On Fri, 9 Oct 2015 06:05:41 -0500, Ken wrote:

I sure hope Harry K and the others have solved their
toilet chain and flapper problems since this thread
was originally started 9 years ago.

How do these old posts get onto a newsgroup? I would think they would
be dropped long ago.

Some NNTP providers keep upwards of 50,000 messages. Some longer.

The message you saw is from @news.flashnewsgroups.com. Typically not
folks on Usenet or follow threads. By happenstance they land on that
wed based ) make a reply while not
following dates and times.

In summary, "dumb phucs".