They can have it back. It's stupid.

B-b-b-but Brendan Frasier is Canadian?
Clean up your own mess, 'merikuh!

Who is Brendan Frasier?

TCB, baby.

that headline made me Laugh Out Loud

Hmmmph. It's already being held by customs. Sounds like the U.S. PLANS to repatriate it. But they couldn't IMMEDIATELY be reached for comment.

Hey, Frank! We've got to print this story in 5 minutes! Can you see what their side of it is?

Phone rang once and nobody answered, and I didn't have time to wait any longer!

Alright, great, we tried, but couldn't reach anyone for comment. We are thorough and honest journalists!

"smuggled to the US over a century ago"

FTFA: The coffin is currently in the hands of the customs authority in Miami, Florida, who confiscated it after it was shipped to the United States from Spain, added the statement.

Over a century and it's still stuck in customs. Damn.

Broadcastdave: Who is Brendan Frasier?

I echo this sentiment.

strangeguitar : They can have it back. It's stupid.

shotgun+crouch

/metal slug

Is it cursed?

Hair plugs or not, I'd hit it.

No problem, Egypt. We have top men working on it now.

They got top guys on it.

I told you they farking lurch!!!!

Sorry, Egypt, it was stolen fair and square.

It belongs in a museum.

Considering Egypt's descent into Islamic fundamentalism, trusting religious Muslims with historic artifacts is a really horrible idea.



/These guys agree.

WTF does a thawed out caveman have to do with this?

Poor Egypt, he just wants his mummy.

In France, they not only publicly display the stolen items, but honor their feats of theft in golden diagrams.

Cucullen: In France, they not only publicly display the stolen items, but honor their feats of theft in golden diagrams.

Nothing phallic about that.

beoswulf: Considering Egypt's descent into Islamic fundamentalism, trusting religious Muslims with historic artifacts is a really horrible idea.

/These guys agree.

I actually cried a bit when the Buddhas were blown up. When you are that old, you transcend your original religious roots and simply become part of Humanity's collective history. (Sort of like the way the Pyramids, Stonehendge and The Temple of Athena have become a part of our collective history.) When the statues went down, a little bit of what makes us Human died.

Can has Rachel Weisz pic thread?

Daniefish: Broadcastdave: Who is Brendan Frasier?

I echo this sentiment.

Me too...

However, I have something I'd like to take up with Brendan Fraser

Just have Egypt return our foreign aid, we'll return the mummy and we'll be even.

DemonEater: Can has Rachel Weisz pic thread?

Thank you. I was hoping the thread would come to that.

mekki: beoswulf: Considering Egypt's descent into Islamic fundamentalism, trusting religious Muslims with historic artifacts is a really horrible idea.

/These guys agree.

I actually cried a bit when the Buddhas were blown up. When you are that old, you transcend your original religious roots and simply become part of Humanity's collective history. (Sort of like the way the Pyramids, Stonehendge and The Temple of Athena have become a part of our collective history.) When the statues went down, a little bit of what makes us Human died.

what makes you human maybe.

Cucullen: In France, they not only publicly display the stolen items, but honor their feats of theft in golden diagrams.

They should totally return those items to Egypt who built them fair and square on the backs of countless slaves.

farbekrieg: mekki: beoswulf: Considering Egypt's descent into Islamic fundamentalism, trusting religious Muslims with historic artifacts is a really horrible idea.

/These guys agree.

I actually cried a bit when the Buddhas were blown up. When you are that old, you transcend your original religious roots and simply become part of Humanity's collective history. (Sort of like the way the Pyramids, Stonehendge and The Temple of Athena have become a part of our collective history.) When the statues went down, a little bit of what makes us Human died.

what makes you human maybe.

I'd be interested to hear why you feel this way Farbekrieg? Or, were you just trolling?
I'm not saying theres anything wrong with your feelings, provided you can give a reason (even if the reason sucks).

However I think that the original poster of this subthread is correct, blowing up magnificent pieces of art & history does destroy some of what makes us human, i.e. our collective past as a species.

On the otherhand, the destruction of the Buddhas along with the events of 9/11 and Eric Robert Rudolph's life, are all teachable moments about how religious fundamentalism coupled with explosives = EVIL.

theurge14: Cucullen: In France, they not only publicly display the stolen items, but honor their feats of theft in golden diagrams.

They should totally return those items to Egypt who built them fair and square on the backs of countless slaves.

