Let me be the first to point out today’s Staff Report What’s the origin of “yadda, yadda, yadda”? is the work of our newest Staff, samclem, who has just been given the official designation of Staff with all the emoluments and impertinences attributed thereto.
So he’s not a guest contributor? It still says so at the tail of the piece. 'Grats samclem. Although if you have been made Staff, you were probably unwise to use your one impertinence towards little Ed in your first missive.
We’ll get that fixed, thanks for pointing it out, hawthorne. When samclem wrote the report, he was a guest contributor, but yesterday, we said, “What the hell” and made him Staff. Er, I mean, we completed the lengthy election and selection process, and got a final OK from the Powers that B.
You mean that David B is in charge! :eek:
C’mere kid, let me show you this nice goat.
Yeah, I was wondering about that, too. Congratulations, Sam! But be warned: All of a sudden, there’s going to be about ten thousand and six questions popping up in the Mailbag about coins. I know that that happened with astronomy questions, when I joined.
Did he get his coffee mug yet?
BTW, there is a town (wide place in the road, actually) in Australia called “Yatte Yattah.” It’s on the South Coast, a couple hours south of Sydney.
Congrats, samclem, on adding a bit of steam to this here paddleboat!
How is that pronounced?
RR
R. Crumb comics from the '60s show women saying “yedda yedda”.
What! I only get one shot at the guy? What-the-hey? My contract distinctly says that I can pound him unmerc…er, what? He can do WHAT to my article? No way.
And what do you mean, “first missive?” You missed my first one. NO ONE responded to it. What’s the origin of “Tin Pan Alley”?
Now that I have that off my chest, thanks for the welcome.
I’ll try to keep up the standards of the other Staff writers.
:::h-e-r-e, goaty, goaty, goaty. :::::
Cf. “Cocktail Party” from Rogers & Hammerstein’s 1947 “Allegro”.
http://www.thepeaches.com/music/composers/hammerstein/CocktailParty.txt
The first thing to be observed about this description is so obvious you have to hold it down or it will drown out every other observation. This is: It is just duller than ditchwater. Yah-da, yah-da, yah-da, yah-da, yah, carburetor, gear ratio, compression, yah-da-yah, piston, plugs, intake, yah-da-yah, on and on and on. That is the romantic face of the classic mode. Dull, awkward and ugly. Few romantics get beyond that point.
Zen and the Art of Mortorcycle Maintenance, p79
Robert Pirsig
Do “staff” get paid?
Staff don’t get paid in terms of money, but we are reward by the pride of a job well done… and an occasional kind word or compliment from a board member.
Word!
[sub] said with the utmost kindliness [/sub]
[sub]* I know, I know… I’m getting goated next - can I have a male one please?*[/sub] 
Heck, I can do a lot better than that: to what address do I send the asparagus, samclem?
…and the occasional Pit thread from a board member - sometimes the same one!
*I personally think you’re all doing a bang-up job, of course. *
Trying to piss me off, are you?