Thursday, November 06, 2003

Ancient Man Used Toothpicks

Ancient Man Used Toothpicks

So if you're like me - and if you are, we should combine our wardrobes - you've probably been wondering about ancient man's struggle with dental hygiene. Well, it turns out that scientists have been studying this all along. Surprised? Not me. That's the kind of pertinent information scientists who have a poor work ethic constantly labor to find.

Ancient man being descended from Apes, I'm not necessarily surprised to see that Grot used grass and twigs to clean out his teeth. Monkeys stick all kinds of shit in their mouths - anything they find embedded in each others fur, for instance.

What's interesting to me, is that this doctor spent a total of 11 hours grinding teeth with grass, to prove that the marks on the ancient teeth and modern teeth would be exactly the same. That would be time better spent on inventing things for me. Like a machine that searches the internet, compiling pictures of monkeys putting things in their mouths. I could have saved at least an hour of my time this morning.

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Stephen Schumacher

Since we are descended from Apes at what point did we stop picking up our own steaming pile of shit and tossing it at a passerby?

bearskinrug

Oh - that's something Apes just started recently. They're pretty angry about being kicked out of the NASA program.

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