# Was there another poster who died? Besides Wally and chalupa? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 5, 2002, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-there-another-poster-who-died-besides-wally-and-chalupa/140597 "2002-12-05T01:57:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-there-another-poster-who-died-besides-wally-and-chalupa/140597/41 "2002-12-05T17:57:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bdgr \* > \*\*I stopped posting for a while a couple of times. Nobody noticed. > > But I do have a couple of friends IRL who have accounts here, so it would probably get anounced \*\* As close as the DFW dopers are, I am quite sure we would notice you missing. Zyada seems to keep an eye on us. šŸ™‚ Thanks Zy! ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-there-another-poster-who-died-besides-wally-and-chalupa/140597/42 "2002-12-05T18:15:32Z")
Huh. Nobody in my RL knows about this place. Well, theyā€™ve _heard_ of it, but they donā€™t know where it is. And even if they did, I doubt theyā€™d post here to inform any of you of anything. Most of the people I know think this place is ā€œsillyā€. Bastards. On second thought, I could ask my mom to do it (she loves you guys), but in her insane sadness and grief after my death, sheā€™d probably forget to post. Plus, sheā€™ll probably die first. ā˜¹ ---
**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-there-another-poster-who-died-besides-wally-and-chalupa/140597/43 "2002-12-05T18:22:05Z")
I think we neede a new rule to make sure we know when people die: > [@](#): > > No member of the Straight Dope Message Board will be allowed to die without notifying a moderator via email and getting their approval. Anyone violating this rule will be resurrected and executed. Zev Steinhardt ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-there-another-poster-who-died-besides-wally-and-chalupa/140597/44 "2002-12-05T18:29:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JuanitaTech \* > \*\*Hmmm. Mebbe us Baltimoron Dopers should form some sort of 410 alliance; a once-a-month email to check in and discuss the latest El Camino we spotted. \*\* Boy, they donā€™t call us Balti **morons** for nothing. I read ā€œ410 allianceā€ three times before I realized what 410 meant. :rolleyes: Guess the blizzard has rattled my brain. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-there-another-poster-who-died-besides-wally-and-chalupa/140597/45 "2002-12-05T18:34:08Z")
I live in Cincinnati and I _knew_ that was your area code. Bawlmer, feh! ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-there-another-poster-who-died-besides-wally-and-chalupa/140597/46 "2002-12-05T18:37:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mirror Image egamI rorriM \* > \*\*We should make an e-mail list or something. Everyone (registered lurkers especially) should get a partner (or get one of their real life friends to join up) and keep each other updated and such. \*\* Iā€™m not sure why, but this idea cracked me up. SDMB Buddies. **rubes** would be mine. Every morning I would send him an e-mail saying, ā€œIā€™m still alive.ā€ ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-there-another-poster-who-died-besides-wally-and-chalupa/140597/47 "2002-12-05T18:48:28Z")
What if both partners die simultaniously, like one is in a plane, and it crashes, on a car driven by the other guy. I propose a thread in MPSIMS that every doper must post in every day to assure everyone they are still alive. ---
**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:** [December 5, 2002, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-there-another-poster-who-died-besides-wally-and-chalupa/140597/48 "2002-12-05T18:57:38Z")
Whatā€™s all this nonsense about posting and e-mailing? Arenā€™t you all hooked up to the Master Doper Monitor[sup]TM[/sup]?? Itā€™s really not that difficult to get used to the probeā€¦ What?? ---
**Author:** ![bdgr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a87d85/32.png) [@bdgr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bdgr)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-there-another-poster-who-died-besides-wally-and-chalupa/140597/49 "2002-12-05T19:06:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FairyChatMom \* > \*\*Whatā€™s all this nonsense about posting and e-mailing? Arenā€™t you all hooked up to the Master Doper Monitor[sup]TM[/sup]?? Itā€™s really not that difficult to get used to the probeā€¦ > What?? \*\* Thats only for memebers of the the SDMB clique [sup] TM[/sup] ā€¦Your not supposed to tell _them_ ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-there-another-poster-who-died-besides-wally-and-chalupa/140597/50 "2002-12-05T19:16:38Z")
I donā€™t know anyone IRL who posts here. My SO knows I post here, maybe Iā€™ll mention to him that if I die he is to put a note up. I post from my home computer so he wouldnā€™t have to guess at my password, but he is not a message board person, he might not know how to do it. ---
**Author:** ![rubes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@rubes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rubes)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2002, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-there-another-poster-who-died-besides-wally-and-chalupa/140597/51 "2002-12-05T19:34:38Z")
You go GFH. First morning that I donā€™t get an email, Iā€™ll start the thread. j/k ---
**Author:** ![anya\_marie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@anya\_marie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anya_marie)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-there-another-poster-who-died-besides-wally-and-chalupa/140597/52 "2002-12-06T00:22:57Z")
My sisters know that I follow these boards, and they might post somthing about my demise if i asked them to. ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-there-another-poster-who-died-besides-wally-and-chalupa/140597/53 "2002-12-06T01:29:08Z")
