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No, neither. But here's the address of what I have saved as "The Funniest Thread":
http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=words&Number=13723&Searchpage=1&Main=13026&Words=%26quot%3BMuseum+of+Questionable+Medical+Devices%26quot%3B&topic=&Search=true#Post13723
It doesn't seem like much now, I reckon (she said, going by memory); but since at the time, we had to wait, day by day, to see what transpired, it made it a lot more, well, interesting.
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oh, that one is easy to find: link but, what's it got to do with the 'secret thread'??
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Yahoo's got it. It works a little different but it's easier to browse than Bartleby was. fwiw: OneLook has reindexed the AHD to link to YAHOO! (complete with ads); e.g. URL [crossthreading]
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The Indo European Roots Index is gone for good? Pity, I only had it since a short while. Now I get the Bartleby skull page and whenever I get there I'm the 100.000th visitor. I've been the 100.000th visitor six times on four different days. Quite an achievement.
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While it's quirky in its search functionality and sometimes slow, Starostin's Etymological databases ( link) has Pokorny's IEW (Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch) digitized and searchable. I have the brick & mortar version, but I still sometimes use his site when away from the home library. Watkin's root dictionary (part of the AHD4) always give the page number of the IEW for corss-reference purposes. (It's also availabe as a small booklet separate from the dictionary. The IEW also covers PIE roots that have no English reflexes. Starostin also has other dictionaries online, like Vasmer's Slavic etymological dictionary.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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oh, that one is easy to find: link Ok, how did you do that? You must have learned the technique in your secret workshop...and...I still "laughed and laughed all over again!"
but, what's it got to do with the 'secret thread'?? Nothing. Those were the two threads I could think of at the time that I'd like to see again, if Wayback could do the job.
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