Welcome Our New Moderators

[Melki]

All hail Hazel and Bookworm, good sports and motivators of conversation!

Since our fearless founder, Phil has fled, Hazel will be representing all those of the British persuasion.

Bookworm is Canadian, and in my Goodreads family is sort of like the little brother I never had and never really wanted.

Enjoy your promotions, guys.

Now let's get those people talking - rah, rah, rah!!!

[Rebecca]

I go away for a week and people get up to all sorts of stuff.

Thanks, guys for taking us on.

[Mathew]

I will delete any one of you if you tick me off...I have that power now, thanks Melki.

[Melki]

We also have the power to delete each other. Just like the US and Russia.

[Rebecca]

Uh-oh. I can see this going very bad!

[Hazel]

proof that my mind is completely tangental. Simply because of the mention of russia. A friend of mine wanted a white russian, he had no milk, so decided he wanted a black russian, and discovered the last of the coke was gone, so he rooted through his cupboards and found a bottle or Irn Bru, and made it with that instead. We had to decide what to call it, and all agreed that "orange russian" was a shit name. so we thought, and the name suddenly became very obvious. We named the drink "Irn curtain".

[Mathew]

Irn Curtain, that's funny.

I've only seen Irn Bru once, at the local 'authentic' English fish & chip shop. They sell 'English' things like branston, HP sauce, Union Jack tea towels, Jaime Oliver sauces, and Irn Bru...I've never tried Irn Bru, is it similar to coke?

[Hazel]

Irn bru is nothing like coke, In fact, its fucking awful stuff, in my opinion. Its the drink of choice in scotland... where its made (yes, a scottish drink, not an english one), and thats when the choice does not include something alcoholic (oooooo, the racism ;p)

My other half quite likes it, and claims it tastes like carbonated rust.

[Mathew]

Carbonated rust...perhaps he has an iron deficiency? Does he also boil up rusty nails and make 'tea'?

[Hazel]

heh. He's very particular about his tea, we can't get any of this PG tips rubbish, or anything like that, it has to be a specific type or blend. We tend to have ceylon in our house.

Irn Bru just tastes of ick to me.

[Melki]

Put your hands together for our newest moderator (drum roll, please...) Rebecca.

Raised by wild dingoes in the Outback...or was it raised in a dumpster behind the Outback? Anyway, Rebecca has a long history of volunteerism, nepotism, abolitionism, and many other words that end with "ism." And, she gives good chat.

Please welcome this year's winner of "Now You're a Moderator" - Rebecca!!!

Speech! Speech!

[Rebecca]

Er.

Urk.

Hi (waves weakly)

[Rebecca]

And now that I have this lofty post and vast responsibility I can't think of a thing to say!

[Mathew]

Hi Rebecca, nice to have you aboard. I'll see you at the next moderator meeting - I'll be the drunk one reading the Kindle with the unicorn sticker on it.

Now, for the interrogation -

1) Where do you see The Humour Club in five years?

2) What have been the highs and lows of your membership in the Humour Club so far.

3) What ten members of the Humour Club do you despise?

4) What is your real opinion of Melki?

[Rebecca]

Thanks for the welcome, Worm.

1. Still here on Goodreads. Where else would it go? On a virtual vacation to a virtual south sea island?
2. High: Jan. 4, 2013 pumped full of pain pills. Low: The next day. Oh, wait, that was supposed to be about the club.
3. Despising people takes a great deal more work than I am up for. But I am utterly intolerant of people who won't capitalize the first letter in a sentence.
4. I've been wondering if Melki is short for Melchisadech. Or however you spell that.

[Melki]

Rebecca has passed the test. All hail her - NOW! (Please keep the Melchisedec thing under your hats. I'm hiding from my crazy followers.)

Bookworm - I did not know about the unicorn sticker thing. You're fired!

[Rebecca]

Thank goodness I passed!

Now for the really important questions:
Beets or Brussels sprouts?
And. . . Which are uglier: Crocs or Uggs?

[Mathew]

You knew before I was 'hired' that I had a thing for unicorns!

By the way, I have an idea for the group's new banner,



And, Brussel sprouts roasted in olive oil and garlic are one of the best things ever, next to a nice lookin' Unicorn of course.

[Melki]

Can't see the banner picture. I'm guessing it's a unicorn eating a rainbow.

[Melki]

Or one of these:

http://acidcow.com/pics/9867-worst-un...

[Rebecca]

If we make enough of us mods we may get some good conversations going . . . What's with people right now anyway? No one feels funny?

[Mathew]

I'm loud and proud about being a moderator of this group....or at least loud.

[Melki]

As punishment a reward for sticking around and chatting frequently, Will has been made a moderator.

Will is a soon-to-be famous romance writer and sheep-fancier. Trust me, the two go hand-in-hand hoof.

So, welcome, Will. Applause, applause, and all that.

[Rebecca]

Yay! He at least has gotten one thread moving...though at this rate was may have to make this an over-18 group!

[Will]

Excuse me?

"I've mended every wall in this village. Do they call me 'Jones The wall? - No. I've fixed most of the pipes here. Do they call me Jones The plumber? -no. I've fixed most of the rooves. Do they call me Jones the roof? -No. But one louse sheep......"

[Melki]

I'm pleased to announce that Will, Lisa, Kathy and Joel are all now living the dream as moderators of the club. Let this be a warning - stick around and chat long enough and you too may someday make it into the big leagues.

Leather chairs and cigars all around!

[Joel]

I'm mainly in it for the propeller beanie.

[Kathy]

The notion that I would have some power in my nebbishy little life sold me.

[Melki]

Remember - don't accidentally delete the whole group.

[Kathy]

Oh no, I don't do too many things accidentally . . .

[Will]

Wot, no Merlot???

[Will]

I'll pass on the cigar...

Now the challenge will be to work out that there are two Wills!

[Melki]

And, you're both from the UK.

[Joel]

You know what they say: Where there's a Will...

[Will]

...there's merlot?

[Will]

... there's a long-lost relative?

[Joel]

I'm beginning to understand how Oliver Hardy must have felt.

[Kathy]

Only plonk for you, Will.

[Will]

Why? When did i last annoy you?

Oh, wait...

[Lisa]

Oops! Somehow I showed up late to the game, again. I was getting my head measured. Am I too late for the beanies?

[Melki]

I saved one for you but the propeller is bent. Have some wine.

[Will]

Mention wine, did you?

[Kathy]

Plonk, Will, plonk.

[Melki]

Awesome! We now have little "Mod" boxes under our pix. Or have I just had too much wine? No, I guess if I had too much wine, there'd be two or three little boxes under our pictures.

[Melki]

Uh-oh. Maybe the mod box is not a good thing. Now people can clearly see that the group consists mainly of a bunch of drunken moderators sittin' around talking.

[Joel]

Or that we only drink in moderation.

[Will]

Or that we drink a lot, and talk in moderation?

[Will]

Funny, I always saw myself as more of a rocker than a mod. Somehow the leather jacket and motorbike seemed more appealing than the duffel coat and vespa.

[Will]

I'd vote with that!

[Melki]

Hey, it's another moderator!

CartoonistAndre has been rewarded for bravery, camraderie, and in his own words, "because I yak a lot."

There is no bump in pay, but he does get a key to the executive washroom. (The Lysol and toilet brush are in the cabinet, Andre. And don't forget the fresh towels, okay?)