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Oct. 11th, 2005 04:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
No longer automatically funny: zombies, and zombie accessories ("braains" et al)
[Flying graphic resembling "DONE" if stamped with a "DONE" stamp swoops in and lands with a THUDD diagonally over frame, fades.]
Feel free to remind me of this the next time I make a zombie joke.
I think I have been tired by all the stock "geek humor" characters for a while actually. (Free feel to remind me of this etc.)
Somewhat relatedly, let me use this space to announce that I'm purposefully going to avoid taking another programming job, even if I have to take a job sometime in the future. I actually have been consciously thinking for a while now that I've lost any will to hack on things I don't really care about. Or rather, to care about things solely because I'm paid to hack on them. (Feel free etc.)
[Flying graphic resembling "DONE" if stamped with a "DONE" stamp swoops in and lands with a THUDD diagonally over frame, fades.]
Feel free to remind me of this the next time I make a zombie joke.
I think I have been tired by all the stock "geek humor" characters for a while actually. (Free feel to remind me of this etc.)
Somewhat relatedly, let me use this space to announce that I'm purposefully going to avoid taking another programming job, even if I have to take a job sometime in the future. I actually have been consciously thinking for a while now that I've lost any will to hack on things I don't really care about. Or rather, to care about things solely because I'm paid to hack on them. (Feel free etc.)
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Date: 2005-10-11 08:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-12 06:17 am (UTC)Anyway, using zombies to make fun of a stupid eskimo myth: funny.
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Date: 2005-10-12 06:30 am (UTC)Better idea would have involved, I dunno, maybe a depiction of the zombie at a language symposium being shown brains in different contexts and grunting some different words appropriately, to the rapt attention of the audience.
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Date: 2005-10-12 07:13 am (UTC)So an Eskimo zombie would have more nuances about brains simply because the Eskimos are so incredibly nuanced in their language doncha know. They're funny that way.
Speaking from the linguist's point of view, I don't think it needs to be more subtle, or zombie-accurate, or the like. It's enough, for me, that it's poking fun at the Eskimo-word-for-snow lie.
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Date: 2005-10-12 05:44 pm (UTC)I'll buy your argument in the second graf. It still would have been much funnier if respun in such a way so that the zombie wasn't simply telling you how many words he had. Zombies don't talk in complete sentences. Not even language-genius Eskimo zombies. Everyone knows that! Come on.