nagging, Paleolithic


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from Brad Clark <bradster@fuse.net>
subject nagging, Paleolithic
date Thu, 02 Sep 1999 19:10:29 -0400
?:

>Yes, I was quite surprised when my brother came up to me and announced
"Don't 
>forget to post those questions, Mark!"  (He was *not* supposed to be using
my 
>computer.)

I idly wondered about that afterwards.  I'm surprised he gave himself away
by giving you the message.

>Incidentally, Bradster, congratulations on getting NERV in the 'pike.  
>However, I'm grateful you didn't let my little brother actually know what it 
>was.  ^_^;

Well, he was supposed to be you, and you already knew what it was...
=========

Ben Zaiten:

>This probably has its 
>roots in the Paleolithic, when men hunted animals and women 
>gathered plant foods. Men developed the kind of muscles that were 
>good for explosive charges and bringing down powerful creatures, 
>and women developed the kind that were good for walking all day, 
>possibly carrying a baby, while looking for passive vegetables.

So.... Is there any truth to the theory that women invented speech (or
mindless chattering) so that they would know where a predator was by which
woman stopped talking?  ^_^


-Bradster
  probably gonna catch hell for that one.


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