Flintstones

  • Katie's stuck in Chicago, my book chapter is overdue, and the house next door is on fire

    Posted: January 15th, 2009 - 11:25pm by Doug Powell

    The Flintstones were a cultural milestone for kids like me and those who believe that dinosaurs and humans coexisted.

    In one particular episode, Barney and Fred join Joe Rockhead’s volunteer fire department as a cover for the dance lessons they are taking so they do not humiliate themselves at the charity ball.

    Betty and Wilma eventually realize that the all-stone town of Bedrock is fire proof. The wives then suspect that their husbands are slipping out to meet other women.

    It’s like that in Manhattan (Kansas). I love the limestone rock that is the cornerstone of many of the buildings in town, including our own house.

    The house next door is made of plaster or something and houses students who drive too fast down our dead-end road.

    That house now has a hole in its roof.

    It seems like the entire Bedrock volunteer fire department was out tonight after the students next door called in a fire. One of the kids said it was an electrical short. Katie called me, stranded in Chicago, and said it was probably a grow-op or crack den. Whatever it was, there were 30 firefighters working on this house for the last couple of hours. They had ladders, chainsaws, groovy duds, and a lot of them had moustaches.
     

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  • Fred Flintstone and diet

    Posted: May 9th, 2008 - 4:11pm by Doug Powell

    A study of five men and nine women conducted by scientists at the Karolinska Institute in Huddinge, Sweden, found that eating like a caveman may trim the waist and protect against heart disease.

    Volunteers were put on a stone-age diet of berries, nuts, lean meat, fish and vegetables while cutting out cereals, dairy products and refined sugar.

    After just three weeks they had lost five pounds in weight, their waistlines were slimmer, and their blood pressure was lower.

    Those taking part in the Swedish study had to stick to a food list which included lean meat, unsalted fish, fresh or frozen fruit, berries, vegetables -- but not beans -- most kinds of nuts, canned tomatoes, lemon or lime juice, spices, and coffee or tea without milk or sugar.

    Dairy products, beans, peanuts, salt, pasta, rice, sausages, sugar, fruit juices and alcohol were all banned.
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