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Sun Dec-26-04 10:43 PM
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Do you remember the first thing you ever posted on DU? |
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I do. I was a total dork and felt really stupid, too.
I decided to post first in the lounge, as the other forums scared me. There was some thread with an acronym like MLS or something and I didn't know what they were talking about. I didn't realize it was an inside joke and so I asked what it meant. No one answered. I asked again, further down in the thread, again no one answered.
I guess you didn't have to have a minimum number of posts to PM because I PMed one of the guys on the thread asking him what it meant and bristling at being ignored. He PMed me back what the acronym stood for (it was sexual) and I was all embarrassed for having pushed my way into what was clearly an "inside" thread. I didn't do that again.
In fact, I didn't even post again for weeks.
How about you?
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Sun Dec-26-04 10:45 PM
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It was more than three years ago...
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Jackpine Radical
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Sun Dec-26-04 10:45 PM
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2. What does MLS stand for? |
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Sun Dec-26-04 10:45 PM
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I don't know if the original posters are still around or not and I wouldn't want to embarrass them.
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Sun Dec-26-04 10:48 PM
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4. Yes, I do. I joined in September of this year - right before 9/11 |
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Someone had posted a thread regarding the 1973 Pinochet coup (also on September 11) and asked about Victor Jara whose picture appeared in photos on the subject. She wanted to know if anyone knew anything about Victor Jara and I did and I told her. That was my first post.
See, I can be deep sometimes :7
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Sun Dec-26-04 10:49 PM
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5. To the best of my recollection, I do not recall |
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Sun Dec-26-04 11:19 PM
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Sun Dec-26-04 10:49 PM
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6. I think my first post was on a PNAC thread |
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MoveOn.org had just published the skinny on the PNACers and somebody posted a thread about it. I'd been reading about the PNAC for a few months on other web sites. I said something to the effect that this was the type of thing that would take down Bush. The truth was enough. That was in March of '03. Boy was I wrong.
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Sun Dec-26-04 10:50 PM
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7. Some long essay that I took really seriously but was largely ignored. |
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Took me a little bit to figure out that people generally don't like to read long posts. I still can't resist sometimes though.
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Sun Dec-26-04 11:10 PM
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25. I read em long or short. Love to see what other minds are thinking. |
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Sun Dec-26-04 10:51 PM
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8. Yep - An ad for my web site! |
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Sun Dec-26-04 10:52 PM
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10. Hey I remember when you showed up! |
Mayberry Machiavelli
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Sun Dec-26-04 10:52 PM
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9. Just found it, heh. Here it is. |
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Sun Dec-26-04 10:53 PM
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11. Hey that one guy wrote a pretty long response! |
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Nice essay, I have it bookmarked now!
Did you only join in February? You seem like such a DU vet!
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Mayberry Machiavelli
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Sun Dec-26-04 10:54 PM
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13. I guess I was reading for about a month before, that's my oldest bookmarks |
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Sun Dec-26-04 10:54 PM
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14. It looked like you put a lot of work into that post |
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and only got one reply. I hate it when that happens.
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Mayberry Machiavelli
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Sun Dec-26-04 10:57 PM
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17. What would have been worse was if the only replier was a RW disruptor. |
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Heh. Actually what was bad was that I posted in GD then it got locked or moved because it mentioned Dean by name as an THE example of using the internet for small dollar fundraising.
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Sun Dec-26-04 10:53 PM
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12. Kind of. It was either a caption for a Bush photo in the Lounge, |
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Edited on Sun Dec-26-04 10:58 PM by qnr
or a comment about John V. Lindsay in a General Discussion thread about "politicians that influenced you"
Joined a few years ago, but didn't make my first post until October 5th, 2004.
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Sun Dec-26-04 10:55 PM
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15. I think it was related to 9/11 airline stock "Put Options" |
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Still wanting answers. Got whitewash.
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Sun Dec-26-04 10:56 PM
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16. yes - "PLEASE ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE MYSELF" |
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I said I was sickened by selection 2000 and wanted to know if I could be part of the DU gang. :D
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Mayberry Machiavelli
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Sun Dec-26-04 10:57 PM
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18. Well? Did they let you in? |
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Sun Dec-26-04 11:19 PM
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29. ONLY AFTER I THREATENED TO KICK ASS |
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Sun Dec-26-04 10:59 PM
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19. the get-well thread for bill clinton |
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i had found this site about two weeks prior but had only lurked a bit. then when i saw that the thread was going to be sent to clinton, i registered so i could post on it. didn't post again for another couple of weeks, and i don't remember what my next post was.
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Sun Dec-26-04 11:00 PM
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:shrug: Nothing memorable.
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Sun Dec-26-04 11:01 PM
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21. I asked in GD: Campaign 2004 why people spent so much time |
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Edited on Sun Dec-26-04 11:02 PM by catbert836
Kerry-bashing, and not helping the campaign instead ands actually go do some work or at least make some constructive critism of the campaign instead of just complaining about it. They responded with something like this: "Sit down and shut up. We could run the campaign a lot better that John Kerry, John Edwards or Mary Beth Cahill ever could". That was early August of this year, I believe.
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Sun Dec-26-04 11:07 PM
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22. I remember what my first dozen or so posts were about, fwiw. |
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Edited on Sun Dec-26-04 11:08 PM by Wonk
I was arguing about the validity of a definition in Webster's dictionary with someone who had a couple of thousand posts under their belt at the time, compared to my complete newb status. I think I won that particular argument, and they've hardly posted (with that user name, anyway) since.
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Sun Dec-26-04 11:08 PM
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24. oops...well if they are that disturbed, maybe they should see a doctor. |
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Sun Dec-26-04 11:07 PM
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23. No but I bet it was a pissed off posssst about getting unfucked! |
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Sun Dec-26-04 11:13 PM
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26. No, but I didn't find DU until January 2004 and all of you |
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have kept me sane for the past twelve months. Thanks guys, you're the best!!!
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Sun Dec-26-04 11:14 PM
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Somebody posted a question about Electoral College math and I posted a link to an EC calculator.
My, I'm dull. :P
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Sun Dec-26-04 11:15 PM
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but I'm sure it was brilliant:)
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