# Want to be a SDMB MOD? What are John Kerry's initials? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 7, 2004, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-be-a-sdmb-mod-what-are-john-kerrys-initials/249023 "2004-06-07T01:34:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-be-a-sdmb-mod-what-are-john-kerrys-initials/249023/41 "2004-06-07T02:18:44Z")
**manhattan** isn’t a moderator, idiot. Although that’s the closest you’ve been to correct so far, since he used to be one. There’s a clear list of who the moderators are on the site, you know. ---
**Author:** ![Early\_Out](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Early\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Early_Out)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-be-a-sdmb-mod-what-are-john-kerrys-initials/249023/42 "2004-06-07T02:18:47Z")
Ooh, ooh, I just thought of another one: because **milroyj** needed a suitable companion. 😃 I swear, I’m going to wet myself before this is over. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-be-a-sdmb-mod-what-are-john-kerrys-initials/249023/43 "2004-06-07T02:19:05Z")
I know the answer. From this thread [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=4937235](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=4937235) > [@](#): > > Originally Posted by Liberal > > Mr. Bush, you could learn a thing or two from your mentor. And from John Kerry. > [@SallyStar](#): > > I know I am being pitted, but you got to be a major moron … Bush learning something from jfk? John Kerry’s initials are all in lower case–jfk – because, because 😕 ---
**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:** [June 7, 2004, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-be-a-sdmb-mod-what-are-john-kerrys-initials/249023/44 "2004-06-07T02:20:36Z")
**Airman Doors** , my dumpling! What a delightful simulpost! We have to stop meeting like this; **MsRobyn** will get suspicious. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-be-a-sdmb-mod-what-are-john-kerrys-initials/249023/45 "2004-06-07T02:20:54Z")
> [@Airman Doors](#): > > ANOTHER Mod? Honey, you do know that **manhattan** hasn’t been a Mod for quite some time, don’t you? Of course you did. Sure. :rolleyes: The last time I looked at this thread **Manhattan** was the last poster. I though “Oh! She got banned.” then I remembered. Things just aren’t the same without our dear old **Banhattan** around, are they? ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-be-a-sdmb-mod-what-are-john-kerrys-initials/249023/46 "2004-06-07T02:21:05Z")
. . . please tell us before you are banned, **Sally** ---
**Author:** ![SallyStar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@SallyStar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SallyStar)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-be-a-sdmb-mod-what-are-john-kerrys-initials/249023/47 "2004-06-07T02:21:23Z")
> [@Airman Doors](#): > > … It’s not like you’re not going to get tossed or anything so it’s not like it’ll really hurt you to fess up, and now my curiosity is piqued. You are one of my heroes … guess you don’t want to be a MOD? ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-be-a-sdmb-mod-what-are-john-kerrys-initials/249023/48 "2004-06-07T02:22:46Z")
> [@SallyStar](#): > > Oh c’mon, was already warned, with being banned, about using his initials :smack: You were not “warned for using his initials”. Don’t be disingenous. You were warned for trolling, i.e. jumping into yet another thread for the purposes of stirring up shit to focus yet more attention on yourself. Your pointed, and gratuitious, reference to having a Pit thread devoted to you was sufficiently clear, especially given your crapping all over the board for the last few days. My e-mail is flooded with Dopers fed up with your jerkishness. This is a large community and we don’t appreciate people who relentlessly insert themselves into discussions, clamoring for attention, even if the atttention is negative. It’s rude, annoying and selfish. And yeah, stupid. And if you could wrench your attention away from yourself for a moment, take an actual look at the closing of the Pit thread about you. It was closed at the specific request of the OP. No wonder it’s taking so long. TVeblen ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-be-a-sdmb-mod-what-are-john-kerrys-initials/249023/49 "2004-06-07T02:22:54Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > Oooooo!! Oooooooooo!!! My turn, **Sam**! > > Because there was a casting call for a **december** replacement, and she was the only one who showed up. No fair! As over-the-top as December was, at least he wasn’t a moron. I kind of miss him, actually. He made us moderates seem much more reasonable to the dems. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-be-a-sdmb-mod-what-are-john-kerrys-initials/249023/50 "2004-06-07T02:22:58Z")
> [@SallyStar](#): > > You are an outright fabricator, trying to protect **another** MOD **manhattan** hasn’t been a mod for some time now. I wonder how someone new to the internet and this message board would be confused on that point. ---
