Seek But Ye May Not Find

Never have I ever felt so close to another person, yet so alone as when I Google a prooblem and there’s just one result:
A thread by someone with the same problem, but no answer …posted in 2007.

And of course it says “thread closed” and there’s no way to contact the poster to ask, “Did you find a solution?”

Note: Because my comment below isn’t always showing at the top (it was the first comment made, shortly after this posted), I’m copying it here:

Heh! Someone on Facebook points to a 2011 XKCD panel with the same idea — https://xkcd.com/979/ . Now I wonder if the meme that I saw (and re-created for this, since the Nth-generation quality was so poor) was inspired by XKCD, or if XKCD was inspired by the meme. My guess: the former.

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Randy Cassingham is best known as the creator of This is True®, the oldest entertainment feature on the Internet: it has been running weekly by email subscription since early 1994. It is social commentary using weird news as its vehicle so it’s fun to read. Click here for the site — basic subscriptions are free.


Comments? Sorry: Facebook retired their commenting system (they didn’t even bother to alert me). Just as well, I suppose, but sadly there is no way to recover the many hundreds of comments made on this site. Lesson learned: never rely on someone else’s site for prime functions, especially “social media”!

Since this site is mostly retired now (maximum of one new post per month), I did decide that since all comments are now gone that I would not attempt to install any new commenting system. -rc

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