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Never used napkins. A man loses a job through mistaken identity. A man who broke the bank in Monte Carlo really lives. Can you imagine that? This is Lindsay McCarry, ladies and gentlemen, and my gang and I are with you once more to delve into the dusty tones of ancient animals and the yellowing pages of newspapers to bring you another series of amazing facts.

We'll be on the air for the first one in just a minute and a half, so stick around. Oh, we're ready to present our first item on this session of Can You Imagine That? Let's see what pops up first.

Well, here's a juicy little item from the etiquette books of antiquity. If you had been invited to dine at the home of any of the better class of people of ancient Greece, you wouldn't have found a napkin by your place.

No, no napkin. But you would have found small pieces of bread with which you could wipe up a drop or two from a dripping pomegranate or overripe olive. The old Greeks used these little bits of bread exactly the way we use napkins today.

The only difference was that in those days they didn't save them or put them into napkin rings for the next meal. said, they just dropped them out of the floor where some of the household pets would pick them up and eat them. Maybe they greek said a word for that too.

Be where the eyes of Mark. Be where the eyes of Mark. That's what the soothsayer said to Julius Caesar. But can you imagine that says to you? Beware of mistaken identity. Must you have a reason? Alright, here it is. This little incident happened in 1881 in Burlington, Iowa. On the previous day in January, the legislature had