Proper name for a group of zombies?

by **Matias** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 10:21 pm

As a group of humans is a family, of wolves a pack, geese are gaggle, what would zombies be? I would say hordes.

by **d-girl** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 10:23 pm

I guess it will depend on their behavior. Horde sounds good. Maybe nest, or tribe, or even colony - depending on how sophisticated they are.

by **Matias** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 10:24 pm

Well, your stereotypical, wandering zombie would be a horde.If they actually formed a civilization, I would say a hive.

by **kyle** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 10:27 pm

Matias wrote:Well, your stereotypical, wandering zombie would be a horde.If they actually formed a civilization, I would say a hive.

Civilization?

by **jamoni** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 10:27 pm

The accepted term is, I believe, a "Stagger" of zombies. Cause it sounds cool:
"Look at that stagger of zombies!"

by **Matias** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 10:28 pm

Let me paraphrase. If they formed a settlement. A main area where they actually reside, not unlike a beehive, or a tree filled with termites.

by **Raccoon City Survivor** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 10:30 pm

Jamoni wrote:The accepted term is, I believe, a "Stagger" of zombies. Cause it sounds cool:
"Look at that stagger of zombies!"

I might use that in one of my stories.

COPYRIGHT!

Just kiddin'.

by **kyle** » Sun Sep 19, 2004 10:34 pm

Matias wrote:Let me paraphrase. If they formed a settlement. A main area where they actually reside, not unlike a beehive, or a tree filled with termites.

But bees and termites DO work together. There has been no proof that zombies do anything coordinated. They are just drawn to the same targets so they appear to work together.

by **Valarius** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 12:37 am

At it's most base, isn't being drawn to the same "target" and taking it out en masse working together?

The zombies, from every film I've seen, know enough to go after living and not each other.

by **d-girl** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 12:53 am

But those aren't REAL zombies. The real thing would be interesting to study, from an anthropological standpoint.

by **noncyr** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 12:56 am

A book of zombies?

by **SlingsVaqueros** » Mon Sep 20, 2004 11:01 pm

Well, you already have a "murder" of crows, and I like the "stagger" of zombies. You could always call it a pack of zombies for a small group. Hoard sounds good for dozens. I've always liked the term "legion" as well.

As for a civilization, I think my butt-hair has more cooperation than a group of zombies.

by **grim** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 12:07 pm

well the definition of horde is- a large moving crowd or throng,swarm,or any wandering group.

so I belive "zombie horde" is most appropriate term to use.

by **noncyr** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 2:18 pm

"Fucking Big Ass Target"

by **ghostface** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 2:40 pm

This is a list of real world group names for animals... http://elmtree.members.beeb.net/htmldb/collectivenouns.htm

by **grim** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 2:46 pm

ghostface wrote:This is a list of real world group names for animals... http://elmtree.members.beeb.net/htmldb/collectivenouns.htm

lol, they even have one for unicorns.

by **Methos** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 12:00 am

noncyr wrote:"Fucking Big Ass Target"

Amen to that, brother. :twisted:

by **mrwalkinman** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 11:00 am

Hail!

I call my blood relatives kin or kindred. Good Anglo-Saxon word.

As for zombies ... I'll add my voice to the others that liked "stagger". A stagger of zombies sounds small though, so I have to say that I like the term "horde" as well.

I alos thought that "office" might be a good term. An office of zombies :twisted:

by **kyle** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 11:04 am

mrwalkinman wrote:Hail!

I didn't realize there were vikings in Canada.

by **mrwalkinman** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 11:26 am

[quote="kyle"][quote="mrwalkinman"]Hail!
[/quote]

I didn't realize there were vikings in Canada.[/quote]

Less a viking and more a English and Frank, but you know the way history goes. Probably have a goodly measure of all, and then some Gaulish and Brit thrown into boot. And of course, long before the so-called "Dark Ages" the various Angle,s Saxons, Jutes, Frisians, Salians, Ruparians and what not were all more or less the same folk living up in southern Scandinavia anyway. Common language roots and what not.

Of course, there is also Lans aux Meadows or whateven the heck its called over in eastern Canada. An excavated viking settlement. There have been many lesser finds in the Ungava Bay region in northeastern Canada. And there is every reason to believe that the Church had vessels sailing over to the "new world" until the "Little Ice Age" at last closed that sea route off in something like the 13 or 14th century.

So, I suppose that, yeah, there is a lot of viking in Canada ... from the French Canadien, who call their other hockey team the Nordiques, eh. though probably in memory of their Norman ancestry rather than their Frankish.

Take it easy, eh!

by **Limper** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 9:34 am

Stagger is good but I have to vote for Office... its has more innuendo and harkens back to the days before the dead rose and society colapsed.

by **hellodarkling** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 7:08 pm

A 'stagger of zombies' would perhaps congeal in a 'clutch'.
or a clusterfuck. A clusterfuck of a Fucking Big Ass Target.

Hmm, interesting subject.

by **Norseman** » Fri Oct 29, 2004 2:01 pm

noncyr wrote:"Fucking Big Ass Target"

I like noncyr's...we could call it a FUBAT. :lol:

by **American** » Sun Oct 31, 2004 12:48 pm

Horde or pack could work

Proper name for a group of zombies?

Proper name for a group of zombies?

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