It took me a few minutes to find those three links. I had remembered at least two prior threads so I did a [title(date)] search for "bush's fault." That found one of them I think. Then I think searched by [title(date)] for "it's Bush's fault" and found the second one. Luckily, when viewing the second link and looking few posts down there was a link to the third vanity which is the one I remembered because that one was kind of funny. It helps to be kind of creative and trying different combinations.
Here is a cool trick for you to try. Try using another search engine. Go to Yahoo, for example, and click on the "advanced" search option. Then in the search words type "Sally'sConcerns". Then, click on the option where it says search "only in this domain" and type "freerepublic.com". It will search freerepublic.com for any page where your name appears. Of course you could type additional words and narrow it down some more. This is what that advanced search will look like:
http://search.yahoo.com/search?_adv_prop=web&x=op&ei=UTF-8&fr=fp-top&va=Sally%27sConcerns&va_vt=any&vp_vt=any&vo_vt=any&ve_vt=any&vd=all&vst=on&vs=freerepublic.com&vf=all&vm=i&fl=0&n=10
I knew I could do the Yahoo trick if I had posted in the thread. Though I believe it takes a couple of days for Yahoo to spider the site and pick up on any of your newest posts.
I usually try search by keyword but so many articles don't use keywords so that doesn't always work for me. If I remember the poster of the thread or even someone who has posted on the thread, I can search through their posts until I find what I'm looking for. Sometimes though I can't always remember some of the posters names on the thread.
Heck, I've even searched on my sister's screen name since there are quite a few topics we both share interests in and maybe she'll have made a comment.
Think Jim would get perturbed with me if I did a vanity about using keywords that describe the topic of the thread?
Nah, I don't think I'm up to the abuse tonight that I'd probably receive.
Ok, now I'm going to go click on the link in your post to see what I've been saying lately. I haven't used Yahoo in awhile so it might be rather interesting.
Thanks for your help!