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OlafTheBent		2005-01-19 09:59:40 AM

This had a different headline a couple of minutes ago...

/Must be a curse of some kind

NICU8697		2005-01-19 10:05:11 AM

Wasn't this a bad 60's horror movie?

Attack of the Replica MummyCats!!!

fritzpizitz		2005-01-19 10:07:15 AM

I'm gonna have to report this to the BBB.

Kornchex		2005-01-19 10:33:38 AM

Let's see Peta do something about this!!!

grateful_net		2005-01-19 10:34:55 AM

'alright cats, lets creep'.

/obscure

SherKhan		2005-01-19 10:37:58 AM

And so they came to be gypped.

mryoop789		2005-01-19 10:40:03 AM

The findings support the theory that the ancients were just as prone to mischief and mistakes as we are today.

Well, they were human, weren't they? Not exactly a profound insight, there.

willywanka		2005-01-19 10:59:38 AM

anyone else think of that scene from Gallipoli?

Eidolon		2005-01-19 02:35:38 PM

Not on topic, but is it just me, or are the Sports by Brooks girls' breasts getting progressively larger?

Clavis		2005-01-19 02:36:26 PM

I for one welcome our new cat Pharaohs!

cleveoh		2005-01-19 02:38:33 PM

Well if you're in the market for dead pussy, it's really a caveat emptor kind of thing to begin with, isn't it?

/proud 8th grade civics graduate who remembers "caveat emptor"

Adman12		2005-01-19 02:41:43 PM

I'm so sick all this mummified pussy spam.

Everyone knows 99% of it is fake.

boohiss		2005-01-19 02:41:55 PM

Okay, terrific.

unyon		2005-01-19 02:41:58 PM

Fake pussy? I don't even want to go into telling you guys my last encounter with that.

/shudder
//kidding

fnamen		2005-01-19 02:42:13 PM

Ancient Egypt didn't have enough dead kitties?

Somebody should have invented Ra-Y Jelly.

NineInchNader		2005-01-19 02:42:27 PM

Wait, what's a 'fake mummified cat'? Does that mean it wasn't really a cat, or that it wasn't really mummified? What a scam...

"Dangit, I told you to keep still! They gonna catch onto us if you keep moving!"

MBooda		2005-01-19 02:42:28 PM

Of course, I only accept real dead kittens.

Lots of 'em.

Son of Thunder		2005-01-19 02:42:51 PM

"Here, kitty kitty kitty kitty."

Adman12		2005-01-19 02:44:32 PM

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The findings support the theory that the ancients were just as prone to mischief and mistakes as we are today.

Score one for the universality of human nature.

Adman12		2005-01-19 02:46:04 PM

Oooooo. Bad cut and paste.

Here's the proper post:

The findings support the theory that the ancients were just as prone to mischief and mistakes as we are today.

Score one for the universality of human nature.

/that's better!

ThurmanMerman		2005-01-19 02:46:58 PM

Maybe they were selling them as souvenirs. They must have had tourists back then. I can't believe that suckers have only been born every minute since 1918.

Chemical_Turk		2005-01-19 02:47:23 PM

Everytime you fake an orgasm, God creates a fake mummycat.

TheJuiceIsLoose		2005-01-19 02:47:47 PM

The real "pussy".

feistyALgal		2005-01-19 02:48:33 PM

Let me guess.

They were made in China, right? They should've turned the little mummycats over to look for the sticker.

Tentacle		2005-01-19 02:48:36 PM

your dog wants a real mummification.

MastaBrembo		2005-01-19 02:48:56 PM

Accept no cheap imitations.

Adman12		2005-01-19 02:49:09 PM

Perhaps the greatest mystery being unraveled concerns "Mag Girl," a 13,000- to 15,000- year-old mummy excavated in the Dordogne Valley of southwestern France.

Now I feel bad about all the mummified pussy jokes.

/still R-ing TFA

feistyALgal		2005-01-19 02:50:19 PM

Does the girl in the Fark Personals today look like she's in position and ready to give head?

SlipWilly		2005-01-19 02:51:09 PM

Just embalm it, and FORGET IT!!

Kurmudgeon		2005-01-19 02:53:15 PM

Honey, your pussy is lookin a lil dry.
Here, have some Vaseline...
/oops sorry, wrong thread

IcarusIscariot		2005-01-19 02:55:53 PM

willywanka - anyone else think of that scene from Gallipoli?

I did...I wonder how many angry Egyptians tried to return the cat to the wrong shop =0P

/WTFM

CorDarei		2005-01-19 02:55:56 PM

also not on topic... but i think that the SbB girls boobies are inhanced because of the black shirt and a shadow on the right side... also not on topic, is it just me? or w/o the lip ring does the girl in the personal ad look like that skin for windows media player w/ the green face?

Pro Zack		2005-01-19 02:57:00 PM

did anyone else think it was odd that the archaeologist's name was Forgey just an r away from forgery...

larrynmn		2005-01-19 03:00:06 PM

rgr that feistyALgal

Adman12		2005-01-19 03:03:26 PM

Pro Zack
did anyone else think it was odd that the archaeologist's name was Forgey just an r away from forgery...

And pretty darn close to "fnorgby!"

Scotty's on FIRE!		2005-01-19 03:08:19 PM

You'd think scientist could check the authenticity of these mummies with a CAT scan or something?

feistyALgal		2005-01-19 03:20:54 PM

Scotty, you are indeed, on fire.

Congrats.

SpacePunk		2005-01-19 03:33:28 PM

I'm glad to see that current sales of fake mummified cats in Egypt is a tradition.

fudgefactor7		2005-01-19 03:59:58 PM

Wow, this is old news.

Sersiously. I knew this years ago.

Ankhaf		2005-01-19 04:29:13 PM

Maybe I'm like, an Egyptology student, and stuff, but this is totally old news. Egyptologists have known this for ages and ages and ages. Victorians used to have mummy unwrapping parties to discover what was inside the bandages, and at least since there have been CT scans mummies have been x-rayed -- that takes us back to the 1960s.

Dr. Honeydew		2005-01-19 05:00:12 PM

Ankhaf I was just thinking of this myself. With the Hitler thread we almost have a "things you would know if you watched nothing but the History Channel" trifecta.

kentriccubed		2005-01-19 05:09:33 PM

I had a science teacher that used... unsual hall passes.

He had a Mummified cat, Fetal pig in a jar, and a mummified ape hand.

Clavis		2005-01-19 05:14:51 PM

kentriccubed

Are you sure they were from animals...?

mjz		2005-01-19 05:46:49 PM

Ancient Egyptians sold fake mummified cats...
i knew it.

Drammach		2005-01-20 02:53:37 AM

How much would you pay for a fake cat-mummy ?

/assuming one were commercially available..
/on E-Bay..
/For Sale..
/Cash..

Rik01		2005-01-20 05:46:37 AM

Yeah. I saw that on the Discovery Channel a couple of years ago and it just goes to prove that corruption can happen in any major religion so long as there is money to be made. Like, all those religious article sellers that clog up the areas around the famous sites in Europe where people have purported to have seen vision of the Holy Mother or in those mineral springs that are supposed to cure ills.

There's a religious store in town where they sell bunches of tracts -- including Chick Tracts and I went in there once and noticed that they were reaping a pretty good profit for the cheaply made little booklets along with other religious articles. Bibles, which used to be real cheap, can often be found rather expensive in various book stores.

If there is a way to cheat the public, someone will do it.

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