now that i've revisited this thread, i feel like i must be in a parallel universe... surely that's not the original post that i replied to?

Excuse me, sir, but your preposition is dangling

Of *course it's not the post to which you replied, silly. Allow me break it down for you:

(1) Post query
(2) Read responses
(3) EDIT original query so as to retroactively obviate said responses.

As an added bonus, fastidious and pandemic adherance to this policy will dramatically reduce the heretofore rapidly rising number of new posts each morning, particularly the useless ones (such as this).