Stone Tablets
Alright, for eons, you’ve got your Hadean, Archean, Proterzoic, and Phanerozic…
Wait, what?
Come on, man, keep up!
Okay, wait, Hadean? Can you spell that?
Get with it, man, H-a-d-e-a-n
(chink, chink, chink, chink)
I’m going to have to add an eon if you don’t speed up. Ready?
(chink, chink, chink, chink) okay
Alright, it gets really fun in the Cambrian period. Some of my best work. That’s part of the Paleozoic era. You with me?
(chink, chink, chink, chink) ouch!
(chuckle) The Cambrian, y’all are going to be trying to sort that one out for years… C’mon, man, we haven’t got all day…
(chink, chink, chink, chink) CRACK!
Again? Alright, get another one, I’ll wait….
Look, let’s just go with the short version:
“In the beginning…”
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