Not that it’s much of a threat, although if Sanjaya can last this long without being voted off “American Idol,” anything is possible in this great and magical land of ours.
But if the entry level for celebrity should ever plummet, and my autograph ended up on eBay, it would impossible for anyone, including me, to verify its authenticity. No two would match each other, or any other signature I’ve ever scrawled, ever. And not with slight variations, either, I’m talking “Chris Bridges” and “Chblit Bronson” and “Claaaaa Beuuuuduuuuuus.”
As with all other pressing problems such as social injustice, lax child-rearing, and my hairline, I blame computers.
quote: or had all the local stories replaced with zesty banana-pudding-and-transmission-fluid recipes
Snort. Chris, you're the best!
Posted by CaySedai (Member # 6459) on :
Loved it - and so did Amanda. It was definitely a "read to others" column. Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :
That is, by the way, my actual handwriting. I rewrote the first few lines and scanned 'em in.
Posted by Glenn Arnold (Member # 3192) on :
Is it ok to quote yourself? I was unable to post this here from work, so I posted it to Chris's blog. (Which is really ironic, since the wb blocker at school is supposed to block blogs). Anyway, I figured I'd repost it here:
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Chris, You may not be aware of this, but "printing" is also referred to as "formal writing." Cursive is actually the informal style, intended for quick notes, and lengthy letters to a loved one. Printing is slow and painful. Legibility comes at the expense of slow hard labor. When I started teaching, I had the same problem you describe. My handwriting was terrible. Because I was trying to write formally, but I was trying to do it quickly at the same time. Doesn't work. Cursive is properly described as you say, trying to "complete letter shapes before being dragged helplessly to the next word." That's precisely what it's for. We think of cursive as being harder to do because we learn it AFTER we learn to print, so we have to unlearn printing as we do. Try writing in cursive. You may be surprised. I was.
By the way, the word "cursive" comes from the same root as "cursory."
Posted by GaalDornick (Member # 8880) on :
quote: I tend to write as quickly as I talk, which is a bit faster than a nervous auctioneer on crystal meth.
Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
I found that I can type faster than I can speak.
Also, I use to work at a freight forwarder where we had to sign every document we processed. I use to have a nice signature - until I had to use it upwards of three to four hundred times a day...
Posted by TheGrimace (Member # 9178) on :
Chris, I've struggled with the same issue with my signature. I'm reasonably sure that even skilled forensic experts would have no idea what it was supposed to be, and would be certain that each time I wrote it there was actually a different person behind the pen. Heck, it's not even a guarontee by any means that the first letters of my first/last names come out at all. Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :
My cursive is worse.
When you don't take the time to back and finish your letters, cursive writing looks like a squiggle. And not even an English squiggle.
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