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1 posted on 10/30/2010 8:58:40 PM PDT by fightinJAG
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To: fightinJAG

“Homemade” paint? Well, what the hell-other-kind-of paint would cavemen use?


2 posted on 10/30/2010 8:59:24 PM PDT by fightinJAG (Step away from the toilet. Let the housing market flush.)
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To: fightinJAG; SunkenCiv

Ping!


3 posted on 10/30/2010 9:05:09 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: fightinJAG

But he couldn`t paint it if it was a rented cave.


13 posted on 10/30/2010 10:25:09 PM PDT by bunkerhill7
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To: fightinJAG

What’s with all the stuff about caves and “cavemen”? Reading the article itself shows they’re talking about huts with stone walls. “Cavemen” for early man is kind of a misnomer anyway — there aren’t that many caves to go around and never one when you need it while following the herds. People wouldn’t have lived exclusively in caves (though they would have certainly taken advantage of a nice dry one as opportunity permitted). But temporary shelters like huts, lean-tos, wigwams, etc. weren’t preserved, while caves did preserve human artifacts (most spectacularly the cave wall paintings in France). So there was a selection effect. Artifacts in caves were preserved and thus found, while everything else was lost or harder to find, and so the impression got into the popular mind of “cavemen.”


14 posted on 10/30/2010 10:57:40 PM PDT by Deklane
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To: fightinJAG

It’s prehistory we’re talking about, but I think we can be pretty sure that they didn’t call it “DIY” back then. Cavemen were deprived but they weren’t losers who never do anything useful.


16 posted on 10/31/2010 12:44:11 AM PDT by dr_who
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To: paudio; sodpoodle; bunkerhill7; Gadsden1st

Sherwin-Williams ping.


19 posted on 10/31/2010 7:01:41 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: fightinJAG

Not homemade.

Cavemade!


21 posted on 11/01/2010 10:46:28 AM PDT by djf (The word "concise" is too big!)
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