Posted on 01/19/2005 6:29:13 PM PST by YoYoDyNeTeChNoLoGiEs
Thank you... Appears the yoyo part was definitive of the poster.....
Bad link...sorry
That's how Jim Rob has the site set up. The person could live right next door to you and still have it show the next day! LOL
I cut and pasted... no problem.
ROTFL!!! That must have been a good week, FR got US!
Everybody's got a cool screen name but me. :o(
Looks like instead of going to the 8th dimension, he would up in New Jersey after all.
Hi there, I just wanted to take a minute to congratulate you on your investigation of me.
Unfortunately you all are so way off!
I've really never been to the site before and it was hillarious watching the thread this morning as all of you used your vivid imaginations, web search skills, and paranoia to create this whole background for me.
I really was visiting the site for the first time yesterday, and apparently by choosing this name I opened up a whole pluthera of fears from regular users of the site.
I posted my message and got a few "welcome" messages, and then someone decided to try and dissect my identity.
I went from being a BBS Sysop, to an online marketing / spam firm, to someone belonging to "DU" (I'm not sure what that is) and then I was some enemy to the site or something.
I was really having fun all the way up to the point where my customer came to my house to pick up the laptop I had been working on for him....I'm sure you already know the model # since that seems to be what started this whole thing.....HP ZD-7811CL .....this is a laptop computer sold by Hewlett Packard with a huge screen and multimedia enhancements.
The gentleman I repaired it for is a guitar / music instructor for teens here in the Los Angeles area.
I really would have liked to reply but I was indisposed with my customer and was unable to come back until this morning when I discovered my posting priveledges had been revoked.
It really is quite humorous and I'm not upset, but I would like my account back since I'm not really the troll you all thought I was.
I was especially moved when someone made the point that I had only been there a day and was already using FRmail or whatever it is you called it and the taglines.
It kinda made me think that you guys expected complete morons to register with FreeRepublic.
How difficult is it anyway, when you post to see the little text box for the tagline and put it to use?
And, Every post has little links to send private replies etc.
So why not send a private reply? Just because I'm new?
The site really isnt very complicated, and if I figured out all of that on my first post, why wouldnt any other half intelligent person?
That coimment just strruck me as odd.
I did however spend over an hour reading posts before I even registered, allowing me to read alot of taglines and their witty messages, and thinking about what I would put in there ahead of time.
The paranoia spread like a disease, and it really was truly funny to see how important my post became for just being some schmuck that stumbled on to the site while doing a search for a service manual.
Again, I'm not upset about it but I would like to have my account back and I would like everyone to kinow that I am not the bad person they assumed I was.
I posted to the site with good intention of expressing my feelings about the site.
Someone disputed my fathers length of service in the Air Force, so when he called me this morning I asked him about it.
Yes I was incorrect, he was only in the service for 33 years and then explained to me that there was no limit of how many years you serve but that you would retire at 65 anyway. He also told me that he had reached rank as far up as he could without someone else stepping down and was only keeping others from reaching his rank so they offered him retirement.
I think I got that right.
Anyway, I'm sorry to spoil your fun, but you have captured no terrorist to the FR community.
Quite the contrary, I liked the site which is why I posted to begin with.
As for the name I chose....it was just a name I always thought was funny from the movie Buckaroo Banzai.
I have never been affilliated with any of the people I have been accused of being, but thanks for the laugh.
Could you let everyone else know at least what I have said ....it doesnt matter if you choose to believe me or not but I do feel as a new user I deserve the benefit of the doubt.
If everyone who comes to FR is suspected of being whatever it is you guys are afraid of, then the site will never grow bigger than it is right now.
I'm not sure if that matters or not but I honestly am just a guy...a father, and husband.
My daughter is 4 years old, and I work for the federal government migrating new communications for the F.A.A.
I drive a modest car and own several modest computers and have been online since well before the internet.
Anyone with the computer background I have should have no problems figuring out how FR's forums work, or how to type text in a box and click on private reply links.
I have written the webmaster of the site in an attempt to get my account active again.
I would like to be able to respond but the lynch mob got me before I had a chance to do so. lol.
Honestly...I'm no threat to any of you.
Just a guy that loves his country, his president, and appreciates what the men and women of the armed forces have given up so that my family can live safely in a free country.
Patrick Smith
P.S. if youd like, I'll give you my fathers phone number and you can ask him all about his time served in the 445th aero squadron at Norton Air Force Base in California...i think it was like 729 MAS something or other but you can ask him if youd really like to.
I'm proud of my old man and all the medals etc he has received.
"As the son of a retired United States Air Force career man of 38 years"
I questioned the 38 years and he now says 33....had he said that at first, I doubt I would have called him on it.
"Actually I'm not sure how I stumbled on to this site. I did a search for HP Pavillion ZD7811CL and this site came up as the first result. "
Many folks did the same search in Google, Alta Vista, Yahoo, etc. and FRee Republic does not come up.
And whattayaknow, there's a YoYoDyne at DU. by Constitutionalist Conservative in #100
He had a tagline by his first reply #9
He used FReepMail early.
He had a good grasp of how it works around here for just stumbling onto the site.
He quit responding to his own vanity thread.
All these indicators, and the constant disruptors in the last few days......
You get an email with plausible explanations for the questions....great....but I'm still suspicious, even though I like to trust people.
If the Mods do reinstate him, OK, not my call, and I'd hate to exclude a real conservative, I'll still be wary of him for awhile
His status is/was in the mods hands and I trust their judgement, mine has sometimes failed me in the past.
Whats good for FR? Our true enemies would love to sow discord and make us unwelcome to most newbies, or seem paranoid so that when a real new person signs up he isnt given the chance to fit in. It would have been easier to just ignore the convincing email but my conscience didnt allow it so i am having crow for breakfast on this one.
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