Petri Day Planning - 1st October - bring cake

You are correct! Iā€™ll update the original post!

@rook or another modā€¦ could you move this to community content? Really sorry that I didnā€™t think to place it there originally. The thought didnā€™t occur to me!

Hoping some other creative types wander in here with some ideas :stuck_out_tongue:

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Moved the thread for you.

May I volunteer to be a creative type?

I would love to support Petri day. Although I like to think that some of us have added the occasional thanksā€¦it probably makes up at least 1% of his mail bag.

Perhaps everyone celebrating could change their game avatar to Derrick - Petriā€™s DoppelgƤnger (umlaut noted, moustache cat).

According to his profile, his official anniversary (or cake day) would be in Aprilā€¦but I expect weā€™ll forget by then!

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Thank you guys, I am humbled and honoured :relaxed: but may I suggest that we would rename it to moderators and staff appreciation day? You know we have other staff here as well and our wonderful moderators @Rook and @Coppersky who help to keep things in order here!

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You guys crack me up. Iā€™ll be there if there is cake. I may even rework a poem or two. grins at Petri

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No Petri day is complete without Petri Dish (Petri dish - Wikipedia).

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Thank you!

I was planning on it :wink: I considered tagging you but didnā€™t want to obligate you :stuck_out_tongue:

Itā€™s true. This was an exaggeration on my part :stuck_out_tongue:

YESSS!!

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This is a fine point. Ill Have to discuss it with the creative team, see what they think.

Personally, I think if we make the scope too wide we lose some direction. I agree with the sentiment though.

@JonahTheBard youā€™re the rest of the current creative team. What do you think? :stuck_out_tongue:

Name change ruins my song idea :frowning:

:stuck_out_tongue:

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prod, prod (but it is a friendly prod, not mean or anything)ā€¦ :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: didnā€™t you forget something?..

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Iā€™m good with keeping just Petri day. Letā€™s wait to see what the rest of the creative team thinks :wink:

Say. We need more creative team people!

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Hereā€™s my thoughts, @Duaneski

Forum Staff Appreciation Day - yes to including wider staff, although Petri is the poster-boy and most widely known. So I think plenty of Petri specific content is justified. Including the others means he wonā€™t get stick in the office!

Bit torn on moderators.

Rook, who I would gladly vote for President of the World, was celebrated on her ā€˜cake dayā€™ forum anniversary and very rightly so.

However, I think it is sometimes unhelpful to conflate mods and staff. When people are getting angsty and a bit vocal, I think it serves the mods to be seen as independent.

As such, I would suggest that as there are only two mods, that we can manage to celebrate them in their own right on their anniversaries or another date.

Am I overthinking that part?

But a big YES from me - I love positivity in the community.

Iā€™d say, pick a day a bit sooner - we arenā€™t actually booking a venue, caterers and a DJ - go 1st Oct.

Then run regular encouragement and reminders. Launch a fresh thread on the day with a brief explanation and hopefully we can enjoy some fun with our forum buddies.

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Can I intern? Iā€™m creatively limited, but I make a mean coffee.

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Iā€™m taking a gamble on your location and demographic for this reference to make sense:

bob-holness-on-blockbuste-007

ā€œIā€™ll have a tea, please, Brobbā€

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I have no idea who Petri is but for a shot of whatever that thing in the green bottle is or less I will turn my Photoshop on. The graphic artists in my neighborhood said they will be there too.

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:rofl::joy::joy::rofl:ā€¦nice reference @JonahTheBard
Unfortunately, if you think @Brobb (or indeed anyone) is going to be sat in their armchair doing that strange Blockbusters Dance, while sniggering to themselves ā€œCan I have a P please Bobā€, youā€™ll be well wide of the target.
Now itā€™s time for the Gold Runā€¦

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Itā€™s Petri all the time! :smiley:

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Aw, but it has to be Petri day ā€“ Iā€™ve already started cooking up some Petri dishes:


:partying_face:

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  1. Moderators are not Staff

  2. Staff Appreciation Day (Headlined by PETRI!) :grin:

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Now if you could get the colonies to grow to spell Petriā€™s nameā€¦ :smile: :joy:

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Understood, Madam President

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