# The new Straight Dope administrator ... **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 5, 2018, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-straight-dope-administrator/817353 "2018-07-05T23:58:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-straight-dope-administrator/817353/61 "2018-07-06T12:42:42Z")
Not sure how I feel about the forced tuba lessons though… ---
**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 6, 2018, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-straight-dope-administrator/817353/62 "2018-07-06T12:44:57Z")
Good luck and best wishes. ---
**Author:** ![hlanelee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3bc359/32.png) [@hlanelee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hlanelee)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-straight-dope-administrator/817353/63 "2018-07-06T12:46:01Z")
There’s still a Straight Dope Message Board? ---
**Author:** ![hkcroadie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ee7513/32.png) [@hkcroadie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hkcroadie)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-straight-dope-administrator/817353/64 "2018-07-06T12:54:52Z")
I’m a new poster here, but have been reading the Straight Dope since the first book came out when I was in middle school, and remember your name from the books. Mazel tov on your ascension to adminhood. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-straight-dope-administrator/817353/65 "2018-07-06T13:02:00Z")
Congrats, Tuba. I honestly can’t think of anyone who has put more into this place than you. I have a fair amount of AdminCP experience (and a test site where I can break things), so please let me know if there’s ever anything I can help with. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-straight-dope-administrator/817353/66 "2018-07-06T13:08:47Z")
**JillGat**!!! **Rico**!!! This is awesome !! We should all set up on the porch with a nice 5 Gallon Gatorade Bucket fulla lemonade, have some tasty home-baked banana bread and snickerdoodles and talk about the AOL days. Before PowerTools™, of course. 😉 When it was a B&W interface ! ---
**Author:** ![Hermitian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hermitian/32/470_2.png) [@Hermitian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermitian)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-straight-dope-administrator/817353/67 "2018-07-06T13:10:59Z")
I just want to say that I had no idea AOL email still existed. Does that guy still say “You’ve got mail!”? ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-straight-dope-administrator/817353/68 "2018-07-06T13:29:39Z")
[Of course he does.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGOgSPVBmIE) ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-straight-dope-administrator/817353/69 "2018-07-06T13:31:23Z")
Well, it’s about dang time. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-straight-dope-administrator/817353/70 "2018-07-06T13:34:27Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > … you’re soaking in it. Here’s to a new future. The Dope is in good hands. ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-straight-dope-administrator/817353/71 "2018-07-06T13:35:03Z")
Good luck and enjoy as the boards enter a new era! ---
**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 6, 2018, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-straight-dope-administrator/817353/72 "2018-07-06T13:37:00Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > Not sure how I feel about the forced tuba lessons though… It could have been euphonium. I DID give you a choice. ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-straight-dope-administrator/817353/73 "2018-07-06T13:39:50Z")
My brother only weighed 95 pounds in high school and he played the Sousaphone in the marching band … funny funny funny looking … anyway, I grew up on tuba music … > [@TubaDiva](#): > > [snip] … I hope you like polkas. > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGe9EfLh-ug](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGe9EfLh-ug) Love polkas … especially when we let the wolves play accordion … (zydeco music uses tubas too) … > [@TubaDiva](#): > > While I’m waiting for that arrangement to come in … [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMl0kxzf4YU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMl0kxzf4YU) Wait wait wait … I know there’s regular tubas, and I know there are double tubas … and I can accept alto tubas … but what the hell is a _soprano tuba_? … that’s got to be an oxymoron … [Suggestion for a future StraightDope column] > [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Congratulations. So do we call you Cecil, or Ed Zotti? If we call her “Mother” she’ll let us lick the cake batter bowl when she’s baking our birthday cakes … ===== Why do I get the imagery of Sheriff Bart agreeing to deal with Mongo … “Don’t shoot him, that’ll just make him angry” … you have my commiserations … ETA: Since the column doesn’t have to go to print anymore, can we start exceeding the 600 word limit? ---
