coraa: (hopeful flamethrower)
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From all over my flist:

Look to your right. Whatever object you see there is your designated weapon in the upcoming Zombie Apocalypse! Comment on this post to tell me what it is, then repost to spread the zombie virus.


The first time I saw this meme, the thing to my right was a pile of silk skirts. I'm not sure what good strangulation is on something that doesn't need to breathe, but there you go.

The second time, the thing to my right was a stuffed hippogriff. Not so much with the useful. But a real, live hippogriff? That would be an awesome zombie-fighting tool/companion. Slashing damage, puncture damage, and a quick getaway! More zombie hunters need hippogriff companions, says I.

The third time, the thing to my right was a printer. I suppose I could throw it at 'em.

And now it's a cup of coffee, which... well, I guess useful for those long nights one must spend awake because if one drifts off the zombies will break past the defenses? Or alternately you could invite the zombie hordes to sit down with you over a cup of joe and work out a way to live together in harmony. (As we all know, coffee in sufficient quantities is a passable substitute for brains, after all.)

How about you?

Date: 2010-10-21 05:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] babarnett.livejournal.com
I will apparently be fighting off zombies with my iPod and its speaker dock...which, given the zombie thing, is appropriately from a maker called Skullcandy.

Date: 2010-10-21 06:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] coraa.livejournal.com
We could find out how zombies react to music, though! Perhaps you could convince them to dance instead of eat brains.

Date: 2010-10-21 06:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] babarnett.livejournal.com
Or maybe it will be like Attack of the Killer Tomatoes or Mars Attacks where I find a really annoying song that makes their heads explode!

Date: 2010-10-21 05:57 pm (UTC)
ext_7025: (Default)
From: [identity profile] buymeaclue.livejournal.com
I have...a calendar?

I guess I could unwind the spiral binding and stabbity with that. But I think they'd get me long before I had it done.

Date: 2010-10-21 06:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] coraa.livejournal.com
Or you could try to kill them with dozens of papercuts. Although I'm not sure how much zombies are bothered by papercuts.

Date: 2010-10-21 05:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] morganlf.livejournal.com
Ha! There happens to be a giant pair of scissors next to me on my desk! Otherwise, it would have been a bunch of pencils. :-)

Date: 2010-10-21 06:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] coraa.livejournal.com
STABBITY!

Date: 2010-10-21 06:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mroctober.livejournal.com
What if the the thing to my right is a vial that is labeled Do Not Disturb - Contents May Cause Zombie Apocalypse?

Date: 2010-10-21 06:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] coraa.livejournal.com
Maybe you can get the new zombie apocalypse to fight the old zombie apocalypse!

Date: 2010-10-22 12:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] canis-ridens.livejournal.com
Yes! Kind of like fighting fires with controlled burns.

Date: 2010-10-21 06:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] icedrake.livejournal.com
I object! Discrimination against the sinister among us!
(so, in the name of equal-handed opportunity, plyers on the right -- box cutter on the left)

Date: 2010-10-21 06:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] coraa.livejournal.com
I have a bottle of bitter apple compound, intended for spreading on cords so the cats won't chew them, to my left. I wonder if I could apply it to my head and prevent the zombies from eating my brains?

Date: 2010-10-21 06:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] icedrake.livejournal.com
Ooooh! Can I get the name? I have the same issue, except it's with the bird.
(Who I suspect is somewhat more effective at chewing through things, what with being able to crack walnuts in half and all...)

Date: 2010-10-21 06:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] coraa.livejournal.com
It's called "Grannick's Bitter Apple," and it has a sponge-top applicator rather than being in a spray bottle. It seems to work pretty well—Alys, the cat who is the biggest cord-chewer, makes hilarious disgusted faces whenever she forgets and tries—but it has to be reapplied intermittently as it loses potency over time.

Date: 2010-10-21 08:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] faithhopetricks.livejournal.com
HA, I don't know if this is better or worse: a paperback of Northanger Abbey, a paperback of Cymbeline, and a Jordi Savall early music CD.

Date: 2010-10-21 06:09 pm (UTC)
larryhammer: floral print origami penguin, facing left (Default)
From: [personal profile] larryhammer
The case for an Adobe FrameMaker 9.0 installation, with CD inside.

So, so doomed.

---L.

Date: 2010-10-21 06:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] coraa.livejournal.com
You could throw it like a frisbee (or like Xena's whatsit) and try to cut their heads off! Unfortunately, you only get one shot.

Alternately, you could... reformat their... margins?

Date: 2010-10-21 06:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] icedrake.livejournal.com
Chakram. A real weapon, incidentally.

Date: 2010-10-21 06:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] coraa.livejournal.com
Thank you! I knew it had a real name besides "whatsit."

Date: 2010-10-21 07:28 pm (UTC)
larryhammer: floral print origami penguin, facing left (Default)
From: [personal profile] larryhammer
Or evaluate how to upgrade them, which is what I'm supposed to be doing with said disk.

---L.

Date: 2010-10-21 06:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sartorias.livejournal.com
Medical paperwork for son. Maybe I could assign it to the zombs and bore them into falling apart!

