# Welcome our newer new moderator, Idle Thoughts **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 16, 2011, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newer-new-moderator-idle-thoughts/585646 "2011-06-16T01:53:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newer-new-moderator-idle-thoughts/585646/1 "2011-06-16T01:53:03Z")
RickJay now makes history for having the shortest time as “new guy” in the mod loop. (He still has to take out the trash and buy beer for all the older mods.) Please welcome Idle Thoughts, our newest MPSIMS moderator. We’re tickled to have him on board. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newer-new-moderator-idle-thoughts/585646/2 "2011-06-16T02:16:39Z")
wat Edit: I mean, welcome aboard! ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newer-new-moderator-idle-thoughts/585646/3 "2011-06-16T02:30:22Z")
Man, this is going to wear the goat right out. Welcome aboard, **Idle**! ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newer-new-moderator-idle-thoughts/585646/4 "2011-06-16T02:36:44Z")
Thanks! I’ll try not to let all the power go to my head. Now where did I put those jackboots? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newer-new-moderator-idle-thoughts/585646/5 "2011-06-16T02:39:17Z")
Glad to have you, **Idle Thoughts**. (Hey, that works on two levels.) I think we’re gonna have to have you and **RickJay** fight to see who is the real new guy. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newer-new-moderator-idle-thoughts/585646/6 "2011-06-16T02:47:37Z")
Hey, congrats, you jack-booted thug, you! ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newer-new-moderator-idle-thoughts/585646/7 "2011-06-16T03:06:15Z")
Sorry, **Idle Thoughts** …I used up all my sarcastic comments on that other new moderator. Will you take an IOU? Payable on demand, starting anytime next week that I notice the request? -D/a ---
**Author:** ![alindallas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f17d59/32.png) [@alindallas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alindallas)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newer-new-moderator-idle-thoughts/585646/8 "2011-06-16T05:44:11Z")
Hey, why so many new moderators? Is someone killing them off… ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newer-new-moderator-idle-thoughts/585646/9 "2011-06-16T05:50:45Z")
> [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](#): > > Sorry, **Idle Thoughts**..I used up all my sarcastic comments on that other new moderator. Will you take an IOU? Payable on demand, starting anytime next week that I notice the request? > -D/a I have a few I can lend to those all out of sarcastic comments. For example, I’m surprised nobody’s mentioned the whole “Guest Moderator” user title yet. Maybe in a few years I can work my way up to “Special Guest Moderator”. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newer-new-moderator-idle-thoughts/585646/10 "2011-06-16T06:27:35Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > Please welcome Idle Thoughts, our newest MPSIMS moderator. Now _there’s_ the perfect mod name for MPSIMS. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newer-new-moderator-idle-thoughts/585646/11 "2011-06-16T08:09:23Z")
Congrats! ---
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newer-new-moderator-idle-thoughts/585646/12 "2011-06-16T08:27:25Z")
Congrats Idle! ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newer-new-moderator-idle-thoughts/585646/13 "2011-06-16T09:51:03Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Man, this is going to wear the goat right out.! We’re going to need a bigger goat … ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newer-new-moderator-idle-thoughts/585646/14 "2011-06-16T10:06:56Z")
> [@Eutychus](#): > > We’re going to need a bigger goat … You have won the worst joke of 2011 already and it is only June. Congrats Idle thoughts. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newer-new-moderator-idle-thoughts/585646/15 "2011-06-16T12:14:57Z")
A Moderator and a Guest. My head hurts… Regards and congrats, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newer-new-moderator-idle-thoughts/585646/16 "2011-06-16T12:45:54Z")
> [@alindallas](#): > > Hey, why so many new moderators? Is someone killing them off… Now who’d do such a thing… wait hey don’t go down the cellar! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newer-new-moderator-idle-thoughts/585646/17 "2011-06-16T13:10:30Z")
**vote Idle** Just don’t start moderating in 20pt font and we will be ok. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newer-new-moderator-idle-thoughts/585646/18 "2011-06-16T13:12:35Z")
> [@alindallas](#): > > Hey, why so many new moderators? Is someone killing them off… > [@ugly ripe tomato](#): > > Now who’d do such a thing… wait hey don’t go down the cellar! :eek: [An eerie warning of things to come.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=568251) ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newer-new-moderator-idle-thoughts/585646/19 "2011-06-16T13:52:16Z")
Hey, it’s only because it smells all rank down there because, you know, the water heater leaked, and the shallow pit and human-sized rolled up tarp are from when I was gonna, like, install a fishpond down there, and what? A copy of \*Corpse Disposal for Dummies \*with a bunch of Post It notes sticking out? Uhhh… gag gift from my aunt? ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2011, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newer-new-moderator-idle-thoughts/585646/20 "2011-06-16T15:13:05Z")
Welcome aboard, Idle Thoughts. Since RickJay is buying the beer, I guess you’ll have to muck out the goat pen. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newer-new-moderator-idle-thoughts/585646.md?page=2)