[floren]

I've always liked the end of the anti-foreword:

> Here is my metaphor: your book is a pudding stuffed with apposite observations, many well-conceived. Like excrement, it contains enough undigested nuggets of nutrition to sustain life for some. But it is not a tasty pie: it reeks too much of contempt and of envy.

[EarlKing]

You forgot the last bit: "Bon appetite!"

Definitely the politest way anyone has ever been told to eat shit in human history.

[B1FF_PSUVM]

Props for the inclusion of that in the book. "Mighty white of them", as they used to say in Bechuanaland.

[echelon_musk]

My first instinct was that this phrase is racist, especially with you saying it was used in an ex-British southern African colony.

This was the best I could find as to its origins:

https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-thats-mighty-whi...

[B1FF_PSUVM]

Relax, the past is a foreign country, they do things differently there.

And so's the future - probably next century we'll be looked down upon as sad sacks of shit who didn't have the decency to get our weights into clean silicon.