# Resurrected Threads
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resurrected-threads/165956
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [April 2, 2003, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resurrected-threads/165956 "2003-04-02T14:32:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2003, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resurrected-threads/165956/1 "2003-04-02T14:32:25Z")
If you see an old thread (say one that has been pushed back 3 or 4 or 10 pages) and you just can’t stop yourself from posting a comment, here’s a novel idea -
Start a new thread and link to the old!
Goddamn people, how many times to I have to open a thread and get a sense of deja vu only to see the OP was posted months ago? :dubious:
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### Author:  [@THespos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/THespos)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2003, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resurrected-threads/165956/2 "2003-04-02T14:51:50Z")
Three or four or 10 pages?
How about those resurrected threads from a few YEARS back? Lately, it’s seemed like the Night of the Living Zombie Threads. Some of the noobs really need to stop digging this stuff up, unless they want to give the one remaining hamster a coronary. 😉
Starting a new thread and linking to the old one is a great idea, **Diane**. Maybe the mods will agree and make this thread sticky for a bit? (At least until the noobs stop playing Reanimator, anyway…)
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### Author:  [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2003, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resurrected-threads/165956/3 "2003-04-02T14:56:56Z")
While I agree with what you’re saying. Some of the resurrections are very old indeed.
The 3-4 pages thing can be easily less than a wkend in MPSIMS.
I don’t generally post at wkends so do this quite a bit.
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### Author:  [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2003, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resurrected-threads/165956/4 "2003-04-02T15:08:31Z")
Yeah, it’s more like, don’t reply to a thread you find with a search.
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### Author:  [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2003, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resurrected-threads/165956/5 "2003-04-02T15:19:21Z")
Stand back ! She’s not had her coffee yet.
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### Author:  [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2003, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resurrected-threads/165956/6 "2003-04-02T15:20:30Z")
Again, I agree. Yesterday someone Lazarused a Vanilla Sky thread from friggin’ last July that had been thoroughly threadkilled. Popped in, quoted a couple sentences from one of my posts, and asked a question. I had absolutely no knowledge of what the hell my post was about at that time.
Now I know how witnesses feel in court when asked about the specifics of an event several years in the past.
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### Author:  [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2003, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resurrected-threads/165956/7 "2003-04-02T15:24:51Z")
Come 'ere L\_C, so I can lick ya. 😛
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### Author:  [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2003, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resurrected-threads/165956/8 "2003-04-02T15:30:46Z")
Am I the only one who marked on his calander to bring back this thread in two months?
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### Author:  [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2003, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resurrected-threads/165956/9 "2003-04-02T15:40:05Z")
You’re just trying to push me over the deep end, aren’t ya NurseC?
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### Author:  [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2003, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resurrected-threads/165956/10 "2003-04-02T15:45:18Z")
And I think the answer to that, **NurseCarmen** is yes. Yes, you are.
I don’t want to piss off **Diane**.
😉
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### Author:  [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2003, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resurrected-threads/165956/11 "2003-04-02T15:52:06Z")
I think that, after the topic is done, we should bump it so everybody remembers not to do it 😛 .
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### Author:  [@Aslan\_of\_Narnia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aslan_of_Narnia)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2003, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resurrected-threads/165956/12 "2003-04-02T15:54:25Z")
Corection:
“Should bump it **every two years** ”.
My bad joke’s ruined forever…
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2003, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resurrected-threads/165956/13 "2003-04-03T00:38:56Z")
You’ll get it right next year, **Aslan**.
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### Author:  [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2003, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resurrected-threads/165956/14 "2003-04-03T01:48:38Z")
The worst are the threads in which the OP was later banned. Nothing freaks me out more than when I see “Wildest Bill” or “_ **ORION** _” in the Thread Starter column and have a momentary body shudder at the thought that they were reinstated.
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### Author:  [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2003, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resurrected-threads/165956/15 "2003-04-03T03:38:11Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by NurseCarmen \*
> \*\*Am I the only one who marked on his calander to bring back this thread in two months? \*\*
Dammit! I saw the thread title in the pit, and I thinks to myself, I thinks, "Heh heh heh. I’ll go into the thread and I’ll post,
> [@](#):
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> Some wiseass is thinking with glee right now that they’re going to bump this thread in a couple of months, and it’s going to be hilarious, and they’re waiting impatiently until the joke will be funny. I am spoiling their joke right now by making it first.
Heh heh heh – I’m such a funny one!"
But I open the thread, and I find that **NurseCarmen** has spoiled my spoiling of the joke. Damn you, **NurseCarmen**! Damn you to hell!
Daniel
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### Author:  [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2003, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resurrected-threads/165956/16 "2003-04-03T03:48:50Z")
Yeah, you guys are about as funny as chapped buttholes. 😉
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### Author:  [@brianmelendez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianmelendez)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2003, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resurrected-threads/165956/17 "2003-04-03T04:27:53Z")
How about a resurrected thread that kills off a fresh thread that was covering new territory on the same topic? Two days ago, **dee52269** posted a thread asking, [What is the origin of the southern accent?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&postid=3223187#post3223187) Then **jimmmy** linked to a nearly year-dead thread on [Southern Accents](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=115755), which had covered the same subject but different ground than the current thread. Then someone (not **jimmmy** ) revived the _old_ thread, the conversation took off in a different direction, and the first thread–after a few more interesting starts–sputtered out. Sheesh.
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### Author:  [@PhiloVance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhiloVance)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2003, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resurrected-threads/165956/18 "2003-04-03T06:31:40Z")
That did it, this thread is dead. :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2003, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resurrected-threads/165956/19 "2003-04-03T06:52:21Z")
Gee, I was going to post to a thread about _Silent Hill 2_ I found in a search, but I decided against it. I’m glad I did! I don’t want to get the cyber-smackdown laid on me.
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### Author:  [@Juniper200](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Juniper200)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2003, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resurrected-threads/165956/20 "2003-04-03T08:01:30Z")
I laughed when I saw aha’s thread about oral sex resurrected the other day. Gosh, with a title like “So I was eating my wife’s pussy…”, I wonder what search terms brought up that result…
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