# Cajun Man is retiring. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 16, 2012, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-is-retiring/613051 "2012-02-16T18:54:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-is-retiring/613051/21 "2012-02-17T04:06:08Z")
Come over to the ignorant side; we have bliss. ---
**Author:** ![xash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-is-retiring/613051/22 "2012-02-17T05:47:01Z")
Thank you, **Cajun Man** , for teaching me the ropes when I started out oh so many years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-is-retiring/613051/23 "2012-02-17T09:57:57Z")
Gosh, I’m losing it. I didn’t think Cajun Man was still around. Next you’ll tell me Manhattan has gone. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-is-retiring/613051/24 "2012-02-17T10:09:40Z")
I will miss him. Unlike some of the present company, he never yelled at me. ---
**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-is-retiring/613051/25 "2012-02-17T14:45:27Z")
I’ll miss having you on board **CajunMan**! You are a gentleman and a scholar. 🙂 > [@Frodo](#): > > Man, first\*\* FluidDruid,\*\* now **Cajun Man** , something is happening, anybody checked **The Comedian**?.. FWIW I’m not retired, just on temporary sabbatical due to some real life stuff going on. You haven’t seen the last of me! \ ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-is-retiring/613051/26 "2012-02-17T14:52:33Z")
> [@fluiddruid](#): > > I’ll miss having you on board **CajunMan**! You are a gentleman and a scholar. 🙂 > > FWIW I’m not retired, just on temporary sabbatical due to some real life stuff going on. You haven’t seen the last of me! \ So **you** say, **Fluiddruid** , if that’s your real name, and if you are the real **Fluiddruid** …:dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-is-retiring/613051/27 "2012-02-17T15:19:10Z")
Out to pasture, eh? Does this mean you’re being put out for studs? ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-is-retiring/613051/28 "2012-02-17T18:02:37Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Out to pasture, eh? Does this mean you’re being put out for studs? Well, if that doesn’t peter out, I’m running a bit short on quality glue. 😃 Thanks for your service. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-is-retiring/613051/29 "2012-02-17T21:37:25Z")
All of you remember: the green armchair by the window of the dayroom is _mine._ ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-is-retiring/613051/30 "2012-02-17T21:46:13Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > All of you remember: the green armchair by the window of the dayroom is _mine._ I told you-you can have the green armchair back when you promise to stop changing the channel at 2 o’clock from _General Hospital_ to _Judge Judy_. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-is-retiring/613051/31 "2012-02-17T23:28:30Z")
> [@bibliophage](#): > > Come over to the ignorant side; we have bliss. At least we think we do. We’re not really sure where we put it. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-is-retiring/613051/32 "2012-02-18T00:54:13Z")
Did you guys miss it? He’s being “placed” on retirement. So what did he do? Just kidding. I get what Tuba meant. And I have to say I had pretty high respect for our peppery moderator. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-is-retiring/613051/33 "2012-02-18T01:10:23Z")
If y’all _do_ set up an “Old Mods Home”, don’t let us know where it is, **TubaDiva**! We’d like for their last days to be _restful_ ones! _nudge, nudge-wink,wink-say no more_ Quasi ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-is-retiring/613051/34 "2012-02-18T02:47:13Z")
We’ll miss you as a mod, and hope you continue as an administrator. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-is-retiring/613051/35 "2012-02-18T05:26:12Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > If y’all _do_ set up an “Old Mods Home”, don’t let us know where it is, **TubaDiva**! It’s over the hill, in the Turtle Mountains. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-is-retiring/613051/36 "2012-02-18T05:37:16Z")
With cigarette trees?🙂 Gonna miss you, sir! Q ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-is-retiring/613051/37 "2012-02-18T16:40:50Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > We’ll miss you as a mod, and hope you continue as an administrator. \ I meant “continue as a poster.” I have \*no \*idea where the word administrator came from. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-is-retiring/613051/38 "2012-02-18T17:19:13Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > \ I meant “continue as a poster.” I have \*no \*idea where the word administrator came from. From the Latin, obviously: > [@Online Etymology Dictionary](#): > > mid-15c., from [M.Fr](http://M.Fr). \*administrateur \*or directly from L. \*administrator \*“a manager, conductor,” agent noun from pp. stem of \*administrare \*(see administer). 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cajun-man-is-retiring/613051.md?page=1)