# SDMB Moderators' Performance Evaluation **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 27, 2000, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-moderators-performance-evaluation/42848 "2000-11-27T13:13:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![monkeylucifer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@monkeylucifer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monkeylucifer)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2000, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-moderators-performance-evaluation/42848/41 "2000-11-29T22:54:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Olentzero \* > \*\*_Pie Iesu Domine, > dona eis requiem_ > > _thud_ > \*\* Olentzero, thanks for posting that!!! I was **JUST** sitting in my office, listening to Fatboy Slim’s cover of Beck’s _Loser_ and that is sampled in it, and I thought to myself: “I wonder what those damn monks are saying, anyway…”. Now, can ya translate that for me? I never learned Latin, and altavista’s Babel Fish is dead language challenged. ---
**Author:** ![2nd\_Law](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/f475e1/32.png) [@2nd\_Law](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2nd_Law)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2000, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-moderators-performance-evaluation/42848/42 "2000-11-30T09:01:46Z")
> [@](#): > > Now, can ya translate that for me? Roughly, Blessed Jesus Lord, Give us peace. * * * Dave Who had too many years of Latin in high school and college. ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2000, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-moderators-performance-evaluation/42848/43 "2000-11-30T16:55:00Z")
“Merciful Lord Jesus give _them_ rest.” Watch yer pronouns there, **2nd Law**. “Give us peace” would better be translated as _Dona nobis pacem_. Hey, and since it’s the Christmas season… who’s up for a singalong? ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2000, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-moderators-performance-evaluation/42848/44 "2000-11-30T17:23:32Z")
Oh my lord…college flashback. We SANG “Dona Nobia Pacem” at our Gaudete service every year. _shudder_ Sounded wonderful when we could get it right. That happened ONCE in 4 years. In practice. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![2nd\_Law](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/f475e1/32.png) [@2nd\_Law](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2nd_Law)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2000, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-moderators-performance-evaluation/42848/45 "2000-11-30T19:32:50Z")
Well, shoot, it has been 20 years since I took any Latin, fer cryin’ out loud! :::going back to sittin’ in his rockin’ chair::: ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2000, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-moderators-performance-evaluation/42848/46 "2000-11-30T22:06:42Z")
Yer gonna hate me, Dave - I never took Latin at all. How you like that, Pops? Showed up by a whippersnapper who ain’t even got the same credentials you do. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![quasar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/48db29/32.png) [@quasar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quasar)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2000, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-moderators-performance-evaluation/42848/47 "2000-12-01T04:46:59Z")
**Alessan** : Awesome post. Brilliant characterization of the existing SDMB hierarchy of power. After reading that you have tempted me to come to the dark confines of the pit more often, which is saying a lot since I do not hang around here that much, this being my first post on this forum… Damn it, the first post in which I can rant off at my discretion without being jumped on by the mods and all I do is praise a fellow doper’s inventiveness. I am so ashamed of myself. :rolleyes: [Demonic possession on] Fuck it! I take it all back. Forget every commendatory word I typed. Curse you damn fingers! What I meant was that your post was irrational, idiotic, and insensitive to us pathetic humans. How the fuck do you think I feel after realizing that I am nothing in the grand scheme of things, that I am but a slave to a divinely inspired Being who rules autocratically over me and my fellow companions on this elusive journey to wisdom and ignorance-eradication that we have all undertaken? How the hell am I supposed to grasp the fact that I am nothing more than a humble, expandable pawn in Unca Cec’s master plans? Huh? Explain that to me, you merciless prick. You know what, fuck your theocratic government, fuck that spectral, presumably divine entity that you worship as your supreme lord. You traitor, you have disgraced us all with your demeaning commentaries. You, you lame excuse for a human being. If I could I would… [/Demonic possession off] 😃 😃 😃 Damn it. I blew it. I can’t do it. I can not seriously rant at **Alessan** after he/she amused me with that eloquent, funny-as-hell gem of a post… Guess I don’t belong in the pit. Off to MPSIMS I go. * * * I am not a slave. I am a person, and my name is Anakin. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2000, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-moderators-performance-evaluation/42848/48 "2000-12-01T06:27:36Z")
Thank you, **Quasar** (Not to mention **Medea’s Child, VileOrb** and **Ashtar** ). You may now bow down before me as your prophet. 😃 P.S. I’m a guy, dammit. A _GUY!_ [cries manfully} ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2000, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-moderators-performance-evaluation/42848/49 "2000-12-01T19:45:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Alessan \* > **You may now bow down before me as your prophet. 😃** _shifting the_ qibla _and painting the word “CHICAGO” upon it_ **Ceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeecil** u Akbar! **Ceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeecil** u Akbar! **Ceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeecil** u Akbar! Ashhadu an la ilaha **Cecil**! Ashhadu an la ilaha **Cecil**! Ashhadu anna **Alessan** -an Rassoo- **Cecil**! Ashhadu anna **Alessan** -an Rassoo- **Cecil**! ---
**Author:** ![aenea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@aenea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aenea)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2000, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-moderators-performance-evaluation/42848/50 "2000-12-01T20:43:16Z")
:eek: 😉 Nice post, BTW, Alessan. I enjoyed it much. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2000, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-moderators-performance-evaluation/42848/51 "2000-12-01T21:08:17Z")
Is that the same song I was talking about? The cutesy latin folk song that all those French nuns always seem to sing? “Dominique-nique-nique” song on the guitar. (quoted from Mary Jo Pehl of MST3K) ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2000, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-moderators-performance-evaluation/42848/52 "2000-12-01T22:02:37Z")
I read the FORMERAGENT stuff (cue scary music.) It was, without a doubt, the funniest goddamn thing I’ve ever seen on this board. I’m frankly surprised that no one challenged the mental case’s death threats outright. Something like, “if you can be here within 24 hours, attempt to “hand me my last check,” and somehow get out of my house without a ventilated skull, then I’ll consider you the super G-man you claim to be.” I’m still chuckling over the whole farcical “The Finder” thing. Whoo! That stuff’s rich! 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-moderators-performance-evaluation/42848.md?page=2)