“What a pity times are not what they used to be. Children no longer obey their parents and everyone wants to write a book.”
(Literal translation of message inscribed on the oldest piece of papyrus preserved by the State Museum in Instanbul)
John Lentell
2nd May, 1969
Lentell Soup 
[Citation Needed]
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Ditto
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Maybe Assyrian, rather than Turkish and maybe a tablet rather than papyrus. Search for the quote in these pages..
From Sheridan County Newspapers & Publications in 1954:
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nesherid/echoes/oct06-2004.htm
An Assyrian Proverb:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mesopotamian_Proverbs
An Assyrian tablet:
http://www.streetprophets.com/storyonly/2010/1/3/203125/1450
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proof or else it didnt happen
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this looks legit to me
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Can you tell me where the banner’s picture with the Jacaranda trees is taken?
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Hi, picture is of a Jacaranda tree lined avenue in Harare, Zimbabwe but taken in pre-independence days when it was called Salisbury, Rhodesia…
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