How to tell if you've been FReeping too long

Me ^ | June 10, 2009 | AAABEST

[AAABEST]

How to tell if you've been FReeping too long

If some, many or all of the following apply to you, you probably have been FReeping too long.

• You remember when you had to know basic HTML in order to form a decent post.
   
• You remember when the entire thread had to be 86’d in order to remove a single post.
   
• You remember when if someone forgot to close their italics, bold tags, the entire thread after that point was in bold or italics.
   
• You remember when if a disruptor made a mess of things during the wee hours of the night, we’d all have to wait until morning (Pacific Standard Time) for Jimrob to arise to take care of the problem.
   
• You remember when at times it got so bad during the wee hours of the night, some would implore those who had JimRob’s number to wake him up take care of the problem.
   
• You remember JimRob waking up in the wee hours of the night to take care of the problem.
   
• You remember (and in a strange way kind of miss) Michael Rivero.
   
• You remember (but don’t miss) Toilet Man.
   
• You can’t count how many FReepers you knew and/or interacted with that have passed away.
   
• You’re affectionately considered an “old timer” by others, though you’re not sure how much you enjoy that designation.
   
• You consider anyone who joined after the last millennium a N00b.
   
• You remember when Lazamataz was a N00b.
   
• You still consider Laz a N00b.
   
• You’ve long ago realized that others don’t read your posts and if they do, they probably don’t care what you think.
   
• You find it quaint when newer posters think others read their posts or care what they think.
   
• You wonder how you’ve gotten on all of these “ping lists.”
   
• You no longer bother asking others to take you off their ping lists and just let them go ahead and have their way with your inbox.
   
• You're wondering how you got on the ping list to this thread.
   
• Lots of FReepers have become personal friends and acquaintances.
   
• Lots of personal friends and acquaintances have become FReepers.
   
• Lots of personal friends and acquaintances have become ex-FReepers.
   
• Having so many personal friends and acquaintances on FR “cramps your style.”
   
• Despite having an anonymous screenname, because of you're friends and acquaintances, you’ve long ago given up any fanciful notion of anonymity.
   
• You can’t count how many times you’ve been furious with, then have subsequently forgiven JimRob.
   
• JimRob can’t count how many times he’s been furious with, then has subsequently has forgiven you.
   
• The aggregate time of the various “vacations” you’ve taken from FR (self-imposed or otherwise), total a longer period of time most posters’ time as members.
   
• You imagine all the kool stuff you could buy if you had all the money you've donated to FR in one lump sum.
   
• You imagine all the kool stuff you could buy if you had all the money you've spent on lodging and travel attending FR events (cruises, FReeps, gatherings etc.).
   
• You’ve actually bought a lot of kool stuff with the money you made (directly or indirectly) due in some way to your interactions on FR.
   
• If Obama were to use FR to compile an enemies list, your longevity alone would cause your screenname to feature prominently.
   

[carmody]

“Coke is it”

[Publius]

1997. My join date of 12/22/97 was a result of that. I had been here quite a few months longer.

[Billthedrill]

...who was just as sloshed as Schlegel...

[6323cd]

You know you've spent WAY too much time on FR when..... (from 2003)

[RikaStrom]

Remember when we would get all those pouty mass-defections, with the elaborate goodbye’s, and stuff...?

Oh. An Opus. We haven't had a decent Opus in ages.

Those were always fun. :-)

[gaijin]

You remember the DeepInTheHurtgenForest flap.

He had been boasting a bit about his military record, and finally he did this long listing of all the schools that he'd attended.

Basically it explained that he was a ForceRecon/Seal/Ranger/Sniper/CMH/General/Admiral/F14Pilot/M1 tank driver......or something almost like that --ridiculous.

And some SEAL organization like AuthentiSEAL explosed him as a fraud, and then he went away forever after this convoluted "explanation".

[birddog]

Only Drudge has been in my list of favorites longer.... Wow, I’m getting old.....

[Mind-numbed Robot]

They are funny even as old as they are here on FR.

[Leisler]

I would of long since thought you would of been involuntarily committed by now.

Anyways, how about saving good posts to 3 1/2 diskettes?

Or, trying to make browsing faster by turning off pictures/jpeg feature turned off? Or if you didn’t do that, reading hard copy paper while waiting for a post to load?

Web Crawler.

Buying softcover books of ‘guides to the World Wide Web’ “Oh, look a new book is out...”

I’m talking about Jimmah Carter ( spit ) the way my parents talked about FDR, whom to me seemed, like, way back in the Roman times, even though Carter seems like yesterday. Ditto Clinton.

[Osage Orange]

What are the “right” targets?

[Billthedrill]

IIRC, what finally got DITHF was a claim to multiple Combat Infantry Badges...was it harpseal who finally busted him? Squantos?

[gaijin]

Oh bro, I remember you from.....forever ago...! hahahah!

Good times...! ;)

[snowrip]

I had heard about Mia getting zotted... such a knee-jerk reaction. She contributed a hell of a lot during her time here.

Does she have a website of her own anywhere?

[Covenantor]

IIRC, what finally got DITHF was a claim to multiple Combat Infantry Badges...was it harpseal who finally busted him? Squantos?

IIRC it was sneakypete that busted DITHF

[Stand Watch Listen]

LOL...I remember Appy Pappy’s first two names...

[gaijin]

Yeah I think it was HARPSEAL..! He first started asking him innocent SEEMING questions like, “Do you remember the next line in this cadence...do you remember this SEAL song...?”

And the answer was always no.

Remember that ever-metastasizing WHITEWATER FILE...? ahahhahahh!

I think there were maybe 10 MILLION posts thrown in there? It got to be quite the amazing catch-all folder...

JUST WOW! aahahahahh

[B Knotts]

Those were the days. And now here we are, facing a president even worse than we had then.

[Billthedrill]

Yep. Correct you are. Took some flak for it, too.

[AAABEST]

Remember when we would get all those pouty mass-defections, with the elaborate goodbye’s, and stuff...?

Haven't seen a good opus in a while.

I just noticed our token, long standing liberal, "Murrymom" must have finally pushed it too far. Didn't know that she got a "nobody by that name" until I tried to look her up after posting this.

Anyone know what happened to her? Her hilarious liberal rants were CLASSIC. I'll miss her for that alone.

[MHGinTN]

I miss MiaT’s ‘visual aides’. She would have excoriated the affirmative action figure ...