Honest-Abe-kun and Mihashi have made it to the Secret Pyramid of the Pitch of the Gods!

It wasn’t that hard to find from the air, actually. A pyramid is a big heap of stones in the middle of the desert, it tends to stand out. Even if it’s supposed to be a secret pyramid, the physical presence isn’t easy to hide. The ‘secret’ part is probably more that there aren’t any road signs pointing toward it.

But despite locating the pyramid in record time, it might already be too late! The Italians have beaten them there. The Italians were good a locating things in Africa from the air in the twenties – first they must have found Kufra* that way, and now the Secret Pyramid of the Pitch of the Gods, which is only two corners down the road from Kufra.

Contrary to Honest-Abe-kun’s analysis, railroads played no part in all of that – the Italians didn’t invest quite that much into their African colonies. He just fell for an old propaganda lie there.

Anyway, Honest-Abe-kun is not willing to accept defeat quite yet. He’s taken the Lewis gun from the airplane, and he knows how to use it! Well, or at least he looks at it like he knows how to use it, which is enough for the purposes of a B-movie scene. And Macaroni Combat (sometimes also called Euro War) is a classic B-movie genre – I don’t think even a single of those movies qualifies as an A-movie, and that speaks of a very healthy level of self-respecting B-movieishness.

So I fully agree with Honest-Abe-kun’s suggestion to go into that genre…even if I can’t fully agree with the idea of mixing macaroni and spaghetti, since you’ll never be able to get them both properly al dente if you cook them together. And of course I also object to Honest-Abe-kun’s use of “spaghetti” as an ethnic slur. Bad Honest-Abe-kun. You’re not supposed to do that, even if you are at war with the Italians. They are at war, aren’t they? I can’t really recall ever reading about an Italian-Canapanese War in the twenties…especially not in British-controlled Egypt…but the context makes it seem that way.

Anyway, Mihashi seems duly outraged at Honest-Abe-kun’s slur use. Or perhaps he’s just queasy at the idea of killing? Mihashi doesn’t come over as someone who gets frequently overwhelmed by uncontrollable bloodlust. On the other hand, it’s always the quiet ones…

More on Monday.

*Actually the Italians located Kufra in 1931, but let’s not split hairs.