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  1. 18th September 2005, 08:58 PM #1
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    Default Biscuit joining by the ancient Egyptians

    Today we visited the Melbourne musuem, specifically to check out the Mummy exhibition.

    I found the sarcophagus(s) to be very interesting, especially after getting down to floor level to check out their joining method.

    They used biscuits, would you believe. The bottom half of each sarcophagus on display, had rectangular holes just like biscuit holes. Looking upwards one could see, on a few occassions, bits and pieces of biscuits hanging out of the bottom of the top.

    Nothing new under the pyramids, eh!

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  3. 18th September 2005, 09:23 PM #2
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    Quote Originally Posted by Optimark
    bits and pieces of biscuits hanging out of the bottom of the top. .
    Yeah but surely they would be stale by now
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    I knew it! All these years I've been saying those archeaologists shouldn't have been trusted with the translation of those hieroglyphs! All these years they've told me I'm mad or insane!

    Finally, I am vindicated!

    Here at last is the proof that they misinterpreted the child-king's name glyphs; that instead of Tutankhamen they should be read Tritonkhamen, meaning "Amun's Orange Tools."

    Who else makes biscuits that'd last all these years? Besides Arnott's, of course, but their cream-filling makes 'em useless for joints. Great laminates, terrible joints.
    I may be weird, but I'm saving up to become eccentric.

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    I think you may find on re-examination (you DID get a season pass? ) that they are 'Loose Tennon' joints, also used by the Greeks, Romans & Phoenicians etc. to assemble their penteconters & triremes.
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    Biscuits in the sarcophagus? Sure fire way to get a crummy mummy
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    Default Wat flavour Biccies???

    wat kind of Biccies where they ANZAC BICCIES or where they Tim Tams ????
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