Author Topic: Aw, crap (Read 2707 times)

Noemon · « **on:** June 13, 2005, 12:19:22 PM »

I pointed someone to this forum this past weekend, forgetting that a lot of the best threads (maybe even all of the etymology threads) had been wiped out back in the Great Forum Crash of '05. Now when she comes to check the place out she's going to think that I'm insane.

Quick! Post something of an etymological nature! Or something talking about the flaws in the Sapir-Wharf hypothesis! Or something!

Brinestone · « **Reply #1 on:** June 13, 2005, 12:20:40 PM »

Um, the OED R0X0RS!!!!!1

How's that?

Jonathon · « **Reply #2 on:** June 13, 2005, 01:01:43 PM »

Actually, I think it was the Forum Crash of September '04. There are a lot of threads still here, but you have to change the setting to show all the threads from the beginning.

Noemon · « **Reply #3 on:** June 13, 2005, 01:07:55 PM »

Yeah, I did that--they only went back to Feb '05, so I assumed that the crash had been right at the first of the year. Maybe there were multiple pages, and I was just being an idiot though.

Oh, and Ruth?

Jonathon · « **Reply #4 on:** June 13, 2005, 01:14:50 PM »

Yeah, there are three pages, and the threads go back to late September.

Noemon · « **Reply #5 on:** June 13, 2005, 01:16:11 PM »

I just popped back in point out my obliviousness, but you beat me to the punch. Yeah, 3 pages.

Icarus · « **Reply #6 on:** June 13, 2005, 06:21:58 PM »

Yeah, your friend will be much more impressed when you point out those long dead--but still archived, thankfully--threads.

Jonathon · « **Reply #7 on:** June 14, 2005, 08:11:49 AM »

Icarus · « **Reply #8 on:** June 14, 2005, 08:33:32 AM »

*pat pat*

Patrick · « **Reply #9 on:** June 14, 2005, 10:11:57 AM »

*joe joe*

Icarus · « **Reply #10 on:** June 14, 2005, 10:32:46 AM »

Doing searches for your name again Pat?

Patrick · « **Reply #11 on:** June 14, 2005, 11:18:17 AM »

I refer to it as ego-surfing.