# Who took my post?

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**Created:** [January 22, 2006, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-took-my-post/341054 "2006-01-22T01:11:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![ltfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@ltfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ltfire)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-took-my-post/341054/1 "2006-01-22T01:11:45Z")

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About an hour ago, I posted in this thread.

> **[Does anyone know of an existent photo of Cecil Adams?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=355221)**
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> I’m just curious what this great man looks like.

I went to Google Images, and the very first picture brought up a funny article involving Ed Zotti and Cecil. I posted the link, waited for it to post, clicked on the link to make sure it went to the picture and site, and then, moved on to other forums.  
As I passed that post , I noticed that someone had posted after me. I opened said post, and lo and behold, my post was gone. Did I offend someone?

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**Author:** ![ltfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@ltfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ltfire)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-took-my-post/341054/2 "2006-01-22T01:13:59Z")

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Never mind…it’s back, you sneeky little devils.

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**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-took-my-post/341054/3 "2006-01-22T02:15:39Z")

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> [@ltfire](#):
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> Did I offend someone?

The message board gods might have been a little pissed that you posted the exact same link that somebody had already posted five posts earlier, and so made your redundancy disappear.

But, no, we couldn’t get that lucky, could we? 😃