I just made this up two days ago and I thought it was really clever. Then I read the Eratosthenes Sieve thread and saw that MeoChow already had one that is somewhat similar, so I guess I am not so clever, after all :( Still, I am kind of proud of my use of the "|" in my second substitution to finish creating my name :) 
s@@sp@;s>..|>\u$&ace>g;print;

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SpaceAce

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Re: My Sig
by blakem (Monsignor) on Oct 24, 2001 at 12:01 UTC
    The s//stuff/;modifystuff;print; (or alternately s//stuff/;modifystuff;eval;) formula is well worn turf for sigs. You do get props for the very sneaky 'ace' vs 'Ace' trick. Well done!

    (I admit having to perl -le 'print "\u$&ace"' to convince myself that the 'Ace' would get capatalized properly with a null match.)

    -Blake

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Re: My Sig
by doc (Scribe) on Oct 24, 2001 at 21:42 UTC 
    print(s<>ecode?scalar reverse :p)
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Re: My Sig
by SpaceAce (Beadle) on Oct 24, 2001 at 12:13 UTC
    Blake,

    Thanks for the comment and the complement on my "very sneaky" trick. I was pretty pleased with that one, myself, and I am glad it wasn't quite as worn out as the rest of my little piece of code :)
    My problem seems to be that every time I try to come up with a signature I end up in a loop of "letter pools, chr() function on numbers and replacement strings" I just cant seem to get out of that mindset and find a truly original starting point.

    SpaceAce

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      I didn't mean to imply "worn out" per se. Just thought the inner portion was more unique than the outer structure. Even though I'd seen the form before, the modifystuff part took me a while to grok.

      -Blake

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        Stranger in a Strage Land, I love that book :)

        I am randomly surfing through PERL documentation now looking for more creative and original ways to make my code ugly. Wish me luck.

        SpaceAce

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