Signatures

esperanza

How important is your signature to your image?
Is your name legible? Should your name be legible?
I'm asking cause I just taught a class of students today and only one of the eight students didn't have a posh, non-legible signature. So, this is why I ask these questions.

Marksie

I sign a lot of scientific reports, as with scientists and doctors my signature looks like a spider has had a fit on the page

esperanza

marksuttonie wrote:

I sign a lot of scientific reports, as with scientists and doctors my signature looks like a spider has had a fit on the page

Do you think that a posh non-legible signature has anything to do with being from a higher social class?

Rhyme

I try to make it legible but different from me just writing my name. Not too swirly.

Pyr0

My signature is just as bad as my writting.

Dave!

esperanza wrote:

Do you think that a posh non-legible signature has anything to do with being from a higher social class?

I don't get how it's posh...... Can you elaborate?

My signature isn't really legible. If you knew my name you could probably pick out most of the letters, but if you didn't, then you'd be in trouble.

EOA_Mushy

I tend to initial things if i can get away with it. A little scrawly but legible.

Its quicker.

Sam Vimes

i write and sign my name like a six year old with ADD on crack

Ruu_Old

My first name is legible but when it comes to the end of my surname it goes all over the place.

projectmayhem

my signature is complete illegible apart from the initials. it comes from having to do it all the time in work

Pighead

Depends how many are asking for it really. If its just a couple of people stopping me in the street I'll take my time and write it for them carefully, but if theres a few hundred asking, it tends to be just a hurried scrawl.

Marksie

esperanza wrote:

Do you think that a posh non-legible signature has anything to do with being from a higher social class?

Wrong person to ask, i am from a working class northern english background ... flat caps and black puddings... grandparents miners. My dad was in the royal engineers and followed it up after the war... so dont I think of it as a better social class requisit
I think in my case its is pure laziness and having to sign off a couple of hundred of the blasted things in as fast a time as possible.

Wertz

Ruu wrote:

My first name is legible but when it comes to the end of my surname it goes all over the place.

Exact same.

It's like I loose interest after the first letter of my surname...

Scrawl would be a compliment....but it's a sylized scrawl and I'd say it's a bastard to forge...

senordingdong

I have a beautiful signature...on account of my image, like.

pbsuxok1znja4r

DaveMcG wrote:

I don't get how it's posh...... Can you elaborate?

Way back in the day, the only reason your handwriting (and hence signature) would be legible would be because it needed to be. The reason it would need to be would be if you were some secretary/clerical worker of some sort. Meaning you need to work for a living; meaning you're not posh.

Lust4Life

I don't think social class has much to do with handwriting of sigs.
Maybe it goes in ratio to cleavage. The better the cleavage the better the sig?:p

Mine's easy to read btw! hee hee!





(Heh! The MAJD Slut campaign continues to yet another thread!)

projectmayhem

Pighead wrote:

I'll

pighead referred to himself in the first person.... :eek:

It's legible.. sometimes.

Usually depends on what I'm signing, how much time I have, or if I actually care about what I'm doing.

MrJoeSoap

Mine's perfectly legible I think.

county

my first name is legible,surname a different story

loyatemu

It doesn't need to be legible - anything you are signing will almost certainly have your name printed on it elsewhere. Your signature just needs to be recognisable to you and reproduceable by you. You can use an X if you really want to.

Eoin

loyatemu wrote:

It doesn't need to be legible - anything you are signing will almost certainly have your name printed on it elsewhere. Your signature just needs to be recognisable to you and reproduceable by you. You can use an X if you really want to.

Why not experiment?

Merrick

My boss has the most brilliant signature I've ever seen. It basically consists of 4 lines.

Doomspell

eoin_s wrote:

Why not experiment?

Haha! Thats brilliant!

MrJoeSoap

eoin_s wrote:

Why not experiment?

Legend!

I have to say though, I do check!

Tar.Aldarion

Mine is legible I think. Depends on how much of a hurry I am in, then the first letter of each name might be the only legible ones.

Femelade

projectmayhem wrote:

pighead referred to himself in the first person.... :eek:

noticed that too....very strange goings on ....

Nightwish

Mine is very legible as I very rarely join my letters.

NoDayBut2Day

I think my name is pretty legible. It's fairly discernible, at least.
I think some people unconsciously think that if their sig is hard to read, it automatically makes it more professional looking. Like a doctor, if you will... haha.

Dooom

First letter of my name's legible, then it just turns into a line with a few spikes coming out of it.

So yeah, spider having a fit. (roffle btw, image of a spider having a fit is rather hilarious)

bluto63

eoin_s wrote:

Why not experiment?

Brilliant.

I purposly make my signature a lot more messed up than my writing. Don't really know why. Also sometimes I lose interest and my surname just turns into mush

pbsuxok1znja4r

I know someone who actually practiced his signiture 'till it was illegible.
Sap.

Kolodny

No matter how I try, I just can't seem to reproduce the same signature twice. If I was to sign a piece of paper 10 times, it would look more or less like I had signed once, and 9 different people had tried to (badly) forge my signature. It's a right pain when I have to sign for things and I get eyed suspiciously. Thank God for chip and pin

Dinxminx

Same. Every time I sign my name it looks different.

Always legible though.

sioda

Since workin in a college for a year signing off exercises mine is just a sqiggle but its my squiggle so i'm proud of it

Tar.Aldarion

Kolodny wrote:

No matter how I try, I just can't seem to reproduce the same signature twice. If I was to sign a piece of paper 10 times, it would look more or less like I had signed once, and 9 different people had tried to (badly) forge my signature. It's a right pain when I have to sign for things and I get eyed suspiciously. Thank God for chip and pin

Yeah, I used to be like that but once you get to signing it loads you start to just automatically start doing the same one.
The more ridiculous and squiggly the better.

seamus

Since I don't use pens all that much anymore, sometimes I fluff it up altogether and kind of get stuck halfway through and it becomes a mess. Mine's mostly legible, though it looks nothing like if I wrote my name normally.

singingstranger

That experiment ftw.

And yeah, perfectly legible except possibly til the last two letters where my L and Y get a bit gloopy.

NoDayBut2Day

scouser.tommy wrote:

I know someone who actually practiced his signiture 'till it was illegible.
Sap.

That.... defeats the purpose of practicing a signature! haha...

It BeeMee

I had to change mine years ago, after a boss told it it's "not very professional" to put a smiley-face in the loop of the "g"

I still sign birthday cards, good-luck cards and the like with the smiley face.
Not mass cards, though!

Alter-Ego

I usually just scribble in a straight line while thinking of how to spell my name.

What usually happens is, its an "M" - *Scribble* - "K"

free2fly

I've been told that I have perfect penmanship and yes, my signature is legible. Must be the cleavage thing

Piste

Mine lis like a scribble (normal writing) only written much faster, so it;s an even messier scribble. But yes the name is still legible.

Shellie13

my signiture changes depending on my mood...god help me when i try get a bank loan!