Explain your signature

[Frigga]

This one is simple enough, explain your signature. Mine is a saying that I came up with, my world philosophy boiled down. Along with the links to nutritional websites that I feel are important to share.

[anonymaus]

http://www.theapricity.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=3894&stc=1&d=1266476549

:3

[Liffrea]

The first is a quote from George Eliot (the pen name of the 19th century writer Mary Anne Evans) who had a somewhat prosaic vision of rural life. I like the quote because it expresses the Folkish philosophy I love of one rooted in the lands of his forefathers. It expresses the sacred in the connection one has with the world around them, the natural cycle of existence, one can picture the woodland, the fields, the waters, the animals, a peaceful existence of growing strong and wise on one’s own labour of existing on your own terms. The stars of the night sky represent the transcendent element that all humans need, the ability to ponder, to see wonder in the universe, to imagine, when I was a boy I used to spend a lot of time, I still do, just looking at the stars and wondering….

The second quote is by English philosopher Thomas Hobbes, no introduction needed. For me it expresses what I wish to be, a free man in the only way that matters, my conscience. Hobbes expresses the ideal of the ancient Stoics, that one could be bound, beaten, even killed, but he was always a free man as long as he did not bend the knee. He died a man, and a free one at that. I would hope to have that strength of character in myself, I am my own man and no others.

Under my user name I have the phrase “Know thyself” which existed at the oracle of Delphi. Again self explanatory and also perhaps the hardest thing anyone can do, to see what is actually there when you look in the mirror, not what you want to be there, to be happy in silence and to not fear the voices, names and thoughts that come.

[Eldritch]

Mine is possibly the best-known excerpt from Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday; the end of the initial exchange between Thursday and Sunday.

[Svanhild]

Just a nice song of Simone Simmons.

[The Lawspeaker]

Mine's an altered quote from an old Dutch song ("Merck toch hoe sterck") about the heroic fight of a city against the Spaniards.

I translated it to fit a more modern context:

Nederland houdt u vroom,
Stut Mohammed's scharen;

the Netherlands remain pious (as in strong),
Fight back Mohammed's hordes !

[Lars]

Mine is just a generated picture montage of my most listened albums while connected to the music tracker site Last.fm.

If you connect recognize the albums from the pictures then here is a list for you:

1 Ildjarn – Det Frysende Nordariket
2 Lord Wind – Forgotten Songs
3 Beherit – Drawing Down the Moon
4 Atrium Carceri – Cellblock
5 Muslimgauze – Azure Deux
5 Graveland – The Celtic Winter
7 Massacra – Final Holocaust
8 Demilich – Nespithe
9 Burzum – Filosofem
9 Fuck...I'm Dead – Bring on the Dead
11 Sepultura – Arise
12 Graveland – Carpathian Wolves
13 Veles – Black Hateful Metal
14 Incantation – Onward to Golgotha
15 Seance – Saltrubbed Eyes
16 Gorguts – Obscura
17 Beherit – Electric Doom Synthesis
18 Lykathea Aflame – Elvenefris
18 Lisa Gerrard – The Mirror Pool
20 Seance – Fornever Laid to Rest
21 Negligent Collateral Collapse – Reprocess Segment Database Extender
22 Burzum – Burzum / Aske
23 Mitch Hedberg – Mitch All Together
24 Deicide – The Stench of Redemption
25 Skinless – Trample the Weak, Hurdle the Dead
26 Lisa Gerrard – Duality
27 Negligent Collateral Collapse – Paranormal Nanodivision
28 Cock and Ball Torture – Sadochismo
29 Ildjarn – Forest Poetry
30 Nile – In Their Darkened Shrines

#23 shouldn't be on the list. I probably left the computer while listening to the stand-up recordings one time. I haven't listened to it more than once or twice.

Metal! \m/

Under my name I mock my horrible English skills. Pretty funny I might add! :P

[Puddle of Mudd]

Everyone loves a good Nietzsche quote.

[Tabiti]

Everyone loves a good Nietzsche quote.
Indeed:p

[lei.talk]

Mine is possibly the best-known excerpt
from Chesterton (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton)'s The Man Who Was Thursday (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Was_Thursday);
the end of the initial exchange between Thursday and Sunday.


