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  • Calling talented FReepers: Obama delivers Lucky's speech

    01/25/2015 9:00:45 AM PST · by JusPasenThru · 3 replies
    Recently I saw a live performance of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot", a story about two hobos who are, oddly enough loitering around waiting for a visit from a person named Godot. They are interrupted by Pozzo, a cruel and pompous man, and Lucky, his hapless slave led by a noose around his neck. Lucky performs demeaning tasks on command. At the urging of the hobos, Pozzo commands him to dance, and then to "think". What follows is a run-on rambling speech/rant lasting about four minutes of half-developed themes, nonsequeteurs, stuttering, random interjections, and entertaining nonsense. Here is the link...
  • Waiting for bailouts and… Godot

    05/20/2010 8:59:42 AM PDT · by Big Bureaucracy · 117+ views
    Big Bureaucracy ^ | May 20th, 2010 | Ellie Velinska
    Let us not waste our time in idle discourse! Let us do something, while we have the chance! It is not every day that we are needed. But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late! It is not a Barack Obama quote – it is a classic in the Theater of the Absurd. It is part of the conversation of the two losers Waiting for Godot in the Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece. The US spent trillions of dollars...
  • "THE JOY OF '6': Lex line is top-rated subway."

    07/24/2004 9:39:34 AM PDT · by The Scourge of Yazid · 87 replies · 1,071+ views
    The New York Post ^ | July 21, 2004 | Clemente Lisi
    <p>I don't know how many of you read this story in "The Post", or heard about on the local news, but The Straphangers Campaign has just released its annual "State of the Subways" report.</p> <p>According to this article, the report "ranks each line based on what a $2 ride is really worth...based on Transit Authority data from the last six months of 2003."</p>