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# My brain hurts
(I helped save b3ta! Mr. Chickenuts Now we know., Tue 27 May 2003, 12:25, archived)
# That has made my day
woo!
(nospoon The Olympigs would have been more entertaining., Tue 27 May 2003, 12:26, archived)
# No!
Stop that, you'll break the universe.
(s0WmVHAwZgpG, Tue 27 May 2003, 12:26, archived)
# hahaha
You trying keeping a cat still long enough to strap toast to it! Bloody hard that....
(I helped save b3ta! Razor What the fuck - a sig?, Tue 27 May 2003, 12:26, archived)
# hehehe
old joke, nicely done :)
(I helped save b3ta! zerolicious, Tue 27 May 2003, 12:27, archived)
# kwality!!!!
that is most most woosome!!!
(I helped save b3ta! buckets, Tue 27 May 2003, 12:27, archived)
# It must be true
(I helped save b3ta! butchbint, Tue 27 May 2003, 12:28, archived)
# Lemme
think..

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead?

Oh no wait a minute.

The other one... wassit called?

*edit* OHHH! waiting for Godot.
(I helped save b3ta! Razor What the fuck - a sig?, Tue 27 May 2003, 12:29, archived)
# Noone is EVER
allowed to refer to Hamlet or Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead in my presence. EVER.

*stabs English classes*
(s0WmVHAwZgpG, Tue 27 May 2003, 12:31, archived)
# hahaha!
its my favourite play ever and i'm going to constantly quote it just to annoy you :)

(edit) Hamlet that is, not R&GAD, though i plan to read it sometime soon
(I helped save b3ta! Spoon, Tue 27 May 2003, 12:33, archived)
# I'm going to see it performed
on Saturday so I guess I can live with it.

Edit: ohh I love Hamlet. Above refers to RAGAD. But I'm all Hamleted out!
(s0WmVHAwZgpG, Tue 27 May 2003, 12:33, archived)
# ooh,
whereabouts?
(I helped save b3ta! Spoon, Tue 27 May 2003, 12:34, archived)
# heh, not somewhere
i could exactly pop over to :)
(I helped save b3ta! Spoon, Tue 27 May 2003, 12:40, archived)
# Heh
what's a couple of days travelling! Charter a private jet and you'd get there in no time! :P
(s0WmVHAwZgpG, Tue 27 May 2003, 12:44, archived)
# What a piece of work is man
As for his supposed referencing of Beckett, Stoppard admits that he admires the Irish playwright and had read a great deal of Beckett's non-dramatic literature when he wrote Rosencrantz and Guildenstern but denies any direct links between his play and Godot. Most critics agree that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern resemble Beckett's tramps Didi and Gogo in that both pairs are trapped in a situation that is inescapable; they all confront an existential condition and ultimately lament the meaninglessness of their existence in the face of an "author" who proves no savior and prescribes for them only eventual death. Indeed, Rosencrantz, like Godot, is termed by theatre historians and drama critics an "absurdist" play in reference to Martin Esslin's seminal text, The Theatre of the Absurd. The Theatre of the Absurd, according to Esslin, refers to a body of dramatic work by post WW2 playwrights whose plays are all colored or patterned by an existentialist ideology. Based in large part upon the theories of Albert Camus and John Paul Sartre, existentialism addresses the feelings of "Absurdity" [the absence of purpose or meaning] humanity encounters in a world of shattered beliefs--a world where millions of people are killed in concentration camps and whole cities are annihilated by atomic bombs. "This sense of metaphysical anguish at the absurdity of the human condition is, broadly speaking, the theme of the plays of Beckett, Adamov, Ionesco, Genet, and [others]. [T]he Theatre of the Absurd strives to express its sense of the senselessness of the human condition and the inadequacy of the rational approach by the open abandonment of rational devices and discursive thought." 6 Ros and Guil, many critics argue, encounter such a world where their queries are made in vain, where meaning is arbitrary and where they become victims of a seemingly random circumstance they neither proscribe nor control.
(I helped save b3ta! butchbint, Tue 27 May 2003, 12:34, archived)
# Indeed
yes.

/backs away
(I helped save b3ta! Razor What the fuck - a sig?, Tue 27 May 2003, 12:36, archived)
# oooh, you big swot you
(I helped save b3ta! new_matt, Tue 27 May 2003, 12:37, archived)
# Well that was more of a quick Google
But my dissertation was a rip-roaring read:
"like the square root of minus one" Unsolvable Paradoxes in Beckett’s Shorter Prose.
(I helped save b3ta! butchbint, Tue 27 May 2003, 12:40, archived)
# ah-hahahahaha
'rip-roaring' read is a great way to describe any dissertation!
(I helped save b3ta! Razor What the fuck - a sig?, Tue 27 May 2003, 12:41, archived)
# It's a high-octane rollercoaster ride of excitement
At least that's what the examiner said.
(I helped save b3ta! butchbint, Tue 27 May 2003, 12:42, archived)
# Was it un-putdownable?
(I helped save b3ta! bovine I'm so old, even my old is old, Tue 27 May 2003, 12:44, archived)
# I've not been able to put it down yet.
A real page-turner.
I managed to get the words "rectum" "cyst" and "crab-lice" onto the first page. And there is a whole paragraph about cow-pats.
(I helped save b3ta! butchbint, Tue 27 May 2003, 12:49, archived)
# I nominate this
for the Booker prize.
(I helped save b3ta! bovine I'm so old, even my old is old, Tue 27 May 2003, 12:52, archived)
# I can't lose
I love this quotation (from First Love)
"For had my love been of this kind would I have stooped to inscribe the letters of Anna in time’s forgotten cowpats?”
(I helped save b3ta! butchbint, Tue 27 May 2003, 12:58, archived)
# Heh,
lovely.
(I helped save b3ta! bovine I'm so old, even my old is old, Tue 27 May 2003, 12:59, archived)
# Well
I haven't ever read/seen Hamlet, Rosecratz & Guildentstern Are Dead or Waiting For Godot...

