# Back from the dead... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 3, 2001, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-the-dead/91294 "2001-11-03T09:22:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![warmgun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecccb3/32.png) [@warmgun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/warmgun)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-the-dead/91294/1 "2001-11-03T09:22:28Z")
Near Death Experience anyway (bright lights, tunnel, warm glow…well, you get the idea). Seriously, this is really a **TubaDiva** appreciation thread. For those of you who have had no direct contact with her, you cannot imagine how warm, honest and caring she is. I’ve been there and back and I can tell you from experience that there is not a better human being on this board. Period! We are damned lucky to have her and I will be the first in line to defend her actions and decisions. (well, except for banning me 😃 ) For that matter, everyone I dealt with ‘behind the scenes’ treated me with respect and courtesy. Thank you all. As well as to those who participated in the decision to restore posting privileges. A special thanks to all who sent letters of support. That really meant a lot. What a great group. Well, that’s about all…wait! I almost forgot - _ **The King of Sting** _ [sup]tm[/sup] himself!!!, **Esprix**. Now he’s not going to want me to ruin that rep he’s worked so hard to build, but after trading e-mails, turns out he’s a pretty nice guy. As a matter of fact, he got right up to the precipice of warm and fuzzy, but pivited and jat back down to coolsville displaying the _jue d’esprit_ he’s better known for. Seriously, thanks **Esprix** for the encouragement and support. Yes, you rock! Now, back to your regularly scheduled forum… ---
**Author:** ![Bossk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@Bossk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bossk)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-the-dead/91294/2 "2001-11-03T10:02:01Z")
Yeah, liquor makes everything right, doesn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-the-dead/91294/3 "2001-11-03T10:13:00Z")
Welcome back. Now can we please stop these fucking lovefests in the Pit. Get thee to MPSIMS 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-the-dead/91294/4 "2001-11-03T17:17:32Z")
Welcome back, warmgun! I must say that I tend to agree about Tuba. My limited behind-the-scenes dealings with her have shown her to be a very kind and reasonable person with a very warm heart. Altogether top notch. stoid [sub]I still wanna know why you got banned,tho[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-the-dead/91294/5 "2001-11-03T17:24:39Z")
Wow, if I loved **Tuba** as much as you did, my gun would be warm too. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-the-dead/91294/6 "2001-11-03T17:45:38Z")
Nice to see you posting again. Hopefully you won’t be the jerk that you were before. -smile- ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2001, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-the-dead/91294/7 "2001-11-04T01:54:53Z")
Nuff said. Veb ---
**Author:** ![warmgun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecccb3/32.png) [@warmgun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/warmgun)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2001, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-the-dead/91294/8 "2001-11-04T02:31:08Z")
Thanks, **Veb, Chris, Stoid** and the rest. **jimbo** , headed for the lovefest! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Yue\_Han](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/eada6e/32.png) [@Yue\_Han](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yue_Han)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2001, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-the-dead/91294/9 "2001-11-04T02:51:54Z")
Good to see you back. Glad to see the whole mess got sorted out, I figured it would eventually. –John ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2001, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-the-dead/91294/10 "2001-11-04T06:26:06Z")
Well, color me with a big ol’ “HUH?” brush. Any chance we’re gonna find out what the fuck happened? Esprix ---
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2001, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-the-dead/91294/11 "2001-11-04T06:33:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Stoid \* > \*\*[sub]I still wanna know why you got banned,tho[/sub] \*\* If I had to venture a guess- and I always am- I’d guess that Tuba’s move wasn’t going as planned. I think it’s called displaced anger. ---
**Author:** ![Yue\_Han](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/eada6e/32.png) [@Yue\_Han](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yue_Han)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2001, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-the-dead/91294/12 "2001-11-04T07:33:40Z")
You know, every single person in that thread at some point misunderstood someone else. It was just a fraking orgy of miscommunication. In this case I would imagine it took a while to rectify the misunderstanding because of Tuba’s intermittent net access. I don’t know why you want to stir up some kind of shitstorm, Chris, but randomly accusing Tuba of taking out her aggressions on warmgun, especially after warmgun called this thread > [@](#): > > a TubaDiva appreciation thread. is fucked up. –John ---
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2001, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-the-dead/91294/13 "2001-11-04T08:11:14Z")
No stirring up of a shitstorm was intended, **Yue Han** … unless you want to start one. My post was meant in jest and in kind. Considering all anger and sense of urgency had been mostly resolved in earlier posts, and all seemed resolved now, I didn’t think a mild-mannered joke was out of place at this point. Obviously, you did. Not much more I can do than apologize to you and any others out there that thought I was serious- I wasn’t. I apologize if it was either ill-timed, or wrong… it wasn’t meant that way. ---
**Author:** ![darkcool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@darkcool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/darkcool)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2001, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-the-dead/91294/14 "2001-11-04T09:03:49Z")
Well, I’ll be damned! Cool heads _did_ prevail. Will wonders never cease…? Welcome back the living, b-otch. 😉 And, John, take a pill. This thing was rolling along just fine. Let’s keep this one civil, huh? ---
**Author:** ![CnoteChris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/278dde/32.png) [@CnoteChris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CnoteChris)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2001, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-the-dead/91294/15 "2001-11-04T09:48:39Z")
I should make a correction to a comment I made earlier- lest **Yue Han** blow another fuse in coming after me- the part, “I didn’t think a mild-mannered joke was out of place at this point”, should have read, “I didn’t think a mild-mannered jab was out of place at this point”. A small distinction, but important none the less. It was a jab, but considering the inside talk on the situation, and the vague references to other threads around here, I personally thought it was within the scope of the topic and theme of the thread, and didn’t think it’d be taken badly. Why **Yue Han** takes all this stuff badly is beyond me. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2001, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-the-dead/91294/16 "2001-11-04T14:44:34Z")
Welcome back. ---
**Author:** ![Yue\_Han](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/eada6e/32.png) [@Yue\_Han](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yue_Han)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2001, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-the-dead/91294/17 "2001-11-04T23:22:32Z")
I’m sorry that I didn’t realize you were joking. There are plenty of people who would make that same accusation seriously, and I didn’t see anything to indicate that it was a joke. –John ---
**Author:** ![reprise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@reprise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/reprise)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2001, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-the-dead/91294/18 "2001-11-04T23:30:07Z")
Welcome back **warmgun** , and kudos to you for sorting this out with the admins. Too many times people leave this board in an abusive huff rather than trying to work out a way back from exile; it’s a credit to you that you took the time to find a way back. ---
**Author:** ![Hombre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecb155/32.png) [@Hombre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hombre)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-the-dead/91294/19 "2001-11-05T17:42:07Z")
Congrats on your resurrection. And you did it with such style. Good show. Glad you’re back, William [sub]Now, what in the _sam hill_ was going on!!!???[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Ferrous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Ferrous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferrous)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-the-dead/91294/20 "2001-11-05T18:00:36Z")
Yeah, we tease him a lot, 'Cause we got him on the spot. Welcome back. (Doo wah) Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back… [sub]Oh, and bossk…piss off, willya?[/sub] [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-from-the-dead/91294.md?page=2)