In a surreal turn-of-the-century London, Gabriel Syme, a poet, is recruited to a secret anti-anarchist taskforce at Scotland Yard. Lucian Gregory, an anarchist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism) poet, is the only poet in Saffron Park, until he loses his temper in an argument over the purpose of poetry with Gabriel Syme, who takes the opposite view. After some time, the frustrated Gregory finds Syme and leads him to a local anarchist meeting-place to prove that he is a true anarchist. Instead of the anarchist Gregory getting elected, the officer Syme uses his wits and is elected as the local representative to the worldwide Central Council of Anarchists. The Council consists of seven men, each using the name of a day of the week as a code-name; Syme is given the name of Thursday. In his efforts to thwart the council's intentions, however, he discovers that five of the other six members are also undercover detectives; each was just as mysteriously employed and assigned to defeat the Council of Days. They all soon find out that they are fighting each other and not real anarchists; such was the mastermind plan of the genius Sunday. In a dizzying and surreal conclusion, the six champions of order and former anarchist ring-leaders chase down the disturbing and whimsical Sunday, the man who calls himself "The Peace of God".

[Sol Invictus]

It's a sweet song I love it. Gives me the chills and I am a sucker for a good movie score/soundtrack especially when it's from someone as talented as Vangelis.

[Birka]

ROPE AND CHAINS is my interpretation of Ombongo's Hope and Change mantra.

He has roped and chained our liberties and our Constitution.

[Óttar]

In mine I lament the downfall of spring sex-rites and the sacred prostitution of Rome and ancient Babylon. It is the painting La Jeunesse de Bacchus by my favorite artist William-Adolphe Bouguereau.

[Psychonaut]

My current signature is the first stanza of the "Rúnatáls-tháttr-Óðins" from the Hávamál.

[Aemma]

Got mine thanks to kadu when he gave me the link to Uncyclopedia's entry for Canada. Merci kadu! :D

[lei.talk]

http://i49.tinypic.com/2iuyy4n.jpg (http://www.theapricity.com/forum/member.php?u=305)


how can one be un-inspired by the title


http://www.michis-seiten.de/bilder/379_02.jpg (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4GZAZ_enUS281US281&q=%22mensch+und+sonne%22&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=)

[Svanhild]

My signature contains a fine saying and very evil people. :wink

[Octothorpe]

Mine is a quote from one of my students (completely nonironic in the original context). She tended to mix her metaphors, and this one was a knee-slapper for the whole class. I've always loved it!

[Cato]

Current sig, Uncle Sam flipping the bird. My way of saying, amongst other things, to the people on this forum (who look down on Yanks, possibly Canadians, but Yanks specifically) that Euro-Americans in North America aren't the sodding poor cousins of the Euros in Europe. :)

Europa mater planted her seeds in America and if you bums don't like it, well, tough shit.

It's also my way of saying that I think that the United States is the best thing to happen in the world since the the creation itself.

[Aemma]

Current sig, Uncle Sam flipping the bird. My way of saying, amongst other things, to the people on this forum (who look down on Yanks, possibly Canadians, but Yanks specifically) that Euro-Americans in North America aren't the sodding poor cousins of the Euros in Europe. :)

Europa mater planted her seeds in America and if you bums don't like it, well, tough shit.

It's also my way of saying that I think that the United States is the best thing to happen in the world since the the creation itself.

You get my vote for "Best Show of National Pride," Pall! :thumb001: (After me of course. :P :D)

[Cato]

You get my vote for "Best Show of National Pride," Pall! :thumb001: (After me of course. :P :D)

I'm an unabashed American who views the United States as the best example yet of what generations of European thinkers dreamed of, from Plato to Thomas More: God's cosmopolis, the universal city.

I've gone back and read the opening few sentences of the Constitution and, while the ideas contained within it may be found from the Stoics to John Locke, none are as beautifully-rendered as in the Constitution. Uncle Sam is just a silly caricature, but he represents the defiance of the American people, from Washington to Reagan.

