Welcome our newest moderator

[IvoryTowerDenizen]

@Duckster

So Spithy is either upright ape-man terrorist moderator or an upright ape-man superhero moderator, or something entirely different.

Oh, yeah. Congratulations.

Or an uptight moderate terrorist?

[Arnold_Winkelried]

Dear Spectre of Pithecanthropus,

[del]Are you nuts? What do you think you’re doing? Have you no sense of self-preservation, man?[/del]

Congratulations.

[TubaDiva]

@aldiboronti

I’m not sure whether to congratulate you or commiserate with you, Spectre.

BTW am I seeing double or has Tuba got Administrator Administrator under her name? (And Spectre has Moderator Moderator.)

What’s with that?

Edit: I gather from penultima thule that the title must default to the position.

Gig so nice they named it twice.

We both need snappy custom titles. Maybe we’ll have a contest or something.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Perhaps Major Major could offer some useful tips.

[Astroboy14]

Well, let’s get this over with: DEATH THREATS, DEATH THREATS!!!

('Grats, Spectre!)

[KneadToKnow]

@Elendil_s_Heir

Perhaps Major Major could offer some useful tips.

Or Duran Duran.

[Gfactor]

@Marley23

I think it’s a stylish name. Although I keep confusing it with a Charles Mingus album title. Where did you come up with it anyway?

I think that’s Erection of Pithecanthropus, or something like that.

[XT]

That should be Erectus of Pithecanthropus…or ‘got Java?’ perhaps…

-XT

[Clothahump]

Welcome to the Mod Side, Specs.
But I gotta tell you, in all sincerity…Lynn’s hand-me-down pink Jackboots Of Death ™ are clashing horribly with Dex’s left-over Propeller Beanie Of Modness ™.

Is there a fashion consultant in the house?

[Rico]

@Clothahump

…Lynn’s hand-me-down pink Jackboots Of Death ™ are clashing horribly with Dex’s left-over Propeller Beanie Of Modness ™.

Is there a fashion consultant in the house?

Jeeze. Sounds like * Queer Eye for the Mod Guy*.

[ivan_astikov]

Can we call him Inspectre Gadget, please, please, can we?

[Hypnagogic_Jerk]

@Marley23

I think it’s a stylish name. Although I keep confusing it with a Charles Mingus album title. Where did you come up with it anyway?

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].

[Lynn_Bodoni]

@Clothahump

Welcome to the Mod Side, Specs.
But I gotta tell you, in all sincerity…Lynn’s hand-me-down pink Jackboots Of Death ™ are clashing horribly with Dex’s left-over Propeller Beanie Of Modness ™.

Is there a fashion consultant in the house?

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).

[ToeJam]

@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].

Oooh… a Fallen Mod! Wait. He’s not really fallen now if he fell before becoming a Mod… Is he like an ArchMod? Better to serve on the Dope, than to be a Banned King for Eternity?

Have any of the other Mods have such dark sordid pasts before becoming Moderators or are they all squeaky clean fellows with the new guy being the Jame Dean Leather Jacket and Jackboots wearing Bad Ass of the Group?

[TubaDiva]

That does explain the DA on the boy. Shoulda known.

[Rick]

@Marley23

Sometimes people approach us and ask for an application, and sometimes we’ll contact someone who we think would do a good job and ask if they would like to apply. I don’t have statistics but I think the first option is more common. After the application is in, it gets filed away. When there’s an opening, the mods discuss the poster and his or her application and we make a recommendation to Ed Zotti.

Don’t believe a word of that BS.
the way it works is Ed lines up a bunch of [del]suckers[/del] members in good standing and announces that there is an opening for a new Mod.
He then asks for interested individuals to take one step forward
the new mod is the one who either:

1. Does not move while [del]all the sane people jump backwards[/del] the other distinguished members move backward with dignity.
2. Steps back but is the slowest of the bunch.

seriously congrats!

[Cicero]

Spectre, go and take a picture of yourself.

You’ll never look this young again.

[Gary_Robson]

@ToeJam

Have any of the other Mods have such dark sordid pasts before becoming Moderators or are they all squeaky clean fellows with the new guy being the Jame Dean Leather Jacket and Jackboots wearing Bad Ass of the Group?

there was that time in Sicily, but we don’t discuss it anymore

@Rick

the new mod is the one who either:

1. Does not move while [del]all the sane people jump backwards[/del] the other distinguished members move backward with dignity.
2. Steps back but is the slowest of the bunch.

Option 1 got me.

[Elendil_s_Heir]

Dunno. I’d go with Option 1.

[Cheshire_Human]

@kneadtoknow

or duran duran.

band name!!1

Oh, wait…