Lobster Pound theory #3





by guest contributor: Rachel Gardiner

Grunt and Errrg, two cavemen, were picked up in a micro-burst during a storm about 16,000 b.c. Unceremoniously dumped on the rocky shore of the North Atlantic sea, they wandered for days without food or drinkable water. Frustrated by their hunger and lack of familiar landscape, they grew tired of one another and began to quarrel."Grunt" growled Grunt. "Errrg" uttered Errrg. Ultimately their verbal assaults became physical, and they wound up chest deep in the sea.Much thrashing about ensued, until Grunt held Errrg by the hair and shoved him underwater. Errrg was not going down without a fight, and grabbed at everything near him. In his struggle, he inadvertently wrapped his massive hand around a sea creature, and, thinking its hard body to be a handy weapon, burst out of the water and began to pound Grunt over the head with it. Many scrapes and cracked claws later,both men and crustacean were washed up on the shore. Noone is sure of the exact sequence of events that followed, but Paleolithic cave paintings show two cavemen alternately pounding a lobster-like creature against a rock, and subsequently picking its flesh out with small two-tined sticks and feasting. A millena later, Mainers found the rocks upon which the series of events were documented, and honored their ancient ancestors with the term "Lobster Pound."