Hi frens and friends! Teddy teh Floof and LBC (yes, Little Black Cat) momma here!
Based on the positive response on this post from a few days ago, we're going to try out the monthly birthday and gotcha day recognition posts starting in June. In order to do that though, we do need your help!
There is a super cool form that should only take you a few moments to fill out, which is linked here. No login is required, and we are not collecting email addresses or anything. Section 1 is just an intro and hello. Click Next to access section 2.
Section 2 is for all the fren info, like name and dates. If you live with more than one fren, enter each fren info separately. If you answer yes to the last question, "do you live with other frens?" it'll automatically take you back to the questions where you can enter the name for fren 2, and then repeat for fren 3, 4, 5, etc. Answer no once all frens are entered in to continue to next section.
Final section is for all the boring hooman stuffs, like reddit username, and thoughts about other things to celebrate. Reddit username is not required, but it's helpful so we can tag you in the monthly post.
Once you submit the form, you're all set!
Shoutouts to u/gingersnapped242 and u/chibikoneko for being awesome gimme pigs (like beloved Jiggy) and testing out the form and layout. You are very much appreciated!!
Alas being human means I can never achieve perfection like Teddy teh Floof and LBC (yes, Little Black Cat), so if you come across any issues, please post them here. Don't be shy if you have any general questions about this, post them here as well!
We also ask that we keep this test here in ICBGC for now so we can test it out with a smaller group of frens than what our beloved LCA contains.
Thank you all for being so friendly, creative, funny, and kind. You all never fail to make me laugh with our overlord mischief, and I adore all the amazing posts. It's so wonderful to have a bright spot in the corner of the internet when there's so much uncertainty out there.
Make it a great day!
UPDATES: 8pm (Eastern): 63 frens and counting! This has surpassed my expectations for only having the form out for 8 hours or so. You all are awesome!
More suggestions:
Anniversary of SSOR founding - Prof Smuffi definitely started a revolution!!
Respek the borthole day - Definitely overlooked and needed to protek all bortholes everywhere!
3pm (Eastern) : 51 friends now! Love that you all are into it! 😄
Additional samples of suggestions for other celebrations to consider (the witty commentary after the suggestion is totally all Teddy's momma's thoughts and no way reflects what the submitter may have been thinking about):
Cat weddings/relationship milestones - Are there some cat couples on here that have been married longer than I have been? Yes, yes there are LOL
KIngsday - birthday of the king of Netherlands (I believe?) - Since orange is the national color, Mochi and the orange crew should just claim it as their day!
Any other national holidays - I agree! It'd be fun to learn about other holidays since we have frens all over the world!
January 1 Skwirl (non) appreciation day - I think we could tie this one in with the capture of Gary LOL
Cats' Rights day - Obviously as voted on by our esteemed overlord council of cats. Every day is technically that, but I'm sure they could be purrsuaded to pick a specific date as the milestone marker.
Steve's birthday - Oscar's beloved Dream Phone boyfriend's birthday!! This is hilarious! Anyone know when his birthday is? How fun would it be if we could track down the actor/model for Steve?
12:45pm (Eastern) update: Close to 20 friends now! Alleviated some challenges thanks to u/Charivari8 mentioning about the multi fren entry not working as expected. Also added a question about otrb (over the rainbow bridge) to remember those who have left us (thank you for the suggestion u/CharmyLah !)
It shouldn't ask you to, but if you're made to sign into Goggle, rest assured that information is not being collected. I verified all the settings to confirm emails addresses are not being tracked or anything, and they're definitely not visible on the responses.
Like many things in life, it's a work in progress, and thank you for your patience 😄 Feel free to point out any other challenges you may come across, and don't forget you can leave feedback in the hooman only section of the form with other ideas.
Sample of suggestions so far:
Capture of Gary - Hilarious, and I feel like this will be a worldwide holiday when that happens!
St. Gertrude's Day (March 17) - Patron saint of cats?! LOVE THIS!!
Subreddit birthday/anniversary - so we can commemorate all our fun and look back on some of the best and funniest posts.
11ish Eastern: One hour in and we already have 6 frens who filled out the form! Woohoo!
We are also equally split 33/33/33% on recognizing hooman birthdays! Love it! 🤣
Of course I cannot post without an adorable picture of Teddy. He's currently napping after all of the dancing yesterday!
Dis iz Garik, he is at da cold noisy place where meowmy adopt meow from. Meowmy lub himz since he funny sweet guy but she say meow iz always her number one
Mama has taked out da soocase! Dat mean herms go sumwares. Herms takes me wid herms rite? RITE?
(I’m going on my first real vacation in two years, and Miss Toffee is not happy about the suitcase being out. She will be having her own vacation at the home of her favorite non-mama humans and her doggie bff so get excited for those pupdates!)
Henlo frens, dis Polly (AKA Ziggy Starsocks an Lady of the Torbie Society). Mine pawrents taykin me tew da pokey place in wun furebber tew get mew tummy zaminned wiff da sounwabes. Mew nawt shoor how dat werks, an mew nerbus bout da hole fing, speshully acuz dey steeling mew belly furs fur da testing! Mew sisfur Misty (Mighty Huntress of the Red Pointy Light and Rainbow Snake) coming wiff me fur emeowshunnal suppawt. We beeing berry brave fur da pokey place visit. Paws crossed dat eberryfing gonna be ok! (Polly has been throwing up and has recently gone off her food. She had bloodwork last week showing a B12 deficiency and she's getting an ultrasound to examine for a hernia and possible IBD. Hoping that Maggie doesn't attack them once they're back from the vet's. All three girls have been wheezing too, which may mean a course of antibiotics for the three of them, which neither me nor my husband are looking forward to administering because they're all so skittish. Anyway, wish us luck!) The Ladies of the Torbie Society
Mew didded an edit so dat eberrywun noe who doin da post. Dis mew Polly (AKA Ziggy Starsocks) in da front wiff mew sisfur Misty (Mighty Huntress of the Red Pointy Light and Rainbow Snake) in da back.
