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Don't know if this has already been done, but I've had trouble searching for some threads - I can't recall keywords or thread titles.

The one I'm looking for just now is the one regarding the correct etiquette used on passing someone you know coming in the opposite direction. Ignore them until they have almost passed and then give a surprised hello, or start acknowledging them from a distance?

This thread had me literally crying with laughter and I'm desperate for that boost again today.

Rumpy Pumpkin, Wednesday, 12 January 2005 11:31 (nineteen years ago) link

I wrote one on that subject once
it was not all that funny so you may be thinking of another one. Try using my name.

Paul Kelly (kelly), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 12:14 (nineteen years ago) link

oh that is the one alright

Social dilema in the street.

ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 12:17 (nineteen years ago) link

no, there's an even better one on a similar theme.

Miles Finch, Wednesday, 12 January 2005 12:20 (nineteen years ago) link

this is the one! thanx

Rumpington Lane, Thursday, 13 January 2005 09:47 (nineteen years ago) link

eleven months pass...
I started a thread, I think within the last year and a half, and the thread title was something like "Recommend movies that will help me understand my own culture." I'm not having any luck using the search function or trying obvious categories. Let's see, I guess I could try searching on some of the movies I remember being recommended.

Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 14:34 (eighteen years ago) link

I wonder if that was one of the lost threads?

Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 14:38 (eighteen years ago) link

i want to find the thread that contains a picture of Captian America punching somebody's lights out with the word WANK as a sound effect thingy.

Sailor Kitten (g-kit), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 14:55 (eighteen years ago) link

I found mine:

Recommend important ("important"), mainstream, English-language, films from 1990 to the present

Everybody always wants the comic book character threads.

Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 15:14 (eighteen years ago) link

For g-kit, from ILX's premier board ILC.

aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 15:46 (eighteen years ago) link

eight months pass...
Umm, that one thread where everyone was making puns from the names of post-structuralist philosophers? Probably like 2002 old, lots of Momus -- only pun I half-remember is something like "we will never get Derrida it now."

nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Nevermind, got it.

nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link

How come, when you search for stuff, you can't sort it by date?

Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 21:59 (seventeen years ago) link

eight months pass...

I can't find the one where people recommended wedding readings for other people. Can anyone help?

accentmonkey, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 13:39 (sixteen years ago) link

a thread just for finding the LOST threads? amazingness.

g-kit, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 13:42 (sixteen years ago) link

can someone hook me up with the image of like 30 people dressed as giorgio moroder

Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 15:05 (sixteen years ago) link

one year passes...

Where did the thread about the CocoRosie article in the New York Times go?

Savannah Smiles, Friday, 11 July 2008 09:57 (fifteen years ago) link

(it was on ILM, I think)

Savannah Smiles, Friday, 11 July 2008 10:01 (fifteen years ago) link

tuff one, that!

Mark G, Friday, 11 July 2008 11:08 (fifteen years ago) link

Are you being sarcastic? I couldn't find anything in search or control-F'ing all over the place!

Savannah Smiles, Friday, 11 July 2008 15:39 (fifteen years ago) link

eleven months pass...

might be on 77 or MRF, but it's the thread with the ultra-brilliant line about the slow devolution of posters from earnest ILM reporter to crankier subboarder to in-joke spouter to drastic misspeller to sock puppet user that I'm finding more and more accurate these days

Mindless Thugs Mixtape Volume One (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 05:56 (fourteen years ago) link

suggest ban sucks (unban LJ)

Lamp, Wednesday, 24 June 2009 06:01 (fourteen years ago) link

wow that was fucking fast. tip o the hat.

Mindless Thugs Mixtape Volume One (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 06:03 (fourteen years ago) link

its a classic post

Lamp, Wednesday, 24 June 2009 06:04 (fourteen years ago) link

two years pass...

there is a thread discussing the loudest bands of all time, in particular a Mojo article that went in depth about concert volumes (MBV was at the top, I think? there were also some references to MC Hammer spawning noise ordinances that pretty much killed the idea of going over a certain db range within city limits...)

I can't find it, or the Mojo article. li'l help?

unorthodox economic revenge (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 15:30 (twelve years ago) link

surely someone remembers this thread - searching for "loudest" and "mojo" not really doing the trick

unorthodox economic revenge (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 15:58 (twelve years ago) link

nobody...? Ned?

unorthodox economic revenge (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 17:41 (twelve years ago) link

oh well found the Mojo article at least (duh written by my brother): http://www.quartzcity.net/2006/01/11/the-grateful-deaf/

unorthodox economic revenge (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 17:53 (twelve years ago) link

one year passes...

wasn't there a thread about bands who sing in made-up languages?

1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 13 August 2013 19:11 (ten years ago) link

"Loxian" and other made-up languages in music

fit and working again, Tuesday, 13 August 2013 19:14 (ten years ago) link

thank u kindly

1 P.3. Eternal (roxymuzak), Thursday, 15 August 2013 19:11 (ten years ago) link

one year passes...

there's a thread on 77 called "VALERIEEEEE!!!!!" but idk how many E's and now many !'s and it's youtube videos where the song "Valerie" is in the video, i want this thread back plz help me find her

gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 26 April 2015 15:22 (eight years ago) link

yaaaasss

gybe horses (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 26 April 2015 17:04 (eight years ago) link

one year passes...

Can someone remind me what the thread with all the modernist, geometric-abstraction book covers from the 70s was called. Or At least some other archive of modernist book design. Thanks.

ed.b, Wednesday, 19 October 2016 17:19 (seven years ago) link

They're not all book covers, but maybe this one?

Graphic design 1945-1969

heaven parker (anagram), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 20:38 (seven years ago) link

I think so. Thanks!

ed.b, Thursday, 20 October 2016 20:33 (seven years ago) link

uh which one is the official chicago thread

there are so many

F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 20 October 2016 21:14 (seven years ago) link

where's the thread with the "it's time for the percolator" audio?

sarahell, Thursday, 20 October 2016 21:44 (seven years ago) link

This? it's time for the percolator

The video is now set to private, so

https://youtu.be/_UlhLd76IzQ

PappaWheelie V, Thursday, 20 October 2016 21:53 (seven years ago) link

:(

sarahell, Thursday, 20 October 2016 21:54 (seven years ago) link

that one that was about how crazily antiquated/not of this time the conditions our grandparents lived in were

*-* (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 20 October 2016 22:01 (seven years ago) link


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