What's yer round up number. How long you been a freeper? (Old Time Freepers Wanted)

[Scythian]

Scythian - Since Dec 29, 1998

I've given my opus a few times but always came a crawlin' back. I figure if they go by "join date" we old timers will go first ...

So any active Freepers out there have joined dates more ancient than mine?

[BARLF]

1997, but I can’t prove it.

[upsdriver]

9/16/1999

I arrived here via a link on the Drudge Report.

[KC Burke]

Yah, but that was due to your know habit of accepting collect obscene phone calls.

[Conan the Librarian]

Another of the Class of 1998 here.

Since Sep 24, 1998. I lurked a few months before joining.

Odd. Two days before I got married. Coincidence? I don’t know.

[MinuteGal]

Why does everyone gush over A+Bert?

This creep was rude, crude, profane, insulting, not funny, not smart....and it was always a question of whether he was mentally-ill or drunk every time he posted. He was really out-of-control just before he was permanently banned. He was not a credit to this forum.

Nostalgia should not be taken too far. However, I guess the adage, "time heals all heels" has an element of truth in it.

Leni

[Alberta's Child]

Thank God I never got zotted. If I had been, I might never have come back and learned how fantastic this place is.

I would have been far less wise than I am now, too!

As far as I'm concerned, FreeRepublic is an American institution right now . . . like Ford trucks, the Allman Brothers, and NASCAR.

[Pete]

LOL

[listenhillary]

I couldn’t tell if the breathing was male or female, so I was just left confused.

[BARLF]

Yes

[andy58-in-nh]

Those were the days...

[small voice in the wilderness]

The dreaded OPUS! and the more-dreaded FReepercides. Trying to talk them off the ledge before they opused. Or telling them to jump, if it really was the best for all.

[The Duke]

The Duke
Since Dec 3, 1997

I was a veteran at FR before the "Clinton body count" had reached 100!

[McGavin999]

Can anyone remember the name of the poster who posted everything in haiku? He was always posting about men in grey and turtles on fence posts.

[Rightly Biased]

11/1/2001

I guess I’m still a NOOB

[listenhillary]

The Freeper I was most in awe of? Alamo-girl! The Clinton files she put together were something else.

OWK was an admired freeper who I think is no more.

[Redleg Duke]

11 years...May 1999.

[norge]

Must have been that stuff. I can’t believe it has been that long.

One thing I remember along the way was Laurie Dhue’s lips. Wonder what she’s doing now?

[justaguy]

justaguy
Since Jul 8, 1998

[DCBryan1]

Thank God I never got zotted. If I had been, I might never have come back and learned how fantastic this place is.

I agree. American as apple pie!

I had to come back with my hat in my hand after the 1998 Republican primary fiasco. JimRob banned me for what, 6-9 months? I called him from Stephens Inc in Little Rock and he said he would reinstate me in a "few months". Attended all the DC innaugurals too. I felt like the prodigal son.

Jim Rob, any way to reinstate my 1998 ish sign in date? My 10 year probation is over ;)

[rolling_stone]

I came in when Monica/Drudge hit and stayed through the impeachment, when they didn’t convict I drifted away from everything for awhile. I forgot my password and had to re-register later...maybe the mods can find my original sign up date? A few years back I found some of my old posts, not sure of my screen name back then.