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kentuck

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88. My wife pointed out your banner at the parade...

Mon Jan 20, 2025, 07:59 PM

Yesterday

And I have been with DU ever since. However, it was February or March before I started writing anything. Unlike today, it took a while just to fill up the front page with posts so Earl and Skinner advertised for writers and I took the bait. The earliest post that I could find (under my real name) on the Wayback Machine was the end of March of 2001.

Man! That has been a long time and we all have been thru a lot. I remember almost all of the old timers and the struggle we had to control all the trolls that would show up.

Congratulations Earl! For your longevity and your patriotism.

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