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Do you recollect when it appeared?

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A lot more accurate though. People like Nugent mistake hunting wild game for being a frontiersman. If you haven't slept without a manufactured tent, you haven't wiped your ass with a dead mammal, and you haven't made a stew with some sort of feces in the stock, then you're a city boy shooting at animals. Least that's how my uncle described it. I exaggerated for humor, but he wasn't kidding when he described just how dependent on commerce most of your rugged outdoorsmen are.

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I much prefer stone soup to shit stew.

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I think Capt. Stubing would ask Gopher to get it from Doc.

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There is a difference between hunting and killing for sport, for sure, but poopy stew? Yikes!

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Contemporary?

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There was a lot of bad music in the 70's. The Bay City Rollers? Leo Sayer? Captain and Tenielle?

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There weren't enough guns in her house, obviously.

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Maybe a dogsled...like Balto. That would have worked way better for the metaphor. After he gets the medicine he gets to shoot the wolf.

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no gents?

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OT, if only for the mention of "Vietnam": Boeing, VietJetAir Ink Deal for 100 737 MAX 200http://airwaysnews.com/blog...

"Low-cost carrier VietJetAir has placed a firm order with Boeing for 100 737 MAX 200s."The order—the largest ever single commercial airplane purchase in Vietnam aviation—is valued at at approximately $11.3 billion at current list prices."President Barack Obama and his Vietnamese Counterpart Tran Dai Quang witnessed VietjetAir President and CEO, Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao, and Boeing Commercial Airplanes President and CEO, Ray Conner, signing the formal agreement in Hanoi.

Yes, VietJetAir is the airline where the stewardesses dress up in bikinis.Yes the founder & CEO is a woman, and one of the richest in Southeast Asia.

Has Fox News lost their heads in faux-outrage yet? How 'bout our good ambassador friend Nugent?

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It's G. Gordon Liddy.

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Wait...ship captains give medicine? Has the Cat Scratch Fever maybe escalated to meningitis?

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“'Hey Bernie: eat [expletive] and die,' said Mr. Nugent..."Well, if anybody knows shit, it's Nugent.

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"Yes, VietJetAir is the airline where the stewardesses dress up in bikinis."That, apparently, was a one-shot deal, wasn't flight attendants and VietJet got fined:

"The Vietnam aviation authority fined VietJet Air US$960 in 2012 for organizing five women candidates in a local beauty contest to perform a Hawaiian themed-dance without first gaining permission to celebrate its maiden flight to the tourist hub of Nha Trang."

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And ephebophile.

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