OT: Re: "mnemonic possession" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Jonathan Lighter]

Zombies, as everyone used to know from classic films of the '30s and '40s,
look just like living people except for expressionless faces and fixed,
straight-ahead stares. They are inert and harmless until ordered to be
otherwise  by their evil zombie-master.

They do not eat brains, because they don't need to eat. They're corpses.

The modern so-called "zombie" was largely created by director George Romero
in _Night of the Living Dead_ (1968).

JL



On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 8:06 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On Oct 28, 2013, at 2:29 PM, Mullins, Bill CIV (US) wrote:
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> > Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
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> >>>>
> >>>> Zombies as reputably characterized (Wikipedia) are not required to
> >>>> assemble in hordes, march lurchingly, have fixed stares, or
> >>>> dismember living humans and consume the parts.  They merely must
> >>>> have been magically raised from the dead and become animated.
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> >
> > I thought eating brains was a requirement.
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> >
> Or at least a recommendation.  Clearly not a sufficient condition, or
> you'd have to include all those French(wo)men who are fond of their
> cervelles au beurre noir.
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> LH
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