Date: 2010-10-21 06:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rachelmanija.livejournal.com
Hee! Most deadly suggestion yet!

Date: 2010-10-21 06:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] coraa.livejournal.com
And even if they don't fall apart, at least the paperwork would be done! Actually, harnessing zombies for filling out paperwork sounds like a great use of zombification, to me.

Although there's the risk that every field would be filled in with "BRAINS."

Date: 2010-10-21 06:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sartorias.livejournal.com
This is true. And . . . might have some unexpected side effects when turned in to the next therapist on the list.

Date: 2010-10-21 06:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rachelmanija.livejournal.com
Hmm. My best bet looks like the hardcover "Year's Best Fantasy and Horror."

Date: 2010-10-21 06:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] coraa.livejournal.com
Blunt trauma!

Date: 2010-10-21 06:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] roadnotes.livejournal.com
To my right is a heavy sauce pan; to Soren's right is me.

Date: 2010-10-21 06:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] coraa.livejournal.com
I bet a body could do pretty good damage with a saucepan.

I'm to Pava's right myself! I guess he'd better hope I figure out something useful to do with the coffee....

Date: 2010-10-21 06:17 pm (UTC)
owlfish: (Default)
From: [personal profile] owlfish
Hmm. A glass of water may not go far.

Date: 2010-10-21 06:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] coraa.livejournal.com
Keeping the zombies moistened would likely hasten their decomposition, but probably not within the necessary timeframe, it's true.

Date: 2010-10-21 06:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com
Within eight inches to my right is the wall to my room, and my window... maybe I can flee out of it?

Date: 2010-10-21 06:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] coraa.livejournal.com
That seems like a good idea. Alternately, you could throw them out it!

Date: 2010-10-21 06:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] coneycat.livejournal.com
Apparently my BlackBerry will be useful in fending off the zombie hordes.

Or calling for help.

Or just recording the event...

Date: 2010-10-21 06:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] coraa.livejournal.com
"Stop! Or I'll put you on YouTube!"

Date: 2010-10-21 06:37 pm (UTC)

Date: 2010-10-21 06:51 pm (UTC)
ext_77466: (Default)
From: [identity profile] tedeisenstein.livejournal.com
A manila envelope with several newspaper clippings I've been meaning to scan for the last couple of years. On top of that and surrounding it are a dozen or two Japanese lady bug corpses. (Yes, the folder's been laying there that long.)

Date: 2010-10-21 07:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] geekjul.livejournal.com
A bottle of hand santizer. Which, I suppose, would be useful if the zombies are crawling with germs.

Date: 2010-10-21 07:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] angevin2.livejournal.com
An alabaster paperweight in the shape of an owl. It's really heavy, actually, the sort of thing I could see being used as a murder weapon in some sort of novel or Law & Order episode involving crimes of passion, so it would be pretty useful, although only at close range.

Date: 2010-10-21 08:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com
A hassock.

That is just not useful.

Date: 2010-10-21 08:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] green-knight.livejournal.com
An exercise stepper with bungee cords attached.

Date: 2010-10-21 08:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] janni.livejournal.com
Yeah, I bet a lot of us, especially a lot of us right-handed folks reading this in coffee shops, are going to be fighting the zombie apocalypse with caffeinated beverages.

But, you know? After the apocalypse we're going to miss caffeine so bad, we'd better enjoy it.

Date: 2010-10-21 08:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] faithhopetricks.livejournal.com
I HAVE....an empty mug from Seattle' Shakespeare in the Park Company. I am zombiefood.

Date: 2010-10-21 09:18 pm (UTC)
ext_12726: (photography camera)
From: [identity profile] heleninwales.livejournal.com
To the right of me is... not one, but two, cameras.

Unless zombies can be scared off by a camera's flash, I'm going to be useless at fighting the zombie apocalypse, but I'll be able to throughly document it! :)

Date: 2010-10-22 12:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] canis-ridens.livejournal.com
I have...

- A stationary bike, which was the first thing I saw. I suppose that I could yank the seat pole out and start swinging.
- A computer mouse, mousepad, and mineralogy textbook, for strangulation and swinging.
- A medium-sized dog or two, sometimes with a Kong or squeaky football. I think I would be far more likely to try to push my precious babies back so that they could escape from the zombies, but Sirius would attack anyway, and Rigel could probably be convinced to bowl some over if the shortest path between him and his football took him through the staggering horde.

Date: 2010-10-22 01:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rhinemouse.livejournal.com
I have a 3-inch crucifix. Which would be awesome in the case of a vampire apocalypse, but for zombies, not so much.

Date: 2010-10-22 02:49 am (UTC)

Date: 2010-10-22 12:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] paperclippy.livejournal.com
Hopefully the zombies are like the bad guys in "Flight of Dragons" because I will be fighting them off with a calculator.

(In case you haven't seen that movie, it ends with the good guy killing the bad guys by shouting scientific facts at them.)

Date: 2010-10-22 05:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pabw.livejournal.com
Bus window. Maybe I can pop the emergency exit seals and use it as a shield?

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