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Kelly Alves

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Nope! I limboed it. Go check there.

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Belle Ringer
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quote:
Originally posted by IngoB:
Here are my suggestions for limbofication:
[list=1]...I basically just went looking for things that might have interested me back in 2010...

Keep going, if the proposal is to cut Oblivion to 1000 days, the survivors will be all of 2014 & 2013 & half of 2012.
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Tubbs

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quote:
Originally posted by Belle Ringer:
quote:
Originally posted by IngoB:
Here are my suggestions for limbofication:
[list=1]...I basically just went looking for things that might have interested me back in 2010...

Keep going, if the proposal is to cut Oblivion to 1000 days, the survivors will be all of 2014 & 2013 & half of 2012.
That'll still leaves a whooping 200 plus pages even after the cull.

Get rummaging!! There must be other good stuff to save!

Tubbs

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Kelly Alves

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If people are having a hard time finding stuff, I propose we do something like 700 days ( roughly two years) and have a yearly Limbo appeal.

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Curiosity killed ...

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A couple more threads:
Fermented or unfermented
The Knights Templar, ....

back in 2010 you're wading through pages of Eddy, but Genevieve and jlg, ken and Erin were all still posting.

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Kelly Alves

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Done, and done.

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quote:
Originally posted by Barefoot Friar:
Would you kindly consider saving this game please? I thought it was a marvellous game, with twists and hijinks and general mayhem.

[Overused]

It wäs goood oone indeedings.

I'm not sure if I'd suggesting limbofying, but at least somehow spare the previous mafia threads simply because they are relatively frequently referenced in new games in order to establish player behaviour as well as just for the fun of established traditions (such as not listening to yours truly when y'all should) and expressions (burning down one's house to prove certainty etc). It's a few threads of the past that are actually still of use and that get read every once in a while.

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Kelly Alves

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Thanks for suggesting that, because not only did I save that, but it reminded me to save all the RPG development/ test threads that grew out of the post Mafia discussion. [Big Grin]

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Kelly Alves

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Does anyone think we should archive the death Pool threads? Again, they have interesting continuity.

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Don't know when I will have the time for looking at 2011 & 2012. I'm about to fly back to cold Europe, and then the treadmill starts again...

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I've checked my bookmarks, and have the following queries if any kind person could assist:

There is an old but accessible thread in the Styx, at this location, which doesn't show in the index as far as I can tell. Is this safe?

There was an item, possibly from the magazine, which I had bookmarked at http://www.ship-of-fools.com/features/2006/mystery_bullshipper.html I assume this is irrecoverable as it's not part of the forums?

There once was a thread called (I think) Horrible or Horrifying nursery rhymes. My link is non-responsive - anybody know if was Limboed in the past?

Many thanks.

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Alan Cresswell

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quote:
Originally posted by passer:
There is an old but accessible thread in the Styx, at this location, which doesn't show in the index as far as I can tell. Is this safe?

It's fine, sitting at the bottom of page 2 on the board index. There is an option within your profile to choose what threads to see on the index, based on time since last post. If that's set relatively short some threads will not be displayed. My personal preference is to set that to "show all threads".

quote:
There was an item, possibly from the magazine, which I had bookmarked at http://www.ship-of-fools.com/features/2006/mystery_bullshipper.html I assume this is irrecoverable as it's not part of the forums?
The correct URL for that is http://ship.saintsimeon.co.uk/Features/2006/mystery_bullshipper.html

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Many thanks, Alan.
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I would like to see this thread spared. It's been rather useful to me in determining the concerned writer and several others' credibility and what respect to have for the academic discipline in question.

I would also like to pose a question regarding another thread that I had bookmarked. My bookmark says "God, you bastard" which I believe was a thread about being open to talking straight to God, possibly a post by Lamb Chopped. However, my bookmark leads to a thread that's completely unrelated to the subject. I know the bookmark is not mixed up because it has the post # in it but the thread it links to does not even reach that post count. Thus it has to have linked something before, and I'm not sure what that was. Are the forum threads renumbered when they get sent to Oblivion? Perhaps that's the case, in which case I shall have to go look for that specific thread. I'd just like to know if anyone has any more information on this.

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Curiosity killed ...

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An der Freude - that's because it was a Prayer Board thread - the previous incarnation of the 8th Day.

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RuthW

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No, it's because the thread was moved.

Threads are numbered according to the order in which they are created in a particular forum, and when a thread is moved, it gets the next available number in the forum to which it was moved. The 19,000th thread in Purgatory if moved to Oblivion will get the next available number there: 27,000-something.

