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.
   

[MARTIAL MONK]

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[freedomlover]

Oh yes the old “White Font of Death” LOL. The only way you could read it was to do your best to “select” the text with your curser.

I remember when someone kept including huge Marilyn Manson pics over and over and over and over and . . . . well you get the idea

[DCBryan1]

I remember, that in this thread

Need Freeper Help with Flamethrower and Grenades.

I got like a dozen replies, but I got about 100 mails ;)

Cost me about $4k, but the flamethrower runs great. We use it every year to light the camp fire on the first day of beer season.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

Here’s the old thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/739169/posts

[DJ MacWoW]

I was told about FR on the Rysher Highlander Forum. I was one of the few conservatives and regularly got trashed about it. So someone said that maybe I'd like FR better. It's also where I learned HTML. Had to know it to post "Frus". :-)

FR has been a blessing.

[djf]

Mike Reagan had a forum that started out good but turned in to a regular flame-fest, so it got shut down.
I think there are about a dozen FReepers that came from there...

[Syncro]

A+bert

Then Jim took his + away...he had a fit!

[DJ MacWoW]

That’s a shame. I take it that there were no mods. A political forum needs good moderators.

[CatoRenasci]

Wait ‘til next year when it’s been > 10 years. Original ‘old timers’ are the ones who were (verified by Jim) here for some months before JimRob decided he had to initiate the registration/log in procedure. Next come the (few) who registered before the end of 1997. 1998 is over the 10 year hump and 1999 would go over in the fall, so they’re probably ‘old timers’ as well. Soon, LowOil, soon your time will come.

[DJ MacWoW]

Terri Adams still is a freeper and posts regularly.

[DCBryan1]

A political forum needs good moderators.

I need to be a moderator!

[DCBryan1]

A political forum needs good moderators.

I need to be a moderator!

[Interesting Times]

And who was the girl with the bare midriff modeling teeshirts, was she “belly girl”?

Belly Girl was the girlfriend of a Protest Warriors founder whose iconic photo inspired a fervently supportive fanbase here.

[DJ MacWoW]

I need to be a moderator!

I don't think that I would on a board this busy. I was a mod on a fan board for a short time. Terrible experience as the owner kept changing the rules and had favorites that got away with stuff. I quit after about 2 months.

[Eaker]

I remember that thread.

I walked away as Eaker luck usually includes me bleeding.

[hope]

....and, You’ve forgotten what a pain in the a$$ ash was!

[lowbridge]

What ? No Tourist Guy reference?

[DJ MacWoW]

There used to be tagline threads monthly that listed the best taglines. I miss those.

[lowbridge]

■You consider anyone who joined after the last millennium a N00b.

■You remember when Lazamataz was a N00b.

■You still consider Laz a N00b.

[lowbridge]

You remember that a thread was considered to be a very popular thread when it hit 35 posts.

You remember the "dont ping Arthur McGowan" thread which was the very first thread to hit 1000 posts