ZOMBIES!!!

POSTED BY: Kwicko
UPDATED: Wednesday, February 4, 2009 21:40
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KWICKO

Thursday, January 29, 2009 11:23 PM

Looks like they're here...

Hackers changed the message on a road sign here in Austin during the early morning hours, so commuters got a bit of a shock.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,484326,00.html

And I swear, I had nothing at all to do with this.

But I wholeheartedly approve.

Mike

"It is complete now; the hands of time are neatly tied."

KIRKULES

Thursday, January 29, 2009 11:37 PM

The news article is obviously just a cover story intended to cover up a real Zombie outbreak. Let's just hope they're slow Zombies, because a Cricket Bat doesn't work to good on the fast ones.

WHOZIT

Friday, January 30, 2009 12:08 AM

Hackers?! Sure that's what they want you to think. Remember, to kill zombies you have to shot them in the head! I know because I've seen ALL to zombie movies!

DREAMTROVE

Friday, January 30, 2009 1:30 AM

I admit, I did it, but not as a hoax. There were real zombies. I saw them.

DEADLOCKVICTIM

Friday, January 30, 2009 1:42 AM

musta been just outside of Buda....

RUE

Friday, January 30, 2009 2:04 AM

I have to ask - is anyone here (besides me, that is) old enough to remember those little oil pots they used to light and set on the road to mark a hazard ?

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Silence is consent.

DREAMTROVE

Friday, January 30, 2009 2:19 AM

Yeah, we're all old here.

RUE

Friday, January 30, 2009 2:31 AM

I can't help myself ... I have to do this ... ....

eehhhh ? EEHHHH ? speak UP !

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Silence is consent.

KWICKO

Friday, January 30, 2009 2:38 AM

Saw a great bumper sticker today:

"It's not that I'm old. It's that
your music really does suck!"

And hey, if there's a zombie outbreak, I'm ready. You don't JUST have to shoot them in the head; removing the head works just as well. Machete-fu, anyone?

Mike

"It is complete now; the hands of time are neatly tied."

CHRISISALL

Friday, January 30, 2009 2:47 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:
Machete-fu, anyone?

I'm up for any 'Fu'!
*Readys for the coming zombie apocalypse*

The laughing Chrisisall

DEADLOCKVICTIM

Friday, January 30, 2009 2:49 AM

remember, i've been to austin, and i'm so old i remember seeing zombies outside the Armadillo.........

(it's long gone)

CHRISISALL

Friday, January 30, 2009 3:06 AM

I visited Austin in 1976, and I saw practically NO zombies there at that time, but I admit, I was only there one night...

The laughing Chrisisall

DREAMTROVE

Friday, January 30, 2009 3:24 AM

Myself, I'm unarmed, I intend to talk to the zombies. I think we can have a summit meeting where we explain our position, and then they eat our brains.

Chris,

You were in Austin, not a lot of zombies there usually.

DEEPGIRL187

Friday, January 30, 2009 3:26 AM

Yay!!! Zombie apocalypse!

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"This is my timey-wimey detector. It goes ding when there's stuff. Also, it can boil an egg at 30 paces, whether you want it to or not, actually, so I've learned to stay away from hens. It's not pretty when they blow."

KWICKO

Friday, January 30, 2009 4:23 AM

Yup, now it's a Threadgill's restaurant.

You know how to tell the old Austinites from the newcomers? The old ones walk around saying, "Things ain't been the same since they closed the Armadillo..."

Mike

"It is complete now; the hands of time are neatly tied."

KWICKO

Friday, January 30, 2009 4:24 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by chrisisall:
I visited Austin in 1976, and I saw practically NO zombies there at that time, but I admit, I was only there one night...

The laughing Chrisisall

Was the Texas Legislature in session?

Mike

"It is complete now; the hands of time are neatly tied."

KWICKO

Friday, January 30, 2009 4:26 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by deepgirl187:
Yay!!! Zombie apocalypse!

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"This is my timey-wimey detector. It goes ding when there's stuff. Also, it can boil an egg at 30 paces, whether you want it to or not, actually, so I've learned to stay away from hens. It's not pretty when they blow."

I figure we'll hole up in the mall. There's no such thing as mall-zombies, right?

Mike

"It is complete now; the hands of time are neatly tied."

NAVYFLYER

Friday, January 30, 2009 6:02 AM

There we're totally mall zombies in Dawn of the Dead!

FREMDFIRMA

Friday, January 30, 2009 8:17 AM

Machetes and pistols ? yup, y'all gonna get eaten for sure.

Zombies are undead, undead are vulnerable to holy water.

