# Thanks, Jerry! **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 24, 2003, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-jerry/150625 "2003-01-24T16:28:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Truth\_Seeker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5fc32e/32.png) [@Truth\_Seeker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truth_Seeker)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-jerry/150625/1 "2003-01-24T16:28:35Z")
You, doin’ that thing you do. Waking and shaking up a million hampsters, prod them with a Gnu! And you don’t mean to be cruel. You never even knew about the heartache I’ve been going through. Well I try and try to forget this board but it’s just so hard to do every time you do that thing you do. ‘Cause it hurts me so when the board’s so slow that I can’t see nothin’ new. But if I know you you’re doing that thing, every day just doing that thing, Can’t take you not doing that thing you do! ---
**Author:** ![FisherQueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@FisherQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FisherQueen)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-jerry/150625/2 "2003-01-24T16:31:21Z")
I’m just trying to visualize how one would go about prodding a hamster with a gnu. ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-jerry/150625/3 "2003-01-24T16:49:07Z")
My question is, what happened? Or has it been explained elsewhere? Esprix ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-jerry/150625/4 "2003-01-24T17:39:03Z")
Either way, thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-jerry/150625/5 "2003-01-24T17:57:16Z")
thanx, dude! ---
**Author:** ![Aceospades](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Aceospades](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aceospades)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-jerry/150625/6 "2003-01-24T18:03:02Z")
so i tried to log on last night and could not. this was around 2:00 am east cost. i take it from this thread that i was not the only one. i’d like to offer my thanks to **jerry** for getting the hamsters going again, but what happened? did **jerry** have to run out to hamsters R’ us to get a new power sourse? ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-jerry/150625/7 "2003-01-24T18:11:27Z")
You . . . are . . . MY BIGGEST FAN! (Only people who truly “got” the OP will get that one . . .) ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-jerry/150625/8 "2003-01-24T18:30:12Z")
Did this **Jerry** get the board back up? ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-jerry/150625/9 "2003-01-24T18:47:28Z")
Jerry is Jerry Davis (login **JDavis** ), the Technical Guru of the SDMB. He’s also known as Jerry the Tech God and Chief Hamster Wrangler. He keeps this whole shebang running on a roomful of servers running GNU/Linux (hence the gnu mentioned in the OP’s song). ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-jerry/150625/10 "2003-01-24T18:47:44Z")
**Jerry the Tech God** runs this place (technically speaking 😉 ), **Joe K**. Pay homage to His Holy Hamsters! Esprix ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-jerry/150625/11 "2003-01-24T19:15:33Z")
Oh, great! I did see that name around, never put two and two together…Thanks, Jerry! 🙂 [sup]_leaves a beer for Jerry and the Hamsters_[sup] ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-jerry/150625/12 "2003-01-24T19:22:30Z")
_Jerry and the Hampsters_ Band Name ---
**Author:** ![porcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-jerry/150625/13 "2003-01-24T19:40:55Z")
**Jerry** , you really need to show up at a ChiDope sometime - I’ve sure you’ll drink for free. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-jerry/150625/14 "2003-01-24T20:28:38Z")
If Jerry ever makes a Dopefest, I’m sure the outpouring of affection would make a Bacchanalian orgy seem like a dissertation on non-Euclidian geometry. Not that I’m implying y’all’d do anything that’s _illegal_ … in Chicago. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-jerry/150625/15 "2003-01-24T22:50:49Z")
THE BOARD IS UP! HOORAY! ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-jerry/150625/16 "2003-01-24T23:19:16Z")
Jerry’s a oneder. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2003, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-jerry/150625/17 "2003-01-24T23:26:58Z")
Aw crap! Why didn’t I think of that one? ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-jerry/150625/18 "2003-01-25T18:06:13Z")
More kudos for Jerry! Thanks for the good work! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2003, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-jerry/150625/19 "2003-01-26T07:04:14Z")
Three cheers to Jerry!