Our moment in history...FR...what say ye?

Self-indulgent diatribe | July 4, 2015 | IAMNO1

[ctdonath2]

I say the Feds will enjoy this thread.

[IAMNO1]

“I say the Feds will enjoy this thread.”

Probably. Maybe this topic is verboten and 3rd-rail? Just thinking about what has transpired the last few years, what will follow it before the next election, and what 4 or 8 more years of this will look like if things go as I fear. We may not be recognizable. I suspect the Feds of their day enjoyed reading Thomas Paine's work as well, at first.

[Art in Idaho]

Thanks for posting. I'm to the point where I would drop everything to attend a meeting like this. I'm in if we can get it organized.

[IAMNO1]

Test:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3392894/posts?page=220#220

[Larry Lucido]

You passed. :-)

[IAMNO1]

Wow, that’s weird. How’d you see it? Just testing my referring to a post of mine in a thread. Never did that before at FR, so tried it out in one of my old posts (my only thread post ever). Obviously it worked.

Regards.

[Larry Lucido]

Good evening.

That’s what is meant when one says they are “bumping” a thread. Every time you reply to any random thread, the comment goes straight to the top of the feed (for those who are viewing most recent comments).

So your comment was (briefly) at the top of the feed, and the title seemed interesting.

I’m actually bumping the thread right now by replying again, in fact.

Every so often, someone (often not from FR) will be researching something and then read an old, old thread on FR about that topic (say, a murder or scientific story or historical event or something) and will create an account and reply. Then 5 or 6 more will reply to the original post as though it was a new thread. But something will appear anachronistic (like, FReepers who have been long banned will appear in the thread) and then when you look at the date, it will be from 5 or 10 years ago. But the thread will have been “born again.” :-)

[Larry Lucido]

By the way, are you "No one" or "Number one"?

Just FYI, World's Greatest is considered bigger than Number 1. Take it from Izzy Mandelbaum.

(This is a "ping" to a few Seinfeld friends, by the way. You can "ping" and "bump" at the same time.)

[IAMNO1]

“By the way, are you “No one” or “Number one”?”

Coincidentally, yesterday someone asked me in Mail if I was DJT. I took that to mean The Donald and said he’s Number one, I’m no one. Felt bad to let him down.

[Lil Flower]

[SamAdams76]

We were sitting at the front of the restaurant and (we) started coughing a lot, and the people in the booth behind us were coughing a lot, too, said one patron. We started laughing because we thought it was kind of ironic. But then a woman walked past us and said you should leave, somebody sprayed something. You need to get out of here.

It wasn't exactly Captain Trips but it did leave a lingering sense that not all was ever going to be the same again and once "Werewolves Of London" by Warren Zevon stopped playing, we all put that caps back on our bottles and retreated to the clubhouse.