[View the story "Confusion over Hosni Mubarak's Condition" on Storify]Confusion over Hosni Mubarak's Condition
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"One joke imagines a deathbed scene, the ailing Mubarak lamenting, 'What will the Egyptian people do without me?' His advisor tries to comfort him: 'Mr. President, don't worry about the Egyptians. They are a resilient people who could survive by eating stones!' Mubarak pauses to consider this and then tells the advisor to grant his son Alaa a monopoly on the trade in stones."