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pc_gator [TotalFark]
2022-11-03 1:22:09 PM  
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disaster bastard
2022-11-03 1:22:36 PM  
King Tut - SNL
Youtube FYbavuReVF4
 
OtherLittleGuy [BareFark]
2022-11-03 1:23:44 PM  
For those staying off my lawn who don't understand the headline:

King Tut - SNL
Youtube FYbavuReVF4
 
steklo [TotalFark]
2022-11-03 1:25:10 PM  
Big SNL and Steve Martin fan back then.

I remember staying up late to watch that episode when it first aired.

Yes, I'm old.
 
disaster bastard
2022-11-03 1:25:34 PM  

OtherLittleGuy: For those staying off my lawn who don't understand the headline:

[Youtube-video https://www.youtube.com/embed/FYbavuReVF4]


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OtherLittleGuy [BareFark]
2022-11-03 1:28:41 PM  

disaster bastard: OtherLittleGuy: For those staying off my lawn who don't understand the headline:

[Youtube-video https://www.youtube.com/embed/FYbavuReVF4]

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Still worth the repeat post.
 
Markus5
2022-11-03 1:28:41 PM  
Funky Tut.
 
Englebert Slaptyback
2022-11-03 1:29:56 PM  
I must say that Tut's curse was especially effective.

Everyone involved in opening the tomb is now dead.
 
Exile On Beale Street [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-11-03 1:30:39 PM  
He's my favorite honky.
 
buckeyebrain
2022-11-03 1:31:09 PM  

Exile On Beale Street: He's my favorite honky.


Did you do the monkey?
 
fatassbastard [TotalFark]
2022-11-03 1:31:36 PM  
I remember my first beer.
 
Billy Liar
2022-11-03 1:31:58 PM  
The Curse is making itself known again
 
Super Chronic
2022-11-03 1:33:49 PM  
Clicking through to the article on Tutankhamen himself:

His mother is his father's sister

He married his paternal half-sister

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And yet, despite the purity of their lineage, they lost both of their children, who were later found to have serious birth defects.
 
farkitallletitend
2022-11-03 1:35:41 PM  

OtherLittleGuy: For those staying off my lawn who don't understand the headline:

[Youtube-video https://www.youtube.com/embed/FYbavuReVF4]


I remember seeing him perform that on SNL.
I'm so old.
 
SalivaDoorDeli
2022-11-03 1:36:39 PM  
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Markus5
2022-11-03 1:39:02 PM  
King Tut
Youtube lYilneF-inw
 
Sofakinbd [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-11-03 1:39:28 PM  

OtherLittleGuy: For those staying off my lawn who don't understand the headline:

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I thought it was a play on finding the tomb and dying to the curse.

stone a(ge.....)

But Subby died before they could complete the headline. Thanks for clarifying.

- Sofa
 
Markus5
2022-11-03 1:42:46 PM  
Feeding King Tut
Youtube 1QRNJB29p6o


One more video.
 
nytmare
2022-11-03 1:45:51 PM  
"Tutankhamun's tomb was hidden by debris for most of its existence and therefore not extensively robbed."

"most of the tomb's contents went to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo."

It's not robbery when we do it.
 
studebaker hoch
2022-11-03 1:46:49 PM  
King Tut's Curse!
Youtube SHDibwDgOEc
 
NM Volunteer [TotalFark]
2022-11-03 1:54:53 PM  

Super Chronic: Clicking through to the article on Tutankhamen himself:

His mother is his father's sister

He married his paternal half-sister

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And yet, despite the purity of their lineage, they lost both of their children, who were later found to have serious birth defects.


The Ptolemy family did the same thing.  It's why I laugh at the people who claim Cleopatra was black.  No, she was a very inbred Greek woman.
 
chewd [TotalFark]
2022-11-03 1:58:33 PM  

nytmare: "Tutankhamun's tomb was hidden by debris for most of its existence and therefore not extensively robbed."

"most of the tomb's contents went to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo."

It's not robbery when we do it.


Yknow, not to defend anybody but.... if the people who plundered all those pyramids and tombs over the last few thousands of years had preserved the artifacts and kept them on display in museums rather than melting them down for the gold... history would probably look on them more favorably.
 
NM Volunteer [TotalFark]
2022-11-03 2:01:29 PM  

chewd: nytmare: "Tutankhamun's tomb was hidden by debris for most of its existence and therefore not extensively robbed."

"most of the tomb's contents went to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo."

It's not robbery when we do it.

Yknow, not to defend anybody but.... if the people who plundered all those pyramids and tombs over the last few thousands of years had preserved the artifacts and kept them on display in museums rather than melting them down for the gold... history would probably look on them more favorably.


Not to mention destroying the human remains themselves for Medieval Herbalife.
 
