New US finance minister - can he even handwrite?
 

Not kidding, I am asking seriously-. Is there any recorded handwritten note by him that proves that he even can handwrite?

Because this is his signature. Scribbled curls like a spiral cable.

http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/8...ysignature.jpg

With big imagination I could read a capital "J" into it at the beginning, and later a very strange way of painting an "o". And that is all letters one could attach to it even if being utmost well-meaning.

Could it be that he is illiterate and has hidden it successfully for this long?

So he signs with a flourish, big deal:yawn:

To be honest, as the world of computer typing takes over, handwriting is going to go down the toilet, my handwriting is pretty terrible now (but then again it's always been like a spider given ecstasy, dipped in ink and then thrown on paper) but I write so few things (usually the names of drinks followed by room numbers) that it doesn't matter. If I force myself I can write very neatly but about the only time I need to do that these days is Christmas or Birthdays.

I spent 12 years writing in legally-accountable documentation in capitals that I haven't stopped since. It takes a special effort on my behalf to write properly.

My wife, on the other hand, writes every day and has the most terrible handwriting that she should be a doctor!

My signature is a scribble as well. :oops:

My signature is three words that look like a scribble

His signature would be the least of my worries, given the current state the U.S Goverments finances. Trillion dollar coin anyone? :nope:

writing is the devils magic.:yep:

Postin' in a Skybird thread. :arrgh!:

Do tell. All I see is some microscopic lines there, and I have a bloody magnifying glass here.


Bull. You don't even have a signature.


I'm ignoring this post...no, wait.

Well done you. :up:

It's probably because there is very little politics or religion (shhh!) so far.

My writing has deteriorated so much in the past three years that I much prefer to print now.

I must confess that most of my handwriting is done in block, rather than joined up, I was taught to write joined up but back in my younger days I used to draw little adventure comics, and joined up handwriting in a speech bubble looks horrible, so I untaught myself and now I only write joined up if I'm writing in a hurry, and it makes the drugged spider look like an Oxford scholar.

I scribble an "M" and then the last name is a kind of two up and down scribbles and then a swoosh to finish it off. My mother berated me when she saw my signature and told me that it's completely illegible.

as a flight instructor, and as my career evolved into airlines and also the insurance business my elaborate and enunciated signature from high school and college was having to be duplicated dozens of times per day.

it eventually evolved onto something more or less recognizable as the initials JSY

to each his own... but i do think a persons signature should at least resemble their name on some level... i dont see how a series of what appear to be upside down cursive "E"s makes out his name.

handwriting is going the way of the dodo

when not writing my signature i write in architectural block letters because throughout high school and throughout most of college its what i was taught and it stuck with me and meshes well with my slightly obsessive compulsive tendencies.

part of why i keep a journal is not only for the therapeutic nature of getting the thoughts out... but also to maintain that hand writing.