What brought you to Free Republic?

[GoCards]

What was your story that brought you here to this site.

[Mr. Silverback]

Woohoo! Thanks to him for his service. AF, Navy or Marines?

[Springman]

Heard about FR on Rush. Lurked for a few years then signed on.

Quickest way to get kitty pics!!

[Mr. Silverback]

Ivan was still on about the English-bashing because he felt that the “Islam is taking over the UK” stuff was overblown, but mainly he left because he and a group of American posters took the numbers side of the old principles vs. numbers debate and started their own website.

[Mr. Silverback]

I’m stuned that you were googling bee beer. Now I’m off to the shower.

[Mr. Silverback]

How’s your niece?

[Lurker]

Googled "beeber" accidentally, instead of "Bee beer".

That's funny.

I've been on here so long I don't even remember how I stumbled in. Google wasn't even invented when I found the place. My sign up date is 98 but I know I was here for a year before that.

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[a fool in paradise]

I came to learn of this man Jim Thompson, but I stay for the Helen Thomas pics.

[Responsibility2nd]

I want to say the Drudge Report.

But was Drudge linking to FR in the Spring of 2005?

I signed up. Posted for several months. Was a naive and smart aleck noobie. Got the zot.

Signed up again in November of 05. Not a naive noobie any more. But still a smart aleck.

(Wishing the mods would take me off of double secret probation - Please??)

[Ditto]

Also the Drudge Report link back in the Clinton Era.

I found the link on Drudge to the Whitewater board back in the Spring of 97. It was a lot different place then. Only a few stories posted per day and not that many posters. Back then, you didn't need to register and you could use a different screen name with every post if you wanted.

By the Fall of 97 when the Monica Lewinsky story broke, it got insane with thousands of new posters and hoards of leftist trolls showing up to disrupt things and start flame wars. That's when Jim started the registration stuff. It's hard to believe that was 13 years ago.

[Responsibility2nd]

When he ran out of insults he called me a “F’ing FReeper”.

I'd guess that was probably the best insult you ever had.

Look where it lead you!

[Non-Sequitur]

I got booted off of Trixie’s site one too many times - the woman had no patience for civil war threads. Jim Robinson is infinitely more patient than she is.

[Cuttnhorse]

LOL...I was a little surprised that it took 65 posts before Lucianne came up...I came to FR when Lucianne went on one of her periodic(?)banning rampages, and one of the dissapeared notified me and told me to “come on over” to FReep...which I did.

[Darksheare]

I was wandering the wastelands of the internet in 2000 prior to the election and stumbled across the site.
It was different then, forum dinosaurs roamed free, and you had to beat your html into submission before you could use it.
I used a rock usually.
But I liked what I saw.

[ColdOne]

Was looking around on Mark Levin’s website and FreeRepublic was a link.

[Arrowhead1952]

Heard about FR on Rush. Lurked for a few years then signed on.

Same here. Rush made a comment about "The FReepers at Fre Republic are having a fit about this", so I looked up Free Republic. I also lurked for several years before signing up.

[Darnright]

Like a lot of others here, Whitewater brought me here. I actually found FR via Varmint Al’s site.

Thanks, V.A.!

[M Kehoe]

One of two things. Either the link from Drudge or a mind meld from gonzo. I can't remember which it was...

5.55mm

[Constitution Day]

“Whitewater” link on the Drudge Report. I lurked for so long before I jumped in.

[gonzo]

"...a mind meld from gonzo..."

Correct, but ... YOU WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO FIGURE IT OUT!!

Took you long enough, though ........................... FRegards

[Varmint Al]

FOUND FREE REPUBLIC.... I heard "Peter the Lawyer" (Peter Mulhern who now has the Washington-Weekly) the first time he was on Rush and then when he called the second time, Rush said that the transcript of the first call was on the Free Republic Web Site. It only took a few minutes to find the transcript on the site, but what was even more important, there was a list of discussions about what Peter had said. It was wonderful to know that there are so many other conservatives out there. It is thought provoking to read what these good people think without a liberal filter being applied by the news media. Each weekday morning I listen to Rush and surf the Free Republic. Free Republic and Rush is an awesome combo!

See my Tribute to Rush.

Good Hunting... from Varmint Al