Fri May 29, 2015, 11:53 AM
116 replies, 6324 views
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 As a newbie, I am curious as to how we all found the DU. (Original post) |
Tipperary | May 2015 | OP |
| Throd | May 2015 | #1 | |
| Tipperary | May 2015 | #4 | |
| cwydro | May 2015 | #25 | |
| Tom Ripley | May 2015 | #2 | |
| Ron Obvious | May 2015 | #3 | |
| Tipperary | May 2015 | #5 | |
| fizzgig | May 2015 | #18 | |
| sarge43 | May 2015 | #6 | |
| Tipperary | May 2015 | #7 | |
| sarge43 | May 2015 | #8 | |
| Tipperary | May 2015 | #13 | |
| Rhiannon12866 | May 2015 | #20 | |
| Tipperary | May 2015 | #22 | |
| LaurenG | May 2015 | #86 | |
| sarge43 | May 2015 | #87 | |
| femmocrat | May 2015 | #9 | |
| Tipperary | May 2015 | #14 | |
| LP2K12 | May 2015 | #10 | |
| fizzgig | May 2015 | #11 | |
| Tipperary | May 2015 | #15 | |
| fizzgig | May 2015 | #19 | |
| Tipperary | May 2015 | #21 | |
| CrawlingChaos | May 2015 | #36 | |
| Tipperary | May 2015 | #50 | |
| Tom_Foolery | May 2015 | #12 | |
| Tipperary | May 2015 | #17 | |
| Tom_Foolery | May 2015 | #32 | |
| hrmjustin | May 2015 | #16 | |
| steve2470 | May 2015 | #40 | |
| hrmjustin | May 2015 | #41 | |
| Rhiannon12866 | May 2015 | #65 | |
| Xyzse | May 2015 | #23 | |
| a la izquierda | May 2015 | #24 | |
| arcane1 | May 2015 | #26 | |
| Tipperary | May 2015 | #30 | |
| IcyPeas | May 2015 | #27 | |
| vanlassie | May 2015 | #28 | |
| laundry_queen | May 2015 | #71 | |
| Blue_Tires | May 2015 | #102 | |
| Worried senior | May 2015 | #29 | |
| auntAgonist | May 2015 | #31 | |
| lovemydog | May 2015 | #33 | |
| Tipperary | May 2015 | #52 | |
| CrawlingChaos | May 2015 | #34 | |
| Tipperary | May 2015 | #53 | |
| MADem | May 2015 | #35 | |
| NJCher | May 2015 | #37 | |
| Tipperary | May 2015 | #47 | |
| fizzgig | May 2015 | #69 | |
| NJCher | May 2015 | #93 | |
| steve2470 | May 2015 | #38 | |
| greendog | May 2015 | #39 | |
| Tipperary | May 2015 | #48 | |
| Paper Roses | May 2015 | #42 | |
| Tipperary | May 2015 | #45 | |
| hifiguy | May 2015 | #43 | |
| Tipperary | May 2015 | #46 | |
| Aristus | May 2015 | #44 | |
| LiberalElite | May 2015 | #49 | |
| Avalux | May 2015 | #51 | |
| Tipperary | May 2015 | #54 | |
| qnr | May 2015 | #55 | |
| DamnYankeeInHouston | May 2015 | #56 | |
| TM99 | May 2015 | #57 | |
| UTUSN | May 2015 | #58 | |
| progressoid | May 2015 | #59 | |
| Codeine | May 2015 | #60 | |
| murielm99 | May 2015 | #61 | |
| mackerel | May 2015 | #62 | |
| Joe Shlabotnik | May 2015 | #63 | |
| gvstn | May 2015 | #64 | |
| Tipperary | May 2015 | #79 | |
| Socal31 | May 2015 | #66 | |
| KMOD | May 2015 | #67 | |
| Tipperary | May 2015 | #82 | |
| cyberswede | May 2015 | #68 | |
| Cassidy1 | May 2015 | #70 | |
| hobbit709 | May 2015 | #72 | |
| bigwillq | May 2015 | #73 | |
| frogmarch | May 2015 | #74 | |
| gvstn | May 2015 | #80 | |
| frogmarch | May 2015 | #81 | |
| Tipperary | May 2015 | #90 | |
| LWolf | May 2015 | #75 | |
| BarbaRosa | May 2015 | #76 | |
| TBF | May 2015 | #77 | |
| LostOne4Ever | May 2015 | #78 | |
