Besides, Da Vinci is only alleged to have been a vegetarian. Assembling a list of vegetarian geniuses plays into confirmation bias. Perhaps if one were to collect a list of geniuses and their dietary preferences we’d see that meat eaters are in the majority.
Sigh. Einstein only became a vegetarian in the later years of his life well after his best work was done. In any case, it’s Statistics 101 that Correlation Doesn’t Prove Causation.
Actually being firefighters in the same house life insurance should definitely be one of the first things that pops into their heads. That and appointing a guardian to raise the kid if something happens to both of them.
That’s the problem when you have a comic that’s been around for 26 years. Earl’s describing a childhood that was actually pretty common in the US during the 1920s and 1930s. If he was born in, say, 1920 (just for argument’s sake) he was a reasonable 78 when this all started. Because everyone is engaged in that Comic Strip Aging he would be approximately 104 years old now,
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