Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for November 21, 2016

Why couldn’t he stay dead?

21,000 years ago? That’s the Stone Age, far too early for those medieval-looking iron weapons and armor.

Zorn translates as anger.

I like that I’m not the only person to be reminded of Zorn.

Ah yes, the “channeling” fad.

Strangely in past lives no one is ever a serf slopping in a muddy field.

@ MiHorn: What did the cannibal say after blowing his cookies on missionary stew?

“You can’t keep a good man down.”

Ok, that was bad…just thought I’d bring it up…

Kellyanne Conway, The Early Years.

I thought Hunk-Ra was a woman.

She’s a faker. I am the real Hunk-ra. Send your money to me!

So THAT’S how we got the Hunk-Ra who ran for the Democrats this year!

This written in response to Shirley MacLaine’s past-life regressions.

she is a good actress

Durandal_1707 said,

“21,000 years ago? That’s the Stone Age, far too early for those medieval-looking iron weapons and armor.”

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Not if you take a left at Cimmeria and avoid Cthulhu on your way past Opar.

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Some civilizations are still in the Stone Age.

Most of the Americas were in 1491

I was Hunk-Ra’s trusty side kick Punk-No. Please send 20% to me!

I had a recurring dream about being a low-level American Civil War soldier who got shot in the head in my first actual battle. Can’t help but wonder…

jakko1 said,

@Christopher Vickers

“Hunk is masculine as in: “He’s a real hunk.” The feminine counterpart would be Babe.”

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In Cimmerean, it means Lily Rose.

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Just joking, of course, but different languages and cultures have different ways and words.

In this case in her prior incarnation was indeed masculine.

“a large piece of something, especially one of food cut or broken off a larger piece.”

It’s interesting (to me) to compare how a female character’s flip-out was handled by their male others. When JJ began showing up on stage wearing only a bird skull and cawing loudly, Mike got cold feet and the marriage went west.

When Boopsie channeled Hunk-Ra, BD shrugged and went with the flow and kept the relationship intact (and it was good for both). So which one was more flexible? The guy in the helmet. Go figure. There are no easy answers.

Timothy Madigan said,

@David Green

“pre-columbian North America (US/Canada area) was still in the stone age – no use of metals not found openly”

“south america, and parts of central america, were into a copper age or, in places, the bronze age. They were smelting metals, and combining alloys, well over a thousand years before the Europeans arrived.”

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It seems others define use of metals as a Copper Age or a Bronze Age even if the primary — or even sole — use of metals was jewelry and statuary.

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Even though their tools and building materials were skins, rocks, mud, wood, bones, vines, feathers,…

Unlike the Iron Age when Iron was used for all kinds of things as tools, structures — whatever its strengths would yield.

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Y’all are free to use your definitions even though I don’t.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallurgy_in_pre-Columbian_America

“Unlike in other metallurgy traditions where metals gain importance due to their widespread use in fields ranging from weaponry to everyday utensils, metals in South America (and later in Central America) were mainly valued as adornments and objects representative of a high status”