/ashamed of literary ignorance
(I helped save b3ta! Ijon Tichy, Tue 27 May 2003, 12:37, archived)
# me either
i'm not sure whether this is a good or bad thing
(I helped save b3ta! new_matt, Tue 27 May 2003, 12:39, archived)
# think of it as a good
thing.
RAGAD is a bit silly,
Hamlet is depressing
WFG is plain weird.
(I helped save b3ta! Razor What the fuck - a sig?, Tue 27 May 2003, 12:43, archived)
# Hamlet is very depressing
And of the bit of R&G* I've read so far has just seemed strange.


* Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is such a pain in the arse to type/write/say/etc
(s0WmVHAwZgpG, Tue 27 May 2003, 12:46, archived)
# It is strange ....
but has some cool concepts ... FACT!
(Zed Smith, Tue 27 May 2003, 13:37, archived)
# bollocks.
(I helped save b3ta! mikeisbrill, Tue 27 May 2003, 12:39, archived)
# sbetter in the French,
all the puns work.
/pedant :@|
(I helped save b3ta! blyerkit e k trilby, Tue 27 May 2003, 12:39, archived)
# wow
I bet all that text is really interesting.
Sadly I'll just have to guess what it says, as my attention span isn't up to it.
(I helped save b3ta! Pootle, Tue 27 May 2003, 12:44, archived)
# I didn't read it either
But if someone tells me not to talk about something then it's my duty to annoy them if possible
(I helped save b3ta! butchbint, Tue 27 May 2003, 12:46, archived)
# waiting
for godot
(I helped save b3ta! Spoon, Tue 27 May 2003, 12:32, archived)
# Bizarrly
I was just thinking about that last night!

Very woo!
(I helped save b3ta! Sn0tters 🇯🇴🇧🇧🇮🇪, Tue 27 May 2003, 12:29, archived)
# HURRAH!
i love that so much!
(I helped save b3ta! the_fabulous_dancing_yak You like game? You come see 5punk.co.uk. You like!, Tue 27 May 2003, 12:31, archived)
# That's
the best I've seen ever! This deserves a salute!



!
(BigMoose, Tue 27 May 2003, 12:32, archived)
# ahhh
as old as the hills, but nicely illustrated.
(I helped save b3ta! Lumpbucket tekcubpmuL, Tue 27 May 2003, 12:32, archived)
# yaaaaaaaaaaaay!
that rules! you rule!
woo yay!
(I helped save b3ta! bananaman, Tue 27 May 2003, 12:32, archived)
# didn't
Douglas Adams or someone like that suggest this as a method of generating power?

Nicely done tho, reminds me of a After Dark type screensaver I nearly got round to making featuring spinning cat/toast creations bouncing about the screen...
(prehensile, Tue 27 May 2003, 12:32, archived)
# Probably
he did, the geezer. I always loved those hitchhikers guide books
(BigMoose, Tue 27 May 2003, 12:34, archived)
# err it's wrong!! (sort of)
You need to strap the toast butter side up to the cat's feet - THEN you wil get hovering cats. I like that idea more.

God elemetary physics gone wrong..
(I helped save b3ta! Darkedge, Tue 27 May 2003, 12:37, archived)
# No!
Because the butter on the toast also wants to
land down making it spin and hover in the air!
(I helped save b3ta! Mr. Chickenuts Now we know., Tue 27 May 2003, 12:39, archived)
# yup you are right
so I changed it - floating cats all ovre the place would be waaay better
(I helped save b3ta! Darkedge, Tue 27 May 2003, 12:40, archived)
# actually, i think you're probably right there
the other way round it would just land happily either way wouldn't it.
(I helped save b3ta! new_matt, Tue 27 May 2003, 12:40, archived)
# I saw it on
Brainofbrian.com

apparently could be made to make a mag lev train
(Ekolb Modnar, Tue 27 May 2003, 16:19, archived)
# hahahahah
a genuine LOL
(I helped save b3ta! .90Nz0., Tue 27 May 2003, 12:34, archived)
# GENIUS!
i can see power stations closing. what a fantastic idea!
(I helped save b3ta! Obz Click, ting, stamps, Tue 27 May 2003, 12:42, archived)
# HAHAHAHA!
That's genius to end all genius!!!
:D
(I helped save b3ta! Kaiser, Tue 27 May 2003, 14:27, archived)
# I really
laughed really really hard at that for a really really long time.
I have never seen such genius (that I can remember)
(I helped save b3ta! zog why change it now?, Tue 27 May 2003, 16:20, archived)
# Well as lon a no one has ever written the buttered cant theory!
(I helped save b3ta! riverghost servicing your mum since, Tue 27 May 2003, 18:58, archived)
# I was
halfway through making the same bloooomin thing. But uyou did it better. Well played.
WOO YAY
Back to the drawing board
(I helped save b3ta! Nostrebor can't be everything all the time., Tue 27 May 2003, 19:00, archived)