Still OT Re: SC - OT: Eating the Script Girl

[Audrey Bergeron-Morin]

Yah, and when he kills the guy with a stake through
the heart, he realizes he had fake teeth...
Don't remember how it ended though...

- --- Siegfried Heydrich <baronsig at peganet.com> wrote:
>     The X-files had a hilarious episode that dealt
> with this - Trailer Trash
> vampires all living in an RV park. Mulder is about
> to be munched upon by a
> teenage vampire, so he throws his bag of sunflower
> seeds all over the floor.
> The vampire stops, looks down, and goes "ooh, you're
> going to get in trouble
> for THAT!" as he bends down & starts picking them up
> & counting them . . .
> He was also compulsive about untying shoelaces,
> which is what tips off
> Mulder to begin with.
> 
>     Sieggy
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> 
> > Still, the most consistently bizarre and amusing
> intersection of sets of
> > vampire behavior between folklore and the
> (seemingly) most trivial
> > fiction imaginable, is the fact that many pieces
> of Eastern European
> > folklore do in fact mention vampires'
> preoccupation with counting small
> > objects. You can keep them out of your house by
> dumping a bag of rice or
> > beans outside the door, and unless they finish
> counting each grain
> > before cockcrow, they can't pass the pile. Of
> course you _can_ go and
> > engage them in conversation, and they'll probably
> say, "48, 372...
> > 48,3-- um... 48,300 and... DANGIT! One... two...
> three..." Millet is
> > good because it's really small and hard to deal
> with in the dark.
> >
> > And now the distinct possibility exists that we'll
> never know if Jim
> > Henson based this habit of The Count's (on Sesame
> Street, etc.) on
> > actual folklore, or just on the fact that he was a
> Count, so he counted.
> 
> 
>
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