Posted on 07/01/2004 12:40:59 PM PDT by BluegrassScholar
Thanks, Ken.
I kinda suspected what ZOT meant, but ROTFL just went over my head (I still use LOL, call me old-fashioned...).
Rock on, man.
BTTT
...spent it all while I was still alive.
Put me on that list. I died of boredom right there.
We all live on in the hearts of people that knew us and those that learn about us. We are never truely gone until all record of our existance is gone.
Children are a very slow time machine by which we travel forward into eternity.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Have no fear a wake is a perfectly good excuse to get so drunk you drool on yourself. As for not being able to type hispanarepublicana we will be so drunk we won't be able to figure out how to turn on the computer let alone sign on to the internet.
No way. I don't even drive and I never laugh at people who have a skill I don't have.
Unlike the elitist leftists, I understand how the economy runs and how things get to the store. I also know if my son and I were stuck on a road somewhere, I can probably count on a trucker to help.
Besides, I'm such a nerd, last night I watched a show on trucking over the frozen lakes of the Northwest Territories. It was fascinating how this one guy developed a system since the 1960s and its improvements since then, especially in its use of information technology (my thing).
I think the PHD=Phenominally Dumb does hold for those who've never left the academy and never had to make it in the real world. There is a big difference between a mature student, embarking on a career change, such as myself, and a wet behind the ears 25 year old PhD who has never done anything but read books or fiddle w/test tubes. Even after they grow up, I find their knowledge of life amazingly limited.
bookmarking ... reference for a later "season" of life.
That's what they said when Algore invented the Tower of Babel.
what bands theyu listened to...
They didn't have garage bands then only shed bands.
We actually have lost a number of FReepers, but their profiles are still active. Personally, I like the idea of keeping the profiles. You never know when FReepers of the future might be going back and reading old threads and want to know something of those who did the posts. Might not even be FReepers, for that matter. What I would like to see, however, is that after a FReeper is known to have passed on, have the mods go in and do a modification on the profile page that would reflect that. ...like maybe a different color theme for the page and a date of death.
Could we have the party sooner? I'd like at least one chance to party with ya before one of us kicks off!
The Memorial Wall
http://www.freerepublic.com/memorial/memorial.htm
Their profile pages and tribute threads.
Not morbid at all. I was given the task by a fellow FReeper to do just that upon the time I found appropriate following her imminent passing. And I did so, not just here at FR, but on several other boards we both frequented.
The following from the article describes part of what occurred after I followed her wishes:
Some of Huth’s online acquaintances learned of his death through a thread posted on Lipstick and Cigarettes by a close friend of his here in Baltimore. Brett Roberts, an online-only acquaintance from Portland, Ore., says he read about Huth’s demise on the thread only to witness the passing on of the information devolve into backbiting and dramatics.
“It seemed like no one really cared about him dying,” Roberts says via AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), “more that they wanted to seem ‘in-the-know’ by finding out about the events surrounding his death. People wanted to play the victim, throwing claims of being close to him around while probably not knowing anything more than his screen name.”
There was only one incident of it occurring here at FR, and that was done by a troll. But some of the things posted on other boards absolutely tore me to pieces. I had just lost one of my closest friends, online and off, and had to deal with nasty, vicious attacks on her by those who disliked her positions while she was living.
I think it a good idea to have someone ready in the wings to notify internet contacts, but that person had better have a strong stomach, an alligator hide, and a spine of steel. Most especially if the person was involved in controversial issues.
Since I didn't see a serious answer ;) it usually stands for "Great Minds Think Alike".
Hi Bear.
Ironic isn't it that the poster of this article, "BluegrassScholar" is dead to FR, having been banned.
When my Dad (FR NAME EDLINN) died in 2000. I posted it for several reasons. The most important one was that he would have wanted to say goodbye to people he had been corresponding with over the years. The second was for me because FR had become a part of my life at that point. It would have been unnatural not to post it. The people on FR were a comfort because so many emailed me privately to tell me their experiences with my Father and how much they enjoyed reading his posts. The sympathy was genuine and appreciated during that difficult time. The first flowers we received were from FreeRepublic.
There was a time I did not exist
Now once again I've been dismissed.
There's much to say, but here's the gyst,
I'm really, really, deeply pissed.
Oh, well, the article was interesting anyway, and I hadn't seen it before.
And, I agree, it is ironical that the original poster has been banned...
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