Are You Ready For The Zombie Invasion?

[Asmodean]

Not watching! Oh, no! Planning. In the world of crappy remakes and even worse sequels, mine is going to be a masterpiece. A blockbuster. A legend.

...Of a B-variety, but do let us not rain on them delusions of grandeur. 

[xSilverPhinx]

Not watching! Oh, no! Planning. In the world of crappy remakes and even worse sequels, mine is going to be a masterpiece. A blockbuster. A legend.

...Of a B-variety, but do let us not rain on them delusions of grandeur. 

Heh! 

[Randy]

Sounds like an adventure. When I was a kid the closest I got to such 'experiments' was a chemistry set my father bought for me which my mother hid somewhere I would never think to look.

Though I highly doubt a kid's chemistry set would have any flammable chemicals in it...

I've had a few chemistry sets in my young life. One time my brother and I were thinking about coming up with a fireproof chemical. First we had to have samples to see how they burned without any chemicals. I opened the alcohol lamp and filled it up part way. Then I handed the bottle of alcohol to my brother who loosely put the cap on. Then the testing began.

We tested a few cloth materials and watched them burn. Then we tried a cotton ball. The cotton ball went "whoosh" and scared my brother who knocked over the bottle of alcohol. The loose cap came off and the alcohol poured down the table top and onto the carpet. The fire followed.

Now we were trying to put out the fire with water. My first thought, well my second was, "Our parents are going to kill us!". My first thought was, "We're going to burn the house down." I was worried more about the second thought than the first.

The biggest part of the fire was on the carpet and I guess the carpet was keeping the fire going. My brother got our spaghetti pot which was the biggest thing we had available that could contain water besides the bath tub. I didn't think of the bath tub at the time though not that it would have mattered.

He takes the pot full of water and tosses it onto the floor completely missing the fire. The second one did much better. I forget what I was doing, I think i was trying to beat the flame with a blanket but I really don't remember.

We finally got the fire out and began trying to soak the water up with blankets, towels, and anything else we thought would be absorbent. This included the vacuum cleaner. I didn't know then what I know now but i could have electrocuted myself. We did the best we could and saw the burned and melted spots.

With a pair of scissors we began cutting the spots out leaving bare patches. There was only one thing to do, nope that's not it. Give up? We moved the furniture around to cover the burned area. My parents were none the wiser until we were adults and my brother brought it up at the dinner table. He laughed about it, I was scared (I was married at the time so I guess I was about twenty-three) and my parents weren't laughing. They were kind of mad at us.

I'm sure there is a moral to this story but I can't think of one.

[Dark Lightning]

Heh, childhood shenanigans. I've possibly told the story here, maybe not. One of my friends got a chemistry set for some day. xmas, birthday, I don't remember. We set out to make sulfuric acid, with eventual manufacture of another acid to make gun cotton or nitroglycerin. We took sulfur powder (in that chemistry kit), set it on fire and captured the smoke (sulfur dioxide). We then poured hydrogen peroxide into the container that had the smoke condensate in it. We collected it all, poured it into a smaller container and commenced to heat it over the alcohol burner from the chemistry kit, to increase the concentration. My friend was swirling the mixture over the burner, and some spilled onto his hand. Whether it was a reasonably (?) strong acid at this point, or just because it was hot, I don't know. But he got burnt. His mother (an RN) took it all away from us and dumped it out. 

[Icarus]

Arachnids are zombies too. I actually like them and almost never try to kill them.  They do some good stuff like ridding my house of insects of a different sort. Very few spiders are aggressive.  Treat them as strange little friends, or just ignore them.

Who knew that spiders can fly?  Well not exactly fly but they can travel long distances in the air.  Like looooong distances.  Take a look at this Atlantic blurb.  https://getpocket.com/explore/item/spiders-can-fly-hundreds-of-miles-using-electricity?utm_source=pocket-newtab

I also have lots and lots of little lizards who are welcome around my house and yard.  I live in Florida where any claim that you do not have roaches in your house is a damned lie.  My lizards keep my digs almost entirely free of those prehistoric bugs. Ecological stuff is cool.

[Dark Lightning]

C'mon, you know that roaches go to Florida so they can get promoted to "palmetto bug".

[xSilverPhinx]

Sounds like an adventure. When I was a kid the closest I got to such 'experiments' was a chemistry set my father bought for me which my mother hid somewhere I would never think to look.

Though I highly doubt a kid's chemistry set would have any flammable chemicals in it...

I've had a few chemistry sets in my young life. One time my brother and I were thinking about coming up with a fireproof chemical. First we had to have samples to see how they burned without any chemicals. I opened the alcohol lamp and filled it up part way. Then I handed the bottle of alcohol to my brother who loosely put the cap on. Then the testing began.

We tested a few cloth materials and watched them burn. Then we tried a cotton ball. The cotton ball went "whoosh" and scared my brother who knocked over the bottle of alcohol. The loose cap came off and the alcohol poured down the table top and onto the carpet. The fire followed.

Now we were trying to put out the fire with water. My first thought, well my second was, "Our parents are going to kill us!". My first thought was, "We're going to burn the house down." I was worried more about the second thought than the first.

