The Free Republic 4th Quarter FReepathon is now underway!!

Click here to donate via secure server ^ | October 4, 2004 | Jim Robinson

[steveegg]

Good morning ladies. That's a very nice picture to wake up to (and the 25% isn't bad either).

[Flyer]

Goal $80,000 - December 2001 - 4 days, 7 hours, 58 minutes

A whopping $777.00 an hour.

We will have to make the goal in 3 days, 5 hours to beat that rate. If my math is right, we are at roughly $1,000.00 an hour now. Wahoo!

[steveegg]

We are over 25% in less than 24 hours. Wow! Does that break any records?

Very, very close. The last time I saw money fly in this fast was when the FReepathon resumed after 9/11.

[ValerieUSA]

[CarolTX]

The check is in the mail from The People's Republic of Austin.

"A day without FReeping is like a day without sunshine."

[ValerieUSA]

Thank you
Austin Texas

[RottiBiz]

The previous record of 4 days, 4 hours, 32 minutes was in October 2000.

However, it was not actually a Freepathon, but a special fund-raiser for a server upgrade to handle increased traffic prior to the November elections.

The Freepathon record was December 2001 -- 4 days, 7 hours, 58 minutes.

The monthlies will be added in when we reach 30% (or so) and, if we continue at the present rate, we will definitely break both previous records.

[RottiBiz]

Thank you, CarolTX!

[steveegg]

Are you one of those "perfect" ones?

Not a chance, but I trust my vocabulary more than than a machine that can't tell the difference between "they're" and "their" :-)

[RottiBiz]

Good morning, steve!

We are on a roll -- hope this pace continues.

Can't wait until the monthlies roll in. (That always grabs everyone's attention.)

;-)

[steveegg]

That's cruel and unusual punishment (making a rabbit look French is a series crime :-)

I was talking about the windmill picture.

[RottiBiz]

We will have to make the goal in 3 days, 5 hours to beat that rate. If my math is right, we are at roughly $1,000.00 an hour now. Wahoo!

Definitely doable! Just watch what happens when the monthlies are added in.

[steveegg]

I'm Norm's Bar and Grill bouncer. I guess it beats bussing tables. sigh.

Don't forget about the chef, CK.

[steveegg]

It figures the FReepathon started about 10 minutes AFTER I turned my puter off to run errands and then my car died and then homework had to be done and then errands had to be run and then dinner had to be cooked and eaten and then dishes had to be done........5 hours disappears real fast!!!!!

Blame the time zones; it always works for me ;-)

[ValerieUSA]

It's not too early to start drinking, is it?

[RottiBiz]

Thank you, don-o!

[steveegg]

Don't remember Laz doing Burma Shave (he did the history of FR; now where did I put that link?), but I remember Nick Danger putting the animated Burma Shave signs out there.

[steveegg]

Can't wait until the monthlies roll in. (That always grabs everyone's attention.)

Which if the pace continues, should be about 7 pm tonight.

[RottiBiz]

Thank you, facedown!

[steveegg]

It's not too early to start drinking, is it?

Somewhere, it's 5 o'clock :-)

When I'm fishing, the bottle starts flowing about 10 (or a bit earlier if there's already been a good one ;-)