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Originally Posted by aastra
^Rather clever how you riffed on the Flintstones theme:
- quarry,
- pebbles (all over the ground at the excavation sites),
- (demolition) rubble,
- (mister) slate grey
I'll never take your photo updates for granite again.
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That's some rock solid humour as always and there's more than a few grains of truth to those comments. I was digging around Wikipedia and "historian Christopher P. Lehman considers that the series partly draws its humor from anachronism, mainly the placing of a "modern" 20th-century society in prehistory which takes inspiration from the suburban sprawl developed in the first two decades of the postwar period."
"The main character of the series and patriarch of the Flintstone family, who is easily angered but a loving husband and father. He is an operator at the Slate Rock and Gravel Company for a bronto-crane, a Brontosaurus used as an excavating machine, but is prone to accidents. He is also overweight and likes to eat copious amounts of unhealthy food."
So yes, suburbia, living in or working in a quarry/gravel pit - just to name the obvious, maybe they should change the name to Flinstonia.
Also the new provincial museum collections and research building is progressing as per
this update - I believe they have some fossil collections from the area, probably around the time of the Flinstones as it appears to show a stone car, human and dinosaur remains which they hypothesize was domesticated. Still a lot we don't know about the period millions of years ago when man and dinosaurs roamed the earth together.
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