'Stone Age' called insult (PC Alert)

Washington Times ^ | March 8, 2007 | Jennifer Harper

[BJClinton]

Attention Fred Flintstone and the Geico cave guys: "Stone Age" is no longer acceptable, joining the list of other words and terms deemed offensive in polite society.

[R. Scott]

Would they be happier with “Paleolithic”, “Mesolithic” or “Neolithic”?

[highimpact]

Caveman: "What if I said it's so easy a psychiatrist could to it?"
Psychiatrist: "Well, that wouldn't make any sense."
Caveman: "Why not?"
Psychiatrist: "Because Psychiatrists are..."
Caveman: "Are what....SCHMART?"

[shekkian]

Sounds like someone woke up on the wrong side of the rock.

[Stultis]

ABC, however, is so intrigued by the concept that the network announced plans to produce "Cavemen," a comedy series based on the characters.

Worst. Show. Idea. Ever.

I hear one of 'em has an "uncle" living with him who is really a Martian, another is married to a real witch, and the third owns a talking car that's his reincarnated mother.

[highimpact]

I don't have much of an appetite, thanks.

[xsmommy]

congrats, neo. i see you have managed to become a protected class. good going : )

[NeoCaveman]

Have you seen this story on Oetzi, the frozen caveman found back in 1991?

They found Manny? We all told him not to go near that tarpit :)

[Irish_Thatcherite]

"Early Christian Ireland" insult to Muslims.....

:-P

[RebelBanker]

Also, one of them is an astronaut who found a genie in a bottle, one pretends to be gay so he can live with two beautiful women, and one has an orange Dodge Charger that he habitually jumps over things with.

Then again, a sitcom about a military hospital in a war zone sounds like a pretty bad idea too...

[siunevada]

The edict is the result of a kerfuffle that began last March when Jenny Tonge, a Liberal Democrat member of Parliament, described two Botswana tribes as "trying to stay in the Stone Age" and "primitive" during a spirited debate.

Liberal Democrats are the most insensitive people. It's a fact.

[Dick Vomer]

"as if this is news"

[ichabod1]

I'm afraid your chance to progress to the Modern Era Round is over.Thaht's seeeew condescending.

[roaddog727]

Beyond belief.

[BJClinton]

You need to watch more commercial TV.

[dmz]

I was thinking more about a show like TJ Hooker.

[ichabod1]

A talking horse. One of them needs to have a talking horse.

[BurbankKarl]

When I describe our staff, I start with saying, we have two kinds of workers, Mezosoic, and Paleozoic

[Erasmus]

Henceforth, we must use the term

Petrosexual.

[diamond6]

I think these Geico commercials are a hoot.

[SquirrelKing]