“Excuse my typo” signature lines, a collection

July 16th, 2012
by jodi
For about a year I’ve been collecting email signature lines. After receiving an email purporting to be “Sent from my rotary phone” I thought it was time to share.
  • Touched, not typed
  • Sent from my $DEVICENAME
  • Consider any misspellings my gift to you
  • Typed with thumbs
  • Sent with mobile solution
  • Sent from a mobile operating system. Which one isn’t of any importance to you, the receiver. However, if you feel that knowing this detail would affect positively your reading of this email you can, of course, ask me.
  • Sent from my smartphone platform of choice….hint not a fruit
  • I prefer robots to fruit.
  • Fruits are for fruitcakes, Robots are for emailing.
  • bots best for smart phones
  • Smart fruit is an oxymoron
  • Sent via a really tiny keyboard
  • Sent from a mobile device. Erroneous words are a feature, not a typo.
  • Sent from mobile; pls excuse typos
  • $DEVICENAME = specific mobile operating system of choice
  • Sent from my stationary operating system of choice.
  • Erroneous words are a feature, not a typo.
  • (Short, curt and ill-formed message sent from my portable telephone machine.)
  • > Sent wirelessly from my BlackBerry device on the Bell network.
    > Envoyé sans fil par mon terminal mobile BlackBerry sur le réseau de Bell.
  • *Sent from a mobile phone – please excuse the brevity of the message
  • via small communication device/pardon random autocorrects and fat finger typos.
  • Warning: I either dictated this to my device, or I typed it clumsily. Expect typos and weirdness.
  • Sent from a mobile device. Excuse brevity and typos.
  • Typed by thumbs and sent by my Verizon Wireless gadget
  • Sent from a mobile device. Please excuse brevity and tpyos.
  • Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone
  • Sent from tiny touchscreen gizmo, excuse any auto correct nonsense that slips in…
  • Sent from my rotary phone
  • Sent with my thumbs (Thanks to Andy Powell.)
  • sent from my shoe (Thanks to Larry Hynes.)
  • Sent while walking into stuff(Thanks to Ryan Sarver (via Laura Dragan and Tim O’Reilly; used by David Cohen)


Previously discussed on Twitter (thanks to David Crowley and Becky Yoose for spreading my question). Apparently desktop users want forgiveness too.

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Posted in random thoughts | Comments (8)

  • Karen Coyle says:

    Jodi, love these. My .sig on Slashdot (which I haven’t read in AGES) is: I just read Slashdot for the .sig’s.

    However, my favorite is one from decades ago, a co-worker who added to an email, before email even had .sigs:
    “WYSIWIT — what you see is what I typed.” Admittedly, his typing was pretty bad.

  • Jodi Schneider says:

    I spoke too soon. Aaron Hastings is the king of the sig. His latest? “Sent from my Commodore 64”

  • AliceBlue Villas says:

    Sent with my thumbs and sent from my shoe are the best signature lines.Hilarious!

  • Sujeet Katiyar says:

    Really very nice signature lines!

  • Carlos Figueira (Portugal) says:

    Another one:
    dictated to and sent from a tooth implanted device prototype, please excuse any misspellings

    :)

  • John K says:

    Sent from my Palm Pilot.

  • Paolo De Berardinis says:

    You can now add “Typed while playing Pokemon Go and just before I walked into something”