# Can we just dump "zombie calling" altogether?

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**Created:** [April 12, 2018, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-just-dump-zombie-calling-altogether/812293 "2018-04-12T14:57:33Z")\
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There are a number of threads about “Hi Opal!”, some having participation by its namesake.

[Here](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=2117441), posters complained that the joke was getting old. _c. 2002_.

The practice apparently stretches back to the AOL days. Click the link for Opal’s description. At that date, Opal was fairly resigned about the whole thing.

> [@What is Hi Opal?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-hi-opal/109880/26):
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> I pretty much feel that it has its own life. Half the people who use it don’t even know who I _am_ so it isn’t really “about me” it’s more just “about itself”. It doesn’t bother me that people do it, but if they all stopped tomorrow I wouldn’t miss it.

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