I live with pride in knowing that my ancestors game to North America in the 1600s from England and that, prior to this, they lived for centuries in places like Wessex, Sussex and Northumberland- and even to Normandy and Brittany. It's not the [modern] flags of England or France that I put up however, it's the flag that my folk have lived and died under for more than two centuries: Old Glory.

[Aemma]

I'm an unabashed American who views the United States as the best example yet of what generations of European thinkers dreamed of, from Plato to Thomas More: God's cosmopolis, the universal city.

I've gone back and read the opening few sentences of the Constitution and, while the ideas contained within it may be found from the Stoics to John Locke, none are as beautifully-rendered as in the Constitution. Uncle Sam is just a silly caricature, but he represents the defiance of the American people, from Washington to Reagan.

And I respect your pride, Pall. I hope you didn't see my comment as anything more than what it was, a sincere nod to your national pride. :)

[Cato]

And I respect your pride, Pall. I hope you didn't see my comment as anything more than what it was, a sincere nod to your national pride. :)

Not at all, it's greatly appreciated, and, if you'll excuse me for being a bit presumptuous, I extend these feelings to Canada as well, even if Canadians don't want to be seen as being the so-called "51st state" or coddled by Americans. I've been up to Canada more than a few times and have never been made to feel unwelcome by the folks there- the last time being a trip to Toronto, which I positively enjoyed.

http://www.ossipee.org/albums/Snow-Cross/The_Glory_of_Old_Glory.sized.jpg

^
Best buds in North America. :thumbs up

[Guapo]

My sig is the flag of the Mohawk Warriors Society.

[Cato]

My sig is the flag of the Mohawk Warriors Society.

I live in the heartlands of the old Iroquois Confederacy.

[Hrimskegg]

The invocation I gave at Thorrablot last January. We have gotten some intermittently awesome snow, but it seems everyone is busy pounding the eastern states for some reason. I have yet to consult an oracle as to the reason and I'm sure it's a good one, even if the reason is: "Because I can."

:viking4:

[lei.talk]

Originally Posted by Irrepressible Dove http://www.theapricity.com/forum/images/kiddo/buttons/viewpost.gif (http://www.theapricity.com/forum/member.php?u=74)


http://i55.tinypic.com/25f0fww.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_race)
Nordicism ---- Protection of Nordic traits

Blutige Rache
Verrat und Raub
Asche zu Asche
Staub zu Staub

Aus Rheingold geschmiedet
von Göttern erzwungen
vernichtend der Fluch
der Ring der Nibelungen
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[Germanicus]

6 years ago my life changed forever...Self preservation took over and i pushed away friends and relations.
Friends now see why i did this, family has taken a very long time to accept why i did it.
The poem sums friendship up very well, my lifetime best friend knows me better than anybody and did not question me because he knows i do things for a reason.
He still says to me, "you are the only man i would ever trust with my wife and daughters".

[lei.talk]

Hawk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turul) of Rakamazi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szabolcs-Szatm%C3%A1r-Bereg_County)

Originally Posted by Arrow Cross (http://www.theapricity.com/forum/showthread.php?p=8991#post8991) http://www.theapricity.com/forum/images/kiddo/buttons/viewpost.gif (http://www.theapricity.com/forum/member.php?u=28)


http://www.kepeslap.com/images/14015/rakamazi.jpg


Árpádok (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81rp%C3%A1d_dynasty#9th-10th_centuries) /Avar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Avars#Middle_.28670-720.29_and_Late_.28720-800.29_Avar_Periods) /Hungarian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_prehistory#Double_conquest) Debate

[Grey]

Jagerzen is a dirty homosexual and I need to expose this to the world.

[Lithium]

Mine signature is a part of the Homesick sonnets by Emilie Autumn... and one of my favorite bulgarian folklore songs by Nevena Coneva

[Äike]

Parade towards the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallinn_Song_Festival_Grounds), during the Estonian song festival (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_Song_Festival). Considering how small the Estonian population is, an extremely large amount of people attend the song festival annually. At least 100 000 people.

[Piparskeggr]

Just an aphorism, one of my poetic observations on life...

[Guapo]

Africans- "Serbs have larger cocks than us"

[The Lawspeaker]

The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.
Olof Palme


Mine's sweet irony. I am using a quote of a murdered Swedish prime minister (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olof_Palme) against what I perceive as elite's (and elitism) aka NWO/EU and all it's related jazz and against any attack on democracy and our rechtsstaat.
The words should speak for it's self.

