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.
   

[txhurl]

You mean ‘what kind of snake is this?’ She had it pinned under her foot while freeping what to do about it? God, that was funny.

I love the ‘what kind of spider is this’ threads, too.

[combat_boots]

Buckhead?

[ex-snook]

Hey I remember - it was only yesterday - Freeping is born again every day.

[Old Professer]

And all we could think about was surviving Clinton — guess what?

We did, and see what happened?

[Arrowhead1952]

Unnngh..

Hugh

Series

Shower

dssssss

[gaijin]

I still remember when it was huge news cuz Drudge decided to list us as a link on his site, and everyone was amazed and flabberghasted.

That was great!!

And then later, he de-listed us, because there was something anti-black sounding in some posts.

But I still love Drudge, and I think we still are linked over there now.

How many people think WE originate some of Drudge’s finds? Who thinks Rush is a registered freeper? Or maybe lurks...?

I think probably ALL popular hosts (and/or their producers) are freeps...

[DCBryan1]

I remember Eschoir and Ash and Don Morgan and Noumenon and a few others, though

LOL....me too. I remember the horrid tale of Clinton'saLiar and her run in with Eschoir......I thought she was about to solicit me to feed him to the fishes:).....I told her, "no women, no children".

[gaijin]

THANKS! Buckeheard, yeah.

Yeah, and it was that idiot DAN RATHER whom buckhead fired.

Some people just have to learn their place, you know?

[Political Junkie Too]

• You made RJayneJ's "Post of the Day" list... more than once!

-PJ

[Sarajevo]

IIRC it was sneakypete that busted DITHF

Yep. Petey did a number on DITHF.

[BreitbartSentMe]

OK, here’s the final draft of the 2008 Lexicon. Thanks batter!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2077468/posts

Gaijin, I think the shower reference is there, just do a word search under Lore.

[Professional Engineer]

Close your tags!

[EternalVigilance]

Being a newbie compared to most of the screen names on this thread, I’ll just read quietly...

:-)

[OneVike]

Does anyone know about MANY registered freeps there are now?

I read a thread that had a comment from Jim that there are about 336,000 registered Freepers, and hundreds of thousands of lurkers.

[OrioleFan]

Mia T was the reason I had to upgrade from dialup to DSL...

[Covenantor]

Have you reviewed the 2002 FR Lexicon?

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

[DCBryan1]

Mia T was the reason I had to upgrade from dialup to DSL...

ROFLMAO! I know! Wasn't it aggravating!?

[MozarkDawg]

You remember when if someone forgot to close their italics, bold tags, the entire thread after that point was in bold or italics.

This is me; I cannot tell you how many times I was the instigator of the "Close Your Tags!!" admonishment reminder.

[choirboy]

That’s the one. I’m laughing just thinking about it.

[McGruff]

• You know who Ann Coulter's stalker was.