In other news: Vegetarian cavemen appear to have died out owing to their vegetarianisticism, while meat eaters thrived and lived on to do those Geico commercials.
I do wonder if the mortality deficiency experienced by the swankier cavepersons had less to do with the constituent elements of their diet and more to do with the following scenario repeated over and over again in cave dwelling after cave dwelling.
Daddy Caveman: Soy burgers AGAIN?
Mommy Cavewoman: Well you said you were tired of soy lasagna!
Daddy Caveman: I will club you, miserable cave wife that you are!!
Mommy Cavewoman: I will club you back, you ungrateful, hemp-smoking brute!!
(I’m sure the roles were reversed in all the more progressive cave households…)
The Huffpo piece also links to an earlier Scientific American “guest blog” that insists our early ancestors were all vegetarians because it was easier to boil rice than to hunt, kill, skin, flay, and broil a wooly mammoth. Point taken.
BTW: If you’re not getting ALL your science news from the Huffington Post, you’re wiser than I. (Or is it me? “Wiser than I is” — that can’t be right. “Wiser than me are” — that’s not right either. “You’re wiser than myself was.” That’s better.)
Wacky photo via Mark Shea
fivepint
August 15, 2012 at 12:58 PM
This blog is always entertaining. Thank you for your necessary strangeness. God’s peace. †
Anthony Sacramone
August 15, 2012 at 12:59 PM
Thanks. Much appreciated.
pastordbeck
August 16, 2012 at 10:14 AM
But let’s be honest–the hunting, killing, skinning, flaying, and broiling of said wooly mammoth is half the fun, yeah? Watching rice boil is a course only lazy Americans would choose. And that doesn’t even scratch the surface of taste! I’m kind of feeling like some Mammoth right now…perhaps a late breakfast.
nowafonseca
August 16, 2012 at 12:31 PM
Ronald McDonald has always frightened me. Now I know why.
mike and brandy
August 24, 2012 at 10:20 AM
pics remind me of the ‘Angels’ in Dr. Who
-mike