One hundred and sixty-three years ago, on July 9, 1850, Millard Fillmore was inaugurated as the President of the United States following Zachary Taylor’s rather odd death. Taylor was particularly warm after participating in Independence Day activities at the Washington Monument, so he did what many of us do: He came home and raided the fridge (or ice box, in his case) for something cool to snack on. After enjoying some iced milk and cherries, Taylor fell sick almost immediately. He was dead five days later.

Some historians believe the milk carried deadly bacteria; others suspected the massive quantities of acidic cherries mixed with the milk was too much for Taylor’s delicate stomach. Still others wonder if Taylor was poisoned.

Whatever the reason was, Taylor is hardly the first person—or the last—to meet his or her demise from eating or swallowing something suspicious. Here are 11 others. Tennessee Williams You’ve probably heard about poor Tennessee Williams (above), but the story bears repeating.

And maybe updating. The playwright was hanging out in his room at the Hotel Elysee in New York in 1983 when he apparently popped a cap into his mouth—the type that you typically find on eye drops or nose spray—and then accidentally choked on it. Rumor spread that Williams had choked to death on an eye drop cap, but a medical examiner later found the presence of the barbiturate secobarbital (“dolls”) in his system. The theory of is that his death may really have been the result of mixing the Seconal with other substances, “kind of a Michael Jackson situation,” but Williams’ companion managed to talk the medical examiner into putting the bottle cap reason down on the death certificate.

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Steve Peregrin Took, Musician Cherries, man, they’re such a menace. In 1980, Steve Peregrin Took (not his birth name) of the band Tyrannosaurus Rex was pretty excited when the band’s manager managed to get the guys some back royalties they were owed. Took, who was no longer a member of the band, was so excited that he basically blew the money on a huge bash that included magic mushrooms, morphine, and booze. After taking a magical mixture of all of those things, Took’s mouth went numb, making conditions just right for a cocktail cherry to slip into his throat unnoticed. Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden. Wikimedia Commons On February 12, 1771, the King of Sweden gorged himself on a feast that could have fed a whole crew of men: lobster, caviar, sauerkraut, herring and champagne. To cap off his meal, King Adolf Frederick enjoyed 14 servings of semla served in hot milk.

He died the same day, apparently of digestion problems. Too bad—makes you wonder how he would have celebrated Valentine’s Day. Semla, by the way, is a flour bun filled with almond paste and topped with whipped cream.

Not sure I blame him for eating 14 of them. If you’d like to try to best the King’s feat. But don’t say we didn’t warn you. Sherwood Anderson, Novelist. Wikimedia Commons Novelist and short story writer Sherwood Anderson was on a cruise with his wife in 1941 when he started to experience severe stomach cramps. He died a few days later at a hospital in Panama, where a doctor discovered that he had swallowed a whole toothpick that had likely speared an olive in a martini glass. The toothpick damaged Anderson’s internal organs, which then became infected.

Too many martinis will kill you. Prior, Navy Lieutenant In other “don’t put things in your mouth that don’t belong there” news, we have the surprising demise of Navy Lieutenant George M.

Prior had a few days’ leave from work and decided to spend every day playing golf at the Army Navy Country Club in Arlington, VA. He felt nauseated by the end of the first day. By the end of the third day, he had a rash and a fever of 104.5 and admitted himself to the hospital. Blisters the size of baseballs cropped up shortly thereafter, and a week and a half later, he was dead, with 80 percent of his skin burned and blistered. It was later determined that the golf tee he habitually stuck in his mouth after every hole had been the golf course used to keep their grounds beautiful.

Prior’s allergic reaction to a chemical in the fungicide burned his skin from the inside out and caused the failure of several of his major organs. Bando Mitsugoro VIII, Kabuki Actor. Wikimedia Commons If you’re like me, you’re most familiar with the fugu fish thanks to that episode of The Simpsons (“One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish”) where Homer thinks he accidentally ate some and will likely die by the time the sun rises. Spoiler alert: He’s OK. In real life, certain parts of the fugu fish are extremely toxic, especially the liver. Bird By Bird Some Instructions On Writing And Life Pdf To Excel. Ingesting too much of it will render the victim completely paralyzed but totally conscious, and eventually the paralysis even hits major organs. The victim ends up asphyxiating.

