Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for March 24, 2013
March 23, 2013
March 25, 2013
Transcript:
Alice: Petey, whats that? Petey: Its an oral report for my social studies interactive verbal skill acquisition learning module on ancient Egypt. Alice: Oh! Read it to me! Petey: Ahem. "Ancient Egypt." an oral report by Peter Otterloop. In accent Egypt there were many deities. Petey: Like Ray, the sung god, who had a head like a falcon. Petey: And Hokh-Ptui, the water god, whose drooling created the Nile. Petey: Ancient Egyptians were rightly proud of there mummies, which were made by taking one high-ranking dead person, extracting his brains through his nose with a buttonhook, and stuffing him with mayonnaise and garlic, plus some expensive trinkets to impress the other mummies. Alice: That was great. Hey, do we have a buttonhook around the house? Petey: No, and I've looked everywhere.
Funny; I don’t remember ever reading before about Hokh-Ptui, though that certainly seems probable. But I’m almost certain the ancient Egyptians did not use mayonnaise in preparing their mummies. They were smarter and more refined than that.