Back in the day, there were only 10 pages of 30 active threads at a time (not the 67 pages we have now). So only 300 threads could be running at any one time. Once a thread rolled off the end, which took about 7-10 days, it almost immediately was gone (within a couple minutes). Once the thread was gone there was no way to pull it back up unless Google had a cached copy, which would only last for a couple weeks, or unless you could find it the next time the Wayback Machine updated, which was only every 6-12 months. They crawled Gardenweb more often than that, but only periodically posted the updates to their website. AND up until mid-2003, kitchens and baths was together on one forum, so had to share the 300 threads we were allowed.. It seems like it was around Christmas 2005 when we got the extra pages, but still once threads dropped off the end they were gone. You would get an 'oops, cant find that thread' error message. I don't remember exactly when it was that Gardenweb started archiving the threads even after they had rolled off the last page. Now, as long as you have the URL, or can find a link to the thread, you can still open the old thread. Yay ! The one good thing about back then ... thread space was precious and was treated as such by frequenters of GW. People searched before posting. If there was already a topic started on widgets, by golly you added your comment or question to that thread, even if your question was about bronze widgets and the thread was originally started about white widgets. So the search function worked much better. When you searched for widgets, only one or two threads would come up in the results. Not the massively overwhelming number of results we get now, sometimes hundreds of results, each having only 3-10 responses. You kept all of your questions all in one thread, not a new thread every time you moved a door in your layout so that eventually you have 10 layout threads running, haha. There was not nearly as much frivolous or off-topic postings ... the conversations side & the gallery side of the forum were used as they were intended. Now they are basically deserted because newbies (some of whom are pretty much oldies by now) think every thread goes in the main forum, even if it's about the brownies they made in their kitchen this weekend ("I baked them in the kitchen, so doesn't that thread go in the kitchen forum?! "). And I don't even know when it became so common for reveal threads to be posted in the main forum ?? You used to be able to go to the gallery and all the pages were filled with everyone's reveal threads. It's too bad, because I no longer see most of the reveals this way. They get lost in the shuffle of all the other threads. Ok, rant over. Old posts ? Yeh, what they said ... Google search. Include the following term in your search ... site:Gardenweb.com Here is a link to the Wayback Machine. Click on a year, then click on a date that has a circle on it. Pretty cool !!!!! Here is a link that might be useful: http://web.archive.org/web/20010501000000*/http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/kitchbath

As you probably already know, I'm white, Southern, straight, married, 65, and have always considered myself privileged, even though my household never had any money to speak of. I was privileged because: - I grew up in a house where people were gentle and loving to each other. - I was raised with music and books and games and some lovely old things to use every day. - I was taught things that have helped me to navigate relatively successfully through life. All very nice. But the real and underlying privilege of my circumstances was that I was protected by the system and by the law. Had I been a different color, that would not necessarily have been the case. Had I not been straight, or blessed with a quick mind, or reasonably attractive, I would not have been able to move so easily through the world. And had I not been "one of us," there would have been many gracious and sometimes powerful institutions into which I would not have been invited. So when I hear "privileged" used as a pejorative, I think that the speaker must mean "entitled." Privilege is a gift that is accidental, not earned. Entitlement, in my view, indicates an abdication of the responsibilities that come with privilege - the responsibility to keep an open mind and a kind heart; to share the wealth of privilege, whether it's money or access or knowledge; to stay on the right side of the line between discernment and judgment; to respect the person even if you don't like the behavior; to be tolerant of differences and intolerant of unfairness; and to protect, with whatever power your position grants you, the right of every person to equal treatment and equal protection under the law. I wish I lived up to those responsibilities all the time, but I know them, and that's part of my privilege, too. So I am right there with olychick when she says that it is those of us on the safe side of the river who must build the bridges.

I am so glad I found this post. I posted a new topic this morning and it showed up immediately. Not as the top post, but under one that was posted earlier. I commented on another post and then went back to see if I had an answer, and couldn't find my post at all. I waited a bit, refreshed, and still no post. I could only find it through my profile. I couldn't find any FAQ type thing that posts would be moderated until there were a certain number of posts, so I posted again and it didn't show up either. This is very frustrating.

What is funny is I misread the clue the same way. I am hamstrung myself by having been taught to read Look Say hence the misread so it was my last clue to solve. I like to do it top down in turn if I can. It is a sad day when I have to skip around. Oddly enough for me my reading disability can be helpful because this is sort of like chunky anagrams and I am very good at anagrams even though I cant spell for spit. I also don't remember the answer.