# Did you sign up to SDMB to resurrect a zombie thread? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 26, 2015, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-sign-up-to-sdmb-to-resurrect-a-zombie-thread/713691 "2015-02-26T18:46:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-sign-up-to-sdmb-to-resurrect-a-zombie-thread/713691/1 "2015-02-26T18:46:40Z")
Since this is the place for polls. I believe that the majority of members that have done this are long gone, but I also suspect that some people after responding to that 2004 thread about postal procedures, or the 2006 thread about Gilligan’s Island, decide to stick around. Well if you did join here for the purpose of responding to an old thread you discovered through your google search are still here are you willing to admit to it? Poll to follow…_and it’s public!_ ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-sign-up-to-sdmb-to-resurrect-a-zombie-thread/713691/2 "2015-02-26T19:01:39Z")
I think your poll will be very lopsided since most of the Zombie resurrections are drive-bys. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-sign-up-to-sdmb-to-resurrect-a-zombie-thread/713691/3 "2015-02-26T19:10:25Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > I think your poll will be very lopsided since most of the Zombie resurrections are drive-bys. That’s very astute of you. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-sign-up-to-sdmb-to-resurrect-a-zombie-thread/713691/4 "2015-02-26T19:12:34Z")
It’s a good question, though. I joined to start my own [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=187088) about [a staff report](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1501/what-are-jake-brakes-and-why-are-they-prohibited-in-some-locations). Not sure why the staff report is dated 2008 when I was starting a thread about it in 2003. ---
**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:** [February 26, 2015, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-sign-up-to-sdmb-to-resurrect-a-zombie-thread/713691/5 "2015-02-26T20:04:50Z")
Not exactly, but I did join in order to participate in several threads, some of which were a month or two old. And I will do this quite often elsewhere, and it will be a driveby. Why? Because, if I found the thread by Google, others will, too, and hence I want to be helpful and add more information if I have it. It sucks when the only thread you can find is someone else asking about the same problem you are having. I’m currently trying to do a search to see my first post, but it’s taking a long time to run. I’m going to ahead and post this, and if it doesn’t give me results in 5 minutes, oh well. EDIT: My first post was about the plan to go to free-to-post, of course. Since that was why I was delaying joining in the first place. And it looks like I never got around posting in those older threads after all. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2015, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-sign-up-to-sdmb-to-resurrect-a-zombie-thread/713691/6 "2015-02-26T20:14:34Z")
I may revive this thread 5 years from now 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-sign-up-to-sdmb-to-resurrect-a-zombie-thread/713691/7 "2015-02-27T02:29:30Z")
I signed up to ask a GQ question. I believe it had something to do with novella word counts. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-sign-up-to-sdmb-to-resurrect-a-zombie-thread/713691/8 "2015-02-27T02:32:52Z")
I’m such an old timer here I doubt there were any threads old enough to be zombies when I signed up. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-sign-up-to-sdmb-to-resurrect-a-zombie-thread/713691/9 "2015-02-27T03:15:57Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > I signed up to ask a GQ question. I believe it had something to do with novella word counts. [Found you](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=67925)! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-sign-up-to-sdmb-to-resurrect-a-zombie-thread/713691/10 "2015-02-27T03:18:16Z")
There basically were no zombies when I joined. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![minionkat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@minionkat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minionkat)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-sign-up-to-sdmb-to-resurrect-a-zombie-thread/713691/11 "2015-02-27T04:15:55Z")
I joined so that I could participate in the Celebrity Death Pool. I imagine I am not alone. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Goob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mr.Goob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Goob)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2015, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-sign-up-to-sdmb-to-resurrect-a-zombie-thread/713691/12 "2015-02-28T08:12:25Z")
> [@minionkat](#): > > I joined so that I could participate in the Celebrity Death Pool. I imagine I am not alone. Me too, several years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2015, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-sign-up-to-sdmb-to-resurrect-a-zombie-thread/713691/13 "2015-02-28T16:32:11Z")
I joined to start a thread about my dog Friday (Golden Retriever), who had just passed away, and about adopting Chance (Weimaraner), to start the healing. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2015, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-sign-up-to-sdmb-to-resurrect-a-zombie-thread/713691/14 "2015-02-28T17:08:27Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > I’m such an old timer here I doubt there were any threads old enough to be zombies when I signed up. I’m not quite as much of an old timer as you are, but I don’t know that a year-old thread would qualify as a zombie. In any case, I joined to post in a silly MPSIMS thread, and I never looked back. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2015, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-sign-up-to-sdmb-to-resurrect-a-zombie-thread/713691/15 "2015-02-28T20:14:20Z")
I didn’t sign up to resurrect a zombie, but to flog a local meme. I had spent nearly all of several days **and nights** obsessively reading the SDMB archives; my first post was for the purpose of remarking that if my friends started asking me if I ever slept, I could tell them, “ **Once. In 1960. For 20 minutes**.” ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2015, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-sign-up-to-sdmb-to-resurrect-a-zombie-thread/713691/16 "2015-02-28T21:46:55Z")
> [@minionkat](#): > > I joined so that I could participate in the Celebrity Death Pool. I imagine I am not alone. No, we expect even more celebrities to pop-their-clogs by year’s end. Welcome! ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2015, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-sign-up-to-sdmb-to-resurrect-a-zombie-thread/713691/17 "2015-02-28T22:30:54Z")
No. But I did sign up to correct some information and comment on some threads about zombies. I have friends associated with Monroeville Mall who take the subject VERY seriously. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2015, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-sign-up-to-sdmb-to-resurrect-a-zombie-thread/713691/18 "2015-02-28T23:44:53Z")
I joined in the first month, so it wasn’t even possible. ---
**Author:** ![Rodgers01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-sign-up-to-sdmb-to-resurrect-a-zombie-thread/713691/19 "2015-03-01T00:07:33Z")
There should be a poll option for “I don’t remember,” because I sure don’t. And I’m not inclined to try to track down my first post, because reading stuff I wrote on here years ago tends to make me wince. ☹