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Post #255,044
by drewk
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5/11/06 9:38:41 AM
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New For those of us who missed the story
What good is a chocolate covered manhole cover?

[Asks the guy who's apparently not overly bright.]
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Post #255,050
by hnick
5/11/06 10:35:01 AM
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New It's been a while
But I seem to recall that it was an open ended question to generate discussion. At the end, the discovered bright people were kidnapped by a robot working for aliens, who left them on a planet with a chocolate covered manhole which was the only known good food available.

I suspect that the story was just a vehicle to allow Niven to go on about Adam and Eve legends, genetics, and ... (memory dims)

They can't all be the best he's written. Oh, well...
Post #255,051
by broomberg
5/11/06 10:42:50 AM
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New But it would kill me
No milk pills.
Post #255,055
by hnick
5/11/06 10:54:17 AM
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New Perhaps Niven considered you expendable.
This was about 30 years ago IIRC. Your problems were probably not terribly important to him at the time. Or he didn't think of it at all.
Ringworld was unstable too. Feces occurs...
Post #255,063
by inthane-chan
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5/11/06 11:45:30 AM
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New Exactly.
Some people are talking at a party about how this one other guy is a walking intelligence test, that he'd be perfect if aliens were somehow trying to figure out who the smartest people in society were. He keeps throwing out these wild ideas to get people talking - but every once in a while, there's a bum idea, such as chocolate coated manhole covers. They leave the party, then find themseleves alone on an alien planet with a chocolate coated manhole cover. Discussion ensues about horse breeding as applied to humans.
When somebody asks you to trade your freedoms for security, it isn't your security they're talking about.
Post #255,076
by folkert
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5/11/06 12:43:04 PM
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New You are becoming Drook.
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Freedom is not FREE.
Yeah, but 10s of Trillions of US Dollars?
SELECT * FROM scog WHERE ethics > 0;

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     Here I go again. - (broomberg) - (18) - May 9, 2006, 07:17:51 PM EDT
         Compared to you he's crazy? That's scary! -NT - (ben_tilly) - (3) - May 9, 2006, 07:42:21 PM EDT
             Maybe not - takes one to know one, and all that... - (CRConrad) - (1) - May 10, 2006, 02:00:20 AM EDT
                 No - (broomberg) - May 10, 2006, 06:44:30 AM EDT
             Barry is manic not crazy :-) -NT - (boxley) - May 10, 2006, 08:02:24 AM EDT
         Brilliant and crazy. Good combo if theres any self control. -NT - (Silverlock) - (13) - May 9, 2006, 11:49:47 PM EDT
             Barry's job is to implemement the controls -NT - (drewk) - (12) - May 10, 2006, 11:12:06 AM EDT
                 Chocolate covered manhole covers, anybody? -NT - (inthane-chan) - (11) - May 10, 2006, 11:07:00 AM EDT
                     How 'bout manhole covers made ENTIRELY out of chocolate? -NT - (CRConrad) - (8) - May 11, 2006, 03:05:00 AM EDT
                         It was a reference to a Larry Niven short story. - (hnick) - (6) - May 11, 2006, 09:21:32 AM EDT
                             For those of us who missed the story - (drewk) - (5) - May 11, 2006, 09:38:41 AM EDT
                                 It's been a while - (hnick) - (4) - May 11, 2006, 10:35:01 AM EDT
                                     But it would kill me - (broomberg) - (1) - May 11, 2006, 10:42:50 AM EDT
                                         Perhaps Niven considered you expendable. - (hnick) - May 11, 2006, 10:54:17 AM EDT
                                     Exactly. - (inthane-chan) - (1) - May 11, 2006, 11:45:30 AM EDT
                                         You are becoming Drook. -NT - (folkert) - May 11, 2006, 12:43:04 PM EDT
                         Are you *SURE* that is Chocolate? Or is it some kind of... - (folkert) - May 11, 2006, 09:24:59 AM EDT
                     What cocoa content - (tuberculosis) - (1) - May 12, 2006, 02:57:32 AM EDT
                         True -NT - (drewk) - May 12, 2006, 08:39:39 AM EDT

There might be poisonous gnomes hiding behind the furniture and I can't take that chance.
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