August 21, 2005

The imperfect savage life.

Do you ever romanticize the caveman and think, yes, it might be all right to be a Neanderthal, and you then think of one modern product that you want so much that you can't even seriously contemplate the savage life anymore? For me it's Chapstick.

6 comments:

Mark Daniels said...

I would only want to be a Neanderthal under a few circumstances:

(1) I could be frozen, reappear in our times, and become a lawyer, like Phil Hartman's recurring character on 'Saturday Night Live.' Or...

(2) I could be among the last vestiges of Neanderthals, living today, and enjoying an ongoing gig on the Geico commercials.

If I were forced to be a caveman in prehistoric times and could only have one modern product, I'd want either soap or a toothbrush.

bearing said...

1) Q-tips.

2) Ice cubes.

Unknown said...

Mark's right; toothbrush is the only serious answer to this question. Not to disparage Q-Tips and chapstick. But come on.

Freeman Hunt said...

You had me set on the current time period at two words: "toilet paper." Not switching to leaves. No way.

Then again, maybe I'm just a huge nerd, but I wouldn't give up my computer. I think I would give up toilet paper before I would give up computers.

Ann Althouse said...

Roaring Tiger: Funny, I'd never pictured cavemen slathering themselves in animal fat! As for toilet paper, I think leaves must have been fine.

jeff said...

Ann,

Just watch out for the poison oak and poison ivy...