This is exactly what happened to Japanese “Living National Treasure” Bando Mitsugoro VIII, a Kabuki actor. In 1975, the actor insisted that he was strong enough to survive the toxin, and ordered a large—and illegal—number of fugu livers. Spoiler alert #2: Mitsugoro wasn’t strong enough to survive the toxin. Basil Brown, Health Nut As the saying goes, “all things in moderation.” That includes health food, believe it or not, which health nut Basil Brown learned the hard way in 1974. He drank a gallon of carrot juice every day, and took excessive amounts of vitamin A whenever he couldn’t muster up the tastebuds to get a gallon of the “healthy” stuff down his gullet.

He from “hypervitaminosis A,” a massive overdose of vitamin A that essentially shut down his liver. Edward Archbold Any way you can imagine it, death by roaches sounds pretty horrific. In the case of Edward Archbold, it wasn’t a weird Kafkaesque situation that did him in, but in fact actually ingesting cockroaches. Wait, maybe that is a Kafkaesque situation. Along with about 30 other people, Archbold was consuming insects for the chance to win a free python.

You can see the contest hook now, right? “Eat like a python, win a python.” After eating a large number of roaches, two ounces of mealworms and 35 horn worms, Archbold collapsed, his airway. He was pronounced dead at the hospital.

Henry Hall, Lighthouse Keeper Being a lighthouse keeper certainly has its hazards, but I bet you never thought ingesting molten lead was one of them. I’m sure Henry Hall didn’t, either. Hall was the lighthouse keeper for the Eddystone Lighthouse in Devon, England, when it caught on fire in 1755. As he looked up at the burning tower of the lighthouse, some melted lead from the reflector dripped onto his face and down his throat. The 94-year-old man lasted 12 days before succumbing to his injuries; upon his death, his doctor removed a chunk of lead from his stomach that weighed nearly half a pound. Vladimir Likhonos, Chemistry Student Exploding bubble gum may sound like one of those crappy tricks a clown may pull on you, but to chemistry student Vladimir Likhonos, it was no joke.

Likhonos, who was studying at the Kyiv Polytechnical Institute in Ukraine, had developed a penchant for dunking his gum in citric acid before chewing to give it a sour pop. Sadly, a “pop” is what he got when he accidentally dipped his gum in an explosive substance he had been working with instead of the citric acid. The combination of his saliva with the powder was to blow off most of his lower face. Paramedics were unable to save him.

Maude D'Lean, Sword Swallower I know this is going to come as a surprise, but sometimes sticking a sharp sword down your throat results in injuries, even fatalities. Maude D’Lean was a famous sword swallower in the early 1900s. Though she had performed her act successfully for decades, it was an audience member that did her in. Before a performance, Maude passed the sword through the audience so they could see that it was the real deal. On this particular occasion in 1920, one of the audience members who handled the sword managed to chip the blade. The chip damaged her internal organs and she.

Someone who didn’t die from eating something weird: Mama Cass. She didn’t choke on a ham sandwich. She had a heart attack. Throughout history, corpses have been bought and sold, studied, collected, stolen, and dissected.

In, Mental Floss editor Bess Lovejoy looked into the afterlife of numerous famous corpses, including Saint Nicholas, one of the many canonized bodies whose parts were highly prized by churches, thieves, and the faithful. Don't tell the kids, but Santa Claus has been dead for more than sixteen hundred years. No, his body is not at the North Pole, and he's not buried with Mrs. In fact, his remains are thousands of miles away, on Italy's sunny Adriatic coast. And while Santa might be enjoying his Mediterranean vacation, he's probably not too happy about what happened to his remains. They were stolen in the eleventh century, and people have been fighting over them ever since.

Of course, the Santa Claus of folklore doesn't have a skeleton. But his inspiration, Saint Nicholas, does. That's about all we can say for sure about Nicholas: he was a bishop who lived and died in what is now Turkey in the first half of the fourth century.