> [@](#): > > ## \*Originally posted by zev\_steinhardt \* \*\*I think we need a new rule to make sure we know when people die: > > ## _No member of the Straight Dope Message Board will be allowed to die without notifying a moderator via email and getting their approval. Anyone violating this rule will be resurrected and executed._ > > Zev Steinhardt \*\* This is an excellent rule, but I have a slight modification. ā€œAny member who violates this rule will be resurrected and not allowed to die for at least another 5000 posts. [sub]AND we expect you to post SLOWLY[/sub]ā€ Actually, I would like to request that NO dying be allowed. Not now, not EVER. I have now officially experienced MORE than enough loss to last me the rest of my lifetime. Please, God? Cheri ---
**Author:** ![bdgr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a87d85/32.png) [@bdgr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bdgr)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-there-another-poster-who-died-besides-wally-and-chalupa/140597/54 "2002-12-06T01:49:59Z")
I think that anyone who dies should have their posting privleges revoked. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-there-another-poster-who-died-besides-wally-and-chalupa/140597/55 "2002-12-06T02:54:01Z")
OK, **Scotti** , Iā€™ll go for that. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2002, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-there-another-poster-who-died-besides-wally-and-chalupa/140597/56 "2002-12-06T22:49:41Z")
Sadly, if I went, I doubt anyone outside of my parents would know about it. Hopefully, itā€™d be noticed that I was missing, however, my parents would _never_ be able to figure out how to send e-mails on my PC (or even access the address book) to inform my RL life friends and the odd Doper listed in it of my demise. Iā€™ve often thought that we need to had some kind of Doper Emergency Alert System, so that those of us who are kind of isolated can get help if they need it. I have no idea of how it would work, or if it would meet with The Readerā€™s approval. ---
**Author:** ![SisterCoyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@SisterCoyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SisterCoyote)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-there-another-poster-who-died-besides-wally-and-chalupa/140597/57 "2002-12-07T00:34:45Z")
Hm. I suppose if I had a will I might add a line about notifying not only the SDMB but also a couple of other boards I post on. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-there-another-poster-who-died-besides-wally-and-chalupa/140597/58 "2002-12-07T02:01:09Z")
Interesting, if a little sad, thread. Being single and also not knowing anyone in Real Life who posts here, I too think no one would notice if I kicked the bucket. I like the idea of having a \*\*buddy[/b,and just recently added a couple to my list.šŸ˜‰ And yā€™all are right: this **does** have that ā€œfamily feelā€. Quasi ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-there-another-poster-who-died-besides-wally-and-chalupa/140597/59 "2002-12-07T05:02:33Z")
I donā€™t know any Dopers IRL. Iā€™m unemployed(chronic depression-been 7 or so years now) I donā€™t really talk to my neighbors. Since my friends started getting married, we donā€™t see eachother as often as we used to. My parents spend half the year in Florida and my sister and niece live there. I canā€™t get rid of the image of my dying at the computer. My landlord finally investigating the smell. The door swings open and reveals my decomposing corpse sitting in the very chair Iā€™m in now. My dead fingers arched over this same keyboard. The light from my monitor refelecting off my clouding eyes.[sub]shiver[/sub] I believe that some folks would notice my absence after a couple of comic book, SF, or GLBT threads. ``` I'm less concerned with how many would notice than with how many would care. I was seven or so when I saw an episode of Too Close For Comfort that has stayed with me since(I'm 27 now). The grandfather dies. There is no space on any pew at his funeral. Henry wonders"If I died, could I fill a chapel?" I have wondered the same thing for twenty years. Have I touched enough lives for my passing to matter? Will I fill a chapel? ``` ---
**Author:** ![Sylkyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Sylkyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylkyn)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-there-another-poster-who-died-besides-wally-and-chalupa/140597/60 "2002-12-07T05:42:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by anya marie \* > \*\*My sisters know that I follow these boards, and they might post somthing about my demise if i asked them to. \*\* My sister knows (at length) about these boards, too. Except she has no idea how to turn on a computer, and even if she did, Iā€™d have to find the actual boards for her. Being dead, that would be quite a hard feat to accomplish. My dear hubby, lurker that he is, would basically be in hell. Here Iā€™d beā€¦dead to the SDMB world, and heā€™d be screaming into the monitor, ā€œ **SilkyThreat** ā€™s dead! She canā€™t answer you people!ā€ Because he canā€™t remember his password, and I took mine with me to my grave. And he _knows_ to _never_ post under my name. Iā€™d haunt him for that shit until the day he joined me in the hereafter. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-there-another-poster-who-died-besides-wally-and-chalupa/140597.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-there-another-poster-who-died-besides-wally-and-chalupa/140597.md?page=4)