# What happened to 2018 and almost half of 2019? **URL:** \ **Category:** general\ **Created:** [May 10, 2019, 7:25pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/what-happened-to-2018-and-almost-half-of-2019/1655 "2019-05-10T19:25:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SuicidalRat](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/suicidalrat/32/69_2.png) [@SuicidalRat](https://cog.discourse.group/u/SuicidalRat)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 7:25pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/what-happened-to-2018-and-almost-half-of-2019/1655/1 "2019-05-10T19:25:11Z")
Hi everyone!! How are you? I’m still alive contrary to popular demand!!! My last post was apparently January 2018, long enough to make me forget how to login into the Big Smiling Dinosaur!! So I finally clicked the right button and bam, was transported back into the Land of George. Hi!! I actually was reminded about the CoG by an episode of Dr. Oz. It was about an Net scammer who pretended to be a Navy Seal and I was like, JAWA!!! (The guy featured on Oz wasn’t our beast but it reminded me, ‘Rat, you haven’t logged on in a long time!!!’ And also “wonder if Jawa still around and what he’s up to!” I get bored sometimes and like to do snoop arounds the net!!!) (Apparently Jawa has passed away from a stroke — [https://obits.ocregister.com/obituaries/orangecounty/obituary.aspx?n=ronald-patrick-arlt-ron&pid=192049687](https://obits.ocregister.com/obituaries/orangecounty/obituary.aspx?n=ronald-patrick-arlt-ron&pid=192049687) ) I still working on getting disability, long process. Still around online, writing blogs, scaring people, and sometimes I tell tales(or tails) of my life as a reboot rat for the mob in a casino in the middle of a corn field. Hard to believe it has been over 9 years since I was thrown away from that place; too many other life times ago to even remember the joy of meeting the world famous Nick Burns and SilverBrumby as they showed up at The Boat to see if the Rat was as cool as they had heard (or misheard). I forget when I first discovered teh Cog — over 15 years ago??? Still giggle with joy reading the call tickets!!! Anyways, I won’t make any promises and say I’ll be logging in more but I’ll promise see ya in a year or two!!! ---
**Author:** ![TechnoMistress](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/technomistress/32/3981_2.png) [@TechnoMistress](https://cog.discourse.group/u/TechnoMistress)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 8:32pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/what-happened-to-2018-and-almost-half-of-2019/1655/2 "2019-05-10T20:32:19Z")
Ratty!!! Welcome back! And stay the hell away from my shoes! ---
**Author:** ![Force10](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/force10/32/1550_2.png) [@Force10](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Force10)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2019, 8:46pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/what-happened-to-2018-and-almost-half-of-2019/1655/3 "2019-05-10T20:46:46Z")
Welcome back, Ratty. Stay the hell away from my shoes as well. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SuicidalRat](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/suicidalrat/32/69_2.png) [@SuicidalRat](https://cog.discourse.group/u/SuicidalRat)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2019, 1:20am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/what-happened-to-2018-and-almost-half-of-2019/1655/4 "2019-05-11T01:20:43Z")
I make no promises to either of ya!!! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ook](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/ook/32/72_2.png) [@Ook](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Ook)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2019, 10:11am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/what-happened-to-2018-and-almost-half-of-2019/1655/5 "2019-05-11T10:11:43Z")
Now all we need is a Mole, Toad and a Badger… 🙂 Heya Ratty, manage to keep ahead of CMOT Dibbler and his sticks? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![SuicidalRat](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/suicidalrat/32/69_2.png) [@SuicidalRat](https://cog.discourse.group/u/SuicidalRat)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2019, 2:25am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/what-happened-to-2018-and-almost-half-of-2019/1655/6 "2019-05-13T02:25:30Z")
I ran, I ran so far away!!! ~giggle~ ---
**Author:** ![Brazil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Brazil](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Brazil)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2019, 12:38pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/what-happened-to-2018-and-almost-half-of-2019/1655/7 "2019-05-13T12:38:45Z")
The Rat back! Glad to know that there is still some whimsy floating around the universe. ---
**Author:** ![Nabiki](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/nabiki/32/935_2.png) [@Nabiki](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Nabiki)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2019, 3:11pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/what-happened-to-2018-and-almost-half-of-2019/1655/8 "2019-05-13T15:11:45Z")
Oh, my, a Ratty and a Brazil sighting! Welcome back to the both of you! ---
