# We have a new moderator -- LOACH **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [November 20, 2014, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-new-moderator-loach/705191 "2014-11-20T20:11:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-new-moderator-loach/705191/21 "2014-11-20T21:17:34Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > My sister was bit by a moose once. Is the moose okay? ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-new-moderator-loach/705191/22 "2014-11-20T21:26:52Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > There are going to be a lot of changes around here. > > From this day on, the official language of the SDMB will be Swedish. Cøngradülatiøns! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-new-moderator-loach/705191/23 "2014-11-20T21:39:47Z")
We’ve cast our lot with a copper’s…copper. I eagerly await the Mirandizing of the first spammer. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-new-moderator-loach/705191/24 "2014-11-20T21:48:25Z")
More of thish warm wine stuff for _everbody!_ _And pretzills!!_ ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-new-moderator-loach/705191/25 "2014-11-20T22:07:46Z")
What’s all this, then? ---
**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:** [November 20, 2014, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-new-moderator-loach/705191/26 "2014-11-20T22:23:42Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > What’s all this, then? Move along. Nothing to see here. ---
**Author:** ![Vita\_Beata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@Vita\_Beata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vita_Beata)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-new-moderator-loach/705191/27 "2014-11-20T22:28:09Z")
Välkommen till moderator Loach . Kan du njuta av dina arbetsuppgifter här i många säsonger . ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-new-moderator-loach/705191/28 "2014-11-20T22:35:17Z")
Whaddaya mean, I can’t say that in this forum? Hey, _I pay your salary_, and don’t you forget it! Me and Cecil Adams are close personal friends! Don’t you have some, like, spammers to ban or something, not these bullshit warnings for personal insults?!? Uh, would fifty bucks make all this go away? ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-new-moderator-loach/705191/29 "2014-11-20T22:48:35Z")
I misread that as LURCH and had to chug down a Sam Addams. Whew! ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-new-moderator-loach/705191/30 "2014-11-20T22:49:16Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > In addition to that, all Dopers will be required to change their underwear every half-hour. **Running coach** , you change with **Drunky Smurf**. **Shodan** , you change with **kayT** … ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-new-moderator-loach/705191/31 "2014-11-20T23:04:35Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > We have a new moderator – LOACH Who? Had a loach once. Lived in the gravel filter and would only come out once a week. Attributes I admire in a mod, too. Welcome to the ever-increasing cadre of mods who have not given me warnings. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Dord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3be4f8/32.png) [@The\_Dord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Dord)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-new-moderator-loach/705191/32 "2014-11-20T23:08:11Z")
Even Loach has a [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuhli_loach) entry! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-new-moderator-loach/705191/33 "2014-11-20T23:08:20Z")
Okay. I’ll be passing a sign up sheet around for torches and farm implements. I’ll have to check the storeroom to get a count, but I suspect there aren’t enough for one of each per person. So, if any of you have any huge rolling pins, dung forks, or their own torches, that would be good. I need some volunteers. Someone has to tend the fire we’re warming the cauldron of tar over, we need some chicken pluckers, we need some chickens, and who has the rail? Oh, and a grill and some nice BBQ sauce for the chickens for the dinner afterwards. Maybe we can have a BBQ sauce challenge like we did last time? That was fun. We need some side dishes too. Who wants to organize that? And who wants to run the “How long until Loach pulls a Marley” pool? $1.00 a square, right? ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-new-moderator-loach/705191/34 "2014-11-20T23:11:48Z")
What size are those jackboots of yours anyway? I’m asking for a friend. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2014, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-new-moderator-loach/705191/35 "2014-11-21T00:02:48Z")
Welcome, LOACH! ---
**Author:** ![callander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@callander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/callander)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2014, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-new-moderator-loach/705191/36 "2014-11-21T00:24:26Z")
Hey Loach! Sweden is cool. Welcome aboard. Nice to see that you have a sense of humour. ---
**Author:** ![Hopeful\_Crow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/da6949/32.png) [@Hopeful\_Crow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hopeful_Crow)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2014, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-new-moderator-loach/705191/37 "2014-11-21T00:34:21Z")
I’m waiting for a 16-year-old, Swedish, underpants-wearing squid to chime in here. If he has a torch and a farm implement with him, all the better! I almost forgot the glögg. He needs him some glögg! Yay, **Loach!** ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2014, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-new-moderator-loach/705191/38 "2014-11-21T00:37:35Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > A round of glögg for everyone! And _Lutfisk_ all around!! What? ---
**Author:** ![btthegreat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f4b2a3/32.png) [@btthegreat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/btthegreat)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2014, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-new-moderator-loach/705191/39 "2014-11-21T00:45:49Z")
Can you tell us how you go about finding selecting /recruiting a new moderator? is there an application process or is this where being someone’s favorite but ne’r- do- well nephew suffices? ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2014, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-new-moderator-loach/705191/40 "2014-11-21T01:23:48Z")
> [@btthegreat](#): > > Can you tell us how you go about finding selecting /recruiting a new moderator? is there an application process or is this where being someone’s favorite but ne’r- do- well nephew suffices? Applications are accepted. Many are called, few are chosen. email **[tubadiva@aol.com](mailto:tubadiva@aol.com)** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-new-moderator-loach/705191.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-new-moderator-loach/705191.md?page=3)