How did you find DU?

[tammywammy]

Me: I was surfing around one day, and ended up on Michell Malkin's blog :puke:

Well, she was blasting away at DU, which I had never heard of, so I googled it. This was last summer, and I lurked until last month when I finally joined.

How did you find DU?

[ffm172]

1. over some links I found the Top Ten

I read those for some weeks, then I started to lurk for some months and finally joined end of January this year. Now I am addicted.

[AlienGirl]

2. From Bartcop.com

It was a long time ago--shortly after the selection, if I recall correctly--and I had been reading Bartcop's site every day. I found a link to DU and came here, and have rarely missed a day since!

Tucker

[xmas74]

4. By accident.

I was looking for something else.

[ffm172]

8. hey how are you today

:hi:

[xmas74]

10. Tired as heck.

Allergies are really acting up today.

[ffm172]

15. sorry to hear

allergies can really be a pain in the ass. I am lucky enough not to have any, but my bf and brother have, so I know how you feel. :hug:

[xmas74]

16. I have a sinus headache right now

but I am stuck at work and have nothing better to do, so here I am.

[ffm172]

17. oh, what joy

I hope it is a quiet night at least

[xmas74]

20. At the part time(only place I can get away w/ posting

at right now). It is dead here.
And I just admitted to my name on a thread here. Oh, joy!

[ffm172]

21. I saw the thread

I decided not post in it.

[xmas74]

22. I just wanted to prove my point.

Unless someone on here from Southern Italy decides to post, I have very little chance of someone else matching my name.

[ffm172]

23. well, my name is not very common either

maybe somewhat more than yours though. :)

[xmas74]

24. You have an older name.

There is a woman in my church congregation w/ the same name.
My name is just not common in the US.

[ffm172]

28. you have a beautiful name

and I rather have an uncommon name. I know I will pick uncommon names for my kids (whenever I have them)

[xmas74]

30. I hated my name growing up.

I was teased constantly for it. I always wanted to be a Heather or a Jennifer.
Now I can handle the name but I do get sick of hearing it mispronounced all the time.

[ffm172]

31. I hate my second name

... hold on, I could post that name in the other thread ....

I was always content with my first name. I am still glad my second name didn't become my first name.

[xmas74]

33. Ok. I hate my middle name too.

It's just silly.

[ffm172]

35. I just posted it in the other thread

did you give Callie a second name?

[xmas74]

38. Yes but I was on morphine at the time.

She was named after my greatgrandmother and my grandmother.

[ffm172]

40. good excuse

I still think it is a good idea to have more than one name.

[xmas74]

42. Depends on the name.

My best friend named her youngest Rowdy-because she figured that was how he would act. And his first name is not much better-Sabin.

[ffm172]

43. I like Sabin

not idea what it means, but not bad. Now Rowdy is a complete different thing. Poor boy.
My brother doesn't has a second name. And sometimes he wishes he would have one. My mom told me that if I would have been a boy, she would have named me Benjamin

[Huckebein the Raven]

34. How was your weekend ?

[ffm172]

36. quite ok

slept almost the whole day yesterday, Saturday I was lazy also and I chatted wih my bf before I had to go to work in the evening. The night was long since I was alone guarding one floor. A lot of people, so barely a chance to sit down. How was your weekend?

[Huckebein the Raven]

39. About the same:

sleep, posting on DU, watching NBA playoff games, sleep, etc

[ffm172]

41. the playoffs started?

didn't notice. But then my bf isn't here so I don't get any informations unless I check the interent. Seems like I need to do that again.

[Huckebein the Raven]

44. Yep. Started Saturday

Of course, the Memphis Grizzlies don't stand a chance against the Suns.

[ffm172]

45. I am not a big fan of any teams

but I followed the new Charlotte team, since I did my nanny time near that city. And Dallas because of Dirk Nowitzki. Oh, and I don't mind at all that the L.A. Lakers didn't make the playoffs

[Huckebein the Raven]

47. You aren't the only one who didn't mind the Lakers missing the playoffs

;)

[ffm172]

49. LOL

I know my bf isn't too happy that they didn't make it. But he is enjoying College BB more than the NBA.

