tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post8719956316259471192..comments2024-03-27T11:16:36.951-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: Channeling Friends in High PlacesGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-41206759438994469132011-10-07T10:47:36.858-07:002011-10-07T10:47:36.858-07:00Sure it's nasty, but it does kill aviary syphi...Sure it's nasty, but it does kill aviary syphilis.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-47546227378912939282011-10-07T10:28:38.798-07:002011-10-07T10:28:38.798-07:00We scientifically determined the worst beer in the...We scientifically determined the worst beer in the world, or at least in Massachusetts circa 1978. There was a blizzard. Everyone was trapped in their house for two weeks. My buddy and I walked a couple miles through snowdrifts to the nearest package store to get beer. When we got there, the whole store was wiped out of everything except candy for diabetics and some syphilitic-looking turkey hot dogs. We made a beeline for the beer cooler, which was usually fourteen doors of everything. There was one, single, solitary six-pack of beer left in there. <br /><br />There you have it. Conclusive proof. Genessee Cream Ale is the worst beer of all time, and perhaps needs to be in the running for least attractive fluid of any kind.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />We bought it and drank it of course. It's been 33 years, but I think it still makes me a little gassy from time to time.SippicanCottagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14940797380578921776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-76212537995128875772011-10-06T23:08:38.659-07:002011-10-06T23:08:38.659-07:00@ Julie
Yea, D&D was real fun back in the day...@ Julie<br /><br />Yea, D&D was real fun back in the day. For me it was an interactive book where you could live out a much more exciting life than the banal day to day life of an 'ordinary' American Kid.<br /><br />http://jokebriefcase.blogspot.com/2008/11/goat-braces.html<br /><br />One thing I did learn about the game early on was that it was real fun to give the players all the loot and ice cream they could handle, but after it was done there was a 'Okay, now what' moment and so we'd have to ... well... start over, again. Had to do it 3 times over a period of ....4 or 5 years to finally get it right where the entertainment value maintained a 'long term buzz'.<br /><br />It was great entertainment for a bunch of 'dateless dorks' (which, looking back, would have been real easy had we the eyes to see). Sadly, like many childhood endeavors, D&D increasingly gave diminishing returns and tides of time prodded us all to do more reality based endeavors.<br /><br />As a kid who really had a bad attitude (Think 'geek' version - heh), it really was a great escape (which inevitably was a kind of seduction to get back into the swing of things) and I wouldn't have had it any other way.<br /><br />Wasted Youth? Yea. <br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMSGU4GYNFc#t=7m<br /><br />...yet I wouldn't have had it any other way.<br /><br />PS: If you want to know what those 'D&D sessions' were like, Shamus Young knocks it out of the Ballpark:<br /><br />http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=612<br /><br />(*sigh*) Good times, good times...Cond0011https://www.blogger.com/profile/04576204654819543273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-37164430406909011702011-10-06T08:21:10.386-07:002011-10-06T08:21:10.386-07:00Beer is made of rotted grain. Beer poisons, bloats...Beer is made of rotted grain. Beer poisons, bloats, and stupifies those fool-hardy enough to imbibe it habitually. <br /><br />Of all beer Coors is best because it contains the lowest percentages of the deadly ethyl alcohol and other girth-expanding carbs.<br /><br />Now wine, on the other hand, gently ferments and results in healthy compounds like resveratrol. Plus Dionysus endorses wine.<br /><br />The distilled alcohols are for the real drinkers among ye, Irish lads and lassies and stout Scottish boys. All corruption is removed by the heat of distillation, yielding a healthful elixir. A clear complextion and deep sleep come to those who can take it straight.<br /><br />All other vegetable alkaloid intoxicants must be shunned as Devil weed and that means Jimson weed and Nightshade too.Open Trenchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06354412002318534131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-40465374700814405152011-10-06T07:57:15.257-07:002011-10-06T07:57:15.257-07:00:D
Seems to me D&D had a fairly profound effe...:D<br /><br />Seems to me D&D had a fairly profound effect on some people's lives, back in the day. I'm pretty sure it's part of why my husband is as good as he is at what he does now.<br /><br />To the eye that can see, MotT is immeasurably more profound, and it has a proportionally greater effect. It's not an easy read, but it is a <i>deep</i> one.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-57125557866650264242011-10-05T23:23:04.106-07:002011-10-05T23:23:04.106-07:00"For the links in the chain of the tradition ..."For the links in the chain of the tradition are not thoughts and efforts alone; they are above all living beings who were thinking these thoughts and willing these efforts. The essence of the tradition is not a doctrine, but rather a community of spirits from age to age. "<br /><br />Dang... I haven't been this excited to get/read a book since I got my first copy of "The Dungeon Masters Guide" for the game Dungeons and Dragons waaaay back in the late 70's...<br /><br />What?Cond0011https://www.blogger.com/profile/04576204654819543273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-52301788993119722532011-10-05T21:22:19.227-07:002011-10-05T21:22:19.227-07:00Olympia.
