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			<title>My Poor Attempt *spoilers*</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[but to hell with it worth a shot right? 
 
alright basicly heres goes my theory i don't think its a "virus" per say or a parasite of some kind, i'll...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>but to hell with it worth a shot right?<br />
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alright basicly heres goes my theory i don't think its a &quot;virus&quot; per say or a parasite of some kind, i'll speculate later in this post about what i think is going on.<br />
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BUT what ever was going on simply put didn't just start in LA or around the ring of fire, which is why i think the ring of fire theory is out, there we're reports comming in from new york and detroit is on the east coast (unless i am mistaken) and not the west coast, so in my opinion what happened, happened to the world at basicly the exact same time. for me this rules out the ring of fire idea, working on the principle that it happened everywhere at the same time makes it into a global catastophy.<br />
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first things first alot of you might be asking where or how i got this knowledge, simply put its on the tivo recording the characters listen to. <br />
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secondly i admit i may very well be wrong about the ring of fire incident, perhaps there is a similar shape or plates or something similar perhaps like the gulf stream on the east coast. but i'll look into that later checking out the gulf stream might very well be an idea.<br />
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alright so with the ring of fire on the back burner excuse the pun and possible new candiate of the gulf stream but also on the back burner. lets take a look at the rate of growth and other areas which could of been effected.<br />
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as we know its effected china amongst other places which give us the ring of fire theory happening all up the west coast and down into past russian and into china past NZ, a pretty nasty thing if you ask me. however as before the rate of growth.<br />
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Micheal after reading some accounts figured out the rate of growth could fo covered the USA in about a week, which means the rest of the world woud of had maybe a week and a half, 2 weeks 3 at best given the scale of land masses and how there connected.<br />
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but if you include the fact not only do you have the virus going east from the west coast but also going west from the east coast this narrows the time down to only a handful of days, this is assuming the reports of riots in new york we're infact &quot;outbreaks&quot; i guess they should be called.<br />
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which means if it was bacteria of a virus, or toxic spill or something it would of had to of been everywhere one, which to me says we're actually dealing with something very common which has mutated, this than speaks to me that it could be a micro organism of some kind. how ever it could also of been geneticly engineered and released as part of some sort of plan, for example there is a conspiricy theory about an 80% population reduction so maybe its linked to this, in some way.<br />
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the fact it was on both sides of the USA aswell as other international places (which were cut off but we have examples of china in there) i think its safe to say its a common form of bacteria found world wide which some how underwent a massive and horrific mutation or it was a premeditated attack.<br />
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i have some idea of why it is premeditated, simply put, population reduction its possible but who knows thats speculation at this point. <br />
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there are still active military bases across the world i would imagine and these things aren't stupid. i'm sure things like Northern Command, NORAD and the MOD would be inplace aswell as other military instilations for example Cheyenne Mountain. <br />
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i say this mainly because there haven't been satlites falling out of the sky, from what i understand satalites need to be adjusted every so often to keep them in orbit and stop them decaying into earth orbit and smashing into the planet, so places like that with that kind of military access and the ability to take over and keep satalites in orbit MIGHT still be functional, which means this whole thing could be some kind of NSA / CIA experiment to test the readiness of the armed forces. <br />
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having canisters of some kind of gas released in major city centres with dense populations could be optional and does seem likely, given that the bacteria in the homes of people in LA is diffrent to that of New York and at the exact same time is diffrent to other places such as russia, china, england, Japan, etc.<br />
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so what ever this was i think it was planned, might be a population reduction experiment gone horribly wrong. <br />
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if it was bacteria or a virus it would of needed time to grow and spread through salt water around the outside of all the countrys of the world and mutate at the exact same time.<br />
