No kidding! So you lurkee long time, too?
Yeah, but I was never a full-time lurker. I used to hang at a biker forum, and one of the members (our old friend Josh Painter) was also a member of FR. He'd post articles on that forum, but would always provide a link to the FR post of the same article. Lots of the members wound up coming here to read because of that.
Took about three years or so, but in time, I felt like throwing in my two cents, and so I joined. Close to 29,000 posts later, and I'm still here, yammering away :-)