#11. To: NeoconsNailed, christine, Pinguinite, 4um (#10)(Edited)
Was laffing at exxon's quirky style
A bit of a 4um history lesson may be in order... If I'm wrong about certain details, feel free to correct them.
Esso
When I caught up to this group of hardcore patriots, it was at a forum called LibertyPost.com. After time, the sight owner, Goldi-Lox (that should be a danger sign), turned for some reason (maybe 911), and a new site was born, FreedomUnderground.com. I think most of the LP folks were a splinter group from FreeRepublic.com when the honcho there lost his mind.
At LP and FU, my screename was Stand Opposed, somewhat clunky and unrefined. Most everybody was abbreviating my name as S.O. or just SO which I found to be kind of annoying.
Something happened at FU and Christine and Pinguinite, formed 4um. I've been here since the git-go, but changed my name to Esso (as in S.O or SO) which is much less burdensome. It has no relation to Exxon/Mobil (XOM), but, full disclosure, I do own 2,000 shares of XOM, half of which was bought with money languishing in a money market account. I got it half price sometime after the scamdemic started a year or so ago. When I bought the last batch, the dividend yield was north of 10%. Try to get that in a money market, now it won't even cover Bidet's inflation.
Let me try to get back on track. The progression as I understand it:
1. FreeRepublic.com. 2. LibertyPost.com, where I got involved as Stand Opposed. 3. FreedomUnderground.com. 4. Freedom4um.com which didn't have a name yet. I changed my name to Esso, which has a really distinctive logo which is handy at ZeroHedge.
The guy who came up with the 4um name, was a guy with the screenname Arator. Last I heard of him, he was travelling the world, stateless, on a sailboat. It was really clever merging forum with the fourth home of all us misfits.
Some other current aliases of mine: PacMan, Cap'n Brandon, Robert...
(Edit) I don't give this shit away for free. You'll get a bill.
(Edit2) The price of XOM has gone up enough that the dividend yield is down to 5.95% today.
Thank Bidet. Thanks to his and the Squat's climate hysteria, I can give away more money per year than I spend on myself thanks to his boneheadednessment.. It'd be nice if I could write it off on my taxes, especially the $4k I spent on a lawyer (former Marine) to get a child away from a crackhead mother, back into her father's arms. I thought 'legal fees' were deductible. Guess it's gotta be business related, and I'm definately not a 501c3.