Legend tells us that he was born into a rich family and delighted in giving gifts. Once, he threw three bags of gold into the window of a poor family's house, saving the three daughters who lived there from a life of prostitution. Another time, he raised three children from the dead after a butcher carved them up and stored them in a vat of brine. He also protected sailors, who were said to cry out his name in rough seas, then watch the waves mysteriously smooth.

The sailors spread Nicholas's cult around the world. Within a century of his death, the bishop was worshipped as a saint, lending his name to hundreds of ports, islands, and inlets, and thousands of baby boys.

He became one of the best-loved saints in all of Christendom, adopted by both the Eastern and Western traditions. Christmas probably owes something to his December 6 feast day, while Santa Claus’s red outfit may come from his red bishop’s robes. 'Santa Claus' is derived from 'Sinterklaas,' which was how Dutch immigrants to New Amsterdam pronounced his name.

As one of the most popular saints in the Christian world, Nicholas had a particularly powerful corpse. The bodies of saints and martyrs had been important to Christianity since its beginning: the earliest churches were built on the tombs of saints.

It was thought that the bodily bits of saints functioned like spiritual walkie-talkies: you could communicate with higher powers through them, and they, in turn, could manifest holy forces on Earth. They could heal you, protect you, and even perform miracles. Sometimes, the miracles concerned the saints' own bodies. Their corpses would refuse to decay, exude an inexplicable ooze, or start to drip blood that mysteriously solidified and then reliquefied. So it was with Nicholas: at some point after his death, his bones began to called manna or myrrh, which was said to smell like roses and possess potent healing powers. The appearance of the manna was taken as a sign that Nicholas’s corpse was especially holy, and pilgrims began flocking by the thousands to (now called Demre). By the eleventh century, other cities started getting jealous.

At the time, cities and churches often competed for relics, which brought power and prestige to their hometowns the way a successful sports team might today. Originally, the relics trade had been nourished by the catacombs in Rome, but when demand outstripped supply, merchants—and even monks—weren't above sneaking down into the crypts of churches to steal some holy bones. Such thefts weren't seen as a sin; the sanctity of the remains trumped any ethical concerns. The relics were also thought to have their own personalities—if they didn't want to be stolen, they wouldn't allow it. Like King Arthur's sword in the stone, they could only be removed by the right person. That was how Myra lost Saint Nicholas. The culprits were a group of merchants and sailors from the town of Bari, located on the heel of Italy's boot.

Like other relic thefts, this one came at a time of crisis for the town where the thieves lived, which in this case had recently been invaded by a horde of rapacious Normans. The conquerors wanted to compete with the Venetians, their trading rivals to the north, who were known for stealing the bones of Saint Mark (disguised in a basket of pork) from Alexandria in 827. And when the Normans heard that Myra had recently fallen to the Turks, leaving Nicholas’s tomb vulnerable, they decided to try stealing a saint for themselves.

According to an account written shortly after the theft by a Barian clerk, three ships sailed from Bari into Myra's harbor in the spring of 1087. Forty-seven well armed Barians disembarked and strode into the church of Saint Nicholas, where they asked to see the saint’s tomb. The monks, who weren't idiots, got suspicious and asked why they wanted to know.

The Barians then dropped any pretense of politeness, tied the monks up, and smashed their way into Nicholas's sarcophagus. They found his skeleton submerged in its manna and smelled a heavenly perfume wafting up from the bones, which 'licked at the venerable priests as if in insatiable embrace.' And so Nicholas of Myra became Nicholas of Bari.

The relics made the town, and the men who stole them. The thieves became famous in the area, and for centuries their descendants received a percentage of the offerings given on the saint’s feast day.

The townspeople built a new basilica to hold the remains, which drew thousands of pilgrims throughout the Middle Ages. Even today, Bari remains a major pilgrimage site in southern Italy, visited by both Roman Catholics and Orthodox Christians.

