# The "whatever happened with..." Thread

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whatever-happened-with-thread/144662>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 24, 2002, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whatever-happened-with-thread/144662 "2002-12-24T02:58:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whatever-happened-with-thread/144662/1 "2002-12-24T02:58:24Z")

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This is the thread to enquire about threads that you never bothered catching up on to see what the eventual answer was (if there was one) and now you wish you did.

I’ll start:

Whatever happened with the Microsoft Ordering of the States puzzle that the entire might of the SDMB and Google Answers could not answer.

Whatever happened to the whole dodgy HK board that kept on stealing our posts to harvest e-mails

Whatever happened to the temporary board set up during the board crash (is it still up, do people still post there?)

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**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whatever-happened-with-thread/144662/2 "2002-12-24T03:02:33Z")

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Whatever happened to question marks.

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**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whatever-happened-with-thread/144662/3 "2002-12-24T03:03:38Z")

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I forgot the smiley there. Pretend I had one, so it sounds less catty. 🙂

😉 There, an extra one to make up for it.

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**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-whatever-happened-with-thread/144662/4 "2002-12-24T03:20:47Z")

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> Whatever happened to the whole dodgy HK board that kept on stealing our posts to harvest e-mails

[Metatus](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=152272&highlight=Metatus) is back, noted today.

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> Whatever happened to the temporary board set up during the board crash (is it still up, do people still post there?)

You can go [there](http://bb.bbboy.net/straightdope) and read, but you can’t post.