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I wonder how quickly one could rid the screen of this thread, so it was flushed out of the New Answers lists altogther. I figure if each of us were to simultaneously revive the very first ever thread they started, this question could be flushed out of the system in, say, two list updates.

― James Watsby, Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:25 (eighteen years ago) link

ahhhh meta thread.

― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 9 June 2005 12:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Well first you'd have to get people to stop responding to this thread.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 9 June 2005 13:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Like I'm doing right now.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 9 June 2005 13:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Right...now.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 9 June 2005 13:15 (eighteen years ago) link

It's still sticking around my friend.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 9 June 2005 13:43 (eighteen years ago) link

...And that's why we don't eat ice cream in the car.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 9 June 2005 13:46 (eighteen years ago) link

So wait! .. are we suposed to respond to this thread or not? Seems like we shouldn't .. but the rules need to be more clear.

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Thursday, 9 June 2005 13:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Ssshh ;-)

― James Watsby, Thursday, 9 June 2005 13:53 (eighteen years ago) link

we shouldnt.

― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 9 June 2005 13:55 (eighteen years ago) link

starting with the end of this sentence

― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 9 June 2005 13:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Wait. Oh, I see. OK, nevermind.

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Thursday, 9 June 2005 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link

is it out yet?

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 9 June 2005 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link

nope.

― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 9 June 2005 14:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Aaron, maybe you should signal again when we should stop posting to this thread. I think we're ready now.

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Thursday, 9 June 2005 14:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh, OK. Let's see how long it takes for my question to get flushed out from NOW.

Cheers.

― James Watsby, Thursday, 9 June 2005 14:31 (eighteen years ago) link

Is it working?

...Oh damn. Sorry!

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 9 June 2005 14:33 (eighteen years ago) link

So this is like negative thread pachinko?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 9 June 2005 14:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Now come on!

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Thursday, 9 June 2005 14:35 (eighteen years ago) link

I just revived my first thread!!!!!!!!

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 9 June 2005 14:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Xpost

OK, it's obvious it ain't going to work. It was just meant to be an experiment - a rapid flush question, detoxifying the board.

― James Watsby, Thursday, 9 June 2005 14:45 (eighteen years ago) link

I think in this madcap, fast-paced world, we need to learn to stop and smell the roses.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 9 June 2005 14:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Quite.

Shall we try one more time? No silly buggers this time.

Now.. FLUSH!

― James Watsby, Thursday, 9 June 2005 14:53 (eighteen years ago) link

So? How long did it take?

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Friday, 10 June 2005 11:11 (eighteen years ago) link

I've got a feeling that this thread is doomed to failure.

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 10 June 2005 11:17 (eighteen years ago) link

No it isn't!

Oops.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 10 June 2005 11:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Huk-L OTM.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 10 June 2005 14:52 (eighteen years ago) link

why is this still here?

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 10 June 2005 15:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Can I check whether I'm supposed to be posting to this or not? I'm a bit confused, but I am always keen to help.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 10 June 2005 22:46 (eighteen years ago) link

it really should have been titled "servng tureens" or "wilco: new album?"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 10 June 2005 23:59 (eighteen years ago) link

I predict this thread will set a record for staying on the New Answers the longest, and surpass Dave Matthews Band Bad & Hated for number of posts. Either that, or I just killed the thread.

― wetmink (wetmink), Saturday, 11 June 2005 00:04 (eighteen years ago) link

I predict that nothing exciting will happen and this thread will be revived in about a month by a random googler searching for nude pictures (pics, pix) of Beyonce (Knowles, Destiny's Child, Destinys Child).

― something about a tarantula coming out of a coconut (deangulberry), Saturday, 11 June 2005 00:08 (eighteen years ago) link

I thought this was gonna be a toilet-humor thread.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 11 June 2005 00:17 (eighteen years ago) link

I figured this would have been flushed by now, but y'all keep posting and bumping it back up to the top.