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i belive it to be water borune aswell, simply put if it was air bourne everyone would be dead, it is possible that some people are immune to it but then we have to dive into blood groups and ethnic backgrounds and bacterial exposure in peoples past, its too much work for me really, it would mean creating a profile for each one and assuming it was correct which it wouldn't be. or perhaps its something in the water which reacts to something in the air, i dunno but i get the feeling this is a whole new thing we are dealing with, both in LA and NY at the same time. was Raidon Labs (did i spell that right?) trying to create something like a zombie?<br />
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alternatively it could of been a medical experiment gone wrong, Raidon Labs i assume is a science base lab working on cures for various things or taking on goverment contracts, maybe they were trying to do something on the genetic level which ended up in a mutation which as a side effect cause what we are experiancing.<br />
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i know this doesn't really narrow anything down but the fact it was everywhere at once is what gets me, for those who are die hard sci fi fans for me this says this should be a case for torchwood.<br />
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even though this was written WAY before this but if you look at Torchwood: Miricale Day:    there is a Scene where Jack is Talking to a CIA agent saying &quot;its not the fact that people have stopped dying which makes it a miricale, its the fact it happened to everyone everywhere on the planet at the same time&quot; he then goes on to talk about a morphic field (for those who don't know what a morphic field is i will explain it as it was in Torchwood)<br />
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the short version is everything is connected together via a morphic field an example of this is &quot;a group of moneys on an island in the middle of the ocean learn how to use a rock as a tool meanwhile on an island 10,000 miles away anoher groups of monkeys learn how to use a rock as a tool aswell, because they are connected by a morphic field&quot;<br />
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which is the very odd thing about this outbreak because it happened everywhere at the same time effectively. as reports from LA were on the news, detroit and NY were also on the news and reports happening internationally. but i think thats enough of the science fiction side of things for the time being<br />
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just on a small personal note to anyone reading this, i don't know what it is but i have a feeling its some kind of micro organism which is millions of years old and was some how re-released into the world.<br />
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to be honest i'm even picking appart my own theories on this aswell, for example the water bourne or the airbourne factors or a combination of the two. the concept of it being a genetic thing is something i am having trouble working with aswell.<br />
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so far from what i understand of this &quot;disease&quot; is that if you get bitten you get infected, yet it cannot be transfered through the skin, this we all know. from what i have gathered Salt would either make it more agressive due to the fact its either killing it or acts as a growth catalyst.<br />
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secondly if my theory is right about how it works and obease people it means that the virus attacks you, thrives in your body, it would seem to attack your brain it reacts with body fat making the fat stronger <br />
(which i understand to be diffrent from brain fat as the human brain is mostly made up of fat i think omega 3 but i don't know i'm not biologist or viral expert but i'm allowed to speculate which is why i'm here.) which means anyone who is a bohemeth was obease in life given the fact obeasity has been known to damage how well your blood carrys oxygen to your brain it could explain why we saw Angel and Kalani trying to trick it and at first it was working but eventually it worked it out.<br />
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something we all have in our body however is Acid, specifically Amino Acids, Amino acids for those like me who have heard it but can't place it, are the basic acids the human body consists of which inturn makes up our genetic structure. so if its a micro organism which attacks amino acids it can explain why an infected blood work and a normal regular person's blood work are still identical, now i don't know crap about how these acids exisit in our body are they excreted through a gland of some kind, is beyond me. but it is possible for things to live in even the most harsh of conditions, even in a nuclear blast something would thrive and survive usually the most simple of bacteria because it has the chance to develop and adapt faster than more complex organisms.<br />
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but thats really all i got, for the time being.<br />
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if it is something which effects amino acids, it could completely explain alot about those infected <br />
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characteristics seem to be some kind of slow decay<br />
but they have basic animal / tribal instincts<br />
the &quot;disease&quot; if it could even be called that cannot be passed through skin unless bitten, or blood gets into your eyes or mouth or other part of your body.<br />
now in blood has certian functions such as (compliments of wikipedia)<br />
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Blood performs many important functions within the body including:<br />
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    Supply of oxygen to tissues (bound to hemoglobin, which is carried in red cells)<br />
<i><u>    Supply of nutrients such as glucose, amino acids, and fatty acids (dissolved in the blood or bound to plasma proteins (e.g., blood lipids))</u></i><br />
    Removal of waste such as carbon dioxide, urea, and lactic acid<br />
