User blog comment:Reddude/Congratulations, Gideon :)/@comment-1874924-20100629023257

As I said on the FU page, Red, that was beyond the call. To answer the question you posed there, "beyond the call" is short for "beyond the call of duty", and means doing more (in a good way) than you had to.

The phrase ("beyond the pale") has a negative meaning, but sounds similar, so I'm guessing that was the cause of your apparent confusion.

Anyway, many thanks. As for your congratulations, I'll hold off on accepting them until the polls close, for there is still a slight chance we could be undone. Several other candidates are close enough that a late surge could put them over the top, as it might have done for you. (If there's anyone on the wiki who would do that to us now, though...well, I can't help them.)

On a more upbeat note, I'll let you guys in on a little "secret". As part of my "acceptance speech" post, I will be previewing a couple of stories I have in development: a short story, "Courtney and the Violin of Despair"; and my TDI reimagining, The Legend of Total Drama Island.

Thanks again, Reddy. With that, I will be pretty much disapprearing for the next 2 days, because this is edit #995 and it would ruin everything if I hit 1000 prematurely.