[TexasT]

Quote:       Originally Posted by Coeloptera

81%, mostly, I think, because I'm just getting back into shooting really regularly again. Loved ones? In a heartbeat. Heh...corpses don't bother me any, either. I was a mortician for a few years. We had a joke when people'd see the prep room (empty, of course). When they'd ask "Why do you have a hammer there?" the answer was "In case they move." Although, amusingly, unless they were fresh infected victims, you wouldn't have a lot to worry about if the dead spontaneously rose. I guess that's why I never really "felt" the whole "dead outnumber the living" scenario. First off, no one is digging out of a modern grave unless they're stronger than Spider-Man. You have a casket that's either wood or at least 18 gauge steel, that's locked. Then, said casket is placed inside a concrete vault with a concrete cap. Then the whole shebang is buried (yes, six feet or so under), and sometimes concrete is poured over top to place plaques or just for aesthetic purposes. Oh yeah...their mouths are also wired or sewn shut...if wired, pins are driven into the jawbones and the wire is twisted. If sewn, you go through the frenulum in the lower lip (thick and strong tissue, it'd be hard to bust open, very hard) and then through the septum. So any zombie strong enough to open its jaw (those muscles are weaker than the ones that close it) and tear the thread loose is also packing significantly greater-than-human strength. Mostly a "zombie plague" would just make cemeteries kind of noisy. Now some Third World countries without adequate dispositional services might have an issue, but that's not our problem. I would imagine the easiest way to survive is just gear up a bite-proof suit. It can't possibly be that difficult to get gear together that cannot be bitten through. I'd imagine some police riot gear would be effectively invulnerable to zombie attack, so would lots of armour from the past, like SCA folks wear. Just travel in groups, carry some melee weapons for when you don't want to risk shooting, and go to town on cleanup. - Coeloptera

Do you always type a novel per post?

[troy2000]

Quote:       Originally Posted by TexasT

Do you always type a novel per post?

Oh, cut him some slack, Texas T. It might have been a little long, but I learned some interesting things.

Maybe more than I wanted to know...glad I intend to be cremated without any services, and without inflicting a viewing of my remains on people. I'd rather their last memories of me be from when they saw me alive.

[Coeloptera]

Quote:       Originally Posted by troy2000

Oh, cut him some slack, Texas T. It might have been a little long, but I learned some interesting things. Maybe more than I wanted to know...glad I intend to be cremated without any services, and without inflicting a viewing of my remains on people. I'd rather their last memories of me be from when they saw me alive.

Hahahahaa! Yeah, it gets to people sometimes, when they find out what goes on with remains before a service.

Nothing wrong with cremation, neat and tidy, and you can get little keepsake necklaces to put a pinch of the cremains in.

And it's kinda funny, TexasT, that you quoted my entire post for one sentence reply.

I view message boards as a place to communicate. It's not like I'm taking up any time you don't want to spend reading it, right? Besides, I do genuinely find the zombie thing amusing, because of the work I did. I have a perspective on human remains most people don't. (Man, that sounds bad).

That and I'm still on 11-14 hour shifts until year's end every day except the 24th and 25th. I'll be at work for another 3 hours and change tonight and on 8 hours after that on Sunday. So I'm bored.

Merry Christmas!

- Coeloptera

[Despoiler]

You Have a 77% Chance of Survival!

The whole loved ones part messed me up.

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[Zen900]

I got a 78%. I think my relatives are already zombies. I'd have scored higher but my ankle bothers me. But anyhow zombies are slow and I still have enough mobility to evade them so that one question about being able to run was rigged.

[Full MeTal Jack]

Any zombie that breaks out of an 18 ga steel coffin and unearthes 6 foot of stableized dirt deserves some respect even if they cant bite you.
Dont think I have enough silver bullets.

Let em come. I'll eat a bowl of charro beans

and if 32 of them are five year olds, I'll wup em too.


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[TexasT]

Quote:       Originally Posted by Coeloptera

And it's kinda funny, TexasT, that you quoted my entire post for one sentence reply. - Coeloptera

It was for emphasis. Besides it was done in a joking manner.

[Big Dog]

79%, my health knocked me down - can't run any distance. So, I need a hidey-hole and beaucoup ammo!

I retook it as I thought an Anti-gun big-city dweeb would answer - came out to be 1%.

Once the zombies die out - only the good sensible folks will be left - the others were all zombie-bait.

[Coeloptera]

Quote:       Originally Posted by Big Dog

79%, my health knocked me down - can't run any distance. So, I need a hidey-hole and beaucoup ammo! I retook it as I thought an Anti-gun big-city dweeb would answer - came out to be 1%. Once the zombies die out - only the good sensible folks will be left - the others were all zombie-bait.

Hahaha! I like that. Funny thing...who here has seen the original Night of the Living Dead? If the people had listened to the guy who said hole up in the cellar they likely would have lived until help arrived.

Food for thought...brains.

- Coeloptera

[Art1991]

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