'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.

[TigersEye]

I know you guys won't accept this but that "cave drawing" was proved to be a forgery drawn by a 20th Century cartoonist. And as far as the fire thing goes...well, anyone can scrape a few coals into a moss filled gourd after a lightning caused forest fire. It doesn't take a rock scientist to figure that out.

[BJClinton]

[TigersEye]

Oh, cool. A rock band. Can they play Alley Oop?

[dmz]

Then somebody has to help it escape again.
_________

LOL. It's a gift.

[Riverman94610]

I noticed that CNN is no longer talking about someone in a coma.
Now its called "a minimally conscious state"

[BJClinton]

Orwell was a prophet.

[ChuckShick]

I guess it's no longer PC to bomb a country back to the Stone Age. We'll have to bomb them back to the Paleolithic Period instead.

[BJClinton]

Dude, that is so 3 hours ago...

[ASOC]

Can you name the last "Caveman" TV series?

Hint, it involved astronauts......

[Gondring]

You got. You might be the first to "coin" that phrase.

However, my mother has long referred to herself as "technologically challenged," so please send her a check for a slab of granite.

[Riverman94610]

My reaction is simply non-compliance.I still say deaf,not hearing impaired,retarded,not mentally challenged,firemen,not firefighters,etc.
Its not much,I know.But its something.

[Gondring]

I noticed that CNN is no longer talking about someone in a coma.
Now its called "a minimally conscious state"

If so, they are wrong, since a coma and MCS are not the same.

Disclaimer: I am not a doctor (but I have been known to play one).

[Doomonyou]

Have her send me the paper work, and I'll send the check. sheesh.

BTW, Stone aged Monster truck tire?

Sorry, "technologically challenged" Monster truck tire?

[RebelBanker]

Can you name the last "Caveman" TV series?
Hint, it involved astronauts......

You got me, I do not watch much besides sports on TV.

[Gondring]

Have her send me the paper work, and I'll send the check. sheesh.

Paper work?

Here's the bill...

BTW, Stone aged Monster truck tire?

That's the coin you talked about...a rai stone used as "money" by the Yapese in Micronesia.

[ASOC]

It's about time
produced by the immortal Sherwood Schwartz, creator of The Brady Bunch and Gilligan's Island (Gilligan was then in its third year earning solid ratings for CBS).

It's About Time ran only one season on CBS, from September 11, 1966 until August 27, 1967; the sitcom starred Jack Mullaney and Frank Aletter as two 1960's astronauts who break the time barrier and end up in prehistoric times.

The astronauts are forced to take up with primitive (and dumb) cave dwellers played by the great Joe E. Ross as Gronk - with another comedy legend, Imogene Coca (Your Show of Shows) seen as his nagging wife Shadd.

Ross was a former strip club entertainer before being cast as ("OOH, OOH") Officer Tooty on Car 54, Where Are You?; he went on to do voices for numerous Hanna-Barbera cartoons like Hong Kong Phooey.

Because there were only 26 or so episodes, the show had no value in syndication and it faded from view, rarely if ever to be seen again. After viewing some episodes of It's About Time I found it quite funny and cute, especially the episodes where the cavepeople invade New York.

[baubau]

No, the S/A.

[GSlob]

"So instead of bombing Iran back to the stone age when the time comes, we bomb them back to the "Technologically Challenged" age?"
No. To the cockroach age - now, what period was it about 250 MYA? I believe, Triassic.

[Doomonyou]

Here's my bank, bring a wheel barrow.

[Doomonyou]

cockroach age

I like it, they would feel right at home.