Cookie Monster Searches Deep Within Himself and Asks: “IS ME REALLY MONSTER?”
“They don’t call the vampire with math fetish monster, and me pretty sure he undead and drinks blood.”
Read it. Laugh your ass off.
The Meme-Mandated, Semi-Regularly-Updated, Occasionally Coherent Thoughts of G.M. Skarka
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Counting
I’ve always been amused by the fact that although the Count on Sesame Street is apparently unbothered by sunlight, he does have the peculiar ‘counting’ compulsion Eastern European vampires suffer from. According to folklore (and I learned this from a collge class on “The Occult in Literature”, where the teacher, Flora Zbar, was an advisor to the police on occult cases), if you put millet or poppy seeds on the ground outside your window, a vampire will be forced to count all of them, and if you leave enough of them, the thinking is that he will hopefully do it until the sun comes up.
Likewise, in Chinese myth states that if a vampire comes across a sack of rice, s/he will have to count all of the grains.
This counting compulsion was also featured on a fifth season episode of the X-Files titled Bad Blood, and gets some play in the Discworld novel, “Carpe Jugulum” by Terry Pratchett.
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It was also featured (brilliantly, in fact) in the otherwise craptastic sequel to “Dracula 2000”, “Dracula II: Ascension.”
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AND… guess what other creatures are confounded by counting and often trapped by similar machinations?
That’s right! Faeries!
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Thank you. I was trying to remember where I saw that. Hey, at least they had a neat house.
This was indeed very funny. Elmo is the devil, btw. He’s red, he gets under your skin, he has an evil scheme to take over the world. He even causes fighting every holiday season. Just sayin.
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And the comedy vampires episode of the X-Files, where Mulder defends himself with a bag of sunflower seeds.