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30 September 2006

Sir kindly to hope me, I am researching internets folklore. There was this thing whereby people would go to MeFi (or maybe MetaTalk) posts that had numbers that were multiples of a certain number added to either 1142 or 9622 or one of those quirky thread numbers, and make them into a quirky thread, with much frivolity/gifs etc. Does this ring any bells? What was the system and where are the threads? ta

post by: Pretty_Generic at: 19:54 | 16 comments

Are we gonna need popcorn for this?

posted by paulsc 30 September | 20:07

Perhaps you mean the longboat?

posted by brainwidth 30 September | 20:27

but these areThe Longboat Threads:
may require reload to anchor.

posted by danostuporstar 30 September | 20:28

That's it! Thank you!

posted by Pretty_Generic 30 September | 20:30

Perhaps it's time to reboard.

posted by brainwidth 30 September | 20:34

I believe today's ship has been sailed to new comments.

posted by danostuporstar 30 September | 20:39

monju got in some good hits, so we were well represented.

posted by danostuporstar 30 September | 20:40

/wades into water, puts out pyre from viking funeral, dumps corpse in ocean, climbs aboard.

posted by brainwidth 30 September | 20:44

I may very well be the last regular (or at least pre-Paypal) reader to know about this. So here's a very embarrassed thank you.

posted by casarkos 30 September | 21:21

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posted by danostuporstar 30 September | 23:00

unrelated, but i gave pretty_generic's mum a jolly rogering last nite iykwim, aityd

fwiw

posted by Wedge 01 October | 00:45

I think you mean a "brisk rogering", wedge, since the Jolly Roger is a flag. Or did you just flag her and move on?

posted by taz 01 October | 01:28

nay, i plundered her booty after she swabbed me poop deck iykwim

posted by Wedge 01 October | 02:38

Begad! Pretty_generic will have ye swingin' from his gibbet, iykwim

posted by taz 01 October | 02:53

Nay, tis a vast booty for all. Avast.

posted by Pretty_Generic 01 October | 09:03

wtf? mathowie the grey has fired a warning shot across our bow, that scallywag.

posted by brainwidth 01 October | 11:01

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