I liked the logo.
Hamms.
I liked their...Olympia.<br /><br />I liked the logo.<br /><br />Hamms.<br /><br />I liked their bear mascot... As a kid.<br /><br />Bud.<br /><br />Liked the Clydesdales.<br /><br />I'm sensing a trend.... Mainly that their beer all wasnt worth pissing.<br /><br />I did like coors though... It was the water, and not a lot more.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-41263386895046933042011-10-05T21:01:56.109-07:002011-10-05T21:01:56.109-07:00Also, Brew 102, all "lite" beers IMHOAlso, Brew 102, all "lite" beers IMHOJimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16202441664961886198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-69781483643267441492011-10-05T20:47:58.492-07:002011-10-05T20:47:58.492-07:00It wasn't behind the Safeway. It was right ou...It wasn't behind the Safeway. It was right outside -- and inside -- the Market Basket where I worked for ten years while putting self through college. Or maybe I played at college while putting beer through myself. Yeah, that was it.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-51185104732656064312011-10-05T20:43:05.119-07:002011-10-05T20:43:05.119-07:00Other bad beers I've known:
Schlitz
Olympia
B...Other bad beers I've known:<br /><br />Schlitz<br />Olympia<br />Busch<br />Milwaukee's Best <br />Keystone<br />Miller Lite<br /><br />Never liked Bud, either. Come to think of it, there weren't any good American beers before the microbreweries, were there? I used to drink Coors, mainly because it went down like water.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-57213001145165391432011-10-05T20:41:47.004-07:002011-10-05T20:41:47.004-07:00Bob
I am impressed, I had no idea you had such va...Bob<br /><br />I am impressed, I had no idea you had such vast knowledge of re-cycled piss marked as beer. I wonder why I drank the stuff, guess peer pressure. I'm sure you only drank it for research purposes. Right, you and Cousin Dupree, behind the Safeway next to the dumpster on breaks. ;-)Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16202441664961886198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-77452179688073356752011-10-05T20:31:07.787-07:002011-10-05T20:31:07.787-07:00Lucky was just bad -- even real bad -- but Hamms h...Lucky was just bad -- even real bad -- but Hamms had a special nastiness -- some extra ingredient that almost made it something other than beer. Hard to imagine that someone made it that way on purpose.<br /><br />Plus Lucky had those riddles on the bottle caps. If you couldn't solve them, it meant you shouldn't drive. Nice touch.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-14057497478661382292011-10-05T20:11:50.792-07:002011-10-05T20:11:50.792-07:00Hamms was worsser about same as Lucy Lager (a.k.a....Hamms was worsser about same as Lucy Lager (a.k.a. red cross) just thinking about those makes me want to stop drinking(if you buy that one you can have this bridge some yokels tried to block over the weekend, cheep)Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16202441664961886198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-30162034798329818632011-10-05T19:58:27.533-07:002011-10-05T19:58:27.533-07:00They had catchy commercials, though...They had catchy commercials, though...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-70471863424219812372011-10-05T19:57:12.757-07:002011-10-05T19:57:12.757-07:00There was a beer worse than Pabst: Hamms. If al...There was a beer worse than Pabst: Hamms. If all beer tasted like that, it would be like all women being Gloria Allred.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-89471971274875959352011-10-05T19:27:54.370-07:002011-10-05T19:27:54.370-07:00Bob
About the new picture, you can not be serious...Bob<br /><br />About the new picture, you can not be serious, you would let a poor innocent little raccoon have some PBR. Poor thing that’s just over the top cruel, at least let 'em have Fat Tire, or Shinner Bock or maybe Firestone DBA. But PBR what happened did Cuz D drink all the good stuff? :-)Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16202441664961886198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-45613726132902838442011-10-05T19:16:05.662-07:002011-10-05T19:16:05.662-07:00Great post.Great post.Matthew C Smallwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08234878138545287306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-30302327023157647362011-10-05T14:05:17.571-07:002011-10-05T14:05:17.571-07:00To answer my own question. It looks to be stolen,...To answer my own question. It looks to be stolen, on the third page where the ISBN number and such should be, there is this bit of text in a different font.