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    On Mankind's Maybe Doomed Love for the Undead

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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    10/02/09

    In reply to On Mankind's Maybe Doomed Love for the Undead
    As a Sci-Fi geek of magnificent magnitude the obsession with zombies is in my opinion the fear of being brainless as opposed to soulless. Losing humanity, but yet retaining its form, which is like some sort of reanimated mind-fuck. Which oddly in film today often equals comedy, the witless monkey type, having human features, but no way to communicate. The zombies that retain some thought even if it's ferocious singular thinking...those guys are horrifying.

    For example Shaun of the Dead was hilarious based upon the sheer stupidity of zombies of yore. The lumbering, the near catatonic nature...funniest bit was when they blended right in by just acting like drooling idiots. Now, 28 Days Later...dear heaven. When you get organized, destructive, quick moving zombies...yeah, frightful. Just enough brain power to be truly vicious.

    The worst zombie case for me was Pet Sematary. It wasn't touted as a zombie movie, but that's what it was. What else is a zombie but a reanimated corpse? That was by far worse than any random flesh eater flick. That shit was personal. Forget that movie Orphan with the scary kid/little person....yeah, Gage slicing Achilles tendons...um historic.
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    10/02/09

    In reply to On Mankind's Maybe Doomed Love for the Undead
    Even if you claim to be an atheist or, damnation, agnostic, isn't the real scare in zombie lore that someone — a person with friends and family — could return with no apparent loyalty?

    This sentence makes no sense. What does the reanimation of dead tissue have to do with religion? Oh, right. Zombie Jesus. Never mind.
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    Image of miss_msry miss_msry
    10/02/09

    In reply to On Mankind's Maybe Doomed Love for the Undead
    I thought Matthew McConaughey was the bongo playing stoner. Woody is just your regular every day movie star stoner.

    Andrew, all your base belonsky to me.
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    Edited by miss_msry at 10/02/09 10:27 AM miss_msry was starred miss_msry was unstarred
    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    10/02/09

    In reply to On Mankind's Maybe Doomed Love for the Undead
    So the zombies we've been hearing about for the past few years on the internet... who started it? Where does this theme come from? Video games?
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    Image of peanuthead peanuthead
    10/02/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Dude, it goes way back to the Bible. Jesus was the O.Z.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    10/02/09

    @peanuthead:

    But what started the funny zombie internet goofiness?
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    Image of TheInternetGod TheInternetGod
    10/02/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Where does any meme come from?

    Maplestory, of course!

    [You must be 13 to read this comment]
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    10/02/09

    @TheInternetGod:

    Ooooooh.
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    Image of Unsolicited Advice Unsolicited Advice
    10/02/09

    In reply to On Mankind's Maybe Doomed Love for the Undead
    I don't think "loyalty" is a soul - most unsentimental black-hearted folks like myself refer to that as a "memory." Yes, it would suck if the memory-less corpse of one of my loved ones came for my precious brain. View this as the lone upside of our gun-crazy nation's massive shotgun stockpiles.
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    Image of wrongneighborhood wrongneighborhood
    10/02/09

    In reply to On Mankind's Maybe Doomed Love for the Undead
    I wish I was kidding, but the AP wrote this yesterday"

    "Fla. college ready for flesh-eating zombie attack"

    [www.google.com]
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    Image of blix blix
    10/02/09

    @wrongneighborhood: Heh! "Life-impaired individuals".
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    Image of RandomLunatic RandomLunatic
    10/02/09

    In reply to On Mankind's Maybe Doomed Love for the Undead
    "A website called Cracked?" Seriously, dude? Cracked.com, the funny, last living vestige of the magazine that many of us considered Mad Magazine without teh funny? I'm a little amazed that you referenced it as if the readers may never have heard of it.

    Then again, I may just be old.
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    Image of kimsama kimsama
    10/02/09

    @RandomLunatic: Right there with you. I'm on there like every damn day.
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    10/02/09

    In reply to On Mankind's Maybe Doomed Love for the Undead
    Sure, lavishing all this attention on Zombies is fun...until you realize that it's giving Creepy Twins an unearned pass.
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    Edited by skahammer at 10/02/09 7:13 AM skahammer was starred skahammer was unstarred
    Image of TRexstasy TRexstasy
    09/30/09

    In reply to Is "American Police Force" the Next Great Militia?
    Unorganized militia's

    Goddamn it Andrew, learn to use a fucking apostrophe. What junior high study hall did Denton recruit you out of again?
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    Image of braak braak
    09/30/09

    In reply to Is "American Police Force" the Next Great Militia?
    Isn't that double-headed eagle an old Byzantine imperial symbol?

    I want to say that the two heads represent the secular power of the emporer and his religious power as the Eastern Orthodox patriarch.
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    Image of braak braak
    09/30/09

    @braak: I mean, I know it's on the Serbian flag, as many of you have mentioned, but there's actually a bunch of Eastern European countries that use something similar, and I think it's because of its relation to the Byzantine empire.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    09/30/09

    In reply to Is "American Police Force" the Next Great Militia?
    OMG did you notice that their logo is stolen from the serbian flag???!
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    Image of lobstr lobstr
    09/30/09


    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: hah, good catch..
    I was wondering wtf was with the crown, seems awfully out of place in regards to anything American, specifically a group like this
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    Edited by lobstr at 09/30/09 10:47 AM lobstr was starred lobstr was unstarred
    Image of Management Management
    09/30/09

    @lobstr: Uh oh. The Serbs were behind the largest ethnic cleansing campaign in Europe since WWII, having killed 8,000 Bosnian Muslims and forcefully relocating 25,000 more in 1995. The Serbian logo is sort of an updated swastika in the redneck crowd. These people should not be in charge of anything.
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    Image of Cunning_Linguist Cunning_Linguist
    09/30/09

    @Management: Yeah but the killed Muslims, so doesn't that make them the good'uns?
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    09/30/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Yes, yes. You're extremely clever. Thanks for the sarcasm. You can pick up your cheque on the way out the door.
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    Image of RandomLunatic RandomLunatic
    09/30/09

    In reply to Is "American Police Force" the Next Great Militia?

    That Serbian eagle crest is not the only clue that this may be some kind of hoax.

    WTF does the site play Ravel's "Bolero" when you go there? You know, the symphonic piece closely associated with exotica as well as erotica? And it plays Bolero ALL THE WAY THROUGH. Not just a clip.
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    Image of skt.smth skt.smth
    09/30/09

    In reply to Is "American Police Force" the Next Great Militia?
    I never thought I'd fall in with the grammar Nazis, but this post is just packed with silly errors. Come on, Andrew. Please double check your posts or have somebody else look at them before submitting them. A small error here and there is nothing to go crazy over, but your posts have more than their fair share.
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    Image of Magister Magister
    09/30/09

    In reply to Is "American Police Force" the Next Great Militia?
    I think Hardin's being Punk'd.
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    Image of SwatLax SwatLax
    09/30/09

    In reply to Is "American Police Force" the Next Great Militia?
    From the number for their "West Coast Mainline" [sic] you find this address:

    [maps.google.com]


    From this

    [www.yellowpages.com]
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    Edited by SwatLax at 09/30/09 12:46 AM SwatLax was starred SwatLax was unstarred
    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    09/30/09

    @SwatLax:

    Accidentes! So this is what slip-and-fall-ambulance-chasing-shysters... do for fun?
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