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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.)

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Yes yes yes [waves dismissively]. I think a complicating factor may be that I too read the Language Log, which has been posting comics about the Eskimo thing all week. So I was already feeling done with them when this one came along, less subtle than any of the ones already posted.

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.