Post by bobtheddg on Sept 17, 2006 9:23:12 GMT -5
tylerwhitney said:
By the way, I picked up World War Z by Max Brooks yesterday. In-depth and funny as hell... All the American soldiers in the book refer to the zombies as Zack, like all the soldiers in those Vietnam movies call the Viet Cong, Charlie (or Charles when he's being clever). There's already something like calling the zombies Zed or the C4NT's insistence on attributing all intelligent moves of the zombie's to Wes Mantooth. Zack's pretty cool though...Ah, clever, but a missed opportunity! "Charlie" probably came from the phonetic alphabet abbreviation for VC: "Victor Charlie." It would have been better to have the US soliders call the Zombies "Zulu," after the phonetic alphabet for "Z." It also instantly calls to mind (at least for military history geeks who remember bits about British colonial wars) some great few-vs-many battles like Iswandala (which is probably spelled wrong, but you know the one I mean) and Rourke's Drift--some of which ended well for the "few" and some not so well.
Keep yer brains bad-tasting,
Bob