I would fully expect to be schooled about the authentic chimpanzee diet in response to the above cartoon from 2000. I know. Chimpanzees in the wild don’t eat a lot of lettuce; they do eat fruit, and they will eat meat when they come across it, i.e., catch a hapless critter and beat it to death. However, what chimps really eat is not important. This is a dinner-table conversation between man and wife. It doesn’t matter if Arlo is spot-on from a zoological standpoint. He’s just saying what anyone might say in response to one too many salads. This sort of pedantic observation by some readers is as old as the rotary press, but today, in the age of online comments, Boy Howdy!
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My uncle would call it rabbit food, thus avoiding any argument about chimpanzee diets.
So do I.
Happy that Jackie is doing well and is home so soon.
I wouldn’t pay too much attention to online comments. Some people need a life.
Actually Jackie, Ghost and Dickens are still in Tulsa at the La Quinta resting up. It beats the heck out of a rehabilitation facility. Quiet and clean and dog friendly. Cheaper by far.
Ghost is doing laundry and picking up lunch from Panera Bread. Dickens is sleeping and I am trying to keep the 20 pills down and not throw up.
Actually I am doing well. Ghost empties my drains several times per day.
I don’t know about chimps, but humans evolved as omnivores, ready to eat anything that didn’t eat them first. I won’t argue with anybody who wants to be a vegetarian, vegan, frutarian or so on, I’ll just ask them how many nutritional supplements they need to take every day to provide things their “more natural diet” doesn’t give them.
What is NOT part of our paleodiets is the major starches that we cultivate: wheat, rice, barley, maize, and potatoes. Just read a major bk. rev. re that in The New Yorker. Will try to find it and post a ref. Lunch, then nap.
Peace,
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Don’t think Jackie and Dickens have reached this point.
Sideburns: https://scontent-dft4-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/1381700_549770778430071_2109028326_n.jpg?oh=b62e80333089eded8553d67d9c8df767&oe=5A3B9526
I think Janis is trying to drive Arlo Bananas!
Chimps are known to hunt and eat meat.
You probably be happy to eat like a Bonobo (formerly called the pygmy chimpanzee) if you also get the same type of social interactions they do
Bonobo “social interactions”. Heh.
Wasn’t someone flogging the health benefits of “eating like an Egyptian” (not to be confused with “walking like an Egyptian”) some years back? .) At least until they started doing autopsies and MRIs and such on Egyptian mummies and found those specimens almost universally had *terrible* health problems.
The combination of the InterWebNet and much of social media seems to have driven a considerable number of people stark, raving mad. Or perhaps it just makes it undeniable that a considerable number of people were already stark, raving mad.
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/duty_calls.png
This one is awesome, but, in the long run, discouraging.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V2UACo1qEY
Peace,
Here’s some off-the-wall places JJ’s road maps could take you: http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2017/09/29/8-weirdest-hotels-and-motels-in-united-states.html
And now, a joke that you may adapt to your locale and your team’s rivals:
(insert appropriate town, state here)(AP) -A seven-year old boy was at the center of a Utah courtroom drama yesterday when he challenged a court ruling over who should have custody of him.
The boy has a history of being beaten by his parents and the judge initially awarded custody to his aunt, in keeping with child custody law and regulation requiring that family unity be maintained to the highest degree possible.
The boy surprised the court when he proclaimed that his aunt beat him more than his parents and he adamantly refused to live with her. When the judge then suggested that he live with his grandparents, the boy cried and said that they also beat him.
After considering the remainder of the immediate family and learning that domestic violence was apparently a way of life among them, the judge took the unprecedented step of allowing the boy to propose who should have custody of him.
After two recesses to check legal references and confer with the child welfare officials, the judge granted temporary custody to the (insert rival team) football team, whom the boy firmly believes are not capable of beating anyone.
I missed that Utah reference; be sure to replace it appropriately.
Oh, it’s joke night, is it?
A woman goes to the doctor and complains that her husband is losing interest in sex. The doctor gives her a pill, but warns her that it’s still experimental. He tells her to slip it into his mashed potatoes at dinner. So that night, she does just that.
About a week later, she’s back at the doctor’s office, and says, “Doc, the pill worked great! I put it in the potatoes like you said. Not even five minutes later he jumped up, raked all the food and dishes onto the floor, grabbed me, ripped all my clothes off, and ravaged me right there on the table!”
The doctor says, “I’m sorry, we didn’t realize the pill was that strong! The drug company will be glad to pay for any damages.”
“Nah,” she says, “that’s okay. We’re never going back to that restaurant anyway.”
He told me about 20 jokes before hitting on one that he could possibly tell here. The other 19 were worse or at least bad enough he was afraid to share them.
Ghost knows more jokes than anyone, all off color. He says that sales reps told them to him.
Ghost, two thumbs up.
As the BSU biology chair had posted on her door, ‘Two opposable thumbs up!’
Delightful groaner: http://www.gocomics.com/shoe
Peace,
And Jimmy, two thumbs and a cowlick for today’s strip.
At sixty years of age, I notice that my hair getting more and more silver, but really haven’t seen too many wrinkles yet. I guess that I’m lucky.
Heard this morning that Joe Tiller, who was Purdue’s football coach for years, died this morning. I have been ” cutting onions” this afternoon watching the tributes and a game during the 2000 Rose Bowl season. I wear my school colors proudly and considered Joe a special man.
In 1956 when my brother was born, there was no early warning system regarding the male/female issue like families have today. So, when my dad and his sisters told me we had driven to the hospital to bring my mother home, I was very, very happy. When they also told me we’d be bringing home a baby brother… I threw a tantrum and bit my dad.
This little girl wasn’t too violent, just very dramatic at receiving her unwelcome news:
https://www.ksl.com/?sid=45995338&nid=1017&title=have-you-seen-this-baby-brothers-are-the-worst
Dear Santa,
Please send me a baby brother.
Bobby
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Dear Bobby,
Send me your mom.
Santa