You have a LONG memory for guys who irritated you, SunkenCiv!
I just realized that I signed up at Free Republic only a few weeks after you did, in 2004.
I always assumed that you were a FR lifer from the 1990s.
I discovered FR on election night in 2000, when the razor thin Florida election locked up Bush-Gore for several weeks.
At some point after that I either forgot my screen name or my password or both, and I had start over again in 2004.
Quite surprisingly, blam has almost 2X times as many threads as you do. I never would have guessed that.
However, it looks like you are #1 in Comments, which I would not have guessed, either.
Your closest competition for Comments is 227,000 from luvie, with whom I am not familiar.
He was more amusing than bemusing. :^)
Blam’s threads were many if not most of the GGG topics, I merely got talked into pinging by farmfriend, my immediate predecessor. On my links page there’s a pointer to the topic where GGG began, and got its name. In fact, that pointer *may* be in the GGG ping message, I now live on Failing Memory Lane and would have to go look.
Y’know, Failing Memory Lane would make a good ping list name. The trouble would be, remembering to ping everyone.
I’m #1 in comments? Yeah, heh, I believe that. And remember, I was banned for a whole year a while back.
I could have built a replica the Eiffel Tower out of used popsicle sticks from popsicle that I ate myself in the time I’ve no doubt spent here.
Of course, I’ve used a variety of timesaving techniques. ;^)