# Please welcome our new moderator, ParallelLines **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 28, 2025, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-welcome-our-new-moderator-parallellines/1016239 "2025-03-28T06:38:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2025, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-welcome-our-new-moderator-parallellines/1016239/61 "2025-03-29T00:57:38Z")
Well, it’s either okay, or you’re about to get your first modding from our new mod. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2025, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-welcome-our-new-moderator-parallellines/1016239/62 "2025-03-29T01:02:25Z")
\< wondering how you wrap a water chestnut with a shrimp… \> Sounds kinda yum, though. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2025, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-welcome-our-new-moderator-parallellines/1016239/63 "2025-03-29T01:03:05Z")
Bacon. Bacon is the duct tape of hor d’oeuvres. ---
**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:** [March 29, 2025, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-welcome-our-new-moderator-parallellines/1016239/64 "2025-03-29T01:05:16Z")
…Wow, it’s weird how brains work. I thought for sure I was typing “bacon”, there. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2025, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-welcome-our-new-moderator-parallellines/1016239/65 "2025-03-29T01:34:42Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Bacon. Bacon is the duct tape of hor d’oeuvres. LOL, that’s perfect! It is! > [@Chronos](#): > > Wow, it’s weird how brains work. I thought for sure I was typing “bacon”, there. I think you’ve invented a new snackie! I’m going to try it. I’ll call it _ParallelLines de Mer aux_, uh, what _is_ a water chestnut, anyway? I mean, I know what one is. But is it a vegetable? A fruit? A seed? Being a Doper, of course I looked it up. Further discussion can be had in a new thread, if anyone is interested. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2025, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-welcome-our-new-moderator-parallellines/1016239/66 "2025-03-29T01:59:11Z")
@ParallelLines you have my sympathies. Er, I mean, congrats! Yeah, that’s what I meant. And remember, the newest mod has to clean the hamster cages. And take care of the squid. (You didn’t read the fine print at the bottom of your contract, did you?) Seriously though, welcome. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2025, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-welcome-our-new-moderator-parallellines/1016239/67 "2025-03-29T02:15:24Z")
I look forward to ParalelLines wise, fair, sensitive, even-handed approach to carrying out this awesome responsibility. Is that enough sucking up? I can do more. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2025, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-welcome-our-new-moderator-parallellines/1016239/68 "2025-03-29T02:27:58Z")
By all means. It’s exciting to witness a person try to turn their own head inside out. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2025, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-welcome-our-new-moderator-parallellines/1016239/69 "2025-03-29T03:13:25Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Bacon. Bacon is the duct tape of hor d’oeuvres. I am so stealing this. 🧑‍🍳 💏 As for the sucking up, we’ve moved past the sucking up part of the party into the eating and drinking too much stage. Possibly with slightly overripe shrimp threatening to repeat on us due to my earlier delay. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2025, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-welcome-our-new-moderator-parallellines/1016239/70 "2025-03-29T03:24:13Z")
Did I hear drinking too much? Well, I’m raising a glass to you. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2025, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-welcome-our-new-moderator-parallellines/1016239/71 "2025-03-29T04:30:37Z")
I wish ParallelLines every success. But this might be more appropriate: _“What did you expect? ‘Welcome, Sonny?’ ‘Make yourself at home?’ ‘Marry my daughter?’ You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know—morons.”_ (Blazing Saddles) ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2025, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-welcome-our-new-moderator-parallellines/1016239/72 "2025-03-29T12:11:37Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > So go forth, and know that when I must eventually mod note you, it’s going to be with the best intentions, and if/when I screw up, well, I point to my chosen pre-mod title: [I wish to plead incompetence.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maO4XcVQuJk) 😉 I was wondering if that title was pre-mod or not. And now I know. Congratulations! And thank you. ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2025, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-welcome-our-new-moderator-parallellines/1016239/73 "2025-03-29T15:18:50Z")
Welcome aboard to the madness, Parallel Lines! Do ignore the goat; please do not ignore the squid! Things get … Messy when that happens. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2025, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-welcome-our-new-moderator-parallellines/1016239/74 "2025-03-29T15:24:03Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > I’ll call it _ParallelLines de Mer aux_, uh, what _is_ a water chestnut, anyway? _Crevettes et châtaignes d’eau à l’Aspenglow_ You come up with it, you get your name on it. 😉 Plus, it rhymes! ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2025, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-welcome-our-new-moderator-parallellines/1016239/75 "2025-03-29T15:26:49Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > what _is_ a water chestnut, anyway? Dolphin testicles. No, I’m just kidding. > **[Eleocharis dulcis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleocharis_dulcis)** > > Eleocharis dulcis, the Chinese water chestnut or water chestnut, is a grass-like sedge native to Asia, tropical Africa, and Oceania. It is grown in many countries for its edible corms, but if eaten uncooked, the surface of the plants may transmit fasciolopsiasis. > The water caltrop, which also is referred to by the same name, is unrelated and often confused with the water chestnut. > The water chestnut is not a nut but rather an aquatic vegetable that grows in marshes, under water, or in mud. I... ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2025, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-welcome-our-new-moderator-parallellines/1016239/76 "2025-03-29T18:08:00Z")
> [@raventhief](#): > > Do ignore the goat; please do not ignore the squid! Things get … Messy when that happens. Thankfully I’m part of a multi-snake household, who know it was pre-OTJ training! ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2025, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-welcome-our-new-moderator-parallellines/1016239/77 "2025-03-29T18:08:09Z")
Many government officials seem to have recently acquired fasciolopsiasis. Who knew it was the chestnuts? ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2025, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-welcome-our-new-moderator-parallellines/1016239/78 "2025-03-29T18:26:23Z")
Just dropping in to wish smooth sailing to an excellent new mod. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2025, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-welcome-our-new-moderator-parallellines/1016239/79 "2025-03-30T01:25:00Z")
Oh, hey. Cool! Saw you messing with the banning thread and had to do a double take with the yellow mod stuff. At first I thought you were just being silly. It sounds like everyone’s pretty happy and I can’t say I disagree. Go get 'em. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2025, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-welcome-our-new-moderator-parallellines/1016239/80 "2025-03-30T02:05:30Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > At first I thought you were just being silly. Never rule it out, but I’m going to try NOT to do silly MOD stuff at least. Thanks for the good wishes both from you and @Ellecram. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-welcome-our-new-moderator-parallellines/1016239.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-welcome-our-new-moderator-parallellines/1016239.md?page=5)