Say's who? Skybirds Manual of Approved Diction?

common sense?

yu get a new president. he signs his papers by loking dum and making an X.

do you trust this president?

i would be lile "WTH"?

But that gus is , fortunately for me, an american. Land of the free n stuff

:D

But does he have a gun? :hmmm:

The pen is mightier than the sw.... gun. :O:

But no one is talking about someone "signing" with an "X", the thread is about someone with a very strange and unreadable signature. Quite a difference between that and using a signature mark.

I still don't think it's a big deal. He has a wonky signature. So what?

He is someone nominated by Obama. Perhaps that's the big deal to some people.

making a cross due to inability or making O°oO°oOoO°o due to inability...

inability is the catch here... and concerns that go from inability to incompetence.

i for one know that signing such a paper that puts me in a strong posiotion will get my best signature. Putting my Mark in a proper manner on a proper document that guides my life and others as well.

But he is not my Finance Guru... i ahsll not worry.
:)

I think that's a good attitude to have. :yep:

i just hope he don't mess up your cash like he messed up his signature!!!:haha:

Chances are that he, like other Secretaries of the Treasury, will modify his signature on the paper bills to something a bit more readable.

So you Europeans actually base your assessment of a persons education and professional ability by the legibility of their signature? No wonder you're such suckers for every two bit dictator and tyrant that comes along.

Us uncouth Americans go by much more telling indicators like which PHD's and other university degrees they hold, their professional experience, the confidence of the Chief Executive in nominating them and his ability to survive the usual contentious Senate confirmation process. Some drooling idiot that can't read or write is just not going to meet those high standards regardless of the quality of his signature. Though he may have a future in a European parliament apparently...

August.

Europeans think we are nuts.

But we are just doing what we do.

Who has let us do what we do for so long?

The same cats who think we are nuts for our ways.

I am so glad Europe has so many financial geniuses, who were smart enough to separate themselves from the poisonous American Banking system, oh wait, they were in bed with them....


Nevermind that, America is to blame for everything, because he writes like crap.

I got a Bruce Springsteen autograph from a few years ago, sloppy handwriting, he is a crappy musician, cuz he signs a sloppy autograph.
Yeah, you sound that silly.

That also might have something to do with the fact that Europe is a collection of different nations that have been around for a darn sight longer than the United States of America.

Actually you've only been around that long on paper.

The French have been around since the Roman Empire. No, wait, they like to say their revolution changed everything, yet it was based on ours.

The Germans have been around just as long. No, wait, there's really only been a Germany since 1870.

The Brits have been around forever, but they've changed governments so many times that they're really not much older than we are, if at all.

In fact, no European government or way of life is really all that old. In fact, my ancestors are mostly English, with some German thrown in, and we can trace the family name back to the 400s. How do I compare in all this?

I guess you're just as susceptible to 'two-bit dictators' and 'tyrants' as well then, if you're of European descent.

955 - Battle on the Lechfeld near Augsburg. First time that kingdoms and small dukedoms under the leadership of Otto I. united against the shared enemy, the Hungarians, who raided "German" territories and plundered them. This is seen as the birth date of a German identity.

962 - first German king was crowned in Rome and declared first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation.

The point is this, Steve. The formal nations called "Germany", "France" or "England" were just a late, if not the last step in a log process of identity forming. The feeling of being one people, one cultural entity of shared origin and history, is much older. And it is more important than a formality.

And the Brits, who "were around since ever", the Anglosaxons - well, there was a time when there were Angles and Saxons, and no Anglosaxons... And then formed up the socalled English... And the socalled Normans... The French intermezzo..., Great Britain is relatively late compared to all that - and still, the foundation of its heritage lies much longer back in time than just since the first Union Jack was raised.

No actually our ancestors were the Europeans who got fed up with that crap and migrated to the new world to escape it. If anything you folks who remained behind have like concentrated susceptibility to that kind of thing. :)

Me? Oh hell yes!

No, the point is that some people seem to be born without a sense of humor.

At least Oberon got it. :sunny:

Oh!? Well then, at least we did not cross blades in anger there. I still fail to see the humor, but maybe that is because I am not British like Oberon. Or your humor is as dry as Bond's Martinis. To hell with this Anglosaxon chumminess!