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Playing mummies (and daddies) ?

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Better daddies than dybbuks

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*and the few females tend to be unwrapped

1. More important VIP people are male. (How many female Directors of blue chip companies?) so more important burials of males.

2. The people who first invade the tomb always want to see the female's naughty bits, and the first invaders are never the people who tell the world about the tomb and contents (eg they keep quiet about the loot they have taken0.

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There are quite a few important female mummies (including several queens). And even poor Egyptians mummified their dead. Just with cheaper, less elaborate methods. Mummies were an important export product for Egypt and not for museums but as fertilizer (and a bit as medicine). The boom ended only when the Chilean saltpetre (guano) entered the market.

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would they lay mummies end to end across the fields or whizz them up into a fine spray? (tho they could only have delivered that by air balloons).

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I assume they were sold pre-crushed.

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Pre-crushed would create a choking hazzard. Not suitable for children under 36 months.

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Do you think the usual animal excrements are less risky?

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Probably not but the packaging would be better. And children could wear oxygen masks while they are spraying.

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Who will pay for the oxygen?

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Oxygen is all around us. Just need to capture enough. The children could run around with jam jars to trap it.

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Not pure enough and thus not usable for a closed-cycle system.

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They could use nitrogen magnets to remove the nitrogen. I'm sure they would be very cheap on Amazon; they could ask for them as Christmas presents.

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Same problem, the cost is in the cooling.

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They could sort it out in Greenland. It is pretty cold there.

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