# Welcome our newest moderator **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 18, 2010, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newest-moderator/539841 "2010-05-18T00:01:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newest-moderator/539841/61 "2010-05-20T22:18:33Z")
> [@Rico](#): > > Jeeze. Sounds like \* Queer Eye for the Mod Guy\*. Naw…Mongo straight!! ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newest-moderator/539841/62 "2010-05-20T22:26:59Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > I have NEVER been so INSULTED in all my LIFE. I have never, ever, EVER worn jackboots in any color but black. Once they’re a different color, they aren’t jackboots any more. Hell, I wouldn’t voluntarily wear anything in pink from the time I was about 10 (and could pick out my own clothes) until the time I was in my mid 30s (and realized that intense pink looks good on me). They’re pink from the bloodstreaks. And they looked mahvelous on you. On Spec…not so much. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2010, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newest-moderator/539841/63 "2010-05-23T07:10:05Z")
Sorry for not getting back to this sooner, but a heartfelt thanks to all the members and fellow moderators for your good wishes. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2010, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newest-moderator/539841/64 "2010-05-23T07:11:45Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > Spectre, go and take a picture of yourself. > > You’ll never look this young again. That’s true of me in all my pictures. How does your camera work? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2010, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newest-moderator/539841/65 "2010-05-23T07:34:32Z")
> [@Hypnagogic\_Jerk](#): > > He got it after being banned by **manhattan**. Seriously. It was intended as a suspension though. The “Spectre” part is to commemorate his coming back from the dead. [thread=168966]Here’s the thread in question[/thread]. Man was that confusing with all the name changes. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2010, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newest-moderator/539841/66 "2010-05-23T08:19:41Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Warmest congrats, **Spectre** , on your ascension to the starry heights of being a Moderator Moderator. You aren’t from New York New York, are you are you? I wish I were, I’ve always wanted to go. But I think L.A. is about a hundred years behind you in urban development. Just now we’re starting to build up, and “renting” is becoming a more acceptable long-term lifestyle arrangement. Just now we’ve begun a subway–all these things were happening in NYC around 1900 or so. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2010, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newest-moderator/539841/67 "2010-05-23T08:30:45Z")
> [@Hypnagogic\_Jerk](#): > > He got it after being banned by **manhattan**. Seriously. It was intended as a suspension though. The “Spectre” part is to commemorate his coming back from the dead. [thread=168966]Here’s the thread in question[/thread]. Also, though, I used to be **javaman** and that was just a colloquial name for the same species. At an early date I grew a deep interest in human evolution; I was young enough to read Scholastic books on the subject. One of them told the story about a Dutch army physician who was posted to Java who proceeded to unearth a shockingly low browed hominid skullcap together with a femur which may or may not have belonged to the skull. He named it Pithecanthropus erectus, meaning “Erect walking ape man”, and proceeded to sell it to the scholarly community as a true missing link. Mostly they didn’t buy it. Some thought it was just an unusually primitive human being; others came up with the bizarre notion it was nothing more than a giant gibbon. Back in Holland, Du Bois (for that was his name) made his son stand as a model for a full-length statute of P.e. as he envisioned it, even inscribing the letters “P.e” on the base of the statue. All in all, a sort of bizarre obsession not entirely unjustified, given the limited supply of specimens and knowledge in the field generally–and not without its peculiar charm. I’ve been drawn to this story ever since. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2010, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newest-moderator/539841/68 "2010-05-23T12:53:50Z")
Wasn’t he once the grim spectre o’ Fred Death? ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newest-moderator/539841/69 "2010-05-24T00:29:56Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > That’s true of me in all my pictures. How does your camera work? This reminds me of something I saw on the news recently. I think it was about the BP cleanup, when some commentator was saying that the clock was ticking every second we allowed the situation to continue. Yes, that’s generally what clocks do around these parts, more or less constantly. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-our-newest-moderator/539841.md?page=3)