The Irresponsible Captain [TotalFark]
2022-11-03 2:04:06 PM  

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The Bangles - Walk Like an Egyptian (Official Video)
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GoodHomer
2022-11-03 2:08:04 PM  

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That's cultural appropriation. Or whitewashing. Or something.

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studebaker hoch
2022-11-03 2:10:30 PM  

chewd: nytmare: "Tutankhamun's tomb was hidden by debris for most of its existence and therefore not extensively robbed."

"most of the tomb's contents went to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo."

It's not robbery when we do it.

Yknow, not to defend anybody but.... if the people who plundered all those pyramids and tombs over the last few thousands of years had preserved the artifacts and kept them on display in museums rather than melting them down for the gold... history would probably look on them more favorably.



The Spaniards melted literally tons of gold artwork from the Americas and shipped it back to Spain as ingots.

We have no idea what was lost.  It's probably best we never do.
 
Evil Mackerel
2022-11-03 2:11:34 PM  
/Oblig.

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HailRobonia
2022-11-03 2:14:53 PM  
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SalivaDoorDeli
2022-11-03 2:17:03 PM  

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studebaker hoch
2022-11-03 2:18:21 PM  

HailRobonia: [Fark user image 404x500]


What's that from?
 
Mudd's woman [TotalFark]
2022-11-03 2:22:31 PM  

Super Chronic: Clicking through to the article on Tutankhamen himself:

His mother is his father's sister

He married his paternal half-sister

[media1.giphy.com image 245x246] [View Full Size image _x_]

And yet, despite the purity of their lineage, they lost both of their children, who were later found to have serious birth defects.


But he was buried in his jammies!
 
fat boy
2022-11-03 2:24:31 PM  
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He sure played a mean pinball
 
HailRobonia
2022-11-03 2:36:39 PM  

studebaker hoch: HailRobonia: [Fark user image 404x500]

What's that from?


Motel of the Mysteries. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/108831.Motel_of_the_Mysteries

"It is the year 4022; all of the ancient country of Usa has been buried under many feet of detritus from a catastrophe that occurred back in 1985. Imagine, then, the excitement that Howard Carson, an amateur archeologist at best, experienced when in crossing the perimeter of an abandoned excavation site he felt the ground give way beneath him and found himself at the bottom of a shaft, which, judging from the DO NOT DISTURB sign hanging from an archaic doorknob, was clearly the entrance to a still-sealed burial chamber. Carson's incredible discoveries, including the remains of two bodies, one of then on a ceremonial bed facing an altar that appeared to be a means of communicating with the Gods and the other lying in a porcelain sarcophagus in the Inner Chamber, permitted him to piece together the whole fabric of that extraordinary civilization."
 
Trocadero
2022-11-03 2:37:19 PM  

studebaker hoch: The Spaniards melted literally tons of gold artwork from the Americas and shipped it back to Spain as ingots.

We have no idea what was lost. It's probably best we never do.


I remember a documentary about that.

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Floki [TotalFark]
2022-11-03 2:40:30 PM  
One of the delightful features of Steve Martin's King Tut routine on SNL back in the day is that the backing band became better known as the Blues Brothers band (minus Jake and Elwood). That's "Blue" Lou Marini on the saxophone, emerging from the sarcophagus!
 
steklo [TotalFark]
2022-11-03 2:52:10 PM  

Floki: One of the delightful features of Steve Martin's King Tut routine on SNL back in the day


Wasn't Paul Shaffer the musical director for SNL back then?

Too lazy to look it up.

PS..I once met GE Smith in a recording studio in the early 80's. I was a punk teen.

He was wearing a mailman suit with "Fred" stitched on the shirt. Now, all I knew him from was those crappy Hall and Oats videos, I nicknamed him "Frankenstein" and didn't know his name.

So when I went up to say hi, I called him "Fred"

Oh, he did not like that one bit.

Cool guy though.
 
Myk-House of El [BareFark] [OhFark]
2022-11-03 2:56:05 PM  

steklo: Wasn't Paul Shaffer the musical director for SNL back then?

Too lazy to look it up.


Band member but surprisingly, not the musical director.  That was Howard Shore at that time.  Given his credentials in film scoring subsequent to that, I can see why he was.

/I wasn't too lazy to look it up.
 
SalivaDoorDeli
2022-11-03 2:56:45 PM  

steklo: Floki: One of the delightful features of Steve Martin's King Tut routine on SNL back in the day

Wasn't Paul Shaffer the musical director for SNL back then?

Too lazy to look it up.

PS..I once met GE Smith in a recording studio in the early 80's. I was a punk teen.

He was wearing a mailman suit with "Fred" stitched on the shirt. Now, all I knew him from was those crappy Hall and Oats videos, I nicknamed him "Frankenstein" and didn't know his name.

So when I went up to say hi, I called him "Fred"

Oh, he did not like that one bit.

Cool guy though.


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steklo [TotalFark]
2022-11-03 3:05:35 PM  

Myk-House of El: Band member but surprisingly, not the musical director.  That was Howard Shore at that time.


