# Why is Colibri a Moderator? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 8, 2007, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-colibri-a-moderator/418489 "2007-09-08T20:16:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-colibri-a-moderator/418489/41 "2007-09-08T22:50:54Z")
[QUOTE=jimmycat] try going to a Fry’s Electronics store and walking out without anyone checking your receipt. YOU CAN’T. You have to stand in line while an employee with a highlighter checks the bags and receipts of everyone leaving the store. [/QUOTE] [Not quite.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=435143&page=1&pp=50) ---
**Author:** ![jimmycat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9e5f3/32.png) [@jimmycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimmycat)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-colibri-a-moderator/418489/42 "2007-09-08T23:00:56Z")
[QUOTE=Bearflag70] [Not quite.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=435143&page=1&pp=50) [/QUOTE] OMG Bearflag…I feel an epileptic seizure coming on. Yes, you are correct and I am wrong. You actually CAN walk past the employee. I suppose, just for you, I need to be quite literal. You CAN’T walk past him without _consequences._ You cited another case…WTF? Why the fuck don’t you just show him the goddamn receipt? If you refuse simply for the principal…then like the other poster, you pay the asshole tax. Do all your shopping online. Why go to such lengths to be an asshole? Particulary at Fry’s, you know that they are there checking receipts as you walk out. If you don’t like it, don’t go there. This is what I am talking about. My god, grow the fuck up! ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-colibri-a-moderator/418489/43 "2007-09-08T23:01:18Z")
[QUOTE=jimmycat] Thank you. That was what my whole point was from the beginning. [/QUOTE] You don’t get to appreciate that irony, since you were the jerk aggravating the situation in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-colibri-a-moderator/418489/44 "2007-09-08T23:06:13Z")
[QUOTE=jimmycat] You CAN’T walk past him without _consequences._ [/QUOTE] Hey, you walk down my street, I don’t like your looks, I sic my goons on you. Consequences. You don’t like it, walk somewhere else. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-colibri-a-moderator/418489/45 "2007-09-08T23:17:11Z")
[QUOTE=tomndebb] You’ve got _groupies_? Heck, I can’t even get hangers-on or sycophants. [/QUOTE] Before I came on Board, I took the precaution of hiring Scott Boras as my agent. Aztec deities don’t come cheap. ---
**Author:** ![Incensed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Incensed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Incensed)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-colibri-a-moderator/418489/46 "2007-09-08T23:42:10Z")
[QUOTE=tomndebb] You’ve got _groupies_? Heck, I can’t even get hangers-on or sycophants. [/QUOTE] This is golden. ‘Hangers-on’–ha. Who the fuck says that? ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-colibri-a-moderator/418489/47 "2007-09-08T23:48:32Z")
[QUOTE=Incensed] This is golden. ‘Hangers-on’–ha. Who the fuck says that? [/QUOTE] Attorneys-general do, when in courts-martial. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-colibri-a-moderator/418489/48 "2007-09-08T23:50:21Z")
**Why is Colibri a Moderator?** Because all that bird knowledge makes him damn sexy. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-colibri-a-moderator/418489/49 "2007-09-08T23:51:16Z")
[QUOTE=Frank] Attorneys-general do, when in courts-martial. [/QUOTE] Liar, liar!! > [@Frank](#): > > OK, that’s it. I’m not posting in this thread any fucking more. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-colibri-a-moderator/418489/50 "2007-09-08T23:53:22Z")
[QUOTE=Q.E.D.] Liar, liar!! [/QUOTE] Caught me reds-handed ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2007, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-colibri-a-moderator/418489/51 "2007-09-08T23:55:07Z")
Careful there, sibilance is addictive. Before you know it you’ll be skulking around, mumbling “preciousssssss!” ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2007, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-colibri-a-moderator/418489/52 "2007-09-09T00:10:13Z")
[QUOTE=jimmycat] I stand corrected. My apologies. :smack: It is a **very** soft spot for me. [/QUOTE] Congratulations! You have made a leap all too few around here are willing to take. Dopers so easily forget that they are arguing about ideas, not the people behind them. And then they get all emotionally invested in their positions, their stubborn button gets stuck in “on”, and they will not concede any error. Even if they change their position, they will not concede that they made a change. We need more folks like you around here. ---
**Author:** ![jimmycat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9e5f3/32.png) [@jimmycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimmycat)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2007, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-colibri-a-moderator/418489/53 "2007-09-09T00:14:09Z")
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal] Hey, you walk down my street, I don’t like your looks, I sic my goons on you. Consequences. You don’t like it, walk somewhere else. [/QUOTE] Sadly, this is a very real reality in many neighborhoods in the US. Try walkin’ your candy ass down Acadia in Cali and see what the Acadia Block Crips think. Or how about the 5700 Arlington Park Bloods in Texas? But, I digress. In the cases where the shoplifter challanged the security guard and the guy you walked past the Fry employee’s, what did they gain out of being assholes? “Rise above principal and do what’s right.” - Joseph Heller ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2007, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-colibri-a-moderator/418489/54 "2007-09-09T00:15:39Z")
[QUOTE=Wile E] **Why is Colibri a Moderator?** Because all that bird knowledge makes him damn sexy. [/QUOTE] And he studies hummingbirds which are hot-tempered and have tiny, tiny brains – this experience should serve him well as a moderator. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2007, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-colibri-a-moderator/418489/55 "2007-09-09T01:17:33Z")
Well, _my_ groupies are fine. I barely moderate at all any more, because I’m so busy lying around drunk and naked with my groupies in a great big pile. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2007, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-colibri-a-moderator/418489/56 "2007-09-09T01:33:53Z")
Welcome to the Dope, **jimmycat** ; I hope you’ll stick around and have some fun (along with fighting some ignorance). Who am I? Nobody special, just a guy who likes make new Dopers feel welcome, on general principle. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Randy\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee7513/32.png) [@Randy\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randy_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2007, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-colibri-a-moderator/418489/57 "2007-09-09T01:34:04Z")
[QUOTE=Colibri] Thanks, but I am actually a Major Deity, [Huitzilopochtli](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huitzilopochtli) to be precise. [/QUOTE] Gruh?? Really? I thought you were a [hummingbird](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet-ear). ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2007, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-colibri-a-moderator/418489/58 "2007-09-09T01:42:27Z")
[QUOTE=Randy Seltzer] Gruh?? Really? I thought you were a [hummingbird](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet-ear). [/QUOTE] Nah, he just took the name to lull the foolish into a false sense of security. ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2007, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-colibri-a-moderator/418489/59 "2007-09-09T01:44:31Z")
Has anyone else ever seen this many mods in one thread? And fercryinoutloud, would somebody get **Frank** a beer? Getting beat to the punch twice in fifteen minutes has gotta suck. We have a mod named **Colibri**?? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2007, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-colibri-a-moderator/418489/60 "2007-09-09T01:56:49Z")
OK, Phase One is complete, we’ve got them all in the same thread! And now…what was Phase Two, again? Shit. Pass the bong. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-colibri-a-moderator/418489.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-colibri-a-moderator/418489.md?page=4)