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[COLOR="purple"]Hi sudanese

What an interesting article... [/COLOR]

In other cultures and contexts, materials such as rags, sand, leaves (including seaweed), corn cobs or sticks are used.

seaweed (drool)

and this gem:

... the use of newspaper, telephone directory pages, or other paper products were common. Old Farmer's Almanac was sold with a hole punched in the corner so it could be hung on a nail in an outhouse. The widely-distributed Sears catalog was also a popular choice until it began to be printed on glossy paper (at which point some people wrote to the company to complain), giving rise to the common folk saying in rural North America, "as useless as a slick page in a Sears Roebuck catalog!"