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.
   

[McGruff]

Jackpeace threatened to sue you.

[gaijin]

Yeah...it could have been SneakyPete...wow a lot of these screenNames I haven’t seen for so long...

This is an oldie-but-goodie..! Oh wow I feel so old...

How many hear about the breathless talk about TWITTER, but then just slyly SMILE..?

ahahahahahah...!! ;)

[Arrowhead1952]

I don't know if she has a website. I'm glad that MurryMom finally got the ZOT too.

I'll tell you one thing about FReeping too long. Did you ever ask someone to ping you when they found out something and you were talking on the phone? That'll get some looks.

[reagan_fanatic]

I remember far too many of those.

I must be older than dirt.

[snowrip]

No kidding. Did you notice the huge upswing in people that joined in November 2009?

[woofie]

<(i)>

[CatoRenasci]

Not too many of us ‘pre-registration’ types around. I know I was here within a few months of it opening, first heard about FR on the Whitewater boards on old Prodigy. I was one of those who resisted registration for a while; I think registration started in October or November (but coulda been December 1997), but I waited until late January.

[woollyone]

in the white see-through dress

[snowrip]

I mean 2008... stupid fingers.

[woofie]

I was married to Quidam once...I hope he was a female

[Leisler]

http://www.youtube.com/user/miat1111

[snowrip]

Thank God for high-speed.

[Leisler]

Days long flame wars.

[Stand Watch Listen]

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

Ahhh, yes the infamous 'OPUS.

An example...OWK would set forth yet another OPUS about every six months...then proceed to post for days/weeks regurgitating his stance, his convictions, his arguments.

[txhurl]

MurrAymom

[Publius]

Yep. We’re a bunch of old, grizzled FReepers.

[Covenantor]

Another FR nostalgia thread circa 2002 highlighting the DITHF blowup

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/673536/replies?c=52

[AAABEST]

http://www.youtube.com/user/miat1111

ROFL.

Yep, that's gotta be her. Only she could come up with something like THIS.

[cornelis]

?!

[DCBryan1]

Holy shit! Great for busting him!

I busted an old man at work with FreeRepublic help a while back....was claiming multiple Navy Crosses, and that he blew up the bridges of Toko-Ri in Korea.....trouble was...he would have been 16 at the time.

Because of Freepers, I was able to write the Navy and find out that he was an MC-3 (E-3) who finished torpedo school or something.....no medals....no flight school....nothing.

I then went into the store with info in hand and told him the next time I heard him talking about valorious medals, I'd call the cops on him under the "Stolen Valor" act.

Word is that he stopped that shit, but still tries it at the golf course.