All zombie movies are essentially NRA propaganda
Sunday, July 6th, 2003 by Nestor
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28 days later UMd for psp
or 28 Days Later (Widescreen Edition)
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December 5th, 2006 at 6:15 am
Obviously this is last Saturday’s strip, better late then never. Got a little sick over the weekend, a wee bit of food poisoning, I think. My brother ate the same thing and he’s kaput as well.
I guess next Fourth of July, Chinese Food is out.
Hyung Kim | Email | Homepage | 07.07.03 - 4:29 am | #
Not if it’s made of Chinese zombies! Mmm mmm MMMM! Yum yum dim sum!
Benares | Email | Homepage | 07.07.03 - 4:40 am | #
”plus the english they talk funny”
they sure do !
francois couture | Email | Homepage | 07.07.03 - 4:56 am | #
Speaking of Alan Watts…WFMU (http://www.wfmu.org) was regularly broadcasting his stuff, but put him on hold for the summer. Here’s a Watts site to keep you happy, Hyung…
http://www.alanwatts.com/ raudio_…udio_index.html
Fferret | Email | Homepage | 07.07.03 - 5:00 am | #
And that’s spelled ‘Yippee-Ki-Yay’!
Fferret | Email | Homepage | 07.07.03 - 5:01 am | #
Not according to Google… :P
Hyung Kim | Email | Homepage | 07.07.03 - 5:06 am | #
I liked 28 days later because there was less in the way of guns that most other Zombie films. I mean, that’s probably how we were all wiped out. If this happened in America, then everyone and their dog would whip out an Uzi, and hose the shambling hordes. Over here we have to beat them to death with our bare hands, or bite them and stuff.
Plus we don’t talk that funny, what-what.
Tony | Email | Homepage | 07.07.03 - 5:06 am | #
Shoulda came to Australia!
also… AWESOME!
Cave Fish | Email | Homepage | 07.07.03 - 5:09 am | #
Tally Ho!…. hoe, heh heh heh
Cubbie | Email | Homepage | 07.07.03 - 5:41 am | #
My zombie lies over the ocean…
My zombie lies over the sea…
My zombie lies over the ocean…
Oh bring back my zombies to me…
It ain’t right, letting a foreign film studio do what amounts to a fine Canadian tradition.
Dominic | Email | Homepage | 07.07.03 - 7:35 am | #
I dunno if the infected would infect us koreans… we eat kimchi for god sakes, freakin prevents AIDS, Cancer, and SARS, at least the doctors say it does
Also, not all koreans have guns people… Most of us have some kind of explosives. (I have at least 200 bottle rockets and stacks of roman candles in my room)
sibbie | Email | Homepage | 07.07.03 - 9:04 am | #
I’m a ‘Merican and I don’t have a gun. With my bad temper, I thought it a bad idea.
DFG | Email | Homepage | 07.07.03 - 10:14 am | #
DFG, you don’t have to shoot anybody with it, just wave it around and make incoherent gurgling noises.
Rapscallion | Email | Homepage | 07.07.03 - 12:11 pm | #
DFG is scary enough without the gun.
alice | Email | Homepage | 07.07.03 - 3:36 pm | #
and for that she should be worshipped.
alice | Email | Homepage | 07.07.03 - 3:37 pm | #
So are kyonshi Chinese zombies or Chinese vampires? None of my sources seem to agree. And is it spelled kyonshi or gyonshee? And can they all use the flying guillotine, or just the one in Heroic Trio?
Am I the only one who thinks Dawn of the Dead would make a kickass computer game? A strategy game, not an action game.
Regault | Email | Homepage | 07.07.03 - 4:09 pm | #
yea is yeah, so wouldn’t it be yay? Yippie Kye Yay?
ClicheMan | Email | Homepage | 07.07.03 - 4:55 pm | #
Hmmm.. ‘kay.
“Yay” does make more sense.
Hyung Kim | Email | Homepage | 07.07.03 - 5:44 pm | #
Fiveofnin: dude that has to be the best take of a movie
GR347 R08: ??
