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.
   

[Vinnie]

Your spouse runs into the computer room and exclaims so and so just happened in Seattle. You say, “Yeah I just read about it on FR.”

[DJ MacWoW]

I got married at 19 and told it would never last because I was too young. Popular opinion isn’t worth very much sometimes. :-)

[DCBryan1]

LOL: All was good in 1998 (not 1999) when I met diotima, clintonsaliar (connie hair), msantifeminazi, and some other hot female freepers at the Arlington hotel, in Hot Springs, AR.

We were going to have a Freeper convention at the Arlington in 1998, but Bob J (I think) wanted to save it for a FReeper Inauguration in 2000.

I was the luckiest guy in the world, in a hotel room with a bunch of Freeper women...hot too! CAL told me all about how Eschoir broke into her apartment and took pictures, her underwear, and did some really demented things. I was so mad taht I thought about visiting him in DC sometime to make my acquantance, but actually, the little turd wasn't worth it.

Man....I just wish I could go back to just DCBryan with my old inception dates of 1997......but Jim Rob said that was the price I had to pay.

[nufsed]

Wow, I didn't know that story.

I petition every year or so to use my original name. I stopped after being ignored the third or fourth time.

It's fun to win an argument and get called a nooB troll. On the American Idol thread, I was called a woman and reported to the moderator by some guy who signed up last year. Here I am.

There is a deep personal dislike between me and the owner for several reasons I won't go into. I try to just do my posts and follow the rules. I have serious medical problems and the site has been a very good thing for me over the years.

[Covenantor]

see below for a synopsis of the event with DITHF

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/673536/replies?c=52

[hiredhand]

The site for “Enemies Foreign and Domestic” is at -

http://www.enemiesforeignanddomestic.com/

As for Carry_Okie’s book, I’m pretty sure it’s “almost” due to go to print.... but not quiet yet! :-) It’s called “Shemitta”. Both are “must read” books!

[nufsed]

Thanx. I remember it. My story explains how it started and how forest came to post his “medals.”

[hiredhand]

Hey! Long time no speak! Drop us a note! We’ll catch up! :-)

[Fiddlstix]

Someone should mention A+Bert just for old times sake.....
And "Ash Alerts" too come to think of it......

[appleseed]

Thanks. Ordered from Amazon. I’ll be BOL for “Shemitta”.

[Nam Vet]

BOO !

I'm still here and, believe it or not, remember. Even in my advanced age!

Nam Vet

[barker]

Doing good. Trying to tie up some loose ends, get some things done so I can retire by the end of September. I can really relate to feeling old sometimes.

[Ladysmith]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/735901/posts

[Kevmo]

I love nostalgia threads like these. It’s cool to see some old signup dates. For a while I had a tagline that said something like, “if I had signed up 4 days earlier I’d have had a 3 digit FReeper number”. There are so few old timers left.

[Kathy in Alaska]

My number is under 20, can’t remember what...11-28-1997

[LS]

My books are as follows:

A Patriot's History of the United States (paperback ed., 2006, has Rush Limbaugh's full interview with me reprinted)

America's Victories: Why the U.S. Wins Wars (2006)

48 Liberal Lies About American History (2008)

I also have, only on Amazon, two excellent novels (as confirmed by the reviews):

September Day, a 9/11 thriller in which a professor (naturally) is the hero tracking down the financing of the terror plot, and

Halsey's Bluff a WW II counterfactual in which Bill Halsey, after a stunning defeat at Midway, leads the U.S. fleet in a desperate fight to stay alive.

[appleseed]

Excellent resource on literature I’m gonna try to get. Worth a look if you have a few extra bucks after 0bama’s hope and change shakedown on anyone that earns a paycheck. Also a good history on FR that happened long before I signed up.

Self Reliant/Survivalist ping list

[silent_jonny]

LOL! :)

[wafflehouse]

that was a dude?? no way!!

[wafflehouse]

was ‘belly girl’ a real freeper or just some random hot chick?