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Re: AOL Users Most Likely to Make Zombie of Your Computer

Scott Dorsey (kludge@panix.com)
16 Jun 2005 15:36:15 -0400

> Pat wrote:

> [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Ooops, I was thinking of humanoid
> type Zombies. In a movie on television the other night, "Village of
> the Undead", after some damn fool went and dug up a grave at the
> local cemetery, the Zombie thus resurrected went around the town
> creating more of his kind. He would touch and kill one person; that
> person became a Zombie. Then the two Zombies created more of their
> kind the same way, finding new people, killing them, and bringing
> them back to life as new Zombies. After about an hour of this (one
> Zombie creates another Zombie, etc) eventually the few remaining
> actual living people in this village thought it prudent to call in
> the police, or some kind of militia to do in the bunch of them,
> which is how the movie ended. It was sort of like two old movies I
> saw, 'The Zombies of Mora Tau' and 'Abbott and Costello Meet the
> Zombie'. With humanoid zombies, first someone has to dig one up,
> then that one goes around reproducing his own kind from other
> people. I guess computers don't have to do it that way. PAT]

No, computers for the most part do it like Bela Lugosi in WHITE
ZOMBIE, in which the Zombi Master administers zombification fluid to
corpses or living people in order to bring them under his power.
White Zombie is one of the first of the zombie films and by far the
best.

scott

"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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