The fastidious Rekmos expresses his displeasure by forcing Memhotep to eat dung beetles while being suspended upside down over a pool of Nile crocodiles. Memhotep twitches for the rest of his life and exhibits a morbid fear of dung beetles. On his deathbed, he continually asks the time.
Innkeepers take note and begin offering rooms with caged bedside cocks at premium prices.
B.C. -The Emperor Shi Tzu tasks his court with devising a means of waking him one hour before sunrise while he travels from palace to palace, so that he may use the facilities before his 600 concubines. The Great Waking-Up ensues, precipitating decades of unrest. Timex experiments with candles placed on the heads of goats and sheep, but abandons the scheme when animal rights advocates complain to the emperor in Rome. Instead, he puts the candles on top of beehives. The bees become annoyed when the flame burns down to their abode, which encourages them to sting the sound-sleeping general, thus rousing him from his slumbers.