OMG! IT'S A COOKBOOK!

[pamela]

[MadMaddie]

1. "How to Cook Humans"?

Sci Fi folks will get it.:smoke:

[Tangerine LaBamba]

5. Not quite ...........

"How To Serve Man" was the title, as I recall.......................

[POAS]

14. Correct title= "To Serve Man"

[Tangerine LaBamba]

21. That's right -

One of the most chilling, most extraordinary episodes ever. I got to tell Rod Serling, who was an alumnus of my undergraduate school (and a very generous contributor), how much I loved that one when I finally met him during a fund-raising campaign. He was as enthusiastic about it as I was, which was so cool.

And today, I fucked up the title. Not bad, huh?

[liberalhistorian]

23. I agree, and I feel the same way each time I see

it and even though I know the ending. I think it ties with "Under the Midnight Sun", which presciently foreshadowed environmental issues and concerns, for best, most thought-provoking, creepiest episode. Damn, I love that show. Lucky you, getting to meet The Man, Rod Serling, himself!

[pamela]

6. To Serve Mankind

:P

[MadMaddie]

8. Dammit....I knew I should have looked up the title to make sure...!!

"How to Serve Mankind"!! :grr:

But you knew what I was talking about anyway!!

[The Straight Story]

11. "How to cook for forty humans"

[baldguy]

2. .

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

So true, so true.

[ZombieHorde]

3. Funny. nt

[G_j]

4. to serve man

:think:

[FLyellowdog]

10. Rod Serling?

[G_j]

12. yes,

it's been years..

[FLyellowdog]

15. Actually I just saw that very rerun a couple of weeks ago.

Great stuff! :hi:

[MadMaddie]

16. I love all of the shows! Rod was a genius!

:hi:

[G_j]

18. and very progressive

http://www25.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/rodserling.html

<snip>

After saying, "television has left me tired and frustrated" Serling began to write more movie scripts. Seven Days in May, 1964, showed Serling's passion for nuclear disarmament and peace. Serling said, "If you want to prove that God is not dead first prove that man is alive." He tackled racism and anthropocentrism in the movie adaptation of Pierre Boulle's The Planet of the Apes, 1968. At the same time Serling continued to write for television. The Loner, 1965-1966, and Night Gallery, 1970-1973, however, left Serling bitter. He had little creative control and said of Night Gallery, "It is not mine at all. It's another species of a formula series drama."

The Serlings were active members of the Unitarian Community Church of Santa Monica, California. The minister of the church was Ernest Pipes whose humanist preaching suited Serling's outlook and with whom he corresponded on politics and the state of humanity. Serling was an ardent supporter of the Unitarian Universalist Association, the Santa Monica church, and the American Civil Liberties Union. He supported these and other organizations by accepting speaking engagements and with monetary donations. He was politically active, and in 1966 campaigned for incumbent Pat Brown against Ronald Reagan in the California gubernatorial race.

Serling's social activism also took the form of writing letters to newspaper editors. In one poignant example Serling responded to Dr. Max Rafferty, a religious conservative educator, who had a weekly column in the Los Angeles Times. On October 10, 1966 Rafferty's column addressed social reform and claimed that humanity's problems were not the responsibility of society but of the individual. The article's theme is well expressed in Rafferty's statement, "I don't feel guilty about crime in our cities because I'm not committing any." Serling's incensed response was published five days later. In it he rebuked Dr. Rafferty with his words, "The good doctor had best take his Bible in hand and discover what is the compassion of faith, the selflessness of worship and the charity of Christ" and concluded by saying, " take note of what the ghost of Jacob Marley said to Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. 'Mankind! Cries the ghost, was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business.'"

In 1967 Serling said, "I happen to think that the singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply. In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: a man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself." Speaking about the Vietnam War at the 1968 Binghamton Community High School graduation, Serling said, "If survival calls for the bearing of arms, bear them you must. But the most important part of the challenge is for you to find another means that does not come with the killing of your fellow man."

<snip>

[pamela]

19. Thanks for posting that.

I love Rod Serling and knew he was progressive but I didn't know all of that info from your article. Very interesting. Thanks.

[liberalhistorian]

24. Indeed, and that's one of the main things that made Twilight

so gripping and timeless. He was especially good at showing the stupidity of racism, prejudice and discrimination and the horrendous damage they can wreak. I remember one episode in particular, the one with Ben Kingsley as a concentration camp inmate. A sadistic camp guard returns to the "scene of the crime", the remains of a concentration camp, to "reminisce" years after the end of the war and is met in one of the barracks by the ghosts of Kingsley and many of the guard's other victims. They put him on "trial", sentence him to a life of madness; he's found, an hour later, by his driver, foaming mad with psychic and physical pain. Kingsley tells him that "this is not hatred or revenge, this is justice."

[pamela]

25. Remember the narration from the maple street episode?

"The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own for the children, and the children yet unborn."

Serling was amazing. I love watching those old episodes. They are timeless.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

27. Yes, I remember it well... it was perhaps one of the best quotes

the show ever penned, thanks for posting that.

[FLyellowdog]

20. Between him and Alfred Hitchcock, I'm a pretty happy camper.

Hee,hee,hee...I said HitchCOCK. :rofl:

[Warren DeMontague]

7. *

:rofl:

[HysteryDiagnosis]

9. Mind if I help a little?

[pamela]

13. That's great!

Thanks!:rofl:

[G_j]

26. that's the ticket! nt

[Union Yes]

17. Cookbook minus the measurements.

It doesn't tell us how many cups to add of this or that. Or how many teaspoons to add. Or how much salt ect ect ect.

It's filled with recipes for disasters.

[Odin2005]

22. Waiter, I'll order the Roasted Man please!

:rofl:

[HysteryDiagnosis]

28. But hey, when the auction off bachelors.. don't they tend to bid

higher on the bronzed and tanned?? Heh!!!