest generally takes care of itself.

My name comes from my inexperience but learning about the wiley Idaho elk (only 2 two my credit so far, 5 years trying) I figure I may have to change it when I get somthing worthy of having mounted. As to a Tag Line, I havent put one in yet but I think it is time how bout this one

Common sense isnt very common

I take the same stance as D Hunter. While it is fun to discuss whether this caliber or that is best, this bullet or that is best, whatever, none of it means a damn thing if you don't hit what you're aiming at.

The actual quote is from a British Admiral around the early part of the Twentieth Century.

Look in your wife's clost. Look at your gun collection. There is always room for more.

Rusty; here is my nomination:
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod is washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.
John Donne 1572-1631

Mine comes from shooting Sinclaire targets, the ones that have the circle and square. It is also how I choose to deal with others.

"I love the smell of cordite in the morning"

Original by me and obviously a variation on the line from "Apocalypse Now".

Then one day Mickey told me he had a T-shirt with it on in the 1970's. Bastard.


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quote:

In the land of the blind a one-eyed man is king.

Cunningham

That line is very similar to a line in the Orson Welles radio play "The Country of the Blind".

In "A Country of the Blind" a man journeys into the earth or into a distant land that time and man has forgotten surrounded by high unscalable cliffs . He has sight but everyone there is blind. He lives with these people and he tells them about sight. They believe he is sick and eventually he stops telling them about his sight. He marries but eventually something leads to insist about his sight again. The elders of the community decide he is insane and conclude those funny things in his head are causing his insanity - ie his eyes. As he is different with eyes, they blind him to cure his insanity.

NitroX,

That line must go way back from somewhere, because I heard it said in one show of the BBC melodrama "Monarch of the Glen," where the old guy goes out to hunt on the opening day of grouse season with his SxS...

"God, I love the smell of cordite in the morning."

I don't think they credited you in the show, but I'll give it to you if that helps. Those writers have to come up with those lines from somewhere and they're not always originals, on their part.

Will

You be surprised who reads the internet forums nowadays. I have seen articles in shooting magazines where it was very obvious parts had been lifted from discussions on forums on the net.

Of course "Monarch of the Glen" pinched it from me.

I use to post as The Old Hunter and translated it to Africance and the tag line is just what I say to my fellow hunters as we leave for the woods or fields. Basically it is just hunt good and shoot well as we don't want alot of blood trails to follow.

NitroX,

Not only that but you see your own stuff repeated here on the forum!! I am just trying to help the poor masses!

Though they probably ripped you off, it is a great moniker.