Question: What the hell is "Soylent Green"?

We here is aus have no idea, yet it seems to be a reoccurring joke?

Someone wanna fill me in?

I am guessing it is a product along the lines of SPAM

Ben Stevens wrote:

"SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!"

Yes, Soylent Green IS people! People dedicating their all, body and soul, into the making of the delicious and nutritious food ration Soylent Green. We at the Soylent Corporation would like you and your family to know that we will stop at nothing to create the best possible food rations. Remember, Soylent Green IS people!

This message brought to by the Soylent Corporation.

"PCase" wrote in message news:[email]...

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"PCase" wrote in message news:[email]...

Actually a foodstuff made from humans in the 1973 movie of the same name, starring Charlton Heston.

Based on the book "Make Room, Make Room" by Harry Harrison which is fabulas.

Dino.

"Ray McNaughton" wrote in message news:aai016$19$[email]...

On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 16:50:49 +1000, "Ben Stevens" wrote:

There is an old sci fi movie called "Soylent Green". New York is so over crowded that every stairway is crowded with people who are forced to live there. All food is rationed. Life sucks, etc.

The Soylent corporation introduces a new food called "Soylent Green" made from plankton and algae. A detective ends up investigating and the company and finds out their secrets.

At this point, I recommend you look around the local Rent-a-Wreck movie rental place and watch it. However, if you don't like old anti-utopia sci fi:

s p o i l e r

s p a c e

At the soylent plant, all the dead bodies of people from the city are ground up and made into green crackers and then sold as food.

--Larry

lol

i spose it is a cheesy movie?

now i can see why it is funny

"Larry" wrote in message news:[email]...

Cheesy? Hell, it stars Charlton Heston. How could it be anything BUT cheesy?!?

"Ben Stevens" wrote in message news:3cc9611c$0$11448$[email]...

"JoshSamBob" wrote in message news:aabosi$obl$[email]...

Charlton Heston starred in Soylent Green, he also played Moses in the Ten Commandments. "Soylent Green is People!" "Set my People Free!" "Free Soylent Green!"

How many times do you have to be told!!!

It's people!!! No cheese....just people...maybe additives...but definitely no cheese!!!

BvCP

"Ben Stevens" wrote in message news:3cc9611c$0$11448$[email]...

Cracked me up when it was used in a Simpsons ep.. Homer going "Mmm, Soylent Green" I guess this is just another of those jokes that makes Futurama special, you have to have a certain knowledge and/or intelligence to fully get and appreciate it :)

Best Wishes Thomas

On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 20:54:38 GMT, "Baron Von Chickenpants" wrote:

If it had cheese, it wouldn't be kosher.

--Larry

Soylent Gr�n ist Menschenfleisch !!!!!

"WeblerB" schrieb

SOYLENT ???????!

"Michael Herzog" schrieb

Damn OE char set bug, that should have been japanese.

=v= There's no "oy" in Doytsch.  Seems to me it oughta be
spelled "Seulent Gr�n" or somesuch.
    Eu v�,
    <_Jym_>

"Jym Dyer" schrieb

You never see it written, they just say "gr�n" instead of "green".

On Sat, 27 Apr 2002 00:23:49 +1000, "Ben Stevens" wrote:

Eh... some of it was bad, but I thought that Edward G. Robinson did a good job in it; it was his final film role, and his death scene is the last scene he ever shot...

Now there's an actor that REALLY got into his role. ;-]

In article , [email] says...

LOL! Just had the same notion ;)

-< Moon >-

Rent the movie of the same name.

As you find out, (not to ruin the movie for you), Soylent Green is made from... . PEOPLE!

Hence, the joke:

Fry: What if Slurm is made from... *GASP!* PEOPLE????

Leela: There's already a soda like that. Soylent Cola.

Fry: Oh! What's it like?

Leela: It varies from person to person.

Get it now? ;)

Kodos "Ben Stevens" wrote in message news:3cc8f70b$0$11454$[email]...

lol, yeah i do

dammit i wish i was older sometimes to get these jokes!

"Kodos" wrote in message news:_mny8.139865$[email]...

In article , [email] says...

Actually I'm younger and I still got it. Some night when I came back early from nightclubbing I turned on the TV to eat a bit and I surfed through the channels. Somehow I got stuck at 'Soylent Green' which was repeated at this time. Kinda trashy but funny.

Obviously someone else thought that too cause there's a german Dark Wave/Industrial group called 'Wumpscut' that made a song about it. They even have a sample from the german dubbed movie: "Soylent Gruen ist Menschenfleisch". Crappy as hell but wavers seem to love it...

-< Moon >-

I'm not "older," and I got it.

It's a question of having useless knowledge. Now you have it. JSB

"Ben Stevens" wrote in message news:3cca1be2$0$17268$[email]...

"Kodos" wrote in message news:_mny8.139865$[email]...

Honestly, I thought that was one of the worst eye-rollers of all the lines our beloved show has had.

Just an all-around unnecessary, bad pun (?). JSB

On Sat, 27 Apr 2002 10:49:14 -0400, "JoshSamBob" wrote:

It wasn't really a pun, more of a play on words.

But you are being doubly redundant in your statement. ALL puns are bad AND unnecessary.

--Larry

Of course I am.

I work for the Department of Redundancy and Repetition Department. JSB

=v= I liked it.  Leela's delivery was perfect.
    Dryly,
    <_Jym_>

JoshSamBob wrote:

There is no such thing as an unnecessary pun.

<Comic book guy>Funniest...line...ever.</Comic book guy>

"Ben Stevens" wrote in message news:3cc8f70b$0$11454$[email]...

Like for every other scifi reference, look it up at http://www.everything2.com/

Ben Stevens wrote:

Soylent green is a food stuff made of SOYbeans and LENTils. It was what people thought they were eating in a movie by the same name, "Soylent Green". At the end of the movie, you find out that it is actually made out of ground up dead people.

Soylant green was from an old film about the future. Somebody investigated what happened to people after death and found out that Soylant Green was a foodstuff made from the bodies of dead people. Soylant Green was the main foodstuff of society in the film.

"OmegaMan" wrote in message news:[email]...

NTL world wrote:

???? Did you even bother to read what I posted? What did you add that I didn't already say? And for your information, there was a book before there was the movie, except in the book nobody ate dead people.

Put the gun down, Heston. Nothing wrong with more than one answer to a question on usenet. Yes, reach for the chill pill. Swallow. Good.

Mike

"OmegaMan" wrote in message news:[email]...

investigated

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On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 22:57:22 GMT, "Mike" wrote:

"You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold dead career".

--Larry

Larry wrote:

Sig. That would make a great sig file.

<< Sig. That would make a great sig file. >>

Indeed. You guys can have it. I have a list of quotes to use in my sig. Yes, it's true. I plan them ahead. So far, I have enough to last until Christmas.