# Your new pit moderator **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 9, 2005, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-new-pit-moderator/303066 "2005-05-09T15:29:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-new-pit-moderator/303066/21 "2005-05-09T16:29:11Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > Congratulations on the new gig. > > -Hmlt Wow, what a suck up! -tn ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-new-pit-moderator/303066/22 "2005-05-09T16:33:43Z")
**Giraffe** is twee. Just so you all know. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-new-pit-moderator/303066/23 "2005-05-09T16:35:01Z")
Pit, Pit, Hooray! Just remember, **[Giraffe](http://www.letus.org/bmatters/images/giraffe.jpg)** – there’ll be those why try to [get you down,](http://www.fsa-youthexchange.co.za/album37.JPG) but just [suck it up](http://www.dongettyphoto.com/kenya/images/Reticulated-Giraffe.jpg) and you’ll be [the one smiling after all](http://gates.comm.virginia.edu/com386/2003/images/giraffe2.gif). ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-new-pit-moderator/303066/24 "2005-05-09T16:35:38Z")
Congrats, **Giraffe**. So, are you the one and only now, or is the Pit still a shared pain in the ass? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-new-pit-moderator/303066/25 "2005-05-09T16:35:51Z")
When you inevitably go mad with power, remember that I was one of the loyal ones. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-new-pit-moderator/303066/26 "2005-05-09T16:36:41Z")
> [@SkipMagic](#): > > **Giraffe** is twee. Just so you all know. Takes one to know one! Swish! ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-new-pit-moderator/303066/27 "2005-05-09T16:43:09Z")
Well to ‘know one’ in the Biblical sense anyway. ---
**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:** [May 9, 2005, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-new-pit-moderator/303066/28 "2005-05-09T16:53:21Z")
If we get out of line will he give us a tongue lashing? Oooh, here’s hoping. Wait, just how does one get out of line in the pit anyway? ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-new-pit-moderator/303066/29 "2005-05-09T16:54:38Z")
> [@NurseCarmen](#): > > Let’s hope that neck can support that swelling head. > > This calls for a celebration! PB&J sandwiches all around! > > anyone? anyone? Heh, ran out of luch meat - eating one right now. Congrats **G**!! ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-new-pit-moderator/303066/30 "2005-05-09T16:59:30Z")
Shouldn’t this be a sticky? For a week or so? If you’re in my neck (heh!) of the woods, I’llbuy you a [Giraf Beer](http://www.albani.dk/webportal/bg/dk/btb.nsf/0ceafc1c79cd8317c1256e5b003e190a/3df7c45eb2cf6406c1256eec0022e2b8/%24FILE/150.jpg). Welcome. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-new-pit-moderator/303066/31 "2005-05-09T17:00:29Z")
Bienvenue! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-new-pit-moderator/303066/32 "2005-05-09T17:05:09Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > Takes one to know one! > Swish! So, **Giraffe** and **Skip** “know” each other? They’re twee together? The things one learns in the Pit! ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-new-pit-moderator/303066/33 "2005-05-09T17:10:56Z")
So **Giraffe** ’s the new Nazi? ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-new-pit-moderator/303066/34 "2005-05-09T18:04:28Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > Giraffe is our newest worker in the Straight Dope vineyard. > > Please be gentle and welcome him. > [@Brutus](#): > > Looks like meat’s back on the menu, boys! Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-new-pit-moderator/303066/35 "2005-05-09T18:08:58Z")
So…has anybody got a line going on who **Giraffe** will slap down first? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-new-pit-moderator/303066/36 "2005-05-09T18:09:39Z")
> [@Giraffe](#): > > Or have too many vowels in your username. More than three? Or are you one of them _self-hating_ mods? ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-new-pit-moderator/303066/37 "2005-05-09T18:21:36Z")
> [@AngelicGemma](#): > > Good luck! Modding the pit, you’re going to need it. 😉 I think in some ways the Pit might be one of the easier forums to moderate. There are fewer rules of restraint to enforce. Behavior is–how shall I say it?–more freeform. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-new-pit-moderator/303066/38 "2005-05-09T18:25:51Z")
First **Skip** py, now TongueBoy. The inmates are taking over! Congrats, ' **Raffe**. Here’s a list of our demands. _::hands over list of demands::_ small bills, unmarked, random ser #s, and NO MONOPOLY MONEY this time! ---
**Author:** ![Metacom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecae2f/32.png) [@Metacom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Metacom)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-new-pit-moderator/303066/39 "2005-05-09T18:26:16Z")
Damnit **Shodan** , you’d got my hopes up that **Brutus** was posting again. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2005, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-new-pit-moderator/303066/40 "2005-05-09T18:33:43Z")
**Giraffe** , huh? Is that a zoological reference, a British slang reference, or an astronomical one? Or are you just messin’ wid us? Whichever–welcome-enjoy the view from up there. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-new-pit-moderator/303066.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-new-pit-moderator/303066.md?page=3)