    Immunological functions, including circulation of white blood cells, and detection of foreign material by antibodies<br />
    Coagulation, which is one part of the body's self-repair mechanism (blood clotting after an open wound in order to stop bleeding)<br />
    Messenger functions, including the transport of hormones and the signaling of tissue damage<br />
    Regulation of body pH<br />
    Regulation of core body temperature<br />
    Hydraulic functions<br />
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i underlined the one i saw there, which i news to me i honestly didn't know the blood did that, which now actually gives some credit of some kind to this thoery and justifys my rambling and peicing it together through the post (well at least in my mind it does) <br />
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i've clicked the Amino Acids there which was linked (here's the link) as much as i am into science i don't really have it in me to read all this for a single word or phrase, even then this page might not even provide what we need.<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amino_acids" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amino_acids</a><br />
but quickly glancing over it..... it looks to me that Amino acids are the result of some kind of bio-chemical reaction internally which means maybe the &quot;sickness&quot; didn't actually come from anywhere, maybe the human body mutated to have a specific reaction to something that is digested or inhaled or maybe its a natural thing, maybe. regardless of that the sicknesscan support itself in water and it seems salt does make it more agressive which the human body including blood steam contains it could explain why these things are suddenly faster and stronger than us, i've not explored fatty acids yet but i'm feeling a bit lazy right now as i type this. but acids do seem to connect the dots here, a change in amino acids can mean a change in genetic structuring and as a result brain chemistry and balance, like hitting a full factory reset on the human body in some cases. yet i get the feeling these things retain memory, i'll explain why.<br />
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right away in chapter 1 part 1 we work out there attracted to sound, SO when Saul and Angel were out gathering supplies and one of those things came in, the store door gave the typical &quot;BEEP-BOOP&quot; well with no noise being made, no one around and the hummer turned off why didn't the rest of them storm the store? are they aware of thier surroundings mainly because of memory retention? another example is that they found evidence of one of them had bitten into a can, also in the store one came in and started eating something, Micheal also found one in a pantry later on which looked like it had eaten some things i memory served, so simply put did it know where to look for food? did the others know not to storm the store because the door bell was a familiar sound, another example is when Micheal and Angel had to clear the lobby in the early days, one of them jumped up and over the reception desk and was hiding, did it already know through memory that it was in danger and understand what a gun was and what it ment for him to be on the reciving end?<br />
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it seems highly likely if what i posted was right about Amino acids and how they formed it could be something as very basic as a pesticide used on food caused the mutation to happen. <br />
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thats basicly all i got, some kind of infection which effects certian glands or even the digestive system which effects how Amino Acids are made which causes genetic change in some way shape or form but given the rate of someone to change from direct contact as has been said in the past its only a couple of minutes, Tanya must of worked very quickly to sterilise that wound, perhaps keeping it wrapped up and bandaged helped keep it sterile is whats kept her alive so long, cleaning alcahol etc as we know they react badly to alcahol so what ever it is it seems it could be cured through constant sterile enviroment or something to that effect at least anyways.<br />
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which brings me to one of the characters Riley.<br />
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Riley is a french chef, and not to sterotype but french chef's are known mainly for using alcahol in thier fancy cooking.<br />
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does anyone think that Riley could of been constantly cooking with alcahol in every meal caused a change in peoples hormones which then cause the infected to not be able to find the survivors of the tower so well? which explains why how the groups tower which according to Kalani was poorly defended compared to the other place which i quote &quot;had thier shit together&quot; i do belive it was after Riley cooked for the group some infected got into the building but didn't move further than the lobby, where as when the new survivors turned up, not everyone had eaten Riley's cooking given the amount of people who have eaten it vs the amount of people who hadn't thier hormones and scent would of been diffrent which explains how they knew exactly where they were in the building i'll be honest my memory is shakey on that ill probably need to re-listen to chapter 1 and 2 to get that right.<br />
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anyways i'll stop babbling and put this up so people can leave comments, hopefully i won't get flamed XD<br />
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hope you all enjoyed reading my little theory here, i find it difficult to hold conversations with people in the chat box about it i just spam it.<br />
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so a pathogen or mico organism which effects the way we create amino acids in the body causing tribal zombieism as a potential side effect, thoughts anyone?</div>

