# 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:** 19\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Dob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Dob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dob)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2006, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-hang-up-the-jackboots/376542/81 "2006-10-17T15:31:35Z")
Wait, wait! Did I hear this all correctly? is it even possible? What the hell is going on? This board is moderated? ---
**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:** [October 17, 2006, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-hang-up-the-jackboots/376542/82 "2006-10-17T15:38:37Z")
[QUOTE=Dob] This board is moderated? [/QUOTE] That’s a damn lie and you know it! ---
**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, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-hang-up-the-jackboots/376542/83 "2006-10-17T16:09:52Z")
There are lies, damned lies, and Giraffisticuffs. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2006, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-hang-up-the-jackboots/376542/84 "2006-10-17T19:26:45Z")
[QUOTE=EddyTeddyFreddy] There are lies, damned lies, and Giraffisticuffs. [/QUOTE] Are those final ones twee? ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2006, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-hang-up-the-jackboots/376542/85 "2006-10-17T21:53:17Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] 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? [/QUOTE] [pedant] Shanghai-ing implies a mite more subtlety than press-ganging, in that the Shanghai-ees were usually drugged or gotten drunk by the Shanghai-ers before being kidnapped; the press-gangs generally dispensed with such social niceties. [/pedant] Which method is employed to press mods into service, of course, remains an open question. ---
**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, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-hang-up-the-jackboots/376542/86 "2006-10-17T22:47:02Z")
[QUOTE=Scissorjack] [pedant] Shanghai-ing implies a mite more subtlety than press-ganging, [/QUOTE] Well, yes, but I didn’t want to confuse the Mods. They’re ugly when they are riled. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2006, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-hang-up-the-jackboots/376542/87 "2006-10-17T22:54:11Z")
[QUOTE=Scissorjack] [pedant] Shanghai-ing implies a mite more subtlety than press-ganging, in that the Shanghai-ees were usually drugged or gotten drunk by the Shanghai-ers before being kidnapped; the press-gangs generally dispensed with such social niceties. [/pedant] Which method is employed to press mods into service, of course, remains an open question. [/QUOTE] Hmmmm, I talked to Veb by IM when she was looped on NyQuil, and then I decided that I wanted her as a mod. Later I recommended her to Tuba. What sort of recruiting method is THAT? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2006, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-hang-up-the-jackboots/376542/88 "2006-10-17T23:17:44Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] Well, yes, but I didn’t want to confuse the Mods. They’re ugly when they are riled. 🙂 [/QUOTE] They’re not that good looking when they’re calm, either. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2006, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-hang-up-the-jackboots/376542/89 "2006-10-17T23:22:29Z")
Is this retiring mod pile-on similar to a football pile-on? ---
**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, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-hang-up-the-jackboots/376542/90 "2006-10-17T23:27:18Z")
[QUOTE=Duckster] Is this retiring mod pile-on similar to a football pile-on? [/QUOTE] Get the duck! He started it all. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2006, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-hang-up-the-jackboots/376542/91 "2006-10-17T23:38:30Z")
[QUOTE=tomndebb] If you don’t wanna be caught unawares, go commando. [/QUOTE] OK, see, that was funny. A good one, as we say in my 'hood. So aside from being a … what was it, Hysterical Puss’n’boots?, you can crack wise ever oncet in a while. ---
**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 18, 2006, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-hang-up-the-jackboots/376542/92 "2006-10-18T01:00:48Z")
[QUOTE=Duckster] Is this retiring mod pile-on similar to a football pile-on? [/QUOTE] Just don’t take off your helmet to bash the other players. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-hang-up-the-jackboots/376542/93 "2006-10-18T01:26:21Z")
I’m just posting here to offer you, **TVeblen** a thankyou for your service to our community. You have helped to make this message board a real treat for me. ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-hang-up-the-jackboots/376542/94 "2006-10-18T02:06:53Z")
Thanks, Veb, for your duties done here, and taking on the Pit, no less. You’ve been an admirable voice of reason and understanding of the history here, and have wielded your magic Mod ninjachucks well. Ain’t nobody like an able librarian to ride herd in the Flaming Q section of the vaults! Do ex-Mods have a decompression chamber before re-entering as general civilian posters? ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-hang-up-the-jackboots/376542/95 "2006-10-18T02:17:16Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] They’re ugly when they are riled. [/QUOTE] They were born to be riled. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-hang-up-the-jackboots/376542/96 "2006-10-18T02:21:44Z")
[QUOTE=Scissorjack] They were born to be riled. [/QUOTE] Drag him out and ban him. I’ll make up an excuse later. ---
**Author:** ![Mince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mince)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-hang-up-the-jackboots/376542/97 "2006-10-18T07:33:31Z")
[QUOTE=TVeblen] Yep, I’m stepping aside as a mod. There’s no juicy, scandalous reason so disappointed conspiracy theorists must be satisfied with faked moon landings. [/QUOTE] Uh huh. Does this have anything to do with 9/11? Are you Jewish? Jus’ askin’ questions here. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2006, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-hang-up-the-jackboots/376542/98 "2006-10-18T23:14:57Z")
Who’s got the goat? And what do we do for an _un_initiation ceremony? ---
**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 18, 2006, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-hang-up-the-jackboots/376542/99 "2006-10-18T23:27:18Z")
[QUOTE=iamthewalrus(:3=] Who’s got the goat? [/QUOTE] I think Noclue took him home for the weekend. Come to think of it, this is Wednesday… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-hang-up-the-jackboots/376542.md?page=4)