"You don't seem to be all that frightened of me," the Mummy sounded disappointed.

"I once met Paul Martin when he was still the Prime Minister of Canada," Putin replied, "Nothing could possibly be more terrifying than that."

"I'm going to have to kill you," the Mummy approached Putin.

"You've never met my Mummy," Putin smiled.

Just then the door opened and in walked Lenin's re-animated corpse.

"This is Vladimir Lenin the founder of Soviet Russia," Putin introduced the new stiff who had just walked into the room.

"How did he get here?" the Egyptian Mummy asked.

"I summoned him through a voodoo spell," Putin replied.

The Mummy's face would have expressed shock if it hadn't been bandaged, "I didn't know you knew voodoo."

"Who do?" Lenin smiled, "Not many I can tell you that."

"Where did you learn voodoo?" the Mummy asked.

"From a correspondence school in Florida," Putin replied, "I have a Mail Order Diploma in Voodoo, That Old Black Magic and Necromancy not to mention a certificate of ordained ministry allowing me to perform marriages in the Church of Britney Spears."

"I'm Kharis, High Priest of Osiris," the Mummy replied, "I've been dead for 3000 years so not many people recognize me."

"Well, you shouldn't complain," Ryan Seacrest entered the room, "I'm Ryan Seacrest the host of American Idol and American Top 40. I'm still alive and yet some blogger had never heard of me even though I wore pink once."

Kharis, Lenin and Putin all stare at Ryan Seacrest.

"Oh, I see you haven't heard of me either," Seacrest frowned, "Everybody's heard of Simon Cowell and everybody's heard of Paula Abdul. But not everyone's heard of me. I'm like that third judge on the show whose name even I have forgotten at the moment."

"What are you doing here?" Putin asked.

"Well since Vince Welnick one of the last members of the 1960s rock band The Grateful Dead has now gratefully died," Seacrest replied, "I thought I'd start a rock band called the Grateful Undead. And I thought maybe Lenin and Kharis here would care to join me."

"Well, what do you think fellows?" Putin asked Lenin and Kharis.

"Does this mean I'll get lots of groupies and lots of sex?" Kharis asked.

"It sure does," Seacrest answered.

"Where do I sign?" Kharis raised his bandaged hand.

And that was the beginning of Kharis the Mummy's career with the rock band The Grateful Undead. And as well-known American radio commentator Paul Harvey would put it, "And now you know... the rest of the story."