# Welcome to our new mod, tomndebb **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 24, 2004, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-our-new-mod-tomndebb/281497 "2004-12-24T17:17:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2004, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-our-new-mod-tomndebb/281497/21 "2004-12-24T22:39:23Z")
Excellent! I can’t think of a better choice. Congrats, **tom** :). - Tamerlane ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2004, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-our-new-mod-tomndebb/281497/22 "2004-12-24T22:42:53Z")
Good choice…good luck! ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2004, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-our-new-mod-tomndebb/281497/23 "2004-12-24T23:24:53Z")
> [@Squink](#): > > Good choice. I disagree. He is a great choice! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2004, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-our-new-mod-tomndebb/281497/24 "2004-12-24T23:38:49Z")
Congratulations! 🙂 [sub]:: grovel grovel :: Aw, never mind. Groveling didn’t work with the other mods, why should things be different with you?[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2004, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-our-new-mod-tomndebb/281497/25 "2004-12-24T23:41:57Z")
Thumbs up! Mr. Ndebb has always been a great asset to GQ. As his inaugural act, I think he oughta get all stern with that fella who cross-posted in GQ and ATMB. ---
**Author:** ![StephenG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@StephenG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StephenG)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2004, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-our-new-mod-tomndebb/281497/26 "2004-12-24T23:46:36Z")
Congratulations and welcome, Tom! They couldn’t’ve made a better choice. ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2004, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-our-new-mod-tomndebb/281497/27 "2004-12-25T00:27:20Z")
Congrats, **tomndebb**! ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2004, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-our-new-mod-tomndebb/281497/28 "2004-12-25T01:06:40Z")
That SOB closed my thread! I spent an entire 4 minutes carefully crafting that thread, ensuring that every synapse was aligned e’re I set my erudite words in type and clicked submit… only to have my thread closed after only a few views and no replies! And to what did our jack-booted, Seig Heiling, tyrannical new nanny attribute the closing? This: > [@](#): > > _snip_… OP was the stupidest, most biggoted, hate-filled, and all-around ignorant post regarding “All Your Base Belong To Us” that it has ever been my misfortune to soil my monitor upon…_/snip_ That BASTA… Oh! Wait… Sorry… I was channeling the future again. Disregard until next week. 🙂 [sup]Grats, tomndebb![/sup] ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2004, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-our-new-mod-tomndebb/281497/29 "2004-12-25T02:29:29Z")
Let’s get the important stuff out of the way first. I do enjoy chocolate and I do really like single malt Scotch. However, Lynn and TubaDiva seem to have those concessions covered, so all bribes should be offered in cash. Thank you all for the welcome. And since the issue seems to come up periodically, even making it into this thread, I’ll repeat the explanation of the username: When I first started posting on AOl/SDMB, I was pretty much limited to my AOL username (that we used for our original joint account). The name is Tom ‘n’ Deb B. Deb is not a message board type person and has never posted. In the ensuing years (that was September, 1997), as I joined other MBs and Newsgroups, I simply hung onto my original handle so that there would not be any continuity questions regarding who I was. Never is a long time, but I will be really surprised if Deb ever signs up to post, here. (There used to be a “tomndebbie” on MSN–we are not that couple.) And now I’m going to go cross-post this on the ATMB thread. ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2004, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-our-new-mod-tomndebb/281497/30 "2004-12-25T02:41:48Z")
Cash? OK, here ya go, all the Iraqi dinars and Confederate money you’ll ever need! What? No, I don’t post in GQ very much, although my first post after Our Winter of Missed Content was there (‘Why do horses whinny?’) Congrats, **tomndebb** , and we all hope you use your power for Good. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2004, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-our-new-mod-tomndebb/281497/31 "2004-12-25T02:43:38Z")
> [@Mehitabel](#): > > (‘Why do horses whinny?’) They can never remember the words… ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2004, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-our-new-mod-tomndebb/281497/32 "2004-12-25T02:46:19Z")
If you thought that the initiation rite for newbies involving the goat was nasty, just wait 'til we get _your_ initiation going. High pressure pump. Fire hose. Mineral oil. And a Volkswagon bus. Avert your gaze, oh Dopers with sensitive natures! :eek: 😉😃😛 ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2004, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-our-new-mod-tomndebb/281497/33 "2004-12-25T02:50:25Z")
WOOT! Way to go Tom! You rock! ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2004, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-our-new-mod-tomndebb/281497/34 "2004-12-25T03:42:48Z")
Excellent choice. Congrats Tom. ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2004, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-our-new-mod-tomndebb/281497/35 "2004-12-25T03:59:18Z")
Congats, **Tom~**. You’ve long been at the top of my “why haven’t they roped that guy into being a mod” list. > [@Ed Zotti](#): > > Yeah, I know I’m crossposting. Sue me. By the way, **Tom~** , since inciting litigation involving the boards is one of the big no-no’s around here, as one of your first acts as mod, you may want to give that **Zotti** fellow a stern talking to. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2004, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-our-new-mod-tomndebb/281497/36 "2004-12-25T05:17:56Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > When I first started posting on AOl/SDMB, I was pretty much limited to my AOL username (that we used for our original joint account). The name is Tom ‘n’ Deb B. > Deb is not a message board type person and has never posted. Darn, I always thought you were some sort of bizarre hybrid like [Catdog](http://www.nickelodeon.com.au/toonroom/xtoonroomcat.htm). Sometimes reality is such a disappointment. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2004, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-our-new-mod-tomndebb/281497/37 "2004-12-25T05:21:13Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > Darn, I always thought you were some sort of bizarre hybrid like [Catdog](http://www.nickelodeon.com.au/toonroom/xtoonroomcat.htm). Sometimes reality is such a disappointment. Damn…now I’m picturing **tomndebb** as one of those sideshow “transsexuals”, right half male, left half female. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2004, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-our-new-mod-tomndebb/281497/38 "2004-12-25T06:04:17Z")
This really falls into the “what took so long?” category. best wishes. ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2004, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-our-new-mod-tomndebb/281497/39 "2004-12-25T07:56:52Z")
> [@Ed Zotti](#): > > I’m happy to announce that **tomndebb** , veteran poster at the SDMB, has agreed to moderate the General Questions forum starting immediately. Please join me in extending him a warm welcome, although preferably not so warm he quits on the first day. Glad to have you with us, Tom. > > Yeah, I know I’m crossposting. Sue me. Ed. General Questions is for questions with factual answers. Tomndebb, smack this Zotti guy down. 😃 (Congrats) ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2004, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-our-new-mod-tomndebb/281497/40 "2004-12-25T15:53:14Z")
Luck with your new role **Tomndebb**. Go easy on me, I try to be good. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-our-new-mod-tomndebb/281497.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-to-our-new-mod-tomndebb/281497.md?page=3)