As we move forward with our LGF memory hole series, we should probably highlight a few failures of ChenZhen’s recovery process.  As our first example, here is another thread that is no longer visible (a big one):

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/31775_Zombie-_The_Weather_Undergrounds_Long_Term_Plan

Trace evidence of the thread’s existence can be found everywhere. Heck, it’s still on digg and memeorandum, and the url shows up on various other sites.  And an rss feed captured what appears to be the full content of the thread here:

With help from LGF readers ‘experiencedtraveler’ and ‘Sharmuta,’ Zombie has dug up another rare document: the first issue of Osawatomie: the Weather Underground newspaper.

And it outlines a strategy of “working from the inside” to radicalize America and bring about a socialist revolution.

If that sounds familiar, I’m sure it’s just a coincidence. Or your imagination. Or maybe you’re a racist.

… 

For a screengrab of the thread, however, we came up empty. Google? nope. Archive.org? nuthin’

LGF’s own google search revealed it was once there:

And this is what memeorandum looked like:

But, after exhausting all known resources, I have nothing to offer to the mosaic on this one. Or do I?

During this excavation, I happened to remember that I had featured Zombie on my site before, and on this topic specifically. So, I went back, checked my thread from two years ago, and got lucky. Well, kinda lucky:

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/showc/1/6144891

Yes, that is the url for the first comment in that thread, and you can enjoy the slide show.   I found it because I had just so happened to have linked to this choice nugget:

I haven’t gone through them all, so I don’t know how many comments there are in total. But they’re there.   So…comments rescued, but thread lost.