Posted on 09/14/2006 6:04:20 AM PDT by billorites
Mango Salsa Duck bump
Your garden variety liberal seems to share that trait, only I call it "arrested development".
What a great ad, the crybaby Neanderthals.
I love it when a fuzzy-headed liberal bio-scientist has some hyper-obscure argument going on in his head and he phrases it as if there is even another person on the planet who remotely gives a sh*t, viz.,
"The question of whether Neandertals, who died out some 35,000 years ago, shared the prolonged childhoods found in modern humans is a controversial one."
ROTFLMAO!
Yes, indeed, many a saloon donnybrook has started over the controversy of whether or not the 'Neandertals' had a prolonged childhood... five year plan in college... living in the basement for a couple of years after they graduate... mom and dad helping out with the car payments...
It is a veritable tinder-box of controversy waiting to burst into flame.
Plus, the 'experts' or 'scientists' always have to call something by a different name every few years, like "Neandertals", not "Neanderthals," as they prefer to be addressed.
Just so we all know that THEY are the experts in useless crap that nobody cares about.
Chicken or egg. I would argue the long maturation phase for the human mind makes human living more complex: The smarter you are, the more complexity you can see, understand, create, and deal wth.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I don't understand your Theory of Evolution. If gradual change were introduced over millions of years through genetic drift, I might be able grasp this concept. But your modern conception of punctuated equilibrium frightens me. When my brain became bigger, why did my childhood lengthen at the same time? And does the complexity of our modern lives create the need for a long childhood? Or does a long childhood facilitate the introduction of a complex life? Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I ask you: doesn't such synergy suggest to you the possibility of an intelligent design rather than random change?"
Hmmm. Neanderthals survived until 24,500 years ago, not 35,000.
Another "roast duck with the mango salsa" ping...
Only, the "th" sound was eliminated from the german language generations ago - so it is pronounced "tal", and always has been. the "th" spelling was a throwback to middle german.
So the word has not changed - the spelling is just catching up with the pronunciation.
My anthropology professor, in the early 70's, insisted we use Neandertal.
Thanks, that was helpful.
I was awakened from my sleep last night worrying about that orthographic change, and when and why it came to be.
Did you see their latest? It's a new caveman, who is on a people-mover moving sidewalk in an airport and he passes a billboard on the wall for GEICO, with the title "So simple even a caveman can do it."
He does a double-take and comes back to look at it again, then kind of rolls his eyes and goes on.
Once beer and wine were discovered it was often drank more than water because it was 'safe'.
He was an expert, by gum!
GGG Ping.
Duh! So-called "Neanderthals" WERE as human as we were.
Their cranial capacities equaled or exceeded those of modern man.
A great ad bump.
LOL!! I Love that commercial
>:>>Of course he insisted upon it.
He was an expert, by gum!>>>
hehe you crack me up
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