# Pride and Prejudice and Zombies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 3, 2009, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies/484182 "2009-02-03T00:50:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies/484182/21 "2009-02-03T18:42:41Z")
That’s why I don’t drink anything while perusing the SDMB. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies/484182/22 "2009-02-03T19:58:41Z")
> [@Dangerosa](#): > > Shudder > > I could have gone through my entire life without thinking about Mr. Darcy’s penis. Yet Linda Berdoll couldn’t go five paragraphs. Regards. Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies/484182/23 "2009-02-03T20:48:12Z")
> [@Fish](#): > > _Pirates of the Caribbean With Zombies_… nah. Wouldn’t work. > > _Last Temptation of Christ With Zombies_… I dunno, I could see that. “Lazarus, come forth. Shit! Uh, Lazarus go back!” > > _Snakes on a Plane With Zombies._ There we go. Or perhaps just [Flight of the Living Dead](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780583/). ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies/484182/24 "2009-02-03T21:45:26Z")
> [@lisa-go-blind](#): > > holy crap. I wrote a one-page version of a zombie p&p for a class i took in fall 2007. How strange. **Lawsuit!** ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2009, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies/484182/25 "2009-02-03T23:06:03Z")
I’m looking forward to the revision of _Silas Marner_ that has everyone eaten within the first two pages. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies/484182/26 "2009-02-04T00:38:34Z")
> [@](#): > > Jane Austen is the author of Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, and other masterpieces of English literature. > > Seth Grahame-Smith is the author of How to Survive a Horror Movie and The Big Book of Porn. He lives in Los Angeles. 😃 Some days I don’t mind living at the end of civilization. ---
**Author:** ![Elyanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b5ac83/32.png) [@Elyanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elyanna)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies/484182/27 "2009-02-04T00:58:59Z")
I want a copy for my birthday… it comes out about then. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies/484182/28 "2009-02-04T13:48:58Z")
Oh, _hell_ yeah! I’m gonna get a copy for me and a copy for my friend who’s terrified of zombies! ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies/484182/29 "2009-02-04T19:19:55Z")
I dibs the Keira Knightley zombie ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies/484182/30 "2009-02-04T21:59:36Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > So when do we get the version of _Gone with the Wind_ with the added zombie bonus? I think the heirs or whatever of the Mitchell family would probably turned down such a fantastic story line as **Gone With The Wind With Zombie Freshness!** Nuts. **Lord of the Flies With Zombies** ’ \*\*The Zombie French Leiutenants Woman Grapes of Zombie Wrath! The Lion, The Witch, The Wardrobe and the Zombies! Portnoy’s Zombie Complaint! Zombie Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Zombie Animal Farm! Confederacy of Zombie Dunces! The Englishman who went up a hill and came down a Zombie! Henry the V with Zombies! A Mid-Summer’s Night Zombie Dream! The Oldest Living Confederate Zombie Widow Tells All! Page One. “BRAIIIIINS!” The end. \*\* What couldn’t be made better with Zombies? \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies/484182/31 "2009-02-04T22:57:10Z")
Along those same lines, how about _Undead Again Graveheart Love Hearse Four Funerals and a Wedding The Royal Tenembalmeds_ ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies/484182/32 "2009-02-04T23:05:39Z")
> [@Marlitharn](#): > > Oh, _hell_ yeah! I’m gonna get a copy for me and a copy for my friend who’s terrified of zombies! I have a friend who’s simultaneously terrified, and fascinated, by zombies. In any case, once I saw the Pride and Prejudice “Choose Your Own Adventure”-style book, I figured that weird things like this couldn’t be far behind. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies/484182/33 "2009-02-04T23:06:00Z")
I’m thinking that _The Phantom Menace_ could be **hugely** improved as _The Phantom Menace Zombies_! “Meesa want _braaaaiiinnnsss!_” :eek: ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies/484182/34 "2009-02-04T23:14:44Z")
the silence of the zombies a zombie runs through it the zombie of alcatraz I woke up early the day I zombied brains: an imaginary portrait of George Romero ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2009, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies/484182/35 "2009-02-04T23:32:11Z")
_I Know What You Died Last Summer_ ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies/484182/36 "2009-02-05T00:09:20Z")
The Zombit Or There And BRAAAIINS Again ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies/484182/37 "2009-02-05T01:17:09Z")
[product placement](http://www.cafepress.com/orderofthestick.336187502) ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2009, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies/484182/38 "2009-02-05T02:40:18Z")
Dr Strangelove, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the zombie ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2009, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies/484182/39 "2009-02-07T18:30:50Z")
[There’s a brief interview with the writer on this week’s _Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me._](http://www.npr.org/programs/waitwait/) Its during the “Bluff the Listener” game at the 20 minute mark or so. ---
**Author:** ![gurujulp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ba9def/32.png) [@gurujulp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gurujulp)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2009, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies/484182/40 "2009-02-09T19:09:48Z")
> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > I think the heirs or whatever of the Mitchell family would probably turned down such a fantastic story line as **Gone With The Wind With Zombie Freshness!** > > Nuts. > **Lord of the Flies With Zombies** ’ > > —snip > > \*\* Wouldn’t that be ‘Lord of the Zombie’s Flies’? 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies/484182.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies/484182.md?page=3)