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			<title>So I had my gallbladder out today! v.dat mah belleh</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 04:43:33 GMT</pubDate>
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It's all bubbly and filled with some gas they use to pump it up into a big dome to work inside.  I'm not normally that fat. :o<br />
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			<title>Are you on Reddit yet??</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 00:30:43 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>Well, you should be! Former Army Sergent, and zombie creationist KC Wayland will be doing an AMA (ask me anything) on Reddit. May 16th at 7:00pm pst...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Well, you should be! Former Army Sergent, and zombie creationist KC Wayland will be doing an AMA (ask me anything) on Reddit. May 16th at 7:00pm pst (10est).<br />
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If you have ever wondered where KC served overseas, or why he decided to start podcasting... this is the place.<br />
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We will be posting a direct link to the AMA on Facebook, Twitter and the Forums.<br />
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And if you don't have a question for KC, please just stop by and &quot;upvote&quot; him.</div>

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			<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 22:06:53 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Hi  
 
Anyone playing this.. I've downloaded the demo on xbox it looks pretty good 
 
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Hi <br />
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Anyone playing this.. I've downloaded the demo on xbox it looks pretty good<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ6Aely9YrQ" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ6Aely9YrQ</a></div>

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			<title>home security system</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 20:49:38 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[This works great 
How to Install a Home Security System  
1. Go to a secondhand store and buy a pair of men's used size 14-16 work boots.  
2. Place...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>This works great<br />
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How to Install a Home Security System <br />
1. Go to a secondhand store and buy a pair of men's used size 14-16 work boots. <br />
2. Place them on your front porch, along with a copy of Guns &amp; Ammo Magazine. <br />
3. Put a few giant dog dishes next to the boots and magazines. <br />
4. Leave a note on your door that reads: <br />
&quot; Bubba, <br />
Big'un, Duke, Slim, &amp; I went for more ammo and beer. Back in an hour. Don't mess with the pit bulls - they attacked the mailman this morning and messed him up bad. I don't think Killer took part, but it was hard to tell from all the blood. Anyway, I locked all four of 'em in the house. <br />
Cooter &quot;</div>

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			<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 20:06:51 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>saw this on another forum 
ONLY A MAN 
WOULD ATTEMPT THIS 
Just try reading this without laughing till you cry!!! 
Pocket Tazer Stun Gun, a great...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>saw this on another forum<br />
<br />
<br />
ONLY A MAN<br />
WOULD ATTEMPT THIS<br />
<br />
Just try reading this without laughing till you cry!!!<br />
<br />
Pocket Tazer Stun Gun, a great gift for the wife.<br />
A guy who purchased his lovely wife a pocket Tazer for their anniversary submitted this:<br />
Last weekend I saw something at Larry's Pistol &amp; Pawn Shop that sparked my interest. The occasion was our 15th anniversary and I was looking for a little something extra for my wife Julie. What I came across was a 100,000-volt, pocket/purse-sized Tazer.<br />
<br />
The effects of the Tazer were supposed to be short lived, with no long term adverse affect on your assailant, allowing her adequate time to retreat to safety...??<br />
<br />
WAY TOO COOL! Long story short, I bought the device and brought it home... I loaded two AAA batteries in the darn thing and pushed the button. Nothing! I was disappointed. I learned, however, that if I pushed the button and pressed it against a metal surface at the same time, I'd get the blue arc of electricity darting back and forth between the prongs.<br />
<br />
AWESOME!!! Unfortunately, I have yet to explain to Julie what that burn spot is on the face of her microwave.<br />
<br />
Okay, so I was home alone with this new toy, thinking to myself that it couldn't be all that bad with only two AAA batteries, right?<br />
<br />
There I sat in my recliner, my cat Gracie looking on intently (trusting little soul) while I was reading the directions and thinking that I really needed to try this thing out on a flesh &amp; blood moving target.<br />
<br />
I must admit I thought about zapping Gracie (for a fraction of a second) and then thought better of it. She is such a sweet cat. But, if I was going to give this thing to my wife to protect herself against a mugger, I did want some assurance that it would work as advertised.<br />
<br />
Am I wrong?<br />
<br />
So, there I sat in a pair of shorts and a tank top with my reading glasses perched delicately on the bridge of my nose, directions in one hand, and Tazer in another..<br />
<br />
The directions said that:<br />
a one-second burst would shock and disorient your assailant;<br />
<br />
a two-second burst was supposed to cause muscle spasms and a major loss of bodily control; and<br />
<br />
a three-second burst would purportedly make your assailant flop on the ground like a fish out of water.<br />
<br />
Any burst longer than three seconds would be wasting the batteries.<br />
All the while I'm looking at this little device measuring about 5&quot; long, less than 3/4 inch in circumference (loaded with two itsy, bitsy AAA batteries); pretty cute really, and thinking to myself, 'no possible way!'<br />
<br />
What happened next is almost beyond description, but I'll do my best.<br />
<br />
I'm sitting there alone, Gracie looking on with her head cocked to one side so as to say, 'Don't do it stupid,' reasoning that a one second burst from such a tiny lil ole thing couldn't hurt all that bad.. I decided to give myself a one second burst just for heck of it.<br />
<br />
I touched the prongs to my naked thigh, pushed the button, and..<br />
<br />
HOLY MOTHER OF GOD. WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION. WHAT THE... !!!<br />
<br />
I'm pretty sure Hulk Hogan ran in through the side door, picked me up in the recliner, then body slammed us both on the carpet, over and over and over again I vaguely recall waking up on my side in the fetal position, with tears in my eyes, body soaking wet, both nipples on fire, testicles nowhere to be found, with my left arm tucked under my body in the oddest position, and tingling in my legs! The cat was making meowing sounds I had never heard before, clinging to a picture frame hanging above the fireplace, obviously in an attempt to avoid getting slammed by my body flopping all over the living room.<br />
<br />
Note:<br />
If you ever feel compelled to 'mug' yourself with a Tazer,<br />
one note of caution:<br />
<br />
There is NO such thing as a one second burst when you zap yourself! You will not let go of that thing until it is dislodged from your hand by a violent thrashing about on the floor!<br />
A three second burst would be considered conservative!<br />
<br />
A minute or so later (I can't be sure, as time was a relative thing at that point), I collected my wits (what little I had left), sat up and surveyed the landscape.<br />
<br />
* My bent reading glasses were on the mantel of the fireplace.<br />
* The recliner was upside down and about 8 feet or so from where it originally was.<br />
* My triceps, right thigh and both nipples were still twitching.<br />
* My face felt like it had been shot up with Novocain, and my bottom lip weighed 88 lbs.<br />
* I had no control over the drooling.<br />
* Apparently I had crapped in my shorts, but was too numb to know for sure, and my sense of smell was gone.<br />
* I saw a faint smoke cloud above my head, which I believe came from my hair. <br />
<br />
I'm still looking for my testicles and I'm offering a significant reward for their safe return!<br />
<br />
PS: My wife can't stop laughing about my experience, loved the gift and now regularly threatens me with it!</div>