[Lulletje Rozewater]

And I respect your pride, Pall. I hope you didn't see my comment as anything more than what it was, a sincere nod to your national pride. :)

:)Pallamedes/Oghren should not forget that Stuyvesant was the founder of New Amsterdam/New York. He planted the red-white and blue flag there and the Americans just copied the (red-white and blue) with 52 odd stars for lack of imagination.
We Dutch even introduced the colors in France and Russia:thumbs up.
That the Canadians has the maple leaf is our idea too.(We ran naked in Quebec and the Fransoos were horrified to see such 'naked' beauty):thumbs up

[Lulletje Rozewater]

I have to make up one

[lei.talk]

Originally Posted by Loki http://www.theapricity.com/forum/images/buttons/viewpost.gif (http://www.theapricity.com/forum/member.php?u=2)
“My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants.”



The Sign of the Four (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sign_of_the_Four)

By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

page one

The Science of Deduction

Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel- piece and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and rolled back his left shirt-cuff. For some little time his eyes rested thoughtfully upon the sinewy forearm and wrist all dotted and scarred with innumerable puncture-marks. Finally he thrust the sharp point home, pressed down the tiny piston, and sank back into the velvet-lined arm-chair with a long sigh of satisfaction.

Three times a day for many months I had witnessed this performance, but custom had not reconciled my mind to it. On the contrary, from day to day I had become more irritable at the sight, and my conscience swelled nightly within me at the thought that I had lacked the courage to protest. Again and again I had registered a vow that I should deliver my soul upon the subject, but there was that in the cool, nonchalant air of my companion which made him the last man with whom one would care to take anything approaching to a liberty. His great powers, his masterly manner, and the experience which I had had of his many extraordinary qualities, all made me diffident and backward in crossing him.

Yet upon that afternoon, whether it was the Beaune which I had taken with my lunch, or the additional exasperation produced by the extreme deliberation of his manner, I suddenly felt that I could hold out no longer.

"Which is it to-day?" I asked,--"morphine or cocaine?"

He raised his eyes languidly from the old black-letter volume which he had opened. "It is cocaine," he said,--"a seven-per-cent solution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven-Per-Cent_Solution). Would you care to try it?"

"No, indeed," I answered, brusquely. "My constitution has not got over the Afghan campaign yet. I cannot afford to throw any extra strain upon it."

He smiled at my vehemence. "Perhaps you are right, Watson," he said. "I suppose that its influence is physically a bad one. I find it, however, so transcendently stimulating and clarifying to the mind that its secondary action is a matter of small moment."

"But consider!" I said, earnestly. "Count the cost! Your brain may, as you say, be roused and excited, but it is a pathological and morbid process, which involves increased tissue-change and may at last leave a permanent weakness. You know, too, what a black reaction comes upon you. Surely the game is hardly worth the candle. Why should you, for a mere passing pleasure, risk the loss of those great powers with which you have been endowed? Remember that I speak not only as one comrade to another, but as a medical man to one for whose constitution he is to some extent answerable."

He did not seem offended. On the contrary, he put his finger- tips together and leaned his elbows on the arms of his chair, like one who has a relish for conversation. He said, "My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession,--or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world."

"The only unofficial detective?" I said, raising my eyebrows.

"The only unofficial consulting detective," he answered. "I am the last and highest court of appeal in detection. When Gregson or Lestrade or Athelney Jones are out of their depths--which, by the way, is their normal state--the matter is laid before me. I examine the data, as an expert, and pronounce a specialist's opinion. I claim no credit in such cases. My name figures in no newspaper. The work itself, the pleasure of finding a field for my peculiar powers, is my highest reward. But you have yourself had some experience of my methods of work in the Jefferson Hope case."

"Yes, indeed," said I, cordially.


did he read the rest of the story (http://sherlock-holmes.classic-literature.co.uk/the-sign-of-the-four/ebook-page-02.asp)?

[Radojica]

Some kids from Kosovo and Metohija on some demostrations against Kosovo independence waving with the flags of Serbian friendly countries :thumbs up

[Charles U. Farley]

The powerful Vinland flag!


