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Why does everyone do sums on the insides of book covers?
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11 comments:
the plus-side is, if theyve done them wrong, nobody will know .
who reads old textbooks anyway??
HENRY THE VIII SCRIBBLED INSIDE THE MARGINS OF 80 + % OF ALL HIS BOOKS
convenience?
Seriously?
Henry the VIII?
Because, when king's tax collector came to bleed the citizens dry, they were sure to look in the volume marked "ledger", and they were less likely to search the library for figures on the fly-leaf of a book of fairy tales. In this way, they could conceal their income. It was the earliest form of tax shelter.
Ok, so I made that up. I'm guessing they didn't have a lot of paper, and didn't want to waste blank sheets.
wow. it sounded real to me.
you should like -- make a totally fake book of real sounding facts or something
It's called A Million Little Pieces...
I agree with Ember, Annie, you totally had me going for a moment.
Although, I loath math. Therefore I write small poems in the insides of mine.
A MILLION LITTLE PIECES
"thousands of toilet-back facts you never knew."
Foul! Foul!
"Toilette-back" facts are lame and pointless.
Tax-shelter myths are unique and startling.
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ok.
Maybe I exaggerate.
Annie was on to something with that lack of paper, at least in the south during the civil war. It's a historical fact that when the commerce was cut off toward the end of the war, for many people the only paper they had were those blank sheets in the back of books.
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