# What Happened to the Quotes Unquotes game thread? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 20, 2003, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-quotes-unquotes-game-thread/196393 "2003-08-20T07:34:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Stripysocks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@Stripysocks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stripysocks)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2003, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-quotes-unquotes-game-thread/196393/1 "2003-08-20T07:34:17Z")
Where is it…? I thought it was in here. Does anybody know? I’ve not finished reading it yet, as I was getting a really good laugh 😛 We aren’t allowed to post images either? slows things down too much? Sorry first post. Been lurking … 😉 ---
**Author:** ![green\_bladder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2003, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-quotes-unquotes-game-thread/196393/2 "2003-08-20T07:49:09Z")
The quote-unquote thread died a couple of weeks ago but you can still find it by inputting ‘quote unquote game’ into the search box and finding it from there. ---
**Author:** ![Stripysocks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dec6dc/32.png) [@Stripysocks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stripysocks)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2003, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-quotes-unquotes-game-thread/196393/3 "2003-08-20T08:03:25Z")
I did that already. It came up with nothing. So then I looked thru all the pages in this forum and a couple of other forums. I can’t find it ☹ ---
**Author:** ![green\_bladder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2003, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-quotes-unquotes-game-thread/196393/4 "2003-08-20T11:16:43Z")
Ok found it…([here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=167985&perpage=50&pagenumber=27)). You can revive it if you want, the last post being only about two days old. Strange thing though, when I input “quote unquote game” into the search box and press search; nothing happens, no response, nothing. Yet when I input anything else, the search function works fine. So I had to go through my entire history to locate the thread. Perhaps I’ll post this to ATMB and see what’s happening. You’re welcome 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2003, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-quotes-unquotes-game-thread/196393/5 "2003-08-20T15:13:22Z")
I believe the word “quote” (being used evry time anyone quotes a thread) is in the #badwords file – which is not a list of manned words, but the vBB reference file for words that cannot be searched on, because they occur so commonly. (Contemplate results of a search for “tyrannosaur” vs. for “that” to catch what I mean.) ---
**Author:** ![green\_bladder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2003, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-quotes-unquotes-game-thread/196393/6 "2003-08-20T15:26:46Z")
Not only did I try “quote”, but I also tried “unquote” and “game” yet neither of them incurred any response. Out of interest I also tried inputting more common words like “woman” and “blue” and I got results for both. So it really shouldn’t be a problem with words like “game” and “unquote”. Anyway, I’ve got a thread up in ATMB regarding this so we’ll see what comes up. 😉