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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!
"You know you don't act like a scientist, you're more like a game show host." Dana Barret
I'll go, if you promise not to bite my head off.
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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
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!!!
Have you metaroderated recently?
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...
Why not go for the triple play and dupe this as well?
Its Sunday, and Slashdot will post anything.
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.
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.
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.
"I'm not ashamed I can't function in society like I'm supposed to." - Paul Westerberg
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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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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