Day of the Dead

In Today's Issue

Day of the Dead
Walking Ted
Zombie
That's Amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing
Word of the Day
Random Joke

Finish with a Song


DAY of the DEAD


WHAT IS DAY OF THE DEAD? Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is a celebration of life and death. While the holiday originated in Mexico, it is celebrated all over Latin America with colorful calaveras (skulls) and calacas (skeletons). 

Day of the Dead originated several thousand years ago with the Aztec, Toltec, and other Nahua people, who considered mourning the dead disrespectful. For these pre-Hispanic cultures, death was a natural phase in life’s long continuum. The dead were still members of the community, kept alive in memory and spirit—and during Día de los Muertos, they temporarily returned to Earth. Today’s Día de los Muertos celebration is a mash-up of pre-Hispanic religious rites and Christian feasts. It takes place on November 1 and 2—All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day on the Catholic calendar.

Ted is dead

He knows that’s bad

He smells a bit

And feels quite bad

Bits of him are

Getting runny

And there’s a massive

Hole in his tummy

He thinks he knows

Zombie rules

But he’s not quite sure

If they’re for ghouls

He’s quite hungry

And fancies brains

Not a vamp

He dislikes veins

And so he walks

Though really slow

An easy target

For some crossbow

So Ted keeps walking

And never ceases

Until he finally

Drop to pieces

Zombie Facts ???

You can’t drown them.
They’re dead, right? So drowning them, or trying to, is a waste of time. I don’t know if they would simply walk along the bottom of a lake, river or moat, and lurch up the other side, but being underwater isn’t going to be a solution. Besides, who wants to risk a lake full of zombie carp?

They can still react.
Not think, really, but they can see, hear, and until the rot reaches their nasal cavities, smell. So, you can’t hide yourself and your location by simply stretching a tarp over an otherwise open window or doorway. You have to do better than that. They’re dead, not inert.

It’s not just infection.
Before the surge in zombie research, there was one commonly accepted origin of zombies: voodoo. So, the next time you are thinking of booking a cruise that stops in ports where voodoo is a commonly accepted practice, think again.

There are no pack zombies.
With no real social order, zombies don’t travel in packs. However, what catches the eye of one zombie is likely to ensnare the attention of the next one along, too. So, where there’s one, there are probably more. They just aren’t there together.

The head is the goal, but there are ways to get there.

Since zombies don’t have firearms, they have to reach you to infect you. That means that if you remove the means of locomotion, you can run or reload. So, with a stout enough cartridge you can take a pelvic or thigh bone shot, drop them to the ground, and finish them off as they pull themselves towards you — they aren’t going to stop, remember?

Fire is bad.
Yes, unlike drowning, fire will kill a zombie, but that’s the meager good news. The bad news is, it won’t notice being on fire — they’re dead, how many times do I have to repeat that? — so it will simply spread the fire everywhere they shamble. Put down that Molotov cocktail.

The idea of zombies.
They entered our awareness, with that word, in 1929, in a novel. That same year, the stock market crashed, and the Great Depression began, and they are back again now.....coincidence...?

Haitian, Clairvius Narcisse is perhaps the best known case of zombification in Haiti. According to Narcisse he died, was buried, and was then resurrected by a Voodoo witch doctor. (I wonder if this guy knew he was a zombie when he was a zombie?)

WORD of THE DAY
Word of the day: CRYTOSCOPOPHILIA - The urge to look through people’s windows as you pass their houses. Couldn't find a word for NOSEY PARKER !!

Random Joke

I was playing chess with my friend and he said, ‘Let’s make this interesting’. So we stopped playing chess

Finish with a Song

This is the Cranberries with Zombie