Anyone knows when we hit it and what it was about?
Well, I saw that we had been by it while I was away, but I wasn’t close by as it approached or I would have hung around for it.
I do know that the thread count as shown on the Forums Home page is off by some amount from the actual “threadid#” and that the threadid# for “this thread” (at the time I put my mouse cursor over the “post reply” button) was 206,652. So the trick will involve a little arithmetic between the thread count in the Forums Home page and the actual threadid#.
You just have to find “the latest thread” (which isn’t forum-specific, I don’t think) and get its threadid#, then do the math to find which thread was called #200,000 and plug its threadid# into the URL and it will (unless the counts are off by now due to deleted threads, etc.) take you there.
Is that clear? If not, I can try harder to explain how I understand this mystery.
If you kust punch in the number, it’s this thread: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=200000
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb...threadid=206439
This would take into account the discrepancy between the actual threadid# and the one shown at Forums Home.
For further evidence, check here.
I get “Page not found” with that try. Must be more to it than that or else many threads have been deleted between times.
I’m fresh out of ideas.
This is probably it. It’s the same threadid (206439) that Zeldar arrived at.
Now I’m totally confused!
So, if I understand correctly (which I’m sure I don’t), either fuel or omnipresent will be pleased as punch when they are officially informed…
Thanks, Ringo, I trust your method enough to have posted in that thread to let them know it was close to the 200,000th one.
Mystery solved as much as it’s liable to be.
Does omnipresent get a plaque or something?
Only if he’s not brushing his teeth enough.
Smartass!
I think it only appropriate that such an honour befall a member of the omni tribe.