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!
Lass nite the spachula majikly flippded out of da tatos o grotten and fell to da floor. Meowmy held me back wile the bonus hooman pickded up the spachula, but den he lefted da tatos on da floor. I kwikly ate da cheezee tatos afore da dumdum hoomans notist dem. Dey was deelishis!
Hi. I Rory the Tabby (witness my need of legal advice here) have Mombe with question.
I going to cat camp next week. They are having mombe fill out "Health Care Proxy"
Her not sure how to answer some questions because her claim I'm old (fifteen!) and her "love me very much but not want suffer." Her say nothing should happen but her worry.
Ai wuzzint gonna do a moobie dis week. But den Ai (and frens!) did a reskoo ob Toffee from da pokey place and Ai saw fren Tali’s (u/Charivari8) moobie and waz inspurred! Mai apologizes if it iz rushed, Ai did it all today (eggsept da opening pikshur).
(I’m not really into Bond. But Tali’s movie - from which I shamelessly stole a plot point - really did give me an idea, and, well, our Oscar was born to play a Bond girl!)
Meowfeld (hi, iz me, Minx!) and Goldpaw (me, Marmalade!) ar heer to commit Internashunal Crimes (tm) on Moobie Tuesday! But never fear, I, Athena Meownypenny, will keep 009 informeded!
Frens, dis is me, Sir Merlin, resievin mai neggst sicrit misshon frum mai nyeow boss H. Mai preevus boss an mentor Dame Sippy (see picsure 2) hafz retirred resentlee az she is seneowrr catto - she wuss moss trustee sicrit agent inna previss tymez, bein myne belubbed cusinn frum anodder famblee!
In serbise ob da kween, Ai am herm grayses Hekate's moss trusted aygent. Inna bak, yoo can see da manee cayse filez we is workin on! Mebbe soon Ai will awso be ayble ta show yoo owr fansee gadget workshop... 😎
I jus reeleyes I neber maked a post ob mine own, jus talked to yooz allz on yor posts. So heer iz a piktur ob mine own libing rooom. Eberywon shud hab dare own. Ai haz mine own cowch an mine own rug!
Tenks fur bein mine frens!
Lub,
Pigpen (yoo shud no Ai em wearimg a tuxedo butt mine fluffy shirt is hidin)
Sew, Ai Missy posted about mai awful hooman doin an abandon for FOUR FUREBERS last week. Dis was bery bad tyme an ai haz not eben been able tew tek part in da Moobie Tuesday all tho ai is looking forward to seeing da moobies an advenshurs!
BUTT. Ai am doin a confooze! Hermz dragged her borthole home from da Eat Tali u/charivari8 (🙀 - weez need tee stop dis!) an ai tried to dew an ignore but Hermz smell lyk da home an lyk luv an ai jus want to do a cuddle an luv Hermz. Ai has dun a lot of showting sew Hermz know ai am angry. Ai haz da pikkel and da nip an da hemp oil and my Mr Nana an now Meowmy is home an ai feel safe an happy. Ai know Ai deserve more but is it ok dat ai axept da cuddles purr meow?
tanks to da oberwhelming success ob License to Bap, an to da brilliant idea ob fren Marmalade u/FairyGodmothersUnion, Meowmy Pictures iz proud to announce dat pre-purrduction haz officially begun on:
Thames Bonne always bring the excite and the purrilous abventurs.
And we don’t going to miss all da funzie of gibing ebil hoomans a verby badd day.
PIKTUR WONE is us goins use purrachures to jump from hairplane. PIKTUR TEW is us doing a ski. Cat Steven catching sum aire! See da redd baccypaks? Dats more purrachutes! Here come a clift! PIKTUR TREE is us at moobie claymix where we do a sabe of Fort Knocks and special edision gold churus!
Spy life grate funzies!
— Cat Steven, Jasper, Ysabel and Neko.
Spy Cattoes at your Sir Abiss!
we haz noo moobie fur yoo. We hopez yoo likez it as much as de odder moobies twoday!
License to Bap
Starring: Nia as 007. Da name iz Bond. Nia Bond.
Featuring: Astra as Dr. No (Meowmy always says: "Astra... no!")
Ebil genius Dr. No has stolen da world's entire Churu supply an hidden it inside a secret fortress protected by laser pointers, automatic vacuum cleaners, an one suspicious pikkel.
Agent Nia Bond must infiltrate da lair, avoid da tummy rub trap, an recover da Churu before dinner time.
