Silver Creek Slim has Failed Us.

[Delmonico]

Silver Creek Slim was going to mark his calander and remind us of this:

http://www.theopenrange.net/forum/index.php?topic=43.0

Since he forgot about National Single shot rifle Day the we both declared, this means he forgot about the holiday I proclaimed, National Toilet Paper Day, a day making fun of all other silly National ? Days and more important it is a day for us all to clean up our act.

[Forty Rod]

"clean up our"...ACT?

[Delmonico]

Ok how about "wipe our butts."   Do you realize that toilet paper dates to the 1860's but was called sanitary tissue, it came folded till the 1880's when it was put on a roll.  One must realize this is one of the greatest inventions of all time, toilet paper accually dates to before the Sears and Wards catalog.

Fact is one of my favorite movie lines of all times is from "You Know My Name" withs Sam Elliot starring as Bill Tihlman.   When Bill brings in a bunch of bad guys behind his horse tied to a rope the line is, "Bill, this is the 20th century, we even have crapping paper on a roll."

Yep a great boon to mankind, can you imagine the trots before it's invention.

And Slim forgot the holiday, I had it marked also, but my wife moved the computor while I was in the hospital and lost my calender.

[Derby Younger]

Hmmm. And I always thought a Sears calaog was the first "ready made".

[Delmonico]

Nope just another one of those misconceptions about history that is continuly repeated by those who have not done any serious research.

Kinda like the idea that red union suits were the men's underwear of the latter half of the 19th century, the union suit came out in the very late 1890's along with Cornflakes and Campbell's soup.

[Marshal'ette Halloway]

hmmmmmm.. guess using corn cobs dates back wayyyyy before 1860?

[Derby Younger]

And who might be serious enough to research the origins of TP?

[Capt. Hamp Cox]

And who might be serious enough to research the origins of TP?

Gotta be a real POObah, that's fer sure..

[litl rooster]

Only Delmonico

[Silver Creek Slim]

Sorry, pard.  My mind must be goin'.

I hereby declare October 12th as National Fog Day!


Slim

[Stoney Pete]

And who might be serious enough to research the origins of TP?

Gotta be a real POObah, that's fer sure..

[Lucky Irish Tom]

Nope, you were just celebrating early Slim by letting your mind be in a fog!

[Silver Creek Slim]

Nope, you were just celebrating early Slim by letting your mind be in a fog!

Slim

[The Arapaho Kid]

I HEREBY DECLARE OCTOBER 12TH. AS  NATIONAL DON'T USE FRENCH TOILET PAPER DAY

(In wiisper mode)[size=09pt] And for those of you who served in Vietnam....you'll know what I'm talking about![/size]

[Marshal harpoluke]

  

Sounds like Ya need some:

Special

High

Intesitive

Training.

[Silver Creek Slim]

Training! We don't need no steenkin' training! 

Slim

[Delmonico]

Well doing research is like following outlaws, you follow every trail that might lead to what you want, no matter how faint.   These trails often do not lead to what you are looking for but other items.   These items are often strange side issues to what you are looking for.

The toilet paper did not surprise me as much a the fact you could order Wedgewood dining china and a Water Closet to match.   But with the strage items folks want to today sometimes to impress their friends it should come as no surprise.

But what did folks in Europe use before corn was brought from America?

[Silver Creek Slim]

Pea pods? 

Slim

[The Arapaho Kid]

RAGS?

[Delmonico]

Too valuble, used cloth was the only source of paper and paper was very expensive.  

Pea Pods, come on Slim, might they be a little small.

It is so simple, part of a custom leadin' out of it still exists today.