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          115 months ago

          Yet as inventors of the written language, they are the oldest peoples of whom we have any first-hand knowledge about.

          Hundreds of thousands of clay tablets describing everything from “Frank owes Mitch two heads of cattle” and odes to beer drinking on a sunny late afternoon, to aches and gripes about how things are going downhill and these damn kids today, things were so much better in MY days yadda yadda yadda.

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    115 months ago

    I’m sure they also count their wheat. Like, how much is in storage in different “silos” and then finding out how much is left before the next harvest. Presumably you’d want to know if you were going to run out. So you would definitely need a Summer Sumer Summer.