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To: restornu
I'm not an oldtimer here...I came over as a lurker from TOS when the original group made their break...
As I remember it all, tomkat started up the thread...They floundered around a bit trying to find a theme and after a while came up with the 'Roadkill Cafe'. One night palo verde was trying to keep the thread going by herself, so I signed up and tried to help her out...Somewhere along the line the term 'Freeople' came about....
Palo got driven off the thread by people still posting here...tomkat left because of that episode and others drifted away not liking the atmosphere at the time...
The thread drifted along, slowly going down hill...Finally joined up with another thread called 'The Dimensional Door. That is about where we are today.....

Others will probably disagree, but the above is my version

273 posted on 11/23/2003 6:43:46 PM PST by westmex
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To: westmex

Thank you Westy

279 posted on 11/23/2003 7:48:07 PM PST by restornu (No bah humbug allowed!)
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To: westmex; restornu
They floundered around a bit trying to find a theme and after a while came up with the 'Roadkill Cafe'.

I had forgotten about the Roadkill .. LOL!

Restie ... it is a really long story and Westie, version isn't too far off

A little over 2 years ago a whole bunch of us use to post over at Lucianne's site .. that is till the bouncers started complaining that we were responding to each others posts and that was a big no no, which caused some to be banned from there. Then the Big Red Warnings started on the threads and we were referred to as "You People" .. we use to go by that name here on FR for a time, and then we were shortly referred to as The FReoples

I forget who suggested coming over here, but Christine emailed me to let me know where everyone was .. Tomkat was posting the threads with help from Swervie when Tom couldn't do it.

I think orginally there were close to 100 that came to FR ... Some stayed around for a while, some didn't stay .. others when to different threads and others just float around and check the articles out .. and others went over to LP

In the process of all of this, there were many ups and downs .. some were heated discussions and heated arguments and other times there were many good laughs and getting to know each other better.

After one heated argument, some went to the DD thread. After a bit of time as West mentioned we combined the DD & Freeoples thread.

We all here have many different opinions and many different view points on issues .. but most of all, we have a good bunch of folks on this thread who I am proud to call friends

296 posted on 11/23/2003 8:35:23 PM PST by Mo1
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