I don’t care who you are, that’s funny.
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HEY!! This thread is about Stephen King. Didn’t I just say that? … maybe an answer to the OP is that zombies are like some posters, they can’t hear well.
That was my take on it too. Where my interpretation is slightly different from yours is that I saw the bodies as a tool that the wendigo (sp?) used. Giving it humans to work with was giving it too good of a tool. Too much of it was able to manifest itself. I don’t think Gage, the cat, or the dog wanted to or intended to do harm–I think there was nothing left of them from the moment they died–I think it was the wendigo using their left-over bodies like waldoes.
Lord, I apologize…
Please feed the starving pygmies in New Guinea.
From what I remember (over 10 years ago, at least), Sleel has hit the jackpot. Plus, I must add: it seems like the reanimating force/demon/whatever is somewhat moody, making the windigos sometimes extremely violent, othertimes making them simply odd and disgusting.
I like Butters.
It . . . must . . . FEED!
Why did the pet sematary turn resurrected corpses evil? Well, that’s just what you get when you go around ressurecting corpses. It doesn’t matter much why or how, there’s no good way to do it. The zombies from Pet Sematary are evil for the same reason the resurrected dead from Herbert West ReAnimator are evil–someone peppered in God’s lo mein. You do that, you better expect a heaping helping of evil. It doesn’t matter whether you bring them back using an ancient indian burial ground or long distance electrodes shot into the pituitary and pineal glands of the recent dead, you bring back the dead they they’re gonna be evil.
Lemur86 You disgust me. Ignorant, uninformed, opinions like yours are exactly what holds back science.
‘But, Og, we have always lived in caves. This hut you plan can only bring trouble.’
‘We have stone and bone and copper. Your foolish plan to make bronze will doom us all.’
‘By the gods, we have bronze! If you attempt to make steel, you will surely destroy us all!’
‘Chocolate has always been a liquid. Your theories about powdered cocoa are the ravings of a lunatic!’
‘You can’t take the heart of a deadman and sew it into a living body! You call it a transplant. I call it the mad science of Frankenstein!’
‘Fools! Detonate the atomic bomb, and it will burn away the atmosphere of the earth!’
‘No machine can be made to think or calculate. This blasphemous idea is doomed to failure.’
Well, Lemur86, you can cower in your cave whimpering that scientists are doomed. Some of us are busy learning, experimenting, testing, and building a better future. You can tell yourself that there are some things man was not meant to know. I’ll keep working on a world of Dymaxion houses, hover cars, and friendly robots.
Yeah, but you also know that ALLL robots are inherently evil and will kill us if we give them any loophole. This is well documented.
That was long considered to be the case. However, Professor Asimov disproved it as thoroughly as Pasteur disproved spontaneous generation.
Everyone knows you use soy sauce to season lo mein, not pepper! 
To those that have read Cell:
I can’t help but think that Cell is part of the Dark Tower Universe. An origins prequel, maybe? What do you think?
(Not to hijack, but since this is the current King thread…)
…and Cell has to be part of a series, right? This isn’t the last *Cell *book is it? There has got to be a part II?
If not, the ending that King chose as an easy out is unpardonable.
Sometimes I think he just gets tired of the book and wants to get some sleep. His endings many times suck major nelson.
They laughed at Galileo when he said the earth revolved around the sun. They laughed at the Wright brothers when they tried to build a flying machine. They laughed at Professor Brutallus when he tried to create an army of unstoppable robotic killing machines. They laughed at Doctor Destroyer when he tried to build a laser capable of blasting the Earth into microscopic dust particles. They laughed at Doctor Cyclops when he attempted to crossbreed humans and orangutans to create a subhuman servitor race. And now they’re laughing at me and my attempts to revive rotting corpses into a shuffling semblance of un-life. Fools, I’ll destroy them all! Seize them! Seize them!
Excuse me? This is Cafe Society, and personal insults are NOT permitted. You’ve been around long enough to know better, Doc, you should be ashamed of yourself. You need to do penance: go give some money to charity, and write “I will not cast personal insults in Cafe Society” 10 times on your blackboard. Handwritten, too, no cut-and-paste on the computer.
Either I’ve been whooshed, or I’ve missed a rule change.
If the first, well it won’t be the first time.
If the second, I thought that while actual insults were allowed only in the Pit, insults obviously made in jest and insults comprised of catchphrases from relevant material were allowed in Cafe Society.
Does this mean that when discussing Saturday Night Live, we can no longer post a dissenting opinion starting with “Screenname, you ignorant slut.”?
No more telling other posters in Monty Python threads that their father reeks of elderberries, and that we fart in their general direction?
Your references are not universal; I was totally whooshed too. Your rant read like pretty serious insults, to me at least. If you’re making an obscure reference that allows you to break a forum rule and call it satire, it would probably be safer to bracket it with [obscure reference]___[/obscure reference]. Just a suggestion.
I dunno. The fact that his whole post was in response to the idea that it’s a bad idea to make zombies was a pretty good clue that DocCathode wasn’t being serious. It did take me a second to catch on, though.
I thought that he was A) overreacting, and B) implying an anti-stemcell-research agenda, or something along those lines. But mostly overreacting. I considered the possibility that he was joking, but then I realized that if I had offered up such an extended deadpan insulting-attack-as-satire post, I’d have had my entire ass torn out and handed back to me as a hat. So there’s that.
Although, on reflection, I apologize for hijacking; I should’ve just let CK’s post stand and not put my two cents in.