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Chris -- 2018-04-11
We’ve had Crow Magnon man and Pro-Magnon man , but I think this is new:
The differences between these men and the ancient farming woman speak of a “profound migratory episode†in the 1,000 years between their lifetimes [...] Cro-Magnum Man has been found to have been in Europe well
The pendulum has swung from the Cro-Magnum ethic of “Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche†to the pathetic Wild Men who sit around beating drums and bitching about their fathers.
I can’t help it if you’re Cro-Magnum Man when it comes to tech.
Cro-magnum man found in West France People throughout Asia, Australia First engravings (Venus of Willendorf, Austria). 30,000 BC, Bones in west Europe
I guess “Magnum” has cool masculine connotations (firearms, Magnum P.I. ?), and Cro-Magnon Man is somehow cooler than Neanderthal Man and other fourbares. Or something like that.
There were hits for pro magnum and crow magnum but all I saw looked purposeful; maybe some aren’t, but I didn’t have time to sift through to look for them.
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2017-07-31 20:54:33)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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Seems like one of Pat’s WTF substitutions.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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