Fifth Edition of the Lexicon of FreeRepublic * * A helpful FR dictionary for newcomers * *

April 26, 2002 | Risky Schemer, Bugbear, many others

[Risky Schemer]

I'll try one:

Michael Rivero -- FreeRepublic's resident conspiracy theorist / expert. Rivero presented voluminous evidence on several theories, including TWA flight 800, which Rivero maintained was a friendly fire accident, covered up to insure a smooth campaign season that year. However, Rivero (like many other conspiracy buffs -- go figure) tended to find conspiracies where there were none -- that is, there is no such thing as an accident, anywhere. For a while most any report of a plane crash would result in Rivero being jokingly pinged to uncover the "real" causes. Rivero even formulated a theory or claim that the JFK Jr plane crash was a "hit," rather than pilot error. Rivero was banned, when, following 9/11, he began to claim the American government / Bush / etc. had orchestrated or somehow condoned the attack on the World Trade Center.

[Anything in error here, someone please chime in and correct.]

[billbears]

bump

[Flipyaforreal]

Cool list. Were these mentioned?:

MAROON, common mispelling of moron. And TIME TO TAKE A SHOWER, which started many months ago, I believe by My Favorite Headache (?). I recall someone innocently mentioning they were just about to hop in the shower (every time some possibly interesting news story broke), for a few days in a row, which promted many to ask just how many showers DOES that person take! So, whenever big news breaks but we aren't sure if it is BIG news yet, someone will inevtiably refer to getting in the shower. LOL

Once, a moose bit my sister in the shower and it hurt like a b!tch. (sorry had to say it, my first time :)

[Cicero5]

nice post, thanks to all.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

What a gem!

Great piece of work!

[Momaw Nadon]

Yes Indeed

[MadelineZapeezda]

Thought I'd bump this thread for all the newbies.

[Paul Atreides]

You need to add the Monica emoticon:

Q:-0 <=8

[Balata]

Suggestions for additional entries / updates / revisions are welcome and appreciated!

There are many recent examples of the following:

ZOT...

[Balata]

ZOT, by example:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/806012/posts?page=2#2

[artios]

"Tourist Guy" and "Hold Muh Beer" alerts!!!

[Luis Gonzalez]

Why is there a "No Account On File" screen when I try to look at your profile?

[Balata]

"No account on file." LOL! Maybe he didn't pay his dues this month.

[WKB]

Bump for Keith

[WKB]

Bump for a lurker

[Tuxedo]

This list is pretty impressive. Should also add "Series" and someone needs to post a pic of Tourist Guy.

[Flipyaforreal]

LOL! Yes! VEY Series! Only a maroon or a looser would not take this vey series :)

[gitmo]

ZOT!! An act of compassion by the FreeRepublic administrators in banning a disruptor from the Forum. This act may be triggered by posts intended to stir up anger within the FR, by intentionally and repeatedly violating the rules of conduct, or by generally being an anal sphincter.

There are several flavors of Zots. For instance, here is the famous lighning bolt Zot:



Another popular Zot is the Viking Kitten Zot.
A remarkably large number of Zot victims signed up on the very day they were Zotted. Apparently they signed up specifically to disrupt our wonderful forum.

[MadelineZapeezda]

Need to add 'Lurker' to the vocab.....I didn't see it up there^