I'm sure all college farkers have done something similar during finals week.

I know I have.

[Enter boring, uninteresting story here.]

"C'mon, Garraty, walk with me a little longer."

How long did the kids in Stephen King's "The Long Walk" last?

Ugh. I've been up for a hundred hours before ... I can't imagine how shiatty these guys felt. Their knees must have been killing them. It's weird how the body starts to fall apart after long periods without sleep ...

Apparently these folks dont know any Navy Seals.

hell week

no sleep then.... nightmares about it now... and all I did was watch it on the Discovery Channel while packing a bowel...

JamesBong,

They also didn't have prescription stimulants and MREs

i can care less about this about this article but the headline gave me a chuckle :)

"Plaaaaaaasssttiiiic feeeeet"

Richard Bachman was unavailable for comment.

I can do it for 48 hours but I can't imagine more than that. They must have seen alot of funny monkeys.

Always be sure to contact Guinness people BEFORE attempting to break world records.

pcloadletter:
Nice.

We used to go days without sleep back in my light infantry days. After about 48 hours or so with little or no sleep you start to get a little flakey. I was sure I saw an OPFOR guy during a training project and opened up on him. Nobody there. Very embarassing. Good times, good times.

jeez, i dropped into this thread to make a reference to Stephen Kings "Long Walk" and you guys have beat me to it 10 times over! nice!

the longest i've stayed up is 4 days strait. and it ended with me violently vomiting instant coffee all over myself before passing out cold.
(mind you, drugs were not involved in any way. well maybe Nyquil)

Sayten
hell week

no sleep then.... nightmares about it now... and all I did was watch it on the Discovery Channel while packing a bowel...


packing a bowel?

heh heh, packing a bowel

/ewww

You guys ever read steven king's the long walk?

its about a futuristic national pastime where 100 sixteen year old boys must walk at 5 miles per hour till there is only one left standing....er, walking. the twist is after 3 mess ups, you are shot on site.

Ordinary Average Guy
"....And all i did was watch it on the Discovery Channel while packing a bowel....."



so.....you stayed up watching the Discovery Channel while sodomizing someone?

/confused

/packs the bowel all the time. yum!

Sayten, you pack your bowels regularly, do you? May I suggest a new diet high in fiber?

AnimalMachine

You know, I've read that book a half dozen times, but I can't remember.

/Maine's own Wayne Garraty!
//best book of short stories ever!

you give good headline

Sayten, packing a bowel? So you're the one behind all the UFIAs!

danfri:

Good lord, that Stallone pic is a hoot. What was he auditioning for with that that hair? Too Wong Fu? Must have been The 2nd Rambo movie.

Don't you start to hallucinate after a while? I remember some DJ staying awake for several days as a stunt, and started to think gorillas were attacking him.

/threw out my image

danfri, you owe me a new keyboard.

... and from somewhere, he found the strength to run.

yes, but did they have jelly sandwiches?

/trying hard to find any Long Walk reference not yet used.
//loved that book
///wishes Running Man had been made into a movie as written, and sad it's impossible to do it now.

Did the cover of The Long Walk say something about "the

great tradition of Rollerball." Theyre givin' out great

traditions like candy these days.

Well, I've never felt like more of a pussy. I can't get past 23 hours before I just fall on my ass dead. I've tried to go longer, but I've never been able to. Such a damn pussy.

Guinness confirmed the men had contacted the company but said the category would not be recognized, because it is "impossible to compare" one person's performance with another's.

Funny, I thought that was exactly what the Guinness Book of World Records was about...

I think my most vivid recollection of "The Long Walk" was when the one kid took a shot through the stomach and still continued to try and walk with his intestines unraveling and dragging behind him for a few yards before he finally collapsed. That and the ending was a real letdown.


someone mentioned "The Running Man" being remade the way King intended. That would be awesome! best short story ending ever!
The story "Rage" would make a great movie too, although it would probably be considered "too insensative" given the fear of school shootings
"Road work" would make a GREAT movie however! with Robert Deniro or Tommy Lee Jones as the lead character

This man?

AnimalMachine:
The Walk ended on the morning of the fifth day.

WTF? The entire book other than shiat people are born with or other natural occurances are people doing shiat exactly like this. Kenny G plays the same note for 30 hours, he gets in. No love for St. Vincent.
I had a teacher that had 3 records, don't remember what they where for, I think sports.
Me I have two: largest johnson, and most lies told in fark posts.

so? while I wasn't walking, I stay awake for just under 7 days straight once driving. I drove from east texas to portland maine, did my business there, and then drove back. I was by myself the whole time. the hallucinations started as I was driving up I95 past boston on the way there.

/drtfa
//wishes I could still motivate myself that way

i wonder when SK's "The Long Walk" will be filmed? I think it would make a good movie, better than most of the usual forgettable teen horror flicks

therealburkazoid, holy shiat that is quite the drive. I couldn't do that. I start to hallucinate after 48hrs or so awake. One time I hit a Jaguar in CT, not the car the cat from south america. That kinda shiat freeks me out so I don't do long drives anymore unless I have had enough rest.

I'm not sure "The Long Walk" would translate well to film. I mean honestly it's a good read, but it's just basically a bunch of people walking in a contest. I don't know if i would shell out good money just to watch people walk for 2 hours. Even if people get shot now and then. Plus they'd probably try to squeeze Tom Hanks into a starring role somehow.

if you want to see a movie version of "the long walk" just rent "battle royale" and use your imagination. better story, similar but way more kickass...

Well, if they made a film of "The long walk" you could portray teen criminals who were habitual offenders & had a chance to wipe their slates clean. Then threw in some pathos inducing dialogue, abortive escape attempts & people trying to rescue the kids & you have a teen-angst, 'us-against-the-grown-ups' film right there.


/probably would be made for TW, though...

I second brandxler's suggestion of Battle Royale...Japanese horror flick. Really good. I also suggest the book. Gruesome and fun for the whole family!

I participated in a sleep depravation experiment at the University of Alberta & after about 97 hours I was hallucinating that a giant cat was following me and the researchers around. I kept yelling at them because they couldn't see this 4 foot tall tabby walking RIGHT BEHIND US, DAMMIT!

/feels much better now.