Post by Argonut on May 23, 2010 12:22:58 GMT -6
I told Phalon that I would post about....oh, a few demi-years ago and am only just now getting around to it. This is what is wandering through my noggin:
Fire was a huge divider in mankind so many thousands of years ago. When man first burnt his fingers on the flame and woman rolled her eyes and got out the salve, things began to change big time but not in the way you would think. Sure meat was cooked; why, I don't know because we are now going back to our pre-fire roots with sushi and such-i. What changed was the nightlife and responsibility.
Until fire everyone just went to bed with the setting of the sun. A few stared at the moon on those nights, but it moved, and set. So everyone was pretty much on the same page..or wall, at that time.
Post-firing some couldn't layoff the fire gazing and kept burning the candles at both ends. While everyone else went off to snooze on their animal skins, a small group, comprised of scared-of-the-nighters and excited-by-the-flamers stayed up. In our modern time you will find this group in the late night t.v. sales-watching position and disco-ballers (Wow, lots of dashes and inappropriate new words here: it's been a long time and I may be hurting in the morning).
The early to bed, early to rise, makes a Neanderthal happy, wealthy and wisers were starting to get a bit upset, and a new word arose; nag. The late to risers were now sleeping in and missing out on the gathering and hunting. They were there for the cleaning, but tensions were building.
Things escalated after oh, a few thousand years of new vocab. and the tribes split apart due to complacency and pyromaniacy. The two new cities of compacencity and pyromanicity were doing well, although pyroland was needy of trees and had a high lung cancer rate. So kindled the Tree Wars in which Pyro gyp-ed the Compacens and would raid their woodpiles. Pyro would also grab a few early birds to get worms.
The Comapacens moved north and formed Constandyouallnople and then those dang Pyros followed and formed Firenza. Centuries stretched on and the groups found themselves in the New World naming places like Woodstock and Ann Arbor. The poor Pyros were driven to drink in order to sleep. They settled in Whiskeysin and became brewers and continued west starting wineries and whining about their insomnia. Little did they know it's in their genes pockets. Ya DNA-ver know about that did ya?
Fire was a huge divider in mankind so many thousands of years ago. When man first burnt his fingers on the flame and woman rolled her eyes and got out the salve, things began to change big time but not in the way you would think. Sure meat was cooked; why, I don't know because we are now going back to our pre-fire roots with sushi and such-i. What changed was the nightlife and responsibility.
Until fire everyone just went to bed with the setting of the sun. A few stared at the moon on those nights, but it moved, and set. So everyone was pretty much on the same page..or wall, at that time.
Post-firing some couldn't layoff the fire gazing and kept burning the candles at both ends. While everyone else went off to snooze on their animal skins, a small group, comprised of scared-of-the-nighters and excited-by-the-flamers stayed up. In our modern time you will find this group in the late night t.v. sales-watching position and disco-ballers (Wow, lots of dashes and inappropriate new words here: it's been a long time and I may be hurting in the morning).
The early to bed, early to rise, makes a Neanderthal happy, wealthy and wisers were starting to get a bit upset, and a new word arose; nag. The late to risers were now sleeping in and missing out on the gathering and hunting. They were there for the cleaning, but tensions were building.
Things escalated after oh, a few thousand years of new vocab. and the tribes split apart due to complacency and pyromaniacy. The two new cities of compacencity and pyromanicity were doing well, although pyroland was needy of trees and had a high lung cancer rate. So kindled the Tree Wars in which Pyro gyp-ed the Compacens and would raid their woodpiles. Pyro would also grab a few early birds to get worms.
The Comapacens moved north and formed Constandyouallnople and then those dang Pyros followed and formed Firenza. Centuries stretched on and the groups found themselves in the New World naming places like Woodstock and Ann Arbor. The poor Pyros were driven to drink in order to sleep. They settled in Whiskeysin and became brewers and continued west starting wineries and whining about their insomnia. Little did they know it's in their genes pockets. Ya DNA-ver know about that did ya?
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Could a water spout have picked up a fish and thrown it that far? I'm not sure if they reach the dangerous speeds of tornadoes, cyclones, or hurricanes. I've played in 'dust devils' ... they didn't get all that strong.