Search - prob newbie problem

[Northumbrian]

OK, so this is probably just a newbie problem. I'm trying to find out whether a particular quotation has already been submitted.

I went to www.fstdt.com/ and then clicked on the link marked "Search". In the screen that came up I entered FSTDT in the "Board" box and "Foucault" in the "Quote" box. I chose Foucault because anyone entering this prize piece of nuttiness would, I think, have certainly included the sentence with "Foucault" in it. The result that came back was "Sorry didn't find a thing." Fair enough, I've got a new bit of stuff from a source no one else has mined. Good for me.

Being a sceptic, however (how could something this good have escaped general notice?) I decided to try something else.

I put Darwin into the Quote box. "Sorry, didn't find a thing." Strange - I know Darwin turns up quite frequently. So, too frequently? Is this a term excluded because it gives too many answers?

Try "Democrat" Result! One quotation listed. (Quote# 48591) Only one? Amidst all those 50,000+ quotations?

Put in "Jesus" (still maintaining the FSTDT board) and you get four pages - theoretically. Now four isn't very much given the importance of Jesus to the fundie mindset, but maybe ...

However, when I had looked at the list of quotations on the first of these four pages, I clicked on "2" at the bottom and got a page with the url "http://www.fstdt.com/Search.aspx&Quote=Jesus&Page=2" and a "The page cannot be found" error. Ditto for pages 3-4. I re-entered the search term and tried again. Same result (only page 1 is available) is true for the search term "God"

Put in "evolution" and it returns 2 pages (the second is unavailable) only. The first 10 includes one long entry (Quote# 61361), which does not appear to mention evolution at all.

So maybe I'm doing something wrong (using Firefox on XP?), but I'd like to know how to do a reliable search, so that I can bring in my lovely quotation. I'll append it here, as a reward for all those who've read to the end of this not very exciting post

By 1851, despite Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler no proof existed of the rotation of the earth.

The Jesuits were getting DESPERATE because without a rotating earth the theory of evolution falls flat on its face.

At that time a Jesuit named Leon Foucault "invented" a contrivance that supposedly PROVED the rotation of the earth.

The Foucault pendulum was just another Jesuit hoax like the Piltdown man

(emphasis mine)

Now, is that new, or have I just not got the hang of searching?

P.S. Your spellchecker doesn't like the word fundie!

[SimSim]

I think you were using the search in a way it wasn't designed to be used. The board area refers to the website that the quote originally came from.

If you want to search to make sure you aren't resubmitting something, the best way to do it would be to go back to where you found the quote. Enter the websites' name in the board area, enter the poster's name in the fundie area.

I think that will work better than the way you were doing it, unless I misread. Or if I'm misunderstanding how the search feature works.

[Mlle Antéchrist]

Aside from what SimSim said...

You don't really need to search to make sure you're not resubmitting -- when you submit a new quote, it brings up a confirmation page that lists quotes from the same fundie and website, as well as those with similar keywords. Just skim through those to check for doubles, and then confirm the submission if it's not already there.