Posted on 01/31/2008 3:36:33 PM PST by mattstat
A new study by scientists has suggested that zombie attacks might increase if the current projections of global warming are realized. “If the earth gets warmer, it means longer springs, summers, and falls, and shorter winters,” said John Carpenter-Romero, Ph.D., a zombie-ologist who co-authored the study. “And shorter winters means more time for the undead to prey on the populace.”
Dr. Harrister, the other co-author, and head of Zombie Robotics at Wayward Robot, Inc., explained that cold winters typically stalled the walking dead. “It is well known that zombies can’t operate in cold weather. It freezes their brains.”
The pair calculated a 32.782412% increase in zombie attacks if CO2 increased to twice its pre-industrial rate. “Clearly, this is a very troubling result,” said Dr. Harrister, “If we don’t do something soon, the streets will be filled with blood.”
Gmail isn't particularly swift, so it'll probably be another hour. (By which time you'll probably be gone, 'Face)
Heh - I was going to get that number!
Some of the characters in LOTR make me want to kick them in the knee or start belly dancing, or *something*, but the writing and the story are always revealing new beauties.
WHOA! That would be so awesome!
(How much chocolate would be required for this exchange?)
Nope. Not tonight. I’ve been waiting for you....
I find the characters so diverse that even if I hate them, in the end, I realize they are part of The Grand Scheme. (Pretty much like life!)
What I find difficult to understand is that there were so many months and even years between chapters and volumes. How in the world did he keep it all straight?
All I know for sure is that he was truly blessed by God to give us the wisdom of the Ancients, even though said Ancients were non-existent.
Yes, they reveal so much about what people are really like. Tolkien was a great observer, and I think it made him very sad. (Not having babies, he couldn't go with the hormonal flow :-).
I am sure we can come to a.... agreement.
:Rubs hands with glee:
That would be novel.
No, I think I can get into trouble easily enough by myself. Let's see, a werewolf walks into a bar ...
But he came very close to the things that really mattered in life. He is one of the 10 People I Would Like To Meet!
I suspect that the sadness lie in the fact that he could do nothing to change the situation. But in his writing, he changed a lot of people for the good.
Let me see, now...
:checking chocolate things; adding potential chocolate things; subtracting consumed chocolate things; total of many chocolate things:
Name your price. Gringott’s deals in chocolate, as well as gold.
I agree -- but (sigh) the Anglican world has a bad infection. Vienna, and upcoming Bangalore and Munich churches, are revisionist: west-facing altars and all that.
Yah? What does this werewolf look like?
And does his motherboard resemble C3PO, Robocop, or the Terminator?
Well, actually it’s a guy with red hair, but that didn’t seem very interesting.
RED hair? You mean, like a VIKING????
It’s only not interesting because you’re a guy...
No, not a Viking, just a regular star-traveler.
You know, star-traveler meets time traveler. That old plot-line.
OK... I can deal with that. But if he had Viking heritage, the Brave Explorer would come to the fore, and his escapades (for lack of a better word) would be self-explanatory.
And at the end, if the Hero dies, he could be given the Viking Funeral. Or he could, out of respect for his nemesis, see that the Viking Funeral was given so that everyone would know he was in tune with their “needs.”
I dunno....if I didn’t have so many things to transcribe, I might be tempted to try something like that on my own. As it is, I’ll be busy for at least three years, getting all this stuff into print...and forget about the photos. They’ll hang me up for another three years, just trying to decide where to insert them all.
It won’t work. Nobody dies in my stories, except me, occasionally.
If you want that kind of a story, you’ll need to write it yourself.
I’m just into weird places and new ideas, or vice versa.
And....?
You can’t write a death scene of a nemesis? Even if said nemesis is a lifelong thing? It’s certainly better than killing off the hero.
I mean...once you’ve taken the living characters as far as you can go, you might have to kill them off and send the hero into Parts Unknown to find a new challenge.
But I don’t get paid for my ideas, darnit. (If I could nly remember what I wanted to write about....)
Oh, I agree. I wish I could have him over for a nice Mexican dinner, lots of wine, and an evening with the byos.
It would take a week or more for me to pick his brain. I’m sure I would be the epitome of my tagline, when it comes to Tolkein. (And a few other people!)
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