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Straha
March 25th, 2006, 11:12 PM
And we wrote only on thinly sliced Imported polish Ham?

Would there be "best before YYMMDD" info on boxes of noteham?

Would you read the daily ham?

Would you cover your abode with wall ham?

Would you finalize your toilet ablutions with a wad of toilet ham??

Would desks just be big refrigerators???

Someone has to think of these things.
Iņaki
March 25th, 2006, 11:20 PM
Well as say Shakespeare in his famous play "Ham or not Ham" (I say Ham, not Hamlet:D )

"To eat or to write the ham this is the question":D
Straha
March 25th, 2006, 11:26 PM
Lol. But seriously in this TL temperate eurasia has even more of an advantage over the tropical americas and asia than OTL. THey're able ot preserve paper i neurope...
KJM
March 26th, 2006, 12:13 AM
Actors are called "hams" because they read from scripts made of ham.
DMA
March 26th, 2006, 12:18 AM
Well no paper would sure make going to the toilet messy... :eek:
Iņaki
March 26th, 2006, 12:39 AM
Originally posted by DMA
Well no paper would sure make going to the toilet messy... :eek:


My God! You have all the reason!:eek:

Shit! After making errr... we would have to clean with ham the, the... SHIT!:eek:

apart of this no doubt than the most advanced nations could be the nations that have the best refrigerators to conserve the hams.
Andromedos
March 26th, 2006, 01:01 AM
Te Middle East is doomed. People are not allowed to touch pork meat. They have no way of recording any written information. All Moslems can't write.
(Or can they use papyrus?)
Count Dearborn
March 26th, 2006, 04:02 AM
A 'knot' form of writing is created, or clay and wax are still used. Perhaps a cheap form of parchment is created early on.
Nekromans
March 26th, 2006, 10:34 AM
The number of pigs decreases inversely to the amount of literate people in the world.
PoorBoy
March 26th, 2006, 08:04 PM
The number of pigs decreases inversely to the amount of literate people in the world.
Well, parchment does not have to be made from pigskin. You can have sheepskin, goatskin, cowskin, flayed-criminal's skin...
Flocculencio
March 26th, 2006, 08:45 PM
Actors are called "hams" because they read from scripts made of ham.

Incidentally the term "Ham Actor" may derive from poor actors who couldn't afford to keep buying proper greasepaint and had to stretch what makeup they had by mixing lard in and also by using lard to remove said makeup.