Why is my thread dead?

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One of my best threads! It wouldn’t turn up with the search engine, but I remember linking to it in another thread- that’s the only way I was able to find any link to it.

It’s called Nasty Food, and if you go to this thread, you’ll see about half way down where I posted a link to it. But the link doesn’t work any more! It goes to the forum list. When I try to modify a URL to reflect the thread ID = 000813, I get a thread about the columbine murderers.

The URL to the link is:

http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/000813.html

Que pasa?

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Que pasa, indeed? Your first link, that says “this thread”, goes to the Snopes Home Page.

Your second link, that says it’s supposed to be a thread, goes to the Straight Dope Main Forums Page.

Huh?

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Tell us what forum you posted it in and we’ll help you look for it.

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So we tanned his thread’s hide
When it died, Clyde,
And that’s it a-hangin’ on the shed.

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opus, at the time of the vBulletin upgrade, all links to threads posted under UBB became invalid.

Your best bet is to use the search engine, it works at a decent speed.

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Okay, when I said this thread, I meant THIS THREAD.

The search engine is of no avail. I have a copy of my original post so I know exactly which key words to search for. According to the search engine, there are several threads that contain the following words:

dachshund
phlegm wads
zucchini
souse loaf
gag-reflex

However none of them are my thread.

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When I did a search for dexahydroxide brominate your thread was one of the two listed, so I think the search function does find this thread, at its new location.

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Um, what? My original thread, entitled “Nasty Food” does not contain the phrase dexahydroxide brominate, so I’m not sure what you are referring to. The question remains: why is my thread dead?

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It’s possible that it was archived prior to the vBulletin switchover. If that’s the case, you can’t get to it right now. The old archives have not been brought on-line. The infamous Flat Earth thread starring Phaedrus is in the same state of limbo. Sorry 'bout that.

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Hell with getting the flat earth stuff thread back…we want GUY STUFF, Unc! :wink: