XPost: sci.math   
   From: jesse@phiwumbda.org   
      
   JohnF  writes:   
      
   > In sci.math Jesse F. Hughes  wrote:   
   >> JohnF  writes:   
   >>> I'll absolutely accept any well-designed,   
   >>> well-interpreted, with repeatable results (to, say, three standard   
   >>> deviations), experiment. Go do it. But what you've got here is   
   >>> people asserting what they think the results of such experiments   
   >>> would reveal, without feeling the need to actually go do them.   
   >>   
   >> I guess I'm not sure which people you're referring to here.   
   >   
   > Yeah, I kind of got turned around a little. I admitted not reading   
   > the entire thread when I first posted. Above, I was referring to   
   > out-of-body-is-real advocates without any evidence to back up their   
   > belief, whereas I think you were referring to the "0% success"   
   > experiments designed to refute the advocates. Or something like   
   > that. Whatever. Sorry if I got on the wrong track there.   
      
   Well, no matter.   
      
   [...]   
      
   >> It was a perfect ending.  This isn't your stinkin' Hollywood "everything   
   >> is beautiful" pablum, man.  This is (zombie) reality!   
   >>   
   >> And zombies can be funny.  Romero's zombies were funny, at times.   
   >> Ripping the man's arm off and feasting on his mutilated body while he's   
   >> having a blood pressure test?  Hilarious[1].  That's funny, man.   
   >>   
   >> And "Shaun of the Dead"?  Brilliant, despite the fast zombies heresy.   
   >>   
   >> And maybe your favorite movie is funny, too.  But it just don't compare   
   >> -- *can't* compare -- to the master, dammit.   
   >>   
   >> Most historic site I've ever visited: the Monroeville Mall, in   
   >> Monroeville, PA.  Site of Romero's brilliant Dawn of the Dead.  I got   
   >> goosebumps every time I shopped there.   
   >>   
   >> Footnotes:   
   >> [1]  I honestly wrote the word "gut-splittingly" and thought I'd never   
   >> be forgiven.   
   >   
   > Okay, Jesse, I'm beginning to get scared...   
   > On the internet, nobody knows you're a zombie.   
      
   Just an aficionado, that's all.  Perfectly normal, for a guy who's spent   
   far too many hours watching the undead devour their victims.   
      
   --   
   "Maya Nahib is not a Checotah Indian!   [...] Maya Nahib is an Englishman!"   
   "Are you telling us that a civilized white man could kill and ravish   
   and destroy with all the brutality of a savage?"   
                                   -- Adventures by Morse radio program (1944)   
      
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