"...it was the age of ice, it was the age of lava, it was the epoch of large sloping foreheads, it was the epoch of dictabirds and monkey traffic signals and woolly-mammoth shower massages."
"How Fred Flintstone Got Home, Got Wild, and Got a Stone Age Life."
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That was pretty funny. Also nice to consider was how eco-friendly and clean most of Fred's technologies were.
Relying on clean energy transportation, there was no need for wars for oil.
We could all learn from Fred and Wilma.
SippicanCottage: God, that's funny!
Okay, let me see if I got this right?
First new species of Monkey in 83 years! Kipunji!
Don't EAT them Slippery, they are already endangered!
Like that?
"'It was the best of times; it was the blurst of times'?!?
Stupid monkeys!"
I was so literal as a small kid, I wondered why Fred never just jumped back through the same window the cat... er, sabertooth did.
And I always wondered if it freaked that bird-cum-record player out to have all those vibrations coming through his head. But I did want a miniature wooly mammoth vacuum cleaner.
Look up "implacable" in the dictionary. No, not the Phone Book. The dictionary. Yeah, that's me.
Really? Good to hear that. Your postings in the past several days had me looking you up under "bipolar."
Capuchin!
Slippery, this is fun! Good idea!
The Searchers is on my list. You realize that Ethan wasn't exactly the good guy, right?
Chimps!
number 6: It's a new genus. That's what makes it interesting...
Yep, you're right.
It's got a really great name too.
Yes, I did a post on it. Based on seeing it in the NYT, not reading this thread, which I hope is keeping you out of trouble.
Pretty much. I am worried about Slippery Cheese though. He's repeating more than usual, and I hope he gets back on his SSRIs soon.
My problem reading it is I just finished a couple of books that pointed out a couple of inconvenient facts as they relate to Fred.
First, there was no overlap between dinosours and humans, because it was their extinction that allowed mammals to expand into their niches. If a meteor (most likely) had not hit the earth, then we would most likely still have the dinosaurs, and mammals would still be a small, minor, species.
Secondly, the sloped headed humanoids were the Neanderthals, who never quite acquired the ability to make more than crude tools - their toolmaking was frozen for hundreds of thousands of years, as compared to our ancestors, where there is a nice progression (ok, it looks like at the very very end, they managed to pick up some human tool making from us).
And, I suppose that there was some overlap between saber tooth tigers and humans, but notably the overlap in North America was less than a hundred years. Yes, the most likely cause of their extinction here was at the hands of those environmentaly friendly Native Americans after the ice over Calgary melted, and they were finally able to push down into the Continental U.S. (They had apparently been in Alaska for a thousand or so years before that). Within a thousand years, they had managed to push from their down to the tip of S. America, apparently extinguishing a substantial number of the large mammal species they encountered (including, interestingly, horses).
Sorry about the dose of reality - blame it on my reading habits.
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