The way Mark Shuttleworth signs his first name reminds me a lot of a khomut -- the Thai end of document character, which, I am willing to argue, is the coolest character in Unicode. I've included an image of both here because it's not in everyone's font:
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| The way Mark Shuttleworth signifies the end of a letter. | The way Thai people signify the end of a letter. |
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