Hey guys, remember the ancient Mesopotamian low-quality copper bamboozler Ea-Nasir? Guess what: he seems to be "back"...
...To be fair though: This particular embezzlement crime actually happened in 2021: [mining.com] Not this year (2024).
(Using a news-link from mining dot com, because the original Bloomberg dot com article is behind a pay-wall.)
Still hillarious though, in my opinion. And the Ea Nasir joke continues to be evergreen. At least among Tumblr deep-lore enthusiasts and fans of ancient world/mediterranean/levant history.
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Some more choice memes I've collected recently, related to Ea Nasir:
A reply, over from Bluesky:
Ea-nāṣir jokes are like high-quality copper ingots.
Not everybody gets them.
Not mine; this next one neither:
Obligatory "Palpatine is back" remix:
The Simpsons predicted this, of course:
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Caught by the captains of the East India Company:
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Randal Munroe/XKCD Comics remembers Ea-Nasir, of course...
The Tumblr merch shop [shop.tumblr.com] has been under maintenance and reconstruction for several months now, but the (current? former?) head of Tumblr merch still has his Tumblr blog up and has a nice quick-briefing of the Ea-Nasir meme on Tumblr....
In 1953, explorer Sir Leonard Woolley discovered and acquired the tablet from what is believed to be the ruins of Ea-Nasir's home while on an expedition to the city of Ur. Several other similar tablets complaining about poor copper quality were also recovered, suggesting Ea-Nasir frequently sent his customers poor-quality goods. The tablet is currently held at the British Museum.
Uploaded some time in 2020 to KnowYourMeme dot Com...
[kinda wanna forward/cc this to the Ello-Pundemonium account, hehe...] [even though yeah the Ello-Pundemonium account deleted itself some time three years ago, for some reason... way before all the latest Talenthouse bankruptcy shenanigans...]
Oh and yes I know I know: the current "X-formerly-known-as-Twitter" logo is actually a Unicode character:
"Unicode character U+1D54F (𝕏) was added to Unicode in 2001 and has been used in mathematical text books since the 70s. I'm looking forward to Twitter attempting and failing to trademark their new logo"