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OK, I have a stinking cold and cough, so no energy or brain for anything I should be doing, a few more threads:

Is the UK multicultural? has ken on good form
Shrunken Anglophone world has all the discussions about drifting UK accents;
Inequality or poverty? has some of jlg's last posts
MAAN overboard? is it worth preserving to hold up next time the suggestion surfaces? But because it has some of the last posts from Erin and jlg (Erin's last post was banning Merlin the Mad).
RooK - Could it be true? Hell thread which started the whole MAAN overboard debacle.
Wikileaks: What do we think? has most of the last few posts from Erin - but is an interesting discussion anyway.
Not sure about this one - it was suggested at the time that it should be preserved to show the lenient attitude of the Ship;
This thread is where Erin said that the best part of Merlin the Mad dribbled down his mother's leg - and a whole lot more.

I'd forgotten about oldandrew. His posts will all be expunged with this flushing out, along with MerlintheMad's. But the other person who will be expunged is Leetle Masha - and most of her last 50 posts were in the Circus.

[Check!--K.A.]

[ 05. January 2015, 23:51: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]

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fwiw, oldandrew is flourishing on Twitter and in the blogosphere. Merlin the Mad - ah, such japes. I know it's long gone, but I don't suppose anyone has a copy of Myrrmeneutics stashed anywhere?
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Belle Ringer
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quote:
Originally posted by IngoB:
Don't know when I will have the time for looking at 2011 & 2012. I'm about to fly back to cold Europe, and then the treadmill starts again...

Yup, I wouldn't mind if 2010 disappeared "this week" and 2011 a month later.

But whatever, life goes on.

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Curiosity killed ...

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2011 selection:

How does the Trinity concept help one's faith?
A Church for Men
Losing God

I suspect this one should be kept, but not necessarily in Limbo -
All about leo (he loves it)!

[Check!--K.A.]

[ 05. January 2015, 23:50: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]

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quote:
Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
Nope! I limboed it. Go check there.

Thanks, Kelly! I was happy to see your note here….
but have tried to find it in Limbo but couldn't. Only the other one on the Catholic Apostolic Church that was there already.
Maybe I am searching wrong.

The "liturgy of the Irvingites" one was still in my bookmarks, so I started trying to print it out…but with exceeding dimness I chose "printer-friendly" format…which led to the usual "a thread that does not exist" note, and then, poof!, the original page had disappeared from my bookmarks as well….!!

Ah well…..

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Kelly Alves

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Heh. It was at the end of the Ecclesiantics list because I put "Ecclesiantics " instead of "Eccles." I fixed that.

I will fix the other two I was over-precise about, too. [Big Grin]

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Curiosity killed ...

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2012 in Oblivion is thin - and weird, lots and lots of triplicate threads. But I did find a couple of the music threads:

Help! I'm becoming a G&S fan
Favourite composers/overrated composers
and then there's:
The racial origins of the British
or
2012 Mafia Game #1. SHIP CREEK

I found this one a while back and wasn't sure:
What's in the coffin?

The Minecraft threads are also buried there but I didn't bother clicking on them as I went past.

That's to page 198 of Oblivion working backwards - and April 2012 coming forwards.

[Check!-- K.A.]

[ 05. January 2015, 01:41: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]

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Curiosity killed ...

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OK, a couple more:
How harmful are personality tests? - it has ken on MBTI but is one of the wider ranging Purgatory discussions;
Stages of faith and ken on Fowlers

[Check!-- K.A.]

[ 05. January 2015, 01:42: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]

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Tubbs

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When selecting threads for the Admins to consider moving, remember that Limbo is for "the best of the best". The threads that showcase the Ship at its finest that got missed for whatever reason first time around.

My mum died recently and we've got the clearing out process to come. The instinct is to try and hold onto everything, but that's not practical. We need to identify the things we want to keep and pass on because they reminds us of mum at her best. (Hope that makes sense!)

Tubbs

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Tubbs, I realise, I'm running a temperature and know I'm not thinking straight, so am only really trying to make suggestions. If you want to add a filter it's going to be a whole lot quicker for you to filter the 10 or 15 threads I suggest than 300 pages of Oblivion.

There are quite a few in there I think are worth keeping. Some I suggested for others to make the decision (and mostly I phrased the suggestions in those terms). Some were in response to questions on the thread - music threads, or other such - which I found when looking and linked to as easier to find when linked than when going back and looking.

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Tubbs

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quote:
Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
Tubbs, I realise, I'm running a temperature and know I'm not thinking straight, so am only really trying to make suggestions. If you want to add a filter it's going to be a whole lot quicker for you to filter the 10 or 15 threads I suggest than 300 pages of Oblivion.

There are quite a few in there I think are worth keeping. Some I suggested for others to make the decision (and mostly I phrased the suggestions in those terms). Some were in response to questions on the thread - music threads, or other such - which I found when looking and linked to as easier to find when linked than when going back and looking.

Fair play. The delete programme isn't going to be run until next week so there's a bit of time. Now go to bed and concentrate on getting better!

