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You are the last visitor at a small Museum of Egyptology. You walk around the room. Since it is so small, the only guard is the Person selling Tickets at the entrance. Suddenly you hear glass shatter. You turn around and one oft the mummies climb out of the sarcophagus. He seems disoriented and asks you, what place this is and why he isn't in his tomb.

What do you do?

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[–] remon@ani.social 30 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Ask them how they learned to speak English.

[–] lath@lemmy.world 29 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

That's an easy one. They did a stint at a British museum for a century or so.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

But they don’t have a tongue. So how do they speak English?

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

You can communicate with an English person by making noises through a stiff upper lip.

[–] Waldelfe@feddit.org 5 points 2 weeks ago

Also a good idea. Maybe he woke up before and learned the language.

[–] Waldelfe@feddit.org 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I assumed some kind oft translation spell to be in place so he would instantly understand the language of the place he resurrects in.

[–] CallMeAl@piefed.zip 18 points 2 weeks ago

Look for the hidden cameras

[–] gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 weeks ago

Okay first thing is to get him calm. Sit him down, get him some water, ask him the last thing he remembers, and carefully explain the situation. Probably have to be careful with telling him what year it is - he’s going to have questions about his loved ones that I couldn’t answer. Best course of action then is to have that ticket person call in a curator and a licensed therapist, and just let him talk and collect himself until they arrive.

[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 15 points 2 weeks ago

I ask "are you my mummy?" and then keel over laughing as I get.. eaten to death or whatever it is mummies do :3

[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 weeks ago
[–] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

Most likely I’d shit my whole ass

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Damn I love that movie. Glad at least one other person has seen it.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

One thing’s for sure is I’d make sure the horses were on my side of the river.

[–] save_the_humans@leminal.space 6 points 2 weeks ago

There was one time I was sleeping and my ex's dog woke me up barking. It really startled me, like I was actually terrified, and without thinking, literally tackled the dog. Always thought I was a runner, but might end up attacking the mummy.

[–] mech@feddit.org 6 points 2 weeks ago

I'd look around to see if Rachel Weisz is anywhere close.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Since my reaction when someone robbed me at gunpoint was to ask them if it was a real gun, I would probably ask the mummy how they learned English and go from there.

If they just seem confused and not hostile then we are gonna have a long conversation until the guard comes to boot me out when it closes.

[–] Pirtatogna@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Soil myself.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Reevaluate my worldview and look for an employee. I'd have no idea what they're saying as I speak neither coptic nor greek

Get a ride home and schedule an appointment with the shrink.

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

The mummy would be tired of me. I would want to sit down and talk to them mummy, ask it all about life during it's era, hygiene, technology, religion, sex, etc. I would want to know how it died, who it's family were.

So many questions.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Hope heat throb Brendon Fraser is nearby.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

First I would be taken aback, I didn't know my mummy was dead, and then taken aback again that she came back to life.

[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Well played

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Ask if he wants to smoke a joint.

[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

I wake up from the nightmare.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

"Mummy mia"

Then #Luigi its ass

[–] thezeesystem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

Head home and contact my therapist for a emergency meeting

[–] rockandsock@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Knock it down, stomp it, then pee on it.

If you don't fully desecrate the corpse it'll just keep coming back to life.

[–] Gumbyyy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Run away. And ideally try to lock it into a room on my way out.

[–] AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Wonder why I'm being pranked and where the cameras are.

Ancient Egyptians had no conception of English.

[–] Toes@ani.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

As long as he didn't make any startling movements towards me, I'd help him out. It would be so cool to have a mummy friend. Perhaps tell him about how far civilization has come.

[–] Eternal192@anarchist.nexus 2 points 2 weeks ago

Well i don't how it would behave other than what i saw in the Mummy movies so if it's Billy Zane you'll get sucked to death and if it's a female mummy you'll get sucked off to death so either way it'll suck so i'd prefer the female mummy and try bang it before being sucked off to death.

[–] ghost_rider69@thelemmy.club 1 points 2 weeks ago

Showing it how it was made years before getting mummified

[–] presoak@lazysoci.al 1 points 2 weeks ago

I'd say hello, welcome to [date] and offer him a glass of water.

[–] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Get a nosebleed from all the dust

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

Touch cloth

[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago
[–] early_riser@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Try learning the language.