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That’s the whiff of freedom (probably no grapes involved) https://web.stanford.edu/dept/pres-provost/president/speeches/951005dieluft.html https://web.stanford

• 082349872349872 4y ago
  grape as in https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Bonaparte_13_vendémiaire_Saint_Roch.jpg/2560px-Bonaparte_13_vendémiaire_Saint_Roch.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Bo... ? « aujourd'hui, on préfère un coup de (phosphore) blanc »
  • balsam 4y ago
    https://reason.com/2009/02/06/a-whiff-of-grape/ https://reason.com/2009/02/06/a-whiff-of-grape/ https://whiff-of-grape.ca/about/ https://whiff-of-grape.ca/about/ Carlyle & David Starr Jordan, pantheoners (and creative citationists) of the Californian Ideology
    • 082349872349872 4y ago
      I'm pretty sure Carlyle's "whiff of grapeshot" was punning on the "whiff of grape", which is generally available in either red or white (vineyard products being inferior in spectrum to all the factions in the Russian Civil War), and well known in the context of sex & drugs & national anthems: And long may the Sons of ANACREON intwine The Myrtle of VENUS with BACCHUS'S Vine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l-n64NWHS4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l-n64NWHS4 (with Jordan apparently having been one of those people who were very particular about —at least in unprotected cases— which vines ought to be entwined in which myrtles! Remember: a social darwinist is someone who is deathly afraid that the "unfit" are somehow outbreeding the "fit")
      • balsam 4y ago
        Likewise, freedom (blue) is made in multiple flavours, some uniquely (Northern) Californian vintage
        • 082349872349872 4y ago
          like this kind, bud? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01tCZdONkRA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01tCZdONkRA