…that dead people should either be cremated or turned into Soylent Green, and then we could turn all the cemetaries into housing for the homeless, who would eat Soylent Green. (But we’d tell them it was really made out of seafood or something.)
So, it sure is hot here in Raleigh now. How is it where you folks are, huh?
Yer pal,
Satan
TIME ELAPSED SINCE I QUIT SMOKING:
Two months, four weeks, one day, 19 hours, 30 minutes and 6 seconds.
3632 cigarettes not smoked, saving $454.06.
Life saved: 1 week, 5 days, 14 hours, 40 minutes.
Now, Brian, I was just about to compliment friedo on the matching post and sig.
What is Soylent Green?
Oh, man . . . must resist . . . must resist . . . okay, I can’t.
Ahem.
SOLYENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!
It was a food given out in a book by Harry Harrison, “Make room! Make Room!”. In an overcrowded dystopia, the govt gave out several kinds of food, and SG was the most prized. At the end, the hero found out it was made from processed corpses…
Is that a northner thing… I have never heard that before. And I am well read. hmmm[stratches head]…
The title of the book was a reference to a poem by William D’Avenant called “Wake All the Dead.” The poem ends, “In every grave, make room, make room/The world’s at an end, and we come, we come!” Except D’Avenant was talking about Judgment Day, of course.
Catrandom
…they even made a movie from it with Charlton Heston and Edward G. Robinson (his last, IIRC)