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Thermopolium, an ancient restaurant, still has this menu on the wall -- no text, just renderings of the dishes available, a necessity in a polyglot and perhaps largely illiterate society.
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Hey Blam, I've heard that Homo Erectus ate crunchy food...

4 posted on 11/22/2005 10:55:22 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Down with Dhimmicrats! I last updated my FR profile on Wednesday, November 2, 2005.)
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To: SunkenCiv
"Hey Blam, I've heard that Homo Erectus ate crunchy food... "

Yup. I heard they liked carrots.

9 posted on 11/22/2005 11:36:06 PM PST by blam
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To: SunkenCiv
just renderings of the dishes available, a necessity in a polyglot and perhaps largely illiterate society.

I see some things never change. I can imaging some guy standing in line wishing the schlub in front of him would make up his mind already.

16 posted on 03/20/2010 8:30:14 PM PDT by garbanzo (Government is not the solution to our problems. Government is the problem.)
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