I think you misread it, belts have been around since ancient Rome. What the article is saying is how long it took us to figure out that we should use a belt to tie our pants up. That was just a recent development.Don Reba said:Good work, Leelee!
The stinger was all kinds of awesome. But, in all seriousness, people, look up the history of belts [http://shkrobius.livejournal.com/398013.html]. There are still people alive who remember the time before belts.
I thought adding too many qualifications to the pitch would spoil it. I still find it amazing, though, that it took humankind this long to figure out this way of keeping our pants from falling down!barbzilla said:I think you misread it, belts have been around since ancient Rome. What the article is saying is how long it took us to figure out that we should use a belt to tie our pants up. That was just a recent development.
It is amazing how often the simple solution will evade mankind. The funny thing is I am willing to be people have been doing it for hundreds of years, but the people that did it either were not famous enough to get it to catch on as a fashion style, or people never noticed it and asked about it.Don Reba said:I thought adding too many qualifications to the pitch would spoil it. I still find it amazing, though, that it took humankind this long to figure out this way of keeping our pants from falling down!barbzilla said:I think you misread it, belts have been around since ancient Rome. What the article is saying is how long it took us to figure out that we should use a belt to tie our pants up. That was just a recent development.