[Huckebein the Raven]

52. I like College BB but enjoy College Football more

I just love a nice fall afternoon College football game on the weekends

[ffm172]

53. I haven't found a way to understand Football

I think I need some more lessons before I can enjoy watching a game. But I would love to go to a game with my bf.

[TrogL]

3. Free Republic

Anything they hated that much must be good

[tammywammy]

6. Yeah I found that at the same time

Of course Malking was raving about Free Republic, so I looked up both. Wow what a difference between here and there.

[Not_Giving_Up]

5. Michael Moore's website

He had an article beaming about all the great sites doing their best to counter the administration, DU was mentioned.

[Droopy]

7. A link to an article on the front page

from another lefty website. I don't remember the site that had it linked, but it was likely one that contained a lot of anti-war articles. That was March of '03 right around the time that the war started and I was heartbroken and angry at the same time. I posted almost exclusively in GD when I first came here. But now I'm just some lazy old lounge lizard. I've pretty much given up on politics. I'm just here for kicks, although I will continue to vote, my politicking days are over.

[Az]

9. I typed w w w . d e m o c r a t i c u n d e r g r o u n d . c o m

Completely at random. :evilgrin:

Ok, I got here by way of Bartcop which I came by by way of www.bushwatch.com

[mark11727]

11. I found DU from a link from TBogg...

... and I found TBogg from his posts in Salon's Table Talk forums.

I dodn't remember where I found Salon from.

Funny old world, inn't?

[napi21]

12. I really don't remember. I think it was a link somewhere.

I remember searching for liberal web sites, and I guess it might have been a link on one of them

[Swamp Rat]

13. BuzzFlash

After finding a link to "Top Ten Conservative Idiots" I came to DU every week. The Summer of 2001 I became a DU lurker... it was daily lurking by December (LBN mostly). I spent 2003 in Brasil, where I went to cyber cafes almost every day just to lurk. :)

[Historic NY]

14. Me I was a Daily Kos junkie..with never enough time to post....

When your reading several internet sites and pile on several blogs and on-line newspapers. So I found DU amd haven't gone back.

[yewberry]

18. Top ten at Buzzflash.

Lurked for a long time, then registered.

Okay, okay, so I'm not exactly a prolific poster. Get off my ass!

[Pushed To The Left]

19. On Usenet of all places!

I think it was in somebody's sigline.

[Robeson]

25. Actually, I was surfing and found it a long time ago....

...I had a username and post count totally different than mine now, but my computer crashed, had to buy a new one, and had to register all over again. I had kept my passwords to various things on my hard drive for this site and others and lost them all at the time, so I had to enter all over again....One thing I learned...when it comes to accounts, one needs to be old school, and write them down with a pencil on paper, and not keep the permanent record on a hard drive....

[The Donkey]

26. I was working on the Wes Clark campaign

and one of the volunteers told me about it. I lurked for a long time and finally joined.

By the way - wow! You guys sure have posted a lot considering how long you've been members . . .

[tammywammy]

29. It's easy for me

When I'm at work, I can be online as much as I want, as long as the little bit of work that I actually have is done. So, basically I get paid to goof off. :P

[The Donkey]

55. I better get on the ball then . . .

My rate of posting is drastically anemic!

[SmileyBoy]

27. From a link website called Hated.com.

It had links to Buzzflash, Bartcop, Salon, etc. I just happened to stumble upon DU in those links...

[Huckebein the Raven]

32. From Whatreallyhappened.com's website

links to threads on DU are posted on that site from time to time.

[BBradley]

37. The Guerrilla News Network Forums

I hardly ever visit there anymore, after I found this wonderful site.

[Awsi Dooger]

46. I have it bookmarked

A time saver

[tammywammy]

50. Ahh, the bookmark

it makes the world go round....or just finding certain internet sites easier

[ApBai]

48. A friend showed me.

Hanging out at a friend's house and was introduced to DU. Friend has been long time DUer.

[Allenberg]

51. Same here.

[Borgnine]

54. I Googled "Bush sucks" back in 2002.

n/t

[u4ic]

56. a link from rabble.ca IIRC

[Piperay]

57. Right after the 2001 coronation

I belonged to a yahoo group called Voter March and someone there mentioned DU, so I came right over and have been here ever since. :D

[BikeWriter]

58. How did I find DU? I found it to be informative and entertaining. :-)