The_Jazz

Due to some recent personnel changes, we had an open spot. After discussing exactly how to fill it, it was unanimously decided that we should offer amonkie a chance to fill the roll and help us work through some of the changes coming down the pipe (more on those at a later date). There were several other names mentioned, but she was the obvious choice.

Please join me in welcoming her back to the staff!

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Reese

The job's so easy amonkie could do it?

What? Someone had to say it.

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FuglyStick

And so it begins...

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Punk.of.Ages

Good pun, Reese...
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Glad to see you back on the staff amonkie. Treat us good. =)

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Baraka_Guru

Wow, interesting responses to someone who was just given the power to dole out infractions. Interesting, indeed.

Welcome back to the staff, amonkie. I look forward to your level-headed leniency.

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FuglyStick

"Well," dammit "WELL"!!!!

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If this was a board where the staff took themselves so seriously they felt the need to shake the mighty banstick at every barb, I'd have been gone ages ago.

But really, congrats, monkie.

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dlish

fugly i'd happily oblige

and welcome back to the fold monkie...you better get that whip out..some of these boys need a whippin'

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amonkie

You know... there's a reason why they picked a monkie to go into Space first....

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Punk.of.Ages

Ah! You are correct Fugster. I hate when i do that as much as you evidently do...

I just woke up, though. Cut me a break, man.

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kramus

So that's why she's been on a tour of the Americas these past few months! When does the world-wide-dominion trek begin?

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LoganSnake

Wow, good thing you joined when you did. There was a time...

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FuglyStick

I am sensing some ruffled feathers now, and it is most discouraging

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LoganSnake

No ruffled feathers.

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little_tippler

Good to have you back monkie, we missed ya!

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To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
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By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
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And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.

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Daniel_

Congrats.

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FuglyStick

"Missed her"? Was she gone?

Just what the fuck is going on here on TFP? I'm starting to think this is not the board I thought it was. Maybe the staff need their own board, so they don't have to rub elbows with the riff raff...

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The_Jazz

Fugly, if it will make you feel better, I'll ban you for old time's sake. I can even call you a "donkeypunch cock-knocker" in my banning message, just like one mod did back in the day.

And we already have our own board. We call it "How Are We All Going to Fuck With Fugly Today?"

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LoganSnake

And this is why it's good you joined when you did, fug.

Many ass sticks have been shed since those days. I don't mourn them.

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FuglyStick

Classy, TFP, classy.

I see the stories I saw in some old threads were dead on.

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The_Jazz

Not mine, though. Right, LoganSnake? RIGHT?!

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LoganSnake

You can take your stick and you can shovel it.

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wooÐs

Who are Sty and TFP Ombudsman?

Good Luck amonkie!

Plan9

Yeah yeah yeah...

See, I know what you fuckers do in the back of that abandoned warehouse with the industrial strength chipper-shredder and the 55-gallon trash bags.

"Soylent Green is TFP cadre!"

...

Please Jesus... don't ever put Eden in charge of anything.

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LordEden

You know what Plan, I... I... Oh fuck it, your right. It would just inflate my ego way past the holding capacity of my little hobbit body.

Hell, even when I ran a guild in WoW, I never wanted responsibility. You have to be all... responsible with it. No random kickings, no changing people's sigs, no muting people in vent cause you were drunk and bored.

I like it on the lower end and plan on acting irresponsible so that my name never comes up.

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Fremen

Welcome back to power, monk.

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SecretMethod70

For the record, yes. We trimmed the number of mods awhile back. One recently stepped down, and so we asked amonkie back as the natural choice.

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Anormalguy

Congratulations, amonkie.

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