Pull up a pew, young 'uns, and let Ole' Pappy Jedi tell you about a crazy time that we'll never see the like of again.
Once upon a time, way back when, a crazy young fella by the name of SimonBob (who is still to be found lurking on LiveJournal to this day, I might add) decided it would be fun to post a what might be termed a meta-thread which obeyed all the forms of a post but had no actual content other than a description of itself. Putting it like that doesn't make a whole lot of sense, so let me show you something along the lines of what he posted:
Quote:
Topic Title
Post content.
Signature.
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It quickly degnerated into posters into merely talking in the third person, but still it proved incredibly popular. It ran, and ran, and more than a hundred pages later Zeke finally stepped in after the thread started causing the board to creak (as it showed no sign of slowing down on its own). Shortly after came the boards' first accidental wiping, and though the body of Topic Title was lost to the ages, the legend still lives on.
It should be noticed that apart from a short memorial thread, no repeat of Topic Title has since been permitted - much like TrekBBS' Longest Thread Ever, it was one of those things that you had to be there for, and any attempt to recreate it would just seem like so much cheap spam.