Thank you ALL Staff (and @Petri ) for deeds in front of and behind the keyboard. May you feel a hint of appreciation today and not ire!
Here’s a cake: 
Here’s a cat: 
And here’s a coupon for next time:
| One Free QUIP, TAUNT,
| PALAVER, POEM, SONG,
| HAIKU, DRAWING of your
| choice, to commemorate
| this moment.
| **Happy Petri’s DAY!**
OMG that was amazing. If you’re taking requests, can you do it in the Disturbed-style version? 
Many thanks to all the SG staff for a great game! 
I love all the Staff at SG, but the social media staff has a special place in my heart since they are the first point of contact between players and Devs. “Social media staff, and volunteers, are paid in praise and taxed in grief. The pay is too low and the taxes too high!”
Special shout out to @Na.na . Their forum profile says they are our my " new favorite Cookie Monster ;D" and who does not like cookies !?
They do mean edible cookies not forum cookies… right ?
A message from the sumptuous @Azure:
@Petri, for the past seventeen months l have watched you do a thankless job with grace and courtesy and a sense of humor. You are quick to give your fellow staff members credit when you are praised. Still you are the front line face of Small Giant and you represent them well.
Today is your day.
Today is the day we say thank you for all you do.
Hand in hand we come to present you with the recognition you have earned and deserve.
Please accept it because we mean it and are thankful for you.
Azure
Decided to stick with the orignal. Disturbed version is outside my ability. lol
Hi there @Gryphonknight, as someone who has never come across a cookie that I don’t like, I would love to treat you a jarful of flavorful, crispy-chewy, chocolate-chip-filled cookies (too bad if you have any allergies, but heh, worth the scratches still) if you come to visit us on our amazing annual celebration of the 10th Petri’s Day, oh wait, it’s Staff Appreciation Day!
\ (O v O)/
Or if you prefer something more physically healthy and light, feel free to have some of our Forum Cookies!
Or in appreciation of staff day, there’s a 1.3% chance I’ll send legendary cookies to the SGG office? 
Dear SGG staff and moderators,
I know this day it is all about you. SO I figured out to start this topic talking about me … and leave some space, at the end, to talk about you.
I know you are happy that I will talk about me.
First, may be you need to know that I was a moderator once to one great forum. When i started that job, it had only 2 members and in one and half year, … yes 1.5 years, I managed to increase the number of users from 2 members to 300%; … and the number of modes to 50%… amazing isn’t it?
Well, it is not a secret now …
I can attribute my success in leading that forum to two main factors:
Vualá!
This is my recipe on how to successfully moderate a forum ,… any forum… I put it here all between your hands.
To tackle the first part, about me being honest, I wrote something about me and made all the users know about it…I wrote:
My name is Dragon Wind Unicorn Rainbow Queen Of All Furry MUCKS, and I am the moderator of the Dragon Wind Unicorn YiffYiff forum/bboard/RPG/ blah blah/jargon jargon and part-time mod on *chan. I may weigh 375 pounds in real life and live in a room full of rubbish and cat turds, but my character is a Minyun Hentai Teen Dragon black belt samurai transsexual pornstar in +50 armor and she is a merciful destroyer of all trolls except those who beg for mercy.
As per the second part of being precise and establish clear and simple rules and guidelines, I did my best to keep them simple… very simple. I know that lengthy text on the guidelines are boring and confusing and some users may use those lengthy texts on the rules and guidelines to try and find usual and unusual means to circumvent them to their own benefits and screw the forum, … thus, making the moderation of the forum hard.
So, here they are …
And to make the members of the forum know I’m serious about them adhering to those guidelines , I added the following …
Anyhow, enough about me … and now let’s talk about you!
Dear SGG staff and Moderators, thank you … thank you for not being like me and for not allowing the forum to be as the one I mentioned above.
We, as members, have all benefited from the clarity and wisdom you have graced us with. Not to mention all the good answers and info on what’s going on around here.
The game is what it is right now because of you … and the remaining 95% of randomness we happily accepted in our lives.
Thank you …
Thanks to me too.
P.S.
Dear @Petri , there was some serious discussion about opening an Off-Topic section in the forum and I think you are looking for a moderator … Did you see my vast experience I demonstrated above? 
This is my Facebook profile pic for the day…
And everyone is like "Who the #*&? is Petri?
Happy Petri Day everybody!
I find myself humming to the tunes @ work today. @KLinMayhem. A simple awesome job is not enough.
@Petri @sara @mhalttu @EmpiresPuzzles @davidsgg @RubiKinga @Caio @Na.na
Shame on me, for not knowing all your names. But still a big thank you to all of you… it’s an amazing thing to keep a game interesting for this long. I think you have probably finely tuned and balanced more things than many people realize.
And while it’s probably impossible to please everyone, I think you’ve accomplished making the best out of it for the majority - unfortunately the vocal minority can make it seem otherwise some of the time. Well, maybe a lot of the time. But not today!
I don’t have the incredible creative talent that some of the people are displaying here today, but just know that you are all appreciated. Let’s do this another year! 
