A Conversation for Ask h2g2
Where's that thread...?
Ach, I have to go to bed. I'll put up a WWW list A page when I get the chance.
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Baconlefeets Posted Jul 9, 2007
F19585?thread=2001975 
I just skim read those threads. 
I'm in 2002 going further back.
Did you find the Canadians?
F19585?thread=288980
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Baconlefeets Posted Jul 9, 2007
Christians: F19585?thread=180163
Eating dogs 
F19585?thread=155797
Yet another UK one: F19585?thread=139317
Can't find Aussies in Ask, Misc nor the Forum. I must have missed a blob in Ask. 
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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 Jul 17, 2007
I knew there must have been one somwhere 
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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 Jul 17, 2007
*Produces another thread with a flourish* F19585?thread=197502
The most important one of all!!
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TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office Posted Aug 13, 2007
This is a challenge. A while ago in Ask (I'm almost certain it was Ask, anyway), there was a surreal conversation about a device. All participents were careful not to name the device, or to be too specific about its uses, but they were free in their opinions of which versions were best. The limited edition chrome handled ones were especially prized, if I remember correctly.
TRiG.
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swl Posted Aug 13, 2007
Ooooh, I remember that. Wasn't the one with the left-handed flanged froggetts a popular choice?
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TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office Posted Aug 13, 2007
May well have been. Sounds right, anyway.
TRiG.
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swl Posted Aug 13, 2007
Was it the one where they reckoned the Mark III was a better balanced model than the Japanese-produced Mark IV?
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TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office Posted Aug 13, 2007
I think we'll need conversation <./>search</.> for this one. I'm sure I remember coelecanth saying that they do turn it on occasionally.
TRiG.
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six7s Posted Aug 13, 2007
The in-house search has always been horrendously slow
Google is always faster:
Results 1 - 6 of 6 from www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2 for "where's that thread". (0.17 seconds)
http://www.google.com/search?num=20&hl=en&safe=off&as_qdr=all&q=site%3Awww.bbc.co.uk%2Fdna%2Fh2g2+%22where%27s+that+thread%22&btnG=Search
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TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office Posted Aug 13, 2007
I'm sure I remember reading, though, that conversations are not searched by search engines. And indeed, all those Google results are from people's conversation lists on their personal spaces. This conversation, where the phrase occurs twenty times on each page, is not found by Google.
TRiG.
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six7s Posted Aug 13, 2007
In the html
A-pages have
Threads have
The reason/excuse is that reducing the load on the Beeb's servers is more important than usability/functionality
Key: Complain about this post
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- 141: 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 (Jul 9, 2007)
- 142: 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 (Jul 9, 2007)
- 143: Baconlefeets (Jul 9, 2007)
- 144: Baconlefeets (Jul 9, 2007)
- 145: Baconlefeets (Jul 9, 2007)
- 146: 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 (Jul 17, 2007)
- 147: 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 (Jul 17, 2007)
- 148: 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 (Aug 5, 2007)
- 149: swl (Aug 12, 2007)
- 150: taliesin (Aug 12, 2007)
- 151: taliesin (Aug 12, 2007)
- 152: TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office (Aug 13, 2007)
- 153: swl (Aug 13, 2007)
- 154: TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office (Aug 13, 2007)
- 155: swl (Aug 13, 2007)
- 156: TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office (Aug 13, 2007)
- 157: coelacanth (Aug 13, 2007)
- 158: six7s (Aug 13, 2007)
- 159: TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office (Aug 13, 2007)
- 160: six7s (Aug 13, 2007)
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