Post Race!

[Gruff]

??? I don't get the reference.

[FunkyDexter]

It's from Logan's Run

[Gruff]

Sorry, The humongous crystal embedded in my hand is making it hard to type.

[SJWhiteley]

Sorry, The humongous crystal embedded in my hand is making it hard to type.

Google wins again! Yay!

[Gruff]

Actually I do remember the show now. It didn't make much of an impression on me when it first aired which was why I didn't get the reference.

Meh!

[FunkyDexter]

I could have gone with Soilant Green but I couldn't remember any quotes. Probably my age

[szlamany]

Actually I do remember the show now. It didn't make much of an impression on me when it first aired which was why I didn't get the reference.

Meh!

That movie had Farrah Fawcett - topless - in ice - that impressed me!

[FunkyDexter]

I knew there was a reason it stuck in my mind

[dday9]

I have no idea what y'all're talking about.

[NeedSomeAnswers]

Logan's Run is a classic old Sci Fi movie (and i think TV series as well but i remember the movie).

Basically everyone lives underground in a sealed city and due to the limited space and resources, humans have implants in their hands which change to red when they reach 30 years of age which means they can be killed by the kill squads called Sandmen.

As the Film name suggest Logan goes on the run

[szlamany]

I could have gone with Soilant Green but I couldn't remember any quotes. Probably my age

I can vividly recall him saying:

Soylent green is people!

I was 10 years old...

[Gruff]

Yeah. Charlton Heston was known for his one liners long before Arnold took up the mantle.

Whether Playing Moses, El Cid, Survivor on Planet of the Apes, Investigator in Soylient Green, or NRA Supporter Charlton usually had the last word.

I distinctly remember his "From my cold dead hands" speech.

[FunkyDexter]

Soylent green is people!

Well, yeah, but "Gruff is People" would have been an obvious lie.

which change to red when they reach 30 years of age which means they can be killed by the kill squads called Sandmen

Close but no cigar. It's much darker than that. When their chip turns red they're allowed the privilege of attending the "carousel" (a weird swirly tent looking thing) which "renews" them (they float to the top of the tent where they get zapped into their constituent minerals which are then fed back into the life support systems for the rest of colony). The Sandmen hunt down anyone who fails to take up this "entirely optional" privilege and offer them encouragement to do so - lethal encouragement. Logan was a Sandman and is the first to run... except it turns out he isn't.

The premise is awfully similar to soilant green though I'm not sure which came first. The whole "optional privilege" motif owes a lot to "The Lottery" as well. To be honest, there were quite a lot of films/books exploring this sort of thing in the 60s.

[szlamany]

This link gives you the run down of the who, what, where and all that jazz...

http://www.buzzfeed.com/adambvary/el...erm=.mf5D7BDno

[szlamany]

This is a better link - I can recall seeing lots of these movies!

http://www.wired.com/2009/11/gallery-reader-sci-fi-2/

[homer13j]

Logan's Run is a classic old Sci Fi movie (and i think TV series as well but i remember the movie).

The TV show was awful and completely ignored the movie's ending. It was Logan, the girl and an android driving around aimlessly in a futuristic Winnebago looking for "Sanctuary."

[dday9]

Wait... I think Family Guy made fun of that movie.

[szlamany]

Wait... I think Family Guy made fun of that movie.

Finally you have a cultural reference for your age group!

I was starting to get worried!

[dday9]

It turns out that the girl was a robot.

[dday9]

[FunkyDexter]

I can recall seeing lots of these movies!

Well Santa Claus Conquers the Martians is a new one on me. I never heard of that one before.

[NeedSomeAnswers]

Close but no cigar.

Well i thought my synopsis was great

really though i was trying to not do a wiki article on the film which i almost did and then realised i was in Post race

[FunkyDexter]

Yeah, but I've got waaaaaay too much time on my hands lately. Developing a data warehouse which takes about 45 minutes to build so there's a lot of "1. make small change, 2. click go, waaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiit fooooooooor iiiiiiiiiit, 3. check result, 4. iterate".

So I'm bored and lengthy post race submissions help fill my time.

[dday9]

Could you create automated test to do it for you?

[szlamany]

I have a conversion that I am involved in right now that needs 45 minutes to get the data from Oracle into SQL staging tables...

Then another 45 minutes to go from SQL staging to SQL production copy tables.

I get paid by the hour every time I have to run it

[dilettante]

So is "post race" a horserace or something to do with the speed of mail or does it mean "after the race" or are we like cowboys between gigs who used to speak of watching fenceposts race?

[szlamany]

So is "post race" a horserace or something to do with the speed of mail or does it mean "after the race" or are we like cowboys between gigs who used to speak of watching fenceposts race?

For just your 5th post here in the race - that's one hell of a complicated question!

I'm thinking "between gigs"...

[dday9]

You know what Shakespeare said, I mean I don't, but you do.

[szlamany]

We trading barbs here?

[dday9]

Like Barbe High School?

[dday9]

Barber Shoppe.

[dday9]

Bar-B-Q

[dday9]

Blarb

[dday9]

Barbara "barb" McBarbFace?

[szlamany]

I guess it was more like bards!

[dilettante]

Thought I might be missing a subtle pun.

Upon viewing the new evidence I see there is little risk of that.

[Gruff]

"Lord. What fools these users be." He said Puckishly.

[dilettante]

Hey, don't Puck on my shoes!

[Gruff]

Wouldn't that be UpPuck?

[dilettante]

How much muck would an upchuck puck... ?