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Anyone want a degree in Zombie Studies?

  • 08-09-2010 12:37AM
    #1
    Laserhead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 106 ✭✭


    It sure as hell beats jam making! :D
    The new course, which promises to "get you ready for a zombie apocalypse", invites students to devour classic zombie films and comics...

    "We're going to be dealing with some of the truly disgusting stuff that's been done in horror over the years," said Arnold Blumberg, author of Zombiemania, who teaches the course.

    "I want to reinforce the degree to which this material can be found offensive by a lot of people.

    "This is not fluffy bunny cartoon stuff. Bunnies might show up, but they'd probably be torn to pieces."


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  • #2
    ShadowGal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 865 ✭✭✭ShadowGal


    me me me !!


  • #3
    Reeni
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 131 ✭✭Reeni


    :eek: I want in!!!


  • #4
    Kromdar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 783 ✭✭✭Kromdar


    this interests me. any more details?


  • #5
    Laserhead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 106 ✭✭Laserhead


    There's the link to the university page


  • #6
    DakotaYoda
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,396 ✭✭✭DakotaYoda


    Its just a single 300-level English class really but I really love the idea!!!


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  • #7
    .SONIC.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 777 ✭✭✭.SONIC.


    that would be so awesome!!! :)


  • #8
    degrassinoel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,767 ✭✭✭✭degrassinoel


    do ye reckon Fás would approve it?

    would be awesome to actually teach people how to survive the zompocolypse though.
    This weeks homework.. watch dawn of the dead and the '04 remake and write an essay on why the original was way better :D


  • #9
    Agent J
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,909 ✭✭✭Agent J


    degrassinoel wrote: »
    do ye reckon Fás would approve it?

    would be awesome to actually teach people how to survive the zompocolypse though.
    This weeks homework.. watch dawn of the dead and the '04 remake and write an essay on why the original was way better :D

    Christ do you really want FAS over seeing such an important course?

    Anyone one it would get eaten the when they took their first tea break while running.. just as they got taught on the course.


  • #10
    degrassinoel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,767 ✭✭✭✭degrassinoel


    was a joke but yeah of course you're right :)
    besides most of the fas instructors are zombies anyway..


  • #11
    Sticky_Fingers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭Sticky_Fingers


    Agent J wrote: »
    Christ do you really want FAS over seeing such an important course?

    Anyone one it would get eaten the when they took their first tea break while running.. just as they got taught on the course.

    Now there's an idea for a zombie movie, the dead start to rise while your stuck at some poxy FAS training centre. You'd imagine that that with their wealth of expertise and hands-on experience that they will ride it out in style, the instructors motivating the attendees and showing them practical tips on how to mend machinery, grow food and make sturdy fortifications to keep the ravenous hordes at bay.


    Final scene will begin as the camera pans out to see the centre engulfed in flames and wracked by explosions, the students are being devoured by the hungry undead while the instructors cower in the staff canteen

    I envision it as comedy, lark as Jimmy electrocutes himself, guffaw as Mary hastily constructs a zombine harverter only for it to splutter and die the second she gets it out of the workshop and the doors are locked behind her. Titter as Steve drones on about the knowledge economy.

    I call it the "Zombie Banks FeASt on your Soul"


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  • #12
    degrassinoel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,767 ✭✭✭✭degrassinoel


    Live Fás(t) die zombie

    thats a class post dude +1 for the lolfactor :)


  • #13
    Ragamuffin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 351 ✭✭Ragamuffin


    degrassinoel wrote: »
    This weeks homework.. watch dawn of the dead and the '04 remake and write an essay on why the original was way better :D

    True!

    A course in zombie studies though, that'd be great! :cool:


  • #14
    Agent J
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,909 ✭✭✭Agent J


    degrassinoel wrote: »
    was a joke but yeah of course you're right :)
    besides most of the fas instructors are zombies anyway..

    Wait. You might be on to something.

    Maybe there is a research project going on in FAS on Zombies.

    It would explain some of the instructors, students, courses & why so much money is spent on it.

    Why didnt we think of this before. How else could they spend so much on nothing...

    Unless its been diverted to something else..


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