Forum Staff Promotions & New Moderators

[Sonic 296]

A few changes have made to our forum staff. So I'd like to announce the following promotions and additions.

 

New Admin: Doctor Destiny

 

New Moderators: TheBlackOut | Luk3us

 

All other staff positions remain unchanged. You can view the full forum staff here http://forums.cncnz.com/index.php?act=Stats&CODE=leaders.

[Louis EX 0]

Oh lawd, Luk3us now has to enforce the rules.

[Nmenth 291]

I had noticed there was no one in the administrators group. I guess the absence is now filled.

[Luk3us 63]

Oh lawd, Luk3us now has to enforce the rules.

 

Be afraid.. Be very afraid...

[Gben 20]

"hell in a handbasket"

 

whatever that means... have to look that up!

 

EDIT: Meaning's Revealed

 

wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_hell_in_a_handbasket

"Going to Hell in a handbasket" or "Going to hell in a handcart" is an English alliterative phrase of unclear origin, describing something or a situation taking a turn for the worse or towards disaster without effort or in great haste... There has been some speculation that the phrases may be related, with "to Hell in a handbasket" perhaps being a mocking reference to the Guillotine which often used a lined basket to catch the severed head.[citation needed]

 

Phrases.org http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/hell-in-a-handbasket.html

There's no real evidence to support those theories. 'Going to hell in a handbasket' seems to be just a colourful version of 'going to hell', in the same sense as 'going to the dogs'. The 'in a handbasket' is an alliterative intensifier which gives it a catchy ring. There doesn't appear to be any particular significance to 'handbasket' apart from the alliteration. That view is backed-up by the existence of similar earlier phrases, which, not having the same catchiness, have now disappeared - for example, 'hell in a basket' and 'hell in a wheelbarrow'.

 

The notion of sinners being literally transported to hell in carts is certainly very old. The mediaeval stained glass windows of Fairford Church in Gloucestershire contain an image of a woman being carried off to purgatory in a wheelbarrow pushed by a blue devil. The phrase isn't that old though and 'going to hell in a handbasket' and its alternative form 'going to hell in a handcart', originated in the US, around the start of the 20th century. The 'handbasket' version is now the more common there, although neither version is widely used in other English-speaking countries.

 

Wide World Words http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-goi1.htm

[Q] From Brian Walker: "Can you please tell me anything about the origin of the phrase going to hell in a handbasket?"

 

[A] This is a weird one. It's a fairly common American expression, known for much of the twentieth century. But it's one about which almost no information exists, at least in the two dozen or so reference books I've consulted. William and Mary Morris, in their Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins, confess to the same difficulty. A handbasket is just a basket to be carried in the hand (my thanks to the Oxford English Dictionary for that gem of definition). The Dictionary of American Regional English records to go to heaven in a handbasket rather earlier than the alternative, which doesn't appear in print until the 1940s (Walt Quader tells me that Burton Stevenson included a citation in his Home Book of Proverbs, Maxims and Familiar Phrases from Bayard Kendrick's The Odor of Violets, published in 1941). But DARE quotes a related expression from 1714: "A committee brought in something about Piscataqua. Govr said he would give his head in a Handbasket as soon as he would pass it", which suggests that it, or at least phrases like it, have been around in the spoken language for a long time. For example, there's an even older expression, to go to heaven in a wheelbarrow, recorded as early as 1629, which also meant "to go to hell". I can only assume that the alliteration of the hs has had a lot to do with the success of the various phrases, and that perhaps handbasket suggests something easily and speedily done.

 

There's 10mins of my life I can't get back...

Edited August 5, 2008 by gben

[TheBlackOut 7]

No wonder you get your bandwidth gobbled up... you probably go to every link you can possible click!

[Gben 20]

Have you got some suggestions???

[BioBen 3]

lol I was wondering why The Blackout had a staff badge lol.

Luk3us?

Your brave Sonic

Duck and cover.

[Sonic 296]

lol I was wondering why The Blackout had a staff badge lol.

Luk3us?

Your brave Sonic

Duck and cover.

Maybe I'm trying to systematically destroy these forums from the inside

 

Seriously speaking though, I'm sure our new moderators will use their powers wisely.

 

[mormreed 0]

Maybe I'm trying to systematically destroy these forums from the inside

 

Seriously speaking though, I'm sure our new moderators will use their powers wisely.

for our (non-staff people) sake I hope so

[TheBlackOut 7]

for our (non-staff people) sake I hope so

*puts on list*

 

You're gonna be my first.

[mormreed 0]

oh noes! *runs... fast*

[Red Blitzkrieg 0]

TheBlackout seems quite if not very capable, it's Doc Destiny that I'm VERY worried about.......Luk3us too........

[Doctor Destiny 41]

Pleeeease. I'm an awesome admin.

[F15pilotX 4]

TheBlackout seems quite if not very capable, it's Doc Destiny that I'm VERY worried about.......Luk3us too........

Luk3us behaves as a mod on GR so I'm sure he will here too

 

I can see your worry with DD though....it's not like he's ever been an admin or even hosted a site before

 

 

Congrats you two

Edited August 18, 2008 by F15pilotX