# I'm about to be banned, **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 16, 2000, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-about-to-be-banned/41424 "2000-11-16T07:26:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Alphagene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-about-to-be-banned/41424/61 "2000-11-17T18:28:08Z")
Yeah, I was gonna mention you, _Oncle_… er… I mean Uncle. UB-bashing has been quite the rage lately. The guy’s had wackos base their screen name on his! Several times! Besidesm those David B threads are ancient. That was back in the day when GD’s hot topics were about ghosts and UFOs. Which I almost miss, considering the recent “my candidate can beat up your candidate” effluvia. I would also like to add that I also have five pit threads with either Alphagene or “Alphonse” in the subject. That doesn’t include the “What I like best about Alphagene” MPSIMS thread where people were permitted to explore bizarre fanatsies involving me playing with Barbies and a “blankie”. Nor does it include “Vote Alphagene for Mr. Congeniality!” where the Canadian crank Prose declared that I was “freakin’ snide” or the just plain weird “Doing Alphagene” thread. So I’m not the most ranted-about moderator, but if you consider overall creepy poster fixation, I’m up there… ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-about-to-be-banned/41424/62 "2000-11-17T18:35:05Z")
So, **Alphagene** , how YOU doin’? ::drool, drool… pant pant:: I read the “What I like best about Alphagene” thread. Laughed my ass off and came _this_ close to bumping it. Shit, I _still_ might bump it. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Gaudere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-about-to-be-banned/41424/63 "2000-11-17T18:55:24Z")
I only have three Pit threads. ::sniff:: > [@](#): > > if you consider overall creepy poster fixation, I’m up there… Oh _please_. Everyone knows who’s number one when it comes to creepy poster fixation. I had He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named; that trumps _any_ paltry MPSIMS thread. ---
**Author:** ![Alphagene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-about-to-be-banned/41424/64 "2000-11-17T19:35:43Z")
Oh it’s not that bad, Gaudie. Just tell **Ukulele Ike** to back off. Oh wait… you mean… ohhhh yeah. Whats-His-Face. Yeah that was pretty bad. Still, I have several dozen _active_ posters who are constantly poking at my brusque urban veneer hoping that it will collapse to reveal a Backstreet Boy. Thank god they’re currently distracted by new episodes of _Friends_… [Edited by Alphagene on 11-17-2000 at 01:38 PM] ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-about-to-be-banned/41424/65 "2000-11-17T19:43:23Z")
Hey Alphagene? _poke poke poke_ 😃 ---
**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:** [November 17, 2000, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-about-to-be-banned/41424/66 "2000-11-17T19:47:14Z")
{hands on hips} If you Mods have finished your little circle-jerk, how about getting a move on with banning **ExTank?** Man, I hate those military-type soldiers. Chuck 'em out, the brutes! We serve no red-coats 'ere! Well, time for me to get back to raising taxes and handing out porn to children. _(Yes, makin’ mock o’ uniforms that guard you while you sleep Is cheaper than them uniforms, an’ they’re starvation cheap; An’ hustlin’ drunken soldiers when they’re goin’ large a bit Is five times better business than paradin’ in full kit.)_ ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-about-to-be-banned/41424/67 "2000-11-17T19:58:19Z")
Brusque urban veneer? That ain’t even a _good_ anagram. It obviously resolves to **URBANE, NEVER BRUSQUE**. Or is it **RUB NURSE, BRAVE QUEEN**? ---
**Author:** ![Gaudere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-about-to-be-banned/41424/68 "2000-11-17T20:04:59Z")
Banning? Who said anything about banning? Oh, that’s right…ExTank is the one who brought it up, in his “I Fight For FREEEEEEEDOM!” protest thread in MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![Mojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Mojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mojo)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2000, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-about-to-be-banned/41424/69 "2000-11-17T22:00:44Z")
Extank said: > [@](#): > > Demonstrating in a back alley doesn’t get any attention; you hafta get into their faces to change the system, man. And you found public self-immolation to be an effective technique? ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-about-to-be-banned/41424/70 "2000-11-18T00:11:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by waterj2 \* > \*\* > > **Manhattan:** > [list=1] > [li][manhattan closing GQ threads](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=46885)[/li][li][manhattan, wtf?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=45179)[/li][li][Why did everyone RUSH to back up Manhattan?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=34445)[/li][li][Bite me gently, Manhattan and Lissener!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=7656)[/li][/list=1] > > \*\* You forgot my nickname: [Manny, why was this a bad thread?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=43576) [Manny sold out to Giuliani!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=34218) That said, I can’t lay claim to being the most-pitted Mod, at least in the sense of drawing flames. A disproportionate number of the threads dedicated to me are from GQers _actually following the forum instructions_ and choosing the proper forum to ask a question about my moderating, as opposed to flaming me _per se_. And the title of one by **Eve** , I’m not ashamed to admit, kind of turned me on. So that _definitely_ can’t count as a real flame. I’ll work on it. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-about-to-be-banned/41424/71 "2000-11-18T00:15:57Z")
