Spectre of Pithecanthropus has retired.

[Idle_Thoughts]

It’s been a pleasure to work with you and all of that.

Thanks for all of your time and help volunteering for the boards.

[cards]

Jeez, how long were you a mod? Happy retirement

[samclem]

@Mangetout

This is exactly like when they told me Fido had gone to live on a farm.

Well,not really. He’s still alive, I promise. Well, as alive as he was when he first became a mod.

[crypto]

wow. You must have been one hell of a mod. I don’t recognize your name. Are you all sure he **just **retired?

If all mods were as invisible as you, what a wonderful place this would be. Thank you and well done.

[Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus]

@samclem

Well,not really. He’s still alive, I promise. Well, as alive as he was when he first became a mod.

Also, after you parents told you that, Fido never came back afterwards to leave wet nose prints on the sliding glass door.

[Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus]

@samclem

Well, as alive as he was when he first became a mod.

Actually perhaps less so. Now I have to re-learn to spell and phrase my posts within the five minute window.

[Czarcasm]

@Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus

Actually perhaps less so. Now I have to re-learn to spell and phrase my posts within the five minute window.

It doesn’t take that long-any idoit can do it.

[Czarcasm]

@Czarcasm

It doesn’t take that long-any idoit can do it.

Carp.

[PlainJain]

A fantastic mod… you will be missed.

Thanks.

[Siam_Sam]

@Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension

Thanks for your efforts to make this board a pleasant, civilized and jerk-free place, Spectre of Pithecanthropus.*

*You’re right, that’s not easy to spell.

It would help if he spelled “Specter” correctly. And “Hippopotamus.”

[Lobohan]

His mod-powers are gone, get him!

[Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus]

@Siam_Sam

It would help if he spelled “Specter” correctly. And “Hippopotamus.”

And Hippo too?

[Zebra]

Do you get to keep the fingers of the posters you banned?

[twickster]

@Zebra

Do you get to keep the fingers of the posters you banned?

Fingers? We keep the ears and tail.

[Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus]

@Marley23

I think he mixed up the nicknames Euty and Pithy. Eutychus is also a retired mod.

There’s a few retired mods around, and after nearly 12 years I can’t always remember that a particular poster was an ex-mod. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if there are complaint threads (ATMB recently, but formerly in the Pit) where one ex mod protests an action by another ex mod who was still a mod at the time.

Some ex-mods seem to disappear almost overnight while others continue posting fairly frequently. I have no intention of going away, but it’s practically inevitable that you spend less time here when you retire from being a moderator.

[Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus]

@Jack_Batty

I think it was overwhelming guilt at issuing me my first ever warning.

Let that be a lesson to the rest of you mods.

Oddly enough, your first warning was my last.

[Spicoli from Fast Times At Ridgemont High ]
Whoa, duuuuuuuude!

[/SFFTARH]

It gives things a satisfying symmetry.

[Gary_Robson]

Whoa, dude (speaking of Spicoli)…

I go away for a week, and when I come back you’re (sorta) gone. It was a pleasure moderating with you!

Now behave yourself!

[OpalCat]

You never stood out and made me think “oh that Spectre of Pithecanthropus! Damned moderator!” which is a good thing. I don’t typically keep track of who is a moderator and who isn’t beyond a very visible subset, so the fact that you weren’t on my radar is a good sign that you did a good job. Welcome back to the world of casual posting.