# B.C. and the period in which it's set

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 2, 2004, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-c-and-the-period-in-which-its-set/253236 "2004-07-02T17:10:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-c-and-the-period-in-which-its-set/253236/21 "2004-07-04T21:01:59Z")

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Well, see, **Poly** , that’s what I always thought. But the strip in question seems different. AFAIR, previous anachronisms were just that–characters would mention current events as if they were current and historical events as if they had occured in their (caveman) history. This is the first time I’ve ever seen a real-life current event described as being in the not-too recent past. The clear implication is that it is **not** an anachronism, but that the entire strip takes place in the distant future. Which completely blows my earlier perception of the strip (as a running anachronism gag) out of the water. Again I ask, has this ever been hinted at before, or are those of us who read the strip in qusetion misinterpreting it?

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-c-and-the-period-in-which-its-set/253236/22 "2004-07-04T21:54:46Z")

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In what period was _Alley Oop_ set? That strip also had cavement coexisting with dinosaurs. Not so many cultural/historical anachronisms, though – so far as I remember; haven’t seen it in years.

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-c-and-the-period-in-which-its-set/253236/23 "2004-07-05T16:34:05Z")

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_Ally Oop_: now there’s a strip in _Flintstones_ mode.

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**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2004, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-c-and-the-period-in-which-its-set/253236/24 "2004-07-05T18:09:37Z")

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> [@Fiver](#):
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> Oh, easy! There were Neanderthals and _H. erectus_ and so forth, they were just created separately, like all the others.

Naw, the usual Young Earth Creationist claim is they were actually degraded strains of humanity. However, a Creationist orthodontist recently theorized, based on his studies of how human skull structures change with age, that Neanderthal skulls show they were actually centuries-old homo sapiens.

_shrug_ As an Old-Earth Creationist who believes Adam & Eve may not have been the first humans but were the first “child of God” humans, I have no real horse in this race, but I do enjoy watching the anti-anyformofCreationism folk just go spastic at Creationist arguments, whether valid or totally nutso (I’ve been known to argue for Young-Earthism just to see the reaction _L_- tho not for a long while.)

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