Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

20 Year a FReeper. Born October 27th, 1998!
Free Republic ^ | 27 October 2018 | Alas Babylon!

Posted on 10/27/2018 9:58:57 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!

My FIRST Vanity in the 20 years I've been here.

Allow me some slack!


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor; Miscellaneous; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: 1998; 20years; blogpimp; cutmygrass; freeper; gitoffmylawn; n00b; noob; oldster; stuned
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 81-100101-120121-140141-150 next last
To: glennaro

When asked ‘HowU doing” I reply, with a big smile, —Not bad for the age and the mileage..Gets a quizzical look and then a grin most of the time.......


101 posted on 10/27/2018 11:57:27 AM PDT by litehaus (A memory toooo long.............)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 81 | View Replies]

To: Exit148; Leep
Let me tell you a funny blog story.

When blogs first came out, the Montgomery Advertiser newspaper, called my campus (Auburn University in Montgomery) office and wanted to speak to someone about blogs. So, the older, blue-haired receptionist, who didn't know anything about blogs, passed the phone to me, the new computer instructor, when I happened to be walking by.

They asked me if I thought blogs would be the next big thing. I told them no, I thought they were vain and a waste of time, and no way would regular people follow the musings of some overly self-important egotist.

They never called us back when it came to Internet or computer news again.

102 posted on 10/27/2018 12:02:02 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Vote GOP this November. Take two friends to vote with you!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 95 | View Replies]

To: Mariner

You’re now on the 1998 ping list too, Mariner.

Again, not sure what we’ll ever do with this ping list, but you’re on anyway!


103 posted on 10/27/2018 12:03:29 PM PDT by EarlyBird (There's a whole lot of winning going on around here!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 100 | View Replies]

To: ifinnegan
Drudge Report had a link, that’s how I found it.

Same for me in February of 1999 & I lurked till the Fall of 2003 and signed up.

Been a faithful FReeper ever since

104 posted on 10/27/2018 12:03:30 PM PDT by fedupjohn (Future Follows Past ...You have more then you know...Q)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies]

Lotta newbs on this thread


105 posted on 10/27/2018 12:09:26 PM PDT by IncPen ("Inside of every progressive is a Totalitarian screaming to get out" ~ David Horowitz)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 104 | View Replies]

To: Alas Babylon!

Congrats.


106 posted on 10/27/2018 12:09:32 PM PDT by deadrock
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Alas Babylon!

LOL! Did you keep your job??


107 posted on 10/27/2018 12:11:20 PM PDT by Exit148 ( (Loose Change Club founder) Put yours aside for the next Freepathon!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 102 | View Replies]

To: Alas Babylon!

I actually lurker for the year 1998 before joining.


108 posted on 10/27/2018 12:13:16 PM PDT by MomwithHope
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 79 | View Replies]

To: Alas Babylon!

I saw Left Behind as a TV miniseries when I was deployed to Central Asia. It was spooky, and I thought to myself, “Sure do hope that doesn’t start while I’m here in Uzbekistan!”.

I thought the End Times were nigh in 1968 with Vietnam, race riots & burning cities, mainline churches going mad, Chicago Dem convention riots, etc. I studied the Book of Revelation closely in those days.

With the election of PDJT for whom I voted, the leftie madness of fifty years ago seems to be returning with a vengeance. Worse, the more I think about it. Then, guys just wanted to avoid the draft & get laid by hippie chicks.

Now, the Left just wants to destroy anything & anyone who gets in the way of their grasp for total state power. It’s Stalinistic.


109 posted on 10/27/2018 12:15:55 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 66 | View Replies]

To: Alas Babylon!

Newbe. Over twenty years and still freeping . Although not like the Clintoon years.


110 posted on 10/27/2018 12:15:57 PM PDT by Fzob
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Alas Babylon!
Congrats 🎉🎊🍾🎈 I got my 20 in July! Original PRodigyFReeper!
111 posted on 10/27/2018 12:45:42 PM PDT by GRRRRR (Make America Greater Than Ever Before!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: EarlyBird

Last time I gave FR money, I was banned almost immediately afterwards, for expressing then-offbeat ideas that have since become conventional wisdom. So I no longer give FR money, because God forbid I am right on something yet again and have the audacity to say so, I have no assurance whatsoever that I won’t be banned again right after I pay up.

If I felt I really had free speech here it would be a different story. I’m a loyal, true-blue American who believes in the rule of law and the principles of the Declaration, so I shouldn’t feel afraid to express here anything that I would want to express. Yet I do for fear I may be right again well before the general consensus is ready to accept it, and knowing that the standard practice is to ban those ideas.


112 posted on 10/27/2018 12:51:07 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 2)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 50 | View Replies]

To: Alas Babylon!

Gonna adjust the magnetic declination on my compass and pack the topo maps...

See you there.


113 posted on 10/27/2018 1:01:44 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 74 | View Replies]

To: Exit148

Yeah. But no, no job repercussions.

I mean, it was just some news journalist asking my opinion.

I taught about networking and operating systems.

What the hell did I know about blogs, or nascent social media that hadn’t even become a “thing” yet? This was in the early myspace and Napster days.

I was wrong, though. But that happens all the time.


114 posted on 10/27/2018 1:24:13 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Vote GOP this November. Take two friends to vote with you!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 107 | View Replies]

To: thoughtomator
God forbid I am right on something yet again and have the audacity to say so, I have no assurance whatsoever that I won’t be banned again right after I pay up.

Hmm. I’ve been here 20 years like you. I have never felt the feelings you describe. And I have posted some pretty outlandish things.

I find real comradery here at FR. If you don’t, maybe this is the wrong website for you?

115 posted on 10/27/2018 1:45:00 PM PDT by EarlyBird (There's a whole lot of winning going on around here!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 112 | View Replies]

To: Alas Babylon!

:)


116 posted on 10/27/2018 1:52:23 PM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats want dead children & VIOLENCE at the border... for their "Kent State" photo op...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 70 | View Replies]

To: Alas Babylon!

Nope, I left a little before that. I miss being there sometimes.


117 posted on 10/27/2018 2:01:32 PM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 92 | View Replies]

To: EarlyBird

As I mentioned, my purpose for being here nowadays is to transmit ideas between the older and younger generations of conservatives who clearly aren’t talking with each other much. I am not and will never again be the kind of FR loyalist I was before being censored for speaking my mind.


118 posted on 10/27/2018 2:08:36 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 2)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 115 | View Replies]

To: Alas Babylon!

Here's a song to help you celebrate...

       "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (Take 9 +) - The Beatles

       "It was 20 years ago today
       Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play..."

119 posted on 10/27/2018 2:10:04 PM PDT by Songcraft
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Alas Babylon!

I’ve got you beat by about two months. Happy Anniversary.


120 posted on 10/27/2018 2:12:04 PM PDT by FrankR (You gotta stand for something, or you'll fall for anything!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 81-100101-120121-140141-150 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson