Feb 17
Click for full imageFrank Comments: I didn’t realize that coffee, cigarettes, and cheap women were that much of a secret. Maybe it’s the intravenous delivery, or the soaking in it, or the little marshmallows.
Published 1976
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February 17th, 2012 at 9:06 am
I saw it as one of those intensely hot Japanese bathtubs. And down by the woman’s chin, that’s a salami in cross-section.
February 17th, 2012 at 9:43 am
“He knew the secret no human could be allowed to learn: the secret of a really strange-tasting cup of coffee!”
February 17th, 2012 at 10:40 am
Is he wearing goggles? And are those the bent metal frames of wings on his shoulders? Is this what happens to steampunk heroes who run afoul of mysterious evil Victorian overladies? They’re sunk in a barrel of cement in a harbor of tomato juice and salami??
February 17th, 2012 at 11:46 am
“This oil bath is going to feel SO good!”
February 17th, 2012 at 12:37 pm
“He knew the secret no human could be allowed to learn.”
So there’s not going to be any big reveal at the end of this book, then? What a tease!
February 17th, 2012 at 12:38 pm
“He knew the secret no human could be allowed to learn.”
You mean he… *gasp*… knew how to program a VCR???
*shudder*
February 17th, 2012 at 4:07 pm
Starbucks.
Available in Tall, Grande, Venti, Trenta, and now, Terra.
February 17th, 2012 at 7:37 pm
@David H: and steamed directly through the shoulders! (Parenthetically: NEVER order drip.)
February 18th, 2012 at 4:14 am
*sigh* So, is the secret no human being could be allowed to learn:
a.) that Earth is controlled by evil aliens (and it’s all an experiment)
or
b.) that our heroes are trapped in an artificial reality (and it’s all an experiment, probably by evil aliens)?
Because I’m pretty sure it’s against the rules for that particular tagline to be used for any other scenario.
February 18th, 2012 at 9:07 am
Yeah, no big surprises in store.
Although… it would be neat if the book ended a little something like this:
“Tell us! Tell us the secret!”
“The secret is… that there is no conspiracy or villain blame for that the world is as screwed up as it is. We’re all clumsy and stupid. We screwed up the world. That’s the secret.”
Silence followed. There was nothing more to say.
February 18th, 2012 at 6:16 pm
The titles makes me think of ‘celestial spheres’. Maybe the secret is that we were right the first time? After all the author wrote a whole series about Mark Twain on a cosmic steamboat sailing down the eternity-river.
March 13th, 2012 at 6:32 pm
The secret: Soilent Brown is people too!
August 25th, 2015 at 4:57 am
Maybe the secret has something to do with sex. He certainly looks like he’s enjoying himself.
October 13th, 2017 at 1:51 pm
He knew the secret no human could be allowed to learn…
PUMPKIN SPICE IS MADE OF PEOPLE!
(with apologies to A-S@ 12)
October 13th, 2017 at 2:59 pm
His name was Mac.
Mac Chiato
October 13th, 2017 at 3:20 pm
Looks like that giant cuppa has a big hole on the side.
October 13th, 2017 at 3:26 pm
How they make the bubbles in Capuccino.
October 13th, 2017 at 3:27 pm
It’s not really much of a secret. Everybody knows that if you put Harvey Weinstein into a vat of bubbling soylent brown, he’ll start “massaging” himself and thinking of starlets.
October 13th, 2017 at 4:00 pm
@Tat – Good Show Sir.
We appear to have a trifecta of bad covers for this title. I wonder if any other titles have more than three different covers. All terrible.
October 13th, 2017 at 4:07 pm
Soylent green has been taken care of, so…..the debate about whether to use would, should, or could must have raged for weeks.
October 13th, 2017 at 4:57 pm
You know it was a great night when you wake up in a hot tub with a bra on your forehead.
October 13th, 2017 at 7:55 pm
Amazing what one finds in a stick of seaside rock.
October 13th, 2017 at 11:14 pm
Dear Ghu, is there no one able to put a decent cover on this book?
(does Google Image search)
Nope. One of them has a shirtless hunk in boots and six-gun, and of course the French cover has mademoiselle with le boobies.
The best one seems to be the ebook re-release which has a bright yellow background and the title/author in black type. Brightly colored, but otherwise inoffensive to the senses.
October 14th, 2017 at 8:41 am
The secret is that a good back scratch is better that sex and the first person who invents a back-scratching robot will be richer than Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates put together.
October 16th, 2017 at 12:55 am
@Francis: true dat.