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The Werewolf episode of MST3K is one of their best! Arizona Werewolf has everything bad in every crappy werewolf movie we ever sat through! It even has underpaid and heavily mis-used character actor Richard Lynch! He shows up in a lot of turkeys. Here's a few particular great moments: "His cond...

One wonders what single word a werewolf would say. Here's some possibilities...

Yum!
Ouch
Right...

Oh, bugger. I just had this image of Jay and Silent Bob. The werewolf throws a diabolical agent off a train, turns around, and utters, "no ticket!"

As much as I otherwise absolutely love the Harry Potter series, I had to vote for the lame rat thing. It's their only bad job out of a great series. If they only botch one thing, why did it have to be the werewolf?!? Say what you will about Teen Wolf , but it's the movie that changed my life! Seeing...

Browningg: No complaints here; I can see how fur too early wouldn't look right. I'll have to concede that one. ChaosWolf: You beat me to the punch! I have yet to see how Service Pack 2 changes those settings. I do believe it adds a patch to resolve a vulnerability issue in which malicious code could...

May 4th, 1987 was the day I first started daydreaming about werewolves. Obviously this forum wasn't around, nor was even the technology behind it. And, Vuldari, we do have spooky similarities. I don't see that many people who fit my archetype. I haven't had the moustache since I shaved it off in lat...

But, do they make the debate any harder? As far as the old vs. the new Battlestar , there's no question. All the gritty realism and hardcore character development of the new series still can't compete with the London Symphony Orchestra and a cast of people like Lorne Greene. Still, the new version i...

Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday to you,
Happy birth...day... dear... Anthony...
AWRROOOOOOOHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

Well, it is a full moon. Gotta go; the ultra-secret government agency got a new lead on my pretending to sing a copyrighted song on the Internet...

The general consensus seems to be that experienced shapeshifters do it better. Those shifting for the first time are generally expected by those of us in the field of theoretical lycanthropology to experience excruciating pain and to undergo forced shifts, while those who have had it for a long time...

Take your time if you have to. We've had too many rush jobs, and I'd rather wait another two or three years and get it right than see yet another pile of crap tomorrow morning, which I can already do.

Still, I'm eager.

>A jpg, or digital file of yourself for the card.

http://www.geocities.com/jonlrabbit/jon.jpg

Packname: Scott Gardener
RL name: Jonathan Coolidge
Animal: wolf
birthdate: 04/25/1973
member since: 05/04/1987
Home state/country: Texas / U.S.A.

Not bad. Still looks more Monster Movie Werewolf than wolf, but closer than a lot.

And then there's always those who have to compare Trek and Star Wars, insisting that one is better than the other.

and then, there's Babylon 5, just to make the debate bigger.

Werewolves made by a virus would still most likely count as their species of origin. That is, if I got bitten by a werewolf and then became one myself, I'd still be a human and not a wolf, even if I could look like one. Unless the virus was extremely sophisticated--enough to throw out human DNA and ...

Recessive traits are such because they are suppressed by normal genes. Re-infection would only work if the infecting virus also shut off the normal genes. But, it could work if it did. However, for the record, there is no way that all of lycanthropy could be done with one gene, let alone a recessive...

This raises the question of whether the trigger is physiologic or psychological, or both. Digestion and heartbeat are physiologic. You can't turn off your stomach, rare biofeedback expertise aside, and no one in one's right mind would stop the heartbeat. If lycanthropic shifting is physiologic, then...

Looks like someone joined Teen Wolf's Scott Howard in the lycanthropic division of the NBA.

So, if you get carded, do you show your Pack ID, tilt your head down, and with a low growl utter "give me... a keg... of beer..."?

If you think about it, the projected evolutionary path suggests something akin to the "Gray" aliens. Spooky? However, in order to evolve, selective forces have to influence who does or doesn't reproduce. I can put forth a perfectly good argument that humans are evolving dumber and dumber, ...

In my works I have my lead character shift in his sleep. It sometimes filters into his dreams, too. Just as we sometimes dream that we can't move, becoming aware of our real-life body in sleep paralysis (a normal protective mechanism that keeps us from acting out our dreams), he finds himself stuck ...

Maybe if one slobbered on one's claws before slashing--but, that conveys deliberate intent to infect, as opposed to biting someone followed by his or her happening to get away and survive.

I'm surprised no one has yet mentioned Kyoht. We've got a number of Goldenwolf worshippers around here. (I've come under fire at least once for making her pedistal too big myself, but she is good, come on.) Kyoht is another major therian artist, with a heavily metaphysical bend. Heavy use of colored...

This is another example of semantics. Yes, the article was nit-pickable, but overall, it was pretty good. But, in saying that werewolves and lycanthropes were different, it ignored the fact that there are more than one definition of words. Lycanthropy can mean 1. being a werewolf, literally, ignorin...

I've understood the "Trekkie" versus "Trekker" debate essentially dead, being a thing that came up in the nineties and died out. and, as you can see by the different takes already suggested, it's like the difference between "therian" and "shifter"--semantics. ...

One use for howling is to signal position, letting others know where you are. I would have a hard time buying that a howl conveyed very detailed information, however. It's a fairly simple sound. One can add inflections and such, but with a few howls, I have a hard time getting it to convey the state...

In my works, I gave the incubation period a week to ten days; I figured that was the bare minimum amount of time it would take for a few thousand viruses to replicate enough to occupy the trillions of cells throughout the human body and to make the neccessary and rather ambitious modifcations. Any f...