Someone in marketing dreamed up the "longboats in the headlights" phrase, which doesn't quite come true, but atthe other end the taillights offer a distinctive signoff to those you pass.
And after Mr. Trump flew to Florida, his advisers decided that the only way to get the president's signoff to revise the immigration order — a time-sensitive matter because of pending litigation — would be to dispatch the attorney general to Mr. Trump's Palm Beach, Fla., retreat, to implore him in person, the current and former administration officials said.
"New Worlds" will strike chords with listeners of a certain age, as its closing bars were used as the signoff to John Craven's Newsround, and if Baker's spot for Tomorrow's World doesn't conjure up a future where we all wake up to breakfast prepared by a robot before flying to work with the aid of a jet powered backpack, then shame on you.
Perhaps revealing was Jayasi's signoff to his poem.
You'll be relieved to hear that there's still time to peruse some of this year's outstanding humor (print, Web, video, illustrated, and otherwise), on subjects ranging from your dad's creepy friend to a professional selfie-stick photographer; from the true meanings of e-mail signoffs to Melania Trump's secret diary; from an impassioned defense of introverts to a Ginsbergian post-election rant.
(Mr. Gibson's tense signoffs to his radio dispatches — "This is Guy Hamilton in Jakarta" — are remarkably similar to those of Philip Koch, some of which are available online).
They do not need to wait for signoff from a board of directors or communications team before deciding to take on an issue in the food industry.
It's exceedingly doubtful that the humorist S.J. Perelman intended the following sentence, the signoff of a 1948 letter, to be read by anybody but the female recipient (an attractive woman, but not the same woman he was married to): "May God keep and preserve you so that I may eventually undo his handiwork". What a masterpiece of rococo flirtation!
The post finished with a signoff: "Hope to see you all there!
"A signoff is, to some very great degree, the final indicator of what your relationship is and whether it's changed," he said.
That, combined with Microsoft's incredibly deep org structure created a massive number of 'committees' to go through to get signoff for any work to be done.
