# Test: Have a nice day **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 5, 2009, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-have-a-nice-day/501953 "2009-07-05T02:52:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2009, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-have-a-nice-day/501953/21 "2009-07-12T11:02:47Z")
> [@ashman165](#): > > Why not just **Pit** him? Under the new rules, I’m not sure I can. It’s possible that **Dex** ’s injunction was given as a moderator, and protocol now dictates that complaints about moderator actions should be posted in ATMB rather than the Pit. Mind you, if he was posting in his official capacity, I’d like to know why he didn’t say: > [@C K Dexter Haven](#): > > **Mod Warning** : > > Have a nice day/I love you all. > > **/Mod Warning**. If he wants to clear this up when he arrives to explain exactly what “Have a nice day” really means, that would be great. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2009, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-have-a-nice-day/501953/22 "2009-07-12T14:32:34Z")
Oh, there is no question that was **C K Dexter Haven** the Moderator talking! For those who thought that was nothing more than a general pleasantry, a mindless bit of fluff, or even a simple wish for good things, well, You Are Wrong! That was nothing more than a command from On High, a specific demand that we all behave nicely. We ignore it at our peril!! :eek: ---
**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:** [July 12, 2009, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-have-a-nice-day/501953/23 "2009-07-12T15:15:58Z")
My, what a lot of things you use “Good day” for! ---
**Author:** ![ashman165](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e8cbc/32.png) [@ashman165](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ashman165)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2009, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-have-a-nice-day/501953/24 "2009-07-12T15:26:11Z")
> [@Chez\_Guevara](#): > > Under the new rules, I’m not sure I can. > > It’s possible that **Dex** ’s injunction was given as a moderator, and protocol now dictates that complaints about moderator actions should be posted in ATMB rather than the Pit. Mind you, if he was posting in his official capacity, I’d like to know why he didn’t say: > > If he wants to clear this up when he arrives to explain exactly what “Have a nice day” really means, that would be great. Maybe he meant [“how nice”](http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/06/18/favorite-jokes). (search for “how nice” on that page for the relevant text) ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2009, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-have-a-nice-day/501953/25 "2009-07-12T18:13:23Z")
> [@ashman165](#): > > Maybe he meant [“how nice”](http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/06/18/favorite-jokes). (search for “how nice” on that page for the relevant text) That link doesn’t work for me. It’s probably been disabled by an Adminstrator as revenge for the current “Have a nice day” fiasco (see upthread). ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2009, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-have-a-nice-day/501953/26 "2009-07-12T18:38:31Z")
> [@ashman165](#): > > Maybe he meant [“how nice”](http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/06/18/favorite-jokes). (search for “how nice” on that page for the relevant text) > [@Chez\_Guevara](#): > > That link doesn’t work for me. > > It’s probably been disabled by an Adminstrator as revenge for the current “Have a nice day” fiasco (see upthread). The link by **ashman165** isn’t to a SDMB page/thread. ---
**Author:** ![ashman165](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e8cbc/32.png) [@ashman165](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ashman165)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2009, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-have-a-nice-day/501953/27 "2009-07-12T19:16:51Z")
> [@Chez\_Guevara](#): > > That link doesn’t work for me. > > It’s probably been disabled by an Adminstrator as revenge for the current “Have a nice day” fiasco (see upthread). It worked for me; I should have added an “off site” tag. My apologies for that. This is the address: [รีวิวเว็บพนัน UFABET 10 เว็บดัง เลือกยังไงให้เหมาะกับสไตล์เล่นของคุณ](http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/06/18/favorite-jokes) It’s an old joke about a gal who is being told of some lady’s affluent father’s gifts to her. After each revelation of a new present, our heroine responds “That’s nice.” Culminating at the end with our heroine saying that she went to finishing school before which time she used to say “fuck you”, but now just says “how nice.” ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2009, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-have-a-nice-day/501953/28 "2009-07-12T19:35:15Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > The link by **ashman165** isn’t to a SDMB page/thread. Yes, I know that. For the avoidance of doubt, I have no reason to believe any administrator or moderator would do anything as underhand as I may have seemed to suggest, even if they could. In any event, my policy regarding admins and mods is never to complain. Their duties are thankless and they get a lot of flak for no good reason I can see. It was ever thus. The entire point of this thread, or the latter half of it, is not to quibble about an innocent comment but to satirise those people who will criticise just about anything an admin/mod says or does. Just for the record. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2009, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-have-a-nice-day/501953/29 "2009-07-12T20:02:36Z")
