# What was your original user name here? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 11, 2008, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-original-user-name-here/463172 "2008-09-11T22:36:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-original-user-name-here/463172/1 "2008-09-11T22:36:30Z")
Quite properly Marley23 locked the zombie thread. As I find the topic interesting, and as I cannot send my minions to take my revenge on Marley at this time (my current world conquest plan requires all but 74 Dopers to be unmonkeyfucked), I am starting a new one. Oh, and my answer’s in my signature, I think. ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-original-user-name-here/463172/2 "2008-09-11T22:51:51Z")
Astroboy13 ---
**Author:** ![PandaMom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@PandaMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaMom)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-original-user-name-here/463172/3 "2008-09-11T23:06:14Z")
I am new here, so my username, is what it is. But since it is just the 3 of us right now… what is a zombie thread?? I read the other “what’s your original username” thread, but found nothing offensive. Since I am asking stupid questions… what does MMP stand for? Thanks for not ridiculing me too much!🙂 ---
**Author:** ![feppytweed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/feppytweed/32/4280_2.png) [@feppytweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/feppytweed)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-original-user-name-here/463172/4 "2008-09-11T23:08:39Z")
> [@PandaMom](#): > > I am new here, so my username, is what it is. But since it is just the 3 of us right now… what is a zombie thread?? I read the other “what’s your original username” thread, but found nothing offensive. > > Since I am asking stupid questions… what does MMP stand for? Thanks for not ridiculing me too much!🙂 A zombie thread is a thread older that 6 or so months… The mods and admins don’t like them because they make the hamsters work too hard! The MMP is the Monday Morning Post. There’s a sticky in ATMB that has FAQs for new members. [Here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=320298)it is. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-original-user-name-here/463172/5 "2008-09-11T23:10:21Z")
Antinor01. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-original-user-name-here/463172/6 "2008-09-11T23:10:31Z")
> [@PandaMom](#): > > I am new here, so my username, is what it is. But since it is just the 3 of us right now… what is a zombie thread?? I read the other “what’s your original username” thread, but found nothing offensive. > > Since I am asking stupid questions… what does MMP stand for? Thanks for not ridiculing me too much!🙂 A zombie thread is one that has lain dormant for an extended period and then is posted to ago. Generally they are discouraged because they often involve responses to persons who no longer participate in the board, who thus cannott respond to the replies to their arguments. MMP = “Monday Morning Post.” This is a series of threads begun every Monday morning by a group of posters cooler but less evil than me. The specific subject matter varies. ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-original-user-name-here/463172/7 "2008-09-11T23:17:44Z")
imthjckaz Because it wasn’t taken. ---
**Author:** ![as\_u\_wish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@as\_u\_wish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/as_u_wish)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-original-user-name-here/463172/8 "2008-09-11T23:20:05Z")
as\_u\_wish I keep thinking I should at least get rid of the underscores… ---
**Author:** ![PandaMom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@PandaMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaMom)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-original-user-name-here/463172/9 "2008-09-11T23:24:31Z")
Gosh thanks! I am totally enlightened now! I have been to damned lazy to actually read the FAQ’s… now I regret my laziness… I will have to go back and read alot of Hal Briston’s stuff… now that I know the secret code! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-original-user-name-here/463172/10 "2008-09-12T00:04:04Z")
I’ve been Clothahump from day one. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-original-user-name-here/463172/11 "2008-09-12T00:19:20Z")
Kat When the board was on AOL, though, I was Katpower, because some other AOL schmuck had already swiped Kat. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-original-user-name-here/463172/12 "2008-09-12T00:25:15Z")
I’ve always been who I am. Which is as it should be. Why mess with perfection? 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-original-user-name-here/463172/13 "2008-09-12T00:27:23Z")
VegetarianKillifish. ---
**Author:** ![Ichini\_Sanshigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d9b06d/32.png) [@Ichini\_Sanshigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichini_Sanshigo)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-original-user-name-here/463172/14 "2008-09-12T00:29:06Z")
Way the hell back in 2000, smillachan. Shhh, don’t tell. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-original-user-name-here/463172/15 "2008-09-12T00:56:42Z")
> [@Astroboy14](#): > > Astroboy13 Really? I was once **j66.** ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-original-user-name-here/463172/16 "2008-09-12T01:05:04Z")
I’ve always been TokyoPlayer, a name I had used in previous boards. Now that any playing is going to be with a little girl, I had thought of changing my user name, but I kind of like it. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Stilettos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/fbc32d/32.png) [@Red\_Stilettos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Stilettos)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-original-user-name-here/463172/17 "2008-09-12T01:08:49Z")
I was originally Dr. Scarlett. Or was it DrScarlett? ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2008, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-your-original-user-name-here/463172/18 "2008-09-12T01:49:13Z")
I lurked from nearly the start of the boards, having read the first 2 or 3 Cecil books literally until they were ragged. Then I was **hrhomer** for a couple of years. I was away from the boards for a couple of years, and when I came back, for some reason, couldn’t log in to that account. So I created this one. Joe