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I've never read anything by Robert Heinlein, but I heard he invented the word "groking" about eating friends.

Friends - The Police (Heinlein reference)



Funerary or Culinary?

1 posted on 10/06/2023 3:53:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Have you tried Uncle Moishe? He’s to die for!


2 posted on 10/06/2023 3:53:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF6IShnqPY0


3 posted on 10/06/2023 3:56:43 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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So, they were the first liberal “democrats”?


4 posted on 10/06/2023 3:56:45 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Prosecutors say Trump may have broken the law admiring gun in South Carolina" ROTFLMAO!)
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To: nickcarraway

Waste not, want not.


5 posted on 10/06/2023 3:57:18 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: nickcarraway

“these early humans had chew marks on their dead’s bones”

How did they differentiate human chew marks from animal chew marks?


6 posted on 10/06/2023 3:57:34 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: nickcarraway

That’s probably why they always carried around a bottle of hot sauce in their bags.


7 posted on 10/06/2023 3:58:49 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: nickcarraway
In the Martian language, according to Heinlein in Stranger in a Strange Land, the verb "to grok" literally meant "to drink." Its greater connotation was "to understand." It didn't relate to the practice of Martians eating their dead.

The spirits of the dead, known as "the old ones," ruled Martian society.

8 posted on 10/06/2023 3:58:58 PM PDT by Publius
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To: nickcarraway

Ah, Business Inside Her strikes again.


9 posted on 10/06/2023 3:59:29 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: nickcarraway

Makes one hungry, no?


13 posted on 10/06/2023 4:02:24 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: nickcarraway

“White folks was in the caves while we was building empires... We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.”
― Al Sharpton


17 posted on 10/06/2023 4:05:47 PM PDT by imabadboy99
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If the WEF doesn’t support this now, they soon will.


19 posted on 10/06/2023 4:06:54 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: nickcarraway

Cue up Monty Python’s Undertaker Sketch.

L


21 posted on 10/06/2023 4:08:42 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: nickcarraway

Progressives taste like chicken.


28 posted on 10/06/2023 4:13:24 PM PDT by dljordan
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To: nickcarraway

Ask the Europeans what happened to the Neanderthals.


30 posted on 10/06/2023 4:15:04 PM PDT by Amadeo
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To: nickcarraway

You are perhaps thinking of Farnham’s Freehold.

Hugh Farnham is a practical, self-made man, and when he sees the clouds of nuclear war gathering, he builds a bomb shelter under his house, hoping for peace and preparing for war. But when the apocalypse comes, something happens that he did not expect. A thermonuclear blast tears apart the fabric of time and hurls his shelter into a world with no sign of other human beings.

Farnham and his family have barely settled down to the backbreaking business of low-tech survival when they find that they are not alone after all. The same nuclear war that catapulted Farnham 2,000 years into the future has destroyed all civilization in the northern hemisphere, leaving Africans as the dominant surviving people.

In the new world order, Farnham and his family, being members of the race that nearly destroyed the world, are fit only to be slaves (or dinner). After surviving a nuclear war, Farnham has no intention of being anyone’s slave, but the tyrannical power of the Chosen race reaches throughout the world. Even if he manages to escape, where can he run to?

https://www.amazon.com/Farnhams-Freehold-audiobook/dp/B0056A41SG/ref=sr_1_1


42 posted on 10/06/2023 4:24:29 PM PDT by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR)
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To: nickcarraway

This was before our ancestors arrived from the Pontic Steppe and wiped out all those savages or sent them back to Africa.


45 posted on 10/06/2023 4:27:10 PM PDT by Jim Noble (They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn)
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Sounds practical
1. No funeral or burial expenses
2. Just say grace without having to suffer through a long eulogy describing some idealized person with almost no similarity to the departed
3. No wasted average for cemeteries
4. A source of protein that can’t eat you first or bite back
5. I wouldn’t know but it has to be a lot better than McD’s
6. Can’t afford McD’s anymore anyway
7. When is supper served?


47 posted on 10/06/2023 4:29:17 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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On the one hand, no rational living person wants to believe that.

On the other hand, Jesus came here to do a lot of business, not just our Redemption, but also to bind up our past sins (like cannibalism), cast them out, and forbid such atrocities forever.

And frankly, instruct us to eliminate any group that did not see the Light.

48 posted on 10/06/2023 4:30:42 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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To: nickcarraway

a bottle of A1 sauce found at the burial site

raised suspicions


50 posted on 10/06/2023 4:34:51 PM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: nickcarraway

Utterly undocumented B.S.

Quit posting this tripe.


52 posted on 10/06/2023 4:40:24 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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