Every May an elaborate festival, the Feast of the Translation, celebrates the arrival of Nicholas’s relics. As one of the highlights, the rector of the basilica bends over Nicholas’s sarcophagus and draws off some of the manna in a crystal vial. The fluid is mixed with holy water and poured into decorated bottles sold in Bari's shops; it is thought to be a curative drink.

But Bari is not the only place that boasts of the bones of Saint Nicholas. If you ask the Venetians, they will say their own sailors visited Myra during the First Crusade and stole Nicholas’s remains, which have been in Venice ever since. For centuries, both Bari and Venice have claimed the saint's skeleton.

In the twentieth century, scientists waded into the dispute. During renovations to the basilica of Bari in 1953, church officials allowed University of Bari anatomy professor Luigi Martino to examine the remains— the first time the tomb had been opened in more than eight hundred years.

Martino found the bones wet, fragile, and fragmented, with many of them missing. He concluded that they had belonged to a man who died in his seventies, although because Martino was given only a short time with the bones, he could say little more. Four decades later, Martino and other scientists also studied the Venetian bones.

They concluded that those relics and the ones in Bari had come from the same skeleton, and theorized that the Venetian sailors had stolen what was left in Myra after the Barians had done all their smashing. As for Demre, all they have is an empty tomb. And they want their bones back. In 2009, the Turkish government said it was considering a formal request to Rome for the return of Nicholas's remains. Though the bones have little religious significance in a nation that’s 99 percent Muslim, there’s still a sense in Turkey that the centuries-old theft was a cultural violation. Its restitution would certainly be an economic benefit: according to local officials, tourists in Demre frequently complain about the barren tomb, and they weren't satisfied by the giant plastic sculpture of Santa Claus that once stood outside Nicholas’s church.

Even though Santa has become an international cultural icon, his myth is still rooted in a set of bones far from home. From by Bess Lovejoy. Copyright © 2013 by Bess Lovejoy. Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc. The queen's private secretary will start an urgent phone tree. Parliament will call an emergency session.

Commercial radio stations will watch special blue lights flash, then switch to pre-prepared playlists of somber music. As a new video from relates, the British media and government have been preparing for decades for the death of Queen Elizabeth II—a procedure codenamed 'London Bridge is Down.' There's plenty at stake when a British monarch dies. And as explains, royal deaths haven't always gone smoothly.

When the Queen Mother passed away in 2002, the blue 'obit lights' installed at commercial radio stations didn’t come on because someone failed to depress the button fully. That's why it's worth it to practice: As Half as Interesting notes, experts have already signed contracts agreeing to be interviewed upon the queen's death, and several stations have done run-throughs substituting 'Mrs. Robinson' for the queen's name. You can learn more about 'London Bridge is Down' by watching the video below—or read the Guardian piece for even more detail, including the plans for her funeral and burial. ('There may be,' they note.).

From their Let's Play of: (Videos now.) Hard Rain • The very first campaign shown, 'Hard Rain', only Kaiser gets out alive. In a later campaign, he gets his comeuppance for abandoning his comrades when they shoot him in the finale. • At the end of their 'Hard Rain' campaign, before Kaiser accidentally makes the boat leave without everyone else, Lani is shooting at a Tank, who runs at him and smashes him into the river, killing him. His frantic screaming of ' before he gets knocked in make it even funnier. Dead Center • Before the campaign even starts (i.e., in the lobby), the gang questions Antfish for picking Rochelle. Ant's response?

Lani: Rochelle has aroused the Witch. The Passing • Also when Lani falls down a hole into a pit of zombies in 'The Passing Part 2'. • Moments after one of the other guys was singing 'Ring of Fire' • They did this playthrough fairly late at night, so Taka is sitting close to his mic and talking in a very low voice so as not to wake other people in his house. The result of this is that he sounds like a serial killer for the whole video.

The Sacrifice • In an early part of the campaign, we get this little gem after Lani mistakes a broom closet for a Safe Room. Lani: OLD MAN ON SPEED! WHAT WANTS TO DIE?! • In the final part of 'The Sacrifice', right as Lani is about to jump down and perform the titular act, a Smoker yanks him off the platform and drags him towards the generator.

