Our 1st Quarter Freepathon is Underway! - Thread 2

[Mo1]

Our 1st Quarter Freepathon is Underway! - Thread 2

Congrats to NASA on a job well done

God Bless America !

[Mo1]

Help is needed for a new thread ... any ideas

All suggestions are appreciated ;0)

[Mo1]

BTW ... you messed up my Fair Funkle that I didn't declare :0)

[Mo1]

Moving On To Thread 3

[NormsRevenge]

Timing is everything. :-)

[MeekOneGOP]

hehe ! Yeah. I'm up early every morning.

Ohhhhh, only one fair funkle.

Okay, I gotta ask. I've seen references the last 24 hours or so to 'fair funkle'.
"Can someone fill me in as to what that is?", he said, bracing for reply. :O)

[MeekOneGOP]

LOL .. where did you find this? .. nice socks

That picture of Dean as a kid ? That was on the "Crushies for Dean" website. They have a bunch of his pics there.

It's a website for Dean supporters that think he is such a good lookin' guy. A thread was posted here on FR that linked to it too.

I sent them a pic of Dean and Al as a 'joke', figuring they'd never reply. But some lady named 'Marla' did reply and she thought it was funny. Here's the pic (I did NOT send her the link/text):

Sharpton revs up against Dean
(Click here or on the pic for entire article)

At stake for Sharpton is control, both of his home turf and the African-American wing of the national party. He won't look kindly on any presidential candidate, including Dean, who doesn't recognize his primacy. In fact, he's threatening to sit out the 2004 election. "I'll just go back to Harlem," he says. Let Dean explain that to black voters.

(credit to Registered for original pic of Kerry/Dean)

[Indy Pendance]

Is this the major award for a fair funkle?

[RottiBiz]

Is this the major award for a fair funkle?

I'm sure it would be a most appropriate one!

[RottiBiz]

Rules for Funkeling.

In order to score a Fair Funkle on Free Republic, a FReeper must observe the following rules:

1) The thread chosen must have been active within 1/2 hour prior to declaring an attempt.

2) The FReeper must declare a "Fair Funkle" attempt in his/her first post.

3) The FReeper must post count downs from 4 to 1 (the declaration post counts as the first post) at no less than 5 minute intervals.

4) It is the duty of any FReeper seeing the declaration to post a "bump," thus ending the attempt.

5) The successful FReeper may, at the fifth and last post, declare in any derisive terms desired, "I did it! A Fair Funkle!"

6) Scoring of Fair Funkles will be by a jury of FReeper peers (the Funkle Committee), and will include: time intervals between count down posts, total time consumed and thread popularity prior to the Fair Funkle.

7) Scoring disputes will be decided by the Funkle Committee and may not be appealed.

8) The awarding of the annual Fairest Funkle Of Them All trophy will be decided by the Funkle Committee.

[RottiBiz]

A little history about the "funkle":

The word was coined in the June 2001 Freepathon by Freeper 2ndMostConservativeBrdMember:

"funkle - when you've discovered you are talking to yourself on a thread and the last 5 replies are from YOU!"

It is posted at #145 on the 2nd Edition Lexicon thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a1fed9e6421.htm#145

In the September 2001 Freepathon, the late 1John posted the "Rules for Funkeling" that we use today.

[MeekOneGOP]

Oh. I see. I'll never remember all that ! haha! Thanks. :O)

It sounds like a good way to keep a thread 'bumped' ...

Crazy, man. Crazy.

[MeekOneGOP]

Thanks for the info/history. Very interesting ...

Good news, folks !!

Federal Court upholds Texas Redistricting

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[little jeremiah]

I just saw your ping to my comments - and thread was pulled. Was it of dubious truth? Was it too graphic?

[archy]

I just saw your ping to my comments - and thread was pulled. Was it of dubious truth? Was it too graphic?

Probably a couple of the Admin Monitors personal frends or political partners. FYI, it's now linkled at World Net Daily's *CrimeNetDaily* instead.

More details here: 'Nobody deserves to die like that'

[Jim Robinson]

Wasn't that the one with the doctored up title? If you find the article and post it with the correct title, I'm sure it will be left up (assuming it's a legitimate article from an actual news source).

[Jim Robinson]

And if you continue posting racist comments, you keep your donations and... well, you remember that old country song, "We're gonna miss you."

[wardaddy]

Ouch Jim.

Damn, I have been admonished by the boss. The big ZOT.

My apologies, it's your forum. I shan't use that term again.

(and I was unaware of the context before putting my foot in my mouth)

Folks here in Nashville are not feeling too sensitive about this matter right now but your rules are your rules to be sure.