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To: narses
Graves desecration at it's morbid worst.

I don't think it's at its morbid worst. You wanna know the worst I think I've heard of? It was the digging up and unraveling of mummies in Egypt in the Victorian era to use the wrappings to wrap hamburger because there was a paper shortage. That's the grossest I've heard of.
54 posted on 07/13/2004 7:06:53 AM PDT by johnb838 (France is the enemy - France has always been the enemy)
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To: johnb838

That sounds apocryphal to me.


56 posted on 07/13/2004 7:16:30 AM PDT by Romulus ("For the anger of man worketh not the justice of God.")
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To: johnb838
It was the digging up and unraveling of mummies in Egypt in the Victorian era to use the wrappings to wrap hamburger because there was a paper shortage.

Paper used to be made from linen rags before the invention of the wood pulp process. And the biggest source of linen rags was...like you said.

58 posted on 07/13/2004 7:20:48 AM PDT by Alouette ("Your children like olive trees seated round your table." -- Psalm 128:3)
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