Fiveofnin: they taked about the movie 28 days later
Fiveofnin: they also comented on lots of the stuff about it
GR347 R08: yeah… and?
GR347 R08: oh
Fiveofnin: that was the best i have seen
chris | Email | Homepage | 07.07.03 - 8:32 pm | #
Whoo! Reference to the great Bruce Willis movie Die Hard! W00t!
Meta | Email | Homepage | 07.07.03 - 9:13 pm | #
Yeah, that 2nd Amendment gives us all a warm feeling. I can’t help but think that the Founding Fathers had watched some sort of film that fell through a kind of hole in time (what I like to call a Temporo-Dilatory Capillarity Event) and prepared for that day. It’s probably why we broke from England in the first place.
Scipio | Email | Homepage | 07.07.03 - 9:18 pm | #
though it has been said already:
DIE HARD! YES! GOD LOVE BRUCE WILLIS!
spicy trotsky | Email | Homepage | 07.07.03 - 10:16 pm | #
>So are kyonshi Chinese zombies or Chinese vampires?
From:
http://www.kyonshi.co.uk/info.html
“Kyonshi - the Chinese hopping vampire !
Long ago in China, when the man of the family had to go out and over the mountains to get work, sometimes they would never be able to come back.
When the man died, his body would have to be properly honoured; taken back to his hometown for proper burial. However, it was difficult to transport corpses over mountains the conventional method.
Instead, a Taoist monk would attach a scroll to the corpses head with a spell on to animate the remains. The kyonshi comes alive and hops after the priest when he rings a bell. Thus, the priest would go around summoning the kyonshi to take them home.
Once the kyonshi is taken to its hometown, the family must protect it for many days - partly to pay respect, and also to prevent the scroll from being removed. This would cause the kyonshi to turn bad, which would then go around trying to bite people, converting them to kyonshi as well.
If a small animal were to cross the kyonshi, its spirit would become drawn into, and possess the kyonshi making it dangerous too.
The bite of the kyonshi can be counteracted by the application of raw rice or the blood of a black dog. Reattaching the scroll will also return the kyonshi to its passive state.
Might I add that in China, this is historical lore, and not myth.”
Also from this video game FAQ:
http://www.atarihq.com/tsr/faqs/…aqs/ phantom.txt
” VI. What the hell ARE these things I’m fighting?
Those, gamer, are hopping vampires — China’s version of the
ubiquitous super- natural parasitic entity that has frightened many a
superstitious person for hundreds of years. I believe the game’s term for
them — “Kyonshi” — is Mandarin Chinese for “hopping vampire”. However, it
could be a bastardized Chinese put into a game for mainly Japanese players.
I think in Cantonese the term is “Jiangshi”. I’ll refer to them throughout
this document as “Kyonshi”, simply because that’s what the game calls them.
What makes these guys different from their Romanian “cousins”?
Well, their origins are slightly different. Kyonshi are “undead”, as in
those who have died, but somehow have had their souls trapped in their body
instead of escaping to the Nine Heavens (or Hells) after death. This could
be for any number of reasons; bad chi flow through the house, suicide, lots
of angst, etc. Anyhow, because they have died, their bodies aren’t alive,
they’re just “undead”. This means that they’re not as limber as they once
were, hence the hopping; it’s the only way they can get around.
What motivates them? Not much. Unlike the Western vampire, a
Kyonshi has little or no conscious thought. Its only thought is to attack
living things and eat their bodies. Since they don’t consume their victims
whole their victims become vampires as well. Ky
Hyung Kim | Email | Homepage | 07.07.03 - 10:22 pm | #
continued…
“What motivates them? Not much. Unlike the Western vampire, a
Kyonshi has little or no conscious thought. Its only thought is to attack
living things and eat their bodies. Since they don’t consume their victims
whole their victims become vampires as well. Kyonshi don’t speak, don’t
respond intelligently to problems.”