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			<title>Chapter 15-1- desperate times</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 13:37:18 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>13:29 - First Carly, then Simon 
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaV-6qerkqI 
 
Desperate times indeed.</description>
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Desperate times indeed.</div>

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			<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 11:27:40 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>do the MRE rations kill or poison the biters/zombies etc... collani and angle found the beheemoth on the floor at the army base with no obvious...</description>
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			<title>One Night, In Santa Monica ~ A Short Story</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 04:17:12 GMT</pubDate>
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</b></font></div><font color="#008080">This is purely a work of fiction, based on two characters that we've all come to know and love--perhaps--from that which brought us here: We're Alive.  I had the idea in the wee hours of this morning, roughly 6:10 A.M.  By 9:00 A.M. I had the work you are about to read.  Let me preface further by saying that I've been taking medication for the last four weeks and hadn't slept in 28 hours, prior to the writing of the following short.  The inspiration for it stems from watching the movie Clue, way back in the day.  For those of you who are unfamiliar with the film, Clue was based on the board game of the same name, a murder/mystery/whodunnit from the 80's.  What does a murder/mystery/whodunnit board game turned movie have to do with We're Alive?  Good question.

At the end of the film, before the credits rolled, there were three separate 'alternate endings'.  It was my first experience with seeing an alternate ending, and it's something that has always stuck with me.  So, when the tragic events of the last chapter [29.3] transpired, I was left with no real 'what if' scenario to delude myself into thinking that there was still a chance.  My only salvation seemed to be looking back... way back.  Long, boring story short, I present to you, dear reader, my alternate beginning.  My 'what if' scenario involving two of my favourite characters and one of my favourite speculations from the series: How <i>did</i> Scratch recognize Angel?

This is my answer.  Sorry for butchering your characters and the history you've built for them, Kc.  Just know that I do it because I love them both.  Also, sorry to the residents of the area.  I don't live there, and all my knowledge comes second hand from friends.  I apologize for any inaccuracies regarding locations.

