# Missing Thread

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-thread/109562>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [May 17, 2002, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-thread/109562 "2002-05-17T14:59:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2002, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-thread/109562/1 "2002-05-17T14:59:12Z")

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Just a question here. I was cleaning out my bookmarks and found I had one for a thread entitled: Zen for Assholes. However, when I went to that thread I was taken [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=106875).

So do thread numbers occasionally get reassigned? Was the original thread deleted and another thread took its place? I’m kind of curious as to the… ah, wait, I just checked the date on the bookmark, and it was from that black hole of time which is now gone forever. Carry on.