**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 6, 2018, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-straight-dope-administrator/817353/74 "2018-07-06T13:41:09Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > Congrats, Tuba. I honestly can’t think of anyone who has put more into this place than you. > > I have a fair amount of AdminCP experience (and a test site where I can break things), so please let me know if there’s ever anything I can help with. Thanks. And hey, as a former mod, kudos to you, you’re part of our history and a piece of how we have endured through the years. Can’t thank people enough, all the contributors who made/make this place rock on. This of course includes all the posters who built this place brick by brick. Now everybody go out and make some more! ---
**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 6, 2018, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-straight-dope-administrator/817353/75 "2018-07-06T13:42:15Z")
> [@hkcroadie](#): > > I’m a new poster here, but have been reading the Straight Dope since the first book came out when I was in middle school, and remember your name from the books. Mazel tov on your ascension to adminhood. 🙂 You know you’ve got some catching up to do, no? Middle school? Yikes! Whippersnapper! ---
**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 6, 2018, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-straight-dope-administrator/817353/76 "2018-07-06T13:44:38Z")
> [@Hermitian](#): > > I just want to say that I had no idea AOL email still existed. Does that guy still say “You’ve got mail!”? Yeah, he’s still trapped in there after all these years. ---
**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 6, 2018, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-straight-dope-administrator/817353/77 "2018-07-06T13:45:41Z")
> [@Gary\_Robson](#): > > Well, it’s about dang time. I await your next book on the differences between poster and moderator poop. 😃 AND … another of our former mods checks in. Thank you, my dear. ---
**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 6, 2018, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-straight-dope-administrator/817353/78 "2018-07-06T13:52:14Z")
> [@](#): > > Quoth **Civil Guy** : > > “Amazing Grace” on tubas… might be strangely appropriate… and I’m sure that strange is just the start of it. It’s actually a very easy song on brass, since you can play almost the whole thing with a single fingering. There are only a couple of non-bugle-notes in the whole song. > [@](#): > > Quoth **watchwolf49** : > > Wait wait wait … I know there’s regular tubas, and I know there are double tubas … and I can accept alto tubas … but what the hell is a soprano tuba? … that’s got to be an oxymoron … Strictly speaking, a tuba is just a brass instrument with a conical bore: That is to say, as you go down the length of the tubing from mouthpiece to bell, the diameter is constantly increasing. So a coronet is technically a tuba, but a trumpet (with a constant diameter until you get to the bell) is not. ---
**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 6, 2018, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-straight-dope-administrator/817353/79 "2018-07-06T13:58:46Z")
> [@watchwolf49](#): > > My brother only weighed 95 pounds in high school and he played the Sousaphone in the marching band … funny funny funny looking … anyway, I grew up on tuba music … _Q: How old do you have to be to play tuba?_ A: Old enough to be able to pick it up. Young enough to still think it might be fun. > [@](#): > > Love polkas … especially when we let the wolves play accordion … (zydeco music uses tubas too) … Tubas and accordions go together like beans and cornbread … like hot cakes and molasses … [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/q-X64Z9GacM/hqdefault.jpg "Sweet Georgia Brown - Sam Pilafian, Tuba and Gabe Hall-Rodrigues, Accordion") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-X64Z9GacM) > [@](#): > > Wait wait wait … I know there’s regular tubas, and I know there are double tubas … and I can accept alto tubas … but what the hell is a _soprano tuba_? … that’s got to be an oxymoron … > > [Suggestion for a future StraightDope column] Some people refer to it as a “trumpet.” Also known as 'castrati tuba" by true heavy metal fans. 😃 > [@](#): > > If we call her “Mother” she’ll let us lick the cake batter bowl when she’s baking our birthday cakes … Might even turn the beaters off first. > [@](#): > > Why do I get the imagery of Sheriff Bart agreeing to deal with Mongo … “Don’t shoot him, that’ll just make him angry” … you have my commiserations … “Tuba only pawn in game of life.” > [@](#): > > ETA: Since the column doesn’t have to go to print anymore, can we start exceeding the 600 word limit? The classic columns will run the same, still slices of goodness. Yet TBD what lies ahead. There IS the promise of a potential new Straight Dope book on the horizon … true long form journalism. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2018, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-straight-dope-administrator/817353/80 "2018-07-06T13:59:56Z")
I was a conical bore until I discovered The Straight Dope. 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-straight-dope-administrator/817353.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-straight-dope-administrator/817353.md?page=5)