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Telperion the Silver
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I'm sure this has been asked before, but what happens to threads that fall off the end? Are they archived for posterity? Deleted? At the TolkienOnline site they talk about the old threads getting archived...but who knows if that's just under their system or even true. I just think about all the brilliant essays that I and others have written...to think they might all just vanish! [Frown]
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Kayla
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The get turned into glue.
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I eat them. They're a good source of fibre.
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They get set free to farms where they run around freely for the rest of their lives.
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Telperion the Silver
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arrrrrrrggg!
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TheTick
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They are deleted, every 6 months or so, IIRC. Except for the landmark threads which get moved to the archive.
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Kama
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I thought they went to the thread heaven. [Frown]
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No, they're supposed to get to run free, but instead they get sent to a petting zoo. This angers the threads-rights activists.
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Noemon
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There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth when this policy was instituted. Garments were rent, sackcloth was worn, and ashes were poured over heads.
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they established PETT and started throwing paint on computers everywhere.
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Psycho Triad
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Those nasty little gremlins that steal left socks have been stockpiling used threads for armageddon.

These are the same critters that create that problem of having a word stuck on the tip of your tongue, even though you're able to say 50 million other things describing that [b]one[/one] word.

Crazy as always,
Psycho Triad

[ November 17, 2004, 03:43 PM: Message edited by: Psycho Triad ]

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MEC
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quote:
I thought they went to the thread heaven.
Unfortunnatly some threads make bad decisions in their lifetimes and they go elsewhere. [Evil]
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They unravel....
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They recycle the letters so there are enough for new threads.
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They do all of the above. They're just that cool.
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Telperion the Silver
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[Wink]
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Noemon
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Acutally, they are melted down and forged into rings of power.
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Forged into rings? How do you finger?
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*rimshot*
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Ahhh. I miss metathreads. Thanks!
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What happens to a thread deferred?

I tried to write a parody, but alas, my muse appears to be in a coma.

[Cry]

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Telperion the Silver
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WOOOOOO HOOOOOOOO!! [Party]

My test was successful! I did a search for a thread that was past the due date and found my old "going to pass out from lack of sleep" thread... posted in it.. and it's back!!

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Telperion the Silver
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And yet... Olivetta just bumped some past the date threads...and said that there are some older that cannot be retrieved.. . hmmmmm...
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