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A comment on 3,200-year-old Egyptian tablet records excuses for why people missed work. Parent comment

Re:3,200-year-old Egyptian tablet records excuses for why pe... by nyx_land on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @04:36PM (#31172844)
> BURYING THE GOD

Thousands of years later and yet who among us hasn't missed work to bury God?

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Re:3,200-year-old Egyptian tablet records excuses for why pe... by hprotagonist on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @06:09PM (#31173786)
around here it’s an annual day off.
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Re:3,200-year-old Egyptian tablet records excuses for why pe... by zrobotics on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @08:21PM (#31174800)
Well, the whole point of the holiday is he didn't stay buried.
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Re:3,200-year-old Egyptian tablet records excuses for why pe... by 2000UltraDeluxe on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @12:54AM (#31176465)
Hence the need to do it repeatedly.
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Re:3,200-year-old Egyptian tablet records excuses for why pe... by ben_w on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @10:18AM (#31180188)
“To bury your god once may be regarded as misfortune, to bury them twice looks like carelessness.” - not Oscar Wilde.
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