I hope you enjoy it.
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<font size="3">One Night, In Santa Monica</font></b>
<i>A short story
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</font><font color="#008080">     The ’94 was handling like a wet rag.   Redlined engine, and stereo pumping loud enough that the speakers were  clipping, badly.  Angel didn’t care.  It wasn’t his car.</font>
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“Woo!” Angel’s enthusiastic whooping rivalled the song on the radio.  It was <i>The Real Slim Shady</i>  by Eminem.  It wasn’t his first choice, but he didn’t care.  It wasn’t  his car.  The girl in the passenger seat squealing her approval of  Angel’s driving, she seemed like a lot of fun.  She had long, dark  hair—jet black, with a sheen that you could read a book by—long, dark  eye lashes, and legs that seemed to stretch forever, her hand swimming  against the air rushing past her open window, feet up on the dash.  He  didn’t care.  It wasn’t his car.  She seemed fun, in spite of the faces  she made at the music.

She had noticed him climbing into the silver, Honda Accord, outside of  the Aero Theater, as she was walking towards the bus stop with what he  assumed to be her friends.  She slowed down, making sure to catch his  eye, and hitting him with a smile that seemed to take in her entire  face.

“Nice car.” she said.

“Thanks.” Angel said, grinning the sort of grin that will get the back  of your hands whacked twenty or so times with a ruler by Sister Margret.   The sort of shit-eating grin that you expect from the guy your mother  warned you about.

“Looks like it can go pretty quick, huh.” her voice reminded Angel of  one the sparklers he would run around with as a kid on the 4<font color="transparent">^</font>th of July—fuzzy, but somehow, sharp.

“Yeah,” he said, sitting in the driver’s seat, touching a pair of wires  together, getting a spark as the engine fired up, “I suppose she can go  pretty quick when she has to.”  He coughed as he broke the ignition  lock, then slipped a worn key in.  He’d been in the process of stealing  it when he’d noticed the group of kids walking his way.  Angel stood,  and stretched, his lanky frame towered above the young girl’s petite  figure.  He flashed that grin once more.

“Wanna go for a ride?”

“Oh, I should tell my brother.” she said, turning to the three other  teenagers that had continued to walk on without her.  The girl’s scream  was piercing.  Jarring.  Strangely, exciting.

“Hey, John!” one of the boys—a spiky haired one—turned and glared at her, “I’ll see you at home!”
John shrugged, gave her the finger, and kept walking.

“Big brother?” Angel asked.

“Big pain in my ass.” she replied.</font><div style="text-align: center;"><font color="#008080">_____________

</font></div><font color="#008080">     Angel’s driving skills were  remarkable for someone his age, almost as if he’d been doing it for  years longer than he should have been.  Truth be told, he had.  Angel  was quite good at stealing cars.

“We should go back to my place!” The girl was yelling at the top of her  lungs, and he could barely hear what she was saying.  Turning down the  stereo, he shook his head at her,

“What?”

“We should go back to my place.” she said again.  Her voice was hoarse.   They had been screaming—literally screaming—up and down the PCH with  the stereo blasting for the last hour.  Angel’s own voice was a little  rough.

“Sure,” he said, “just tell me where we’re going.”

“I’m not even sure where we are.”

Angel laughed, “On the PCH,” he pointed up ahead at a set of lights,  “see? There’s Sunset Boulevard, and just up ah—” Angel’s face blanched  under the yellow light from the street lamps.  The girl barely  registered the red and blue lights that were coming down Sunset on an  intercept course.

“Oh, for fuck’s sake.”

“What’s wrong?” the girl asked, “You’re just gonna get a speeding ticket, don’t sweat it.”

“No, you don’t understand,” Angel said, powering into fifth gear, “I  don’t have a license.” Tires shrieked in protest as the patrol car  fishtailed through the intersection, falling in behind the silver coupe.

The girl, gripping the edges of her seat, eyes wide, mouthed a few words  to herself before clearing her throat, “You know... they just give you a  ticket for that nowadays... it’s not really worth a high speed chase...  is it?”

“And...” he let the word hang in the air.

“And?” she turned to regard him fully, “And what?” Her voice much sharper than before.

