# SD Administration? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 17, 2012, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-administration/628468 "2012-07-17T01:33:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-administration/628468/1 "2012-07-17T01:33:12Z")
Who comprises the administration of the Straightdope at the Chicago Reader? I don’t mean the board admins. I mean those behind this operation? ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-administration/628468/2 "2012-07-17T02:22:00Z")
The Illuminati, innit? Why else would they deny it so vehemently. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-administration/628468/3 "2012-07-17T02:31:31Z")
When you say the name Ed Zotti three times, he appears. So don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-administration/628468/4 "2012-07-17T02:41:23Z")
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-administration/628468/5 "2012-07-17T03:11:20Z")
Do you know what the first rule about the SD administration is? ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-administration/628468/6 "2012-07-17T03:33:39Z")
If we told you, we’d have to kill you. [PM me.](http://cache.jalopnik.com/assets/images/12/2008/02/sopranos460.jpg) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-administration/628468/7 "2012-07-17T03:46:30Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Do you know what the first rule about the SD administration is? You don’t talk about fight club? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-administration/628468/8 "2012-07-17T03:51:10Z")
> [@Darth\_Panda](#): > > You don’t talk about fight club? No, that’s the first rule of Fight Club. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-administration/628468/9 "2012-07-17T05:54:24Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > When you say the name Ed Zotti three times, he appears. So don’t. Yeah, but all he does is fix up any old barns you have on your property, so it’s not really all that bad. ---
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2012, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-administration/628468/10 "2012-07-17T05:57:43Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Yeah, but all he does is fix up any old barns you have on your property, so it’s not really all that bad. I tried that once and my machine shed fell down :(. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-administration/628468/11 "2012-07-19T01:03:35Z")
[QUOTE=Sudden Kestrel] I tried that once and my machine shed fell down :(. [/QUOTE] Ah, so I can blame Ed for all the rats that invaded my house after the neighbor’s barn fell down? As for the board’s business management, I’ll wager that they are like so many other managers, and are pretty boring people with degrees that go absolutely batstink nuts after two drinks at the office Christmas party. ---
**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:** [July 19, 2012, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-administration/628468/12 "2012-07-19T01:11:41Z")
There’s Ed. And Jerry the Tech Guy. And above them the new owners, Sun-Times Media. We do not know them yet. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-administration/628468/13 "2012-07-19T03:50:50Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > No, that’s the first rule of Fight Club. So the first rule of the admins is that they can’t have the same first rule as Fight Club? ---
**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:** [July 19, 2012, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-administration/628468/14 "2012-07-19T13:44:33Z")
> [@Darth\_Panda](#): > > So the first rule of the admins is that they can’t have the same first rule as Fight Club? No, no, that’s not the first rule, that’s Rule XXII.C.27(b)(ii) ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2012, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-administration/628468/15 "2012-07-19T14:17:44Z")
> [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](#): > > No, no, that’s not the first rule, that’s Rule XXII.C.27(b)(ii) From the Nov 2011 V2.37 Ruleset reissue. ---
**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:** [July 19, 2012, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-administration/628468/16 "2012-07-19T16:35:45Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > From the Nov 2011 V2.37 Ruleset reissue. Which are kept in the basement of the local planning office “in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard’.” ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2012, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sd-administration/628468/17 "2012-07-20T01:33:12Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Which are kept in the basement of the local planning office “in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard’.” I thought it was in a mayonnaise jar on Funk and Wagnall’s back porch since noon today.