Ally In Exile wrote:a buddy of mine told me Samuel Beckett used to drive Andre the Giant to school in the morning because he, Andre, was too big to fit in the school bus.

now that's a funny mental image, those two driving together.

I Googled the hell out of this as soon as I read it. According to Wikipedia, it is true.

I repeat: Samuel Beckett--Nobel Laureate, credited with the invention of The Theater of the Absurd, who's dark and funny work has inspired literary and dramatic movements in two languages, who was James Joyce's secretary and personally transcribed Finnegan's Wake for the dying author, who's play's characters often live in ashcans or human zoos or godless netherworlds, who's writing was so far beyond the pale that one novel actually required no punctuation--was Andre' The Giant's boyhood chauffeur.


Of course he was.

FMajcinek wrote:Samuel Beckett--Nobel Laureate, credited with the invention of The Theater of the Absurd

"The Theater of the Absurd" was a phrase coined by the critic Martin Esslin.

Esslin was referring to Beckett's work, but also that of his contemporaries: Arthur Adamov, Fernando Arrabal, Genet, Ionesco, etc.

breasts and booty

FMajcinek wrote:

Ally In Exile wrote:a buddy of mine told me Samuel Beckett used to drive Andre the Giant to school in the morning because he, Andre, was too big to fit in the school bus.

now that's a funny mental image, those two driving together.

I Googled the hell out of this as soon as I read it. According to Wikipedia, it is true.

I repeat: Samuel Beckett--Nobel Laureate, credited with the invention of The Theater of the Absurd, who's dark and funny work has inspired literary and dramatic movements in two languages, who was James Joyce's secretary and personally transcribed Finnegan's Wake for the dying author, who's play's characters often live in ashcans or human zoos or godless netherworlds, who's writing was so far beyond the pale that one novel actually required no punctuation--was Andre' The Giant's boyhood chauffeur.

crazy, isn't it?

sounds like an off-beat, soon-to-be-cancelled sitcom/one act play dying to happen: the conversations Samuel and Andre get into on the way to school.

even the episodes where they barely talk could be funny.

connor wrote: If I'm wearing boxers, they will escape. This means that if I'm lounging around, people will eventually get a peak at my nards. And seeing as how I have a penchant for slobbing around the house in boxers and a t-shirt, most of my friends have seen my boys.

I can actually see your 'nads from where I am sitting right now. Which is in Texas.

Boil.

Hello, ladies! This is my little friend, Goliath. We had to order special elastic pants for him on the internet.

my bar manager calls me 'man hands' i do not have man hands, i don't think but long fingers..i don't know though. i'm a shoe size 8 and my boobs are too big too. running is bad.

i hate running for the same reason... my mantits are huge.