Ask Rip #66 revisited

[TheKiln]

Rip, sir, I would like to bring to your recollection the time you were asked who, in all of human history, would you choose to put on the novice linear progression.
You answered Moses.
Why?

I'm entertained by the notion that the promised land could have been the land of milk and whey instead of milk and honey. Maybe even the land of Diet A&W and Whey...

[Mark Rippetoe]

I don't remember.