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Author: 4741 Dead4741 Dead Date: Sep 18, 2008 07:16
Happy Days
Some thoughts on the ongoing economic collapse
© Bryan Zepp Jamieson
9/17/08
http://www.zeppscommentaries.com/Politics/happydays.htm
One of my readers dropped me a line in the wake of my piece, The
Bloodletting, saying, Seems like somebody should write about what
the implications of the Wall Street debacle may have relative to the
privatization of Social Security, which I understand McCain & Co. are
still advocating. It's not popular and thus hasn't been on the top
rung, but it's pretty clear it's still on their agenda....
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Author: SteveSteve Date: Sep 18, 2008 11:32
On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:16:21 -0700, 4741 Dead
finestplanet.com> wrote:
Perhaps you should stop dragging your piece through the water. Isn't
the bathtub a no-wake zone anyway?
Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own
highest value and, like all of mans values, it has to be
earned.
_Ayn Rand "ATLAS SHRUGGED"
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Author: Bill Bonde { ''Well, boys, I reckon this is it, nuclear combat toe to toe with the Roosskies'')Bill Bonde { ''Well, boys, I reckon this is it, nuclear combat toe to toe with the Roosskies'') Date: Sep 18, 2008 19:59
4741 Dead wrote:
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> Happy Days
> Some thoughts on the ongoing economic collapse
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> ©
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Are those Happy Days to you? Or are you referencing the play, which
could be about our current economic crisis:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Days_(play)
#begin quote
Happy Days is a play in two acts, written in English, by Samuel
Beckett. He began the play on 8th October 1960[1] and it was
completed on 14th...
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Author: Bill Bonde { ''Well, boys, I reckon this is it, nuclear combat toe to toe with the Roosskies'')Bill Bonde { ''Well, boys, I reckon this is it, nuclear combat toe to toe with the Roosskies'') Date: Sep 18, 2008 20:09
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Days_(play)
#begin quote
Happy Days is a play in two acts, written in English, by Samuel
Beckett. He began the play on 8th October 1960[1] and it was
completed on 14th May 1961.[2] Beckett finished the translation
into French by November 1962 but amended the title. In a moment of
inspiration, he borrowed the title Oh les beaux jours, from
Verlaines poem, Colloque sentimental.[3]
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Winnie, a woman no longer young, is embedded up to her big
bosom[16] in a mound of earth, the Mother Earth symbol to end all
other mother earth symbols.[17] She lives in a deluge of
never-ending light from which there is no escape: even the parasol
she unfolds at one point ignites, leaving her without protection.
...
Winnie begins her day. After the sounding of the transcendental
bell, she offers up a half-forgotten prayer and then sets about her
daily routine. As she removes the items from her bag a comb, a
toothbrush the writing on which she spends most of the first act
trying to decipher, toothpaste, a bottle of patent medicine, ...
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Author: 4741 Dead4741 Dead Date: Sep 18, 2008 21:23
On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:59:45 +0100, "Bill Bonde { ''Well, boys, I
reckon this is it, nuclear combat toe to toe with the Roosskies'')"
yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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>4741 Dead wrote:
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>> Happy Days
>> Some thoughts on the ongoing economic collapse
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>> ©
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>Are those Happy Days to you? Or are you referencing the play, which
>could be about our current economic crisis:
Actually, I'm referencing the song, which came to symbolize the Great
Depression.
I'll have to read the Beckett version. I always like his work, even
if I don't always understand it.
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Author: Bill Bonde { ''Well, boys, I reckon this is it, nuclear combat toe to toe with the Roosskies'')Bill Bonde { ''Well, boys, I reckon this is it, nuclear combat toe to toe with the Roosskies'') Date: Sep 19, 2008 00:48
4741 Dead wrote:
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> On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:59:45 +0100, "Bill Bonde { ''Well, boys, I
> reckon this is it, nuclear combat toe to toe with the Roosskies'')"
> yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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>>4741 Dead wrote:
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>>> Happy Days
>>> Some thoughts on the ongoing economic collapse
>>>
>>> ©
>>>
>>Are those Happy Days to you? Or are you referencing the play, which
>>could be about our current economic crisis:
>
> Actually, I'm referencing the song, which came to symbolize the Great
> Depression. ...
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Author: 4741 Dead4741 Dead Date: Sep 19, 2008 02:09
On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:48:55 +0100, "Bill Bonde { ''Well, boys, I
reckon this is it, nuclear combat toe to toe with the Roosskies'')"
yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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Author: Jeffrey TurnerJeffrey Turner Date: Sep 19, 2008 14:25
Bill Bonde { ''Well, boys, I reckon this is it, nuclear combat toe to
toe with the Roosskies'') wrote:
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> “As Act II of Godot is bleaker than Act I, as Maddy’s homeward
> journey is bleaker than her setting out, Act II of Happy Days is
> bleaker than Act I, and Winnie knows it: “To have been what I
> always am – and so changed from what I was.”[31] By Act II she can
> no longer imagine any relief, and she can no longer pray, as she
> did at the play’s start.
Sounds like a McCain administration after two George W. Bush
administrations.
--Jeff
--
Oh, I'm not a pheasant plucker,
I'm a pheasant plucker's son.
And I'm sitting plucking pheasants
till the pheasant plucker comes.
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Author: Bill Bonde { ''Well, boys, I reckon this is it, nuclear combat toe to toe with the Roosskies'')Bill Bonde { ''Well, boys, I reckon this is it, nuclear combat toe to toe with the Roosskies'') Date: Sep 19, 2008 19:27
Jeffrey Turner wrote:
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> Bill Bonde { ''Well, boys, I reckon this is it, nuclear combat toe to
> toe with the Roosskies'') wrote:
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>> As Act II of Godot is bleaker than Act I, as Maddys homeward
>> journey is bleaker than her setting out, Act II of Happy Days is
>> bleaker than Act I, and Winnie knows it: To have been what I
>> always am and so changed from what I was.[31] By Act II she can
>> no longer imagine any relief, and she can no longer pray, as she
>> did at the plays start.
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> Sounds like a McCain administration after two George W. Bush
> administrations.
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She's buried up to her neck in the sand. You'd think her husband
would just show up with a spade.
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