joke of the day in honor of debm55: how can you tell if a mummy has a cold?

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[kimbutgar]

1. It's mumbles brrr?

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2. Good answer but no, try again!

[RoadRunner]

3. It's wrapped up

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4. Sorry RoadRunner try again!

[IA8IT]

5. Recused myself for following Dad Jokes unfair advantage

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6. Appreciate it, it's actually a very old joke, saw it online but remember it from grade school

[IA8IT]

7. Rode school bus in 60's old

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8. Grew up walking distance from elementary and junior high.

Didn't take a school bus until high school in the 70s and a but if the 80s I guess.

[Harker]

9. From his sar-cough-a-gus?

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10. I'll give you that one

I was going for "coffin" but that's basically the same answer.

Maybe mine is just the grade school answer, yours is high school

[Harker]

11. Funny that you put it that way.

When I was in third grade (1967) the class was assigned to write a new word we had learned on the chalkboard, pronounce it, then - after seeing if anyone else knew it - define it.

I went with "sarcophagus."

[EverHopeful]

12. I'm impressed.

Was given a children's book about Egypt and it took far longer than it probably should have to learn how that was pronounced.

For quite a few years, only in my head, never out loud, I pronounced it more like sarco fage us.

[Harker]

15. The only other I recall from that day was "heliport", courtesy of Cynthia Rosenthal.

I spent about a year wondering what a "bi-OP-ic" (biopic) was.

[efhmc]

13. He starts coffing

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14. That works too!