Friday 16 August 2013

Overpaper

Overpaper: verb. To be overwhelmed or overpowered by paper in some form or another. This can occur in many different forms, ranging from newspaper stacks toppling to toilet paper mummification. The first recorded case of overpaperment occurred in 2555 BCE, when a man died of intense bleeding in a field of Cyperus Papyrus. However this is not an official case of overpaperment, but rather overpapyrusment. Technically speaking the first official person to be overpapered was the man in charge of the Venice Patent Office in the early 15th century. The poor man was a friend of Francesco Foscari, and his death led to Foscari's embitterment and subsequent severing of ties between Venice and Florence.

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