# Just got out of prison **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 1, 1999, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-got-out-of-prison/2745 "1999-05-01T02:31:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Noel\_Prosequi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b19c9b/32.png) [@Noel\_Prosequi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noel_Prosequi)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-got-out-of-prison/2745/21 "2010-08-27T00:01:31Z")
The great thing about this thread is that it is that rare beast - a double zombie. It was Zombie v1.0 at post 8, then Zombie v2.0 at post 12. As well, of course, as being 11 years old. That is some powerful voodoo. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-got-out-of-prison/2745/22 "2010-08-27T00:01:53Z")
If we told you, we’d have to kill you. ---
**Author:** ![HawksPath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f07891/32.png) [@HawksPath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HawksPath)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-got-out-of-prison/2745/23 "2010-08-27T00:18:55Z")
I think the threads reviver CP must have been in on the thread when it first started. He did his time because he wanted a definitive answer to the question and is just now getting back to his bookmark of this thread he had saved on his home computer. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-got-out-of-prison/2745/24 "2010-08-27T00:27:59Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > Apparently one of them was named Mike King. He actually still posts here, but with a different name. ---
**Author:** ![godix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/278dde/32.png) [@godix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/godix)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-got-out-of-prison/2745/25 "2010-08-27T00:28:53Z")
I look forward to the next resurrection of this thread in 2021. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-got-out-of-prison/2745/26 "2010-08-27T02:37:19Z")
The OP has a name. His name is Robert Paulson. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-got-out-of-prison/2745/27 "2010-08-27T04:39:35Z")
> [@Noel\_Prosequi](#): > > That is some powerful voodoo. > [@twickster](#): > > If we told you, we’d have to kill you. :eek:“Come’on, Scooby…I think it’s time we make like a banana and split!”:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-got-out-of-prison/2745/28 "2010-08-27T04:53:20Z")
I’ve always wondered why in really old threads, you sometimes can’t see people’s names. Guess I’m going to continue to wonder. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-got-out-of-prison/2745/29 "2010-08-27T05:49:06Z")
Witness protection program ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-got-out-of-prison/2745/30 "2010-08-27T06:38:32Z")
You can’t see their names because someone’s eaten their BRAINSSSSS! ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-got-out-of-prison/2745/31 "2010-08-27T07:02:09Z")
> [@guizot](#): > > Why do the first 10 posters have no name? They all have names consisting of spaces: " ". " ", " ", " ", etc… ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-got-out-of-prison/2745/32 "2010-08-27T07:05:14Z")
It’s obviously someone named “guest” talking to themselves. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-got-out-of-prison/2745/33 "2010-08-27T07:24:21Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > The OP has a name. His name is Robert Paulson. His name is Robert Paulson! ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2010, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-got-out-of-prison/2745/34 "2010-08-27T12:22:22Z")
[QUOTE=;75435] Well, that’s not exactly true, but I just got out of the hospital (yes, I’m fine, in case you cared) after 5 days in. I damn near went stir-crazy, and I had TV, a pile of books, constant visits from family and friends, and two nice roommates. Had I had Internet access, I certainly would have used it to kill a lot of time. [/QUOTE] Quite off-topic, but I felt the need to respond with regard to hospital patient internet access evolving in times since then. I was in the hospital psych ward multiple times, the first in 2004 or 2005, the last in 2008 and 2009. The first time we had very limited internet access in terms of time - only during scheduled occupational therapy times. In later years, there was a computer available in the lounge, but with up to 20 patients in the ward you couldn’t be spending all day on it anyway. The web filter in the later years was very very strict and presumably set up on a company-wide basis and mainly targeted at employees. Any site having anything at all to do with games was blocked, even some rather obscure ones and ones that merely had discussions about games, like Elitist Jerks, the WoW guild with popular discussion board. But you could go to news sites and waste time reading about the latest celebrity gossip on Yahoo. I was a little jaded. I’m not sure when exactly reading this board became a popular activity for me, but I wish it had been back then. Slightly more on-topic, the ward became much less of a prison sort of environment in latter days. Not only the freely available computer, but the doors to the ward were not locked any more. You were freely allowed to walk out to the lobby and into the adjacent ward, which I did often because there was one (mobile) bookshelf for both wards. Meals were also taken in a different area that required one to leave the immediate area of ward as well and walk a few steps in the lobby. I don’t know how strongly people were committed to these wards, but leaving went from nearly impossible to not hard. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-got-out-of-prison/2745.md?page=1)