Heh, I have been trolling the forums looking for and reporting Spam anyway....

The Auld Grump, perhaps I should have used a term other than trolling....

I have become a regular. I come to the forums 3-4 times a day. I am always looking for ways to help WWG out. Also, I have moderator experience. I have been a mod for another site for years and now maintain my own site as well. Let me know if there is anything you need (this or otherwise).

Happy to bring a moderate tone to things - not that that is needed much here - and more than happy to delete/kill/smash/destroy spam posts.
That said, there's an impressive list of volunteers ahead of me.

I vote Zenguy for our zone.


Lord Abaddon of Wormwood

Thanks for the support guys, I'll make some choices soon!

I can help if you're still looking, Denny. I haven't posted much lately but I think I've at least checked the board every day that I've been home for the last several months (it's one of my home tabs actually). Just let me know, and I'll try not to let the power corrupt me.

'Tsokay - some of us would abuse the privilege anyway.... (You put the 'e' before the 'i'! Banned! Aha! it's 'rogue' you twit! Not 'rouge'! Banned! Mwuhahaha!)

The Auld Grump, though I think that we can all agree that folks who use 'loose' when they mean 'lose' should be punished....

here's a handy tool for those who will be chosen...

This reminds me of an English member of the European Parliament who was complaining a few months ago about the terrible things other parliamentarians from other countries were doing to the noble language of Shakespeare. He was complaining about the fact that people didn’t use the proper grammar rules and had terrible pronounciation.

What he forgot though was that his country is the one that originally forced everybody else to speak their language, because they were too stubborn, lazy or dumb to learn to speak another language themselves.

Now I live in Belgium. I speak Dutch, French, English, a bit of German and I can understand a fair bit of Spanish and Italian. The first person in here who can address me in proper Dutch is allowed to lecture me on the proper use of apostrophes. To all the rest: Kom van uw paard af en haal die regel uit uw kont.

Et pour les Flamands la même chose.

Sheesh Menace, that Dutch line wasn't polite at all.

Menace:
This is a Canadian board. As we all know, Canadians only speak French and Amurrikin. Let it be so. If you want to cuss me, do it in French and I'll never even know. THIS IS A JOKE

P.S. I'm not sure, but I get the feeling I just read some very improper Dutch. THIS IS A JOKE

Wow not only does he swear at us, he then nails the Flemish in french.

Yeah. A matter of selfrelativation. "et pour les Flamands la même chose" was what Flemish people used to hear in the Belgian military, where orders were given by the French speaking officers in French of course. Somehow, it has become a strange combination of indignation and pride for a lot of Flemish people. Indignation over how they were considered cannonfodder and pride because we are still here despite all of it.

And no, it wasn’t all that improper. I’ve heard a lot worse. Although it is fun to say things in Dutch on an englishspeaking board from time to time. I guess I could hve given a grocery list and people would have been offended by my percieved rudeness

And no, of course I didn’t mean to offend anybody. It is just that it is sometimes harsh to hear people comment on someone who doesn’t use the right form of their, there or they’re, when it takes half an hour for me to post a few lines on this forum. Because I am really trying to write a bit of correct English. Just keep in mind that not everybody is born with English as their native tongue.

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Lord Abaddon of Wormwood