# The "Surreal continuing story" thread: Have I done something wrong? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 9, 2003, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-surreal-continuing-story-thread-have-i-done-something-wrong/160069 "2003-03-09T11:35:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2003, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-surreal-continuing-story-thread-have-i-done-something-wrong/160069/1 "2003-03-09T11:35:02Z")
I’m addressing this question to NDP and others concerned. I sense that one of my most recent postings on [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=8edd62029e4afdb) has put people off. Please let me know; I’d like to be able to continue the story of the Narrator and Alice Terwilliger… 😕 ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-surreal-continuing-story-thread-have-i-done-something-wrong/160069/2 "2003-03-10T01:20:08Z")
Your like leads to a “no thread specified” page. ---
**Author:** ![samarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@samarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samarm)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-surreal-continuing-story-thread-have-i-done-something-wrong/160069/3 "2003-03-10T01:27:22Z")
Maybe the thread just passed away naturally, they do that eventually. Threads don’t stay active forever. Why not bump it to see if people want to continue it? There’s nothing wrong with a little bump now and then. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-surreal-continuing-story-thread-have-i-done-something-wrong/160069/4 "2003-03-10T07:23:29Z")
How do you do that, Samarm? ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-surreal-continuing-story-thread-have-i-done-something-wrong/160069/5 "2003-03-10T07:46:57Z")
The URL for the link was cut short. The one posted is: “[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=8edd62029e4afdb](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=8edd62029e4afdb)” They should look like this: “[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=168271](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=168271)” The “s=” part is just a irrelevant session ID, the “threadid=” part is the important part of the link to show the correct thread. It was cut off in the url for some reason, thats why the link is broken. Basically **dougie** needs to refind that link and recopy the url, its not a issue of the thread having been deleted. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-surreal-continuing-story-thread-have-i-done-something-wrong/160069/6 "2003-03-10T07:48:22Z")
Hmm, thats wild. The vBB software automatically cleaned my session ID from the second URL I quoted above…interesting. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-surreal-continuing-story-thread-have-i-done-something-wrong/160069/7 "2003-03-10T07:54:28Z")
Don’t be worried Dougie. I was out of town for a few days and didn’t have the opportunity to post until this evening. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-surreal-continuing-story-thread-have-i-done-something-wrong/160069/8 "2003-03-10T08:05:47Z")
Oh.