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2005-02-17 Home Front: Tech

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Posted by Anonymoose 2005-02-17 10:49:30 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 What does a karnak have to do with King Tut?

Posted by Steve from Relto 2005-02-17 11:22:09 AM|| 2005-02-17 11:22:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Steve, that would be Karnak, Egypt. Karnak was a central temple area within Thebes, teeming with plotting Amun priests. Although Tut was a convert to Amun cult from his father's Aton heresy, he was still seen as an affront to the Amun hierarchy, a spawn of the "devil".

That's why "C.I.S. Karnak".

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-02-17 12:07:10 PM|| 2005-02-17 12:07:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Thanks to both of you for the enlightenment. I thought it had something to with Johnny Carson's character, the Great Karnak, who provided questions to predetermined answers. For example:

A: A, B, C, D, E, F, G.

Q: What were some of the earlier forms of Preparation H?

Posted by GK 2005-02-17 1:02:25 PM|| 2005-02-17 1:02:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 CIS? CSI.

Posted by Sgt.D.T. 2005-02-17 3:44:27 PM|| 2005-02-17 3:44:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 The butler probably did do it. Servants could be bribed to let assassins in or to poison the food or the massage oil or the perfume.

Ahkenaton threw out the Amon and other priesthoods in order to establish worship of one god, the sun disk, the Aton. The Amon priesthood was just as crooked in its own way as the Renaissance Papacy, and was as omnipresent and powerful too; and it did not take kindly to reformation. When Akhenaton died without an adult heir, his reforms died with him. It was very easy for the politicians and the Amon priesthood to cow a nine year old kid, and any signs of independent thinking from a young monarch on the verge of manhood would be a most serious threat.

Posted by mom 2005-02-17 3:45:00 PM|| 2005-02-17 3:45:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Sgt.D.T., it has been a veeeery long time since my TV was on (playing DVDs does not count). In fact, 3 years +. CSI or CIS does not matter to me either way.

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-02-17 3:50:31 PM|| 2005-02-17 3:50:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Whoops. My boo. CIS is "Criminal Investigative Service", the Army's investigative police; CSI is the "Crime Scenes Investigation", which is the name of the series, though I don't know if it is an official civilian police designation.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-02-17 5:36:06 PM|| 2005-02-17 5:36:06 PM|| Front Page Top

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