# Time to hang up the jackboots **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 15, 2006, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-hang-up-the-jackboots/376542 "2006-10-15T17:10:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2006, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-hang-up-the-jackboots/376542/61 "2006-10-16T15:00:39Z")
[QUOTE=levdrakon] Nooooooooo! ::slits own throat:: [/QUOTE] Well, thanks for all the hard work. You will be missed. I always thought you were one of the most fair and even-handed mods. ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2006, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-hang-up-the-jackboots/376542/62 "2006-10-16T15:29:21Z")
Well, now you can rest assured that you helped make this board what it is. Whatever that is. Nice Work! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2006, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-hang-up-the-jackboots/376542/63 "2006-10-16T17:28:51Z")
[QUOTE=BMalion] even-handed mods. [/QUOTE] The terms are mutually exlus… Er, I welcome our new fair and even handed mod, whoever is chosen. whew ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2006, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-hang-up-the-jackboots/376542/64 "2006-10-16T20:37:43Z")
[QUOTE=ShibbOleth] People apply to do this crap!?! I thought you got moderators the way the British Navy used to get sailors. [/QUOTE] With promises of rum and sodomy? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2006, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-hang-up-the-jackboots/376542/65 "2006-10-16T20:45:09Z")
[QUOTE=pravnik] With promises of rum and sodomy? 😕 [/QUOTE] that was Churchill, “Rum, sodomy and the lash” being the life of the average Joe in the RN. Recruitment in the 17th century was sometimes done with vast promises of prize money and wealth, but usually with a press gang where they just went into a dockside bar and kidnapped everyone for the Navy. So, are those filth…noble Moderators Shainghied? ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2006, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-hang-up-the-jackboots/376542/66 "2006-10-16T23:42:17Z")
[QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy] [Here’s one.](http://hazardkentucky.com/images/eblen.jpg) Kind of an oddball [coat of arms,](http://home.att.net/~rgartee/eblen/coatarms.gif) though. [/QUOTE] [QUOTE=overeasy4] Whats an eblen? [/QUOTE] I thought it was a [Veblen](http://www.genordell.com/stores/maison/Veblen.htm) but then what do _I_ know? [sub]although I confess I prefer the Eblen link. THAT guy looked like he had a teeny tiny pearl earring on, _(I know is was just a tiny little flaw in the photo, but still…)_ and how cool would THAT have been…to have a man wear an earring in the _(whatever decade that was)_? Of course, then the poor man probably wouldn’t have lived to the ripe old age of _(whatever age he lived to)_, given the climate of the _(whatever time is was)_ times, so maybe it is all for the best.[/sub] Not to mention _(either way)_ that OUR Veb is a woman. 🙂 \*Anyway. \* **Veb** , you are one of the first people I noticed when I joined the SDMB. I loved the way you could express your dissenting opinion in a witty way, without being unduly negative toward anyone. I think you were a great mod, and I’ll miss you. Good luck with the living room. I don’t have a scaffold, but I am dealing with much the same kind of thing in TWO houses…so I feel your pain. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2006, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-hang-up-the-jackboots/376542/67 "2006-10-16T23:52:33Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] that was Churchill, “Rum, sodomy and the lash” being the life of the average Joe in the RN. [/QUOTE] Churchill was in the Pogues? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2006, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-hang-up-the-jackboots/376542/68 "2006-10-17T00:32:08Z")
[QUOTE=pravnik] Churchill was in the Pogues? 😕 [/QUOTE] Churchill was, I believe, First Lord of the Admiralty. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2006, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-hang-up-the-jackboots/376542/69 "2006-10-17T00:37:39Z")
Thanks for your service, **TVeblen**. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2006, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-hang-up-the-jackboots/376542/70 "2006-10-17T04:35:34Z")
Thanks for all the hard work. Now go get the dining room done. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2006, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-hang-up-the-jackboots/376542/71 "2006-10-17T06:16:27Z")
I reckon this is a cunning ruse!! How come in this thread **Veb** has SDSAB under her moniker, but in another thread in ATMB where she posted a few hours ago, it comes up as Admnistrator?? I posit she hasn’t ‘retired’ at all, and is just jack-bootedly waiting for some poor soul to step out of line, whereupon she will bring out the banning whips and shackles and transport them into messageboard oblivion, cackling to herself all the way. It’s a plot to catch us unawares. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2006, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-hang-up-the-jackboots/376542/72 "2006-10-17T11:16:33Z")
[QUOTE=kambuckta] It’s a plot to catch us unawares. [/QUOTE] If you don’t wanna be caught unawares, go commando. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2006, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-hang-up-the-jackboots/376542/73 "2006-10-17T12:14:04Z")
[QUOTE=kambuckta] I reckon this is a cunning ruse!! How come in this thread **Veb** has SDSAB under her moniker, but in another thread in ATMB where she posted a few hours ago, it comes up as Admnistrator?? [/QUOTE] My vote is, she’s a Hydra. ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2006, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-hang-up-the-jackboots/376542/74 "2006-10-17T12:20:33Z")
[QUOTE=samclem] My vote is, she’s a Hydra. [/QUOTE] Bring on the burning pitch! We’re-a goin’ on a mod hunt! ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2006, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-hang-up-the-jackboots/376542/75 "2006-10-17T12:58:10Z")
She turned me into a newt! ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2006, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-hang-up-the-jackboots/376542/76 "2006-10-17T13:07:53Z")
[QUOTE=BMalion] She turned me into a newt! [/QUOTE] You don’t look like a newt. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2006, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-hang-up-the-jackboots/376542/77 "2006-10-17T13:25:15Z")
No newts is good newts. Or should that be “No newts are good newts”? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2006, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-hang-up-the-jackboots/376542/78 "2006-10-17T13:27:39Z")
“No newts _am_ good newts.” **Veb** , it’s been a pleasure to be on a site that’s had you as a mod. Thanks for all your hard work. Hopefully we’ll see more of your posts now that you don’t wear a mod hat. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2006, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-hang-up-the-jackboots/376542/79 "2006-10-17T13:29:08Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] You don’t look like a newt. [/QUOTE] Is he extremely small? Then he must be my newt. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2006, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-hang-up-the-jackboots/376542/80 "2006-10-17T14:11:24Z")
[QUOTE=BMalion] She turned me into a newt! [/QUOTE] Would that be a [Red-bellied newt](http://gallery.pethobbyist.com/data/35986Red_Bellied_newt.jpg) (Taricha rivularis)? If you feel an urge to hunt giraffes, you’re the subspecies T. rivularis gingrichus. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-hang-up-the-jackboots/376542.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-hang-up-the-jackboots/376542.md?page=5)