<br /><br />This project represents a work of LOVE.All texts so far gathered, as well as all future gatherings aim at exposing interested students to occult information. Future releases will include submissions from users like YOU.<br /><br />Those sould like weasel words for "it is stolen." I'll purchase a copy. Fellow coons, hold me to it!<br /><br />wv: oveldJohn Lienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15607964922479543670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-62761204210812420092011-10-05T14:03:52.408-07:002011-10-05T14:03:52.408-07:00"Indeed, it was like entering a vast cathedra..."Indeed, it was like entering a vast cathedral, only this time with the lights on. In other worlds, without the Light, an infinite space can appear as a black wall, which is essentially the predicament in which the atheist finds himself. He imagines he's telling us about an objective barrier, when he's really just describing the back of his I-lid. It's difficult to imagine a worldview more banal."<br /><br />I like this part even better the seconde time around. And I haven't even gotten to the UF parts yet.<br /><br />Cool.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-60324453431840051272011-10-05T12:20:52.179-07:002011-10-05T12:20:52.179-07:00I am aware of his friends in high places, and this...I am aware of his friends in high places, and this inclines me towards trusting my intuition that he's got something really right. But I tend to think about him the way I think about alot of your writing, that is, requiring a lot of rumination and double checking. The concern is, when you're hanging with popes, people may give you more intellectual authority than you merit. Your disclaimer yesterday shows you have considered this problem. I think if you publish your thoughts, that raises the stakes significantly. Now, as inciteful as you are, you don't have the pope's number on speed dial, so your ability to influence people is limited to your ability to convince them verbally, and so you are fairly safe. No one reading here has shut there mind down.Gabe Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06958214257606957422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-67091404292995835262011-10-05T12:20:41.514-07:002011-10-05T12:20:41.514-07:00Is that a hipster raccoon?
I just found a free d...Is that a hipster raccoon? <br /><br />I just found a free download of MOTT. Does this sound legit? Meaning, the book isn't copyrighted?<br /><br />Don't want to start off on the wrong foot by stealing.John Lienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15607964922479543670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-49049110553854472472011-10-05T11:17:16.576-07:002011-10-05T11:17:16.576-07:00As Petey says, better to drown in the same ocean t...As Petey says, better to drown in the same ocean than to float in separate boats.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-53427605532326378172011-10-05T11:05:10.218-07:002011-10-05T11:05:10.218-07:00In fact, now that I think of it: per the post'...In fact, now that I think of it: per the post's point about Bob's Unconscious, I often find I'm far more likely to be on the same page if I'm hopelessly out of sync or even reading something else entirely. Maybe that's just me, though...juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-36665180143233587772011-10-05T10:49:28.816-07:002011-10-05T10:49:28.816-07:00:D
Yep.
Also, if I remember correctly, it was ver...:D<br />Yep.<br /><br />Also, if I remember correctly, it was very helpful to do your Omwork on this subject, but Bob being Bob the posts made perfect nonsense even if you hadn't done the reading yet. <br /><br />By which I mean, I read MotT, but it probably took me several times as long to get through it as it took him to blog it, and past the first couple of chapters I was, as usual, hopelessly behind. Nonetheless, the one illuminated the other.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-26952938476758140472011-10-05T10:34:16.911-07:002011-10-05T10:34:16.911-07:00In other words, if Balthasar is not acceptable the...In other words, if Balthasar is not acceptable then the Pope isn't Catholic and bears relieve themselves in outhouses.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.com