Been a DUer for 9 years and just hit 3,000 posts. Ask me anything.

[OrwellwasRight]

But it may take me a while to answer . . .


I crack myself up.

[hollysmom]

1. Which came first

the dog or the cat?

[OrwellwasRight]

3. Technically,

the cat and dog families broke off from a common ancestor -- the Miacidae -- about 48 million years ago, so it's hard to say.

However, I'm gonna go with cat to explain the fact that dogs always seem like they are one step behind their feline brethren.

Meow!

[d_r]

2. I am right behind you

Oct. 2004

[OrwellwasRight]

4. You can do it! Just keep posting!!1!111!

[rurallib]

5. was Orwell really right?

[OrwellwasRight]

7. Of course!

And we've always been at war with Eastasia.

[femmocrat]

6. What took you so long?

Are you shy or something?

Congrats on your milestone.

[OrwellwasRight]

8. My co-workers would say I'm anything but shy . . .

But sometimes I lurk.

Thank you!

[RedCloud]

9. What was it like before any universe or plane existed or semi-existed?

[OrwellwasRight]

10. I can only tell you what it was like before DU existed.

Those were dark days my friend. Liberals, walking around in a sea of agony, listening to lies about WMDs and Orwellian-named bills like Healthy Forests and No Child Left Behind, with nowhere to turn without hearing "you're either with us, or you're with the terrorists." And also hearing things like "There's an old saying in Tennessee—I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, 'Fool me once, shame on...shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again.'"

And then came DU!!

The truth is I can't conceive of a time before the universe existed. Because what came before that? And then what came before that? And so on. Therefore, there can't have been a time before the universe existed.

So, while you ponder that answer, watch this:

[IcyPeas]

11. nearly 10 years

other people are much better at writing and someone inevitably says what I want to say but better.

[OrwellwasRight]

12. Yes, sometimes, it is just fun to read, but not post.

[DebJ]

13. Wow. I just checked on my own status and I've been here

almost ten years now...ten in October, but I was lurking for many months before that.

I have just over 5000 posts but should have been more like 2500, LOL.

In 2003, DU was my place to find some sanity and intelligence in a world that
seemed to have lost both of those things.

It still is, sometimes, but mostly these days I go to the Lounge looking for a laugh
or two, and for MFM's posts.

[OrwellwasRight]

15. Yes, the GD Forum is a dangerous place.

Much more hostile than back in the early days. But the Lounge will always be great, even if some of my OPs sink to the bottom without ever garnering so much as a single response.

We can't all be MFM or SCE, I guess. But we can aspire.

[Paulie]

14. Looks like you're right on schedule

cough cough

Paulie
Account status: Active
Member since: 2002
Number of posts, all time: 5,961
Number of posts, last 90 days: 515

[OrwellwasRight]

16. Right on.

I guess some of these young whippersnappers who have been members for 2 years and have 12,000 posts make me feel a little inadequate.

But who needs comparisons, right?

[Paulie]

17. Ill make up for it in a decade or two

When I'm in my 60s and retired.