In a message dated 6/28/00 9:50:05 AM Central Daylight Time,
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> Also, was the pyramid vacant, or did the slaves have to keep protecting the
>  King's furniture and stuff?  How about dust?  Or did the royal family just
>  move into a hotel for 4 months?

Abu Cymbal,

Pyramid was not vacant and the stiff would not stop bothering the builder
about water penetration onto the carpeting and the locusts invading the
pantry. There was also a lot of complaining about midnight beer rages in the
construction camp. Two-thousand slaves were executed for making lewd faces at
the princess, actually, it was bad bread that made them twist up their faces
and run around in circles with stones on their heads for three days and the
princess just happened to think it was all about her gold with inlaid jade
vs. the ebony with inlaid pearl tiara. The slaves also had a complaint about
the owner's dogs barking and biting their heels every time they got near to
the pyramid with their loads, so three-thousand more were executed. Five
thousand were executed on the day the princess' cat was crushed by a wayward
stone. There were a few more days in which the sun did not shine, the owner
became nervous about the angles of the walls when he saw the shadow lines and
twelve thousand slaves were executed for this alone. When the builder
complained that he was running low on slaves the owner remarked, "So go find
more morons." When it was figured out that the base of the pyramid, the
pyramid being 98% complete, was off by two degrees the owner abandoned the
project and went on a Nile cruise while the builder was executed along with
his family. The crew, under direction of a new builder, moved camp two miles
and they began construction of another pyramid. Obviously, nothing has
changed.

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