because there was this sticky thingy a long time ago that said something about dont put your hands in your aquarium and it showed all these bloody hand thingys. does anyone know where that would be?
A sticky is always there... until a mod takes it off. Try using the search function. If you don't have any luck then it was most likely just too old and got deleted.
I don't know how often (or if at all) AA deletes old posts, but I can't imagine they never do. Because the database would just get way too big.
If a stickied topic gets unstickied, it will fall back down the list of topics according to when it was last posted to - the list is sorted by date of last post. So it's probably just on another page. Like flipz said though, try using the search function.
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