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    "There's A Man-Sized Feeling Of Power In Smoking A Cigar…"

    (Stone) Age Of Innocence: Cave Man Fantasies

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    Image of rodmanstreet rodmanstreet
    11/19/09

    In reply to "There's A Man-Sized Feeling Of Power In Smoking A Cigar…"
    He looks like he's making a Groucho Marx joke: "I'd like to join a club and beat you over the head with it! Wokka wokka!" (With a little Fozzie Bear thrown in for good measure.)
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    Image of femme-bot femme-bot
    11/19/09

    In reply to "There's A Man-Sized Feeling Of Power In Smoking A Cigar…"
    I smoke cigs, those just make me feel like a fancy French person.
    But I guess "bring out the Frenchman in you" doesn't sound quite as cool.
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    Image of BestEuphemismEver BestEuphemismEver
    11/19/09

    @femme-bot: "Do you have any French in you? Would you like some?"
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    Image of femme-bot femme-bot
    11/19/09

    @BestEuphemismEver: Your username here is apt.
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    Image of BabyJane BabyJane
    11/19/09

    In reply to "There's A Man-Sized Feeling Of Power In Smoking A Cigar…"
    Why is he carrying a giant parsnip?
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    Image of therewillcomesoftrains therewillcomesoftrains
    11/19/09

    @BabyJane: Sadly in those days, they didn't know that root vegetables caused tubers.
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    Image of netfe netfe
    11/19/09

    @BabyJane: didn't you know? it's very alarming!
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    Image of TransFat TransFat
    11/19/09

    In reply to "There's A Man-Sized Feeling Of Power In Smoking A Cigar…"
    Jokes on him. He's holding a giant sweet potato.
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    Image of netfe netfe
    11/19/09

    @TransFat: i think it's a parsnip?
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    Image of TransFat TransFat
    11/19/09

    @netfe: I say potato, you say parsnip, let's call the whole thing off.

    #tips
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    Image of Zombie Ms. Skittles Zombie Ms. Skittles
    11/19/09

    In reply to "There's A Man-Sized Feeling Of Power In Smoking A Cigar…"
    I like all the horned animals in the background. Just in case you forget that, you know, there's a penis.
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    Image of la.donna.pietra la.donna.pietra
    11/19/09


    @Zombie Ms. Skittles: Also, the Altamira artist called, Mr. Ad-man, and he wants to let you know that your blatant copying will not stand.
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    Image of Dodgergirl Dodgergirl
    11/19/09

    In reply to "There's A Man-Sized Feeling Of Power In Smoking A Cigar…"
    Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

    And sometimes, it's a penis.
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    Image of futuremouse futuremouse
    11/19/09

    In reply to "There's A Man-Sized Feeling Of Power In Smoking A Cigar…"
    Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar... except when it's a penis.
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    Image of Dodgergirl Dodgergirl
    11/19/09

    @futuremouse: Beat me to it!
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    Image of futuremouse futuremouse
    11/19/09

    @Dodgergirl: Great minds think alike, of penises (penii?). I think Shakespeare said that. Somewhere. Maybe not.
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    Image of HannahBethD HannahBethD
    11/19/09

    @futuremouse: George Carlin! Well, he might not originated it, but he definitely used it in his act.
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    Image of futuremouse futuremouse
    11/19/09

    @HannahBethD: Wait really? With the penis thing? I would google but they definitely see my search history here and penis joke is not something that could be easily related to my line of work.
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    11/19/09

    @futuremouse: I believe the line was 'Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar and other times it's a big brown dick'
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    Image of linnyt is a walking cliché linnyt is a walking cliché
    11/19/09

    In reply to "There's A Man-Sized Feeling Of Power In Smoking A Cigar…"
    Why would you want the caveman brought out in you? To show how primitive you are?
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    Image of FroderickFronkensteen FroderickFronkensteen
    11/19/09

    In reply to "There's A Man-Sized Feeling Of Power In Smoking A Cigar…"
    "Man, I love my penis and all the disproportionate advantages it offers me."
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    Image of boxspelunker boxspelunker
    01/20/09

    In reply to (Stone) Age Of Innocence: Cave Man Fantasies
    This kind of thinking drives me nuts. Prehistoric life was not a veritable paradise or utopia. It was a hard life in many areas, but it had rewards, too. Why can't we try to view it in a more balanced way? I mean, it can't be the root of everything.
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    Image of andromache andromache
    01/20/09

    In reply to (Stone) Age Of Innocence: Cave Man Fantasies
    uhh we didn't eat that much meat, ever. meat was really hard to get, since it comes from animals that usually put up a fight when someone says, hey i want to eat you. sure meat is a good source of whatever, but it's not like the cavemen were all gnawing on the hides of deer all the time. there are tons of plants that grow wild which we can eat as is.


