What is the longest running thread?

[JonLP24]

Last edited Sat Oct 29, 2016, 08:02 PM - Edit history (1)

I nominate this one http://www.democraticunderground.com/120422985#post2

It started out as a 3 post thread back in 2012 with real DUers then months down the road all these brand new members all of sudden are communicating and replying to each other. They all seem to be bots strangest thread I've seen on DU.

[Generic Brad]

1. What about the Thread That Never Dies

That was on the previous version of DU. It started in 2008, I think. I haven't seen if for a few years. Perhaps it died.

[JonLP24]

2. I remember posts on old threads

I think I remember one titled as well as kudzu but I have no idea what it means, didn't understand the kudzu jokes.

[In_The_Wind]

3. Kudzu is an invasive vine that eventually kills everything it grows on.

[JonLP24]

9. Yes but they seemed to be referring to kudzu threads

I know what it is but not what the jokes referenced. Before my time I joined July 2008, I remember kudzu like the olive garden or the corn flake chicken thread. I could be misremembering.

[Generic Brad]

14. I hear it's going places

Some old timers will attest.

[JonLP24]

15. That's it

I've seen that phrase here a lot never knowing what people were talking about.

[csziggy]

6. It's still there!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x8358611

And it still takes forever to load.

[ornotna]

19. 5000+ replies and still going up

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x8358611

[Yonnie3]

5. I inherited a mixed animal from Uncle living in woods.

I read this old thread a few years ago in the Lounge and book marked it in my browser. I just get an error message when I try to retrieve it. I believe it was in the archives.

Does anybody recall it?

[csziggy]

7. His blog is still around and still unreliable

http://mixedanimal.blogspot.com/

An extract from the book is at: http://www.friedchickenandcoffee.com/2012/11/02/i-inherited-a-mixed-animal-from-uncle-living-in-woods-novel-excerpt-from-richard-martin/

[Yonnie3]

8. I found it on google webcache

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:mgo51bxHP9kJ:www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php%3Faz%3Dview_all%26address%3D105x624815+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

I enjoyed this thread a great deal

It got locked at 347 posts

[A-Schwarzenegger]

18. oh i wondered where that old thing wandered off to

thanks

[greendog]

10. The Latest Bird thread - Birders (Group) Jan 18, 2005

It's been around forever. Started out on DU2 and was revived on DU3.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1208127

The original thread - Jan 18, 2005

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=294x96

[In_The_Wind]

11. Nice to see one of my old post from Feb 3, 2005

Freebird12004 ... Thu Feb-03-05 07:14 AM

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12. Happy 200th

A "white" phase Gyrfalcon

[Fla Dem]

12. People google stuff and old threads come up.

They're one post wonders because they really aren't here for the web site.

[JonLP24]

13. They all seem to be pushing some recruiting service

If it was just a few I'd think that but 30 + new posters all discussing which recruiting site they're likely spam bots imo especially after reading.

[Awsi Dooger]

16. Has to be "Never Dies"

That was very welcome and memorable because my mom died a couple of weeks earlier. Just seeing the words "Never dies" in a header was a positive uplift.

Mom was a big believer in life after death. I am not. I believe in one and done. It simply makes the most sense, and I always default to more likely than not.

But I honor her position -- just in case -- and visit the cemetery every Sunday afternoon to have a long talk with her, including current events. Lately she gets a political update on Hillary's standing. It makes me feel good, anyway.

[NaturalHigh]

21. Well this one has been going since 2011.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/111420