The Vinland flag is a contemporary flag first used by the musical group Type O Negative to encompass a variety of front man Peter Steele's interests and political beliefs,[1] including his own Icelandic heritage.[2] The flag appears on various Compact Disc covers by the group, sometimes with the slogan "made in the People's Technocratic Republic of Vinland", and adorns various pieces of Type O Negative merchandise.

Subsequently, the symbol has gained use as an ethnic flag by various groups in North America, including numerous vendors, some Germanic neopagan groups and political groups who identify the name of the 11th Century Norse colony at L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, called Vinland in the sagas, with predominantly Anglo-American areas of the modern nations of Canada and the United States. The flag is designed in the style of a Nordic Cross flag, with a green field and a black cross with white fimbriation (the green and black being a common color scheme for Type O Negative).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinland_flag


Being Half-Norwegian I identity with the Nordic Cross design and also I have always enjoyed Type O Negatives very dark sense of humor.

Plus it looks cool.

Valhalla awaits Peter Steele! :cool:

[Lithium]

It's representing my love - Morgaine le Fay :D

[lei.talk]

http://www.theapricity.com/forum/image.php?u=1371&dateline=1277636119 (http://www.theapricity.com/forum/member.php?u=1371)


http://fora.tv/i/layout/fora-logo_200x33.gif
http://fora.tv/tagline/tag_img.php?id=6 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FORA.tv)



what are the apricity bracket-commands
to display these videos?

[Vasconcelos]

Just some random pic of my ancestor getting stuck at a backdoor of Lisbon Walls in 1147 and a sentence written by our first king, placed under a statue near the old walls.

[Tyrrhenoi]

Je maintiendrai , french for 'I will maintain' is a sentence/motto in the insignia of the Dutch Royal house. Wilhelm of Orange ,(the founder) and liberator of the Netherlands used this for as his watchword.

The Prince of Orange-Nassau came with his sentence/motto from the princedom Orange (south-france) he inherited.

http://communities.zeelandnet.nl/data/astro/upload/images/Nl-arms.gif

[Cato]

Current sig:

One of the great problems with Americans is that - being a decent people - they assume that everyone else is equally decent.

Meir Kahane commenting upon what I perceive as the neurotic obsession that the majority of my countrymen have with equality.

[Megrez]

My current signature is the first strophe of the lyrics for the song Annihilate Prime Factor, played by the polish Black Metal band Kriegsmaschine.



Let these words be as sand in the cogwheels of reason,
as a malign disturbance in the sustainment of universe,
and let each quark of this degenerated microcosm
stand as a citadel of cold and deliberate hatred.
Let there come a glorious error in the patterns of the world.
Let the tainted foundations of reality crumble
and let us hope nothing comes afterwards,
so the gravest of mistakes we all blindly wander in
will finally come to an end.

Annihilate prime factor.
Thrice deny divine restraint. Reject all things finite and infinite.
Annihilate prime factor.

Towards the tainted omega-pleroma, so perfect
in its warped beauty, it comes to burn the earth
and our hearts shall welcome the flames
with purest of joys.
Haunted by the voices of living breathing cosmos,
Isis! Cunt of pneuma, whence all floweth,
exceeding the capacity of pure abstraction,
digitized Logos, blistered into matter.

ssxtx6K7mcg

[lei.talk]

Originally Posted by Arawn http://www.theapricity.com/forum/images/jagohan/buttons/viewpost.gif (http://www.theapricity.com/forum/showthread.php?p=240006#post240006)

...only as further evidence (http://www.white-history.com/hwr8.htm) of the obvious. :swl

You can not be serious? :confused:
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[The Lawspeaker]

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
"Who will guard the guards themselves?" ( by Juvenal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quis_custodiet_ipsos_custodes%3F))
With it I am refering to the corrupted governments and juidicial systems)

[The Ripper]

It is an artsy fartsy picture of the landscapes that dominate the island of Suursaari, currently under Russian occupation. It was only yesterday when I last witnessed its three-humped, foggy profile on the horizon. I see it whenever I go boating and the weather is clear enough.

