Comments on: Cantankerous Episode #4: The Christmas Special

By: Reed Farrington

Reed Farrington — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 06:14:02 +0000

I’m always mentioning to Jay how coincidences arise that seem too freaky to be random. I don’t believe in the supernatural, telepathy, or any other pseudoscience, so I acknowledge that coincidences are simply coincidences. I do understand that our brains are hard-wired to find patterns.

Anyway, I have The American Heritage Talking Dictionary installed on my computer. I reference it whenever I’m about to use a word that pops in my head and I need to confirm that I’m about to use it correctly in a Treknobabble or whatever. It has a Word of the Day feature that pops up when I start the application. I don’t really look at the Word of the Day, so I should turn off the feature. But today, the word was “cantankerous”!

(BTW, Jay came up with Cantankerous as the title of our podcast.)

By: Joel

Joel — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:35:15 +0000

Man, that cat picture story was hilarious. I was jogging in my neighborhood listening to it and cracking up, my neighbors probably thought I was a loon.

Reed Farrington living in a cabin in the woods Walden-style? That sounds almost as good as Kid Nation! Jay, please film this. BIG U.P.S.

By: Baychuk

Baychuk — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:09:01 +0000

Reed….I have. Its a “blast”.

By: Reed Farrington

Reed Farrington — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:05:28 +0000

RJ, I am considering leaving the human race. If I could find a way to live in a cabin in the woods, I would. I’m 46. Even with the economic downturn, I could retire because I live a simple life with no family to consider.

Mason, it never occurred to me that Cantankerous could bring couples closer together. Yeah, I made light of killing, but it’s a serious subject. Lately, Canadian soldiers have been dying from bomb blasts in Afghanistan.

Swarez, that was a good question for Tom. I imagine the patience required for sitting in a boat waiting for a fish to bite would be the same for waiting in a trench for the enemy to approach.

I wonder if Tom has ever tossed a grenade. I wonder if soldiers practice tossing grenades. I’ve never seen that on film.

By: Baychuk

Baychuk — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 11:41:19 +0000

Yeah, Swarez…I’m sure I could have come up with ways to relate fishing for say “bass” to picking off enemy fighters in the jungle for example. With clever titles like: Cold Fronts & Deep Ravines for Insurgents
or Setting Your Sights on a Trophy or Run and Gun Mountain Top Taliban

By: swarez

swarez — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 09:11:58 +0000

Loved the show. Made the slow ass drive to the airport bearable.
I was wondering if Tom can use his skills in fishing when confronting the enemy?

By: Mason

Mason — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 06:33:56 +0000

Nice joint podcast guys. I listened to most of it on the drive to the in-laws on Christmas morning. The talk about warfare and what it’s like to kill kind of subdued the jolly mood, but other than that there were many laughs shared between the wife and I. For next year’s Christmas topics, I suggest doing some research on the Krampus, Santa’s traditional Alpine sidekick. I heard some studio is making a new horror movie about him.

By: RJ

RJ — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 04:25:56 +0000

Wait, so did Reed retire? Seriously, how old is that dude?

By: Joel

Joel — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 08:51:48 +0000

Haven’t listened yet but … that picture is one of the best pictures in the history of the Internet.

By: Reed Farrington

Reed Farrington — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 01:05:37 +0000

Whew. Thx, Henrik. I missed your approbation. I thought this episode was going to go into the lost bin as well.

I’m still waiting for my neighbourhood cat photos to be posted so that people will see how artistic they are, and so what I did won’t seem so weird.

By: Henrik

Henrik — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 23:43:10 +0000

Yeah this was totally great. Loved. It.

By: Drew

Drew — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 22:52:22 +0000

I liked how Tom assumed the title of Peacemaker between Jay and Reed.

Jay: So you must be pro at sitting at home and doing nothing

Tom: Jay, Jay, Star Trek.

lol