Back in the old days of DU ------- Remember when?

[Catch22Dem]

Remember when lots of DUers had sig lines that read (for example) "Member of the Grassy Knoll Society, Tulsa Chapter?"

Surely I'm not the only one who remembers.

[TahitiNut]

1. As a charter member ...

<-- Ubetcha.

[Catch22Dem]

15. Heeeeey, look at that!

Cool!

[Lugnut]

18. Oh yeah.....

I have one of those too.

:D

[TahitiNut]

19. I made the eyes move on mine. ;-)))

[proud patriot]

2. I remember

I had that for my sig for awhile

[nostamj]

3. SO many things like that have come and gone....

not sure if I ever used it BUT... I'm a JFK conspiracy addict from WAY WAY WAY back. my first 'political' theatre (actor, not writer!) was a JFK satire in college....

the ONE constant in my sig has been: DISSENT IS ESSENTIAL

[charlie]

4. I liked

Pocho's Paper Bag Society (a li'l tweak for the coincidence theorists)

[scarletwoman]

11. LOVED the "Paper Bag Society"!

I miss Pocho -- one of DU's greatest minds!

sw

[Jackpine Radical]

5. Tiger Lily & I called ourselves the Tinfoil Hat Society

before Cheney gifted us all with the Grassy Knoll sobriquet.

[DemBones DemBones]

12. Tiger Lily. . . among the Missing. . .

:-(

[ixion]

6. I remember

and was happy to see those in the sig lines. :-)

[soleft]

7. I remember when we called ourselves the "ten percenters"

After 9/11 and Bush's approval numbers were at 90 percent

[nostamj]

10. we should salute OUR 'resolve' ;-)

i certainly was only more pissed about the insipid chimp after 9/11 than I was before....

[Catch22Dem]

16. Yes, that was going to be my next "remember when"

HAHAHA! The 10 percenter club is one I am PROUD to be a member of.

[scarletwoman]

8. Heck, yeah. I had a "Grassy Knoll Society" sig line, myself.

I changed my sig line 2 years ago yesterday, when my senator, Paul Wellstone was killed in a plane crash. I changed to a photo of Wellstone, and a green bus logo, which I kept until the presidential campaign season first started. Then I switched to a Kucinich avatar until the end of the Democratic primaries.

No matter what, I consider myself a lifetime member of the "Grassy Knoll Society" -- 9/11 was MIHOP, and Wellstone's death was an assassination.

sw

[DemBones DemBones]

9. Yes, I was a Charter Member! nt

[FlemingsGhost]

13. Anyone remember "Lonster" or "OldSchoolDemocrat?"

THAT was "back in the day ..."

(This site has changed soooooooo much.)

[Must_B_Free]

14. Remember when I was "Beware_of_God"?

before skinner tombstoned me for "talking back"?

and remember when Mopaul was Frank N Stein?

Remember when Will Pitt had just started his writing?

[Catch22Dem]

17. You damn talker-backer you!

[crickets]

21. I remember when Will Pitt had just started his writing

Way back when I kept my mouth shut, and probably hadn't even had the nerve to sign up yet. ;) He's come such a long way and done such a great job. Go, Will!

I did enjoy the Grassy Knoll sigs, but at a certain point when sig pics were out of control, I turned them off and I've gotten used to reading without them. I might have to try turning them on again for a while.

[Skittles]

20. I remember thinking new member "GOPisEvil" sounded troll-like

yes INDEED!

[Demonaut]

22. Still a newbie at just under a year but I have to say we've had and still

have a great many thoughtful and intellectual posters, Its funny thinking back to the times of inflammatory cycles in response to a specific news events and the tranquil periods when the historians among us dredged up old information to the keep the fires stoked and then to times of tin foil hat theories that made us laugh and sometimes ponder


lol, got a bit dramatic

bty I lurked for well over a year

[lazarus]

23. I had one

I also remember when I could read every post on DU in a couple of hours.

Every. Single. Post.

Now I can't even keep up with all the threads.

I remember the first time I saw someone with over 1,000 posts that I didn't know and had never seen before. That's when I realised how big DU was.