I’m having a bit of trouble. I’m trying to find a featured site from several years ago, about a box with some very strange things in it. Attempting to browse the archive hasn’t proved enlightning. Is there any way for me to search for it?
Not at the present time, sorry. Can you describe more about the site? Maybe we can figure it out.
It was this weird (yeah, I know) site where you clicked on a virtual box. You’d get a description of something really weird inside. There were levels of weirdness- I think seven “floors”, with the seventh floor being the strangest of all. There was also a dumpster where you could browse rejected submissions.
I’m really having trouble putting this into words for some reason.
Not long ago I did some searching of the archives to locate threads and posts relating to 9/11. It took date and time specifics for that search to get what I was hunting.
In your case, if you can remember anything like people who posted, approximate date(s) when it was active, words of more the four letters that were fairly unique in the discussion, specific websites mentioned, or other such triggers, maybe a Google search based on them could get you some hits.
Were there other synonyms in the thread for “box” with more than four letters?
Can you remember any of the “very strange things in it”?
It wasn’t a Spotted Thread, it was a Weird Earl’s. It was posted maybe a few years ago- I can’t remember if it was before or after I de-lurked.
Contents of the box included a lot of “seemingly ordinary devices” that did stuff like erase whole colors from the universe (and one “seemingly ordinary object that turns out to be an ordinary object”), a tarantula that just wants to be friends, and “Snakes! Why did it have to be snakes?”. I can’t remember most of them- they were just that strange.
Since this thread is open and the Tubes offered I have one I’d like to re-find:
It was a site that generated new age (?), hipster (?), or technical sounding paragraphs but was essentially meaningless constructs. As you read what it randomly generated it *almost *sounded like it made sense.
Google should work. Just add site:[noparse]http://www.straightdope.com/weirdearls/[/noparse] to the search.
That said, none of my search terms seemed to find the link Malleus was looking for. And I had no idea what to look for for PlainJain.