Cat = Monkey

AJ Rimmer

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Jan 11, 2001, 1:20:00 AM1/11/01

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Okay someone explain this to me.

Holly says...Well, you know how mankind evolved from apes?
Lister replies.. Yeah I know that.
Holly says...He evolved from cats. His ancestors were cats. He's descended
from cats. He is a cat.

So, does this mean in a Darwinian mentality; We evolved from monkeys. Our
ancestors were monkeys. We descended from monkeys. We are monkeys?

So in some alternate universe or another galaxy like NGC 3938, someone is
watching Red Dwarf and hearing the following;
Holly says...Well, you know how mankind evolved from cats?
Lister replies.. Yeah I know that.
Holly says...He evolved from monkeys. His ancestors were monkeys. He's
descended from monkeys. He is a monkey.

And when Lister and Monkey meet, instead of a bowl of crispies and milk,
Monkey get's a banana?

AJ
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I think I hurt my fragile little mind when I calculated the light speed
formula.

RaD

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Jan 11, 2001, 10:06:05 AM1/11/01

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On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 06:20:00 GMT, "AJ Rimmer" <res0...@gte.net>
wrote:

>
>Okay someone explain this to me.
>
>Holly says...Well, you know how mankind evolved from apes?
>Lister replies.. Yeah I know that.
>Holly says...He evolved from cats. His ancestors were cats. He's descended
>from cats. He is a cat.
>
>So, does this mean in a Darwinian mentality; We evolved from monkeys. Our
>ancestors were monkeys. We descended from monkeys. We are monkeys?

Apes. Not monkeys.

I always love when shows use this statement: "Man evolved from Apes."
Like humanity came from Chimps or Gorillas.

With this mentality we could say that Man evolved from single celled
microbes, so we are single-celled microbes.

AJ Rimmer

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Jan 11, 2001, 10:49:53 AM1/11/01

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RaD <dem...@ucs.orst.edu> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 06:20:00 GMT, "AJ Rimmer" <res0...@gte.net>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >Okay someone explain this to me.
> >
> >Holly says...Well, you know how mankind evolved from apes?
> >Lister replies.. Yeah I know that.
> >Holly says...He evolved from cats. His ancestors were cats. He's
descended
> >from cats. He is a cat.
> >
> >So, does this mean in a Darwinian mentality; We evolved from monkeys.
Our
> >ancestors were monkeys. We descended from monkeys. We are monkeys?
>
> Apes. Not monkeys.

Monkeys, apes, chimps, gorillas...they's all family! Just look at Lister.
;-)

> I always love when shows use this statement: "Man evolved from Apes."
> Like humanity came from Chimps or Gorillas.
>
> With this mentality we could say that Man evolved from single celled
> microbes, so we are single-celled microbes.

You say felinus, I say Cat. :-)

AJ

Ell Jay

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Jan 11, 2001, 1:02:38 PM1/11/01

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AJ Rimmer wrote:

> You say felinus, I say Cat. :-)

"And I owe it all to this feisty feline!"

"Dad, feline's a cat."

"Elephant, sweetie. It's an elephant."

Ang

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Jan 12, 2001, 6:50:03 PM1/12/01

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"Mines a pint of Large"said RaD <dem...@ucs.orst.edu> writing:

>With this mentality we could say that Man evolved from single celled
>microbes, so we are single-celled microbes.

Ahh, you've been the same clubs as me then.

Ang