Well, it certainly helps if you can single out a poster (I knew I had told the story so "matthew") and a somewhat uncommon term to search for "snowball" worked.
So, in search I entered
Search for: snowball
by user: matthew
now, if it something like the above, which I had no idea when I told it, I have to give as wide a time parameter as possible so I go down to
Max Age since last post:I leave
hours at 0 but I switch
days to "99999" (i.e. the max, not really necessary to search back more than 250 years, but I just bang in the nines)
Luckily it brought back only six results (now it would bring back eight or nine)...
but at the top of the results it says:
5 Casa de Crappity / Main Room / Re:Daid on: May 26,2005, 01:15:47 AM
Started by Cute Effin Bunny, Message by matthew
clicking on the
Re:Daid will bring you directly to that post in the thread, giving you an URL for the individual post.
Try it with yourself and "dormeetories"