Tubbs

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Kelly Alves

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Back on Page 1:


quote:
Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
So far I have limboed all nominations. I figure we in the Adminosphere can discuss their Limbo- worthiness later.

Yeah, just wanted to reinforce what Tubbs said above-- when I have moved threads, it was merely to provide a more convenient place for my fellow Admins to examine them than Oblivion. Also, to get the location tags in place so they would be easy to find, My moving them should not be taken as an indication that we've made a final decision on their retention.

[ 01. January 2015, 12:26: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]

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quote:
Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
OK, a couple more:
How harmful are personality tests? - it has ken on MBTI but is one of the wider ranging Purgatory discussions;
Stages of faith and ken on Fowlers

I second the 'Stages of Faith' request. It speaks into my current thread, and so I've added a link there. Thank you Curiosity killed... I hope you're feeling better.

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quote:
Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
Heh. It was at the end of the Ecclesiantics list because I put "Ecclesiantics " instead of "Eccles." I fixed that.

I will fix the other two I was over-precise about, too. [Big Grin]

Thanks, Kelly--found it! [Smile]

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I have been looking for old Death Pool threads. I suspect that they have already gone. I do have links to 2004 (the inaugural competition) and then everything from 2007.

Most are already in Limbo but 2010 and

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Sorry, I hit post instead of the URL button and then finished editing after the cut off so here is the rest of my post:

Most are already in Limbo but 2010, 2012 and 2013 are in Oblivion. Can these join their colleagues and be deoblivionated?

And if anyone has the missing threads I would be grateful if you could pass them on to me. Perhaps they are in an African TV station's cupboard, along with some more missing Dr Who episodes.

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quote:
Originally posted by The Rogue:
And if anyone has the missing threads I would be grateful if you could pass them on to me. Perhaps they are in an African TV station's cupboard, along with some more missing Dr Who episodes.

I have the 2006 (3rd) CDP Thread, which contains the following comment:

quote:
Originally posted by christianjimmy:
Is there a record anywhere of "The Second SoF Celebrity Death Pool"? I found the first one in Limbo, but cant find the second one.

which didn't get a response, so I suspect the 2005/2nd one may be lost - but it may be at the back of someone else's cupboard, who knows?

I suppose this would be a good time to mention that I have a complete archive of the Oblivion board as it stood on 22-Nov-2010. I created it as a way to search the board. Assuming the H/As are OK with it, I'd be happy to put it up somewhere for folks to download (as an archive not a working website).

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My suggestions for threads from 2011 to be spared in the purge (same caveats on bias as mentioned above for 2010 apply):
  1. Christian Orthodoxy
  2. ‘Quit chin stroking!’ should Christians be silent on ‘The Problem of Evil’?
  3. Plato & Jesus: Searching for Tash in Aslan's Country?
  4. Atheism on Purpose
  5. Non-literal interpretation of miracles?
  6. Dangers of Omitting the Filioque?
  7. The Point of Time
  8. Do we WANT there to be a God?
  9. Catholic Church Official Stance Question
  10. Selective Scepticism
  11. The Rationality of Deism etc
  12. The Anointing of Those Who Want It?
  13. Is God, strictly speaking, necessary?
  14. Kalam Cosmological Argument
  15. Faith in physics, or physics in faith?
Thanks for your consideration.

[Check!--K.A.]

[ 05. January 2015, 01:43: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]

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IngoB

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And here's my selection from 2012:
  1. Trisagion and the Catholic Bishops - accessories to murder
  2. Faster than Light
  3. Come on down, Trisagion
  4. Fasting
  5. Retreat for Atheists
  6. We need more religion but we don’t need its zeal
  7. Looking on a woman to lust
  8. Called to marital celibacy?
  9. Radical vs middling Christianity
  10. God wants you stuck with each other forever
  11. Differences between Catholicism and Orthodoxy
  12. The God Particle
  13. Divine omniscience
  14. Ghosts
Thanks once more.

Could I get some confirmation that threads from 2013 (on pages 1-120) are safe for now, please?

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Kelly Alves

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If you see anything worth saving in2013, go ahead and get 'em now. Why not?

I was taking a break in shifting threads for the holidays, but will pick it up in a few hours. Again, please note that temporary limbofication does not guarantee permanence, we are now in the process of reviewing new entries for writing quality and historical interest. To keep things trim down there, we might need to decline a few.

Making, say, a sentance long case for your nominations might help us with this process. Slogging through a list of twelve nominations is a bitchkitty, which is why I shelved it for later. If you give us your defense of the thread, it might jog our memories and make us agree with you.

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quote:
Originally posted by Paul.:
quote:
Originally posted by The Rogue:
And if anyone has the missing threads I would be grateful if you could pass them on to me. Perhaps they are in an African TV station's cupboard, along with some more missing Dr Who episodes.