Hyung Kim | Email | Homepage | 07.07.03 - 10:23 pm | #
In korean, its gahng shi. Also you got the catonese version right.
Not only that, but the chinese hopping vampire can be killed in many different ways. For example, they can’t cross water. Also, the soul or chi of the drained must be revitalized by the rise of the next sunrise or the gahngshi permanently keeps it.
In asian tradition, you cannot visit a place of a murder or a bad death for 49 days. It takes a soul that died miserably 5 days to lose all his powers and 44 days after that to permanently go to where he belongs (As is buddhist belief, hell or nirvana)
Mind you, in buddhism you only stay in hell and nirvana for a limited time, depending on your karma.
sibbie | Email | Homepage | 07.07.03 - 11:33 pm | #
my favourite quote about jiangshi comes from an RPG:
“hopping vampires seldom wear black, and are not known to suffer from angst”
ru | Email | Homepage | 07.08.03 - 2:00 am | #
Unfortunately, that lack of angst means that it’s probably going to be a long time before White Wolf ever releases something along the lines of Zombie; The Shambling. But, since they seem to have covered every other form of supernatural creature (plus Dark Age, Victorian and other settings), it’s probably only a matter of time.
Tony | Email | Homepage | 07.08.03 - 3:57 am | #
I just realised another reason why they would wait a while before releasing any Zombie; The Shambling game. LARPers.
If you see a group of people in black, with fake fangs wandering about, then you can take a wild guess at what they are doing. However, if one night you look out the window to see a group of people in Zombie makeup shuffling down the street, moaning ‘Braaaains…’, then people may well get a little jumpy.
Tony | Email | Homepage | 07.08.03 - 4:42 am | #
Sung by the Kingston Trio
Varient spellings abound
from http://home.att.net/~kingstontri…ce/ lyricsaf.htm
DOGIE’S LAMENT
John Stewart/Bob Shane/Nick Reynolds
As I was out walkin’ one mornin’ for pleasure, I spied a cow puncher a-ridin’ along.
His hat was thrown back and his spurs were a-jinglin’ and as he approached he was singin’ this song:
Chorus:
Whoopee ti yi yo, get along, little doggie. It’s your misfortune and none of my own.
Whoopee ti yi yo, get along, little doggie. You know that Wyoming will be your new home. (Chorus)
It’s early in the spring when they round up the doggies. They mark ‘em and brand ‘em and bob off their tails.
They round up the horses, load up the chuck wagon. Then send the doggies out on the long tail.
(Chorus)
Your mother was raised a-way down in Texas where the Jimsonweed and the sandburrs grow.
We’ll feed you up on prickly pear and cholla and then send you roamin’ to old Idaho.
(Chorus)
DFG | Email | Homepage | 07.08.03 - 6:22 am | #
God bless the 2nd amendment.
My right to posess a Barrett M82A1 anti-vehicle sniper rifle.
Col Kurtz | Email | Homepage | 07.08.03 - 4:27 pm | #
Am I the only one who saw the soldiers in 28 days later getting killed by 1 zombie and a madman?
I kinda noticed them having SA-80s and a minefield, not just some teeny revolver/shotgun combination…
Lil’ Bongo | Email | Homepage | 07.09.03 - 5:38 am | #
The english dont talk funny. Just czo u cant say aluminium (and i probably cannot spell it) doesnt mean we talk funny.
Veyr nice tho, like how u put the character personaitites right to the point.
The perfect ending for that film wud b if the camera zoomed upto the cockpit of the plane and it was a zombie. Zombies with jet-fighters…the ultimate killin machine! :D
(Besides grizzlys with chainsaws of course :P)
Double-0-Fro | Email | Homepage | 07.10.03 - 3:59 pm | #
2nd Greatest movie of all time.
MAybe only ’cause God’s Pee did a song in there.
Tabby | Email | Homepage | 06.11.04 - 3:16 pm
June 16th, 2007 at 4:06 pm
They’re coming up with a “28 weeks later” now, sort of part two.