A skeleton walks into a bar. He goes up to the bartender and says, “I’d like a beer and a mop.”
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Tom: Now look, you have to emphasize the mandatory welfare program. That's the issue that should be pushed. Betsy: First push the man, then the issue. Senator Palantine is a dynamic man, an intelligent, interesting, fresh, fascinating... Tom: Forgot sexy. Betsy: ...man. I did not forget sexy. Tom: Listen to what you're saying. You sound like you're selling mouthwash. Betsy: We are selling mouthwash. Tom: Are we authorized to do that?
Travis: Well, I know you and I ain't talked too much, you know, but I figured you've been around a lot so you could...Wizard: Shoot. That's why they call me the Wizard. Travis: I got, it's just that I got a, I got a...Wizard: Things uh, things got ya down?Travis: Yeah. Wizard: Yeah, it happens to the best of us.Travis: Yeah, I got me a real down, real...I just wanna go out and, and you know like really, really, really do somethin'.Wizard: The taxi life you mean?Travis: Yeah, well. Naw, I don't know. I just wanna go out. I really, you know, I really wanna, I got some bad ideas in my head, I just...Wizard: Look, look at it this way, you know uh, a man, a man takes a job, you know, and that job, I mean like that, and that it becomes what he is. You know like uh, you do a thing and that's what you are. Like I've been a, I've been a cabbie for seventeen years, ten years at night and I still don't own my own cab. You know why? 'Cause I don't want to. I must be what I, what I want. You know, to be on the night shift drivin' somebody else's cab. Understand? You, you, you become, you get a job, you you become the job. One guy lives in Brooklyn, one guy lives in Sutton Place, you get a lawyer, another guy's a doctor, another guy dies, another guy gets well, and you know, people are born. I envy you your youth. Go out and get laid. Get drunk, you know, do anything. 'Cause you got no choice anyway. I mean we're all fucked, more or less you know?Travis: Yeah, I don't know. That's about the dumbest thing I ever heard.Wizard: I'm not Bertrand Russell. Well what do ya want. I'm a cabbie you know. What do I know?
Oh, DB, I do take back the 'by default' in my remark about you. That was mean. Crappy mood sometimes lately.