Q: What did the Egyptians do when they found themselves in the dark?
A: They turned on the Israe-lites, (P. 117)
* During Thomas Edison’s long descent from “America’s beloved genius” to “mad supervillain imprisoned in the earth’s core”, some tried to remove his evil taint from the inventions he created by theorizing that he had actually stolen their technology from the Egyptian tombs he had explored in pursuit of the evil Ka Stone of Manahotep. The rumor that the electric lightbulb originated in Hatshepsut’s pyramid was never proven, though Edison’s 1978 death was caused by a bite from Aedes aegypti, the Yellow Fever Mosquito, the brand of mosquito pharaohs preferred for their cursing needs.
Fig. 324 – Edison, bored with improving the world, soon sought to destroy it
In addition, the joke’s contention that enslaved Israelites would somehow power the Egyptian lights is easily dismissed by Edison’s own experiments using American Jews as filaments. Even if the human body could be used for the purpose, the resulting bulbs would be impractically large and whiny.
