Signing Off

I do it this way,

Anyways

Later

Ronan.

I always end my mails like this, I don't know why, it's pretty standard I guess. Sometimes I may not sign my name Ronan if the mail is to someone who knows me as one of the variations of my second name.

I've always enjoyed the luke warm ending:

regards,
[bland man]

Usually 'cheers' but sometimes 'take care' or 'have fun' or something nondescript like that.

Usually just:

Cheers,

RickyT/Rick/Richard [deleting as appropriate]

Certain people get particular sign offs, usually based on decrepit in-jokes, and I sometimes substitute Love for Cheers when it seems appropriate. Doing the latter does not mean I am eflirting though.

depending. either

-Maria

or

Love,
Maria.

no in between.

Lucy x

If you get more than one kiss, you're a special person. If you get tons, it's wuv.

if it's work, usually: Best, Katharine

if not, usually: love kt xxxxxxx (number of kisses depends how busy i am and how fluffy i am feeling)

O.

don't have a standard signoff, depends who the person is, and nature of the e-mail

Either:

Paul.

P.

love, Paul. or P.

or if it's some sort of club thing:

Live On. Paul.

The full stop is the common factor, it seems.

the full stop unites us all

Live On. Paul.

I remember Paul doing this on the Pulp list back in the day!

I usually sign off with "take care" or "cheers" because most of the other ones that come to mind are either too formal (sincerely, regards, etc.) or too personal (love,).

Or if I'm writing an email to someone who I really don't like (a rare occasion, but it has happened a couple of times), I won't use any sort of ending at all. It may sound rude, but it seems too phony to write "take care" when I secretly hope the person gets kicked by a pony or munched on by smurfs.

I *hate* cheers. It is one of the most dispicable expressions. It really shits me when people use it instead of thanks.

I sign of with love to my very good friends and when I'm being ambiguous, covert &/or manipulative (i.e. flirting).

I don't like "love" - it reminds me of thankyou letters to aunts.

I used to bother to think of something appropriate (Thanks/Hope this helps/etc), but then I caught myself descending into Cheers hell, and now just write my name, or occasionally "Love" if appropriate.

I like "live on" because when you fail to use it, it implies "die now!"

I use strings of x's according to a code only i understand

I like cheers, it's full of hearty bonhomie, especially when I use it.

Depends on who I'm emailing. My mom doesn't even get a signoff. If it's just a friend or an aquaintance, they get a: Cheers, Ally. If it's Ned, Otis, Sharon, Tim, or a very tiny handful of other people who aren't immediately coming to mind, they get "Luv, Ally".

sterl. For a while i would do "s."

I have just realised that I rarely sign off personal emails. It is a bit like when you someone calls my mobile, knowing full well I have their number in it, and says 'hi Emma it's X' when the name X has just appeared on my screen saying X calling. Harumph. Sometimes I put Laters. Sometimes I put kisses but only usually if I want to kiss you properly. For work I put Regards or Thanks depending on the content.

Laters.

The question is, why do people sign off at all? It is a custom inherited from the world of paper and pens that is no longer relevant. People already know who the email is from before they even read it - unless you choose a really silly display name.

Most of the time just

Bill

But my father in law thinks the interweb is like CB and you have to have a handle. So I've been christened Buffalo Bill by him and so sign off using that.

kicked by a pony or munched on by smurfs

So beautiful an image. And Ally luvs me, so I am content. :-) Formal postings to the mailing lists I run just have my first name and e-mail address. Otherwise it's just 'Ned' or a 'Luv, Ned' for the Good People. :-)

Depending on what I want, it varies.

I once worked for a literary agent who had a code for this stuff. 'Yours sincerely' for the formal, 'best wishes' for the middling to liking kind of person, and 'love' for those she was getting into bed with, literally or figuratively. If she was pissed off with a 'love' person, she'd prang them with 'yours sincerely'. If you got 'lots of love' on your signoff from this woman...run. Just run, dammit.

But as this system got results I made modifications. Best wishes is the nicest one, with 'many thanks' in the middle and y.s. at the frosty end. But with my friends it's love or a simple

S

x

What was that Morrissey line about Johnny Marr, 'Once you sent your love, now you just send your best regards'?

Ah, irony...

I always say...

Take care, have fun! :)

*james*

But recently, I've started just saying "take it easy"...I ain't as twee as I used to be.

I sign everything "DJP". If I'm playing music, I will also include whatever song I'm listening to.

I try to unsettle people with:
'I Love You'.
~David
xxxxxxxxx
.xxxxxx
..xxxx
...xx

or:
'Now kiss me, you fool!'

Anna

Love, Anna

sometimes nothing

sometimes I'll close with a variation of the opening of the recipient's last letter to me

X or insert approite salutation here or hugs or thanx or i want your manmeat

"See ya" or "talk to you later". Although most of the people I write this to I won't be seeing or talking to anytime soon, if ever, so maybe I should come up with a new sign-off. With people I like, it's "take care". People I have actually met who can handle it, baby, get "love".

I like "i want your manmeat." that's a pretty good signoff. especially to females.

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catchy, huh?

generally love followed by whatever they call me (Ed, Eddie, Edward), unless its a formal thing then yours (Ed(ward) Lynch-Bell).

I don't have a standard sign-off line.

>>> What was that Morrissey line about Johnny Marr, 'Once you sent your love, now you just send your best regards'?

What indeed? I've never heard it. Details, please.

I believe that line was paraphrasing "I Don't Mind if You Forget Me" (from Viva Hate), PF.

"Menstrually yours" is my sign off line, or "your friend" to those who I love very much.

PF - you had a go at me over 'thankyou' now I get my revenge. How could you not know that line ("So now you send me your hardened Regards, when once you sent me Love")?