Dead Aboard • Lani shouting 'EL KABONG!' When he melees zombies after getting his hands on a guitar. • Later on, turning after obtaining a chainsaw, shouting 'COME AT ME!' At common infected and charging a Tank head-on while screaming. • Speaking of 'Death Aboard', there are two moments towards the end.

First, on the Ship level, when Taka is suddenly incapacitated. Everyone is baffled at how Taka was quickly knocked down, only for them to find out after the fact that the container door that leads forward has a lovely surprise behind it: a car that tumbles out. Then on the finale, everyone is expecting the hot-air balloon to land on the rooftop.only for the balloon to drift down to the docks below the lighthouse they are holed up in.

What follows is one hell of a mad dash to the escape vehicle that is flat-out hilarious to watch. Lani: 'ANOTHER Tank?!?' Gan: 'Oh, SHIT!

This is Karma Tank!!!' Kaiser: 'That's what you get!!' • And just as they were shooting Kaiser, Gan's cam is renamed to.

Detour Ahead • The epic mess that was 'Detour Ahead 5'. • Particularly in the fourth stage- after fighting off a ridiculous horde, the guys are chatting about how glad they are to have survived and now they can heal. • This is not long after their only Molotov was used to make a wall of fire behind them during the event so they wouldn't get mobbed from behind. • Don't forget the beginning of the third stage, where they go into a warehouse and are attacked by a tank, a charger, and a jockey.

First Taka is downed by the tank, then after being helped back up, the charger downs him again. Gan: This is so unnecessary! • During a break in the action the group finds a ladder leading up through a trap door. Taka gets sent to check for a Witch, but as soon as he reaches the top of the ladder, he gets jumped by a Hunter and falls back to the ground with it riding on top of him. • And also the first stage, when they're waiting for a Witch in their way to calm down. It doesn't, so Taka just finally opens fire while shouting.

Lani's response? ' And then the group agrees that that was something Ellis would have done. Later, when they enter the house, Taka is attacked and downed by a Tank, and since he used his health pack after the witch attack, he has to go the remainder of the stage without a heal up. • The best part is what leads up to the Tank attack. Taka finds a chainsaw in the basement of the house, and tells the others that he'll 'clear the house.' He exits upstairs and runs into the Tank. While he's trying to fight it off, the others start laughing, Lani yelling.

Taka: I walked into the house, there was a tank drinking a beer and watching the game! Dark Carnival • In 'Dark Carnival', the gang runs from a Tank. Taka, holding up the rear, asks 'is it behind me?' Only to get hit with a thrown chunk of concrete. • In the finale of 'Dark Carnival', the guys survive long enough for the helicopter to arrive. Gan and Kaiser immediately hop on, but Lani- holding Gnome Chomski- has trouble getting into it. Suddenly they realize Taka is nowhere near them, as it turns out he glitched through the bottom of the helicopter and went back around only to be overwhelmed as the chopper takes off.

His attempt at a heroic final speech makes it even better. • About 5 minutes into 'Dark Carnival Part 1', the guys are at the hotel and scouting around for more supplies.

Que sobbing, meaning a witch was nearby. So nearby, she was inside the rooms above the pool (players will know where). Kaiser found out the hard way, then ran off the second floor to avoid her and tried to lead her up the staircase so the others could take her down. Except the Witch decided to take the stairs down to the first floor, and meet him half-way. Or it tried to, but it had to run past three full-autos, and promptly died before Kaiser got back up to the second floor. • A little before that, Kaiser and Taka are innocently strolling into a room.

Just before Gan shoots the gas can inside of it. Kaiser, luckily, was still half way out.

