Joke of the week [458 = year 9, #42] "Geddit?": (29), idiom 3 (April 18, 2011 - April 24, 2011)  

                                                                                                                                     "Flipping one's Lid"
Q: What does an Egyptian mummy do when he is angry?
A: He flips his lid*.   * pun on the literal versus the idiomatic meaning of "to flip one's lid": 
     http://www.thefreedictionary.com/flip+one's+lid & http://idioms.yourdictionary.com/flip-one-s-lid  
    cf: 21, 428, 429, 430, 431, 432, 433, 434, 435, 436, 437, 438, 439, 443, 444, 445, 446, 447, 448, 449, 450, 451, 452, 453, 454, 455, 456, 457, 459, 460 etc.

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