# Whatever happened to

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/whatever-happened-to/70852>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [February 8, 2012, 10:24pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whatever-happened-to/70852 "2012-02-08T22:24:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![keith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/keith/32/5518_2.png) [@keith](https://community.cartalk.com/u/keith)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2012, 11:19pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whatever-happened-to/70852/21 "2012-02-10T23:19:52Z")

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I remember those days well. I used to post even then under my current name until someone else registered my name and never used it. A few weeks later, their system crashed and all data was lost. as soon as it came back up, I registered under my name and have kept it ever since.

I don’t remember names well, but I do remember personalities somewhat. I do remember a guy, from New Hampshire I believe, a Physics professor that liked to sample beers from all over the world and posted a lot on rant and rave. He was a hoot, but a tad bit arrogant.

They ought to bring back rant and rave.

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**Author:** ![Rod-Knox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a183cd/32.png) [@Rod-Knox](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Rod-Knox)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2012, 12:48am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whatever-happened-to/70852/22 "2012-02-11T00:48:20Z")

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Rant and Rave was a lot of fun. The repair advice hasn’t actually changed much in 15 years. I used Bob as my first forum name but it was purloined in the first forced registration and I added p, I seem to recall that Amazon was in charge of that first stir up. Bobp was hijacked somehow in a later rehashing of the forum and I picked up HI, which I used until the forum went totally into the hole for some time. I don’t actually understand why anyone would operate a bulletin board forum such as this. Can the advertising at the margins cover the costs?

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**Author:** ![missileman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/missileman/32/1366_2.png) [@missileman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/missileman)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2012, 2:47am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whatever-happened-to/70852/23 "2012-02-11T02:47:20Z")

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Has anyone seen a recent post from mcparadise? He was a frequent contributor since I first got on the board around 2004.

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**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/48514_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2012, 3:26am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/whatever-happened-to/70852/24 "2012-02-11T03:26:14Z")

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You’re right!  
Mcparadise is someone else who is missing in action for an extended period of time.

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