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cat excuses | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn 67 ILL 49 WITH HIS BOSS 17 BREWING BEER 13 WITH AAPEHTI 8 WITH THE SCRIBE 6 MAKING REMEDIES FOR THE SCRIBE’S WIFE
by jamesfisher 4y ago
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67 ILL
49 WITH HIS BOSS
17 BREWING BEER
13 WITH AAPEHTI
8 WITH THE SCRIBE
6 MAKING REMEDIES FOR THE SCRIBE’S WIFE
5 WRAPPING (THE CORPSE OF) HIS MOTHER
5 OFFERING TO THE GOD
5 HIS WIFE WAS BLEEDING
5 FETCHING STONE FOR THE SCRIBE
4 WITH KHONS MAKING REMEDIES
4 SUFFERING WITH HIS EYE
4 OFF ABSENT
4 HIS DAUGHTER WAS BLEEDING
3 WITH HOREMWIA
3 WITH HIS BOSS DITTO
3 LIBATING TO HIS FATHER
2 WRAPPING (THE CORPSE OF) HIS SON
2 HIS MOTHER WAS ILL
2 HIS FEAST
2 FETCHING STONE FOR QENHERKHEPSHEF
2 BURYING THE GOD
1 WITH HIS GOD
1 THE SCORPION BIT HIM
1 STRENGTHENING THE DOOR
1 OFFFERING TO THE GOD
1 OFFERING TO HIS GOD
1 OFF ABSENT WITH THE SCRIBE
1 MOURNING HIS SON
1 LIBATING FOR HIS SON
1 LIBATING FOR HIM
1 LIBATING
1 EMBALMING HORMOSE
1 EMBALMING HIS BROTHER
1 DRINKING WITH KHONSU
1 BUILDING HIS HOUSE
- nyx_land 4y ago> BURYING THE GOD Thousands of years later and yet who among us hasn't missed work to bury God?
- hprotagonist 4y agoaround here it’s an annual day off.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- zrobotics 4y agoWell, the whole point of the holiday is he didn't stay buried.
- 2000UltraDeluxe 4y agoHence the need to do it repeatedly.
- ben_w 4y ago“To bury your god once may be regarded as misfortune, to bury them twice looks like carelessness.” - not Oscar Wilde.
- wesleywt 4y agoWho knew that Egypt was so progressive that guys can take off when their wife or daughter has a period.
- the_af 4y agoMaybe they, like in some Abrahamic religions to come later, considered women "impure" when they had the period, and this somehow translated to the men in the household? Wild speculation, of course.
- dhzhzjsbevs 4y agoCalm down. It's just a PMS joke.
- pc86 4y agoNo it's not
- dhzhzjsbevs 4y ago
- the_af 4y agoDid I not seem calm in my reply?
- dhzhzjsbevs 4y agoOh come on, now you're just being hysterical.
- MonkeyClub 4y agoThat's what I thought as well, though I would expect that'd appear in higher frequency - unless the bosses sent people to check.
- bobsmooth 4y ago
- thepasswordis 4y agoWow this really does tell a story. His mom and his son both died.
- nickduggets 4y agoEveryone he ever met died. Now the story is more sinister!
- spiralx 4y agoA lot of those are related to death: 5 WRAPPING (THE CORPSE OF) HIS MOTHER 2 WRAPPING (THE CORPSE OF) HIS SON 1 EMBALMING HORMOSE 1 EMBALMING HIS BROTHER 1 MOURNING HIS SON 3 LIBATING TO HIS FATHER 13 and I suspect most of these: 8 WITH THE SCRIBE 1 OFF ABSENT WITH THE SCRIBE 5 FETCHING STONE FOR THE SCRIBE 2 FETCHING STONE FOR QENHERKHEPSHEF 1 LIBATING FOR HIS SON 1 LIBATING FOR HIM 1 LIBATING 2 BURYING THE GOD 21 and there's a bunch making remedies and/or looking after wives and female relatives: 6 MAKING REMEDIES FOR THE SCRIBE’S WIFE 5 HIS WIFE WAS BLEEDING 4 WITH KHONS MAKING REMEDIES 4 HIS DAUGHTER WAS BLEEDING 2 HIS MOTHER WAS ILL 21 Some ones that seem work-related by the use of names: 49 WITH HIS BOSS 3 WITH HIS BOSS DITTO 3 WITH HOREMWIA 13 WITH AAPEHTI 68 Then there's some actual stuff the worker was doing - mostly brewing beer: 17 BREWING BEER 5 OFFERING TO THE GOD 1 WITH HIS GOD 1 STRENGTHENING THE DOOR 1 BUILDING HIS HOUSE 25 A few unknowns: 4 OFF ABSENT And finally the actual illness and injury, including scorpion guy! 67 ILL 4 SUFFERING WITH HIS EYE 1 THE SCORPION BIT HIM 72 Seems that brewing and DIY were the only hobbies around - unless you count making remedies or embalming!
- james-skemp 4y agoWith his boss: It's a little buried (on mobile) but: > ... the next most frequent is being away with one's superior doing private work for him, a practice that was not forbidden if done in moderation.
- _carbyau_ 4y agoWhile definitely a legal grey area in these modern times, foremen borrowing a truck/excavator and a bloke or two to sort out something at the foreman's house still seems to happen.
- neycoda 4y agoI imagine this happens often considering the amount of stories I hear of developer companies doing inadequate jobs.
- downrightmike 4y ago
- LanceJones 4y agoOnly a son is worth mourning?
- peanut_worm 4y agoKhonsu must be an important guy
- mr_toad 4y agoSomething that hasn’t changed in 3200 years is inconsistent labelling of data.
- revicon 4y agoHard to implement a drop down menu on a stone tablet :)
- noisy_boy 4y agoYou would think after couple of years they will have blocks for WITH BOSS that can just be pressed on the clay.
- isbvhodnvemrwvn 4y agoTell that to my toes
- Breza 4y agoThis is the kind of dry humor that keeps me reading long HN comment threads. Well done.
- leaflets2 4y agoAre these for a single person, or for many people? If the latter, then, seems their parents (mother) died a lot (5) in comparison to how often they themselves were ill (67)
- blippage 4y agoReminds me of the #1 reason for a day off work in Australia: possum attack. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0ytDTcsuYM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0ytDTcsuYM
- neycoda 4y agoIt's really anti-worker to consider reasons to miss work (legit ones, allowed ones, necessary ones) "excuses". As if everyone's supposed to work all the time and any time off is non-legit. What a poor way to view workers... the article really is casting workers in a bad light when that's the opposite of what we need.