| Tipperary | May 2015 | #83 | |
| riderinthestorm | May 2015 | #84 | |
| OldEurope | May 2015 | #85 | |
| Tipperary | May 2015 | #91 | |
| bikebloke | May 2015 | #88 | |
| Blue_In_AK | May 2015 | #89 | |
| Enthusiast | May 2015 | #92 | |
| Ahpook | May 2015 | #94 | |
| rurallib | May 2015 | #95 | |
| 3catwoman3 | May 2015 | #96 | |
| Momgonepostal | May 2015 | #97 | |
| BainsBane | May 2015 | #98 | |
| Kali | May 2015 | #99 | |
| Pakhet | May 2015 | #100 | |
| applegrove | May 2015 | #101 | |
| OrwellwasRight | Jun 2015 | #103 | |
| CBGLuthier | Jun 2015 | #104 | |
| valerief | Jun 2015 | #105 | |
| nadine_mn | Jun 2015 | #106 | |
| Tipperary | Jun 2015 | #108 | |
| PeaceNikki | Jun 2015 | #107 | |
| B Calm | Jun 2015 | #109 | |
| Lady Freedom Returns | Jun 2015 | #110 | |
| sakabatou | Jun 2015 | #111 | |
| LanternWaste | Jun 2015 | #112 | |
| shenmue | Jun 2015 | #113 | |
| Agschmid | Jun 2015 | #114 | |
| Jamaal510 | Jun 2015 | #115 | |
| Islandurp | Jun 2015 | #116 |
Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Fri May 29, 2015, 11:58 AM
1. I first heard it mentioned on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Response to Throd (Reply #1)
Fri May 29, 2015, 03:43 PM
25. I did too.
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A long time ago.
Thanks, Rush!  |
Response to Ron Obvious (Reply #3)
Fri May 29, 2015, 01:33 PM
18. i loved top ten conservative idiots
Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Fri May 29, 2015, 12:22 PM
sarge43 (28,678 posts)
6. My nephew (RIP) gave me a head's up. n/t
Response to sarge43 (Reply #6)
Fri May 29, 2015, 12:25 PM
7. Oh, I'm sorry to hear about your nephew.
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But thanks for responding
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Response to Tipperary (Reply #7)
Fri May 29, 2015, 12:30 PM
sarge43 (28,678 posts)
8. Thank you. His handle was 5thGenDemocrat. He's on the DU Memorial Page
Response to Tipperary (Reply #13)
Fri May 29, 2015, 01:38 PM
Rhiannon12866 (175,233 posts)
20. Here you go. It's not easy to find unless you know where to look.
Response to Rhiannon12866 (Reply #20)
Fri May 29, 2015, 01:40 PM
22. Thank you for the link and the welcome.
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I'm kind of stumbling around blindly.
Somehow I ended up in a gun forum, but I escaped unscathed.  |
Response to sarge43 (Reply #8)
Sat May 30, 2015, 04:47 PM
86. I went to his June party the last year he had it.
Response to LaurenG (Reply #86)
Sat May 30, 2015, 04:49 PM
sarge43 (28,678 posts)
87. Thank you, Lauren
Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Fri May 29, 2015, 12:31 PM
9. Welcome to DU, Tipperary!
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It was so long ago, I can't remember.  Seriously, I was searching for anti-bush sites and found a link to DU. |
Response to femmocrat (Reply #9)
Fri May 29, 2015, 01:15 PM
14. Thank you!
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I appreciate the welcome.
