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Do zombies poop?  ;D

;D

tsk tsk tsk tsk... Dave, Dave, Dave... What am I going to do with you?   :-*

Science!  $:)

Quote from: MN Dave on September 09, 2009, 08:35:27 AM
Do zombies poop?  ;D

;D

Is a bear Catholic? Does the pope shit in the woods? If they eat hearts, brains and other organs (see Night of the Living Dead, the scariest movie ever filmed in Pittsburgh), there has to be some waste. Not all parts of the brain are digestible.

Quote from: Joe Barron on September 09, 2009, 08:51:28 AM
Is a bear Catholic? Does the pope shit in the woods? If they eat hearts, brains and other organs (see Night of the Living Dead, the scariest movie ever filmed in Pittsburgh), there has to be some waste. Not all parts of the brain are digestible.

If the digestive system isn't working (dead), maybe the consumed flesh either slides right back out or the zombies explode like meat bombs.  ;D

the scariest movie ever filmed in Pittsburgh

. . . beating a crowded field  8)

Ah- these arbitrary posts, where do they come from???

You mean your posts? I dunno.

Quote from: MN Dave on September 09, 2009, 08:35:27 AM
Do zombies poop?  ;D

;D

Um, there are no such things as zombies.

:(

Quote from: MN Dave on September 09, 2009, 08:53:31 AM
...maybe the consumed flesh either slides right back out or the zombies explode like meat bombs.  ;D

The former would fit the definition of poop. The latter, well, I can only say I have never seen a zombie explode. But then, I've never seen a zombie, unless II count myself after twelve hours at the news desk.

In Norway they wear zwastikas.

(http://www.nrk.no/contentfile/file/1.6523894!f169CropList/img650x367.jpg)

Dead Snow. Not the scariest movie ever filmed on Finnmarksvidda.

Yes, but...

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on September 09, 2009, 08:53:56 AM
the scariest movie ever filmed in Pittsburgh

. . . beating a crowded field  8)

I must confess I stole the line from Pauline Kael's capsule review:

It would be fun to be able to dismiss this as undoubtedly the best movie ever made in Pittsburgh, but it also happens to be one of the most gruesomely terrifying movies ever made--and when you leave the theatre you may wish you could forget the whole horrible experience. It's about a night when the dead rise and eat the living; seven people (the most resourceful one is played by Duane Jones) take refuge in a farm house, and we watch as the relentlessly marching, hungry corpses come in and tear at them--and we see, in closeup, the devouring of hearts, lungs, entrails. Made by George A. Romero, who photographed and directed on a budget of $114,000. The film's grainy, banal seriousness works for it--gives it a crude realism; even the flatness of the amateurish acting and the unfunny attempts at campy comedy add, somehow, to the horror--there's no art to transmute the ghoulishness. (The dead also rise and come toward us at the climax of Abel Gance's pacifist film J'ACCUSE, but the effect there goes far beyond the grisly-scary; the horror has grandeur.) At first this film received almost no attention, but in two or three years it became a hit at midnight showings after the regularly scheduled feature--and not just in the U.S. but in Tokyo, Paris, and other centers.

Quote from: Joe Barron on September 09, 2009, 09:23:49 AM
I must confess I stole the line from Pauline Kael's capsule review . . . .

I enjoy her reviews, too.

They're coming for you, Barbara.

Quote from: Joe Barron on September 09, 2009, 09:23:49 AM
I must confess I stole the line from Pauline Kael's capsule review:

It would be fun to be able to dismiss this as undoubtedly the best movie ever made in Pittsburgh, but it also happens to be one of the most gruesomely terrifying movies ever made--and when you leave the theatre you may wish you could forget the whole horrible experience. It's about a night when the dead rise and eat the living; seven people (the most resourceful one is played by Duane Jones) take refuge in a farm house, and we watch as the relentlessly marching, hungry corpses come in and tear at them--and we see, in closeup, the devouring of hearts, lungs, entrails. Made by George A. Romero, who photographed and directed on a budget of $114,000. The film's grainy, banal seriousness works for it--gives it a crude realism; even the flatness of the amateurish acting and the unfunny attempts at campy comedy add, somehow, to the horror--there's no art to transmute the ghoulishness. (The dead also rise and come toward us at the climax of Abel Gance's pacifist film J'ACCUSE, but the effect there goes far beyond the grisly-scary; the horror has grandeur.) At first this film received almost no attention, but in two or three years it became a hit at midnight showings after the regularly scheduled feature--and not just in the U.S. but in Tokyo, Paris, and other centers.