**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:** [June 7, 2004, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-be-a-sdmb-mod-what-are-john-kerrys-initials/249023/51 "2004-06-07T02:24:02Z")
Because… because… [thinking furiously] Damn you, **Early Out**! Now I can’t stop working on new ones. GOT IT! Because she misunderstood the phrase: “And the band played on.” ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-be-a-sdmb-mod-what-are-john-kerrys-initials/249023/52 "2004-06-07T02:24:10Z")
> [@SallyStar](#): > > You are one of my heroes … guess you don’t want to be a MOD? Were I a Mod you would have been gone hours ago. Thank God that I’m not, because the actual Mods have been lenient enough to provide you with a full day of entertainment. ---
**Author:** ![Atticus\_Finch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Atticus\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atticus_Finch)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-be-a-sdmb-mod-what-are-john-kerrys-initials/249023/53 "2004-06-07T02:25:21Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > Okay, there it is. A newbie wouldn’t think of **manhattan** as a mod, now would s/he? > > I guess my “because” this time is: > > Because her puppet needed a new outfit. 😉 Actually, she made the same mistake in another thread, though I can’t for the life of me find it. I think the “SDSAB” may be confusing her. ---
**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:** [June 7, 2004, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-be-a-sdmb-mod-what-are-john-kerrys-initials/249023/54 "2004-06-07T02:26:17Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > No fair! As over-the-top as December was, at least he wasn’t a moron. I kind of miss him, actually. He made us moderates seem much more reasonable to the dems. 😛 Hey, I did point out she was the only candidate. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-be-a-sdmb-mod-what-are-john-kerrys-initials/249023/55 "2004-06-07T02:26:30Z")
He uses the name John Forbes Kerry, but interestingly enough, his paternal grandfather was born Fritz Kohn. He and his wife Ida immigrated to the US in 1905 from Austria-Hungary where they were German-speaking Jews. ;j They took on the Americanized “Kerry” and raised the children in the Catholic Church. So what do I win, a bozo button? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![SallyStar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@SallyStar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SallyStar)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-be-a-sdmb-mod-what-are-john-kerrys-initials/249023/56 "2004-06-07T02:27:03Z")
> [@TVeblen](#): > > You were not “warned for using his initials”. Don’t be disingenous. You were warned for trolling, i.e. jumping into yet another thread for the purposes of stirring up shit to focus yet more attention on yourself. Your pointed, and gratuitious, reference to having a Pit thread devoted to you was sufficiently clear, especially given your crapping all over the board for the last few days. TVeblen What a little shit you are. Anyone can go read the other thread. You were going to ban me for using the initials of John Kerry which were not in caps. You said I was referring to John F. Kennedy … fess up! ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-be-a-sdmb-mod-what-are-john-kerrys-initials/249023/57 "2004-06-07T02:27:23Z")
> [@Airman Doors](#): > > The interesting thing, though, is that you knew he was once a Mod, which means that despite your Guest status you’ve been here before. So, who are you, really? \*\*The Grapist \*\* with a new shtick? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-be-a-sdmb-mod-what-are-john-kerrys-initials/249023/58 "2004-06-07T02:29:01Z")
> [@SallyStar](#): > > What a little shit you are. If that doesn’t do it, nothing will. Shouldn’t you be surfing the web for PS2 cheat codes or something? ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-be-a-sdmb-mod-what-are-john-kerrys-initials/249023/59 "2004-06-07T02:29:09Z")
> [@SallyStar](#): > > What a little shit you are. Anyone can go read the other thread. You were going to ban me for using the initials of John Kerry which were not in caps. You said I was referring to John F. Kennedy … fess up! That should do it. ---
**Author:** ![SallyStar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@SallyStar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SallyStar)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-be-a-sdmb-mod-what-are-john-kerrys-initials/249023/60 "2004-06-07T02:31:30Z")
> [@This Year's Model](#): > > That should do it. Ok, using John Kerry’s initials in lower case results in a banning … JFC! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-be-a-sdmb-mod-what-are-john-kerrys-initials/249023.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/want-to-be-a-sdmb-mod-what-are-john-kerrys-initials/249023.md?page=4)