    anyway. i'm all for the whole "raw food" thing; when i tried it i felt a million times better than when i eat cooked food. the problem is that it's fucking retardedly expensive to eat only raw food. dude i can't afford to buy fresh organic fruit and veg every other day; but i can easily afford prepackaged soups and beer. and as for beer, people have been drinking beer for millenia; hello, the Egyptians drank it while they were making their pyramids. so fuck that theory about beer bellies being recent. people have been drinking alcoholic beverages ever since they figured out that you can make delicious drinks from shit you grow. it's better than risking dysentery from the bad water.

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    Image of beliefunwrought beliefunwrought
    01/20/09

    @andromache hugs trees: As some one who lives in the desert, I can tell you right now that anyone growing any kind of food crop out here (which they were) was fighting hard to keep animals away. Any green patch attracts so many rabbits, I can't imagine the indigenous people actually had to hunt for them.
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    Image of tscheese tscheese
    01/20/09

    @beliefunwrought: True, but a lot of the smaller pests, like rodents (rats, mice, gophers, etc) and lagomorphs (rabbits, hares) are very, very lean. Rabbit meat, for example, is nearly fat-free. Humans do need a small amount of fat to survive--yes, we can produce it and store it from excessive carbohydrate consumption, as I know all too well.


    But if you're an athletic/lean hunter/gatherer with very little body fat, and you're burning 3500 calories a day and winter is coming and you don't have much subcutaneous fat, you're going to face some dietary problems if all you ever eat is fat-free meat. You're not sitting on your ass all day shoveling down fried potatoes - you're on the go, doing physical work, lifting and carrying and gathering and hunting. There's no large-scale production of grains and seeds, so all you get is what you can gather, and it's just not enough calories to keep you and your family fed all winter long. That means you have to get fat from somewhere else--so you have no choice but to go up against a woolly mammoth or aurochs or whatever--and you and your caveman pals risked their lives in the process, because big wild herd animals are mean as hell. But it had to be done--it was the best way to get a lot of nutrients in a great big parcel.


    So yeah, the stuff that was really nutritionally important was probably kind of hard to get.

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    Image of Liz11685 Liz11685
    01/20/09

    @andromache hugs trees: I tried to explain this to my boyfriend the other day- that people were not eating as much meat when they were hunter gatherers, and what meat they did get was a lot healthier. He doesn't get that eating meat at every meal is unhealthy and leads to heart attacks.
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    Image of amowls amowls
    01/20/09

    In reply to (Stone) Age Of Innocence: Cave Man Fantasies
    I just learned this today in my history 103 class but apparently native americans were much physically stronger before they settled down and started growing corn and having a corn based diet.


    CORN IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL.

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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    01/20/09

    @amowls: Science suggests that this has less to do with the corn itself than it does the host of physiological problems that accompany being a farmer.
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    Image of labeled labeled
    01/20/09

    @braak: Science needs to mind its own business.


    Corn is what you feed pigs and cows to fatten them up for slaughter - that was enough to turn me off of it for a while. Until, yk, mid-summer, butter and salt & pepper.

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    Image of CollegeCamel CollegeCamel
    01/20/09

    In reply to (Stone) Age Of Innocence: Cave Man Fantasies
    I'd love to not have to worry about high cholesterol...honestly, I'm 19, I'm not fat, I eat well, and I still have bizarrely hight cholesterol...fuck genetics, man.
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    Image of Jello Mix Jello Mix
    01/20/09

    In reply to (Stone) Age Of Innocence: Cave Man Fantasies
    Why do I have the feeling this was written simply to get the last word after a cocktail party argument?
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    Image of Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny. Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny.
    01/20/09

    In reply to (Stone) Age Of Innocence: Cave Man Fantasies
    You know, cavemen were never fat, you guys. SERIOUSLY! I don't understand why we can't all be like them. They did not have any fat cavemen, nor did they create any art depicting fat cave women as goddesses.

    Oh, wait....
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    Image of Lirael Lirael
    01/20/09

    @Vivelafat is the Quizat Haderach: Actually they really were not fat. Their diet did not have a high fat content. But they did recognize that a more voluptuous woman would be more adept to carrying a baby full term which is why they believe that they made the "Venus" figurines as a sort of fertility idol
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    Image of Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny. Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny.
    01/20/09

    @Lirael: I'm curious as to how you know this? I was under the impression that we were unable to accurately determine their weight. Can you give me some studies please?
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