click on a reply linkand look at the url. you can change the parent=1000000 bit to whatever number you like, even posts that don't exist yet.
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Spoon,
Wed 2 Apr 2003, 13:59,
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back in the olden days it worked a charm(
Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology,
Wed 2 Apr 2003, 14:11,
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