I can’t seem to find the “Ask the 50’s Dad” thread. I tried searching for it, but since all the terms are three letters, they don’t search well (or at all). There is probably a way around this, but I sadly do not know it. Would it be possible for somebody with Bruce-Lee-like search fu to help me out? Please?
Voila. http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=335904&highlight=signed+young+lady
I left the search terms that I used in the link so you could see what I searched on. I knew the word “signed” appeared in there, and I felt fairly confident that the term “young lady” had appeared somewhere in there.
Another way to locate the “ask the …” threads is to use any common longer word in the search box (eg “father” for the ask the dad thread), use a reasonable “since X days ago” value then sort the results by title ascending.
The threads that start with “ask the …” appear in a group not that many pages in, after all the titles which start with a " and those which start with digits. I did this search with “father” & last 6 months & the thread was found on page 10 of the results. These searches can be a bit slow, so better to do them at off-peak times.
Just search for “communists”. That’ll thin the herd.
Ah, thank you all. Hopefully after all these fairly common sense suggestions, I won’t have to do this again.
Again, thanks a bundle.