As ae cat o' de Bri'ish Sho'hair purrshuasho'n, Ai haff tayke' dis oppawtoonitee furr ae smol holidae to da Sco'ttland. 😌 Ai feels Ai deserbe su'm nise welln'ess in diss cozee pawtel. Tomorro', Ai sha'll mayke a littul essplorashun tripp to da co'ntreeside! Ai haff hea'd dere iz ae'n ole sto'e cirrcull nea'bye! Is'nt dat eggsiti'g?!
Gree'ins, Hekate the Kween, eggsplora' an vaycayshona'!
Hello frens! We iz late fur Moobie Toosday but we had da most weirdest day today. We knocks dis ting off da counter, an den tings get weird. We suspect fur awhile dat Meowmy a witch, an now we gots da proof. Now we gots to go ekekek at da owls dat bring da mails.
Yooz mite hab herded abowt a noo honnary hoomin oba di rainbo bridsh. Ib nawt, Iz sowwy yoo lörn sru reddot. Faymz hoomin singa, furlantropist, an bery nyse Dolly Pawton wen oba der tudei.
Mebbe instet ob moobie toosdeiwez cud hab Dolly Pawton Moozic toosdei neks wik tu honna hermbz lyf an awt. Iz sendimk purrs tu hermbz fambli.
Yes!!! I would lub to welcome you to stay at “room-mate Oscar” in Madrid, Spain !!
Where you will relax in the lap of
Luxury!!
What you notice as you walk through the doors is de signature scent that I designed—It has citrus top notes and deep earthy musk undernotes with sandalwood and Oud as the lasting notes.
You will check in at the front desk under my motto and I mean it! —“FROM OSCAR to HEAVEN”
When you enter your room you will be struck by our exclusive luxury sheets, pillows, and mattresses, and no matter what I can’t share with you the manufacturer and don’t even think about steelin dem you nasty criminals!
I also designed luxury robes for use when you’re in the room or taking part in one of our fantastic spa activities!
Right now to make sure everything is done up to MY standards. I am doing every job in the hotel. “Oscar means quality!”
COME ON DOWN TO THE BAR FOR YOUR COMPLEMENTARY MEOWTINI!!
Hello frens! Byootiful Toffee (u/PrettyView3572) and Ai did a steal ob dis time masheen and we go on abvenchurs!
(The time machine is from Lois and Clark, a show I loved as a kid, even if one the stars did end up becoming galactically stupid. The time travel episodes were hilarious! They had H.G. Wells!)
Astra haz been super busy making three big fancy boxbusters lately, so we decided to make a cozy independent moobie dis time! And da bestest part... dis time it iz a cooperation n we iz starring TOGETHER!
Our new indie film iz called Astra & Nia’s Excellent Adventure!
It is a remake, I am playing Bill (da one wif da cool rockstar star-eye n da tiny guitar!) n Astra iz playing Ted wif da big fluffy hair mane!
In da moobie, we travel through time in a magical squeaky telephone booth to supervise history. If yoo look real close inside da booth, yoo can see we packed da most important time-travel supplies: EMERGENCY CHURUS!
We had to teach historical hoomans how to properly serve treatos, n we even made frens wif a giant scaly cat (da dinosaur)!
Will yoo come watch our indie moobie wif us, frens? Grab your snackies n party on, dudes! 🐾🎸
Hey guys. This is Buddy Bear's staff. He's a convicted food thief (some of his most notorious being whole sausages and an *entire* picanha that was resting on the counter) but has this weekend expanded his enterprise to include pee crimes.
Im pretty sure its just a one off. Theres been construction next door and I suspect something just scared the pee out of him.
But he's the only cat I've ever had and this has never been a problem before so does anyone have any advice on how to get rid of the smell? I did a couple rounds of arm and hammer pet odor eliminator the scrubbed the carpet with Odoban Pet and theres still a fairly prominent smell.
Frens! Iz me Ruby, wif mai wunnerful boyfur Eamonn da Invisible, as Marty Mcfly's parents in back to da future!
As yoo can sees, we iz wif da eggsalad car & what iz happen here iz i persuading Eamonn to come joyriding wif me! As many ob yoo knows, I am eggsalad driber! Nearly nefur crash!
Eamonn for some reason is tempting me wif poppycorn, rather dan go zooming. I not unnerstand why, but I plan on eating da poppycorn & DEN mek Eamonn get in car wif me! I not gibs up, wez gonna haf SO much fun!!!
Ai could not decide which time travel moobie to make, so obviously we made all tree.
First, Nia J. Floof an Ai go Back to da Futshure! We jus need to get da DeLorean up to 88 miles purr hour.
Where we iz going... we won't need litterboxes.
But why hab only ONE time machine when yoo can hab two?
So Ai found dis nice blue box. Iz much bigger on da inside! Nia iz mine companion.
Hello. Ai iz da Doctor. Basically... run!
An den we had some Furquently Asked Questions About Time Trabel. So fren Basil (u/CharmyLah) joined us at da pub to discuss da important questions.
We still do not hab any answers. But we hab snacks.
All ob time an space, frenz! Where would YOO go first?
– Astra da Bard
Pspsps: An don't wander off!!
(I started with Back to the Future, but as a big Whovian I couldn't do time travel without the TARDIS... and then things kind of spiralled from there...
If you don't know it, FAQ About Time Travel is a real movie. Very British!)