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Response to Tipperary (Reply #15)
Fri May 29, 2015, 01:35 PM
19. oh, and welcome to du!
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i spend most of my time here in the lounge or in the groups. please make sure you check out the groups
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Response to Tipperary (Reply #15)
Fri May 29, 2015, 06:33 PM
36. Don't let that get you down
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Or stop you from posting there if you feel like it.
Besides, getting insulted by the right people (depending on your perspective) can be a badge of honor.  |
Response to CrawlingChaos (Reply #36)
Fri May 29, 2015, 08:16 PM
50. Thank you for that.
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I'm not very confrontational, so most likely I will watch from the sidelines and post innocuous comments if at all.
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Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Fri May 29, 2015, 12:58 PM
12. I found DU in a Google search in March of 2004...
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And I've been here ever since. Welcome to DU!
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Response to Tom_Foolery (Reply #12)
Fri May 29, 2015, 01:23 PM
17. Thank you!
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I love your name btw.
My family has a running joke where we adopt new members into an extended family. Easy Grace, Private Parts, Major Infraction, General Principles, Black Jack, the Irish folks Patty O'Furniture and Tam O'Shanter, many others, and yes we have Tom Foolery. All of us have to approve before a new member is accepted.  |
Response to Tipperary (Reply #17)
Fri May 29, 2015, 04:28 PM
32. Every group must have a Tom Foolery...
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Response to hrmjustin (Reply #16)
Fri May 29, 2015, 07:18 PM
steve2470 (37,415 posts)
40. I'm guessing that was Skinner ? nt
Response to steve2470 (Reply #40)
Sat May 30, 2015, 02:22 AM
Rhiannon12866 (175,233 posts)
65. It was Skinner and EarlG, holding up a banner with the name of the site on it.
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They did that at the Today Show on the day that W became president in 2001...
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Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Fri May 29, 2015, 01:57 PM
23. I came from CommonGroundCommonSense.com, when that disappeared...
Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Fri May 29, 2015, 02:20 PM
a la izquierda (11,672 posts)
24. Stumbled on it by accident...
Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Fri May 29, 2015, 03:45 PM
26. I think it was after China shot down our spy plane in 2002.
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There was a Will Pitt piece about it, and somehow or another I got linked to DU. I don't remember where the link originally came from.
And I could be totally misremembering this  |
Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Fri May 29, 2015, 03:46 PM
IcyPeas (19,933 posts)
27. I found it in 2003 via a link from SMIRKINGCHIMP
Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Fri May 29, 2015, 03:49 PM
vanlassie (5,082 posts)
28. I came from Bartcop. He is on the memorial page too.
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Gone but never forgotten.
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Response to vanlassie (Reply #28)
Sat May 30, 2015, 04:10 AM
71. That's how I got here too. I loved that site.
Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Fri May 29, 2015, 04:19 PM
31. I have thought about this for a bit and I have no clue as to how I found DU.
Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Fri May 29, 2015, 06:11 PM
33. From a friend.
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I read here for about a year before joining.
I hope you enjoy it here Tipperary. Welcome here. Have fun! Yes, definitely check out the groups. There's a lot of really cool people here. |
Response to lovemydog (Reply #33)
Fri May 29, 2015, 08:19 PM
52. Thank you for the welcome!
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My longtime lurking has made me aware that there are certainly some good people here.
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Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Fri May 29, 2015, 06:24 PM
34. Found it in 2006 (I think) from a Google search
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Lurked for a long, long time before joining.
I've seen some shit. Welcome Tipperary |
Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Fri May 29, 2015, 06:26 PM
35. I found it two days after it was created.
Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Fri May 29, 2015, 07:11 PM
NJCher (32,399 posts)
37. googled it
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Like Worried senior, I found it via a search engine, but the reason I was looking was that I was angry about bush stealing the election, so I teamed up with a lawyer from NYC and we commissioned buses to go to D.C. to protest. We did several protests, filling as many as 40 buses per protest.
