# Help me search for a thread

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**Created:** [January 11, 2010, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-search-for-a-thread/524490 "2010-01-11T08:14:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Amblydoper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Amblydoper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amblydoper)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2010, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-search-for-a-thread/524490/1 "2010-01-11T08:14:29Z")

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I want to find the Cafe Society thread about _Nine_ (the animated _Nine_, not the musical _Nine_, sorry **twickster** 😉 )

“Nine” isn’t allowed by the SDMB search, and google gives me pages and pages of irrelevant results. Does anybody remember a longer word in the thread title, or does someone have it in their subscribed threads list?

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**Author:** ![Red\_Barchetta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/da6949/32.png) [@Red\_Barchetta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Barchetta)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2010, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-search-for-a-thread/524490/2 "2010-01-11T08:38:14Z")

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Wow, that is a tricky thread to find…and I’m a bit of a Google master. Did you post in it? Could just search your own history if so (from your profile page).

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**Author:** ![Red\_Barchetta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/da6949/32.png) [@Red\_Barchetta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Barchetta)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2010, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-search-for-a-thread/524490/3 "2010-01-11T08:45:00Z")

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This it?

> **[9 \[spoilers probable\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=532849)**
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> I just got back from seeing Tim Burton’s 9. 9 is a doll that wakes up in a laboratory, to a lifeless planet and a city in ruins. Near him he finds a hemisphere. He guesses it is important, so he zips it up inside of his burlap body. He sees...

I just went back 22 pages of Cafe Society to September, figuring the thread should still be thereabouts as it was released September 9th.

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**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2010, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-search-for-a-thread/524490/4 "2010-01-11T14:21:08Z")

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> [@Red\_Barchetta](#):
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> This it?  
> [9 [spoilers probable] - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=532849)
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> I just went back 22 pages of Cafe Society to September, figuring the thread should still be thereabouts as it was released September 9th.

If it helps, a search for this turned it up as the second hit on Google:

site:boards.straightdope.com “animated movie” nine doll

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**Author:** ![Amblydoper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Amblydoper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amblydoper)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2010, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-search-for-a-thread/524490/5 "2010-01-11T15:37:51Z")

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Oh, thanks a bunch, **Red Barchetta**! I’ve been thinking about how to find that thread for days, but I never considered the brute force search!

No, I had not posted in the thread yet. I hadn’t even seen it. But the dopers have a thread for every movie, so I knew it would be there! I thought it might be like Schrödinger’s Thread… It only existed when I wasn’t looking for it. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Red\_Barchetta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/da6949/32.png) [@Red\_Barchetta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Barchetta)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2010, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-search-for-a-thread/524490/6 "2010-01-11T18:29:10Z")

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> [@Munch](#):
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> If it helps, a search for this turned it up as the second hit on Google:
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> site:boards.straightdope.com “animated movie” nine doll

Yargh, I tried exactly that except sans the quotes and the doll, as I thought that was starting to get too specific…apparently not.

I imagine it’s a lot easier to find what you know what you’re looking for though. I didn’t know whether it was “nine” or “9” or that anyone used the word doll…