Benjamin Franklin’s legacy. Nitrous oxide, priapism and the Norwegian rat. Bookmaking: Fish and Game. Unexpected ruminant savagery?

9 Responses to “WRI 18: A Dovetailing of Plague and Pestilence”

  • devin:

    haha.. good show!

    For more information on the mysterious Dr. Bronner you should check out the documentary “Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soapbox” its rather interesting.

    The university in the town im from had its own little museum of bottled grotesqueries which i was taken to on a fieldtrip in grade school. Later when i was in high school a friend of mine took me to his basement one day to show me what turned out to a preserved human arm. Apparently his father had found it in the dumpster behind the aforementioned museum. He begged me to take the arm as it had been traumatizing him by its presence, but i had to decline the offer.

  • widelyr:

    Now THAT’S a WRI-worthy story. I wonder, have any other listeners ever been offered body parts? Please let us know.

  • neil:

    When my brother was quite young he badgered my parents about getting a dog. They wouldn’t do it. One Saturday my father took my brother to work with him (he was a doctor). As they were walking through one of the labs my father asked if my brother still wanted a dog, he, of course, responded yes, so my father pulled off the shelf and gave him a pickled dog fetus in a jar.

    We eventually got a live dog but my brother remains angry to this day.

    Also,of all the primates, Man has far and away the largest penis.

  • Brandon:

    My money is on house finches or crows being the last birds standing in 2050.

  • “of all the primates, Man has far and away the largest penis.”

    Thus enabling us to win any pissing matches with ease.

    I’m on sabbatical in NY, and I must say, I’m a little surprised at the lack of rat-itude both on the streets and in the subways. Could we be seeing a rollback in the rodent tide?

  • “We eventually got a live dog but my brother remains angry to this day.”

    And understandably. Was this a joke gone wrong, or more sort of a “screw you, son, I had to work my ass off to even get a DEAD dog” thing?

  • Brandon:

    One little quibble on the nitrous oxide comment in this episode: nitric oxide causes erections not nitrous oxide.

  • widelyr:

    Oh yeah? Well for the right price my dentist supplies that too!

  • Patrick:

    Lets not forget the obvious pigeons /doves. Surely they will be in the running. However the crow is smarter.

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