[Mr. K]

because I was reading online for a long long time before I signed up to post

[freepersup]

I got yer' back Mr K.. Lurking (reading) is freeping, so saith freepersup.

[Chunga]

Free Republic opened to the general public in February of ‘97. If you had been lurking and reading since it first became available on the Internet, you would have been FReeping for “15 years,” not “almost 20 years.”