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Saturday, 11 June 2005 02:30 (eighteen years ago) link

how quickly one could rid the screen of this thread

OMG! I changed the resolution of my display to 800x600 and this question wasn't on screen anymore! And it was like a lot more quicklier than your revivification method! /me R00LZ K THX BYE!

― StanM, Saturday, 11 June 2005 06:42 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh. Er... Sorry.

― StanM, Saturday, 11 June 2005 06:42 (eighteen years ago) link

So this is like negative thread pachinko?

-- Tuomas

It's a variant of sorts. In my view, Thread Pachinko is royal tennis to Flushout's modern tennis.

― moley, Saturday, 11 June 2005 07:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Look, it doesn't take that much effort to figure this out: we're all supposed to stop posting. No posts at all on this thread. It's not complicated. How dumb can you people be not to get it? Why are you still posting?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 11 June 2005 10:03 (eighteen years ago) link

I mean, is it really too hard for you to understand?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 11 June 2005 10:03 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't know, it's been an hour, and NO ONE shows up to say they understand. If only anyone else here were as smart as I am.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 11 June 2005 11:03 (eighteen years ago) link

I think I get it. It's just that it wasn't clear everyone kept posting. And I thought that meant I was supposed to too.

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Saturday, 11 June 2005 11:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Given the bloodymindedness of most ILX users, I'm betting that this thread will break a new record for "longest time spent on the New Answers page".

― caitlin (caitlin), Saturday, 11 June 2005 11:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Caitlin's right. This question is unflushable!

― Ian Riese-Moraine. Exposing ambitious careerists as charlatans since 1986. (East, Saturday, 11 June 2005 14:22 (eighteen years ago) link

It's getting near the bottom of New Answers now, so I thought I should alert everyone so we can watch for the precise moment it falls off. Any minute, I calculate.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 12 June 2005 07:49 (eighteen years ago) link

I missed this thread yesterday. What was the point of it again?

― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Sunday, 12 June 2005 20:33 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't remember, noodle. *sigh*

― Ian Riese-Moraine: exposing ambitious careerists as charlatans since 1986. (East, Monday, 13 June 2005 01:19 (eighteen years ago) link

caitlin, I already said that.

― wetmink (wetmink), Monday, 13 June 2005 05:39 (eighteen years ago) link

not that I really care, just thought I should post something.

― wetmink (wetmink), Monday, 13 June 2005 06:03 (eighteen years ago) link

But why did you have to post something? Why post anything? Why call it anything?

http://www.industrial-music.com/images/product/ARTFUL039-160.jpg

― Ian Riese-Moraine: exposing ambitious careerists as charlatans since 1986. (East, Monday, 13 June 2005 10:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Skipping 371 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

No.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 20:37 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.osha.gov/gif/FatalFacts/fact50graphic1.jpg

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 05:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Is that even relevant?

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 07:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Is this the largest meta thread ever created?

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 07:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Nearly there!

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 12:20 (eighteen years ago) link

We can't flush this question out because we haven't been potty-trained!

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 13:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh, but we nearly did just now...

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 30 June 2005 01:38 (eighteen years ago) link

There's an extreme sense of apathy AND expectation on this thread now...

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 30 June 2005 05:35 (eighteen years ago) link

That was a great flush, fellers.

― James Watsby, Thursday, 30 June 2005 23:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Where's the toilet cleaner?

― Ian Riese-Moraine has been xeroxed into a conduit! (Eastern Mantra), Thursday, 30 June 2005 23:07 (eighteen years ago) link

they said it couldn't be done

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 30 June 2005 23:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Did it happen?!! :-O

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 1 July 2005 07:15 (eighteen years ago) link

is it out yet?

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 1 July 2005 07:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Thread two is nearly gone. Therefore it is the more successful.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 1 July 2005 07:35 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.osha.gov/gif/FatalFacts/fact26graphic1.jpg

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 1 July 2005 12:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Wait, I thought this thread had been flushed!?

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Friday, 1 July 2005 13:00 (eighteen years ago) link

It floated back to the top!

