Sorry, I must have missed the posting rules somewhere. Been here for a few months, but didn't know that the title had to be the article title and comments were in parenthesis.
No problem..I just found a neat thread for newbies
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1213319/posts
FR Welcome Thread for Newbies and Lurkers.
Here ^ | 9/11/04 | Rebelbase
It also has thread links to other FR things like the "lexicon"..