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The Ranger said:Every hackle on my neck feathered upwards. I didn't have time for this
today. I needed to get in and out of the store quickly and tackling
Cro-Magnons was not part of the plan.
Nit-picking: The context of what you wrote implies that you think
Cro-Magnons are some other species of human, like Neanderthals. In fact,
Cro-Magnons are modern men. You're the same species as a Cro-Magnon. So am
I. So is everybody who reads this.
Bob
Bob Terwilliger <virtualgoth@die_spammer.biz> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:The Ranger said:[..] Cro-Magnons was not part of the plan.
Nit-picking: The context of what you wrote implies
that you think Cro-Magnons are some other species
of human, like Neanderthals. In fact, Cro-Magnons
are modern men. You're the same species as a
Cro-Magnon. So am I. So is everybody who reads this.
When I first wrote it, I used "Neanderthals" but was corrected by
someone that stated the Neanderthals were quite advanced socially
so I was using it wrong in that context too. <shrug>
The Ranger
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The Ranger said:Bob Terwilliger <virtualgoth@die_spammer.biz> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...Quoted message said:The Ranger said:[..] Cro-Magnons was not part of the plan.
Nit-picking: The context of what you wrote implies
that you think Cro-Magnons are some other species
of human, like Neanderthals. In fact, Cro-Magnons
are modern men. You're the same species as a
Cro-Magnon. So am I. So is everybody who reads this.When I first wrote it, I used "Neanderthals" but was corrected by
someone that stated the Neanderthals were quite advanced socially
so I was using it wrong in that context too. <shrug>
Don't worry about it. Every twenty years there is a paradigm shift in
anthropology and cosmology. Stay tuned.
leo
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