Those of us who are easily amused have more fun.

[kiya]

One of the cable stations is having one of its repetitive "Let's show The Mummy several times in a row" festivals, and we watched one of them. When it went into the repeat, teinedreugan put in The Mummy Returns.

Punctuating this, starting about two thirds of the way through the first flick, teinedreugan had been commenting that he had an idea for a new D&D campaign, though not the plot arc to go with it -- the setting parts. Which I'm finding amusing, as I've been dabbling in bits of Egyptian symbology for pondering another tattoo design vaguely; he and I do seem to get caught by similar notions a lot.

Anyway, we were commenting on the epic-accomplishment nature of the heroes in the Mummy movies, the flipping, swordfighting, hail of gunfire, all like that there. Catch the knife by the tip and fling it back, that sort of thing. And there's a fight scene early in the movie where there are a lot of goons, and going back and forth, and the youngster upends a bookcase and drops it on one of the goons.

I turn to teinedreugan and said, "The kid's not bad for a first-level librarian."

He lost it.