FRiends, today is my 20th anniversary at FR!

FreeRepublic.com | October 9, 2024 | Albion Wilde

[Albion Wilde]

With gratitude to Jim Robinson and all the thousands of freepers and patriots I've met in person or chatted with online through this organization, I give thanks for the most wonderful news and activism site ever! I met many of you while freeping Walter Reed 2005 - 2012.... [more]

[null and void]

Go for it. I don’t drink. 😁

Nor do I.

[fatima]

😀

[Robert DeLong]

😁

[Bob Ireland]

***it's only 20 years for me, not 29. The 9 is next to the 0, and they almost look the same after being online all day!***

I thought it curious; I didn't think FR started until maybe 1997... talk about the wild west❗🤦‍♀️ The truly original FReepers {I think} came over from the Whitewater Bulletin Board because that web site would not let JimRob post news stories the way we do here. Sometime in that transition I stumbled in to FR; I don't think I ever was on the BB but very briefly if I was.

*** I go back to the "can't type worth spit" days***

I always moaned upon learning to do html that it was just a mode of expression that forced one to type three times as much to complete a message as sending a letter. 😂 One does get used to it though. JimRob is always improving the format and now I guess it will automatically convert to html formatting from a normally typed msg if no html code is present... ironically, now I prefer to type the html formatting. JimRob has obliquely trained me to an html conditioned response. 🤷‍♂️😊

***I remember your name from prayer threads, if I'm not mistaken. Be well and be blessed, and thanks!***

I need so much prayer at times that I could hog a continuous thread; I get a lot of prayer anyway {thankfully} so that I only occasionally post on a prayer line - except to pray for others. Also you be blessed❗✨✨✨

[fatima]

Gosh it feels like yesterday.

[null and void]

Nully ~ She will be starting the first day of her 21st year tomorrow. Good! Now we can get her drunk...

Albion Wilde ~ Nope! Lifelong teetotaller here--my only alcohol is communion wine. But I don't mind eating a big slice of chocolate cake!

I'm pretty much a teetotaler too.

Another beautiful scheme ruined by ugly facts...

[Bob Ireland]

*** I remember the steady stream of Rodger Schultz articles that was usually on the front page. He's still got his own blog page that gets updated occasionally.***

You have loaded up my memory and locked it. The name sounds vaguely familiar but all the searches that I do turn up nothing. Was Schultz a FReeper or a subject of posters? 'Front page' of what? sigh 🤷‍♂️ What did gonzo have to do with that? ...sorry

[Antoninus]

I think it is a requirement to fat-finger a number on this thread! LOL!!

OMGosh, I did it too??? LOL.

[Antoninus]

I'll never live this down, will I ?

Well, that's one way to get a 200-post thread going. :-)

[Hiskid]

You’ve been a great addition. 21 years for me.

[kiryandil]

https://freerepublic.com/tag/by:rodgerschultz/index?tab=articles

[xp38]

Sheer luxury! Why in my day we used to dream of punchcards!

[Bob Ireland]

Thank you! I wonder why none of that came up on a search??? Now I remember that poster.

[DollyCali]

What a wonderful mini FR bi-op from a wonderful woman.

I’m glad our paths crossed

You’re a FR treasure

[Publius]

Ah, Ash. And Eschoir and Don Morgan and OWK and B-Chan.

[Albion Wilde]

Million man march math...

LOL!!!

[Albion Wilde]

I’m about 2 weeks from my 24th anniversary.

That is great! Congratualtions to you as well! You will have been here just shy of 4 years BEFORE me, as I mis-typed my headline, which should have said 20th. (The shame of it!)

[Albion Wilde]

My earliest membership was in the same period as yours. A few name changes later and I am still here. Anyone remember Amos the Prophet?

I do remember Amos the Prophet! And thank you for your kind words, Lou Foxwell!

Hope you noticed my earlier disclaimer that I am only here 20 years, not 29, as I had mis-typed in the headline. Twenty of the most remarkable years of meeting minds! I so much appreciate your having introduced Daniel Greenfield to this community, one of this era's best conservative thinkers.

Be well and be blessed!

[Albion Wilde]

I’m way out of the storm’s path. It made landfall between Tampa and Sarasota, if I have that right, which are hundreds of miles from where I live.

Having looked at the storm map, I had hoped that was true, and I'm glad to hear it!

[STARLIT]

Congratulations! Have a Blessed Day.