Hey, does the thread I started in the Pit asking for compliments for Alphagene (who can’t stand people being nice in the Pit) count as a **negative** on his tally? And do the threads panning Coldfire **before** he became a moderator count? ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-about-to-be-banned/41424/72 "2000-11-18T04:55:02Z")
**Ukele Ike:** Is that Kipling? It kinda sounds like the little bit of his work that I’ve read. From that poem that became a song popular with the British Troops? Something about “Tommy this and Tommy that”? I don’t know if you were being sarcastic or not, but that’s the way I chose to interpret your post, anyway. On the advice of people saner than me (and I thank them for their kind words and sage advice; y’all know who you are), I’ll stop tilting at windmills and get back on my meds. :_opening beer and drinking deeeeeeeep_: Much better already. _ **ExTank** “Mostly Harmless :p”_ ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-about-to-be-banned/41424/73 "2000-11-18T16:49:43Z")
[Ukelele Ike’s allusion\* And a companion piece we dragged out for Veteran’s Day, last week: [url=“[http://www.netten.net/~bmassey/brigade.html](http://www.netten.net/~bmassey/brigade.html)”]Last of the Light Brigade]([http://users.deltanet.com/users/llambert/public\_html/tommy.html](http://users.deltanet.com/users/llambert/public_html/tommy.html)) ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-about-to-be-banned/41424/74 "2000-11-18T16:51:43Z")
[Ukelele Ike’s allusion](http://users.deltanet.com/users/llambert/public_html/tommy.html) And a companion piece we dragged out for Veteran’s Day, last week: [Last of the Light Brigade](http://www.netten.net/~bmassey/brigade.html) ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-about-to-be-banned/41424/75 "2000-11-18T22:36:05Z")
Thanks, Tom. Here’s one I was asked to recall for Veteran’s Day. I was forced to memorize this in Basic Training. It’s called [Fiddler’s Green.](http://www.mindspring.com/~cjenkins/fiddler.htm) ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-about-to-be-banned/41424/76 "2000-11-18T22:50:14Z")
Oh and **gaudere** ,having met you IRL, what exactly is your definition of “fixation”? … and “creepy”? 😉 [sub]just for future reference dontcha know[/sub] :: pant, pant:: ---
**Author:** ![Gaudere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2000, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-about-to-be-banned/41424/77 "2000-11-18T23:14:39Z")
I believe [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=7049&pagenumber=3#post119340) qualifies as my current defintion of “fixation” and “creepy.” :eek: ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2000, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-about-to-be-banned/41424/78 "2000-11-19T00:03:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gaudere \* > \*\*Banning? Who said anything about banning? Oh, that’s right…ExTank is the one who brought it up, in his “I Fight For FREEEEEEEDOM!” protest thread in MPSIMS. \*\* Taking everything in context, what’s with the wimpy banning stuff? Why not court martial? Deliberately defying a reasonable order and all… Wrap oneself in military grandeur and discipline then live by the standards touted. Last thing the military folks in my family said, respect for basic discipline and rank sorta ruled. Gun waving histrionics and flag draping could be considered, oh, I dunno, _tacky_. Deliberate misbehavior to get banned from a bulletin board, masquerading as warrior-ethic patriotism? 'Scuse me while I hurl. Veb ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2000, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-about-to-be-banned/41424/79 "2000-11-19T01:42:09Z")
Lemme hold your head over the toilet whilst you do it. Wouldn’t want you to make a mess in here, after all. Only a friend (or a homicidal maniac plotting to drown you in a commode) would do that for ya. Gun waving? 😕 ---
**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:** [November 19, 2000, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-about-to-be-banned/41424/80 "2000-11-19T01:56:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gaudere \* > \*\*this qualifies as my current defintion of “fixation” and “creepy.” \*\* Oh, thank god. I was afraid you were considering MY fixation on you to be “creepy.” Psssst… **ExTank:** There were a few layers of sarcasm in my post. One dealt with presuppositions about left-wingers, another dealt with presuppositions from left-wingers about folks in the Army. The third dealt with creepy fixations on **Gaudere,** but that one was a little oblique. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-about-to-be-banned/41424.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-about-to-be-banned/41424.md?page=5)