Taka, on the other hand. Taka: OH MY GOD. • • When the gang reaches the roller coaster event, Lani Cue charger coming in from the rear and carrying Lani (who was holding the gnome) right off of the track and into the fence before anyone else even sees what happened. No Mercy • During the first stage of 'No Mercy', Gan finds the safe house just as Lani sets off a car alarm, alerting the horde. Problem is, there is a Witch, a Jockey and a Spitter in their way, and Gan is caught between the horde and the door, and is incapacitated, and the others closed the door, forcing them go back out and saving him. In the second stage, after suffering a number of setbacks, including being incapacitated by Lani while trying to save Taka and being chased by the Witch, there is another car with an alarm near the safe house, and Gan, who is already closer to the safe house than the others, sets off the alarm as revenge, then closes the door. He's fully content to let them all die until an incapacitated Taka starts singing again.

• Also, in the second stage. Taka: (without missing a beat, as Francis) I hate bullets. • Third stage. Gan shoots and, climbs out of the sewer hole., while Lani and Kaiser make a break for it. Lani botches a Molotov throw and dies in his own flames, and Kaiser makes it to the safe room.

He sets himself on fire too. (Maybe he felt left out.) • Earlier in the third stage, the gang comes across a Witch at the bottom of some spiral stairs. Naturally surprised, they quickly try to formulate a plan- only to be interrupted by a Boomer who runs through the door and pukes everyone but Lani. Lani (bludgeoning the Tank with his cricket-bat): TAKE THAT!

Eat cricket-bat, you whore! I'm kickin' your ass! (Continues hitting said Tank after its dead) • And once they reach the elevator and take it down, the group rescues Kaiser from a closet, have Lani die after getting incapacitated for the third time, limp through the maze to the safe room.

Only to have Kaiser shoot Gan and take him out at the very last second. • The last portion is especially funny because this occurred after a tense argument between Taka and Gan, and Kaiser made everyone promise to stop the. • In the finale of 'No Mercy' advanced, during their first attempt of the helipad fight, as Gan is trying to revive Lani and Kaiser, they're all suddenly hit by a spitter. Gan: OH MY GOD!

• Next time they reach that ladder, Kaiser goes up.and is immediately soaked in Boomer bile AND pounced by a Hunter, almost simultaneously. • Later during the second attempt, Kaiser get dragged off the roof by a Smoker, rammed into a wall by a Charger,, and grabbed by another Charger.

All within the space of about thirty seconds. The AI really doesn't like cats, it seems. • The epic clusterf*ck that results from Kaiser hitting the elevator button too soon on No Mercy Advanced, leaving Gan and Kaiser to die while getting mobbed by the horde as Lani and Taka hole up in a room at the end of the hallway. Taka opens the door to throw a pipe bomb and a Charger comes through, hitting Lani. Then as the zombies eventually break down the door, Taka throws a Molotov and Lani is caught by a Smoker, which then proceeds to drag him through the fire to Lani's screams of 'HE WAS WAITING!'

, Lani gets mauled by the Infected while everyone else proceeds to crack up. The remaining zombies charge at Taka and he kills them, then runs out into the hallway and gets caught by the same Smoker and dies. • They were suffering even before that, mostly because Taka and Gan were still spending more time trying to kill each other over what happened in the second stage. It's only after they die that Kaiser and Lani's suggestion of not killing each other starts to make sense to them. • While trying to climb a stairwell in 'No Mercy Advanced', Taka gets downed, then spat upon. Gan goes to rescue him, only to get downed by Lani and his lousy shooting. Lani rescues Gan, Kaiser foolishly tosses a Moly, and Taka says in surprise 'Oh, so that's what that looks like!'

When he's set on fire. By now it's become, so as the others laugh and let Taka roast, he decides to voice his complaints in true Francis style. Lani (being swarmed by Commons while trying to kill a Tank): AH GOD! EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE! • After Taka gets a Charger off of him, a Hunter jumps right on him. • In the final attempt of Helm's Deep they all turn against each other with hilarious results.

Though, mainly this was directed at Taka to begin with, but it just devolved into them trying to slaughter one another after they'd finally downed him, leaving Gan and Lani to go out there on their own. Download Extract Rar File Software. Just hearing Gan raving at Taka for 'leaving them to die' is simply priceless.

• Kaiser spots a Tank coming and accidentally calls it a 'heavy'- • Dead Air • In the third portion of 'Dead Air' on Advanced, they STILL have trouble opening doors! • Also in Part Three, they're making their way through an abandoned parking garage that links to the airport via skybridge. As they do so, Lani turns around a dark corner and switches on his flashlight.

