Posted on 03/15/2011 6:56:01 PM PDT by Windflier
Ever tried Googling your Free Republic handle? I just did, and boy, did I find some surprises.
Interestingly, lots of my comments over the years on FR have been picked up and re-posted by bloggers (in a complimentary fashion). I'm honored.
On the other hand, I've also been quoted at Daily KOS and other unsavory cess pits, as a prime example of neanderthal Rethuglican thinking. Sweet. I suppose I should take that as a compliment, too(?)
One uber-liberal blogger who goes by the name "Field Negro", quoted me completely out of context in order to paint a picture of a self-hating black man, cowed and groveling at the knees, among a seething lair of white racists (that'd by y'all Freepers). Sick stuff.
I've also discovered that folks'll stop by your online photo collections and re-post your pics in the strangest places.
Try it sometime. You might be surprised at what you find.
I googled my handle and got slapped for it.
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By who? Your mama?
I just did. The only reference is to the post I made saying I’m not coming here anymore. :(
I went blind...
mine yields mostly pages about Stfan Batory and the free republic of Poland...
Yes, of course I have!
I don’t think I’ve been quoted by DU but I have appeared in a few interesting places. And my uniform pic was reposted in a local listserve I belong to by a friend who was gently needling me. But that’s about all.
My handle is not big enough to handle ... let alone Google. :-(
You bet I have, that’s how I found out how awesome I am!
Evidently mercat is Scottish for market and there are dozens of “Mercat Cross” es in Scotland. It is also an alternate spelling for meercat or meerkat.
I’m pretty happy with it but didn’t see anything about my postings.
I did years ago........most interesting thing, some kid was pissed I had his gaming handle LOL
Yes, I’ve done it a lot.
Its very interesting where it has turned up.
lol
Hair started growing on my paws, when I Googred my handre!
Whoops. You know what that means, don't you? Google has read your mind, and knows that you're about to write your FR opus!
Ping me when you do!
I do it periodically. It’s interesting how far and wide some of my material has gone.
One item was a warning I posted on a thread about some prominent Democrat who (I think) had passed away. I was one of the first people on the thread, and I posted a message that said something like “Be careful, unfriendly eyes are watching what we write.”
This was re-printed in several (unfriendly) places, along with my handle and even the FR time/date block. In one, the person who re-posted it followed it with their own comment: “they’re on to us.”
There are a number of very liberal sites out there that “keep track” of things being written at FR. I think this must be a fairly influential website, just based on the number of people who spend their time scanning what we post for things that can be used to “discredit” us.
Most, if not all of the “discredit” re-postings are really amusing in the degree of nit-pickery and straw-man-ship in which they have to engage to find something objectionable here.
You can also get some interesting milage by googling your tagline, if you have one.
I went out of my way to get quoted by DUers.
I distinctly remember the post I made here called “Day in the life of a DUer”
The responses at DU were usually pornographic
I can see why, with that handle.
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