# Why isn't handy a mod? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 23, 2001, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-handy-a-mod/89106 "2001-10-23T16:01:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![annalamerino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b3f665/32.png) [@annalamerino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/annalamerino)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-handy-a-mod/89106/21 "2001-10-24T19:09:53Z")
My question is, Is handy a left handy or a right handy? ---
**Author:** ![Redboss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8baadc/32.png) [@Redboss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Redboss)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-handy-a-mod/89106/22 "2001-10-26T03:26:01Z")
> [@](#): > > _originally posted by handy_ > I get really pissed when people attack me or anyone else, anonymously through the board, which I view as extrememly cowardly & prefer them to say things to my face Dear **handy** , you have to accept that you’re an institution here and much loved. Not many people could handle the constant joking references, and you’ve earned respect for that alone. I frequently disagree with what you write, but it is often very amusing to read your short, sharp contributions. Sometimes (as above) you nail it. And when you hovered teasingly on 9997 posts the whole board was in suspense. The jibes are just part of being a star, mate. Redboss ---
**Author:** ![Pammipoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/87869e/32.png) [@Pammipoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pammipoo)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-handy-a-mod/89106/23 "2001-10-26T14:05:34Z")
Quick question, Redboss reminded me of it when he mentioned the hovering over 9997 posts thing. What was handy’s official 10,000th post? I think a search on his name might actually inialate the server… ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-handy-a-mod/89106/24 "2001-10-26T15:01:56Z")
Yes, I did stop at 9999 just for kicks, not to throw off the contest of when I would reach 10,000 🙂 I really thought the board would upchuck or something; but I guess it can handle it just fine. Thanks Redboss, you state the obvious. I also talk this way in person with my friends. They also often respond like the people on the board are doing to this method of discussion. handy hears a different drummer. ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-handy-a-mod/89106/25 "2001-10-26T18:55:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by handy \* > \*\*I do come back to explain myself sometimes but then what is the use of that for what matters my deafness if hearing people don’t listen? 🙂 \*\* Would you run that by me again? ---
**Author:** ![BPBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/59ef9b/32.png) [@BPBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BPBob)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-handy-a-mod/89106/26 "2001-10-26T19:49:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by handy \* > \*\*Yes, I did stop at 9999 just for kicks, not to throw off the contest of when I would reach 10,000 🙂 I really thought the board would upchuck or something; but I guess it can handle it just fine. > > Thanks Redboss, you state the obvious. I also talk this way in person with my friends. They also often respond like the people on the board are doing to this method of discussion. handy hears a different drummer. \*\* Would that be jazz, rap or John Philip Sousa? Aynsley Dunbar? And who better to stare into the monitor with critical aplomb than someone who never has to listen to _“Sproink! You’ve got mail!”_🆒 Hey, look, a visually impaired smiley! We need a hearing impaired smiley!! And before you say how insensitive, I used to be able to hear way over the normal limit, and now I am losing it fast (down to 30% below normal) so I should get one bad joke a month at least. Besides, even the smiley is smiling. See? ;j too much hair in my ears… ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-handy-a-mod/89106/27 "2001-10-26T23:31:20Z")
No Jab,I won’t explain it, it’s just something deaf people say about hearing people. BPBob, everyone is deaf on the message board, it has a kinda way of making everyone equal, if you catch my drift. ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2001, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-handy-a-mod/89106/28 "2001-10-26T23:43:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by handy \* > **No Jab,I won’t explain it, it’s just something deaf people say about hearing people.** I want you to explain it because it’s so ungrammatical. The syntax is atrocious. It’s “sic, sic, sic.” ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-handy-a-mod/89106/29 "2001-10-27T03:07:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by handy \* > \*\*Yes, I did stop at 9999 just for kicks, not to throw off the contest of when I would reach 10,000 🙂 \*\* I thought you were waiting until my birthday, as was my original prediction in the OP of that thread. A shame that wasn’t the reason. ---
**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:** [October 27, 2001, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-handy-a-mod/89106/30 "2001-10-27T04:36:04Z")
Actually, **jab** , it’s not ungrammatical at all. It’s a bit flowery, yes, one might even say anachronistic, in a nineteenth century English poet sort of way. Still, it’s entirely grammatically correct. Although it could use a few commas, thusly: > [@](#): > > I do come back to explain myself sometimes\*\*,\*\* but then\*\*,\*\* what is the use of that\*\*,\*\* for what matters my deafness if hearing people don’t listen? 🙂 **handy** , I beg of you, forgive me for daring to copy-edit your words. I’ll post a full retraction and apology should you feel your honor demands it. To anyone wishing to invoke Gaudere’s Law on the above, I humbly request a little slack. I don’t have a copy of _The Elements of Style_, and I just did my best to neither misplace, nor to add superfluous, commas. ---
**Author:** ![Sea\_Sorbust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Sea\_Sorbust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sea_Sorbust)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2001, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-handy-a-mod/89106/31 "2001-10-27T14:47:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by \*\*stofsky \* > \*\*I can see it now: > > Troll in GD: Your [sic] full of shit! > > Handy: [Mod Hat On] > You know, the word shit comes from that annoying dog called the shitsyou. It annoys people, so that’s where the word comes from. > [/Mod Hat Off] Here, here, **stofsky !** I happen to have a Shi Tzu at home and you know not of what you speak. Such a canine might _seem_ to be annoying but, in fact, they were the **real** pillars of stability in ancient China: Were you a shit-bird or disloyal or crooked, the Shi Tzu would “see into your soul” (like the **Shadow** used to do), bite your ankle, and the order to chop off your head (or worse) would almost-immediately follow. I suppose, however, one **could** call the judge/jury who found one guilty of a capital crime “annoying”. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-isnt-handy-a-mod/89106.md?page=1)