Re: Greetings, Aged One.

At 11:23 PM -0500 14/2/2002, Laserlight wrote:
>  > the only thing y'all left out  was having to deal with the  cave
>bears,
>>  saber tooth cats, and fuzzy elephants!
>
>You had fuzzy elephants?  Jeez, we always wanted a fuzzy elephant but
>could never find one.	We heard they tasted good--although, in
>comparison to our standard fare (Rock Soup), pretty much anything
>tasted good.
>
>>  plus, learning how to chip flint in -120 degree weather sucked  real
>bad
>>  too.
>
>You had flint, too?

Lookshurey, looksurey  laad
[poor imitation of ancient dialect of forefathers]

>We only had slate, quartz and some granite.  You
>can get a pretty fair edge on quartz, with enough practice, and you
>can, sometimes, with a great deal of effort, get enough of a spark to
>light tinder.	But once it's past about 60 below,

60, 60!
we couldn't even count in those days

>  it's a little late
>to be learning--you should've already known how by then.  Flint and
>fuzzy elephants both....pretty upscale neighborhood you were in, Dawg.
;-)