Posted on 09/18/2004 2:42:30 PM PDT by nwrep
The ongoing controversy over the fake CBS documents and the prominent role played in shedding the light on this by Freerepublic.com has caused an unprecendented surge in new memberships on the website.
Thursday, September 16, 2004 should be remembered as a landmark day for this website. On that day, more new users signed up on Freerepublic.com than on any single day before.
Click here for a running tally of daily new signups that the website keeps.
The 390 users signed up on the website eclipsed sign-up spikes caused during other newsworthy events, such as the Florida recount during the 2000 election, and the events of September 11, 2001.
The name of the website has been publicized widely in many media outlets as the source of the first revelation that the CBS memos were forgeries.
According to web traffic tracking site Alexa, Freerepublic.com has shown a remarkable increase in traffic over the last few weeks, as shown below:
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We are well. Thanks very much. And I believe Hildy was the one who gave me the bumper sticker. Will give her a ping.
Thank you - I am thrilled to death to be here. It gets so lonely to be a conservative sometimes ... I can't believe I have joined your hip ranks!
(I lived in Death Valley for five years and was known as the Borax Queen there :)
You probably had a clean house, huh? Well, if so, it won't be any longer. You will be GLUED to your computer.
Forget dinners for your family.
Groceries.
Laundry.
It's over. Your life as you once knew it is over. LOL!!!
and here's you with Opra.. : )
and of course your product.... ----LOL!!
Welcome!
I got a kick out of your post..
My wife just leaves me alone anymore.
She knows it's useless to get me away fro here..
I have posted a total of 66 threads and 10,574 replies.
Now that's scarry..
I am NOT going to go look at mine. Uh uh.
Hey haven't heard that in a while, I'm an old VAX vms guy myself. Ya they were the thing way back not too far. Things change fast.
CD
Thank you for such a warm welcome - you both are hilarious!!! A-hem, I have used a lot of borax in my life, including for killing cockroaches. But lately, you are right -every spare second has been spent reading FR, completely addictive. In Death Valley, I used to do evening slide programs about borax, as well as day-time borax mine tours. My favorite slide was one of actor Ronald Reagan holding a box of borax (he was the company spokesperson at one time). This was in the late 1980s when he was president, and the audience always LOVED that photo.
we're 3 weeks apart at signup time..
My # is 40493
your # 43133
Lotsa liberal Bush-haters in these parts and I am tired of their signs....this one seems like a perfect anecdote to me.
Boy are YOU old! :)
your # is 167925
Hey, I resemble that....
Do you know how to put your state flag on your homepage?
Go forth! Fly it proudly! Or, better yet, move back here & give us another Republican voter!
It's a terrific sign though and very well-placed. I'll give it some thought. See how courageous I am after church in the morning....
Wow, thanks! I just had to introduce myself here today so no one would think I'm one of those "trolls" I've heard mentioned.
Wow did you really do that kitchen???? Can you come here and help my husband out?
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