It is also probably the only piece of land that is Russian and that I have seen with my own eyes. My parents hail from the region (Eastern Gulf of Finland) and my grandfather was stationed on the island during the continuation war. It is about half way between Finland and Estonia, had contacts to both countries, and when it was in Finnish hands it lived off fishing, seal-hunting in winter, tourism in summer, piracy in earlier times and smuggling during the prohibition. It fascinates me and I wish to go one day to see the amazing landscapes, not to mention the breed of seal-hunting dog that still inhabits the otherwise deserted island. It haunts my imagination.

[Tabiti]

One quote by Hesse and one by Hippo.;)

[Äike]

Lenna Kuurmaa's new album (http://musapood.ee/muusika,1,000501.html)'s, which is named "Lenna", cover.

[lei.talk]

the hispanic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic) readers of this forum
might find an exposition of your signature-space
and its historical references/relevance interesting. :nod:

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idouyuDKcEo

[Cato]

My current signature betrays my contempt of Hitler and nutzis; it also betrays my overpowering love for the grand old republic.

[Äike]

One of Richard Sööt's paintings (http://www.richardsoot.com/tood_labi_aegade) is in my signature.

[Birka]

A take on the Obongo Hope and Change anthem, and of course the great line from the Epic Bearded Man vid, call an ambalamps.

[Vasconcelos]

Well known poem from this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Pessoa) fellow.

It roughly translates as:

For three times did he rose his arms,
For three times did he rehold the wheel,
At after shaking for three times, he said:
«Here at the wheel it's more than me:
I'm a whole people who wants your sea;
And despite the monster, who my soul fears
and spins in the darkness of the end of the world,
Rules the will, that ties me to the wheel,
of El-Rei D. João II!»

[Cato]

My sig is also a nod to old Rome, the first, or old, republic- that of Rome and the more rightful successor to Rome than many tens of Romance nations. America is the new republic as far as I'm concerned. Let me quoth a bit of Star Wars legendary:

"The Old Republic was the Republic of legend, greater than distance or time. No need to note where it was or whence it came, only to know that… it was the Republic."

The Republic, the City of Jove [i.e. God], beyond distance or time, encompassing men and gods of all nations and in all times.

[Peerkons]

Courlands coat of arms
my home region
btw Karl, those paintings are lovely.

[The Ripper]

The Island in both the picture and the one referred to in the text is none other than Suursaari / Suursaar / Hogland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gogland).

Its almost mythical, seeing the island on the horizon (from far away it looks like three separate islands as only the hilltops are visible) and knowing that its off-limits for us. My grandfather was stationed on the island for a while during the continuation war. I don't know whether he took part in the re-taking of the island, though.

[Wyn]

They are the two lines I love the most from Shakespeare's Henry V, taken from Act III, scene I, to be specific.

The passage in full:

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead.
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
Let pry through the portage of the head
Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it
As fearfully as doth a galled rock
O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,
Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit
To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.
Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof!
Fathers that, like so many Alexanders,
Have in these parts from morn till even fought
And sheathed their swords for lack of argument:
Dishonour not your mothers; now attest
That those whom you call'd fathers did beget you.
Be copy now to men of grosser blood,
And teach them how to war. And you, good yeoman,
Whose limbs were made in England, show us here
The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not;
For there is none of you so mean and base,
That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'

[Lithium]

I newly added my favourite part of "The Pure Nymph" by Gothica <3

[Dario Argento]

It's a image I made satyrizing and making fun of both Argentines who say our country is 95% European and that all Mestizos in my country are Boliguayans and to nutcase Spaniards who say we're all Mestizos that look like Maradonna.

Hence

"I HAVE RACIAL QUALITY... I'm Argentine"

[Don]

It's a image I made satyrizing and making fun of both Argentines who say our country is 95% European and that all Mestizos in my country are Boliguayans and to nutcase Spaniards who say we're all Mestizos that look like Maradonna.
Hence

"I HAVE RACIAL QUALITY... I'm Argentine"

Spaniards don't say that.

Spaniards say: Mix an indio, a jew and an italian and you will have an argentinian that calls himself "Blanco".

[The Lawspeaker]

Spaniards don't say that.

