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Self | 11/30/04 | ccmay

Posted on 11/30/2004 10:23:30 PM PST by ccmay

There are so many things that make FR great. It's my favorite place on the Internet and I am proud to support it financially.

However, there are a few things that have been getting under my skin too.

  1. Jokes about the "72 virgins" every time there is news of a Muslim terrorist being killed. Please. Over the last three years, every possible variation of the virgins joke has already been done. Hundreds of times. It is far, far beyond cliché by now.
  2. Jokes about spitting one's food or drink on the screen or keyboard, in response to someone else's humorous post. Again, every possible variation has appeared here a hundred or a thousand times over. I dare say 99.99% of them are exaggerations for comic effect. It's getting almost as banal as the virgins.
  3. FR slang (beeber, moose, cheese, hugh, series) in every thread, to no effect at all. At least donate to Jim if you are going to waste everyone's bandwidth like this.
  4. Over-zealous moderators who zap cross-posts from DU as soon as they appear. Prime opportunities for hilarity, gloating, and schadenfreude, especially after they lose an election, are lost forever. Can we assess these individually on the basis of their merits?


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To: bonfire
I'm beginning to detect some symptoms of acute, severe, respiratory Zogbyitis.
261 posted on 11/30/2004 11:35:46 PM PST by Do not dub me shapka broham
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To: Bullish

I see you haven't been around in a while. Welcome back!


262 posted on 11/30/2004 11:36:10 PM PST by Dec31,1999 (www.protestwarrior.com)
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To: ApesForEvolution

I know I mean what you think!


263 posted on 11/30/2004 11:36:22 PM PST by k2blader (It is neither compassionate nor conservative to support the expansion of socialism.)
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To: ApesForEvolution

They do?


264 posted on 11/30/2004 11:36:26 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons

...no...

I just said that.


265 posted on 11/30/2004 11:37:13 PM PST by ApesForEvolution (You will NEVER convince me that Muhammadanism isn't a death cult that must end. Save your time...)
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To: ApesForEvolution
And how'd you know I'm a chief? (hmmm....)

Would you believe that I am a mind reader?

266 posted on 11/30/2004 11:37:50 PM PST by WRhine (When America ceases to make manufactured goods, what do we trade with the rest of the world?)
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To: k2blader

Copy cat...;)


267 posted on 11/30/2004 11:38:13 PM PST by ApesForEvolution (You will NEVER convince me that Muhammadanism isn't a death cult that must end. Save your time...)
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To: WRhine
Yes, because I'm a mime reader!
268 posted on 11/30/2004 11:38:47 PM PST by ApesForEvolution (You will NEVER convince me that Muhammadanism isn't a death cult that must end. Save your time...)
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To: All

Tomorrow night: "Annoying Posters: who are the most annoying posters and why?"


nite all!


269 posted on 11/30/2004 11:39:56 PM PST by bonfire
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To: ccmay
Two ideas:

1) Create a Vanity forum

2) Come up with a way to show bandwidth charges with each Vanity post and reply. If you have ever walked into a machine shop many shop owners post how much a lathe or milling center earns per hour or per day.

At the end of each Vanity post and reply have a running tally that will read something like, "This Vanity post has cost $nnn.nn in bandwidth charges so far".
270 posted on 11/30/2004 11:40:10 PM PST by ajolympian2004
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To: bonfire

Thread killer, thread killer, THREAD KILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!

'night


271 posted on 11/30/2004 11:40:39 PM PST by ApesForEvolution (You will NEVER convince me that Muhammadanism isn't a death cult that must end. Save your time...)
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To: Graybeard58
WOW...great pictures!

Sadly,James G/Tony Soprano IS a damned LIBERAL;however,the rest of "the boys" are President Bush loving Conservatives.

Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. :-)

272 posted on 11/30/2004 11:41:01 PM PST by nopardons
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To: ApesForEvolution

Okay...lol


273 posted on 11/30/2004 11:41:18 PM PST by nopardons
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To: ApesForEvolution

oh...........


274 posted on 11/30/2004 11:42:17 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons

Thread Death Spiral Marker BTTT


275 posted on 11/30/2004 11:42:58 PM PST by ApesForEvolution (You will NEVER convince me that Muhammadanism isn't a death cult that must end. Save your time...)
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To: My2Cents

How about simply the overuse of the term "RINO" (usually used by people who are not Republicans themselves).





Had to read thru to your post (#191) to find mine.
You got it: RINO.





276 posted on 11/30/2004 11:43:53 PM PST by onyx
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To: ApesForEvolution
True,but now it's time for me to hit they hay...........

I know,I know,I'm being aparty pooper.

277 posted on 11/30/2004 11:44:09 PM PST by nopardons
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To: weegee
Excerpts are on thing, I understand the rules about them. I'm talking about constant {snips} which I don't think are for the same reason.
278 posted on 11/30/2004 11:44:25 PM PST by Bullish
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To: SittinYonder
To me, it just feels weird and insincere. I'm sure many or most or all are sincere about it, but I couldn't type in a prayer and post it here and feel right about it. It also seems a little like idolatry to me, praying to the Internet.

No, vanity prayers are almost always individual FReepers REQUESTS for others to pray for them or their loved ones. No one here prays to the Internet to my knowledge. If you used the telephone to ask someone to keep you in their prayers, would you consider it to be praying to the telephone? Of course not.

279 posted on 11/30/2004 11:44:43 PM PST by Dec31,1999 (www.protestwarrior.com)
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To: ccmay

Top 5 FReeper pet peeves.

1. The "Hollywood is ruining our children...let's ban it all" buffoons and their cousins, the "Rock is the devil's music" contingency. Miserably ignorant and sheltered beyond belief.

2. The "Boycott everything with any actor or musician even remotely left-wing" crowd. F*** You man, I love the Beasties and Springsteen.

3. O.C.-Old Cracker and his "fogeys against South Park".

4. War on Drugs parrots (big government spenders in conservative clothing).

5. Buchanan supporters (the man is a flaming anti-Semite, for the love of God!)


280 posted on 11/30/2004 11:45:11 PM PST by RockAgainsttheLeft04 (PUNY FREEPERS: I am the Moderator-- bow down before me and await my orders...)
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