August 21, 2005
The imperfect savage life.
Do you ever romanticize the caveman and think, yes, it might be all right to be a Neanderthal, and you then think of one modern product that you want so much that you can't even seriously contemplate the savage life anymore? For me it's Chapstick.
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I would only want to be a Neanderthal under a few circumstances:
(1) I could be frozen, reappear in our times, and become a lawyer, like Phil Hartman's recurring character on 'Saturday Night Live.' Or...
(2) I could be among the last vestiges of Neanderthals, living today, and enjoying an ongoing gig on the Geico commercials.
If I were forced to be a caveman in prehistoric times and could only have one modern product, I'd want either soap or a toothbrush.
1) Q-tips.
2) Ice cubes.
Mark's right; toothbrush is the only serious answer to this question. Not to disparage Q-Tips and chapstick. But come on.
You had me set on the current time period at two words: "toilet paper." Not switching to leaves. No way.
Then again, maybe I'm just a huge nerd, but I wouldn't give up my computer. I think I would give up toilet paper before I would give up computers.
Roaring Tiger: Funny, I'd never pictured cavemen slathering themselves in animal fat! As for toilet paper, I think leaves must have been fine.
Ann,
Just watch out for the poison oak and poison ivy...
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