This is one of Rick’s cruel to be kind things. He feels that venerated artists get trapped in their own veneration and are not allowed to fully participate in the culture due to the pedestal they have been placed upon. By insulting Willie Nelson as he’d insult anybody (or everybody else) he’s actually saying that he feels Willie Nelson still can possibly affect the culture.
Plus I felt like it’d been a while since I’d had a really mean Dodge joke and I gotta put them in every now and thing so people see he’s still a jackass even if his beard is divine.
Also, fun fact, the term battering ram came from the ancient Celtic tradition of deep frying a whole ram in beer batter and then realizing it was tough enough to break down doors. Which, not coincidentally, caused a great deal of meat tenderization which is necessary since rams’ meat is notoriously tough. The Celts would fry up a battered ram, break down a door, feast on the ram, a good time was had by all. They had to give it up after a while when health and safety bureaucrats said the giant vat of coconut oil they used to deep fry the ram was too hot and they had to bring it down to a reasonable temperature. Unfortunately it was no longer hot enough to get the batter hard enough to use as a blunt force object and the Celts had to turn to logs as a substitute.
Not nearly as tasty but with enough beer you can get anything down.
Another fun fact; that was the original reason the Celts began to drink alcohol. Before that – pretty much teetotallers.
Sorry for the pedantry but I thought that was an interesting, true story from ancient Ireland that was worthy of being shared.
Oh ouch. Not really a Willy fan, but he’s got some good songs.
This is one of Rick’s cruel to be kind things. He feels that venerated artists get trapped in their own veneration and are not allowed to fully participate in the culture due to the pedestal they have been placed upon. By insulting Willie Nelson as he’d insult anybody (or everybody else) he’s actually saying that he feels Willie Nelson still can possibly affect the culture.
Plus I felt like it’d been a while since I’d had a really mean Dodge joke and I gotta put them in every now and thing so people see he’s still a jackass even if his beard is divine.
Also, fun fact, the term battering ram came from the ancient Celtic tradition of deep frying a whole ram in beer batter and then realizing it was tough enough to break down doors. Which, not coincidentally, caused a great deal of meat tenderization which is necessary since rams’ meat is notoriously tough. The Celts would fry up a battered ram, break down a door, feast on the ram, a good time was had by all. They had to give it up after a while when health and safety bureaucrats said the giant vat of coconut oil they used to deep fry the ram was too hot and they had to bring it down to a reasonable temperature. Unfortunately it was no longer hot enough to get the batter hard enough to use as a blunt force object and the Celts had to turn to logs as a substitute.
Not nearly as tasty but with enough beer you can get anything down.
Another fun fact; that was the original reason the Celts began to drink alcohol. Before that – pretty much teetotallers.
Sorry for the pedantry but I thought that was an interesting, true story from ancient Ireland that was worthy of being shared.
Thanks for reading,
Steve