# Stubbs The Zombie: What are the rednecks saying when you eat them? "Erminator"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 19, 2007, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stubbs-the-zombie-what-are-the-rednecks-saying-when-you-eat-them-erminator/412373 "2007-07-19T13:16:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2007, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stubbs-the-zombie-what-are-the-rednecks-saying-when-you-eat-them-erminator/412373/1 "2007-07-19T13:16:47Z")
The game “Stubbs The Zombie”, sometimes when you eat a redneck’s brain he says something that sounds like “erminator”. What are they saying? ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2007, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stubbs-the-zombie-what-are-the-rednecks-saying-when-you-eat-them-erminator/412373/2 "2007-07-19T16:13:42Z")
Gee thanks. Now I’ve got to go load up the game again to play it and find out. Not such a bad thing though, the last few games I’ve bought have been lame beyond belief. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2007, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stubbs-the-zombie-what-are-the-rednecks-saying-when-you-eat-them-erminator/412373/3 "2007-07-19T16:56:08Z")
Please do! I imagine it’s something so obvious that I’ll smack myself. It sounds like “terminator” without the T. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stubbs-the-zombie-what-are-the-rednecks-saying-when-you-eat-them-erminator/412373/4 "2007-07-20T02:02:24Z")
Checked it out yet **Projammer**? ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stubbs-the-zombie-what-are-the-rednecks-saying-when-you-eat-them-erminator/412373/5 "2007-07-20T22:14:05Z")
My kid borrowed the disk… :smack: I’m still looking though. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stubbs-the-zombie-what-are-the-rednecks-saying-when-you-eat-them-erminator/412373/6 "2007-07-21T22:51:45Z")
I just got the bright idea of recording the audio in question and posting the files. I made two files, and uploaded them both to two different file hosting sites: [http://www.mediafire.com/?f2z0tzlszdw](http://www.mediafire.com/?f2z0tzlszdw) [http://www.mediafire.com/?bgd2dgkgmwj](http://www.mediafire.com/?bgd2dgkgmwj) [http://files-upload.com/388079/stubbs\_1.mp3.html](http://files-upload.com/388079/stubbs_1.mp3.html) [http://files-upload.com/388085/stubbs\_2.mp3.html](http://files-upload.com/388085/stubbs_2.mp3.html) ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2007, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stubbs-the-zombie-what-are-the-rednecks-saying-when-you-eat-them-erminator/412373/7 "2007-07-22T05:16:26Z")
Found my disks and installed. Couldn’t really make anything out of your uploads. What level are you playing? ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2007, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stubbs-the-zombie-what-are-the-rednecks-saying-when-you-eat-them-erminator/412373/8 "2007-07-22T15:31:23Z")
The uploads happen to be from the farmhouse level, which I think is the last level with the redneck militia guys, but they say it occasionally on being eaten on any level they exist on. Interesting that you can’t make anything on the uploads, maybe it’s so obvious to you what they’re really saying that you don’t even hear my lame-ass attempt to describe it? In the first one I hear the last half or so of it sound like “ohhhhhh!!! (?erminator?)!!!” and the 2nd one start rights off with “ohhhhhh!!! (?erminator?)!!!” in the first second of play. It’s a somewhat clearer in the second one, I think. Or did you mean you hear what I’ve been describing as ‘erminator’ and also don’t know what they are really saying? ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2007, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stubbs-the-zombie-what-are-the-rednecks-saying-when-you-eat-them-erminator/412373/9 "2007-07-22T17:11:29Z")
Hmm… I just replayed that level and don’t recall anything sounding like that. Are you playing the PC version? I’ll go through the level again and just make notes about everything they say. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2007, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stubbs-the-zombie-what-are-the-rednecks-saying-when-you-eat-them-erminator/412373/10 "2007-07-22T19:31:10Z")
Yeah, PC version. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2007, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stubbs-the-zombie-what-are-the-rednecks-saying-when-you-eat-them-erminator/412373/11 "2007-07-25T21:57:55Z")
Well. I’m going to have to thank you for prompting me to play through Stubbs again, but I’m going to have to admit defeat. I played through the the farm level twice and heard the phrase at least a dozen times and I still can’t make out what’s being said. It does sound like “erminator”, but as you’ve said, that makes no sense at all. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2007, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stubbs-the-zombie-what-are-the-rednecks-saying-when-you-eat-them-erminator/412373/12 "2007-07-25T22:44:23Z")
This thread is gripping with suspense! Have we considered a random interjection? Do all victims (in the game) ‘say something’ before death? At my last moments of zombie death I would like to say, “Dave, kill me before I become one of them! And hide my porn! My mother…” What I would actually say in panic though would probably sound like erminator ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2007, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stubbs-the-zombie-what-are-the-rednecks-saying-when-you-eat-them-erminator/412373/13 "2007-07-25T22:53:12Z")
Speaking as a qualified UN redneck translator, I’m pretty sure I’m hearing “Oooooh, I’m daid (dead.)” I’ll expect my check in the mail soon. 🙂 Edit: “Oooooh. Ah’m daid!” ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stubbs-the-zombie-what-are-the-rednecks-saying-when-you-eat-them-erminator/412373/14 "2007-07-26T03:04:16Z")
I agree with **Ogre**. In fact, I got it from listening to the uploads before I read **Ogre** ’s post. I was hoping to be the first to figure it out! Damn you, **Ogre**! Yore daid! ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stubbs-the-zombie-what-are-the-rednecks-saying-when-you-eat-them-erminator/412373/15 "2007-07-26T04:34:29Z")
[QUOTE=Alan Smithee] I agree with **Ogre**. In fact, I got it from listening to the uploads before I read **Ogre** ’s post. I was hoping to be the first to figure it out! Damn you, **Ogre**! Yore daid! [/QUOTE] Oh I am, am I? Well then, this is inevitable: BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIINS! ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stubbs-the-zombie-what-are-the-rednecks-saying-when-you-eat-them-erminator/412373/16 "2007-07-26T13:03:54Z")
The more I listen to it, the more it sounds like it could be “Ah’m daid!”. But it didn’t sound like that at all at first, for some reason. Thanks all! ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stubbs-the-zombie-what-are-the-rednecks-saying-when-you-eat-them-erminator/412373/17 "2007-07-26T16:44:20Z")
[QUOTE=Revtim] The more I listen to it, the more it sounds like it could be “Ah’m daid!”. But it didn’t sound like that at all at first, for some reason. Thanks all! [/QUOTE] Erminator! ---
**Author:** ![Sleel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Sleel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleel)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stubbs-the-zombie-what-are-the-rednecks-saying-when-you-eat-them-erminator/412373/18 "2007-07-27T14:11:54Z")
They’re saying, “Ohhh, call the exterminator!”