What greets him is the sight of a male and female zombie humorously engaged in a fist-fight, in turn, prompting this exchange. Zoey: Through the offices! Gan: Thank you, Zoey. Zoey knows what's up. Lani: Zoey works in an airport.

Apparently this airport. Kaiser: I've been escorted through here to get searched so many times. Lani: Damn FAA. Gan: If you weren't gay, I would suggest you were creeping.

• Also in 'Dead Air' part four, watching Gan get chased by a Witch during the event is so hilarious. All it really needs is to be set to the 'Yakety Sax' to be complete. • Near the end, Lani walks through a metal detector in the airport, summoning a horde, so Gan throws a Boomer vial to buy them time to escape to the safe house.

However, Lani is disappointed that they missed the horde, so he refuses to go in until he fights one. He ends up getting incapacitated, and Gan tells the others to not help him. Lani: I am waiting here for them. They are seeing us off.

Louis: We've got to get inside! Lani: Shut up, Louis! • 'If you having zombie problems I feel bad for you son, I got 99 problems but a witch ain't one.' Suicide Blitz • The calamity we call 'Suicide Blitz Part One' has to be seen to be believed. The fun starts when Kaiser's connection dies, leaving the AI to take over Rochelle while the others curse his computer. Soon after, Taka becomes inexplicably mute, with Gan & Lani both telling and typing at him to use the C button. Once outside, Taka's connection dies just as Kaiser returns,, constantly of Lani & Gan, and and luring a of infected, causing speculation as to whether an actual cat has taken over his controls.

Then Lani somehow: when he puts it down to use his guns, it phases through a truck and lands on surfaces that are, rendering it completely irretrievable. Gan now tries to, only to have Kaiser die before Gan can get to him. Finally, Lani and Gan give up and shoot each other, leading to a Game Over and a restart. • During the second try, when Kaiser and Taka seem to have their connection back. Thank God Leon's not here. Kaiser: Awww, I like Leon! Gan: You're the only one who would.

• The gang finds a pipe bomb in the woods. Taka promptly blames it on 'those punk kids drinkin' again'.

• The sound glitching out (possibly due to triggering a Boomer horde in the ending room of the first level), leaving them with absolutely no warning whenever they fight a Tank. (For the record; Tanks have a very distinctive and loud music cue and theme, to the point where even the experienced foursome has trouble pinpointing if it was a Tank that roared or just a retarded Charger.) • Kaiser swinging between making mentions of well-known Versus slaughterfest corridors as they pass through and leading the others in completely the wrong direction, often with barely half a minute between the two extremes. • The third stage. Taka messes up the Witch's killing and talks trash. When she's gone, Gan and Kaiser begin debating whether to pick him up while Lani cuts out the middleman and begins shooting Taka.

Quite possibly the definition of 'Karma Charger'. • After trials, tribulations, two Chargers picking Taka up (and down and up and down) in the space of about a minute, Kaiser trying to claim the Tank as being all the work of the Bile Jar, and Lani dropping to one health and setting a building on fire, they make it into the safe room. Where they accidentally open the door and get Spat on just as the end-of-level screen pops up. • Stage Four. In a virtual replay of the last stage, Lani sets off a propane tank and blocks Kaiser from rejoining the group. Moments before he is picked up and carried easily fifty metres by a Charger. • Kaiser jumping off a small ledge.

And incapacitating himself. The group follows him cautiously, with Lani going to pick him up before quickly having to dodge out of the way of a Charger as Taka gets Jockeyed away. • Lani desperately picks up Kaiser, turns around and swats a Jockey off Gan and turns again. To see, lashing out. Taka: That's right; I am from the internet. I do many hilarious voices, such as (in Nappa's voice) Nappa!

(Still in the same voice) And Krump! • The catastrophe that was the Blood Harvest Finale.

