Explain "signature code" for a newbie
Philemer
out but...
Thanks,
Phil Emerson
AF Brat, born 1946
debbymac
since you are Air Force Brat, your sc would be:
AFbv(brat vintage)71(high school graduation date)xxxx(month and
year of birth) then state where you are living.
Hope this is clear as mud for you.
Debbymac
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H.
How to write a Brat #
#1 Use the first letter of your parent's branch of service A= Army AF
Air Force AAC(F)= Army Air Corps(Force) N= Navy M= Marine Corps CG=
Coast Guard D= Department of Defense Worker (school teachers and such)
If your parent(s) served in more than one branch, indicate them
chronologically, separated by slashes: AAF/A. If both your parents
served in the same branch, also use a slash: A/A
#2 Use The letters "BV" This stands for Brat Vintage
#3 Next is the year (two # digit) you graduated from High School. Or
would have graduated if you hadn't set fire to the bleachers.
#4 After this comes your Birth Month followed by your Birth Year (always
use the two digit numbering system. (0= no digit) So a person born in
March, 1960, would use 0360.)
So ABV65.1147 breaks down to:
A = Army
BV65 = Brat Vintage 1965
1147 = November, 1947 birth month
#5 Optional add-ons:
- - Some add a three figure number indicating whether they were first,
second, third etc. to claim a particular BV number, for example, 001
means the first person to claim the number. [Some people use an alpha
designation, A, B, C, rather than a numerical one.]
- - Some add an abbreviation for their state or country of residence.
A Note on Dots & Dashes. BVs can be used without dividers or some kind
of spacing between some or all as you choose [generally dots or dashes.]
Harmon
A/ABV65.1147IL
harmon at mac.com
David Grove
Brat Vintage(BV)...what does the vintage represent? Also, and most
importantly, how do I "get" the signature? Is it just something I put there
every time or do I have to register it somehow? I understand how to figure
out my signature, but need to know what to do with it after I figure it out.
Thanks,
Dave
Norman Howden
The Brat Vintage represents the year of high school graduation, as explained
back in Debby's message. It's not registered anywhere, although if several
people show up in a newsgroup or a reunion with identical signatures they will
probably get together and enumerate themselves as ".001", ".002", etc. To have
the signature appended to your outgoing messages automatically, you would
investigate the signature capabilities for your email software. It would
probably be wise to include your name along with the signature string.
Norm
AAF/AFBV63.1245TX
David Grove
out for sure after I send this message.
H.
> Thanks Norm for your help. I believe I've figured it all out, but will find
> out for sure after I send this message.
I was very tempted to say nothing but quote the above. It would probably
have been the most laconic message I've ever sent.
But anyway, it appears that you have figured out something other than
how to get your sig file to work. If you are running a mac, as you
should be, I can tell you how to do it, probably. Email me (see below.)
If you are running a windoze program, such as LoveVire Express, it will
be necessary for you to bury the nail clippings of a dead white rat & a
damaged floppy at a crossroads at Sunday midnight in a month with no "r"
in its name, then locate all files ending in .argh!, trash two of them,
then reload your entire email program from three revisions back, before
we can get down to how to do it...
Susan M.
> I was very tempted to say nothing but quote the above. It would probably have been
> the most laconic message I've ever sent.
Like that's ever going to happen???
> If you are running a mac, as you should be, <snip>
>
> If you are running a windoze program <snip>
Not that you would try to start one of those famous Mac/PC wars or anything, eh,
Harmon? Everyone knows you have to bury the rat at midnight Saturday, not Sunday;
you want to make sure it is properly buried come Sabbath morn.
Chuckling quietly,
Susan in WA
AFBV740856WA
Norman Howden
> If you are running a windoze program, such as LoveVire Express, it will
> be necessary for you to bury the nail clippings of a dead white rat & a
> damaged floppy at a crossroads at Sunday midnight in a month with no "r"
> in its name, then locate all files ending in .argh!, trash two of them,
> then reload your entire email program from three revisions back, before
> we can get down to how to do it...
Not that any of use love the PC like Mac users just love their computers!
At least most PC users have an idea where the files are located. Although
more recent newbies that I help daily, on Macs or PCs, have no idea what
the difference between memory and disk space might be. Life is indeed a
box of chocolates.
joie
this discussion before...
I generally sign mine
joie
sg (with selkie in hand.. or is that body?)
dash willoughby
dave...@earthlink.net says...
> I am also a newbie and have a few questions, as ridiculous as they may be.
> Brat Vintage(BV)...what does the vintage represent? Also, and most
> importantly, how do I "get" the signature? Is it just something I put there
> every time or do I have to register it somehow? I understand how to figure
> out my signature, but need to know what to do with it after I figure it out.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
>
>
>
>
most news reader software has a section under options that will allow
you to put your brat stuff and any other words of wisdom you might
like to use into a sig. You can usually have it as a default on all
replies or new posts or just select it for a particular group. My news
reader, Gravity, will allow an unlimited # of sigs. Welcome aboard.
--
Ted
AFBV59.1041CA
ex scope-dope and proud of it.
H.
>Everyone knows you have to bury the rat at midnight Saturday, not
Sunday;
> you want to make sure it is properly buried come Sabbath morn.
See what I mean? You actually *have* to RTFM to work windoze. Plant the
rat on Sunday, & your hard drive is ejected...
H.
> Not that any of use love the PC like Mac users just love their computers!
> At least most PC users have an idea where the files are located.
