[FreeTheHostages]

TOP TEN REASONS TO CONTRIBUTE TO FREE REPUBLIC (with apologies to my good cyberfriend Mudboy Slim)

10. No one is asking you to give a million dollars, just give a little more $ than some cheapskate like Mudboy Slim

9. Because the more $ you contribute, and the sooner, the sooner we'll have the resources to police these threads and protect ourselves from the likes of Mudboy Slim

8. Because if we all unite together and keep this site going and populous, our voices will drown out the Mudboy Slim posts

7. Because just posting in cyberspace isn't enough to change the world: Free Republic has to become even stronger and more stable so that it can help change the real world and make it a better place for the young children of today, lest they grow up to be like Mudboy Slim.

6. Because it's important to do at least your share, where people like Mudboy Slim duck their responsibilities.

5. Because it's just as well to forgo that extra beer at the bowling alley, lest you begin to look like Mudboy Slim.

4. Because not all the people on this website have Freep names like "Mudboy Slim."

3. To increase the legal defense fund so that when Mudboy Slim sues me, he can't take my swimming pool.

2. Generally, to improve the look and the feel of the site so that we may in the future attract a high caliber of Freepers than . . hee hee, well, you get the idea.

and the number one reason (drumroll please):

1. Because on this site you can meet really kewl activists like Mudboy Slim.

[Mudboy Slim]

"5. Because it's just as well to forgo that extra beer at the bowling alley, lest you begin to look like Mudboy Slim."

Now that's hittin' waaaay above the belt...LOL!! That's one of the reasons I've endeavored to persevere upon a Second SlimFast Fer Justice...details to follow on alternate threads...MUD

[Mudboy Slim]

"...when Mudboy Slim sues me, he can't take my swimming pool."

My operatives say you don't even have a swimmin' pool...MUD

[Mudboy Slim]

"(drumroll please)"

You play drums?! We need a drummer...MUD

[Mudboy Slim]

As Gandhi said, "Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appear to be different truths are like the countless and apparently different leaves of the same tree."

FReegards...MUD

[Gabz]

BRAVO!!!!!!!!!