Signifying

[giantsloth]

At the dayjob there's someone with a really annoying sig on all their company email. This someone is not an immediate co-worker, and I've never met this someone outside of the neon glow of my Ono-Sendai, but I do receive email from this someone. And the sig on all their messages is: "No God, no peace! Know God, know peace!"

I have let this slide on by so far, except for now bitching up here. But clearly I'm not good at completely dropping this w/o comment. I guess the obvious thing would be to put "No god, know peace!" on all of my dayjob emails. I'm open to other suggestions, though.

Comments

[bondgwendabond.livejournal.com]

I have a file of these at the office -- this is practically inoffensive in comparison to some. Yes, I will send examples tomorrow.

[colonelrowe.livejournal.com]

Holy shit, Richard posted a LiveJournal post!

[bondgwendabond.livejournal.com]

Now, now, sweetie: I had the same reaction when I saw you'd posted earlier...

[snurri.livejournal.com]

An inverted pentagram made out of slashes and dashes. Really big. Only on the emails that he/she sees.

[giantsloth.livejournal.com]

I think it might have to be something sneakier. An obscure quote from Austin Osman Spare, say. As the Colonel would say, something to induce dissonance in the reader.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

I'm reading the new Pynchon, so all I can come up with are elaborate schemes, starting with hyperlinks and leading to faked web pages for superchurches, to tent revivals and secret holy missions/wild goose chases. Probably a little more than the situation calls for.