Spaniards say: Mix an indio, a jew and an italian and you will have an argentinian that calls himself "Blanco".
A bit like a joke I have still have a in a book somewhere: "What's an Argentinian ?
It's an Italian mixed with a Jew that considers himself to be an Spanish-speaking Englishman. "

[Dario Argento]

Spaniards don't say that.

Spaniards say: Mix an indio, a jew and an italian and you will have an argentinian that calls himself "Blanco".

Spaniards (and all our neighbor countries too, Chile, Boliguay, Brazil, etc..) say many things, and as usual, they have little relevance and no sense at all.

I'm not italian, nor indio, nor jewish as I'm 3/4 hungarian and 1/4 french but overall I'm argentine and hence sho tengo calidad racial like the handsome man in my signature :D:D:D

[Frigga]

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The song What A Shame by Shinedown. As a reminder to people that we shouldn't be judging others for our differences too harshly.

[Leliana]

My new signature in large:

http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/8120/templar1680x1050.jpg

Has to do with a game where the reinforced Order of the Templars owns huge parts of the Western world and is in competition with two other groups, the 'Illuminati' and the Asian 'Dragons'.

I don't play the game but the artwork rocks. :cool:

[Peyrol]

A picture of a piemontàis mountain village with the 3 flags of these lands:
-Italian (called the ''Tricolore'')
-Occitan (called ''el Drapèl'')
-Piemonteis (called ''el Drapò'')

[Fortis in Arduis]

My signature is the character "Chet", from the 1980s bratpack film, "Weird Science", who has been transformed into a fat monster.

In the picture, one can imagine "Chet" as Inquiring Mind, asking Lisa, "Can I become white and have you as my girlfriend?"

The answer is negative, but Chet/Inquiring Mind needs to face up to the character defects and engage in some self-help in order to transform, just as we all do.

There is a link to this moment in the film for those who wish to be better informed.

[morski]

My hometown's coat of arms.

[Virtuous]

Ace of spades...I like it, it's associated with luck, worn on the helmet by 'nam soldiers and of course... I'm an ace :cool: :p.

It would make a cool tat as well.

[Smaug]

Wyrd bið ful aræd is Anglo-Saxon and means fate remains wholly inexorable. I took it from the Anglo-Saxonic Chronicles, by Bernand Cornwell.
Chan eil aon chànan gu leòr is Scottish Gaelic and means one language is never enough, and of course it is a joke.

[Frigga]

It's a really funny ecard I saw on Facebook that I had to use. :D

[Clawgauth]

It's a quote from a World Of Darkness book.

And a hungry wolf

[Catrau]

Eternal and historical symbols of my ancestors:
From left to right:

Celto/Lusitani Triskel - it represents triads of life in a ever perpetual movement such as birth, life and death; body, mind and spirit; sky, sea and land. It is and old indo-european and Neolithic symbol very present in the Atlantic facade from the Alentejo to Scotland, in other words, in the lands where today we find huge megalithic concentrations such menhirs and cromlechs, this symbols survived for millennia only to be abandoned with rise of Christianity and the fall of pagan Portugal.

Celto/Lusitani knots - these interlaced ropes are geometric motifs found engraved in stones in the houses until the IIrd century a.D. and are very much in use today as patterns for tattoos. The one in the image is the center of a plaza in Lisbon made in typical sidewalk stone art.

Blue cross in white background is the coat of arms of our fist king which he took from his father the count Henry of Burgundry, great son of the king of France. It became the state fist flag, and for me personally, the most iconic one. It floats in our lands for 900 years, still floats today in many places, windows and masts especially in Guimarães (the first capital), in Coimbra the second capital and where our first king remains rest and in other places conquered by our first king or in cities to whom he first gave “forum letter”

The five "Quinas" appeared with the 2nd king (Sancho I) apparently his father shield with the blue cross over the white background was still kept but the edges and the center of the blue fabric stripes had to be fixed to the wooden shield with nails,with time only the fixed part of the stripes remained and that's from where came that distinctive and powerful icon of the Portuguese coat of arms still in use today. Another theory states that those white spots were added by our first king to his own coat of arms representing coins to show that he could coin money.