> [@Chez\_Guevara](#): > > For the avoidance of doubt, I have no reason to believe any administrator or moderator would do anything as underhand as I may have seemed to suggest, even if they could. In any event, my policy regarding admins and mods is never to complain. Their duties are thankless and they get a lot of flak for no good reason I can see. It was ever thus. Sucking up, eh? Your check is in the mail. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2009, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-have-a-nice-day/501953/30 "2009-07-12T20:20:02Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > Sucking up, eh? Your check is in the mail. 😛 OK, that is fucking **it!** You’d better bookmark this thread because it’s the last time I ever say anything nice about anybody on this message board. Actually, I think it’s also the first time. If it isn’t, I must have made a mistake somewhere. I certainly don’t have a cite. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2009, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-have-a-nice-day/501953/31 "2009-07-12T21:07:17Z")
Damn, I missed my chance. Now, I’ll never have anything nice said about me by you. I guess, in a way, that takes the pressure off. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![RaftPeople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@RaftPeople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaftPeople)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-have-a-nice-day/501953/32 "2009-07-13T02:10:00Z")
**Chez** , touche and well played, sir. ---
**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 13, 2009, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-have-a-nice-day/501953/33 "2009-07-13T07:43:26Z")
The words I used in the OP were actually an Urdu-Incan pidgin language, translating to “Why doesn’t the R on my keyboard work?” I couldn’t say that in English, of course, without using the letter R, and I happen to be reasonably fluent in Urdu-Incan. It should in fact have been “Hawe a nicwe dawy” (and then there wouldn’t have been confusion) but then the w-key started to misfire as well. It was a test, and I managed how to find out how to fix the R-key. The w-seems mostly to be vorking. ---
**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:** [July 13, 2009, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-have-a-nice-day/501953/34 "2009-07-13T07:55:33Z")
> [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](#): > > The words I used in the OP were actually an Urdu-Incan pidgin language, translating to “Why doesn’t the R on my keyboard work?” I couldn’t say that in English, of course, without using the letter R, and I happen to be reasonably fluent in Urdu-Incan. It should in fact have been “Hawe a nicwe dawy” (and then there wouldn’t have been confusion) but then the w-key started to misfire as well. > > It was a test, and I managed how to find out how to fix the R-key. The w-seems mostly to be vorking. You didn’t come up with “Why can’t I use the key to the left of T?”? Shame, shame. ETA: Now anticipating comments about non-QWERTY keyboards. How about “key with the alphabetic glyph that follows Q in the English alphabet”? ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-have-a-nice-day/501953/35 "2009-07-13T11:43:45Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > You didn’t come up with “Why can’t I use the key to the left of T?”? Shame, shame. > > ETA: Now anticipating comments about non-QWERTY keyboards. How about “key with the alphabetic glyph that follows Q in the English alphabet”? Obviously, you are one of those people who insists on discriminating against those who are W-to-the-right-of-Q people!!! And why do you insist on forcing us to adopt some sort of prescriptive, co-erced ordring of glyphs? I want my “r” to come BEFORE “q” thank-you very much! I mean, who uses the “q” much anyway??? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2009, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-have-a-nice-day/501953/36 "2009-07-13T14:35:05Z")
> [@Chez\_Guevara](#): > > maybe he should just say, “I love you all”. Homosexuality is not a choice, dammit. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-have-a-nice-day/501953/37 "2009-07-14T01:10:35Z")
> [@ashman165](#): > > It’s an old joke about a gal who is being told of some lady’s affluent father’s gifts to her. After each revelation of a new present, our heroine responds “That’s nice.” > > Culminating at the end with our heroine saying that she went to finishing school before which time she used to say “fuck you”, but now just says “how nice.” That’s actually pretty funny. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ashman165](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e8cbc/32.png) [@ashman165](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ashman165)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-have-a-nice-day/501953/38 "2009-07-14T07:06:44Z")
> [@DSYoungEsq](#): > > Obviously, you are one of those people who insists on discriminating against those who are W-to-the-right-of-Q people!!! And why do you insist on forcing us to adopt some sort of prescriptive, co-erced ordring of glyphs? I want my “r” to come BEFORE “q” thank-you very much! I mean, who uses the “q” much anyway??? :eek: He has a point. Even though it’s in his name, people don’t use it! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-have-a-nice-day/501953.md?page=1)