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kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website Posted Mar 11, 2004
Geggs, what makes you think the 5 millionth post is in that invisible conversation?
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Geggs Posted Mar 11, 2004
What I did was...
Click on the 'write a reply to this posting' thing. Then I changed the URL so that instead of saying
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/plain/AddThread?inreplyto=5000197
it said
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/plain/AddThread?inreplyto=5000000
and pulled up that page.
I then pressed the 'Return to the convo without saying anything' widgit, and it dumped me at a convo that appears totally blank.
Do you think my working was in error? Or is it just summat weird?
Geggs
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kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website Posted Mar 11, 2004
It's not on WW2 or Collective either. Here's 4999998 from Collective: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/F104904?thread=379595&skip=20&show=20#p4999998
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Geggs Posted Mar 11, 2004
I've just posted a to the hidden thread, but it's not showing on my MP list.
Geggs
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kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website Posted Mar 11, 2004
Crikey and here was me going through the backlog of the DNA sites. I don't know if that would normally work Geggs but smart thinking anyway 
.
I just tried off your link in post 102 and the subject line of the post is called Hidden. It also says:
The Posting to which you are replying is from Hidden
Hidden
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kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website Posted Mar 11, 2004
I've just tried http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/plain/AddThread?inreplyto=5000001 and that goes to the Natalie post that GD found, so it must be something wrong with #5,000,000.
I managed to post a new convo to the F number of the invisible thread but it doesn't help much. It does show up in myPS as F1350728?thread=393457
Maybe Jim has done something sneaky with the magic post?
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kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website Posted Mar 11, 2004
Right - it appears that 5,000,000th post is on ican which means we can't read it.
The winner btw is Swodahs who guessed Thurs 1pm (actual time of post was around 12.10pm GMT). Followed closely by Jab - Thurs 11.11 am, and then Greydesk with Thurs 3pm.
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kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website Posted Mar 11, 2004
The magic numbered post is in Serephina's ican thingymajig. I don't really know how ican works except that no-one can read it 'cept Serephina and the person who sent the post to her. She's having a look to see if she can find the exact one.
I'm off to bed 
kea.
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IMSoP - Safely transferred to the 5th (or 6th?) h2g2 login system Posted Mar 11, 2004
The landmarks are just flying by today, aren't they - it's a shame the 5000000th DNA post wasn't the 60000th post on "3N": F63252?thread=100492&post=4998749#p4998749 that would have been 
(in fact, it was number 4998749, which just goes to show how many posts DNA gets in a few hours! 
)
[IMSoP]
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Swodahs Neetriht Posted Mar 11, 2004
Hi-oh! What do I win? A lifetime supply of widgets? A trip to Haiti? I'm so excited! Oh, wait, I think I feel some harsh, cold reality sneaking up on me...
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Jab [Since 29th November 2002] Posted Mar 11, 2004
Damn an hour out on time, oh well.
Way it goes, like I said to Serep... 
Kidding!
*makes do with *
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HonestIago Posted Mar 11, 2004
See you all at post 10,000,000. How long away do you think that'll be? If anyone guesses right now I'll give them a trip to Barbados
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Dark Master - The end is now (2005/03/01) Officially Left Posted Mar 11, 2004
Approximately 3.69 years time. (If H2G2 is still around)
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Shagrath (Join the Metal Appreciators' Society @ A2556489) Posted Mar 11, 2004
Sucks that the 
post is hidden. Shall we ever know what it said? My life now feels unfulfilled knowing that I spent all this time here to be disappointed. 
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Serephina Posted Mar 11, 2004
Well I didn't post that particular numbered post on purpose
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Mu Beta Posted Mar 11, 2004
I blame the BBC for opening all these 'fringe' sites...
B
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kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website Posted Mar 11, 2004
Yaaay Serephina 
.
>>Well I didn't post that particular numbered post on purpose <<
Your current moniker suggests otherwise... "Serephina..It will be mine..oh yes!"
~~~
So, a post that no-one else can read. Let's just hope the h**v*r*tes don't get wind of this or there'll be all sorts of speculation.
Key: Complain about this post
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- 101: kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website (Mar 11, 2004)
- 102: Geggs (Mar 11, 2004)
- 103: kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website (Mar 11, 2004)
- 104: Geggs (Mar 11, 2004)
- 105: kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website (Mar 11, 2004)
- 106: kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website (Mar 11, 2004)
- 107: kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website (Mar 11, 2004)
- 108: kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website (Mar 11, 2004)
- 109: IMSoP - Safely transferred to the 5th (or 6th?) h2g2 login system (Mar 11, 2004)
- 110: Swodahs Neetriht (Mar 11, 2004)
- 111: Jab [Since 29th November 2002] (Mar 11, 2004)
- 112: HonestIago (Mar 11, 2004)
- 113: Dark Master - The end is now (2005/03/01) Officially Left (Mar 11, 2004)
- 114: Shagrath (Join the Metal Appreciators' Society @ A2556489) (Mar 11, 2004)
- 115: Serephina (Mar 11, 2004)
- 116: Baron Grim (Mar 11, 2004)
- 117: Serephina (Mar 11, 2004)
- 118: Mu Beta (Mar 11, 2004)
- 119: Baron Grim (Mar 11, 2004)
- 120: kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website (Mar 11, 2004)
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