“And I stole the car, too.” Angel said, cutting her words off with a forcefulness that felt strange coming out of his mouth.

“Oh,” she said, watching the flashing lights in the side view for a  moment, before she started to giggle, “well, we’d better lose them then,  hm?”

“Well obviously!” </font><div style="text-align: center;"><font color="#008080">_____________

</font></div><font color="#008080">     The patrol gaining on them,  Angel pushed the Accord hard, shooting nervous glances upward, searching  the night sky for the tell-tale lights of a police helicopter.  The  girl was laughing, hard and sharp.  It wasn’t funny, but she didn’t stop  when he told her, she only laughed harder.

“You’re not losing them, Blonde boy.” she said between spasms of laughter.  Angel let out a frustrated roar of contempt.

“It’s kind of hard when it’s a straight fuc—” Angel snapped his  fingers—an idea popped into his head.  He started to slow down, seeing  his opportunity coming up on the right.  A flickering blue neon sign  that read: REEL INN.

“Hold on.” he said, looking in the rear view.  He had one shot.  “I think we can get this to work.”

“Get what to work?” Her laughter interrupted by a yelp of surprise as  Angel cranked hard on the wheel, sending the silver Honda careening into  a parking lot.  His hands and feet worked, smoothly together, pulling  hard on the parking brake, spinning the wheel hard, clutch, dropping the  brake down and accelerating back toward the road.  Sirens and lights  screeched heavily into the parking lot, oblivious to Angel’s slick  maneuver.  Two faces, mouths agape, watched the little Honda shoot out  of the parking lot, narrowly missing the ass end of the patrol car as it  shot back out onto the PCH, heading back the way it had come.

The girl’s laughter was infectious and by the time Angel hit third gear  they were both laughing.  A moment passed before Angel saw the flashing  lights reappear in the rear view.

“I bet they thought they had us, too.” he said, focusing his attention back on the road.  “I’ve got an idea.”

A few moments later, Angel let the ass end slide out a little as he took  a left onto Sunset, then a hard left onto Castellammare Drive, where  they had agreed to split up.  Angel, swung to the curb, bringing the car  to a halt.  The girl swung the door open, slipping out quickly.

“Wait!” Angel leaned over the passenger seat, looking up at her, framed  against the night sky, her black hair seemed to fill the world around  her, “I didn’t get your name!”

The girl’s lips curled into a broad, toothy smile.  She laughed again.   She let the door fall closed under its own weight, turning she strolled  casually back down toward Sunset.

“I didn’t give it.” she called over her shoulder.  Angel could hear her  laughter, bleeding into the shrill siren of the fast approaching cop  car.  He shook his head and chuckled, leaving a strip of black on the  pavement as he shot away from the curb, speeding off into the night.</font>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 18:34:36 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>Michael never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity to get info. He often insults or interupts others before they devulge important info, or...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Michael never misses an opportunity to <i>miss an opportunity to get info</i>. He often insults or interupts others before they devulge important info, or he fails to ask the obvious questions. <br />
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			<div class="message">Of course Michael is going to say or do something that will prevent him from learning what's going on. That's what he ALWAYS do. Someone is about to tell him something... He interupts by saying something rude... other person gets fed up and walks away.<br />
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<font color="#FF0000"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS"><i>Col. Kimmet &quot;Sgt. Cross, this entire zombie apocalypse started when....&quot;<br />
Michael interupts &quot;HEY!! Don't call them zombies!!!&quot;<br />
Col. Kimmet &quot;At ease Cross! I warned you about disrespecting authority! Shultz, get in here! Escort Sgt. Cross to the kooler!&quot;<br />
Sgt. Shultz &quot;Jawohl, Herr Kommandant!&quot;</i></span></font></div>
			
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			<div class="message">Tanya Tanya Tanya. You never get to finish a sentence when you're about to bring up an important point or question (Trying to share thoughts on the animal traits of the zombies with Michael in 22 part 2. Or Hinting that there is something in the journals that might help explain some of the zombies' behavior.) Will we ever get to know what you were trying to tell Michael...uh... us about your zombie theories? Were you giving yourself doses of Vancomycin or Clindamycin. Did you get info on zombie treatment from <a id="autolink___&lt;!-- autolink unique --&gt;" class="vw-link new" href="http://www.zombiepodcast.com/forum/showwiki.php?title=http:+www+zombieworldnews+com+archives+medical+medicalmain+htm" title="http://www.zombieworldnews.com/archives/medical/medicalmain.htm (not yet written)" rel="nofollow">http://www.zombieworldnews.com/archives/medical/medicalmain.htm</a> Are you really that cranky or is that a slow-turning zombie-tude?</div>
			
