Important science question!

[Scarpia]

Do zombies poop? 

Quite embarrasing that despite considerable time spent watching "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" I don't know the answer.  Giles?  Willow?

[SonicMan46]

Yeah that's... kind of disgusting Dave!   You can save those lovely stories for your wife over dinner.  I'm sure she loves them.

David - absolutely nothing 'disgusting' in my comments!     Bowel function in America (and elsewhere) is BIG business; just visit any drugstore and look at the multitude of items available to aid in 'bowel elimination' - this is a major interest for many people (and maybe even Zombies?). 

BTW, Susan's parents are/were both physcians and her grandmother was a physican, Dr. Rita Finkler was the first endocrinologist in New Jersey; a fasicinating story - unfortunately she died the year before I made a visit to New Jersey to meet (and be judged) by the family in 1969; so Susan is completely use to 'gross medical' talk @ the dinner table and has developed an ability to completely tuned in out!  BOY, I have some meeting dinner stories from the past that would amuse - Dave 

[Szykneij]

[MN Dave]

LOL

[Papageno]

Evidently you are too brainless to read the label, or realize that Schwartzkopf, Klemperer, and Ferrier recorded for EMI, EMI and Decca respectively.  Why you take pride in being an imbecile still eludes me.

Muori, oh Scarpia!

Yes, I know that darling, but someone told me that the copyright is over, so anyone can publish those old recordings.

[Harpo]

David - absolutely nothing 'disgusting' in my comments!     Bowel function in America (and elsewhere) is BIG business; just visit any drugstore and look at the multitude of items available to aid in 'bowel elimination' - this is a major interest for many people (and maybe even Zombies?).  

BTW, Susan's parents are/were both physcians and her grandmother was a physican, Dr. Rita Finkler was the first endocrinologist in New Jersey; a fasicinating story - unfortunately she died the year before I made a visit to New Jersey to meet (and be judged) by the family in 1969; so Susan is completely use to 'gross medical' talk @ the dinner table and has developed an ability to completely tuned in out!  BOY, I have some meeting dinner stories from the past that would amuse - Dave  

I was waiting for Sonic to join this thread, given his professional expertise as well as his long history of watching horror movies.  

Yes, when I ask "How was your day, dear?" I must be prepared for physiological descriptions, which I'm used to. But I have not enjoyed dining with his colleagues who had limited social skills and insisted on regaling me with graphic tales of gastrointestinal emanations over the pate de foie gras.  

[MN Dave]

Quite embarrasing that despite considerable time spent watching "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" I don't know the answer.  Giles?  Willow?

My co-writer and I are working on our third book with zombies and this question just came to me, not that it has anything to do with the storyline. I suppose I could have a character step in the shit of the walking dead. 

[DavidW]

My co-writer and I are working on our third book with zombies and this question just came to me, not that it has anything to do with the storyline. I suppose I could have a character step in the shit of the walking dead. 

I always assumed that zombies wouldn't go poop because they don't digest anything, they're dead.  Unless you're going for a 28 days later zombie, which is not actually a zombie.  Since the whole concept of a zombie is a bit silly, I wouldn't draw attention to things like that, it would make the reader realize how ridiculous it all was.   Unless that's what you want.

[MN Dave]

I always assumed that zombies wouldn't go poop because they don't digest anything, they're dead.  Unless you're going for a 28 days later zombie, which is not actually a zombie.  Since the whole concept of a zombie is a bit silly, I wouldn't draw attention to things like that, it would make the reader realize how ridiculous it all was.   Unless that's what you want.

Nah, it was just a fun question to kick around.

If everything else works, why not their digestive system?

[karlhenning]

Yeah that's... kind of disgusting Dave!

He just took the question to its logical evacuation.

[karlhenning]

David - absolutely nothing 'disgusting' in my comments!     Bowel function in America (and elsewhere) is BIG business; just visit any drugstore and look at the multitude of items available to aid in 'bowel elimination' - this is a major interest for many people (and maybe even Zombies?).

Why just the other on fb a friend of mine lamented being diagnosed with IBS (which I mistook for Irritable Brahms Symphonies) . . . .

[DavidW]

Nah, it was just a fun question to kick around.

If everything else works, why not their digestive system?

If things work, then why are they rotting?  See I'm telling you it makes no sense!   Except in that movie where a zombie attacked a shark, that was totally awesome.

[MN Dave]

If things work, then why are they rotting?  See I'm telling you it makes no sense!   Except in that movie where a zombie attacked a shark, that was totally awesome.

They were rotting. And they don't bathe.

[karlhenning]

Yes, but what of the zombies?

[DavidW]

They were rotting. And they don't bathe.

But enough about the French, let's talk about zombies now...

Edit: oof karl got there first

[MN Dave]

Oh, it wasn't common knowledge that David W doesn't bathe?  

[karlhenning]

Ray put it best: Why can't all our Daves get along? 

[MN Dave]

It's not easy being Dave.

[DavidW]

Oh, it wasn't common knowledge that David W doesn't bathe?  

That's because I'm actually a spambot!

[ChamberNut]

Ok Daves (all 3), it's time to set up a conference call once and for all with the zombies to hammer down the bowel movement issue.

I thought IBS stood for Irritable Bach Sanctification?