I tried to go it alone in NJ, but there weren't enough people who got it here back at that time, so I had to combine forces w/NYC. I was hoping to post here at DU about the buses, but it turned out we were overwhelmed with people who wanted to go, so I don't know if I even posted about it. Been here ever since. By reading this forum, you will know what's happening way before anyone else does. I read GD, but rarely post there. I'm more a Lounge/Cooking & Baking/Gardening type of person. Discussions get heated, but I can't get too carried away with any of it. Live and let live, and whatever your opinion is, you're entitled to it--that's my take on it, anyway. 
Cher |
Response to NJCher (Reply #37)
Sat May 30, 2015, 03:31 AM
69. you're one of my favorite people here
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and i am happy to know you
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Response to fizzgig (Reply #69)
Sun May 31, 2015, 05:08 PM
NJCher (32,399 posts)
93. Likewise,
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My dear fizzgig.
Cher |
Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Fri May 29, 2015, 07:17 PM
steve2470 (37,415 posts)
38. My employer the Republican National Committee told me to sign up
 !!!!! in case I need to! 
No, I was searching for something political in October of 2004 and stumbled upon it. People didn't crucify me back then for asking ignorant questions (and boy was I ignorant of some things). I only got accused of being a troll once I think. |
Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Fri May 29, 2015, 07:17 PM
39. When SmirkingChimp went offline on 9/11/01, and the rest of the web was running real slow...
Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Fri May 29, 2015, 07:29 PM
Paper Roses (7,305 posts)
42. Back in 2005 I heard a speech by Elizabeth Edwards during which she mentioned DU.
Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Fri May 29, 2015, 07:55 PM
Aristus (61,604 posts)
44. I was still bruised and dazed by the outcome of sElection 2000 and the inauguration.
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I was surfing the net sometime in March, 2001, desperate to find someone who felt the way I did. I spent some time on a site called BushWatch, and one day, I saw the link for DU. I clicked on it, and have felt at home here ever since.
Welcome! |
Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Fri May 29, 2015, 08:12 PM
49. I thought a friend told me about it but -
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when I mentioned DU to her, she said she'd never heard of it. Guess I don't know how I found DU after all.
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Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Fri May 29, 2015, 08:18 PM
51. My ex was a member and recommended I check it out.
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We weren't compatible for marriage, but get along famously when it comes to politics.
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Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Fri May 29, 2015, 10:09 PM
55. In 2001 or so* I followed a link to Free Republic, saw what that was, and
Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Fri May 29, 2015, 10:46 PM
UTUSN (67,211 posts)
58. Also Bartcop (rip) & Media Whores Online. Really, this place saved my life after Coup-2000 n/t
Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Fri May 29, 2015, 11:02 PM
59. I was searching for info on Depleted Uranium (DU)
Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Fri May 29, 2015, 11:34 PM
Codeine (25,586 posts)
60. Another Bartcop person here.
Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Fri May 29, 2015, 11:51 PM
murielm99 (29,630 posts)
61. My brother told me.
Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Sat May 30, 2015, 12:21 AM
62. I found DU by accident, surfing the net, while taking care of my
Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Sat May 30, 2015, 12:25 AM
63. I woke up with a terrible hangover one day,
Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Sat May 30, 2015, 12:28 AM
64. Welcome to DU.
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I found it after seeing it disparaged as too liberal/left-wing on many of the big Democratic sites such as DailyKos and Americablog (used to be one of the main sites c.2000). lots of comments on those about how Du was the lunatic fringe.
So I stopped by and couldn't see anything fringe about it. Great Latest Breaking News section to get all the headlines and an easy to post Discussion forum to present your opinions. Over the years it has become the place where I spend a great deal of time just reading the discussions and getting some clarity and perspective on older events that I wasn't paying attention to at the time. I hope you enjoy the forum. |
Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Sat May 30, 2015, 08:51 AM
72. From a now defunct website Bushflash.
Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Sat May 30, 2015, 09:13 AM
73. In 2003, I Googled Howard Dean
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and came across DU. Lurked for a bit and then registered in 2004. The rest is history.............