Gosh and now there's a 25^th-anniversary documentary . . . .

Night of the Living Dead Mexicans is down 6% in popularity this week.

Quote from: Franco on September 09, 2009, 09:14:32 AMUm, there are no such things as zombies.

      You can go ahead and tell them so when they come to eat your brains. I'll be in the bell tower with the shotgun and about 1000 cans of baked beans.

 ;D

Quote from: Dana on September 09, 2009, 10:34:40 AMI'll be in the bell tower with the shotgun and about 1000 cans of baked beans.

can you actually make a zombie suffocate....that's actually another important science question...

;D

No way. It's all about the head shot.

Quote from: MN Dave on September 09, 2009, 10:40:44 AM
No way. It's all about the head shot.

ok ok ....accuracy and arm strength are therefore key points when you throw the can at it then....

(http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/ice-cream-zombie.jpg)

Dave, where'd your cassette player go!?

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on September 09, 2009, 10:53:36 AM
Dave, where'd your cassette player go!?

You like that better?

Quote from: MN Dave on September 09, 2009, 10:54:13 AM
You like that better?

He's a nostalgic cassette yearner. ;D

No, although I do recognize a cassette when I see one  ;D

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on September 09, 2009, 10:53:36 AM
Dave, where'd your cassette player go!?

She's not there so tell her no.

And I think I'm going out of my head.

Quote from: MN Dave on September 09, 2009, 08:35:27 AM
Do zombies poop?

This is the question Bertrand Russell originally intended to address, but he got sidetracked into trying to decide if the present King of France is bald, instead.

Not many people know that.

Quote from: corey on September 09, 2009, 01:22:01 PM
And I think I'm going out of my head.

Very cool! Didn't know they covered that one.

Quote from: Szykniej on September 09, 2009, 01:35:05 PM
Very cool! Didn't know they covered that one.

It's a cover? Silly me.

Quote from: MN Dave on September 09, 2009, 10:46:03 AM
(http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/ice-cream-zombie.jpg)

That's a gorgeous hand, is it yours Dave?

     From Zombies on the Web (http://consc.net/zombies.html) by David Chalmers

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     (http://consc.net/pics/@@/zom5.jpg)

     

Must ...

eat ...

cheese ...

Quote from: Papageno on September 09, 2009, 01:40:11 PM
That's a gorgeous hand, is it yours Dave?

:-X

Quote from: ChamberNut on September 09, 2009, 03:59:24 PM
:-X

I see you have Brahms in your avatar.  I recently bought the DGG Brahms Complete Edition with 46 CDs in it, but most of them are crap performances... There are no Schwarzkopf, Klemperer, Ferrier performances in there, instead Dieskau, Abbado and Norman  :'(

Well, I did not want to join this thread, despite already having many 'buddies' here!  ;) ;D

But as an 'academic GI radiologist', I've performed thousands of barium enemas over 30+ years (I can go into details, if desired?) - but I must admit that my patients have never included one described as a zombie; now if a so-called zombie does have a colon and of course the 'terminating opening', WHY have I not had the pleasure of doing an examination of such an individual?

Maybe if I stay in this business another 30 yrs (impossible, of course!), I will finally be able to examine the GI tract of a zombie!  :D 8)

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

Quote from: Papageno on September 09, 2009, 04:18:51 PM
I see you have Brahms in your avatar.  I recently bought the DGG Brahms Complete Edition with 46 CDs in it, but most of them are crap performances... There are no Schwarzkopf, Klemperer, Ferrier performances in there, instead Dieskau, Abbado and Norman  :'(

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.

