Or you could go the “Look at Ibn Warraq’s friend list” route!
Don’t worry. He has a whole line of clothing. No, really- a whole line.
I’ve always wanted to dress like an Egyptian.
Original slogan: “You’ll buy it for the xenophobic Jew hatred, but it’s the casual conservative comfort that will keep you buying more.” I wonder if he’ll get Josh Bernstein to model…
As a Jew, all I can say is that the Egyptians can complain all they want; we’re *still *not going to build them any more pyramids.
I’ll bite, I want to hear this one. It’s like those Kevin Bacon games. “I can link Batman to Protocols in eight steps!”
Holy Shit! :eek:
So what? I hang laundry out to dry, too!
:rolleyes:
A question to the dumbfuck OP:
What exactly do the Greeks have to do with Zahi Hawass anyway?
Am I missing something or is Zahi Hawass’s legal problem related to the bidding for a contract to operate a museum bookstore? If that’s the case, I really don’t see any connection between what he’s being criticized for and what he might go to jail for.
Things just keep getting worse for old Zahi.
Confidential sources have leaked that Hawass is now also under investigation for running one of the largest and oldest fraudulent and unstustainable multilevel marketing scams in history. Ironically, he ran the whole thing out in the open the whole time, managing to sucker in some the smartest people on the planet in addition to many major governments.
Ok, here’s how it works…
You start by retailing mummies. But the real money starts when you recruit other mummy salesmen. You get a cut of every mummy they sell. And then when they recruit their own mummy salesmen, you get a cut of all those sales too…
You’d think their mummies would have warned them about schemes like this.
Dunno, kinda sounds like a pyramid scam.
I’ve heard he can’t keep his hands off the mummies of ancient girls who died in their teens.
That Egyptians resent that a lot of their historical treasures are not in Egypt but in Europe is understandable. But, the whole field of Egyptology was opened by Europeans. It wasnt a freaking Egyptian that managed to translate Egyptian writing into something everyone could understand.
Besides, howewer proud Egyptians can feel about their history, they have crass knowledge of it. The case against Europe’s quasi looting of Egypt could be made, but not in the name of petty nationalism. It is a sad truth that the knowledge of Ancient Egypt we got is dominated by Westerners (mostly Euros), but nothing, absolutely nothing prevented Egypt from pionering the field. They didnt.
OK, the thread’s been funny, but this, *this *is hysterical. Comedy gold, I tells ya!
Amway took over the mummy trade?
Can we wrap this up?
Because both Greece and Egypt have been bitching about wanting their antiquities to be sent back to them. oddly enough, both of them are referring to artifacts that were legally purchased from the respective governments [Lord Elgin bought the marble facades of the Parthenon from the Turkish Government, who owned Greece at the time, and Egypt charged a fee for permits to dig, and they split the findings with whomever was digging. ]
The person who used the Rosetta Stone to figure out how to translate egyptian by cross referencing the greek was Jean-Francoise Champollion. The main thing that the Egyptian government did for archeologists was some seriously restrictive dig regulations, which IIRC mainly included only being able to hire from certain families to work the digs [which is why having students come in and dig became so popular, they weren’t employees…so you could avoid paying outrageous ‘fees’ for people to basically haul dirt.] Hawass has continued in that vein by essentially shouldering out europeans from digging the ‘good’ sites, so they end up with marginal sites, and if something spiffy gets found, immediately the europeans and americans are shouldered out of their digs and replaced by egyptian archeologists. Big hint - how often do you see in headlines Zahi Hawass/some egyptian announce their discovery at <insert dig site like Valley of the Golden Mummies> and how often do you see an american or a european announcing a huge discovery?
You’re still a dumbfuck, you dumbfuck.