**Author:** ![Force10](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/force10/32/1550_2.png) [@Force10](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Force10)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2019, 4:05pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/what-happened-to-2018-and-almost-half-of-2019/1655/9 "2019-05-13T16:05:44Z")
> [@SuicidalRat](#): > > I make no promises to either of ya!!! 😉 I’m a lot fussier about my shoes these days, so mess with them at your own peril. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TechnoMistress](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/technomistress/32/3981_2.png) [@TechnoMistress](https://cog.discourse.group/u/TechnoMistress)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2019, 5:24pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/what-happened-to-2018-and-almost-half-of-2019/1655/10 "2019-05-13T17:24:59Z")
> [@Ook](#): > > Now all we need is a Mole, Toad and a Badger… Badger? Badger??? We don’t need no stinkin’ badger!!! Oh, like no one else was thinking it. 😝 ---
**Author:** ![TechnoMistress](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/technomistress/32/3981_2.png) [@TechnoMistress](https://cog.discourse.group/u/TechnoMistress)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2019, 5:25pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/what-happened-to-2018-and-almost-half-of-2019/1655/11 "2019-05-13T17:25:39Z")
> [@Nabiki](#): > > Oh, my, a Ratty and a Brazil sighting! Welcome back to the both of you! So, is that two of the four horsemen of the apocalypse? ---
**Author:** ![MikeP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@MikeP](https://cog.discourse.group/u/MikeP)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2019, 8:35pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/what-happened-to-2018-and-almost-half-of-2019/1655/12 "2019-05-13T20:35:26Z")
> [@TechnoMistress](#): > > Oh, like no one else was thinking it Nope, I just _wish_ I’d thought of it ---
**Author:** ![RoadRunner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/roadrunner/32/63_2.png) [@RoadRunner](https://cog.discourse.group/u/RoadRunner)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2019, 9:44pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/what-happened-to-2018-and-almost-half-of-2019/1655/13 "2019-05-13T21:44:31Z")
UHF is one of my top 10 movies to randomly quote. And Jeff’s, too. “I’m thinking of somethin’ orange… somethin’ orange… Give up? It’s an ORANGE!” ---
**Author:** ![TechnoMistress](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/technomistress/32/3981_2.png) [@TechnoMistress](https://cog.discourse.group/u/TechnoMistress)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2019, 12:41am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/what-happened-to-2018-and-almost-half-of-2019/1655/14 "2019-05-14T00:41:36Z")
WHEEL OF FISH!!! ---
**Author:** ![SuicidalRat](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/suicidalrat/32/69_2.png) [@SuicidalRat](https://cog.discourse.group/u/SuicidalRat)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2019, 1:43am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/what-happened-to-2018-and-almost-half-of-2019/1655/15 "2019-05-14T01:43:03Z")
I so whimsy the police are looking for me!! What? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![sig](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/sig/32/286_2.png) [@sig](https://cog.discourse.group/u/sig)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2019, 1:50am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/what-happened-to-2018-and-almost-half-of-2019/1655/16 "2019-05-14T01:50:25Z")
Good find on the obit. “He had an adventurous spirit.” He also loved, among other things, storytelling. That’s… one way to put it. ---
**Author:** ![Brazil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Brazil](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Brazil)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2019, 1:35pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/what-happened-to-2018-and-almost-half-of-2019/1655/17 "2019-05-14T13:35:57Z")
I was thinking more of the crazy crap you post. The police are still after you with that warrant that reads “nude in public and lewd behavior with a watermelon, the local Paducah Community Theatre cast of ‘Death of a Salesman’, six geese, and a partridge in a pear tree while singing Neil Young lyrics to the music of ABBA”. Yeah, I know. That’s what you call whimsy, but Bjorn Ulvaeus and the partridge are still pissed off about it. I still make it here at least once a day just to see if Nick or that Rat has made an appearance and to check out what kind of entertaining abomination Rizak has posted, but I usually just lurk. ---
**Author:** ![Ook](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/ook/32/72_2.png) [@Ook](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Ook)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2019, 3:56pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/what-happened-to-2018-and-almost-half-of-2019/1655/18 "2019-05-14T15:56:29Z")
Rizak posting abominations? Good to know, will keep an eye open for these. ---
**Author:** ![Force10](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/force10/32/1550_2.png) [@Force10](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Force10)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2019, 6:54pm UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/what-happened-to-2018-and-almost-half-of-2019/1655/19 "2019-05-14T18:54:11Z")
I remember when Rizak first appeared on the scene. He still had “the Really Horrible” after his name and made 150 posts his first day on the board. It was madness. ---
**Author:** ![Ook](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/cog.discourse.group/ook/32/72_2.png) [@Ook](https://cog.discourse.group/u/Ook)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2019, 2:58am UTC](https://cog.discourse.group/t/what-happened-to-2018-and-almost-half-of-2019/1655/20 "2019-05-15T02:58:09Z")
> [@Force10](#): > > It was madness SPARTAAAA! [Next page](https://cog.discourse.group/t/what-happened-to-2018-and-almost-half-of-2019/1655.md?page=2)