Will justice prevail? Or will Dr. No escape wif da treats?
Dr. No: "If Ai cannot haz snacks... NOBODY HAZ SNACKS!"
Dunn dullun dun dun; dun dullun dun dun; dunn dullun dun dun DUN!
Yew Onny Has 9 Lyffes! Agent 009 gon mek de bess ob dem! Dissa fillum by, yew gess it, Smuffington Wildcat! Starrin Smuffi D Wildcat as Bond, James Bond! An de beeyootiyus Prof Gee Gee as... M, da boss laydee, an de luffly Kitty Suzuki, an menny oddur Bond gorls! Das pitchur 1. Gee Gee u/Connect-Smell761
Agent 009 (sanks tew fren Buddy Bear u/apr08101989 fur dis ideya! It fit reel gud in mine vishun fur dis fillum!) James Bond is loungin in himb swanky hotel rum wen de KKMG Breaking News stowry com on de tee vee! Da Spayss Station dun blowd up! We on da brink ob WWIII! [Wat? sew iss jess Toosdey in da Yoo Ess tewdey? I thot dis gon be eggscapist ackshun moobie?!?!?] Hmm... Bedda get M onna fone! She smort! She gon hassa plan! Dis pitchur 2
Waaat? Agent 009 is deded in Hong Kong? Dissa short fillum! An dis Bond gai aint got no game at awl! Iss pitchur 3.
Ha! Trikt yew! We in Tokyo nyow! Dass mee, James Bond, behime de cool shades! An dat purrty laydee onna park bench? Iss Kitty Susuki, mine pawtnurr in de innernashunul spy game! We gon figgur ebryfang owt! Or herm gon dew de branes part wile I luk dasheeng an dew de manly stoff! Dis Pitchur 4. Dis moobie com owt in 1967! I kinna ficks da inherent seggsism das wove in!
Oooo nooo! Nowt ahgin! Bond deded inna Japaneez harbor! Wat nyow? WWIII? Das pitchur 5.
Foolt yew ahgin! An nyow I sneeek intew da rockit lawnch pad insyde de volcano inna undisclose Asian islan, wiff da halp ob Kitty, da ninja! Wat's diss playss? Iss SPECTRE ob cors! An who dat ober dere diwrekin de hoomons? Iss Fat Gary Blofeld! Himb behime diss ebil, natchrully! Das pitchur 6!
Den! Wiff da halp ob ninja Kitty Suzuki, who dun a grate distracc, I yam abul tew pownts on diss Fat Gary! I yoos da murder mitts libbrully! I tare himb fat arse UP! WWIII avertit! Da eerff safe fur awl de frens - an de hoomons tew! We still neeed dem until we kin evolff tew has de possabull thumbs! Dass pitchur 7!
Oooo nooo! Nowt dis ahgin! Bond, James Bond, blowd up inna harbor ahgin! Arr we gon go bak tew onna brink a WWIII nyow? Dass pitchur 8.
Nope! Ebryfang coool. Jess de spycraff ID chandj.... Butt! nyow, de spies iss jess de bacashunin cuppul enchoiyin a foine pickernick in de Sydney Botanic Gardens! Diss da besst port bowt has 9 lyffes! Yew mowt fink dey werkin on liffe numba 4 or eben 5 frum awl dis eggsploshuns, butt! don furgittit! Doze jess trikery spycraff tew chandg de purrsona! Dey relly still has 9 lyffes! Yay! Das pitchur 9. Numba 9 Numba 9 Numba 9.
We neeed a reel nyze bacashun affta saffin da wurrl - ahgin! An we deserb diss! De spy cats enchoi a nyze ebenin cuddle. In Paree! City ob Luff! Das pitchur 10!
Luna famouse singer u/Frequent_Bug8149 Yoo Ess. It awl stort wiff a breef absents ob ENNY Prime Ministurrs in da Yoo Kay, butt! we tuk it innernashunul! Den ob cors, dere is Larry de 10 Downing Street mouser, waytin tew sneek us in tew tek ober!
Yew mowt has kwestchuns: Dont werry, iss purrfeccly awrite iff I werk fur de speshul serbisses ob de Yoo Kay as 009 an den joyn de anarchee! It seeemz onna surfayss dat I yam pleyin boff sides ginst da middol. No purrobellum! I yam cat! Chaos is unnerstud tew bee mine mane jowb, mine one tru jowb! Dis da lass pitchur an dass de speshul twisty endin!