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 1 July 2005 13:08 (eighteen years ago) link

I'll bet this thread has some tales to tell

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 1 July 2005 13:11 (eighteen years ago) link

xpost

That's a very healthy sign. The peristaltic nature of this thread will keep this board from getting cancer!

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Friday, 1 July 2005 13:13 (eighteen years ago) link

There's only one way to get this thread properly flushed, we need a gazillion rolls of toilet paper

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 1 July 2005 13:15 (eighteen years ago) link

maggie gellenhal DOES look like a dog!

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 1 July 2005 13:15 (eighteen years ago) link

AFTER PARTY CELEBRATION!!!! WOOOHOO!!!!

And as it's Friday, It's happy hour!!! Get sloshed and sing!!!!!!1

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 1 July 2005 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

{[{*slooshPA_sLLuppo_fizz*)]}

― Kiri, Friday, 22 July 2005 22:29 (eighteen years ago) link

i miss u
y 4 u go away?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 23 July 2005 04:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh, hi question. I hope you've been well. Well, it was good to see you again. Take care.

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Saturday, 23 July 2005 07:58 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.classicgaming.com/rotw/altbwizard.gif

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 24 July 2005 18:40 (eighteen years ago) link

We did this already.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Sunday, 24 July 2005 18:43 (eighteen years ago) link

And we'll do it AGAIN until we get it right.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 24 July 2005 20:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Right, ready?

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 25 July 2005 11:48 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.maxwaugh.com/images/bw98/flush.jpg

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 01:44 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Just in case anyone wondered what ever happened to this thread, it got flushed out. now you know.

― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 10:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Arctic Monkeys

― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 2 October 2005 22:38 (eighteen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

This thread is just begging to be flushed out.

― Owen, Monday, 31 October 2005 11:39 (eighteen years ago) link

But I bet this thread looks good on the dancefloor!

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 31 October 2005 12:02 (eighteen years ago) link

five months pass...

Going well -- it hasn't surfaced in 2006, I notice.

― Memoirs Hill, Saturday, 15 April 2006 10:54 (eighteen years ago) link

wow talk about a coincidence!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Saturday, 15 April 2006 13:05 (eighteen years ago) link

one year passes...

Coincidences, Whoo.....

― Mark G, Friday, 7 September 2007 07:57 (sixteen years ago) link

I know it's bad form to laugh at your own jokes but I just made myself lol. This must have been running at the same time as the Terry Shiavo iPod thread.

This thread needs a feeding tube and to have its picture photoshopped onto the Spiderland cover.

-- Onimo

― onimo, Friday, 7 September 2007 08:08 (sixteen years ago) link

one month passes...

let's flush it out of hiding

― omar little, Saturday, 20 October 2007 00:04 (sixteen years ago) link

Who the fuck was James Watsby?

― Noodle Vague, Saturday, 20 October 2007 11:24 (sixteen years ago) link

ILX legend. Came, dropped one thread, left. An example to us all.

― onimo, Saturday, 20 October 2007 12:30 (sixteen years ago) link

flush people

― strgn, Saturday, 20 October 2007 12:52 (sixteen years ago) link

eight months pass...

i've never seen such a floater

― the next grozart, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 22:20 (fifteen years ago) link

one year passes...

Every now and then I just get this overwhelming urge to flush this question out.

― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 17:11 (fourteen years ago) link

Damn, it just came back.

― We should have called Suzie and Bobby (NickB), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 17:11 (fourteen years ago) link

Where? I don't see it.

― StanM, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 17:39 (fourteen years ago) link

Oh, there it is!

― StanM, Wednesday, 10 March 2010 18:28 (fourteen years ago) link

one year passes...

Finally ilx has another chance to do this thing properly, as it should have been done the first time.

― Aimless, Monday, 2 January 2012 06:42 (twelve years ago) link

two years pass...

we did it guys! :)

― tench and pike, scaup and snipe (NickB), Friday, 10 January 2014 22:15 (ten years ago) link

five months pass...

Sorry, sorry...I sneezed and hit "submit post" by mistake

― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 17 June 2014 16:15 (nine years ago) link

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