So one of the most common misuses of this poor font is anything greek related. I don't know who decided that the typewriters in Ancient Greece all printed in this burnt-paper-esque font, but I think they were wrong.

Same reasoning as #10. This can also be applied to any other "ancient" or "eastern" culture. I would correlate this mainly to graphic designers being lazy and ignorant, clumping all cultures that they aren't familiar with as "papyrus-y."

There is nothing less scary that seeing a ghost and with a 'boo' written in papyrus coming out of his mouth. If you think that you can trick me into coming to your haunted house with that tactic, guess again. I'll be at home playing Resident Evil 4 instead.

I swear if I see a scimitar striking through a logo written in papyrus with flames behind it one more time, I'm going to punch a wizard in the mouth.

I went to school in Ithaca, NY, i.e. hippie-central USA. I don't know if I ever saw a flyer or a head-shop logo that wasn't written in this abused font. Want to come to 'Earth Fest of the Natural Freedoms?' No thanks. Keep the flyer before I turn in into the litter you hate so much.

When I was configuring a web browser on my computer (I'm sorry, I know how lame that is) I was appalled to find that every piece of text deemed to be tagged as 'fantasy' would be rendered in this god-awful font. I uninstalled it immediately.

You are wrong. Get more fonts. Fancy is not always 'cool.'

I actually saw this in Jacksonville, Florida. It made my heart ache. This is the process that happened-

Someone drafted a logo for the development in papyrus. That was approved and sent to some doofuses that agreed to run that through a program that calculated the correct way to chisel that out of stone. Then they did just that. I don't want to know how much it cost, other than I hope it cost that designer his job.

COME ON. You can't tell me that there was some mandate that everything that God's Divine Hand has touched was written in this one font. I was in a Circuit City one day and I took pictures of three different bible-related software programs in a row that were using papyrus in the logo. If this isn't a sin, I don't know what one is.

Dear Arizona Tea Company,
I understand that every other green-tea-in-a-can producer in the world uses papyrus as their font. That doesn't mean you have to as well. Please, understand how overused this font is. Please change it. You sell more green tea that any other company in the world (I don't know if that's true, I'm just guessing.) You have the power to break this spell of unoriginality.

Thanks,
Justin