LOL

theurge14: They should totally return those items to Egypt who built them fair and square on the backs of countless slaves.

Nah, the French should be allowed to take any cultural landmarks the can pack up and hall off.

detfrost1: Daniefish: Broadcastdave: Who is Brendan Frasier?

I echo this sentiment.

Me too...

However, I have something I'd like to take up with Brendan Fraser


And HOW. I've always loved the man, and I thought he looked wicked good in that movie.

And remember this?

Ahoytheship: detfrost1: Daniefish: Broadcastdave: Who is Brendan Frasier?

I echo this sentiment.

Me too...

However, I have something I'd like to take up with Brendan Fraser


And HOW. I've always loved the man, and I thought he looked wicked good in that movie.

And remember this?

How about in God's and Monsters, YUM!

beoswulf: Considering Egypt's descent into Islamic fundamentalism, trusting religious Muslims with historic artifacts is a really horrible idea.



/These guys agree.

I was in Cairo recently for a couple of days. It's so run down and dilapidated and overpopulated.

The pyramids were cool, though, and the people were nice.

Maybe they should fight with the british for it's remarkable collection of pillaged items..

Somaticasual: Maybe they should fight with the british for it's remarkable collection of pillaged items..

The English at least did pull off one case of beneficial looting, the Elgin marbles. If they hadn't been looted from the Parthenon some parts quite likely would've ended up gone for good eventually.

I see you farkettes Brendan Fraser and raise you Arnold Vosloo.



\the first Mummy movie was a smorgasbord of male hotness

detfrost1: However I think that the original poster of this subthread is correct, blowing up magnificent pieces of art & history does destroy some of what makes us human, i.e. our collective past as a species.

On the otherhand, the destruction of the Buddhas along with the events of 9/11 and Eric Robert Rudolph's life, are all teachable moments about how religious fundamentalism coupled with explosives = EVIL.

Coupling 9/11 with blowing up the buddhas is, well, ignorant. And the transition from one religion to the next is, without a doubt, more human than living in the past. Violence, according to history, is more human than peace. ars breva, and all that. sorry, it's been a long day, so I'm not stating that as eloquently as it sounds in my head. Also, the buddhas weren't very artistic. just big and old. big and old doesn't automatically make something important, else people like teddy kennedy would be getting knighted.

Egalitarian: I see you farkettes Brendan Fraser and raise you Arnold Vosloo.



\the first Mummy movie was a smorgasbord of male hotness

And don't forget:



Heck, I even liked Uncle Jonathan in those films :P

This thread is catching estrogen.

Quick, antidote!






/all hot

OddObject: "smuggled to the US over a century ago"

FTFA: The coffin is currently in the hands of the customs authority in Miami, Florida, who confiscated it after it was shipped to the United States from Spain, added the statement.

Over a century and it's still stuck in customs. Damn.

Must have been fast tracked; It's shooting right through!

Ahoytheship
Thank you, that's a damned hot photo. Hadn't seen that one before.

Nice job, DemonEater...I'll be in my bunk.

/love those Weisz boobies

Little known fact - the biggest concentration of ancient Egyptian artifacts outside Egypt is in not London, not Paris but... New York.

WTH ever happened to Oded Fehr? He was so farking hot in The Mummy and I expected totally AWESOMENESS out of him. He seems to have faded into obscurity.

John Hanna is wunderbar as well.

I agree, that flick is all kinds of YUMMY for chick eye candy.

Zahi Hawass is the biggest attention whore when it comes to Egyptian antiquities. You can't watch a show about Egypt without him showing up.

fu, egypt.

Suede head: Little known fact - the biggest concentration of ancient Egyptian artifacts outside Egypt is in not London, not Paris but... New York.

Important fact about the NYC collection (well, most of it, anyway): The Met had permission to remove the items from Egypt.

Antiquities laws are finally being enforced around the world, so there's a good chance we'll send this mummy back.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art returned a masterpiece of Greek art (the Euphronios krater) to the Italians a few years ago, but they bought it in the 1970's under very suspicious circumstances.

And I think that the Greeks will get the Elgin Marbles back, as well. They asked for them in 2004 and the British wouldn't discuss it because the Greeks hadn't built the museum they'd promised to to hold them and the rest of the Parthenon artifacts.

Is this the thread when the long-rumored-to-exist-but-never-confirmed picsz of Rachel Weisz magically descend from the sky, as if a gift from the deity on whose altar all those sacred knuckle children have been so mercilously sacrificed?