# 2003, again? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 10, 2012, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2003-again/609040 "2012-01-10T09:27:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2003-again/609040/1 "2012-01-10T09:27:28Z")
What’s with the massive resurrection of posts from 2003? Is there something going on that is suddenly making them easy to find? ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2003-again/609040/2 "2012-01-10T11:25:45Z")
Or am I alone in noticing this, perhaps or suffering under some form of confirmation bias? (Yes, I know you haven’t had time to respond yet. I just realized I forgot a sentence.) ---
**Author:** ![dba\_Fred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c37758/32.png) [@dba\_Fred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dba_Fred)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2003-again/609040/3 "2012-01-10T13:21:37Z")
Yes, you’re alone in noticing this, the rest of us are **Zombies**! Isn’t the consensus answer “Since the threads have been Googleable, non-Dopers have find them, don’t notice the date and resurrect them with a new post”? or It’s the **Zombie Apocalypse**! ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2003-again/609040/4 "2012-01-10T14:19:31Z")
I’ve not noticed any such thing. Examples? ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2003-again/609040/5 "2012-01-10T14:38:38Z")
In the year 2003 If Dopers are all zombies If BigT can survive He may find… ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2003-again/609040/6 "2012-01-10T15:31:35Z")
We’ve had a bunch of zombie threads bumped recently. The year is a coincidence, and some of them were even older than 2003. Most of them were bumped by newbies, and I’m sure they just found them through google. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2003-again/609040/7 "2012-01-10T15:34:59Z")
I hadn’t noticed, and I think I would have. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2003-again/609040/8 "2012-01-10T15:53:19Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > I hadn’t noticed, and I think I would have. If you say you didn’t notice, then I know I must’ve been imagining it. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2003-again/609040/9 "2012-01-10T15:57:32Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > I’ve not noticed any such thing. > > Examples? Well, the attention-grabbing one is “[So it’s fucking war then?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=170380)” ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2003-again/609040/10 "2012-01-10T15:57:43Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > If you say you didn’t notice, then I know I must’ve been imagining it. Really, could you link to at least two? I tend to notice zombie “incept dates” as often as I notice they’re zombies. In favor of honesty, I have occasionally bumped one of my old threads just to see if it might work a second time. And more often I have even linked to one of them in a new thread, just to play by the rules. But lately, I would say the 1999, 2000, and 2001 period is ahead in the zombieland arena. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2003-again/609040/11 "2012-01-10T16:50:23Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Really, could you link to at least two? I tend to notice zombie “incept dates” as often as I notice they’re zombies. If I find them again. I didn’t bookmark them or anything, and I really don’t remember the topics. It just seems like the last five zombies I’ve opened were started in 2003. (Though I may have had a couple others in between) > [@](#): > > But lately, I would say the 1999, 2000, and 2001 period is ahead in the zombieland arena. That’s what I thought before those five in a row. Oh, and note my previous post was not sarcasm. I seriously do think you would notice. You seem to have a thing for dates. > [@Sailboat](#): > > Well, the attention-grabbing one is “[So it’s fucking war then?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=170380)” That was the first one I noticed. I don’t remember the others in order, so I’ll just list off the ones I find in the next little bit: > **[Bag Balm safe for human use?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=166664)** > > I’ve been meaning to post this for some time now… My 6-year old son has mild eczema on his face, particularly in winter, when his face gets chapped and windburned, leading to a rash. Our pediatrician prescribed a number of hydrocortisone-based... > **[Artificial cherry flavouring is the most awful, putrid substance ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=191371)** > > That artificial cherry flavour they use in all sorts of things has got to be the most awful, nasty, putrid chemical ever invented. It’s just so undescribably bad. Seriously, how on Earth did this “product” ever make it past taste-testers? I can’t... > **[Darn you maternity stores! DARN YOU TO HECK!](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=215701)** > > I am short…in my bare feet I stand around 5 ft 5 on a good day. I am built kinda like a hibachi grill…squatty and round with very short round little legs. In normal pants/jeans, I have no problem finding ‘petite’ items that fit me just fine in the... In my search I did notice a few other zombies not based in 2003 that I hadn’t clicked on, so it is just coincidence. (Thanks, **Polerius** , for your zombie detecting plugin. Without it, I’d be having to click on every thread I’ve already opened to see if it was one of the ones.) ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2003-again/609040/12 "2012-01-10T17:17:01Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > If I find them again. I didn’t bookmark them or anything, and I really don’t remember the topics. It just seems like the last five zombies I’ve opened were started in 2003. (Though I may have had a couple others in between). > > Oh, and note my previous post was not sarcasm. I seriously do think you would notice. You seem to have a thing for dates. > > That was the first one I noticed. I don’t remember the others in order, so I’ll just list off the ones I find in the next little bit: > > [Bag Balm safe for human use? - In My Humble Opinion - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=166664) > [Artificial cherry flavouring is the most awful, putrid substance ever - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=191371) > [Darn you maternity stores! DARN YOU TO HECK! - The BBQ Pit - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=215701) > > In my search I did notice a few other zombies not based in 2003 that I hadn’t clicked on, so it is just coincidence. (Thanks, **Polerius** , for your zombie detecting plugin. Without it, I’d be having to click on every thread I’ve already opened to see if it was one of the ones.) I didn’t think it was sarcasm, and I’m flattered that you’ve noticed my thing for dates and old threads and such. I had noticed these titles in the “New Posts” listings, (which is how I make my way through new stuff), but hadn’t thought to investigate them, so I wasn’t aware of their zombieness. Something you might want to do to get to the bottom of your OP’s concerns would be to do the “Who Posted?” trick on them and see if there’s some common denominator to the posters. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2003-again/609040/13 "2012-01-10T17:34:07Z")
Since the world is all going to end in December anyway, perhaps some are harkening back to the good ol’ days of nostalgia. Or at least they think they were the good ol’ days. Or the zombies are just the advance team in the whole Mayan prophecy disaster that awaits us? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2003-again/609040/14 "2012-01-10T20:18:15Z")
What is strange about these one-and-done zombiefiers is that apparently they spend most of their time online doing Google searches for this or that, logging onto any message board that comes up as a hit, posting their little resurrecting message, and then vanishing from that board forever while moving onto the next one. And I thought I didn’t have a life. ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2012, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2003-again/609040/15 "2012-01-10T21:28:05Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > And I thought I didn’t have a life. Still doesn’t mean you do though… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Dord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3be4f8/32.png) [@The\_Dord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Dord)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2012, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2003-again/609040/16 "2012-01-11T22:15:50Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > What is strange about these one-and-done zombiefiers is that apparently they spend most of their time online doing Google searches for this or that, logging onto any message board that comes up as a hit, posting their little resurrecting message, and then vanishing from that board forever while moving onto the next one. > > And I thought I didn’t have a life. Was your life cherry-flavored?