# what the hell button did I push???? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 18, 2002, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-button-did-i-push/114768 "2002-06-18T23:24:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-button-did-i-push/114768/1 "2002-06-18T23:24:22Z")
Ok, sitting here w/ several browser windows open (email acocunt, bank account, SDMB etc.) and since on this computer, no matter which window I am currently looking at (w/the others tucked neatly away), whichever one is ‘doing something’ (ie loading a new page or whatever), intrudes o’er top the one I"m looking at, sometimes, I end up clicking on something on a new page that I didn’t intend (I know, clear as mud, right?) anyhow, So I was looking at my bank account (oh, the insurance check hasn’t cleared yet…), and click to another page on that site, but then a thread that was loading up intruded. lots of clicking noises, gee my computer was busy for a minute, and then - not the thread I was looking to load up but a whole different page - it listed (in order of number of posts) all the posters to that thread. I swear I din’ mean to look at it, but it was just there! :eek: after peeking through my mostly closed eye, I found a “return to thread” option. where in the hell was I??? If it was something I wasn’t supposed to be able to access, I promise you that I couldn’t re-create the sequence again if my life depended on it. it doesn’t, does it? :eek: :smack: ---
**Author:** ![JimOfAllTrades](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@JimOfAllTrades](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimOfAllTrades)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2002, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-button-did-i-push/114768/2 "2002-06-18T23:49:34Z")
On the list of posts for a forum, if you click on the number of replies for any thread, you see the list you describe. Ugly ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2002, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-button-did-i-push/114768/3 "2002-06-19T11:26:24Z")
> [@](#): > > what the hell button did I push??? Probably the “New Thread” button, I reckon. (What? The question’s been answered…) ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2002, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-button-did-i-push/114768/4 "2002-06-19T12:52:56Z")
Better check to make sure you haven’t posted your bank account in Great Debates. ---
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2002, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-button-did-i-push/114768/5 "2002-06-19T12:57:18Z")
I think it’s the same thing that just caused a shortcut titled “Lesbian exotic dancers are a strange concept???” to appear on my desktop. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2002, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-the-hell-button-did-i-push/114768/6 "2002-06-19T18:19:42Z")
heh heh heh (my face ) um, yea, I was jus’ testin all of **you** to see if you knew um, yea, that’s it, that’s the ticket… um Morgan Fairchild. and **Uke** I meant to do that, but posted your Visa Account number in the pit, instead. that was ok, wasn’t it?? 😃 (in other words… :o :eek: :smack: )