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?
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.
Ally Oop: now there’s a strip in Flintstones mode.
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.)