# ZOMBIE ffs! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 10, 2021, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-ffs/943973 "2021-06-10T13:58:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2021, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-ffs/943973/1 "2021-06-10T13:58:07Z")
How has a thread about [Brain fever!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-brain-fever-in-the-19th-century/381139/3) gotten raised from the dead multiple times and no one has made a zombie joke! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2021, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-ffs/943973/2 "2021-06-10T14:46:11Z")
It’s in GQ. > [@Can we just dump "zombie calling" altogether?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-just-dump-zombie-calling-altogether/812293/5): > > As I just posted in a thread in GQ, I would personally appreciate it if people would stop doing this. The “joke” is beyond old. And when you just post a zombie joke, or worse, “Braaaaiiiiins,” it serves no purpose. It doesn’t inform the newbie of the policy, or why it is frowned upon. It’s almost as annoying as spam. If you see an old thread bumped, just report it. There is absolutely no reason to post a zombie joke. This said, I don’t think there is any reason to make a new rule on it. Lame j… ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2021, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-ffs/943973/3 "2021-06-10T14:48:56Z")
Yes. But it was raised twice in 2014, which is four years before the quoted post from Colibri. And (although I stopped reading it carefully quite early on) there doesn’t seem to be _any_ acknowledgement that the OP is from 2006. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2021, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-ffs/943973/4 "2021-06-10T18:53:40Z")
Zombies are mostly dead and thus cold-blooded (if they have any blood at all), so I don’t think they ever have “brain fever”. ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2021, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-ffs/943973/5 "2021-06-10T20:10:53Z")
It would still be a valid guess for what Sherlock Holmes meant by the term. It’s not like the person in the story had an elevated temperature. ---
**Author:** ![DeadTreasSecretaries](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deadtreassecretaries/32/4817_2.png) [@DeadTreasSecretaries](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadTreasSecretaries)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2021, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-ffs/943973/6 "2021-06-10T23:47:07Z")
What’s in your head? In your heaeeaaead? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2021, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-ffs/943973/7 "2021-06-11T01:08:36Z")
It occurs to me that craisins are zombie cranberries. ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2021, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-ffs/943973/8 "2021-06-11T14:57:56Z")
Mummies. They are mummy cranberries. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2021, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-ffs/943973/9 "2021-06-11T14:59:33Z")
I think yogurt-dipped raisins are mummy grapes. They are mummified and wrapped up in white. [https://cdn.albanesecandy.com/candy-store/images/products/popup/yogurt-raisins\_2.jpg](https://cdn.albanesecandy.com/candy-store/images/products/popup/yogurt-raisins_2.jpg)