I don’t like to see anybody OPUS out. If I ever quit FR, I think I’ll just quit posting. I’ve requested someone in my family to let FR know if I kick to bucket.
I assume one of about 37,000 of thr #NEVERTRUMP signatories
Please resort to lurking for a while instead of leaving. Doesn’t matter whether we agree on every last thing. We agree on the things that are more important.
Please feel free to post when you want to. It still really is the same website as in ‘98. Times and people do change but the truth remains.
Stick through this.
R2z
Don’t go away as a drama queen, just fade away.
Re: “He/She will not be missed.”
I’ll guess that many of the really emotional people who are quitting Free Republic have been generous donors for many years.
They will be missed.
Our current fundraiser will take two months to reach its goal.
In 2004, 2008, and 2012, our presidential election year fundraisers took about two weeks to reach their goal.
I feel so sorry. Who the heck are you?
Why? Did you think that my dream was not worthy of your attention?
So I had obtained a license from PBS to have Big Bird broadcast major league baseball games. I thought it was a great idea to bring in the younger crowd. As we all know, the MLB audience is aging and he younger generations are not cottoning to baseball as we did in our youth.
Remember how we used to collect baseball cards? That does not happen any more. I used to go to the butcher shop down the street when I was a child and collect their empty cardboard boxes that would hold the long slabs of American cheese. Those were the perfect size for holding baseball cards and I had a lot of baseball cards.
I used to get the Topps baseball cards that were a dime a pack. Remember how they used to come with the stick of bubble gum? I never liked that gum. So I would always remove the gum and stack it up on my bookcase. Once the stack of bubble gum got really tall, I would shove the stack into my pocket and take it to school. Then I would set the stack of Topps bubble gum someplace random in the school. I'm sure the janitors would wonder who the heck would just put a stack of uneaten bubble gum at a random place in the school? Well that was me. And I was never caught. No video cameras in those days to catch me.
Damn those baseball cards. I thought someday I would get rich because I had these rookie cards of players like Thurman Munson, Carlton Fisk, Luis Tiant and Mark Belanger. But those baseball cards amounted to squat. I join the Marines and while I'm in boot camp, my mother cleans out my bedroom and sells them all at a yard sale. Can you imagine that? What a rotten deal for me.
I had a lot of baseball cards too. Thousands of them. I guess my mother thought it was a waste of money. She also got rid of my record collection. Vintage Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Kiss, Peter Frampton, Pink Floyd and Montrose albums, all gone, gone, gone.
I come back from boot camp and my room is completely empty except for a bed. Do you think my mother was trying to deliver me a message? Yes, message received loud and clear. I went back to the Marines and never came home again.
And here you are today, leaving the Free Republic? What is wrong with you anyway?
When did the meaning of opus change from a musical composition to a bloggers Parthian shot?
You opus writers are doing it wrong. Instead of an opus, you should just stop posting and then try to sell your account to the Uniparty. They will then be able to use your account for whatever nefarious purposes they may have.
Short, to the point, and graceful. All in all an excellent opus.
Nicest opus, evah!
If you REALLY want to have some angry freeper shrapnel post support for mandatory vaccinations. WHEW!!!
Wahhhh look at me everyone. Look at meeeee
Goodbye cruel world!!
Drama Queen.
Nope.
No hard feelings on my part.
OK, maybe a little bit of hard feelings.
Oh, what the heck.
You really ticked me off!
All those posts about how you wanted to change the name from “Rhode Island” to “Shirley” were just too much!
And then there was that fight you got into with darn near everyone by continuously posting your handball game scores.
Too much!
I think the final straw was when you put up those photos of a swing set and told everyone it was a new Chinese frigate.
Yep, you really ticked me off!
Paladinan, we hardly knew ye’.