# Our newest moderator. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 5, 2001, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-newest-moderator/97078 "2001-12-05T19:23:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-newest-moderator/97078/41 "2001-12-06T07:03:24Z")
So, Tuba, when are you gonna hire me as the TMI moderator? ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-newest-moderator/97078/42 "2001-12-06T07:19:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MEBuckner \* > \*\*Yee-haw! The South’s gonna rise agin’! Hang on to your Confederate dollars! _:takes a swig of bourbon; fires off a few shotgun blasts in the general direction of the ceiling:_ The War of Northern Aggression had _nothing to do with slavery!_ The South seceded over _tariffs!_ Abraham Lincoln was worse than Hitler! \*\* Holy Bourbon and Branch Davidians! And here I’d pictured **MEBuck** more in the Florence King tradition of cussed, erudite southern eccentrics. (Okay, male and maybe not a monarchist but…) Oh, heckydurnitall. Great choice and welcome to the insanity, **MEBbuck**! If that poor traumatized goat doesn’t survive your initiation a side test just MIGHT concern applied barbeque techniques. Just as training for those tricky **BBQPit** moves, y’understand. ::casually butt-smacks **UncaPee** while exiting:: Veb ---
**Author:** ![Phobos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Phobos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phobos)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-newest-moderator/97078/43 "2001-12-06T15:21:38Z")
🆒 Congrats, MEB’r! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-newest-moderator/97078/44 "2001-12-06T15:31:20Z")
You folks aren’t stupid are you? Gearing up for a mods vs members debate are we? Congrats MEBuckner. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-newest-moderator/97078/45 "2001-12-06T15:38:09Z")
It isn’t official until someone takes him to the pit. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-newest-moderator/97078/46 "2001-12-06T17:03:51Z")
> [@](#): > > Orignally posted by TubaDiva > > But I did not do the deputy. Must be one sad deputy. ☹ Congrats MEB!!! ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2001, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-newest-moderator/97078/47 "2001-12-06T21:48:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ukulele Ike \* > …and according to my music history texts, **Bruckner** ’s been DEAD since 1896. I’m QUITE excited to have him back! > > [sub]and more impressed than ever with the Administrators[/sub] They played Mahler’s _Resurrection Symphony_ over his grave, and the next thing you know…😉 Congrats, **MEBuckner**! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-newest-moderator/97078.md?page=2)