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Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Sat May 30, 2015, 10:13 AM
frogmarch (12,070 posts)
74. About 10 years ago
Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Sat May 30, 2015, 11:45 AM
76. I use to hang at a place called Turn Left,
Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Sat May 30, 2015, 12:19 PM
TBF (31,869 posts)
77. I saw a list to the top 10 conservative idiots of the week
Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Sat May 30, 2015, 12:34 PM
LostOne4Ever (8,792 posts)
78. Bartcop
Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Sat May 30, 2015, 03:20 PM
83. Thanks to all who have responded here. I think it is interesting all the different ways
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that we found this place.
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Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Sat May 30, 2015, 04:27 PM
84. I followed Raindog here from Beliefnet.
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hard to believe she's gone now and I'm still here. She was so excellent I was curious about this other board (DU) where she was bringing over excellent material to share on BN. After my first day here lurking, I simply never went back to BN.
RIP Raindog 
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Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Sat May 30, 2015, 05:12 PM
89. I was searching the Internet after the 2004 theft
Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Sun May 31, 2015, 02:02 AM
92. I completely forget how I discovered DU.
Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Sun May 31, 2015, 05:29 PM
94. Oddly enough
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I think it was Howard Stern that mentioned this site on his program. Sounded good to me
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Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Sun May 31, 2015, 06:54 PM
rurallib (60,484 posts)
95. suggested by a friend
Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Sun May 31, 2015, 08:55 PM
3catwoman3 (21,769 posts)
96. I established a very small left-leaning discussion board...
Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Sun May 31, 2015, 10:30 PM
BainsBane (52,566 posts)
98. From my mother
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Yet one more thing to hold against her.
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Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Sun May 31, 2015, 10:39 PM
Kali (54,130 posts)
99. I got here via the Top 10 list.
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I was on a small local forum and there was this bozo who really had the hots for Ann Coulter - I think he rode in an elevator with her once or something. anyway I was not into politics that much and hadn't had a tee vee in a long time, much less cable so I had no idea who she was. I was looking for critiques of her books and other perspectives. EarlG sucked me in.
Then Bob Boudelang. eventually I joined the discussion forums and have been here ever since. |
Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Sun May 31, 2015, 10:51 PM
100. I was working my second job at Krispy Kreme
Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Sun May 31, 2015, 11:11 PM
applegrove (111,784 posts)
101. I was so angry at the glee and bad winners the GOP
Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Mon Jun 1, 2015, 12:05 AM
103. My friend Frylock suggested it to me.
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We were both so pissed about the stolen election, the Iraq war, black box voting, "Healthy Forests," "Clean Skies," the USA PATRIOT Act and pretty much every crazy ass lie told by the Bush administration.
I almost quit my first day though. I had never been on any kind of online forum before in my life, and I had some kind of misapprehension that the peeps posting were all insiders/experts, so I blurted out some question I had been dying to ask and was immediately called out for being a troll -- why else would a newbie dare to ask questions!!!! Anyway, after I got over non-welcoming welcome, I stuck around, mostly lurking, often reading SCE's Sunday LOLcats, and sometimes making a nuisance of myself in debates about guns, GMOs, trade, and NewDems. You'll find LBN is the best news aggregator on the web! Welcome! |
Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Mon Jun 1, 2015, 12:32 AM
104. I went to yahoo and turned left
Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Mon Jun 1, 2015, 12:46 AM
105. Someone told me about it during an antiwar roadside vigil. nt
Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Mon Jun 1, 2015, 02:03 PM
107. My mom - she was an OG from 2001.
Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Tue Jun 2, 2015, 01:58 AM
shenmue (38,399 posts)
113. I don't know
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Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Tue Jun 2, 2015, 02:01 AM
114. My dad was one of the first members, and a DU1/2 moderator.
Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Tue Jun 2, 2015, 03:33 AM
115. I Googled some anti-GOP terms out of boredom. eom
Response to Tipperary (Original post)
Tue Jun 2, 2015, 11:42 AM
116. 2012 election was going to be the first time I voted in anything.