The last coat of arms his from my preferred king: João I. The man that rose to power in 1383, against all odds, smashed the castillian army, married Philippa of Lancaster and thus started the oldest alliance and a new dynasty. He made a huge revolution in the state, starting by removing all the state suckers and imposing a new motto according to which only the best ones should rise to the top (something we really need today). It had such an impact that Portugal in one generation became the most powerful state and his sons (including Henry the navigator) started the age of discovery opening a new age of commerce and the first step of globalization.

[Jackson]

Mine is just various family lineages, although not of the genaeological kind. I am still thinking of what else to put there, i had Metallica \,,/ the other day.

[Damião de Góis]

It's the symbol of an old portuguese order, which was created after the templars were persecuted all over Europe... except here, here they changed names.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Christ_(Portugal))

Our sails used to have this cross

http://charlezine.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/caravela.jpg

Now it's basically a national symbol:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CdV9vcOjoFw/TzkdNSvH5pI/AAAAAAAAB-E/ettWiu3OReo/s1600/1+a+convento+cristo+cruz.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ku1hXmkd3To/TzFn3aXZ3jI/AAAAAAAAGus/akxf6GKxvp4/s1600/tomar%2Bchiado%2Bportuguese%2Bpavement%2Blisbon%2B city%2Btour%2Bportugal%2Broc2c%2Bpattern%2Bdetail% 2Blimestone%2Bplaza%2Bblack%2Bwhite%2Bkiosk%2Bdisc overies%2Brossio%2Bcal%25C3%25A7ada%2Bportuguesa%2 Bpasseio%2Bem%2Bcal%25C3%25A7ada%2Bcruzes.jpg

http://www.dightonrock.com/museudapedradedightontemverdades_files/image033.jpg

http://www.dightonrock.com/CodFish/Sagres_em_Bristol.jpg

[Atlantic Islander]

No explanation needed:

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But I like to change it up, so it wont be it for long.

[Partizan]

A part of my fraction's march:


Tek yürek tek yumruk, Genç Türkleriz biz...

Mustafa Kemal'in askerleriyiz!

"One heart and one fist, we are Young Turks,
We are soldiers of Mustafa Kemal." (Young Turk here is not relevant to Jöntürks in first quarter of 20.th century and last half of 19.th century, except both being nationalist/patriotic)

Here is website of my fraction, which is also in my signature:

http://genc-turk.org/

And last part of my signature, a poem from a patriotic Turkish poet, Tevfik Fikret:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/374381_134516283368716_639741824_n.jpg

"Death for homeland might be necessary in some cases,
However you owe living to your motherland."

[Virtuous]

my penis

[Balmung]

my penis

You copied me!

Anyway if it reaches space, it just means its dead, and probably had to be amputated. Sorry for your loss.

[Virtuous]

you copied me!

Anyway if it reaches space, it just means its dead, and probably had to be amputated. Sorry for your loss.

my penis is immortal :D

[Virtuous]

You can see that the sun beam is touching my penis, too.

[Balmung]

my penis is immortal :D

Immortal Phallus?

When you die millions will come to praise your member. Infact if i were you i'd get started on developing your own religion. Make up many beliefs such as your piss being responsible for rain blah blah blah. You might just rival all other mainstream religions, and you can claim all your decendents as the chosen people, and set them for life.

There is the question on how you will get someone pregnant with that. I'm thinking man made tower to space where women from around the world can climb up to sit on, and be blessed with fertility by the holy phallus.

[Virtuous]

Immortal Phallus?

When you die millions will come to praise your member. Infact if i were you i'd get started on developing your own religion. Make up many beliefs such as your piss being responsible for rain blah blah blah. You might just rival all other mainstream religions, and you can claim all your decendents as the chosen people, and set them for life.

There is the question on how you will get someone pregnant with that. I'm thinking man made tower to space where women from around the world can climb up to sit on, and be blessed with fertility by the holy phallus.

I already did.

Humans call it Islam.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6fsxptY1l1rwcc6bo1_250.gif

[rhiannon]

Mine is a quote that seems to fit me half the time lol

[Mans not hot]

Mine is a quote that seems to fit me half the time lol
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...

[Bobby Martnen]

Just quotes I like

[Jacques de Imbelloni]

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