You don't have to call me FRIDAY...FRY-DAYYYY

[Cyrano]

This, I think, confuses ghouls with zombies.  My impression has always been that the former is more a generic flesh-eater (brains, I gather, included).  In fairness, Romero's zombies -- certainly in his first movies -- seemed to eat the entirety of the human body without distinction.

But I digress...

[Sir Slash]

I've always felt that the conflict with zombies is not what they eat but whether they are the slow-moving type of the old black and white films of my childhood or the new and improved fast movers of today. Personally I prefer the older tortoises over the new hares but you didn't need to be fast to catch the 50's women as all they ever did was stand still, scream, and then faint. Into a man's arms of course. Even I could catch one of them at my advanced age, but then to eat one, I would need help. Today's women( if we're still allowed to call them that) can shoot AK-47's and rocket launchers and so I can understand the need to move fast around them. But I still think there should be some kind of final decision about this. And then stick with it. Zombie Consistency. 8)

[Cyrano]

Hear, hear!!

If zombies are indeed metaphors for the somnambulant  nature of modern society -- which certainly Romero intended -- shuffle they must!

The leaping and nigh-simian running must stop!

[Sir Slash]

At last! The truth is spoken. Amen, Brother Cyrano. O0

[Gusington]

Undead and loving it?

[Sir Slash]

The Grateful Un-Dead?

[Cyrano]

One need not modify the band's name to suggest that the Rolling Stones -- in whole or in part -- now benefit from necromancy...

[Sir Slash]

I stand corrected.

[Nefaro]

Ghouls just want to have fun?

~~~~>>

Fred: Now we can finally solve the mystery of the hitchhiking ghouls. Pull off their masks and let's see who they really are!
Velma: I don't think they are masks.
Daphne: And I don't think that they're hitchhiking girls either.
Velma: GHOULS, you fuckin' moron, not girls! I wish they were hitchhiking girls - sexy hitchhiking girls.
Fred: Let's kick 'em out! We've got a mystery to solve!
Shaggy: The only mystery here is why we take our cues from a dick in a neckerchief!
Fred: Keep it up, beatnik, I'll feed ya to the fuckin' dog!
Daphne: I CAN'T TAKE ALL THIS FIGHTING!

>:D

[Gusington]

Luckily my campaign is NOT shaping up like the above.

[Father Ted]

Hear, hear!!

If zombies are indeed metaphors for the somnambulant  nature of modern society -- which certainly Romero intended -- shuffle they must!

The leaping and nigh-simian running must stop!

Zombies aren't metaphors for anything - they're just cheap monsters for films.

[Cyrano]

I struggle as I admit this, but I know people who do zombies academically...

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/11/the-walking-dead-like-all-zombie-stories-not-about-zombies-at-all/265549/

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/theories-of-international-politics-and-zombies-daniel-w-drezner/1100318630?ean=9780691147833 (Actually a pretty fun read.)

http://satomko.hubpages.com/hub/Understanding-Zombies-as-Metaphors-in-George-A-Romeros-Dead-Trilogy

I could go on, but that'd be admitting more knowledge of such things than I care to confess...

[Nefaro]

Zombies are stupid.

Need more ghouls.

^-^

[Father Ted]

I'm sure there must be a thesis somewhere entitled "Zombies - are they just cheap monsters for films?".  If not, maybe I'll write one...

[panzerde]

I am in Nefaro's camp on this one. If there were never another game, book, movie, or TV show with zombies in it, I would not miss it one bit.

Ghouls though? Now there you have a sophisticated and suitably creeping monster.