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What's The Story Behind Your FR Handle?
Free Republic ^ | 23 July 2017 | Windy

Posted on 07/23/2017 5:19:36 AM PDT by Windflier

I've always wondered about the origins and meanings (if any) behind others Freeper handles. Its a quiet Sunday morning, so I thought it would be an interesting topic to start the day.

What's the story behind your handle?


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To: Windflier

Some thought it meant sub machine fan, but when I started here I was a huge fan of Sarah Michelle Gellar.
I never was never creative. It was taken from the longtime web page started in 1996


281 posted on 07/23/2017 9:30:31 AM PDT by SMGFan (Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar)
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To: Windflier
Hubby was a high school baseball coach and I am completely uncoordinated athletically. Peter Paul & Mary did a song about a poor kid playing in right field and how he ended up making a great catch without even knowing what he was doing. There was never any hope that I would contribute to a softball team so any time I had to play, I was always put into right right.

The name RightField fit me to a T. So happy the song was not about left field, because that would not have been an option. RightField covers all the bases, so to speak.

282 posted on 07/23/2017 9:42:43 AM PDT by RightField
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Check out this thread from 2002.

Freeper Names Explained

Bookmark. Thanks!

283 posted on 07/23/2017 9:47:56 AM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: RightField
right right = right field
Some day I'm going to learn to proofread.
I have way too many 'oops' posts here on FR.
284 posted on 07/23/2017 9:48:57 AM PDT by RightField
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To: Real Cynic No More

Freepmail JimRob and ask him to change your handle (if you still want to change it).

He’s very good about doing that for anyone who asks. He can even preserve your original ‘born on’ date and your posting history if you want.


285 posted on 07/23/2017 9:54:31 AM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Lee Enfield
Used to keep 10 of them on my boat.

Before that tragic accident, no doubt.

286 posted on 07/23/2017 9:56:42 AM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Keyhopper
That's Lysdexic to the true dyslexic.

And it used to be called a "Spoonerism" ... look it up.

287 posted on 07/23/2017 9:58:07 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: certrtwngnut

LOVE the fnark ... I wasn’t fast enough to think of it, though.


288 posted on 07/23/2017 9:59:11 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: Windflier

How did you know? Did it make the news?


289 posted on 07/23/2017 10:00:14 AM PDT by Lee Enfield (Liberals write our memes for us.)
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To: Windflier

Mine goes back to when Dole was saying: “Where is the outrage?” about PRC’s financial support of Bill Clinton.

It occurred to me that any hostile power that illegally gave $$ to a candidate, could blackmail him or her.

So if you were a hostile power, why wouldn’t you do that with ALL candidates?


290 posted on 07/23/2017 10:03:17 AM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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To: Windflier

I was an US Army paratrooper and jumpmaster. A “Towed Jumper” was a soldier, who, after jumping ended up being dragged along outside of the aircraft by their parachute’s (usually mis-routed), static line. The end result was to be repeatedly smacked up along the outside of aircraft, bounced and dragged through the slipstream behind the plane. Mercifully, I never was a ‘towed jumper’ myself.

In another sense, being a ‘towed jumper’ is a metaphor regarding life. Often, because of our own decisions and mistakes, we get dragged along and buffeted through life tethered by the consequences of those decisions and mistakes.


291 posted on 07/23/2017 10:06:09 AM PDT by Towed_Jumper (Imagine an America where Sen. John McCain had instead "failed to eject" over North Vietnam.)
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To: RandallFlagg

I wanted to be blue but when I signed up someone already had it. Then I thought, how Lucky I was to be an American.


292 posted on 07/23/2017 10:07:32 AM PDT by lucky american (Progressives are attac Iking our rights and y'all will sit there and take it.)
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To: pax_et_bonum

Thanks for posting that humorous bit of FR lore.

Eaker was my good good buddy, and I miss him terribly. He took me under his wing when I was a newbie here, and was a source of quiet strength when my family and I were going through very hard times.


293 posted on 07/23/2017 10:07:45 AM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: FourtySeven

Lol nah, Maiden has been my favorite band since I was 17 or so, almost 15 years now.


294 posted on 07/23/2017 10:08:00 AM PDT by wastedyears (IRON MAIDEN TONIGHT)
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To: Windflier
Long story, but I came here with a group who was banned from Lucianne.com during the Bush election fight at the end of 2,000. I wasn't banned, they were, and they asked me to come along. I liked the humor and cutting edge info of FR far better so I stayed.

My original screen name was my last name, my home building business name, so I asked Jim if he would change it a couple of years later, and he did. I figured the left would use it against my business; I understood how evil they were a long time ago.

Being from Michigan, and a huge fan of all things Lake Michiganish, I took the name from a spoof published locally twenty plus years ago. It was a letter of apology from an aquarium, apologizing for unwittingly letting loose a new shark hybrid into the lake that thrived in fresh water.

It was a mini scandal, sort of like when HG Wells novel War of the Worlds was broadcast. It took years to finally convince a lot of people it was a spoof.

Took the name after the humor of it all, plus, it does have teeth to it.......

295 posted on 07/23/2017 10:12:01 AM PDT by Lakeshark (Trump. He stands for the great issues of the day. Stay the course!)
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To: Mathews

“””Uncle’s best friend’s second cousin’s (twice removed) wife’s sister’s boyfriend’s last name.”””

Well -— That explains it!!!! LOL!


296 posted on 07/23/2017 10:13:50 AM PDT by Exit148 ((Loose Chnge Club founder) Put yours aside for the next Freepathon!)
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To: mowowie
Only prob is some people confuse it with a certain strain of marijuana...

I'll admit that the connection had occurred to me also. Given that you're a Freeper, I brushed it aside.

297 posted on 07/23/2017 10:15:59 AM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Windflier

My age group, and what I do for a living, so as to do less explaining.


298 posted on 07/23/2017 10:18:14 AM PDT by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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To: Windflier

I was here for a while under a different handle, one that was based on my name and from which I could have been identified. Around the time I created this handle, in July 98, we were getting reports of freepers who were being harassed by what would now be known as the deep state. There were secret service visits, FBI agents showing up, tax audits, emailed threats, that sort of thing. People like Kathleen Willey had her cats killed for just telling the truth. Posters would pop up here with IP addresses in DC agencies, harass posters (disruptors, they were called), sometimes make vague threats, get the zot and be gone. The Viking Kitties were born to defend the place against official and non-official trolling.

We weren’t just aggregating news, we were good at finding bits of information from widespread sources in the days before Google, and putting the pieces together in ways that exposed the corruption of the Clinton regime to a large audience. We were definitely an enemy of the regime, and one of the top source of information that you would never be able to get from the existing news sources back then.

So we were a target. I could easily see things getting to the point that people here would be systematically identified and attacked. It never did happen, but there were incidents here and there.

I decided to create a handle that was anonymous. I was very angry about the idea that I would have to protect my identity from my government, but resigned to the need to do so. So I chose a handle that said that you may force me to give up my name, but you will not stop me from opposing what you are doing. And I have remailed defiant to the progressive left’s agenda, here and elsewhere.


299 posted on 07/23/2017 10:32:55 AM PDT by Defiant (The media is the colostomy bag where truth goes after democrats digest it.)
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To: tired&retired

Tired & retired

They ran over me and then backed up....


300 posted on 07/23/2017 10:37:49 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
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