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[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Was Carl Sagan a stoner? Or do I just not know what "baked" means?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It isn't meant literally. It just means he comes off as mildly baked. I also have mildly baked syndrome and people occasionally ask me for drugs, even though I barely touch coffee.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

He loved baked beans, maybe?

[–] [email protected] 57 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 79 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Sagan also wrote that pot enhanced his experience of food, particularly potatoes, as well as music and sex.

I believe the kids today call this "based AF."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

He was so baked, he called baked potatoes as potatoes

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I too find that music and sex improve the experience of potatoes.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Po-ta-toes! Boil them, mash them, stick them in a stew. Lovely big golden chips with a nice piece of fried fish.

I would love to see Carl Sagan and Samwise Gamgee hanging out, smoking some of the Hobbit's leaf and snacking on some potatoes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

With Gandalf having a chuckle at his theories on cosmology.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

I think Rick Steves would fit in there, too.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Also, baked AF.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"basked AF"?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

basking in something, certainly