# Moderator sanity test. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 15, 2003, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-sanity-test/213343 "2003-11-15T00:11:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2003, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-sanity-test/213343/1 "2003-11-15T00:11:05Z")
Don’t mind me. Just testing the sanity of moderators. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2003, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-sanity-test/213343/2 "2003-11-15T00:53:34Z")
You have to establish a control group first. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2003, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-sanity-test/213343/3 "2003-11-15T00:58:47Z")
You can’t fool me, there is no sanity clause. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2003, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-sanity-test/213343/4 "2003-11-15T02:53:31Z")
You come up with some truly _weird_ ways to try to beat that boredom of yours, eh, **Lobsang**? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2003, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-sanity-test/213343/5 "2003-11-15T03:03:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by C K Dexter Haven \* > \*\*You can’t fool me, there is no sanity clause. \*\* :eek: ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2003, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-sanity-test/213343/6 "2003-11-15T03:58:27Z")
[Why a duck?](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a990702a.html) ---
**Author:** ![Wyatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b19c9b/32.png) [@Wyatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wyatt)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2003, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-sanity-test/213343/7 "2003-11-15T04:36:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by C K Dexter Haven \* > \*\*You can’t fool me, there is no sanity clause. \*\* [burns]Excellent[\burns] _Point awarded_ ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-sanity-test/213343/9 "2003-11-16T09:17:12Z")
Sanity test? You gotta be crazy to do this gig in the first place. your humble TubaDiva Adminstrator But how I love this crazy world. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-sanity-test/213343/10 "2003-11-16T16:53:15Z")
TubaDiva is originally from Virigina, although she’s now living in Georgia, and she often dresses up as Santa Claus at our Straight Dope Science Advisory Board Holiday Parties, like Fourth of July, which holiday makes no nevermind, she’s in her Santa suit. Anyway, at one such party, when she was in her Santa outfit, conversation happened to be about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, way back when (conversations at Staff Affairs can be somewhat esoteric), and how it had totally destroyed Pompeii. TubaDiva was very upset to learn that Pompeii had been totally destroyed by a volcano, and she worried that her home state of Virginia might have been similarly wiped out, and so had to be reassured: “Yes, Santa Claus, there is a Virginia.” ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-sanity-test/213343/11 "2003-11-17T15:35:56Z")
Wow! You sure worked hard to get to that punch line! but it was worth it ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-sanity-test/213343/12 "2003-11-17T16:52:28Z")
But Los Angeles _was_ destroyed by a volcano, right? Please? ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moderator-sanity-test/213343/13 "2003-11-18T07:22:37Z")
Hah… 😃 Did **Lobs** start this thread? Oh well, **U/B** should be here in a bit with his box of locks. 😉 sanity clause good one **Dex**