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I remembered it being in Ask, so I had a look through the backlog for threads with "relation" in the title.

Can anyone help me - A few years back I posted regularly on the thread 'entirely without spoken words'. I've got a new account as I couldn't remember my password for my old one, and though I've visited my previous personal space and tried the link from there to the thread, it didn't work and came up with an error message. I think it was in the 'Ask H2G2' area, but I'm not certain.

Does anyone know how/where I can find it?

Kyrp -x-

*Puts left index finger to forehead in an attitude of extreme concentration

*Frowns in thought

*Shakes head despondently



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Look what you've started!

Is this the one?

F2137311?thread=403461?thread=&skip=4800&show=20

ok its not strictly a thread i am looking for but the page that has all the blobs and stuff you can stick in your entries on it, its not going to be an edited entry but a community page, if anyone can help me find the page i would be very grateful.

mini

<./>Search?searchstring=guideml+picture+library&searchtype=goosearch&go.x=0&go.y=0&go=Go</.>

C809

thanks, now if anyone knows the whereabouts of the "sprucing up your personal space" thingy. . .i have tried to look for it, but my searching is not working!

mini

A690518

muchly. That is a very useful page! right now to do an edit on this entry

mini

Where's the Eurovision thread?

Could it be this one?

F19585?thread=1074395

Everyone's a critic eh?

s'ok, the right one's been found

Hmmmm there was a thread on ask back along that I started aobut Steve guttenburg.

Anyone find it as I am stumped....

FB

F19585?thread=4413031

Sweet... Cheers.

Can't for the life of me remember why I wanted it now.

FB

Oh, what useful and kind and helpful peeps are here.

~jwf~ reminisced the other day about a post I posted about childhood family Christmases. We both think it would have been in 200, 2001 or maybe 2002. I've checked the obvious threads in Ask from mid-November to mid-Jan for every year, my old journals and the talking points but not found it. But it could be anywhere, and I might have missed it in Ask if it was in an un-obvious thread. I'd probably have been using U148580 at the time.

Here's ~jwf~s description:

>> It struck me as such a 'classic' family Christmas scene it jogged the humbugs out of my then current indifference to the holiday in the way that Dickens' Christmas Carol or the Gift of the Magi sometimes do.

>> It must have been fairly early on (2001 or 2002) because I remember being greatly impressed by the intimacy, the revelation of personal details and the sincerity and honesty that were unusual in online forums at the time.

And here is another description from him:

>> It was a wonderful piece of writing, full of personal childhood memories and all the sounds and smells and colours of a traditional Christmas day. It was filled with all the classic Victorian elements of family, friends, peace-on-earth, carols, gift giving and turkey and mistletoe. And it quite literally made my Christmas that year! I have never forgotten.

>> And, at that time, I was not alone in replying positively to her. In fact quite a lot of hootooists were quite happily agreeing with her sentiments and sharing their own nostalgias.

So any thoughts on where it might be would be gratefully followed up upon. I'd like to track it down again for jwf. But it could be anywhere....

"Oh, what useful and kind and helpful peeps are here."
Thank you vey much Ben, on behalf of everyone who does their best to provide some kind of service. See F77636?thread=432987 for some of the explanations about why the search engine doesn't work.

If you've read the thread you'll see that some people provide us with the minimum of information but you've been really helpful, and you've tried hard to find it yourself too. However I can't unearth the thread anywhere - and I have been trying for a while, ever since I saw you mention it elsewhere and knew you'd end up here eventually. I've searched the conversations of people that might well have contributed too, such as MoG and drawn a blank each time.

I've long been of the opinion that some of the conversations that we never manage to track down just didn't survive the post Rupert moderation process for some reason. They exist only as foggy fragments of memory, just out of reach.

Although of course one of the other useful and kind peeps may prove me wrong!

Given the timings involved, it seems quite possible that that is what happened.

Of course, it's also possible that it was in someone else's journal which has since been hidden, or attached to an entry which has been deleted.

It's easy to forget that there are ways of making entire conversations disappear, even though we cannot delete specific posts after making them.

Thank you so very much for trying.

B