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"The Old Days of Free Republic"

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Posted on 04/12/2000 05:35:44 PDT by JimmyT

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a38f46da06828.htm

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I tell ya, you should have been on Free Republic back in the 1910's. It was different back then. Sinkspur was only "Sink," not having yet earned his spurs. Michael Rivero was concerned mainly about the hypothetical explosion of the Titanic's center fuel tank, which was what sent it to the bottom, not some dang friggin' "ice-berg." Ancient_Geezer was simply Geezer. People were criticizing President Woodrow "Billy Blythe" Wilson, and hoping like hell that he didn't run for a third term (no 22nd Amendment yet). The "Bull Moose" Party 'brigadiers' occasionally surfaced, and dished out, well, a lot of Bull. For a while people were talking about whether a youngster with the last name of "Castro" ought to be returned to Cuba. And some were hoping that Prescott "p-scott" Bush would run for President.

The big controversy on FR back then, I tell ya, was whether booze should be outlawed. If booze was outlawed, by golly, only outlaws would have booze! And FR back then had a lot of these danged 'pro-prohibitionists' infiltrating, like ash out a chimney.

21 Posted on 04/12/2000 14:55:27 PDT by Jay W

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"..."The Old Days of Free Republic" ..." Oh yes, I remember them well. Had to walk 3 miles in the snow, each day, to get to my terminal, and log on. ;^)-

And by "log," you mean a real log. Made out of wood. Chopped that very day.

31 Posted on 04/12/2000 15:05:08 PDT by Jay W
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To: Vitolins
FR radio wasn't the old days... don't you remember the papyrus scrolls we had to send to eachother via chariot? I guess not too many people remember that, since the library at Alexandria burned and the scrolls were destroyed.

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Free Republic was much better in the late 1700's, I thought. Jim Robinson had just purchased his moveable-type printing press, and we would all stand around awaiting our turn to print our message out. Then we would physically walk it over to a big bulletin board and pin in up. In order to keep track of which message went to which response, a piece of thread was used. That is how the term THREAD was born. Once in a while someone would get so mad at a persons message, they would set it afire. That is how the term FLAME was born. People who did not want to post messages would lurk in the shadows of the room, hoping to remain unnoticed. That is how the term LURKER was born.

At that time, we were all debating the first continental congress and whether we should be a Monarchy or a Republic. The Second Amendment was a very hotly debated topic, but in order that there be no confusion as to our intention, we appended the phrase "A well-regulated militia being necessary to a free society,". We believed this phrase would completely strip any ambiguity out of the Second Amendment once and for all.

At the time, we were sending the very first Cuban citizen back to Cuba and the newspapers made quite a fuss over it. We all grew bored.

When the New Amsterdam armory had the explosive accident, lots of conspiracy theories were were circulated. The most reasonable explanation was that the Center Gunpowder Keg simply spontaneously exploded. Although there were 180+ witnesses that saw a flaming arrow arc into the barrel, authorities quickly discounted this improbable theory.

36 Posted on 04/12/2000 15:09:16 PDT by Lazamataz