“I often
remind personnel directors at competitive companies that mummies work eighty
per cent cheaper than zombies. Mummies are also slightly more articulate, and
they are easier to deal with if they become enraged. If a mummy starts to chase
you, merely pull on a loose end of one of his bandages and spin him like a top,
unwinding him until he collapses in a pile of bones. Unlike zombies,
ninety-seven per cent of mummies are not unionized, and some have even been
known to threaten union organizers with bloody butcher knives.” —Ian Frazier, “Why Mummies?”, The New Yorker, Feb. 27, 2017
The image accompanying this post shows Boris Karloff
in The Mummy (1932).
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