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This paper discusses how the philosophical movement of the absurd is manifested in Samuel Beckett's "Endgame" through his use of irrationality, meaninglessness, and dark humor.

As Mike drove to the local district court, all he could think about had to do with work. The fact that he might possibly lose his license made his head ache.

A review of Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam's Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.

public colleges, undergrad and graduate, charge application fees. It seems absurd. The tuition a school charges generates hundreds of percent profits, so, app fees are excessive fees.

The wild conscience, which I term the anti-conscience because it is against the conscience, has many powers. It invades the conscience with absurd thoughts and feelings that initially don't appear absurd.

The idea that a service dog or seeing eye dog (guide dogs for the blind), while lying half-asleep at his master's feet at a restaurant, is "working," seems rather absurd. If your boss at your job ever caught you "working" like this, you'd get fired.

Last week the University of Kentucky removed The Holocaust from its school curriculum because it "offended" the Muslim population which claims it never occurred. Are Americans carrying this concept of separation of church and state to absurd lengths?

An incident with a women scattering an unidentified powder into the water of one of Disneyland's rides, is not the first incident of someone doing this. Take a look at some of the absurd things people ask large companies to do.

A comedy of ghastly manners savagely satirizing Italian machismo mores.

Believe it! An absurd blonde hair style and tattered orange clothing could signify only one thing: Naruto. Naruto: Rise of Ninja is an Xbox 360 exclusive video game that features the eccentric Naruto.

In my opinion, this whole idea that tipping is a mandatory obligation is a bit absurd. It is even more bizarre that there exists a minimum percentage of tipping.

IFR rules [FAA rules for flying in poor visibility] limit landing in low visibility; that is absurd. IF a pilot can fly though the air with no visibility, he can land in no visibility.

The human being not only has a wrong conception of reality that causes him depression, and he is not only a victim of the absurd world he constructed - he also has innate psychological problems that impede his reaching psychical health and living happily.

The wild and evil conscience pretends it is part of you, part of your human side. It starts suggesting several solutions for your problems and implanting several absurd ideas and feelings in your human conscience.

The actress Sally Field took the opportunity of winning an Emmy recently to make a fool of herself. This often happens with actors who think they can take advantage of the audience of an awards show to make absurd political points.

Absurd as it may sound, Senator Hagel, in spite of his label as a Republican, may very well fall under that special category of Republican in Name Only (RINO).

Relief and guidance can be found in the wise unconscious that produces our dreams and can cure our depression and craziness, showing us how we can correct our absurd world and our one-sided psychic sphere.

The truth is that teenagers cannot do the referencing and research that are the prerequisite to serious scholarship - unless you stretch these words to an absurd limit.

More than just 'Oh Yeah' Yello'superlative use of intricately woven rhythms and jungle-beats was a foil for the perfectly absurd 'Louis Armstrong' distorted vocal renderings of 'Dieter Meier'

I'm going to be honest, Bare Essentials Rare Minerals is by far one of the best loose powder foundations that one can buy, but in all honesty the price is absolutely absurd...

It sounds absurd, but can low fat or fat free foods actually cause weight gain?

Lines, or one-dimensional constructs in the Euclidean model, are eminently useful for studying real entities. To measure an entity's dimensions in any other manner but linearly is absurd and standardless. This 16th essay of "A Rational Cosmology" discusses the uses of lines.

One of the most effective and constructive kinds of humor is obtained by reducing a real-world situation, person, or idea to its absurd logical extreme, or magnifying its flaws by making obviously absurd statements. Humor through absurdity is at the core of satire.

Equally absurd and uproariously funny, Blades of Glory never lets up with the comic hijinks and the harebrained mockery of figure skating...

The film version of Augusten Burroughs wonderfully absurd memoir resorts to stereotypes, cliches, and Hollywood casting, and as a result, completely misses the tone of the book.

Belief in the paranormal is a confusion that any competent reader of fiction should be able to avoid. Mr. Stolyarov contends that there is either a perfectly rational explanation for any event labeled "paranormal," or reports of the event itself are fraudulent.

Have you ever wondered what would happen if zombies could copulate and produce offspring? Director Peter Jackson delivers the hilarious possibilities of this absurd question and more in his zombie horror-comedy flick, Dead Alive.

Contemporary crises - from nuclear over armament to the degradation of the biosphere - highlight the potentially absurd character of cosmic evolution.

Does freedom of speech mean that you can say what you want irregardless of how absurd it is?

The absurdity of donating plasma.This is completely absurd.

The daughter of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) has been accused of attacking Evangelical Christians and attempting to make them look absurd in her new film.

One of the most heated topics in our country is the debate over legalizing of same sex marriage.

The transcendence of a nationalism, which is indeed 'absurd,' can be viewed as something comical.

The 9/11 Truth Movement encompasses many theories of all different sorts. From the absurd to the not so absurd, the fact that the "official" story that has more than a few holes should prompt us to explore our worst fears.

Borat isn't about bringing attention to the ways of third-world countries. It's about bringing to the attention of the citizens of this country how absurd these views are. At some point people need to learn how to accept responsibility for themselves.

This absurd play can be hard to understand due to Jerrys persistant actions causing Peter to go over the edge.

Alright, first let me say that I think the title for the article Easy Tips for Sexually Active Teenagers by Christopher Ray is totally absurd. Why did he have to gear his article towards teenagers?

Why Joe Internet would want to read about this, essentially a meaningless rant about the absurd Mel Gibson meltdown that the author is so unimpressively consumed by, is beyond said author.

With the introduction of talking homes, and other seemingly absurd additions to homes, there's no putting past anything by anyone when it comes to building or remodeling homes when there is a lot of money involved.

An essay tracing the major themes in the movie "Raising Arizona," most notably, the concept of parenthood, and the use of the absurd in cinema.

Now that I've spent some time abroad, America's obsession with frivolous kitchen technology seems even more absurd that it did before. Certain people really do use these small kitchen appliances regularly, but most of the time, they just collect dust.

While television for dogs may sound a little absurd, I've seen firsthand what a great entertainment this is for our canine pals. All they need now is little remote controls with grooves for their well-manicured claws.

A victim displays a habit of manners.

The Terri Schiavo saga has crossed the line from media circus into the theater of the absurd. John Edward, a self-proclaimed psychic and former TV show host, addressed the Schiavo controversy on the March 24 edition of "Fox & Friends".

Finding Mr. Right is verisimilar to performing a job search. Professionals in the market for a new position devise a list of job requirements (area of expertise, location, salary, medical benefits corporate culture and other incentives).

Natural gas has terrorized single women world wide since the beginning of time. It threatens the image most ladies strive for on their first few dates with a new beau.

The following is a letter that I sent to Denver's police chief summarizing my experience with his department when my car was stolen

The Denver Nuggets GM has run into trouble by subscribing to the "select the best athlete available logic"

Artist Shepard Fairey submitted the following manifesto to support the image of Andre the Giant that he designed as an experiment in phenomenology. Over a decade later, the sticker and stenciled versions of it are found pasted all over the world. This w