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.
   

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Forest was posting to CAL everynight. He was supposed to be deployed in a war zone in eastern Europe. bigsigh criticized it as a nightly tear jerker.

Forest challenged bigsigh to list his military medals. Meanwhile, forest posted his medals.

Someone came along and showed how the medals awarded to forest were not possible.

Forest disappeared.

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321

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How many times have you been banned?

[DJ MacWoW]

You were able to read deleted comments.

That was a software glitch that I miss. :-D

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Some introductory information regarding deep forest. #321

[Eaker]

TheMom is a n00bie and maybe a troll!

[RightField]

I kinda miss those open tags, you never knew what you’d see.
I don’t know much HTML but what I know I had to learn here.

Yep!

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FYI 321

[al baby]

thanks

[RightField]

Lots of personal friends and acquaintances have become FReepers.

Thanks to FreeRepublic, my DH, Mr. RightField, has been a recovering Liberal for nearly 10 years now. (I lurked for over a year before signing up or I'd have one of those coveted 1997 signup dates). In fact, I'm promoting him to Rabid Conservative at this point . . . he's even buying Mark Levin and Wayne Perryman books for HIS liberal relatives. LOL

[Covenantor]

FYI 321 Redall that very well. Sneakypete was the one that broke DITHF story. For quite awhile DITHF had creds at FR and the unmasking was really ugly with many taking his side over sneakypete’s.

Lesson learned: Don’t ever, never ever, mess with a Hatchet Force SF warrior.

PS This one’s for you Pete if you’re lurking.

[DJ MacWoW]

okie dokie, eaker.

Let me know what she does to ya for that. After 39 years with mine, he only gets a pinch.....if I have the energy.

[DCBryan1]

DCBryan1 How many times have you been banned?

LOL...5 or 6 times from late 1997 to early 1999.

Met Jim Rob and all was good afterwards ;)

[TheMom]

I don’t even have the energy for a pinch . . . a dirty look from across the room is all I can muster.

[Eaker]

LOL!

39 years!

WOW!

[DCBryan1]

What ever happened to Dr. Raoul?

I loved it when Hillary said someone in a devil suit was following her around.

[nufsed]

This is an example of one thing I especially like about the site. If you put it out there someone will eventually come along with the truth.

[KC Burke]

doin good...but gettin’ to feeling old

how ‘bout you?

[nufsed]

Maybe there’s hope for me. LOL!

[DJ MacWoW]

My Hubby is sneaky. I’m not even in the same room. His computer is in that LR and mine is in the backroom. No dirty looks for him. I gotta move to glare. LOL