Hey, a post by Tia!
How come Jake gets to play the zombie?
I want to see the sequel to Million Dollar Baby in which Hilary Swank's character comes back as a zombie.
Would "I wish I knew how to quit--BRAINS" be better?
Much.
I can't remember where I saw this, but someone somewhere posted the lyrics to a great song from the point of view of a zombie. Along the lines of "Hey Bob, it's Mike from Accounting. Let's be reasonable about this, we can talk. After all, all we want to do is eat your brains."
Ok, I'll be dumb. Is "I wish I knew how to quit--BRAINS" like "I wish I could stop eating brains" or like "it would be great if I could quit-- hey, look over there! brains! I'm distracted!"
5 -- I took it to mean the latter.
Cala, don't we both share a commitment to destroying humor through philosophical disambiguation?
(Otherwise the dash does not really serve any purpose.)
Yeah, I like the second reading better too.
5: I was thinking that part of the reason it's a good slogan is that it could mean either. Alas, at the party I was too drunk to announce I'd thought of this improvement, so I lost an opportunity to display my wittiness.
"It could be like this, just like this, always, because we're the undead."
See, I was an English major, and I like multiple simultaneous readings.
I read it as a brief, flickering instinct from his former life before resuming his insatiable appetite for brains.
and I like multiple simultaneous
I was very disappointed to have this sentence end in "readings".
If you want the sentence to end differently, apo, maybe you should do things a little differently, hmm?
I was thinking it should go: "I wish I knew how to quit--" "BRAINS!"
16: That is the very one. I love the title: "Re: Your Brains".
Now, why is it that zombies crave brains? Do they think they will restore them to the state of higher intelligence that they dimly remember possessing? Or do they just taste great?
So I looked up some lines from Brokeback, intending to make more zombie jokes; now I'm just depressed. Cry, cry, masturbate, cry.
Come on FL, it'll be great -- you won't have to masturbate or cry. Just eat delicious brains!
21: Brains, brains, brains, brains.
I heard Jonathan Coulton perform this song (MP3) pretty recently. Seems appropriate.
('Smasher is he zombie Monty Python!)
Now, why is it that zombies crave brains? Do they think they will restore them to the state of higher intelligence that they dimly remember possessing? Or do they just taste great?
(that doesn't really answer your question but it is suggestive of option #1.
(Tom of manifestdensity.com is pwned three ways to Sunday!)
28: Sunday is the day for Zombie Jesus.
I thought Heath Ledger was already playing a zombie in Brokeback Mountain. That's the first film (that I'd deliberately rented) in a long time I've stopped watching because it was so damn boring.
See, this is why it's good that my unfogged friends and the people I see in real life are largely non-overlapping sets. I will at some point in the near future end up in a conversation where discussing this would be appropriate and clever, and then will do so.
27: Pretty much all of their games are great.
can't remember where I saw this, but someone somewhere posted the lyrics to a great song from the point of view of a zombie.
Not to farb, but I remember posting the Coulton lyrics here a while ago. WLBFH (would link but for hoohole).
That must have been where I saw them.
And was m-fun had at this party, or was it all just brain-fun?
Nothing to do with zombies, other than wanting them to eat certain programmers' brains, but fucking haloscan just ate another long comment post over at bitchphd, and I so seldom get the chance to use the term "voiceless postalveolar affricate" in blogommenting. !#@%$!#%$#^$#^&(&*()!!!
You know, I often find that when it does that if I just go "back" in my browser, the comment's still in its little comment box and I can change a word or two and re-post it.
I tried that; didn't work. Haloscan wouldn't even show the existing comments after that.
Fuck. Someone else was having problems with it earlier, too. How annoying, especially since TD's trolling that thread and driving me nuts.
Isn't he just. I just read the thread, and wanted to say something devastating, but couldn't get it phrased better than "Could you just stop being an asshole?" So I thought better of it.
Feel free. When I tell him to knock shit off, he just pulls the "hurt feelings" card out of his back pocket. Honestly, I can't tell if he really is as clueless as he pretends to be.
Eh, I said something less hostile and wordier.
He does come off as kind of thick, doesn't he.
He does come off as kind of thick, doesn't he.
I believe the word you're looking for is "girthy".
Damn, beaten to the punch by Brock.
Yeah, but "girthy as a brick" doesn't have the same punch, what with "girthy" lacking, as it does, an unaspirated voiceless velar plosive fricative. [OK, now I feel better; all those years in the Columbia linguistics department were not entirely wasted. Well, they might have been, but I did learn how to order reindeer meatballs in Finnish. And how to make a single cup of tea last all night at the West End bar. Which, like CBGB, is now gone. Probably eaten by zombies.]
unaspirated voiceless velar plosive fricative
Not sure what "plosive" is doing in there, but all English words lack velar fricatives.
