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The Frederalist ^ | November 4, 2007 | Josh Painter

[papasmurf]

A real piece o’ work.

[ejonesie22]

She’s annoying, but a blast at parties...

[Petronski]

I just had to take a whack at it, here.

[Pistolshot]

Rats....guess I have to change my tagline now......

[Politicalmom]

I just figured out what your screenname meant last week, and NOW you’re changing it?

:p

[Beagle8U]

Welcome to FReeRepublic noob. /sarc.

[seekthetruth]

Me too. And I sometimes am a painter myself. Find it lots of fun even though I never look the same after! :)

[alarm rider]

This thing is going to get out of hand....

[Squidpup]

I was going to call him “noob” too, but he wrangled a 2005 join-date somehow. :o)

[Beagle8U]

Yes, I saw that too but it was just too good to pass up calling him n00b...lol

Plus I was sure he would see the joke.

[NonValueAdded]

Holy copyrights, Batman, have you cleared this with Clancy? :)

[redhead]

I had the same thing happen to me. My website is called "Opinions..." It used to be called "Opinions Unlimited," until a polling company by that name informed me that if I didn't stop using that title, I would be sued. So I removed the word, "Unlimited."

Unfortunately, there were some people and search engines who still used the original title, so I got ANOTHER letter from these folks telling me to stop.

I wrote back and told them 1. I had complied with their previous order; 2. Take their complaint up with the search engines, and 3. How the bear s**t in the buckweat. Felt good. No more letters, either.

[Clara Lou]

OK— Josh Painter you are. (Have to get used to it.)

[KoRn]

I have yet to get such a letter from a certain band, but it could happen. lol What’s funny is that even though I liked the particular band at the time, it wasn’t the reason for the screen name. I’m a big fan of Linux machines, and one of the shells in Linux is the Korn Shell.