# I Want a Promotion **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 29, 2001, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-a-promotion/59990 "2001-03-29T16:57:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2001, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-a-promotion/59990/1 "2001-03-29T16:57:08Z")
I want to write guest columns for Cecil’s Mailbag (or Staff Reports or whatever they’re called now). I’m reasonably knowledgeable on many subjects and on one subject I can legitimately be considered an expert (hell, I’ve written a (yet-unpublished but I’m hoping _knock on wood_) book on that subject). If any mods or administrators want to add another brain to the pool of brains to answer mailbag questions, send me an “e” and I’ll tell ya what I know. Also, I think it’s time to add more moderators. The more heavily-travelled fora (IMHO, MPSIMS & GQ) could use at least 5 moderators each. _Especially_ GQ; clearly moderating GQ lately has sent **manhattan** over the edge. Spread out the mods among different time zones so no one thread has a chance of being on the boards more than an hour or so before a mod catches it. And if you decide to add more moderators, I know a guy (with about 1010 posts or so 😃 ) who would love to moderate at IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![JillGat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@JillGat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JillGat)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2001, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-a-promotion/59990/2 "2001-03-29T18:51:18Z")
[[on one subject I can legitimately be considered an expert (hell, I’ve written a (yet-unpublished but I’m hoping _knock on wood_) book on that subject)]] What subject? ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2001, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-a-promotion/59990/3 "2001-03-30T00:58:31Z")
Hair-straightening techniques. He let me read his manuscript…it’s \*remarkable! ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2001, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-a-promotion/59990/4 "2001-03-30T23:12:05Z")
On a serious note(I know, out of place here!), what are the qualifications of someone who writes a guest column for SD? There have been guest columns which were woefully underwritten, IMHO. I know,Cecil doesn’t have time and what can we expect from people who are workng for free? Well, we can expect the Straight Dope, no less. Comments? ---
**Author:** ![coming\_up\_for\_air](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@coming\_up\_for\_air](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coming_up_for_air)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2001, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-a-promotion/59990/5 "2001-03-31T07:40:10Z")
You get my vote. I like your posts and your do. (Your ska needs tuning, though. I suggest tension exercises ;)) ---
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2001, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-a-promotion/59990/6 "2001-03-31T08:50:12Z")
I want one too. I hereby volunteer to write about… uh, hell, what do I know about? Cars and car stereos, but dammit, who asks questions on that?! –Tim ---
**Author:** ![Redboss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8baadc/32.png) [@Redboss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Redboss)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2001, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-a-promotion/59990/7 "2001-03-31T13:30:53Z")
I am currently available to write columns on Favourite Hollywood Movies of the Fifties and Their Influence on Bondage Fantasies of Middle-Aged Australian Gay Men. I have a couple of other offers pending so suggest you don’t take too long in deciding. RedBOSS ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2001, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-a-promotion/59990/8 "2001-03-31T13:36:14Z")
**Redboss** Don’t you think that topic’s a little too broad??? Perhaps if you focused on only brunette actors or say Northern Australian **left handed** Gay Men. On the OT - are y’all looking for specific topics??? ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2001, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-a-promotion/59990/9 "2001-03-31T17:04:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Homer \*I want one too. I hereby volunteer to write about… uh, hell, what do I know about? Cars and car stereos, but dammit, who asks questions on that?! Uh, Homer, I’m pretty sure you’re being funny here, but just in case you’re not, let me point you to our latest Staff Report: [Does using your car radio reduce your gas mileage? (29-Mar-2001)](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mradiomileage.html) The subject is being hotly debated in the “Comments on Staff Reports” forum as we speak. Go throw in your 2¢! ---
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2001, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-a-promotion/59990/10 "2001-03-31T19:11:01Z")
Wow! I had no idea! Thanks, Arnold. I’ll look over the thread and see if there’s anything for me to add. 😃 –Tim ---
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2001, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-a-promotion/59990/11 "2001-03-31T19:12:55Z")
I just realized that smilie makes it look like I’m being facetious, which I’m not. I’m off to check out that thread. –Tim ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2001, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-a-promotion/59990/12 "2001-03-31T22:40:11Z")
Hmmmm, I know more than most sane people about computer science, cryptography/cryptanalysis, and _The X Files_. Could I write a guest column? That would be cool. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2001, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-a-promotion/59990/13 "2001-04-01T16:25:30Z")
I just got a little bored today. Thought I’d look up that wonderful word in Websters (No offense, not that there is any, dude): Main Entry:Rasta:Pronunciation:ras-ta,Function:noun Date:1955 : RASTAFARIAN –Rasta adjective Main Entry:Rastafarian: an adherent of Rastafarianism Rastafarianism: : a religious cult among black Jamaicans that teaches the eventual redemption of blacks and their return to Africa, employs the ritualistic use of marijuana, forbids the cutting of hair, and venerates Haile Selassie as a god. That’s cool.