# Question about Hal Briston **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 14, 2017, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-hal-briston/798780 "2017-10-14T03:57:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2017, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-hal-briston/798780/21 "2017-10-16T23:59:18Z")
> [@Asimovian](#): > > I’m still shocked that someone beat you to something. Too bad the setup wasn’t labeled spam. 🆒 I was playing around with several variations. I just couldn’t get a good one right off the bat. But I did get a second _Airplane!_ reference in there. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2017, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-hal-briston/798780/22 "2017-10-17T10:47:21Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > He retired as a moderator, didn’t he? His profile shows him as a charter member, but his name is in the list of mods at the bottom of MPSIMS. Looks like he picked the wrong week to quit moderating the Dope. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2017, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-hal-briston/798780/23 "2017-10-17T13:11:21Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > Can confirm, still alive. > Citation: \ Sorry, this is the SDMB, we don’t accept anecdotes as cites. ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2017, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-hal-briston/798780/24 "2017-10-17T17:53:33Z")
> [@Sailboat](#): > > Looks like he picked the wrong week to quit moderating the Dope. So Hal Briston’s moderating days are over? I never got over Hal Briston’s moderating… ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2017, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-hal-briston/798780/25 "2017-10-17T18:22:35Z")
> [@Hal Briston](#): > > Can confirm, still alive. > > Citation: \ > > > [@Colibri](#): > > > > What is it? It’s a compact Chevy made in the 80’s but that’s not important right now. ---
**Author:** ![Corner\_Case](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/corner_case/32/234_2.png) [@Corner\_Case](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corner_Case)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2017, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-hal-briston/798780/26 "2017-10-17T18:31:25Z")
Hal Briston’s moderating at the Straight Dope Institute? We’re … familiar with it. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-hal-briston/798780/27 "2017-10-18T03:23:37Z")
I just want to tell the remaining moderators “good luck”. We’re all counting on you. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-hal-briston/798780/28 "2017-10-18T04:15:48Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > It’s a slight throbbing in time with your heartbeat, where the veins are close to the surface. But that’s not important right now. Just wanted to let know that that post just made a relatively disasterous day far more haapy. I haven’t laughed this hard in the last couple of YEARS! 😃 ---
**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:** [October 19, 2017, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-hal-briston/798780/29 "2017-10-19T20:20:18Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Sheep jokes are more effective when they’re not forced. There was no good opening. > If chocrane had started with “Hal is still listed as a mod for MPSIMS, I thought he was sent to the Daisy Hills Moderator Farm”. or “Hal is still listed as a mod for MPSIMS, I thought he was put out to pasture”, that would have kicked off a whole flock of jokes. > > 😃 It’s actually very nice here. ---
**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:** [October 19, 2017, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-hal-briston/798780/30 "2017-10-19T22:18:58Z")
It’s a nice little place up-state, right? ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2017, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-hal-briston/798780/31 "2017-10-21T20:28:09Z")
So, no one ever asked how the sheep is doing? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2017, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-hal-briston/798780/32 "2017-10-21T20:34:36Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > So, no one ever asked how the sheep is doing? A gentleman does not kiss and tell. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2017, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-hal-briston/798780/33 "2017-10-21T20:54:09Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > A gentleman does not kiss and tell. You can tell me; I’m a guest. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2017, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-hal-briston/798780/34 "2017-10-22T19:35:25Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > You can tell me; I’m a guest. Not only that, but you’re **Leaffan** soon. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2017, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-hal-briston/798780/35 "2017-10-22T20:18:55Z")
Don’t try to pull the wool over our eyes. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2017, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-hal-briston/798780/36 "2017-10-22T20:44:18Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > You can tell me; I’m a guest. “Captain, how soon can you land?” “I can’t tell.” “You can tell me. I’m a doctor.” “No. I mean I’m just not sure.” “Well, can’t you take a guess?” “Well, not for another two hours.” “You can’t take a guess for another two hours?” ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2017, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-hal-briston/798780/37 "2017-10-22T21:33:13Z")
**Hal Briston** was a Moderator in MPSIMS, but this is ATMB. It’s an entirely different kind of posting, altogether. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2017, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-hal-briston/798780/38 "2017-10-22T21:39:20Z")
It’s an entirely different kind of posting. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2017, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-hal-briston/798780/39 "2017-10-22T23:19:01Z")
Would any of you like to make a donation to The Church of Religious Consciousness? _starts handing out flowers_ ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2017, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-hal-briston/798780/40 "2017-10-24T13:12:41Z")
When **Hal** re-enlists as a mod, he’ll teach us baseball. Regards, Shirley [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-hal-briston/798780.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-hal-briston/798780.md?page=3)