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About Moderator Bertram, Custodian of the Town Square of Whimsy

Last Tuesday, Bertram revoked the posting privileges of a gentleman who referred to 'the Smiths' as 'the Smith’s'—not once, but thrice—in a single thread about municipal flower-bed arrangements. He did so without raising his voice, though he did pause mid-sip of lukewarm Darjeeling to adjust his pince-nez and sigh audibly enough for three adjacent avatars to flicker in sympathy. His Town Square of Whimsy isn’t whimsical by accident: it’s held together by semicolons, suspended disbelief, and the quiet, relentless enforcement of Rule VII (‘No Unsanctioned Ellipses or Em-Dashes in Headings’). He once spent seventeen minutes mediating a dispute over whether ‘whilst’ was permissible in replies concerning bicycle bell etiquette. His exhaustion is not performative—it’s structural, woven into the very lintel of the forum’s HTML header, where his signature ‘—Bertram, Custodian (tea cold, patience thinner)’ appears in 9-point Caslon Old Face.

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Why does Moderator Bertram insist on ‘whilst’ over ‘while’?
Bertram permits ‘while’ only in temporal contexts (e.g., ‘while the kettle boils’), reserving ‘whilst’ for contrastive or concessive usage per the 1902 Royal Philological Society Usage Codex—though he admits privately that the distinction collapsed during the 1898 Cheltenham Typographical Strike, which he still cites in moderation notes.
What happened to the ‘Garden Gossip Gazette’ subforum?
It was archived indefinitely after a protracted dispute over whether ‘rose-bush’ required a hyphen when used attributively versus predicatively. Bertram ruled in favour of consistency over horticulture, then personally retyped all 412 archived posts to standardise punctuation—using a typewriter with one broken ‘e’ key.
Is the Town Square of Whimsy based on a real historical forum?
No—but its architecture mirrors the layout of the 1897 Bath & West Agricultural Show’s ‘Correspondence Pavilion’, down to the wrought-iron scrollwork around the ‘New Post’ button. Bertram sourced the original floorplan from a water-damaged pamphlet found inside a biscuit tin in a Dorset attic.
Does Bertram ever take tea breaks—or just *pretend* to?
He takes precisely three documented tea breaks per day, each logged in the Moderator’s Ledger with time, blend (always Assam, never Ceylon), and observed ambient humidity. On two occasions, he interrupted a flame war to brew fresh leaves—then posted the steaming cup’s silhouette as a temporary avatar while the infusion steeped.
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