Tanker truck, water cannon, fervent priest.

Problem solved.

-F

DEEPGIRL187

Friday, January 30, 2009 10:58 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:
I figure we'll hole up in the mall. There's no such thing as mall-zombies, right?

Mike

When I was a little kid, I had this deep fascination with the idea of living in a huge department store. So I figure the mall is just the next progression.

We'll preferably need one that isn't too expansive, though. Have to be able to shore up our defenses and all.

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"This is my timey-wimey detector. It goes ding when there's stuff. Also, it can boil an egg at 30 paces, whether you want it to or not, actually, so I've learned to stay away from hens. It's not pretty when they blow."

PIRATENEWS

Friday, January 30, 2009 11:18 AM

There's alot of Truth in Austin... They need it to fight the zombies.

DEADLOCKVICTIM

Friday, January 30, 2009 2:02 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:
Was the Texas Legislature in session?

lol - good one

the ledge mostly wandered around The Chili Parlor & Schultz's Beer Garden

and you know - in the late 60's early 70's it was hard to tell the zombies from the regular drug addled UT students....

Armadillo World Headquarters - what a dump - and what a great place.... count me as an Austin oldie...

btw: i still have a bootleg Shiva's Headband album given to me by Spencer Perskin himself....

DREAMTROVE

Friday, January 30, 2009 3:40 PM

FREM,

You've been playing too much D&D. In the cinema zombie land they could be the creation of a mad scientist, in which case, your religious paraphernalia won't help.

Mike, I think someone missed your [/sarcasm] possibly a sockpuppet, possibly intentionally

ZOMBIES!!!!!!

WULFENSTAR

Friday, January 30, 2009 3:51 PM

So...

Who here has read "World War Z"?

or

"The Zombie Survival Guide"?

DREAMTROVE

Friday, January 30, 2009 6:13 PM

Actually, since we're on the topic, and I have a zombie story I'm working on, I want input. Best Zombie fiction in any form.

I'm trapped between fantasy and Sci-fi because of the nature of my writers group. I want the editors to give me their input, and so I need to be in both genres. The sci-fi I have at the moment was a strict storyline of a dream. It really freaked me out. I woke up thinking "that's what dawn of the dead should have been." I wrote it down, and then a comptuer virus killer killed my hd, and I lost the story, but it's still in my head because I wrote it down. That always helps

So, please, Zombie recommendations, anyone...

DEADLOCKVICTIM

Friday, January 30, 2009 8:41 PM

Dream, funny, I just saw an ad for a book entitled Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry - I have not read it, but the gist seems to be...

Quote:
THE PROBLEM: Terrorists are hell-bent on unleashing a dreadfull bio-weapon that turns ordinary people into flesh-eating zombies.

THE SOLUTION: Joe Ledger, the ultra-secret Department of Military Science, and a helluva a lot of bullets

don't know, sounds pretty formula-matic to me.

I'm not a big fan of the genre but i believe George Romero has the best reputation for making zombie movies...

I was mildly amused by Shaun Of The Dead and the Resident Evil series was ok.

An old movie, Let's Scare Jessica to Death, a 1971 low-budget horror film, directed by John D. Hancock, comes to mind for some reason.

good luck

eta: I liked the movie Omega Man, too..... sort of a pre-I Am Legend film

DREAMTROVE

Saturday, January 31, 2009 1:19 AM

Thanks. I'll take a look

DREAMTROVE

Wednesday, February 4, 2009 3:25 PM

FREM

BRAINNNSSS!

CHRISISALL

Wednesday, February 4, 2009 3:32 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by deadlockvictim:
I liked the movie Omega Man, too..... sort of a pre-I Am Legend film

Both based on the same book, but I thought Omega Man captured some elements that I Am Legend left out, sadly.

The brainz of Chrisisall

DREAMTROVE

Wednesday, February 4, 2009 8:03 PM

If I figger correctly, then some of them folk on the neighboring threads are on the govt. clock.

FREMDFIRMA

Wednesday, February 4, 2009 9:23 PM

Running your own biz in the security industry leads to gawdawful strange hours, in my case.

To borrow an oh-so-eloquent phrase from Boondock Saints (awesome flick, btw)...
"We're sorta like 7-Eleven. We're not always doing business, but we're always open."

-F

STORYMARK

Wednesday, February 4, 2009 9:25 PM

I once made a Zombie movie, in which all the zombies were played by Muppets.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

DREAMTROVE

Wednesday, February 4, 2009 9:40 PM

I'd like to add an aside: Kathy may be ranting in the mad mutual cannibalism fest on the govt. clock, but in her defense, California workers are being paid in IOUs right now.