I tel you what. Right now, we’re working on cloning technology, and when we get all the bugs worked out, we’ll be sure to start mod clones.
Of course, they’re gonna use ME as the original. 
OK, I’m out of here…
be prepared for belly button inspection to distinguish you from your clones.
They’re gonna edit the genes a bit. My clones will be taller, and not nearsighted, and won’t have a host of medical problems. The clones WILL have belly buttons, because they will have umbilical cords during their stay in the artificial wombs.
And I’ll be older by more than half a century than my clones. I’ll just have to show my gray hairs to prove that I’m the original.
That is really helpful and gives me warm fuzzy feelings for you and all the mods here.
I hope you get that which you truly deserve in life.
[quote=“Gary “Wombat” Robson, post:19, topic:647327”]
Personally, I think the issue is dead and buried and the horse is adequately beaten, however…
The problem with literary allusion is that many of them are quite obscure. There are certainly qualifications for being a moderator here, but being able to recognize every single pop-culture or classical reference isn’t one of them. If I might be so bold as to speak for the entire moderation staff for a moment, we haven’t seen every movie, read every book, watched every TV show, and listened to every band in existence. We don’t know all of the lyrics, we haven’t memorized all of the librettos, and we really can’t figure out what the heck In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida was actually about.
I would dearly love to see all such literary allusions begin with “in the immortal words of Brian Wilson” or “to paraphrase the great sage Samuel L. Jackson.” That way, everybody either gets the joke, or at least realizes there is one.
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Understood. You’ll notice that I did not start a thread to protest the decision. I would have thought that my posting history would get me to be let off for good behavior and just a note. But I didn’t complain. Its my first warning. If I get one warning every ten years I think I’ll be ok.
And, you’re a gentleman for not complaining. Good poster, good history.
Before I was a mod, I got two warnings in about two months. :eek:
I deserved them. I called another poster a liar in GQ. Don’t remember what the second was, but something similar. Carried away in a GQ thread.
Part of my thinking in giving you a warning was the number of “report this post” I get the last year or so. Some regular readers(who also post to GQ) have expressed how they no longer enjoy reading GQ, what with too many joke answers before any serious replies can be made, how many political shots are taken, how many extraneous comments are made, taking away from the purpose of GQ. I tend to agree with them.
It’s a fair cop but society is to blame.
Or I guess I should say in the words of Monty Python…
So then, how about making it a Mod Note, instead? 
And yes, I want stricter Moding in GQ than other forums, I agree.
Thanks for being there for us!