I have the 2006 (3rd) CDP Thread, which contains the following comment:

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Originally posted by christianjimmy:
Is there a record anywhere of "The Second SoF Celebrity Death Pool"? I found the first one in Limbo, but cant find the second one.

which didn't get a response, so I suspect the 2005/2nd one may be lost - but it may be at the back of someone else's cupboard, who knows?

I suppose this would be a good time to mention that I have a complete archive of the Oblivion board as it stood on 22-Nov-2010. I created it as a way to search the board. Assuming the H/As are OK with it, I'd be happy to put it up somewhere for folks to download (as an archive not a working website).

Do you now! I've PM'ed you about one particular thread it would be good to get a copy of. I'll ask the other Admins what they think about making it available somewhere. Would people use it though?!

Tubbs

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quote:
Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
If you see anything worth saving in2013, go ahead and get 'em now. Why not?

Because scanning through 100+ pages of 25 threads each per year takes a while... and having done three years so far I am getting a bit tired of it.

quote:
Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
Making, say, a sentance long case for your nominations might help us with this process. Slogging through a list of twelve nominations is a bitchkitty, which is why I shelved it for later. If you give us your defense of the thread, it might jog our memories and make us agree with you.

If you want me to, I will comment on my lists later. For now temporarily parking them in Limbo to avoid immediate deletion seems fine.

It' s weird to propose something as "best of SoF" anyhow, in particular if one was involved in the thread. It's a bit like self-nominating yourself for an Oscar. I actually don't mind somebody else triaging these suggestions, to make it less awkward. I mostly want "my kind of thread" to be in with a shot...

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Okay, the big red button gets pressed on Tuesday. Get those recommendations in by Monday or you've missed the boat. (Um .... Er .... Sorry!)

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My ipad still won't link properly, I wonder if the thread on the state funeral for Lady Thatcher is worth saving for historic reasons.

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quote:
Originally posted by Doublethink.:
My ipad still won't link properly, I wonder if the thread on the state funeral for Lady Thatcher is worth saving for historic reasons.

Could be ... If you post the long link, I can take it from there

Tubbs

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Kelly Alves

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Thanks, IngoB-- for the record, my hasty comment up there was meant to be generally aimed at future contributions-- you don't have to go back and review your list- in fact, thanks for the suggestions-- but if people in the future could give a brief memory- jog of what happened on the thread, that would help a lot.

(And no way am I doing anything tricky until I get off iPad. Grrr!)

[ 03. January 2015, 20:57: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]

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quote:
Originally posted by Tubbs:
quote:
Originally posted by Doublethink.:
My ipad still won't link properly, I wonder if the thread on the state funeral for Lady Thatcher is worth saving for historic reasons.

Could be ... If you post the long link, I can take it from there

Tubbs

I'll try, it is the clipboard function that is cocking up, so my copy / paste not working properly.

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Kelly Alves

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[tangent] I got an app called iClear to help with the annoying clipboard glitch.

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Ta muchly, I will look it up.

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http://forum.ship-of-fools.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=70;t=021786;p=1#000000

(Page 234, half way down.)

[ 04. January 2015, 19:02: Message edited by: Doublethink. ]

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Originally posted by Doublethink.:
http://forum.ship-of-fools.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=70;t=021786;p=1#000000

(Page 234, half way down.)

Moved! Thank you

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Are the powers that be actually okay with us copying and pasting our favourite threads to our hard drives?

Assuming they are, I've done so with a handful of my favourites, in case they don't get Limboed:

20th/21st century classical music
Jazz
Music from Heaven
Music that lifts your spirits
Music that makes you cry

I think we can see a theme here. If anyone else has any recommendations in a similar vein before the Big Red Button gets pushed, let me know.

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quote:
Originally posted by Adeodatus:
Are the powers that be actually okay with us copying and pasting our favourite threads to our hard drives?

Assuming they are, I've done so with a handful of my favourites, in case they don't get Limboed:

20th/21st century classical music
Jazz
Music from Heaven
Music that lifts your spirits
Music that makes you cry

I think we can see a theme here. If anyone else has any recommendations in a similar vein before the Big Red Button gets pushed, let me know.

Provided you're not planning to use them for commercial gain, then knock yourself out!

Tubbs

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quote:
Originally posted by The Rogue:
Sorry, I hit post instead of the URL button and then finished editing after the cut off so here is the rest of my post:

Most are already in Limbo but 2010, 2012 and 2013 are in Oblivion. Can these join their colleagues and be deoblivionated?

And if anyone has the missing threads I would be grateful if you could pass them on to me. Perhaps they are in an African TV station's cupboard, along with some more missing Dr Who episodes.

We are currently discussing the Death Pool threads-- more info when discussion is over.

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Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
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