Samizdata quote of the day

Rob Fisher (Surrey) · Science & Technology

I can not imagine anything that would give me more pleasure than to buy you a beer in a thousand years’ time.

– Michael Jennings, possibly exaggerating somewhat given the pleasure that might be imagined available over the next 1000 years.

11 comments to Samizdata quote of the day

Tman

January 11, 2013 at 2:18 am

I hope by then I can get a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster instead of a beer.

Nothing wrong with beer, I’m just sayin’.
Rich Rostrom

January 11, 2013 at 3:07 am

Two beers?
John Galt

January 11, 2013 at 6:47 am

∞ Beers
Rob Fisher (Surrey)

January 11, 2013 at 12:40 pm

Tman: on Mars, too, preferably.
Johnathan Pearce

January 11, 2013 at 1:41 pm

Martini?
Michael Jennings (London)

January 11, 2013 at 2:52 pm

I have become less of a wine person and more of a beer person as I have got older. Not sure quite why or how, really.
RAB

January 11, 2013 at 4:48 pm

What beer? They’ll have banned it again by then.
NickM

January 11, 2013 at 5:07 pm

JP wants a Martini. Quelle surprise!

Is Rich Rostrum riffing on Conan-Doyle. Holmes bribes a guttersnipe for info in “Sign of Four” by offering the kid a shilling. So Holmes asks if there is anything the young street Arab wants more than a shilling and the answer comes back, “Two Shillings”. Holmes of course obliges and the case is brought to a conclusion.
Michael Jennings (London)

January 11, 2013 at 5:29 pm

We have faced this important issue on Samizdata before, of course.
veryretired

January 12, 2013 at 3:45 am

If a person actually lived a thousand years, swallowing a pleasant liquid might be the only pleasureable capability left…
Rich Rostrom

January 12, 2013 at 5:11 am

NickM: the boy is no guttersnipe – he’s the child of Mr. and Mrs. Mordecai Smith. Mrs. Smith was giving him a bath when Holmes and Watson came by. Two shillings was a lot of money to give a six-year-old child – about equal to ten pounds today.

BTW, my name is Rostrom. That’s my sore toe. Please don’t tread on it.