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News Briefs 18-11-2008

Jameske’s unable to do the news today. But don’t fret, I’ve done this once or twice before…

Quote of the Day:

The more I examine the universe and the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known we were coming.

Freeman Dyson

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  1. Mister or Miss Potato Head?
    The thought processes involved here are astounding! Potato!? Banana and cucumber prices that high? Well, there’s one parish where confessional is going to be a lot less stressful.

    1. I say “potato”, you say “NO WAY!”
      😛

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      It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
      It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

      Red Pill Junkie

  2. Zombies don’t run
    [quote]However (and herein lies the sublime artfulness of the slow zombie), their ineptitude actually makes them avoidable, at least for a while. If you’re careful, if you keep your wits about you, you can stave them off, even outstrip them – much as we strive to outstrip death.[/quote]

    That’s what I thought when I asked my sis that she get me ‘Dead Rising’ for Xmas last year. But alas, it turned ou to be a frustrating gaming experience. The zombies were slow all right, but there was SH*T LOAD of them. A huge mall cramped with the undead like it was a Thanksgiving sale! Also the saving method was too awkward —you had to literally go pee in the WCs in order to save your damn game!—and the game insisted on bothering you with alternate missions even in the middle of a boss battle.

    Don’t buy it. Really.

    [quote]To begin at the beginning, Haitian folklore tells of voodoo shamans, or bokors, who would use digitalis, derived from the foxglove plant, to induce somnambulant trances in individuals who would subsequently appear dead[/quote]

    Huh? According to my own zombie lore, the black sorcerers that perform ‘zombification’ on their victims are called houngans. And the key ingredient in the zombie powder is tetradotoxin, the powerful venom from the blow fish. And you call yourself a zombie purist, honey? 😉

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    It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
    It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

    Red Pill Junkie

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