50,000

The last post put up at Mudcat by Kat LaFrance (Katlaughing) was sent forwarding information about her old and dear friend Art Thieme. I don't think they ever met, but they spoke on the phone, and over time, the fact that they never met was immaterial. It was that way for a lot of us who loved Katlaughing, so when we learned of her sudden death last summer, a few of us decided to try to make the 50,000 post to the Mother of All BS thread in her name.

No mean feat, choosing something she wrote to post, or finding words to honor our friend. She was prolific at Mudcat, sharing her stories and poems and links and working in the background fixing html for those of us who used it but goofed, fixing text for those of us who wrote and found typos, and did a lot of tidying after accidental empty posts and slug-fests that required a quick delete or a virtual bandaid.

Our Kat posted 45,433 times at Mudcat (logged in), her last post on July 15, 2013, her first on December 29, 1998. He wonderful grandson Morgan knew her love of the Mudcat.org family was powerful and spoke for his family when he moved to start an obituary thread for Kat on July 22, 2013.

This post is in her honor. Many may visit out of curiosity to see what we could be talking about for 50,000 posts. A few people have actually read all of it - the MOAB is filled with stories, conjecture, nonsense, songs, poems, condolences, and more nonsense. It was started by khandu, who occasionally drops in to see what's cooking.

Take a dip here and there in all of the pages of messages, and enjoy good laugh courtesy of all of the folks who have let their hair down and come in for a visit. No freds, galactic overlords, quarks, or duckdogs were injured in the construction of this edifice of BS. I don't know if katlaughing ever posted here, but in her heart she was one of us at the Mother of All BS.