I'm a big time Soylent fan, been drinking it for probably 2.5 years. It keeps me from eating super unhealthy lunches when I just want something quick, and makes my mornings a whole lot quicker. I still love food, but now I eat less bad food, good food>soylent>bad food. I could take or leave the name, but it definitely helped get them attention early on.

As for Coffiest (their caffeinated coffee version) - it's not something a fan of quality coffee would enjoy. I hate the flavor, but I still drink them from time to time when I need to drive to the airport at 4am, don't have time to pull a shot and/or eat breakfast. That being said they just came out with two other caffeinated flavors that I have a feeling I'm going to prefer immensely over Coffiest (Vanilla and Chai).

[/quote]But that actually is the most important point of the whole movie, so you might save yourself from spending time with the notorious Mr. Heston and only watch the end of it. Some of the scenes are worth a watch though - even if you knew the twist at the end.

Actually, the first time I watched it in the good old 70's I quite enjoyed it. Also the second time maybe a decade or two later.
I also read the original Harry Harrison novel, but can't remember if there was anything about Soylent in it. Anyhow it was a Finnish translation, so can't make too many assumptions from that (especially if I can't remember it that well).[/quote]

Yes, the novel also used the "twist" -- a whole novel just to get to use that twist

Putting this here, I like to make popeyes in the morning with rye bread and pepper jack cheese, I usually steal and eat all the toasted cut-out rounds (even when I'm making popeyes for others) where the egg goes and this morning dipped them in my Colombia Antioquia Caicedo Hector Vargas Crown Jewel coffee. The flavor explosion of the rye bread was simply amazing. Not sure if this was just bringing stale bread back to life or what but the flavors really popped after dipping. Kinda made my morning. I ended up dipping more than just the rounds before I was through.

dick-san wrote:Yes, the novel also used the "twist" -- a whole novel just to get to use that twist

A whole novel for one twist... poor baby.

I read the entire "Poirot" collection by Agatha Christy, in the author's chronological order of creation. I have very much enjoyed the BBC productions starring David Suchet. These were brilliant and I highly recommend them. The novels on the other hand... Agatha was reportedly the best selling novelist in history, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. 39 Poirot novels and a total of 56 stories. It was time I will never get back. Shows what people did before the Internet in desperation for entertainment. There was one passage that summed it up for me. It was a sentence of dialogue actually printed in the book in all capital letters, and at the end of the paragraph Agatha added something like, "They could tell she was talking in capital letters." Yes, really.

In stark contrast, the Holmes stories by Doyle (which I have read at least four times.. maybe five), and the BBC series which starred Jeremy Brett were fantastic from beginning to end! Enough so that when we toured Europe by motorcycle we made a point of hiking to the top of Reichenbach Falls in Meiringen Switzerland.

yakster wrote:Putting this here, I like to make popeyes in the morning with rye bread and pepper jack cheese, I usually steal and eat all the toasted cut-out rounds (even when I'm making popeyes for others) where the egg goes and this morning dipped them in my Colombia Antioquia Caicedo Hector Vargas Crown Jewel coffee. The flavor explosion of the rye bread was simply amazing. Not sure if this was just bringing stale bread back to life or what but the flavors really popped after dipping. Kinda made my morning. I ended up dipping more than just the rounds before I was through.

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We've always called them "egg-in-a-nest". Never thought to put cheese on them!

Randy G. wrote:A whole novel for one twist... poor baby.

I read the entire "Poirot" collection by Agatha Christy, in the author's chronological order of creation. I have very much enjoyed the BBC productions starring David Suchet. These were brilliant and I highly recommend them. The novels on the other hand... Agatha was reportedly the best selling novelist in history, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. 39 Poirot novels and a total of 56 stories. It was time I will never get back. Shows what people did before the Internet in desperation for entertainment. There was one passage that summed it up for me. It was a sentence of dialogue actually printed in the book in all capital letters, and at the end of the paragraph Agatha added something like, "They could tell she was talking in capital letters." Yes, really.

You didn't need to use much of "the little grey cells" to read the Poirot stories? I have seen some of the David Suchet enactments, they were entertaining, I've also seen some of Agatha Christy's plays, they seemed well written to me, but perhaps in novel form they don't come off so well.

Crazy or not?

It don't appear to work too well, eh?

On the upside, it is a more faithful representation of the part of the cow from whence the milk floweth

I suppose that's an udder way to look at it.