A Giant Mental Combine, Mowing Down Foes
Blue Yeti ·
Oct 1, 2010 at 6:17pm
Normally, we're not too keen on self-promotion around here, but we happened to be doing some maintenance on our iTunes page today and noticed that some new reviews of the podcast had recently been posted. One in particular caught our attention. We have no idea who you are, Plastic Mummy. But dude, you rule.
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Jul '10
Re: A Giant Mental Combine, Mowing Down Foes
C'mon. We all know that was Peter.
Oct '10
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No, Peter is too busy doing the mowing, politely.
Jul '10
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Plastic Mummy rocks!
Could it be Algore?
May '10
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It's an upper midwest woodchipper of devastation! Lileks and maybe one of the Powerline guys can give us some insight into the carnage wrought by a hay-baler (and where is Cap'n Ed Morrisey on this?). At the moment, I'm more worried about Andrea with a bayonet, on the container ship.
Jun '10
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Wheat shandy? Noooo! I got a morning hangover just thinking about it, and I was sober the night before. My poor head felt like the aforementioned cowbell stuck in a garbage disposal. Next thing you know Joe Escalante will invent a band called the Limones. Please stop this madness before it goes viral. There's a reason why the civilized world doesn't drink liquor made from sugarcane and tropical fruit. Civilization is built on grass seed: barley, corn and rice. Domestic grass gives us beer, whiskey, bourbon and sake. It's a proven recipe. Some things can't be improved on. Kinda like the model 1911.
Edited on Oct 1, 2010 at 7:09pmSep '10
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Why do I always feel like I'm always one comment away from getting into trouble with Ricochet's constabulary?
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~Paules: Civilization is built on grass seed: barley, corn and rice. Domestic grass gives us beer, whiskey, bourbon and sake. It's a proven recipe. Some things can't be improved on. K · Oct 1 at 7:03pm
Edited on Oct 01 at 07:09 pm
Paules, I like you more and more.
Jul '10
Re: A Giant Mental Combine, Mowing Down Foes
~Paules: Wheat shandy? Noooo! I got a morning hangover just thinking about it, and I was sober the night before. My poor head felt like the aforementioned cowbell stuck in a garbage disposal. Next thing you know Joe Escalante will invent a band called the Limones. Please stop this madness before it goes viral. There's a reason why the civilized world doesn't drink liquor made from sugarcane and tropical fruit. Civilization is built on grass seed: barley, corn and rice. Domestic grass gives us beer, whiskey, bourbon and sake. It's a proven recipe. Some things can't be improved on. Kinda like the model 1911. · Oct 1 at 7:03pm
Edited on Oct 01 at 07:09 pm
Which is why I have nothing but disdain for Alexander Hamilton who imposed the whiskey tax that triggered the Whiskey Rebellion.
That said, rum was an essential drink for the fighters of the War of Independence.
Oct '10
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And beer, as Benjamin Frankiln so wisely put it, is prove that God loves us.
May '10
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Don't forget rye. Rye whiskey is what fueled the Whiskey Rebellion.
Jun '10
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Michael Tee:
"That said, rum was an essential drink for the fighters of the War of Independence."
Because it was cheap, and the foot soldiers of the revolution were drawn from the lower classes. The cash value of sugar from the Caribbean was worth more than the entire export income of all products from British North America.
Ottoman Umpire:
"Don't forget rye. Rye whiskey is what fueled the Whiskey Rebellion."
And Bourbon was named for the French royal family because a certain county in Kentucky decided that calling the beverage Hanover would be unpatriotic. But it took American genius to age it in oak barrels.
Edited on Oct 1, 2010 at 8:07pmJun '10
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Peter Robinson
~Paules: Civilization is built on grass seed: barley, corn and rice. Domestic grass gives us beer, whiskey, bourbon and sake. It's a proven recipe. Some things can't be improved on. K · Oct 1 at 7:03pm
Edited on Oct 01 at 07:09 pm
Paules, I like you more and more. · Oct 1 at 7:32pm
Well then, we finally have something in common. I like myself more and more, too.
Edited on Oct 1, 2010 at 8:13pmJul '10
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Caller:
"Hey, Rob. Love the podcast, but...there isn't enough, um action, you know?
Rob:
"Action?"
Caller:
"Yeah, you know, like, um ninjas and maybe chicks in rubber body suits with big ol' machine guns. Exploding helicopters..."
Rob:
"On a podcast?"
Caller:
"Hey, c'mon...with a name like Ricochet, the audience expects action, right? Maybe you should have, like Jean Claude Vandamme or Stephen Seagal smacking Peter Robinson around and then they, like, throw him out the window..."
Rob:
"Um, I think you've got the whole concept wrong, Erick. Ricochet isn't about exploding helicopters and martial arts, we're about politics and current events."
Caller:
"So I've been listening now for like, three weeks, figuring, OK, this is the part where a bunch of, like, gay-sounding dudes are sitting around plotting out evil stuff in like, gay code. And any minute now the rubber ninja chicks are gonna come crashing in and waste em..."
Rob:
"No rubber ninja chicks..."
Caller:
"Dude. This so bogus. I feel, like, so owned..."
May '10
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Pseudodionysius
Why do I always feel like I'm always one comment away from getting into trouble with Ricochet's constabulary? · Oct 1 at 7:29pm
Cats have a history of scurrilous internet shenanigans. Also, you can't spell Dionysus. The trick is to get right up to the line of the podcasts, and then pull back slightly.
Re: A Giant Mental Combine, Mowing Down Foes
Blue Yeti: Normally, we're not too keen on self-promotion around here.
Speak for yourself, Yeti.
Sep '10
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Claire Berlinski, Ed.
Blue Yeti: Normally, we're not too keen on self-promotion around here.
Speak for yourself, Yeti. · Oct 2 at 1:58am
No kidding. I ain't here for the food.
Sep '10
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Kennedy Smith
Cats have a history of scurrilous internet shenanigans. Also, you can't spell Dionysus. The trick is to get right up to the line of the podcasts, and then pull back slightly. · Oct 1 at 8:42pm
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pseudo-dionysius-areopagite/
Ahem. I think you owe the neo-platonist an apology, sir.
May '10
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I have a settled policy that rules out apologie to neo-platonists. It's a signa weakness.
Alls I know is, whenever the guy shows up to wreak havoc on my city-state, Maenads in tow (who probably have bayonets), he spells it Dionysus.
And we noticed folks aren't all that keen on self-promotion. I had to find out about this place from Powerline. Oh, the ignominy.
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Claire Berlinski, Ed.
Blue Yeti: Normally, we're not too keen on self-promotion around here.
Speak for yourself, Yeti. · Oct 2 at 1:58am
Point taken, Catwoman.