Names in all Caps..some help..

[LashL]

I also remember something about microprint signature lines on checks being some form of sinister plot that tied into the all capitals lunacy.

There's an old thread here about that, too. I scanned one of my cheques and increased the size a gazillion-fold and it spelled out something quite innocuous, like the name of the microprint company or something... it was pretty hilarious. Can't be sussed to search out the thread at the moment, though.

 

[ktesibios]

There's an old thread here about that, too. I scanned one of my cheques and increased the size a gazillion-fold and it spelled out something quite innocuous, like the name of the microprint company or something... it was pretty hilarious. Can't be sussed to search out the thread at the moment, though.

A magnifier reveals that the secret NWO message in the signature line of my checks is "AUTHORIZED SIGNATURE".

OH NOES! They've turned me into an author!

 

[jberryhill]

A lawyer would probably know why they use caps.

There is no legal significance to capital letters.

As a matter of typographical convention, sometimes initial capital letters will be used to refer to defined terms within a contract.

If you are selling your car, you might write something along the lines of:

...Whereas, Seller is desirous of selling his 1975 Chevrolet Malibu Wagon (hereinafter "The Car")...

...and then further references to The Car will refer to the 1975 Chevrolet Malibu, so you don't have to keep re-writing the entire phrase.

It's also useful for standard contracts, so that anything need only be defined once at the beginning, instead of having to re-write the entire contract.

That's about the only thing that I can think of where the use of capital letters signifies anything remotely interesting.

 

[SpaceMonkeyZero]

THE ONLY THING I KNOW IS CAPSLOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL


Sorry, I couldn't resist.

 

[Billdave2]

Good God... That's got to be the tax protester's equivalent of a tinfoil hat.

It works about as well. I used to google his email address every so often and would find it on tax protest/millitia sites. Then one day I saw a post that siad it was his wife asing for prayers since he was going to trial the next day. Nothing since.

 

[Beerina]

This is about the only thing I could find: http://home.hiwaay.net/~becraft/NamesInCaps.htm

The relevant part starts about half-way down the page ("Typographic Conventions in Law"). I have no idea how accurate it may be.

The primary theory of that site was for emphasis, which was what my guess would have been too.

It allows reproduction of the emphasized words without having to rely on boldface for this, or quotes, which suggest it was spoken, which it may not apply, as per a legal document rather than a speech.

 

[defaultdotxbe]

ive always wanted to change my name to ;DROP DATABASE

 

[WildCat]

According to him, unless your name was spelled on legal documents the same as you spelled your namethey were not legal. He had changed his name to all small letters and included a colon in the middle. He claimed that this protected him because they do not use punctuation in names on legal documents.

But the name change had to be a legal document, therefore it didn't include the colon, therefore his name wasn't really legally changed so he still wasn't protected... or something.

 

[Billdave2]

But the name change had to be a legal document, therefore it didn't include the colon, therefore his name wasn't really legally changed so he still wasn't protected... or something.

It was all part of the "package" he offered to sell us (for the bargain price of $395) that would "get us out of the system". It would remove us from all records and nullify all our debt. The best part was when he said that since we would get all of our debt eliminated, if we charged the "package" to our credit cards it was like getting it fro free! Another part of the system was that it would allow you to legally write valid checks on closed accounts and it was all legal. He didn't like when I asked, that since he could write these checks for anything he needed, why did he need our useless $395 of fiat money. Or, when he told how someone he knew, used the system to buy themself a brand new truck with one of these checks, and he gave his old truck to a family that needed a car, and I asked why he didn't just buy two new trucks and give one to the needy family instead of giving them his old beat up used truck.

 

[Cl1mh4224rd]

ive always wanted to change my name to ;DROP DATABASE

[Note to the moderators: XKCD provides link for hotlinking, so I assume this is OK with them. Ultimately, it's your call, though.]

It was all part of the "package" he offered to sell us (for the bargain price of $395) that would "get us out of the system". It would remove us from all records and nullify all our debt. The best part was when he said that since we would get all of our debt eliminated, if we charged the "package" to our credit cards it was like getting it fro free! Another part of the system was that it would allow you to legally write valid checks on closed accounts and it was all legal. He didn't like when I asked, that since he could write these checks for anything he needed, why did he need our useless $395 of fiat money. Or, when he told how someone he knew, used the system to buy themself a brand new truck with one of these checks, and he gave his old truck to a family that needed a car, and I asked why he didn't just buy two new trucks and give one to the needy family instead of giving them his old beat up used truck.

Holy flying crap... I can't believe there are people that actually buy in to this insanity.

 

[Hokulele]

There's an old thread here about that, too. I scanned one of my cheques and increased the size a gazillion-fold and it spelled out something quite innocuous, like the name of the microprint company or something... it was pretty hilarious. Can't be sussed to search out the thread at the moment, though.

It was this thread, but it looks like you have since deleted the image you scanned.

http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?postid=3032459#post3032459

 

[Billdave2]

Holy flying crap... I can't believe there are people that actually buy in to this insanity.

What is really sad is that one guy in the class was ready to do this til we convinced him not to. What is even worse is that only 4 of the 20 people in our group graduated and he was one of them.