It took them three tries to get to the actual event, likely because the music wasn't giving them some vital clues. • During the first run, Lani nearly gets incapped immediately after the saferoom. He pops some pills and keeps going, only for the horde to swarm the party and incap Taka. After that, Gan gets incapped by commons, and Taka gets charged immediately after trying to pick Gan up.

• Their second try ends up similarly bad, but this time Kaiser tries to avoid the horde by telling everyone to crouch when the enter the cornfield (to avoid the birds getting startled). This obviously doesn't work, and the gang rags on Kaiser for the rest of the map. Death Toll • In Part 1, we get this gem from Lani and Kaiser. Gan: Way to go, dipshit. Kaiser(incapped): I said I was going to shoot her! Taka drops a propane tank on him Taka: Hey Kaiser, look what I found!(shoots) then when Taka actually gets him up Lani: Taka, you have just finally, near the safe room. Kaiser: Alright, where's the bitch?

Gan: Kaiser: Lani: WAAAAAH! Taka, after Kaiser is downed: Don't worry Kaiser, I'll save you Lani: We gotta put him down! He's turning! Kaiser: You guys are dicks! Lani, once Kaiser finally dies: Gan: Yaaay! (singsong)And nothing of value was lost!

Kaiser: I'd just like to point out - that Gan: You're like the whitest guy I know. You're not allowed to say that. • In part 3 of Death Toll, Lani's quick and irrational use of molotovs is stimulated when they find large amounts of them throughout the level. Even Kaiser gets in on it! • Gan nabs a chainsaw that Taka really wanted, leading Taka to splutter that Gan is stifling his creativity.

'I'm an artist with the chainsaw!' • To TFS's detriment in part 4, where Lani is incapped by Kaiser, and Gan says he should stop lighting people on fire. Lani: The only incaps I have are from you guys! Gan: Maybe if you stopped lighting everyone on fire we wouldn't shoot you!

Lani: You know what, FUCK YOU!!! [Lani throws a Molotov at Gan] Gan: AH, MY GOD, WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?! Taka: Gan: I HATE YOU I HATE YOU! I just used a healthpack!

*he attempts to flee the fire, only to be incapped and skid to a halt at Lani's feet* • They are subsequently overrun and forced to restart the level in Part 5, at which point fire antics continue. For instance, Lani takes grief for using a Molotov on a Tank, despite this being standard procedure for dealing with one. Kaiser: Gan: Same place?? Okay, okay bitch, round two.

I got this shit. Taka (simultaneously): Guys guys guys guys guys. Gan: No no no no no no.

Taka (indignant): I got this. Shut the f— I got this!

Gan: Aww, goddammit, Taka, back off. Taka begins to back off, having not yet fired a shot. But before he can.

Witch incapacitated takahata101 Gan: Lani: I'm out of ammo. • In Part 6, Taka offers this joke about him and Gan being the only survivors of the campaign. Gan: Fuck you!

• Anytime they get outnumbered. • Their frequent desires to take on the harmless, out of the way Witches they come across.. • Gan attempts a.

'Hello, I have a package for Miss Witch? SURPRISE, IT'S DEATH!' Unfortunately his shot misses and even more hilarity ensues. • Whenever they befriend an inanimate object only to sacrifice it against the zombies. • The Gas Can from 'Death Aboard', Pt.

• The constant arguments about how to pronounce 'melee'. • Taka actually pronounces it correctly on one occasion. And then quickly UN-corrects himself. • 'Watch out for the one in the dark hoodie. He'll try to touch your nipples.' • After reading this, Taka finds it necessary to point out that he is wearing a dark hoodie. • Taka's frequent.

The first real sign of this is at the end of 'Death Aboard' when he audibly whispers 'I love you, Nick' as the credits begin to roll, and it only gets more frequent until 'Dark Carnival' when the guys jokingly call him out on it and accuse him of just trying to 'make an excuse.' • Spot, the Boomer. • 'Sup guys. Have you seen my friend Spot? I know it's a strange name for a guy, but I'm worried about him.

Think he might be trying to kill himself.' • 'Why do you have to be so quiet GOD?' • I WILL NEVER STOP KILLING YOU!