Following up on Chris' post about Andre the Giant and his prodigious drinking - Andre the Giant was born Andre Rene' Roussimoff in France.
He got so large that he couldn't ride the school bus anymore and his parents were too poor to afford a car.
Luckily, a kind neighbor helped Mr. The Giant out and regularly drove him to school.
The neighbor? Samuel Beckett - the Irish Nobel Prize winning author of Waiting for Godot fame. Talk about random.
2 comments:
No fucking way...
What's your source?
Waiting for Confirmation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_the_Giant
http://www.metafilter.com/49533/Remembering-Beckett
http://www.metafilter.com/57985/Andre-the-Giant-Greatest-Drunkard-of-all-Time
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000764/bio
http://www.thirdculture.com/leon/stuff/thoughts/thoughts.html
http://www.answers.com/topic/samuel-beckett
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