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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-04-09 06:50 PM
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Every time a werewolf bites someone, the bitee becomes a werewolf.
So how come we're up to our asses in werewolves?
:shrug:

Watching "Wolf" on AMC.
Jack Nicholson is great, as always.
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-04-09 06:58 PM
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1. Does the original werewolf die when he makes a new werewolf?
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-04-09 07:00 PM
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3. Not in this movie.
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hedgehog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-04-09 07:00 PM
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2. Because the SPCA keeps catching them , neutering them, then
releasing them back into the wild?
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mykpart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-04-09 07:06 PM
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4. Werewolf?
Where wolf? :rofl:
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skygazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-04-09 07:10 PM
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5. We're probably all werewolves and just don't know it
Because when the moon is full, we go charging around raising a ruckus but have no recollection of it the following day. I don't know about you, but I'm always exhausted the day after a full moon.
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Drunken Irishman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-04-09 07:14 PM
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6. So that would explain the half chewed woman I found in my bed the last full moon.
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-04-09 07:17 PM
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7. How many times do I have to tell you?
Finish your plate, young man! There's starving children in Transylvania who'd give anything for a fresh young American victim.
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-04-09 07:18 PM
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8. Cause we've all been bitten by vampires, too, thereby canceling out both curses
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csziggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-06-09 12:22 AM
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16. No, that is not how it works - werewolves turn into vampires
...Take the matter of vampires vs. werewolves. The literature and films of old rarely mention the two in the same story, although they appear to have much in common. They share some physical traits, such as pointed ears and animal-like appearance. The old Slavonic word volkodlak, which translates roughly as "wolf hair" or "wolf mane," means "werewolf" in most places but "bloodsucking revenant" (vampire to you) in Serbia. Tradition there has it that when a werewolf dies it rises again as a vampire, and that eating the flesh of a sheep killed by a wolf meant turning into a vampire after death. Finally, we know that vampires can take the form of a wolf and summon wolves to do their bidding.

Despite this seemingly close relationship, encounters between vampires and werewolves are largely limited to recent literature and movies, e.g., the Anita Blake novels, the Underworld movies, and the Marvel comics featuring Nina Price, Vampire by Night. No disrespect, but who do you think has a better handle on the undead, pimply-faced comics auteurs or medieval Serbs? Taking Balkan lore as our starting point, therefore, we deduce that vampirism is the next stage in the werewolf's natural history, death being the lycanthropic equivalent of a caterpillar's cocoon. Interesting as this may be from a necrobiological standpoint, it lowers the dramatic stakes. A werewolf nipping at a vampire? All you'll likely get is a cranky vampire - traditionally lycanthropy is transmitted by magic or curse rather than bites. A vampire who fatally bites a werewolf, meanwhile, merely hastens a metamorphosis that would have occurred anyway. And for what? Sucking the lifeblood of an innocent maiden is one thing. Going after a slobbering beast, on the other hand, makes you think: dude must be hard up.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2678/what-happens-if-a-werewolf-bites-a-vampire
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Lucian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-06-09 12:30 AM
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17. Speak for yourself.
Edited on Mon Apr-06-09 12:31 AM by Lucian
I became a hybrid of both vampires and werewolves.

:silly:
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jpak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-04-09 07:18 PM
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9. Same thing happens with clowns
:evilgrin:
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gmoney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-04-09 07:45 PM
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10. As Grandpa said in "The Lost Boys"
"One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach, all the damn vampires."
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rrneck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-04-09 08:04 PM
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11. Tag - you're it. nt
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Generic Brad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-04-09 08:42 PM
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12. But does that work in the world of "Twilight"?
If a werewolf bites a vampire, does the vampire then become a werewolf? My head is spinning!
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mvd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-06-09 12:33 AM
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18. No, but the werewolf tries to take a chunk out of the vampire
Only vampires have the necessary venom.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-04-09 08:43 PM
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13. I was thinking about that film the other day
"I had a little kahlua in my coffee this morning!"

"You didn't have coffee this morning."
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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-05-09 05:13 PM
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14. It was tequila.
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styersc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-05-09 08:10 PM
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15. I was once bitten by a parakeet and now every full moon
I wake up with my bed full of feathers!
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Richard Steele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-06-09 12:53 AM
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19. That's what the werewolf thought when he tried to bite me...
Things don't always work the way they do in movies.
Imagine how surprised the werewolf was.

SUCKS to not be me, sometimes.

And that's all I have to say about that.
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TreasonousBastard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-06-09 02:28 AM
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20. Only if the bitee doesn't die...
cause if dead, and largely eaten by said werewolf, there's not much left to come back.

And, since the werewolf hasn't eaten in a month, not many bitees manage to survive without being devoured.

Ergo, not all that many new werewolves around. Just the old, cagey ones who haven't met a silver bullet yet.

(When's the next full moon?)

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Jamastiene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-06-09 04:18 AM
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21. If you've already been bitten by a vampire and turned into a vampire,
and then a werewolf bites you, do you still turn into a werewolf? Or do you stay a vampire? Or do you become a hybrid of both?
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