Well then we clearly need to invent some English words that contain velar fricatives.
I suppose some people pronounce it with a fricative; I just use a regular [g]. Onomatopœia is kind of a gray area as far as phoneme inventories go.
Because it should have said "voiceless velar plosive"; I was thinking "frigging voiceless velar plosive" and managed to have a senior moment and transform "frigging" into "fricative" and stick it at the end. It's been a long day.
I was, of course, not referring to the word "girthy", but to the word "thick". Which, BTW, one can say as a VVF if one is disgusted enough. And spitting.
FWI, Scots accents use voiceless velar fricatives, so it's incorrect to claim that no English word is pronounced that way.
Do Scottish dialects of English (as opposed to Scots, the status of which is controversial) really have voiceless velar fricatives? I have no idea. Matt McG would know.
Come to think of it, "yecch" ends with a VVF.
I used to have a buddy from Motherwell. He definitely injected VVFs into otherwise English words.
The only reason Scots is controversial is because anyone who tells the truth will be beaten within an inch of his life. "Scots" is just English, as spoken by illiterates who've suffered multiple concussions.
If I understand what a voiceless velar fricative is, a word like 'loch' has one, and that's both an English word and certainly a word present in a Scottish dialect of English.
So is it the VVP that makes "rat's ass" such a satisfying phrase? I have linguistics envy.
57: Loanwords are also borderline areas as far as phonemic inventory.
58: No.
Well, okay, but in a Scottish dialect of English it's not a loan word, it's good honest dialect. So pfui.
I believe "loch" is actually a Scots word, so it would indeed be a loan in a Scottish dialect of English. Also, why is everyone so humorless today?
59: Okay, then, what the fuck is it?
No idea, but there's no VVP there. Maybe it's the sibilants.
The flatness of the vowels is nice, too.
(and, wrt to the second part of your post, "it's their time of month".)
65: I wouldn't go around pissing off the most violent people in Western Europe.
64: Actually, it's probably the rhyme. Same for "thick as a brick."
67 also works as a response to 66, I guess.
61: It's not every one being humorless -- it just keeps on being me, in different threads.
The ironic thing about being beaten up by a Scotsman is that with enough brain damage, you start speaking Scots yourself and become the Other. Sort of a zombie effect.
No, in this thread it's also DE. And in another it's SJ, but then he's always pretty humorless.
re: 54 and 55
Yeah, Scots contains lots of voiceless velar fricatives. Scottish people speaking English, the situation is less clear since most working class and lower middle class people use a dialect that is somewhere in between Scots and English: there's no clear line of demarcation. The lack of a clear line of demarcation is why the 'is Scots a dialect or a language?' debate rages.
So, you'll get people using the voiceless velar fricative for the 'gh' [grapheme] in lots of English words -- in 'night' and 'bright', etc. That's straight out of Scots, where the words are usually written 'nicht' and 'bricht', but will be used in an otherwise entirely English sentence with otherwise English vocabulary and grammar.
I wouldn't describe 'Loch' as a loan word. It's part of Scottish English. It's part of English English too, the bastards just can't pronounce it properly.
re: the other comments: And you cheeky bastards are asking for a kicking ... Or, as Emerson describes it, borg-style assimilation.
I'm being humourless? 'Twasn't I who started the eruditer-than-thou pedantry; I just made an off-hand jest about the inability to say something like "girthy as a brick" with the proper degree of exasperated emission of saliva on the end notes.
And the opportunity for "fricative" jokes came and went so swiftly, dying unborn upon the tongues of the less high-minded members of the Mineshaft... ah, well...
58: The mid-sound of "rat's ass" is an affricate, a combination of an alveolar fricative [the s/z sound] and an alveolar plosive [the t sound]. I think it sounds so good because one segues from what is essentially a plosive stop into a hiss, all nice ways of indicating one's sneering dislike of whatever one doesn't give a rat's ass about.
And the opportunity for "fricative" jokes came and went so swiftly, dying unborn upon the tongues of the less high-minded members of the Mineshaft... ah, well...
Well then let's cut out the damn euphemisms and go back to calling them fuckatives.
Sailor: What kind of ship is that on the horizon, sir?
Captain: Frigate.
Sailor: Yeah, who gives a fuck?
76: See, Teo? I knew it had to have a nice high-sounding explanation.