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.
Well, now you can rest assured that you helped make this board what it is.
Whatever that is.
Nice Work!
The terms are mutually exlus…
Er, I welcome our new fair and even handed mod, whoever is chosen.
whew
With promises of rum and sodomy? 
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?
I thought it was a Veblen 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.
Churchill was in the Pogues?
Churchill was, I believe, First Lord of the Admiralty.
Thanks for your service, TVeblen.
Regards,
Shodan
Thanks for all the hard work.
Now go get the dining room done.
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.
If you don’t wanna be caught unawares, go commando.
My vote is, she’s a Hydra.
Bring on the burning pitch! We’re-a goin’ on a mod hunt!
She turned me into a newt!
You don’t look like a newt.
No newts is good newts.
Or should that be “No newts are good newts”?
“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.
Is he extremely small? Then he must be my newt.
Would that be a Red-bellied newt (Taricha rivularis)? If you feel an urge to hunt giraffes, you’re the subspecies T. rivularis gingrichus.