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			<div class="message"><b>Michael: </b>Tanya, you ok?<br />
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<b>Tanya: </b>Michael, thank God, you’re here.<br />
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<b>Michael:</b> Tanya, show me.<br />
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<b>Tanya:</b> I can explain, if you just listen to me. I know how the whole thing started, how to immunise ourselves against it and how to save the whole of humankind, if you’ll just listen to me for a second.<br />
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<b>Michael:</b> Let me see.<br />
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<b>Tanya:</b> Michael, I know where Burt is, and Angel, I know where Saul is, Lizzy, how to get to Scratch and Durai, I know all about Boulder and there’s some things you really need to know about this place, Irwin, just listen to me for one moment. <br />
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<b>Michael:</b> Tanya!<br />
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<b>Tanya:</b> Were you really military intelligence?<br />
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<b>Riley:</b> I’m horny, has anybody seen Vee?<br />
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Way to go Mikey.<br />
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Bye Angel.<br />
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Also, when asked where Tanya was bitten, Puck says ‘Forum’. This is a dangerous place. <br />
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Thought it would great if podcast authors could make some guest appearances. For example Phil...]]></description>
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Thought it would great if podcast authors could make some guest appearances. For example Phil Rossi (Crescent), Scott Sigler (Infected), Eric Busby (Darker Projects). Of course it takes more than one person to produce a podcast, so maybe the offered could be sent to the producers and editors.<br />
Would be a win, win the for podcast community.<br />
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			<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 16:45:27 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Does anyone else watch Grimm?  
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimm_(TV_series) 
 
It's like CSI but with a fantasy / monster twist. I find it to be...]]></description>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimm_(TV_series)" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimm_(TV_series)</a><br />
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It's like CSI but with a fantasy / monster twist. I find it to be one of the best series currently on TV. Every episode has you guessing to what creature did the crime and why. And also throughout the series there is a on-going  back story with the main character.</div>

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			<title>Fort Irwin Blood testing</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 13:19:11 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>I believe it was mentioned that the zombies were rotting and smelled bad ect. That would indicate some kind of viral infection and no blood flow. So...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>I believe it was mentioned that the zombies were rotting and smelled bad ect. That would indicate some kind of viral infection and no blood flow. So the blood depending on when the victim was bitten would thicken due to no blood flow. Fort Irwin, even with a &quot;slow turn&quot; even with a basic blood testing field kit would have some kind of anomaly. The soldier did mention that had blood from one that turned so you do have your control and ..lol zombie blood. There are doctors at fort irwin, that have lab equipment, it might be basic however...maybe the virus need better equipment to identify. Or its just one of those things you leave to the imagination. :zombie:</div>

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			<title>Where are the Mallers.   Boulder?</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 08:39:42 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>Firstly I must say this episode was an emotional ball kick. 
and now i have more of a reason to hate Scratch 
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This...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Firstly I must say this episode was an emotional ball kick.<br />
and now i have more of a reason to hate Scratch<br />
anyway enough of me rambling<br />
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This episode raised a question for my where are the mallers?<br />
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-It sounds like they are in a hospital due to the medical equipment and doctors monitoring Angel (rest his soul).<br />
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-There are doctors which suggests that they are in a safe protected environment.<br />
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-The doctor not knowing not to mess with scratch hint towards the hospital not being somewhere where the mallers have been very long so it is possibly where they were all heading around chapter 20-22.<br />
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so this gives me two ideas of what it could be<br />
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-Firstly the could of gone to the colony which is an old theory but it has the fact that we know the colony does have medical facilities. however when we left the colony the only medical staff aside from nurses was Tania and she left with Michael and Co.<br />
-Secondly this is an absolute long shot idea what if the are at Boulder? Colonel Kimmet did mention that Boulder has began a medical facility where new medics are being trained this is a long shot but who knows.<br />
-Or they could be in a completely unknown location<br />
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