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Thursday, October 15, 2009

So called mummies...


Ok, so one question any Mexican will ask after you've visited Guanajuato is, 'Did you go see the mummies?' My first time I was excited. I wanted to see well preserved bodies wrapped in cloth, jars containing the organs, and so forth... instead I, like everyone else, got something different. Why is it when something tastes bad we offer it to someone else to verify the grossness? Or if it smells bad our first response is 'Smell this'. Well Guanajuato mummies are just that, you take people because its there. So what's your definition of a mummy? For me its making dead people not so dead. You put some work into it. Heck, our society should start doing plastic surgery on those that have passed on; that should be our societal mark when we get dug up. I want to shimmer and look twenty at my funeral after my 102th birthday. A magic 8 ball told me that age or was it the string & needle thing at baby showers. Anywho... So here's the case, the Chad honest truth... So people who were buried in or around Guanajuato over the past century started to get dug up. Why? Cause no one was paying the bill for their grave spot. Apparently you could get evicted after death. These people of lesser means were buried more humbly and now consequently are famous. When they dug them up they found they were well preserved. Yep that's it, nothing more. Instead of skeletons they still had skin, hair, teeth, and fingernails. So I ask myself, did someone sprinkle knorr food preservative or perchance dip them in wax? Nope. The high concentration of minerals in the soil made them just like a sealed can of jam. Yep, when they took them out of the ground a popping sound was heard from the jar's lid. Anywho... (that's my second anywho, obviously I have opinions about this) After they got dug up what was the first thing someone thought up? How about, A: lets take these to the university and do a study B: lets respect their deaths and find them a respectful resting place C: Let's call Brandon Frasier and see if he'll make a movie or D: Let's call them mummies and make people pay to see them. If you guessed D you get a free tuition to an annex course on how to properly roll your corn tortilla. Trust me, it might look easy but it takes lots of practice. Well here's the photos as I ask, "Is this milk bad? Taste it."







1 comment:

  1. That is SUPER creepy! Why are all their mouths open? And don't the families of these people have anything to say or are they really old??

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