Interesting discovery about ancient Egypt.

Orrex

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Mon Feb-22-10 11:53 PM
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Interesting discovery about ancient Egypt.

Before ascending to the first throne of the Fourth Dynasty, Sneferu was chatting one day with his father Huni and mentioned his plan by which all of Egypt could become fabulously wealthy.

"The Children of the Nile will build for me the mightiest structure ever seen," said Sneferu. "And everyone who contributes will be rewarded many times over."

"I don't know," said Huni, the aging ruler of the Third Dynasty. "I don't think these pyramid schemes ever work."

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Kali

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Tue Feb-23-10 12:03 AM
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1. Sneferu?

:spank:

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Orrex

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Tue Feb-23-10 12:05 AM
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2. You heard me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneferu

:evilgrin:

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Kali

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Tue Feb-23-10 12:10 AM
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3. ok I'll give you Sneferu

(builder of the BENT pyramid :rofl: )

but the spanking was for the punchline and it stays:spank:

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Ptah

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Tue Feb-23-10 12:21 AM
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4. Walk Like An Egyptian

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWP-AsG5DRk

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Orrex

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Tue Feb-23-10 12:36 AM
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5. Funny you should mention that

Robert Gates was giving President Bush his daily briefing, including the sad news that four volunteer aid workers from Cairo had been slain.

"The Egyptians were just out for a walk," said the Secretary, "when they were mercilessly gunned down."

"Big deal," said the President coldly. "I never liked The Bangles anyway."

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Tue Feb-23-10 12:40 AM
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6. Oy.

You know, I was thinking of you this morning. We had a group meeting in our cafeteria area this morning. On the speakers as we left was playing a certain Rick Astley song....

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Orrex

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Tue Feb-23-10 12:44 AM
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7. Are your cafeteria-based group meetings are belong to us.

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Dr. Strange

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Tue Feb-23-10 09:40 AM
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8. Some how Sneferu managed to convince Huni to contribute to his scheme.

But in the end, Egypt him.

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Capn Sunshine

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Tue Feb-23-10 11:49 AM
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9. !

for some reason, this was incredibly funny to me just now.
I laughed at a very inappropriate moment on a boring conference call.
So thanks for that :hi:

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Soylent Brice

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Tue Feb-23-10 11:57 AM
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10. LMAO

i'm stealing that.

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billyclem

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Tue Feb-23-10 01:05 PM
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11. Not once, not twice;

but, three times he found groups of pyramidiots to finance his building. The end result was the Red Pyramid so at least he left behind something very nice.

:hi:

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