I want to publicly thank our newly appointed moderator, benhall.1. This is a job too often underappreciated and entirely underpaid. As in no pay.
Please join me in thanking and congratulating (if that’s appropriate!) Moderator Ben.
Congratulations, and thanks for taking on the job. Ideally, we wouldn’t need moderators, but it’s not an ideal world. You guys do a great job.
Congrats, Ben. 
You know, I was just about to start a thread to congratulate him…
Congrats, Ben. I’m sure you’ll do a very fine job. 
Welcome aboard, Sir Ben!
Thank you, Ben. Alan has your new (well, not new, but newly bought from the Goodwill) striped shirt at the cleaner’s. I’m assuming you already have a whistle.
Mazel Tov! Have we had a transatlantic mod before?
Welcome, Ben.
Congratulations Ben.
I thought they’d all been transatlantic until now 
Thanks for volunteering, Ben!
See, that’s how THOSE PEOPLE start stuff. We’re celebrating benhall.1’s sentence here all nice and innocent and then THOSE PEOPLE have to start quibbling over perspective.
Well, someone has to try to get this thread locked. I’m also attempting to be the first person benhall.1 admonishes.
piker 
pity, I rather liked Ben 
rather green, innit he?
Thanks everyone. Good to know I have your support. And Denny’s cynicism (it’s his form of support, I think )
I’ll try and live up to your good wishes.
And thank you, Dale for a) having me and b) starting this splendid thread.
you will have to earn my distrust 
Ben, Dale tells me that the C&F interns will only be able to visit occasionally due to recent travel cutbacks with DaleForce One. Sorry about that, as I know that that was one of the convincing perks of the job.
there’s always travel by hot air balloon…
rather fraught though, innit
Yo, Ben. 'Sup, dawg? 
And I see you’ve been introduced to our supplementary conscience and perennial gadfly, yer man Denny. 
Yo Nano. I herd u like flutes and tech, so I put one of Eskin’s flute apps on yo phone in yo car so u can flute while u moderate while u drive. Howmy doin’?
Denny a gadfly? Hooda thort, innit?
How on Earth did I ever get along without you? 
Ben has green, Nano has red, and in all fairness I want something other than black for my avatar name, say pink. And, please don’t respond to this comment here, so as not to cause controversy. If you have already privately requested pink, then send a PM to the moderators.