Quote from: MN Dave on September 09, 2009, 08:35:27 AM
Do zombies poop?  ;D

;D

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

Quote from: DavidW on September 09, 2009, 04:26:50 PM
Yeah that's... kind of disgusting Dave! :D  You can save those lovely stories for your wife over dinner.  I'm sure she loves them. ;D

David - absolutely nothing 'disgusting' in my comments!  ;) :D   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 (http://libraries.umdnj.edu/History_of_Medicine/Finkler.html) 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  :)

LOL

Quote from: Scarpia on September 09, 2009, 06:08:29 PM
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.

Quote from: SonicMan on September 09, 2009, 06:29:10 PM
David - absolutely nothing 'disgusting' in my comments!  ;) :D   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 (http://libraries.umdnj.edu/History_of_Medicine/Finkler.html) 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.  :P

(http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:1Gh3q6bg5BTgNM:http://www.foodsubs.com/Photos/duckpate.jpg)

Quote from: Scarpia on September 09, 2009, 06:09:55 PM
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.  ;D

Quote from: MN Dave on September 10, 2009, 04:31:33 AM
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.  ;D

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. :D  Unless that's what you want. ;D

Quote from: DavidW on September 10, 2009, 04:35:47 AM
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. :D  Unless that's what you want. ;D

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

If everything else works, why not their digestive system?

Quote from: DavidW on September 09, 2009, 04:26:50 PM
Yeah that's... kind of disgusting Dave! :D

He just took the question to its logical evacuation.

Quote from: SonicMan on September 09, 2009, 06:29:10 PM
David - absolutely nothing 'disgusting' in my comments!  ;) :D   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) . . . .

Quote from: MN Dave on September 10, 2009, 05:00:41 AM
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! :D  Except in that movie where a zombie attacked a shark, that was totally awesome. :)

Quote from: DavidW on September 10, 2009, 05:46:50 AM
If things work, then why are they rotting?  See I'm telling you it makes no sense! :D  Except in that movie where a zombie attacked a shark, that was totally awesome. :)

They were rotting. And they don't bathe.

Yes, but what of the zombies?

Quote from: MN Dave on September 10, 2009, 06:02:09 AM
They were rotting. And they don't bathe.

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

Edit: oof karl got there first

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

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

It's not easy being Dave.

Quote from: MN Dave on September 10, 2009, 06:05:39 AM
Oh, it wasn't common knowledge that David W doesn't bathe?  :o

That's because I'm actually a spambot! ;D

(http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/suspicion.png)

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?

Quote from: ChamberNut on September 10, 2009, 06:33:10 AM
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?

Zing!  Ouch! :'(

:D

Quote from: ChamberNut on September 10, 2009, 06:33:10 AM
I thought IBS stood for Irritable Immortal Bach Sanctification?

Corrected.

ACTUAL CONVERSATION
(after I read this thread and my roommate watched "Family Guy")

Me: Do zombies poop?
My roommate: Because you touch yourself at night.
Me: Um.
My roommate: No! You're supposed to ask a "why" question. Otherwise it doesn't work!
Me: Okay ... why do zombies poop?
My roommate: Because you touch yourself at night.

I'm always touching myself
I've got nothing else to do
And when I'm touching myself
I'm always thinking of you

Quote from: MN Dave on September 10, 2009, 08:52:34 AM
I'm always touching myself
I've got nothing else to do
And when I'm touching myself
I'm always thinking of you

I'm sure you can expect a PM from Papageno soon.  ;D

Quote from: ChamberNut on September 10, 2009, 08:54:14 AM
I'm sure you can expect a PM from Papageno soon.  ;D

Nah, I blocked the little monkey.

Quote from: MN Dave on September 10, 2009, 08:55:26 AM
Nah, I blocked the little monkey.

Oh... Is that why you're not replying to my PMs?

Quote from: Papageno on September 10, 2009, 10:12:07 AM
Oh... Is that why you're not replying to my PMs?

Indeed.  ;D

Quote from: MN Dave on September 10, 2009, 10:14:50 AM
Indeed.  ;D

But... why?  :'(

Wait... am I being cyber-bullied now?

Quote from: Papageno on September 10, 2009, 10:16:51 AM
But... why?  :'(

Wait... am I being cyber-bullied now?

You're sending him unwanted PMs, but he's cyber-bullying you?