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2005-06-30 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by anonymous5089 2005-06-30 12:40|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Prof Mithen's book, The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language and the Mind, is published on 7 July.

It will be shelved, I assume, under Sci-Fi? Because, honestly, I can't see how he could have actually collected evidence of his claims.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-06-30 14:51|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-06-30 14:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Professor Steven Mithen of Reading University also thinks the cave- dwellers would have enjoyed the rhythms and sounds made by rap artists.

Well, I think that Klingons would really like pillaging to the sounds of Metallica, but I've been wrong before...

Posted by Raj 2005-06-30 15:11|| 2005-06-30 15:11|| Front Page Top

#3 I think they would have particularly liked rap music

So does that mean there were...Neander-hos?

Posted by Dreadnought 2005-06-30 15:26|| 2005-06-30 15:26|| Front Page Top

#4 Hell yes, the neanderthals had music. Where do you think "Smoke On The Water" came from?

Posted by BH 2005-06-30 15:44|| 2005-06-30 15:44|| Front Page Top

#5 Da Sabba tooh Cat ate my ol man yeah
Oog Yaah Oog Ya Oog Oog Ya Oog Ya
Didn't matta much cause he was a bad painta Yeah
Oog Yaah Oog Ya Oog Oog Ya Oog Ya
His mammoth drawin's were a bit on da small side
Oog Yaah Oog Ya Oog Oog Ya Oog Ya
And da cat was a simly doin' an art critics work Yeah
Oog Yaah Oog Ya Oog Oog Ya Oog Ya
Oog Yaah Oog Ya Oog Oog Ya Oog Ya

Posted by BigEd 2005-06-30 15:54|| 2005-06-30 15:54|| Front Page Top

#6 Where the hell did this guy come up with all this shit? Has he been smoking that kentucky greenbud again? We don't even have cave paintings that go back that far, how the hell did this dude find the musical score to the performance of Oklahoma that the neanderthals put on 30,000 years ago?

Posted by bigjim-ky 2005-06-30 16:05|| 2005-06-30 16:05|| Front Page Top

#7 how the hell did this dude find the musical score to the performance of Oklahoma that the neanderthals put on 30,000 years ago?

Counting of tree trunk rings

Posted by BigEd 2005-06-30 16:42|| 2005-06-30 16:42|| Front Page Top

#8 Classic!

Posted by Korora">Korora 2005-06-30 16:52|| http://basementburrow.blogspot.com]">[http://basementburrow.blogspot.com] 2005-06-30 16:52|| Front Page Top

#9 From the trombone to the first accordion player, the real missing link.

Posted by Shipman 2005-06-30 19:45|| 2005-06-30 19:45|| Front Page Top

#10 Neanderthal rappers

Rappers are Neaderthals? Sounds about right to me.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-06-30 21:07|| 2005-06-30 21:07|| Front Page Top

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