Ah yes, Howard Shore. Of course. My memory isn't as good as it used to be.

Ya know, I took the 30 Rock tour 3 times. and I read the SNL book cover to cover a few times as well.

Mater or fact, Lorne Michaels gave me his box of SNL best of the 80's on VHS a few years ago.

Indirectly of course. I never met the man, but my friend was in his office and Lorne was cleaning out some boxes, found it, gave it to my friend. "I know who will love this..." and the following day it was in my possession.

And yes, the box smells like popcorn.
 
LewDux [OhFark]
2022-11-03 3:06:54 PM  
Future Sound of london - Egypt
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTPjIodcy2Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7gN1tU1t4M
 
Prof. Frink [BareFark]
2022-11-03 3:07:34 PM  
I read TFHeadline as "condom", which took this story down a decidedly different path.
 
steklo [TotalFark]
2022-11-03 3:08:36 PM  
Jon & Vangelis - The Friends of Mr. Cairo [Official]
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hammettman
2022-11-03 3:34:30 PM  

OtherLittleGuy: disaster bastard: OtherLittleGuy: For those staying off my lawn who don't understand the headline:

[Youtube-video https://www.youtube.com/embed/FYbavuReVF4]

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Still worth the repeat post.


A tri-tut almost.
 
cant be arsed
2022-11-03 4:03:49 PM  

fat boy: [ipdb.org image 329x600]
He sure played a mean pinball


Well, he does indeed stand like a statue.
 
beyondmycontrol
2022-11-03 4:41:56 PM  

HailRobonia: studebaker hoch: HailRobonia: [Fark user image 404x500]

What's that from?

Motel of the Mysteries. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/108831.Motel_of_the_Mysteries

"It is the year 4022; all of the ancient country of Usa has been buried under many feet of detritus from a catastrophe that occurred back in 1985. Imagine, then, the excitement that Howard Carson, an amateur archeologist at best, experienced when in crossing the perimeter of an abandoned excavation site he felt the ground give way beneath him and found himself at the bottom of a shaft, which, judging from the DO NOT DISTURB sign hanging from an archaic doorknob, was clearly the entrance to a still-sealed burial chamber. Carson's incredible discoveries, including the remains of two bodies, one of then on a ceremonial bed facing an altar that appeared to be a means of communicating with the Gods and the other lying in a porcelain sarcophagus in the Inner Chamber, permitted him to piece together the whole fabric of that extraordinary civilization."


Never got to read the full book, but always enjoyed reading the abridged (excerpted) version in Grandma's Reader's Digest when I was young.
 
Floki [TotalFark]
2022-11-03 4:58:21 PM  

steklo: Floki: One of the delightful features of Steve Martin's King Tut routine on SNL back in the day

Wasn't Paul Shaffer the musical director for SNL back then?

Too lazy to look it up.

PS..I once met GE Smith in a recording studio in the early 80's. I was a punk teen.

He was wearing a mailman suit with "Fred" stitched on the shirt. Now, all I knew him from was those crappy Hall and Oats videos, I nicknamed him "Frankenstein" and didn't know his name.

So when I went up to say hi, I called him "Fred"

Oh, he did not like that one bit.

Cool guy though.


That was one of the best episodes of SNL, with Paul Shaffer introducing the Blues Brothers in the cold opening of the show. You can also see Paul Shaffer to the left on keyboards during the King Tut sketch.

Been watching "30 Rock" on Hulu with my son and I think next time we head to NYC I'll take him on a tour of the place.
 
steklo [TotalFark]
2022-11-03 5:05:50 PM  

Floki: That was one of the best episodes of SNL, with Paul Shaffer introducing the Blues Brothers in the cold opening of the show


I remember the blues brother episode. It was a cold open if I recall and as a kid, didn't quite understand what was going on until I recognized Ackroyd and Belushi.

Soon after, Soul Man was a top-40 hit and I went and got the Album.

Yes, do take the 30 Rock tour. It's a great way to see the building, and to tour 8H and the 17th floor where all that history was made. The number of artists photos hung up in the hallways are amazing.

When I took the tour they allowed us to stand on the stage. I didn't have a monologue and Conan O'Brien wasn't going to write me one anyway...

But still cool to be there.

PS the stage is a lot smaller than you think.
 
Day_Old_Dutchie
2022-11-03 6:41:55 PM  
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petec
2022-11-03 8:41:36 PM  

nytmare: "Tutankhamun's tomb was hidden by debris for most of its existence and therefore not extensively robbed."

"most of the tomb's contents went to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo."

It's not robbery when we do it.


my son is an art historian of sorts*, he can tell you why almost any particular piece of art work shouldn't be where it is

/we don't go to museums with him anymore

*masters in museum studies
 
NathanAllen
2022-11-03 10:35:05 PM  
Grave robbers.
 
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