Today’s theme: Caveman
Colorful Living Tip of the Day …
• Speculate whether cavemen and women woke up each morning and asked each other how they slept or if they had other priorities.
Related …
• Given the dietary challenges paleolithic cavemen faced, how surprising it is Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble were tubby. And, yeah, that they had time to bowl, too.
• How did cavemen and women get around that whole no-doors thingie when they wanted to tell a good prehistoric knock-knock joke?
• Try and come up with a sensible answer to this puzzler: What did cavemen call house flies?
• Ask philosopher friends if they wonder if a caveman, upon first seeing his reflection, thought he was repugnant or said, “My God, I’m gorgeous!”`
• Tell friends archeologists have found a cave emblazoned with a primitive drawing and the motto, “Cave Sweet Cave.”
Random 2/3rds relateds …
• Paleontologists dedicate themselves to working with dinosaur bones. Paleontologist is a difficult word to spell. Does anyone suppose paleontologists would object if we all started calling them boners?
• I wonder if any of the forward-thinkers at PETA have game-planned a pro-active position paper anticipating Jurassic scenarios where the organization defends the dinosaur's absolute right to roam free in the cities and the countrysides.
• Someone letting the cat out of the bag will become more impactful to me as soon as I start seeing more instances of bagged cats.
Zeitgust Word of the Week (a word I made up with the goal of getting it into a dictionary) …
WIPE-o-chondriac: Any person who obsessively disinfects the same clean surface over and over.
Throwback video (from ’19) … “Fred Rogers & The Benefits of Being Defiantly Kind”
The inside footage was shot on location at St. Vincent College with the neighborly cooperation of our friends at the Fred Rogers Center. The concluding statue shots were taken at the Fred Rogers Park in downtown Latrobe. Thanks, also, to producer Jim Kubus.
Today’s featured blog post …
“Who gets into heaven & will there be cavemen (from ’17)
Population trend researchers estimate the next person born will be the 108,602,707,792 person to ever live on earth. Give or take a million or two. The number seems small to me. Given those projections, I figure we’re going to run out of convenient parking spaces by, oh, next Tuesday. I’ve been delving into global population trends because I’m forever curious about the demographics of heaven and hell.
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Oddly enough (stories from my story treasure chest) …
“Town called Mars is surprisingly down to Earth”
NASA engineers are right now engaged in painstaking calculations over how much it’ll take to one day send astronauts to Mars. Estimated price tag: $11 billion. Maybe someone should seek directions from the woman the Martians all call “Cookie.” “Yeah, just head north from Pittsburgh up the Pennsylvania Turnpike to the Cranberry exit,” she says. “Then make a right onto 228 east. The turnpike’s a toll road so have some change handy.” Total cost: $2.90. “Anything else?” Yes, will you take me to your leader? “That would be Dick Settlemire. He’s mayor,” says Cookie, the Martian borough secretary who’s also known as Etha Wolfe.
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Concluding words …
• I was 50 years old before it finally began to sink in that, gee, I was drunk, wouldn't cut it as an excuse for showing up in church nude.
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