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2014-01-04

by shaenon on January 4, 2014 at 12:01 am
Chapter: My Brother Sam Is Dead
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  1. Manifesta
    January 4, 2014, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    Panel 4 FTW! That movie scared the crap out of me when I was a kid.

  2. heckblazer
    January 4, 2014, 3:20 am | # | Reply

    Huh. I never knew that the group noun for drag queens was “cotillion”.

    • wykstrad
      January 4, 2014, 3:34 am | # | Reply

      Strictly speaking, “cotillion” may only be the proper group noun for zombie drag queens.

  3. ngmatt8652
    January 4, 2014, 3:40 am | # | Reply

    What movie?

  4. eddurd
    January 4, 2014, 7:34 am | # | Reply

    Ngmatt, the movie is “What Ever Happened To Baby Jane”, about a former child star who torments her crippled sister. At one point, Jane performs one of her old songs …
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=–RI7tlWuaM
    …which, of course, inspired this:

    (TUNE: “I’ve Written A Letter To Daddy”, Bette Davis)

    I’m gonna hunt zombies with Wilkin,
    That shtumie who’s rooming with me!
    He’s brought a cotillion of drag queens
    To watch “Baby Jane” on TV!

    The redhead who lives in the basket,
    She won’t quit while she is a head!
    I’m stuck here with Wilkin and drag queens
    Who are all un-dead!

    • Becky
      January 4, 2014, 10:34 am | # | Reply

      Eddurd, you are my hero. <3 Needed that laugh.

    • davidbreslin101
      January 4, 2014, 4:32 pm | # | Reply

      I saw the film, only once, 5 years ago. I still inadvertently start singing that song, twee voice and all, creeping out both myself and anyone around. A zombie remix was long overdue….
      (Good luck with re-housing Everyday Heroes by the way. Just found the latest strip on Facebook!)

    • reynard61
      January 4, 2014, 11:14 pm | # | Reply

      Oh…wow…um…just…wow…

      *heads for the brain bleach*

      (P.S. Victor Buono’s expressions while she’s doing that “little girl dance”? Priceless!)

    • JET73L
      March 8, 2015, 6:04 am | # | Reply

      That’s horrifying.

      For some reason, above the makeup, above the atonal “singing”, above the little-kid dance (only parts of which seem like they could actually be preformed by a stubby kid around the iconic age range of Shirley Temple), one of the most unnerving aspects is that she pronounced it “da-dy” instead of “dad-y”.

  5. Nomi
    January 4, 2014, 8:47 am | # | Reply

    What does shtumie mean? Yiddish reference sites point to silent/voiceless, which doesn’t really seem to apply to Tip.

    • Ian thompson
      January 4, 2014, 8:56 am | # | Reply

      I’m pretty sure it means Someone you ignore because they are annoying.

  6. rasufelle
    January 4, 2014, 11:19 am | # | Reply

    While I have not seen this movie, nor do I know this song, the words also seem to scan well to “My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean.”

  7. Klyfix
    January 4, 2014, 11:27 am | # | Reply

    Judging from a Google of “shtumie” it would almost seem that only Harlan Ellison uses it. See his definition on this page: http://books.google.com/books?id=-bHfy90vLGQC&pg=PT38&lpg=PT38&dq=shtumie&source=bl&ots=KIIdBslbef&sig=4Dzh1unriWrlcguhKjKszjtrU5w&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ozTIUrXlDbHesASQpYGgDQ&ved=0CEwQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=shtumie&f=false (dang, that’s a big URL).

    • Treesong
      January 4, 2014, 3:31 pm | # | Reply

      With Yiddish you have to allow for alternate spellings. Thus ‘You really are a bicycle seat sniffing schtumie, Devon.’ ‘And felt like a complete schtummy.’ It’s also used for (keep) shtum ‘shut up’: ‘Put some frozen peas on it very quickly so either go get it checked out or schtummy up and deal with it!!’ Not very common in any spelling.
      It’s also in Jack Dann’s Jubilee, which has a glossary that says ‘use it as you would “dummy”, and with some affection.’ So it matches English unspeaking = dumb = stupid.

  8. Prodigal
    January 4, 2014, 11:49 am | # | Reply

    I love how the zombie who’s only a severed head has the most elaborate wig of all so much.

    • Ian thompson
      January 4, 2014, 12:37 pm | # | Reply

      The less you have the more you need to compensate. So when you’re only a head, your hair must be fabulous.

  9. duggansc
    January 4, 2014, 12:28 pm | # | Reply

    Huh. I’d assumed that it was a portmanteau of “schtup” and “roomie”, i.e. someone you live with and occasionally sleep with.

  10. ngmatt8652
    January 4, 2014, 4:16 pm | # | Reply

    Oh….. now I remember, That poor maid.

  11. Dave Harmon
    January 4, 2014, 6:51 pm | # | Reply

    Home movies with the zombies!

  12. Andrew
    January 4, 2014, 8:53 pm | # | Reply

    Zombie Drag Queen would make a great indie punk band name. Or ZDQ.

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