It's true that a disorganized person can be magnificently & irrevocably
disorganized on a mac. OTOH, a quick Find on a mac actually finds stuff
& you can get to it easily. I am fairly sure that there's really no need
to be organized on a mac - it's just a hangover from paper filing
systems.
I have Windoze NT at work, and doing a search is mindbogglingly
confusing. One *has* to stay organized on a pc, or your files are lost
forever. When last we updated Microsofts Scheduler at work, *nobody*
could find where my contacts list had gone, not even the tech guy who is
very very very good. Oh, we could find files which *claimed* to be the
contacts list, but the program resolutely rejected such contentions.
I've gone back to paper for anything I really need to be able to find on
that pc.
>Although
> more recent newbies that I help daily, on Macs or PCs, have no idea what
> the difference between memory and disk space might be. Life is indeed a
> box of chocolates.
Make mine Godiva. Or Leonides.
Rick Terry
Howden <nho...@amex.cox.smu.edu> writes:
> Life is indeed a
>box of chocolates.
The upside is that more and more people are willing to buy just the box from
you.
Or is that the down side?
USABV75.0357.001.OK
Rick Terry
writes:
>Everyone knows you have to bury the rat at midnight Saturday, not Sunday;
>you want to make sure it is properly buried come Sabbath morn.
>
Burying rats? Is this some new variant of Kimchee?
USABV75.0357.001.OK
UofAlMom
Anyway, what I am saying ..............is that some things do not seem to be
in order.....here!
Seems I get the answers before the questions.
Don't even say it...Must Be that Susan in Alabama........
Am sure I must be normal
Cause I am a BRAT............
and I love the new brats down here
Susan
AFBV64.05/46AL
AFNC1969-1975
news.flash.net
grilled rats. I know this is supposed to be the hottest show on tv since
Millionaire, but I think it is all so contrived that it is pretty stupid.
"Surviving" with camera men standing around interviewing people complain
about each other? Is anyone else watching this show? Jane
Susan M.
> "Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the
> petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts the
> decency and regularity of former times, and celebrates the discipline
> and sobriety of the age in which his youth was passed; a happy age which
> is now no more to be expected, since confusion has broken in upon the
> world, and thrown down all the boundaries of civility and reverence." -
> Samuel Johnson: Rambler #50 (September 8, 1750)
Wasn't something similar said by Socrates or Plato or some other such ancient
personage?
Susan in WA
H.
> Seems I get the answers before the questions.
Then you must be a teenager....
Harmon
A/ABV65.1147IL
harmon at mac.com
"Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the
Marilyn Morris
>about each other? Is anyone else watching this show?
Nope. Don't watch either Millionaire or Survivors. Very picky about what I'll
watch on the tube, which usually means the shows I *really* like get cancelled!
Marilyn
ABV56-0438-TX
news.flash.net
the like. My favorite though is Ben Stein's Money. Knowledge with humor.
Now that school is over with, I am turning into an HGTV junkie again! lol.
I am in the middle of wallpapering our bedroom. I'm typing with "sealer"
all over my hands right now. I guess I'll have to Brillo myself off
tonight! I'm about 3/4 the way done with the room. Actually, it's not
straight wall papering...it's this stuff called Illusion I got from Home
Depot--it's like wall paper that you tear into pieces and then kind of hodge
podge it on feathering the edges. Ends up with a kind of slate or marble
effect. I hope I like it all when it is done. We are going on living in
this house 7 years which is twice my longest record before. I figure I
better do some changing of the house or I'd go nuts. So this is how I'm
spending my summer vacation. Cleaning, organizing, and redecorating. I
have to do the major projects like this when Don is out of town though. He
tends to get nervous about these "big" projects! Jane
"Marilyn Morris" <rmeb...@aol.comnojunk> wrote in message
news:20000622004424...@ng-cj1.aol.com...
STEAM GENE
ancient
personage?
>>
Can't remember who, but some Greek in the fifth century bc complained about
children not obeying their parents or listening to teachers, not worshipping
correctly. Laws being broken with impunity, citizens refusing to answer the
call to defend the state - the world was going to hell and would not last
another hundred years, or something like that.
Very popular poster during the Vietnam era.
Gene
ABV61-1043.001.HCB
<A HREF="http://www.tckworld.com/opfoot">http://www.tckworld.com/opfoot</A>
H.
> "H." wrote:
>
> > "Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the
> > petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts the
> > decency and regularity of former times, and celebrates the discipline
> > and sobriety of the age in which his youth was passed; a happy age which
> > is now no more to be expected, since confusion has broken in upon the
> > world, and thrown down all the boundaries of civility and reverence." -
> > Samuel Johnson: Rambler #50 (September 8, 1750)
>
> Wasn't something similar said by Socrates or Plato or some other such ancient
> personage?
No doubt. But not with such felicity of expression...
Susan M.
> << Wasn't something similar said by Socrates or Plato or some other such
> ancient
> personage?
> >>
>
> Can't remember who, but some Greek in the fifth century bc complained about
> children not obeying their parents or listening to teachers, not worshipping
> correctly. Laws being broken with impunity, citizens refusing to answer the
> call to defend the state - the world was going to hell and would not last
> another hundred years, or something like that.
> Very popular poster during the Vietnam era.
>
> Gene
> ABV61-1043.001.HCB
> <A HREF="http://www.tckworld.com/opfoot">http://www.tckworld.com/opfoot</A>
Seems to be a familiar lament, then, eh?
Susan in WA