# Right - the hamsters have officially given up. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 29, 2013, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-the-hamsters-have-officially-given-up/659593 "2013-05-29T00:56:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-the-hamsters-have-officially-given-up/659593/1 "2013-05-29T00:56:51Z")
The search function has stopped working. I’m trying to do a search, and everytime I get this message: > [@](#): > > This forum requires that you wait 120 seconds between searches. Please try again in 88 seconds. Actually, it alternates between 88 seconds, and 87 seconds: twice it said to try again in 88 seconds, and twice it said to try again in 87 seconds. The last time, I waited 10 minutes by the clock between searches and still got this message. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-the-hamsters-have-officially-given-up/659593/2 "2013-05-29T01:46:39Z")
hmmm - I tried searching for posts by a particular poster, by clicking on the poster’s profile and then the “find all posts by …” function - that worked. It’s the Advanced Search function that gives me the 88 second message. :: does double take :: Oh noes! The hamsters have been taken over by[neo-Nazis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/88_(number)#As_a_Neo-Nazi_symbol)! ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-the-hamsters-have-officially-given-up/659593/3 "2013-05-29T01:50:49Z")
[This recent post from Ed might help.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=692185) ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-the-hamsters-have-officially-given-up/659593/4 "2013-05-29T13:17:07Z")
Sure, but that doesn’t explain why the hamsters have gone over to neo-naziism! ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-the-hamsters-have-officially-given-up/659593/5 "2013-05-30T04:10:52Z")
That has been happening to me. But the Board including the Search function has been performing admirably today. I’m wondering whether a little meth was dropped into the hamsters’ water. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-the-hamsters-have-officially-given-up/659593/6 "2013-05-30T11:38:41Z")
We couldn’t find any hamster hookers, so we had to just give them the hamster blow. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-the-hamsters-have-officially-given-up/659593/7 "2013-05-30T12:39:21Z")
88 doesn’t HAVE to mean the hamsters are Neo-Nazis. They could be asking for a piano (88 keys). If their Chinese hamsters, then 88 is a number signifying good luck or fortune (as in, Good luck getting THAT search accomplished!) and in amateur radio it signifies “hugs and kisses”. Or they could be Dale Earnhardt fans. If not, I for once welcome our new Neo-Nazi hamster overlords! ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-the-hamsters-have-officially-given-up/659593/8 "2013-05-30T14:42:27Z")
When I looked at your thread, it was immediately below the thread [HOWTO: Search the SDMB using Google](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=638051). Read the thread but the quick and dirty answer is if you want to search the dope for, say, “neo-nazi 88”, use Google to search for [neo-nazi 88 site:boards.straightdope.com](https://www.google.ca/search?q=neo-nazi+88+site%3Aboards.straightdope.com). The thread shows how to search by forum and by user and good stuff like that. I can’t remember the last time I used the dope’s search function and I don’t miss it. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-the-hamsters-have-officially-given-up/659593/9 "2013-05-30T14:42:48Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > We couldn’t find any hamster hookers, so we had to just give them the hamster blow. Well you can call me a prude, but I draw the line at blowing hamsters. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-the-hamsters-have-officially-given-up/659593/10 "2013-05-30T22:15:33Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Well you can call me a prude, but I draw the line at blowing hamsters. You’re a prude. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2013, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-the-hamsters-have-officially-given-up/659593/11 "2013-05-30T22:17:51Z")
But he lives in Thailand! how can there be prudes in Thailand?!? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2013, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-the-hamsters-have-officially-given-up/659593/12 "2013-05-31T03:21:02Z")
Oh, man. Don’t _even_ get me started on the hamster pay-for-play scene over here. The Board will have a meltdown! ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2013, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/right-the-hamsters-have-officially-given-up/659593/13 "2013-06-03T01:10:04Z")
Just [Say No to Nazi Hamsters.](http://99122.spreadshirt.com/say-no-to-nazi-hamsters-A2009418)