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.
   

[lonestar]

Murrymom-—nice to forget!

[lonestar]

Remember Michael Salutia? (or close to it)

[Publius]

I remember Michael Rivero.

[lonestar]

Not him.

[nralife]

There also used to be a FReeper photo page.

People would e-mail in their photos for inclusion.

IIRC, it was compiled and hosted by someone other than the Robinsons, but it was pretty cool and had lots of photos!.

[Brytani]

I’ll pay you money to get rid of that thread - seriously....

groan

[PureSolace]

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

I remember those days. Good times! :)

[TheWriterTX]

I actually liked A+Bert; we got along nicely, even if we never agreed.

DITHF

Now, if folks remember that, they remember a lot, and "old timers" know exactly what that stands for.

Been through a few handles due to evil computer viruses, but was part of Project Chinagate.

Yeah, been around a long time...

[TheWriterTX]

Deep In The Hurtgen Forest (DITHF).

[TheWriterTX]

"You’ve been accused of being a DU troll for one thing or another."

Yup! And by a newbie, of all things!

[TheWriterTX]

Aw, Geez! Not another OPUS thread!

Yup, remember lots of them.

[TheWriterTX]

Dear Bill,

I believe it was Harpseal.

Remember the guy that went cross country on horseback? We had FReepers posting his progress as he went.

[omegabea]

Quidam, Clarity and Connie Hair...yep...those were the days when I posted under 4truth!

[Arrowhead1952]

I’ll pay you money to get rid of that thread - seriously....

groan

Why? It is a FReeper legend! That should be considered an honor.

[KC Burke]

It is a sign of the fellowship of the site that not only did you become a legend for making a posst that became a teasing joke, but you stayed around all these years and have becoome a serious heavyweight thinker and poster.

At DU those that fall outside the soviet line by mistaake or not, have to disappear from shame.

[AFreeBird]

I remember that Mia’s posts were a *itch on dial-up.

[Brytani]

Thanks

One the convention is over I’ll go back to my official tagline - Keeper of the FR Loofah and Bubble-bath :-)

[Balata]

Who you calling sneaky, sneaky?

[FrogMom]

You found FR from the original Drudge link.

That's me. I sat and almost cried as I read thread after thread and realized that I wasn't alone.

[Brytani]

Going back in some older threads looking for something I saw your post

That is not what happened. I’m in the Lexicon as the starter of the shower posts and to this day, though the thread is still there for people to see, it gets spread wrong.

I had just got OUT of the shower (should never had mentioned that) when I heard there was a terror problem at an airport my husband was set to fly out of that day. I only caught the very end of the Fox News Alert report and asked on here for an update on what was going on. Some people on the thread twisted what I had said and it took off from there.

Anyone who knows me and how much I love my husband, Rafterman on FR, knows I’d never get worried about him and go off to do something like that.

After all these years I got to admit it still bugs me how far removed from reality that one post was taken and how it’s still spread around to this day.

I’d pay good money to get taken out of the Lexicon for that and for those to stop spreading the false story, but it’s Freeper lore now and not much I can do about it.