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Zombie Lurch
user_granstro writes "Madison, Wisconsin is the next city to face the shambling undead hordes. At 2pm on Saturday, October 22, zombie fans will assemble in full costume to kick off Zombie Lurch 2005. Organizer Maddie Greene, a self-styled zombie expert, says of the event, "I think that any bystander could jump right in and become a zombie with the proper groaning and limping and attitude.""
Only 364 days to go!
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I'll go, if you promise not to bite my head off.
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http://www.zombiewalktoronto.com/
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I can understand the dupes. I can understand the trolls. But NOT posting a time-sensitive story such as this is ridiculous. This was yesterday, mr. editor.
Show this to your friends and family that don't know what a real hacker is
Isn't this story a little late...like by a day?
I guess IT related news is getting pretty hard to find
I live the Washington, DC area. Just head downtown on any given day and you'll see the local Zombie Lurch Chapter doing their finest. There's even a delegation from every state. It's a veritable Church Of the Zombie Lurch. Second only, perhaps, to the nearest Junior High School literature classroom.
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What i'd be worried about is the paranoid people who will think its real and start wildy firing at heads. BOOM HEADSHOT!!!
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In full attire .
My body will be a Tower case , My right hand a mouse , my left a keyboard and on my head a monitor with a picture of windows XP .
I hope I don't scare any old ladies to death
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Unfortunately, the effects of time travel are quite deleterious to one's physical well being. Symptoms include advanced necrosis, body parts falling off, sudden craving for human brains, etc...
Too bad Symantec wasn't there, they could've killed the zombies off all at once.
Oh wait, you don't mean that kind of zombie, do you.
Why not go for the triple play and dupe this as well?
What if some mad man with mental illness on the street that has a gun with him starts to think these are real zombies and shoots everyone?
This is a very dangerous game.
When the real zombie attack comes, people will be caught off guard.
Get an axe.
Its Sunday, and Slashdot will post anything.
You were warned!
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Toronto has one going on at 2pm *today*!
I think I'll be staying inside this afternoon...
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It wasn't nearly as exciting as the Post-Homecoming Game Zombie Revelry in the Streets that happened yesterday evening. Zombies lurching down State Street may be kind of cute, but it can't compete with the awesome power of thousands of zombies in red shirts shambling aimlessly around the city, consuming unholy quantities of some unknown urine-colored substance (possibly the sustenance needed to keep them alive since all the brains in town had locked themselves in and shuttered their windows for the weekend?), driving like spastic blind chimpanzees at incredible speed all over town, urinating on the sidewalk, and so on. It turned particularly exciting around 10:00PM - about four hours into the event - when many of the males began fighting outside bars, presumably over alpha status.
Come on editors... we may be nerds, but we're not retarded... Dressing up as zombies and walking down the street? What the...
though i dont know why nobody covered this, there were zombie mobs all over boston yesterday as well. it looked like quite a bit of fun, but i was too hungover to join in.
Does either team actually have fans?
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I'm from Wisconsin, and this just confirms the saying we have in the state: "Madison: 12 square miles surrounded by reality"
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No need to travel to Wisconsin - just ride the 2 train every morning the way to work in New York - it's loaded with zombies of all types!
I'll stay in Minneapolis for our Zombie Pub Crawl thanks.
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1. Read story about Zombie Lurch
2. Post it on Slashdot
3. ???
4. Profit!
Wait...
Having just watched Land of the Dead yesterday, I'd have to say if I saw this I'd probably shit my pants.
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This past event was better. Even the zombies look cooler (grosser)! Copied and pasted from AQFL:
The Daily Texan (with gross photographs) reports on Thursday outside the Frank Erwin Center, a horde of zombies attacked the "American Idol" auditions. No one was hurt.
The zombies, 15 fake-bloodied actors in all, lurched out from under the IH-35 overpass and shuffled toward the Erwin Center, where they encountered the pop-star hopefuls.
Most of the 100 or so young people gathered outside had just been rejected by the "American Idol" review board, and they were talking, singing and waiting for rides home when the zombies arrived. "Braaaaaaains!" the zombies said. Nick Muntean, a UT radio-television-film graduate student who organized and participated in the zombie horde, added, "Television rots your braaaaaaains!" The pop-star wannabes were largely unimpressed.
Seen on Blue's News. I wonder if there are video clips of this!
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You do have to consider the fact that zombies are real. So in a sense they are advocating slavery.
(Not really, I just had to make a point)
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Dane101.com also covered the event and there are pictures here.
In Boston and New York City there were zombie walks yesterday also.
http://www.zombiecon.com/
4. Braiiins!
I really like the zombie flash mob idea, too. Wonder if that would work for independent filmmaking when you needed a bunch of extras? The extra call flash mob, not necessarily a zombie mob, maybe you just need some extras.
It's a thought.
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On a seemingly unrelated note, I discovered that fried cow brain w/ onion sandwiches were once popular in Chicago.
The Minneapolis Zombie Pub Crawl last weekend was one of the most fun times I've had in years. Someone made a little documentary type video of it:
video
We'll all have been lured into a false sense of security:
"Oh, those zombies? Don't worry about them. They're just pretending. Hey, look how realistic... That blood around their mouths, and the rotting flesh effects, they almost look real. BRAVO zombie immitators, Bravo. OUCH! THAT'S MY BRAIN YOU'RE EATING YOU INSENSITIVE CLOD!"
But then it's too late.
I strongly discourage these events. The next time I see a zombie horde, I want to feel secure in the knowledge that it really is time to naplam the streets, and start taking head-shots at my formerly peaceful neighbors.
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Meanwhile at the actual Zombie convention. "@#%$ this guys we need to change our style, all this limping is way too common now"
Really,you could have almost a whole town full of zombies first thing in the morning if you stopped deliveries of coffee to local stores and shut down the starbucks for a day or two. I swear some of my co-workers have groaned in a very zombie-like manner without their morning java beeeeeeeans.
Must be a quiet Sunday, er... Saturday, er..., whatever...
For any fan of zombies (or killing them) there's a great game...http://urbandead.com/
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There's a Toronto Zombie Walk on today too, started at 2 pm don't know if it's wrapped up yet or not. They were headed for the Eaton's Centre at the end of it, from Necropolis cemetary...
This story is a perfect example why I won't subscribe. This is a lame, unrelated and late story that should never have been here.
A hilarious over-the-top horror story about zombies, and their one weakness.
http://acidlogic.com/coffee_and_bullets.htm
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Other than the obvious fact that there is very little to do there, why Wisconsin? Shouldnt this be held in Pittsburgh, PA as it actually has a claim to fame there and was a major contributor to the "zombie culture"?
Wisconsin never did nothin for nobody...
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