Thursday, 24 January 2013

Monsters - Zombie Butcher (Series 002, Episode 002)


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My students all drew monsters for a short exercise.  The monsters they drew were excellent and they agreed to write about them for this blog.  This monster is from Vong-Kham Souvannavong:

My monster is a Zombie Butcher

A zombie butcher is a revolution in the world of nightmares.

It means that zombies are not obliged to eat raw meat like uncivilized monsters anymore!

My monster is a crazy modern genius inspired by his own hunger! Crazy because he has a butcher knife in his head (he looks like “Zombie Gaga!”) just to threaten humans and to have a monster style, modern because this butcher loves money and genius because he is creating a new world!

This monster has the entire key to succeed in his project! But, he’s still very dreadful in appearance!

At first glance, he does not inspire confidence: I think it is all about the butcher knife in the brain…





There are many humorous (but not politically correct) expressions for being “crazy” or “gaga”.  Here are a few:


he’s as mad as a box of frogs

he’s as mad as a hatter

she’s a few cards short of a full deck

he’s stark raving mad

she’s off her rocker

she’s as nutty as a fruitcake

he’s (completely) nuts

she’s lost her marbles