Mummies Dead – Death Suspected

Thanks to Roger for stopping by on an old post about salt to mention 3,500 year old mummies are beign scanned to investigate possible high blood pressure and heart disease in ancient Egyptions.

Good to see best use of scarce specialist medical equipment being used so effectively.

Eminent scholars, lead by Nobel Laureate Albert (Mr climate change) Gore, are now looking for evidence of early McDonald’s restaurants in the Middle East.

At a news conference today, Gore noted “those of us in the scientific community have long believed that the practice of Super Sizing could be traced back hundreds, maybe thousands of years, and that the prevalence of the practice moves in lock step with heart disease and gingivitis. With this discovery, we now have hard, irrefutable, proof that this is the case. We need to move immediately to curtail and ultimately shut down any source of unnecessary calories. Tomorrow I shall propose a new system of taxes and credits based on calorie count. My partners and I already have an infrastructure in place to trade in these credits. As proof that this system is workable, I should add I have already purchased enough credits for my own mansion to ensure that we can keep a full supply of Ding Dongs in the cabinets.”

Q: Where do mummies go for a swim?

A: To the dead sea!