Comedy

[Vandiablo]

... with Doc passing, Ochi gone, then Pete passing, the heavy hitter debtors had left the arena.

I knew about Pete, but I never saw anything about Doc. I had noticed his posts just suddenly stopped, but I never heard anything. It was right after discussion about Bugs Bunny and the term maroon, I thought maybe he just got PO'd and never came back. As for Occhi, I notice he posted about 1.5 years ago (I think) so maybe he's just very infrequent? Or did he make a goodbye post, or have a stroke, or live offline somewhere? As for me, I've gotten old, another five years and I'll probably be Totally Gone.

There has been many more that have left. What a pleasure it is to see someone dredge an old memory up from the bygone era.

Hah, well I am old enough that 10+ years is not a long time! I had three kids and they were young while I got a Masters (slowly, took 5.5 years) so Diablo and forum time had to be scuttled. To me, it's more like: "hey forum! where did everybody go??"

Social media has replaced a lot of the time and desire that these forums used to get. I'm pretty private, I've stayed off facebook and all that. Bah, kids these days.

"I believe this is because of our nature as humans to grow and adapt through adversity, and humor is what helps us see and define these negative faults within us and become cognitively more astute due to challenging us to think in different or unusual ways than we would have normally"

Ah, why didn't you say so in the first place? I can accept that. (... tho maybe we got there using different routes.)

-Van