The biggest part of the fire was on the carpet and I guess the carpet was keeping the fire going. My brother got our spaghetti pot which was the biggest thing we had available that could contain water besides the bath tub. I didn't think of the bath tub at the time though not that it would have mattered.

He takes the pot full of water and tosses it onto the floor completely missing the fire. The second one did much better. I forget what I was doing, I think i was trying to beat the flame with a blanket but I really don't remember.

We finally got the fire out and began trying to soak the water up with blankets, towels, and anything else we thought would be absorbent. This included the vacuum cleaner. I didn't know then what I know now but i could have electrocuted myself. We did the best we could and saw the burned and melted spots.

With a pair of scissors we began cutting the spots out leaving bare patches. There was only one thing to do, nope that's not it. Give up? We moved the furniture around to cover the burned area. My parents were none the wiser until we were adults and my brother brought it up at the dinner table. He laughed about it, I was scared (I was married at the time so I guess I was about twenty-three) and my parents weren't laughing. They were kind of mad at us.

I'm sure there is a moral to this story but I can't think of one.

Heh  Seems like a couple of things I did that I never told my parents.  Some things are better left unsaid.

Looking back, it's a good thing my mother didn't let me use the chemistry set. As an adult I am a disaster at mixing solutions in the lab and trying old cooking recipes I should have mastered by now.

[xSilverPhinx]

Arachnids are zombies too. I actually like them and almost never try to kill them.  They do some good stuff like ridding my house of insects of a different sort. Very few spiders are aggressive.  Treat them as strange little friends, or just ignore them.

Who knew that spiders can fly?  Well not exactly fly but they can travel long distances in the air.  Like looooong distances.  Take a look at this Atlantic blurb.  https://getpocket.com/explore/item/spiders-can-fly-hundreds-of-miles-using-electricity?utm_source=pocket-newtab

I also have lots and lots of little lizards who are welcome around my house and yard.  I live in Florida where any claim that you do not have roaches in your house is a damned lie.  My lizards keep my digs almost entirely free of those prehistoric bugs. Ecological stuff is cool.

I also like spiders and little lizards. Lizards are more welcome than spiders in my house, but I don't kill the 8-legged critters.

[xSilverPhinx]

C'mon, you know that roaches go to Florida so they can get promoted to "palmetto bug".

Hold on a sec...



Carry on. 

[Dark Lightning]

C'mon, you know that roaches go to Florida so they can get promoted to "palmetto bug".

Hold on a sec...



Carry on. 

Sick? Did you eat a palmetto bug?

[xSilverPhinx]

C'mon, you know that roaches go to Florida so they can get promoted to "palmetto bug".

Hold on a sec...



Carry on. 

Sick? Did you eat a palmetto bug?

Hold on while I put my cup down and clean my keyboard. Just a sec...

*Ahem*

Sorry but you are not allowed to view spoiler contents.

[Randy]

Heh  Seems like a couple of things I did that I never told my parents.  Some things are better left unsaid.

Looking back, it's a good thing my mother didn't let me use the chemistry set. As an adult I am a disaster at mixing solutions in the lab and trying old cooking recipes I should have mastered by now.

I'm glad I grew up to be a software engineer. I don't think anyone would allow me near a lab. As for old cooking recipes, I used to make mine up as I went along. I found that no matter how bad it got you could always add cheese on top and melt it. 

[Dark Lightning]

C'mon, you know that roaches go to Florida so they can get promoted to "palmetto bug".

Hold on a sec...



Carry on. 

Sick? Did you eat a palmetto bug?

Hold on while I put my cup down and clean my keyboard. Just a sec...

*Ahem*

Sorry but you are not allowed to view spoiler contents.

[Icarus]

You guys are great fun......but did anyone look at the link about flying spiders?  If you are aracniphobic (sp)  then you may ignore the link.

"Palmetto bug" is an euphemism for the huge cockroaches with whom Floridians conduct a war.  We used to be able to get a chemical called Dursban which was highly effective against all sorts of entomolgical mini beasties.  Too bad that it is toxic to humans and has been withdrawn from the market. In my case my small six inch lizards do the job pretty well. ............If this sounds like a reason not to move to Florida, You are correct. We natives are pleased to regale you with all kinds of discouraging bad shit like roaches, alligators, Pythons, giant monitor lizards who eat dogs and cats, mosquito swarms, extreme summer heat (which is not true) and traffic congestion which is unfortunately true.  Natives used to display signs along the roadside which read: Yankee go home.  Now we have signs that say: Yankee bring money.

Carry on with the zombie discourse.............

[Tank]

Heh  Seems like a couple of things I did that I never told my parents.  Some things are better left unsaid.

Looking back, it's a good thing my mother didn't let me use the chemistry set. As an adult I am a disaster at mixing solutions in the lab and trying old cooking recipes I should have mastered by now.

I'm glad I grew up to be a software engineer. I don't think anyone would allow me near a lab. As for old cooking recipes, I used to make mine up as I went along. I found that no matter how bad it got you could always add cheese on top and melt it. 

Hi Randy.

It would be appreciated if you would leave the quote tags intact otherwise we lose track of who said what. Cheers