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Got an ebay order delivered today and when I opened the box it had yellow/aged newspaper around the chips.
Carefully unraveled the newspaper and it was dated Nov. 24, 1963 and the headline was about Pres. Kennedy assassination. Who would keep newspaper that long and if so, and in this case a memorable date who would use it as wrapping?
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Someone who hoarded the papers in '63 thinking that someday they would be worth something, only to find out 60 years later that 1000's of people did the same thing, and now the papers are worth as much as the packing peanuts they are now replacing? 
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modified 8-Jun-23 17:42pm.
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Slacker007 wrote: I would test the chips for poison
I think he meant the silicon kind, not the potato kind. 
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If I were you, I would gather all the papers and see if you can assemble a complete edition. Something like this happened to me a LONG time ago. I worked in a Chinese restaurant and they got a shipment of fortune cookies from a place in San Francisco. I noticed the stuffing paper was from a Black Panther newspaper. I gathered all the papers and I was able to assemble a complete issue of it. This was in the late 1970s and it had morphed into a charitable organization so there was nothing militant in it at all but it was interesting to read.
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modified 8-Jun-23 17:24pm.
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There's rips and tears but most of it is readable. I will save it just because I remember the day, I was in Jr. High at the time!
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Ask sender for a clue.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
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Coronel Mustard, in the study with a knife?
Couldn't resist, I'll get my coat.
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Professor Plum says hello.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
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Actually, I have that newspaper right behind me in a box I found at my Mom's place before she died. L.A. Times, I believe. I have no idea what to do with it. I'd thought to donate it to a school to help with teaching history, but since they no longer teach history, what's the point.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: they no longer teach history
Please tell me you don't mean that literally...  
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Roger Wright wrote: but since they no longer teach history, what's the point.
Seems like they're teaching them: hate, diversity and entitlement, nothing that will help them in life!
I don't recognize this country anymore.
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Mike Hankey wrote: I don't recognize this country anymore.
If it only was that country... 
M.D.V. 
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Mike Hankey wrote: Who would keep newspaper that long and if so, and in this case a memorable date who would use it as wrapping?
Someone kept the newspaper for a while. Someone else used it as wrapping.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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Noted that everyone seems focused on the date of the newspaper.
Myself I would be more curious why they would be using a newspaper of any sort.
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You read the newspaper then either throw it away or recycle it some way.
Yes people still read the actual paper paper...we do!
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So you are suggesting that the vendor has been using newspaper that they have been saving for 80 years (at least) and now they have reached that far into the stack?
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Or maybe they haven't shipped anything in a LONG time.
Hints of RUMPLESTILTSKIN (sp.)
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Mike Hankey wrote: they haven't shipped anything in a LONG time.
lol - ok.
Hopefully they have a day job.
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