What does Old Scratch have for us today? Pull a fact from your carpet bag, Scratch, and tell us what we’ll learn …
Did you know …
That mummies used to be so abundant that paint manufacturers would grind them up to make “mummy brown” paint? It’s true!
First produced in Europe in the 16th century, mummy brown was largely composed of pitch, myrrh, and the ground-up flesh of Egyptian mummies. By the early 20th century, however, demand for mummy brown oustripped the supply of mummies, and the eponymous ingredient became too scarce for production to continue. Mummies were not reproducing fast enough, or even, it seems, at all.
The widely accepted explanation for this, among archaeo-biologists, is that mummy sex is just so gross that not even mummies want to see it, much less participate in it. It’s like two filthy branches fighting each other, and one of them has an erection. Yuck!
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