For those of you who can never get enough of Brendan Behan


	For those of you who can never get enough of Brendan Behan

redhead328

3-10-2007 9:56 PM

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literature, humor, authors, culture

redhead328 says:

Brendan Behan was a very flawed man but what an amazing talent!

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ef6fb538-f6f6-4397-ac90-e68ba2cf70a5/1DEA3883-0FF4-4D7A-A06D-5909A2126B00/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://users.bigpond.net.au/kirwilli/jokes/Behan.htm" href="http://users.bigpond.net.au/kirwilli/jokes/Behan.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">users.bigpond.net.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://users.bigpond.net.au/kirwilli/jokes/Behan.htm"><B>These few jokes have
been attributed to the wise cracking of Brendan Behan, who could doubt that.</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://users.bigpond.net.au/kirwilli/jokes/Behan.htm"><P><B><FONT color="#000000">This is a true story of the late Irish author Brendan Behan
who one night collapsed in a diabetic coma in a Dublin street. It was at a time when he
was at the height of his drunken notoriety and passes-by naturally thought he was dead
drunk. They took him to the nearby surgery of one of Dublin's most fashionable and
respected doctors. The doctor decided to take a cardiograph and, somewhat nervous of his
patient, thought to humor him. He explained the workings of the cardiograph needle as it
registered the faint heartbeats of the very sick and semiconscious Brendan. "That
needle there is writing down your pulses, Mr. Behan, and I suppose, in its own way, it is
probably the most important thing you have ever written." To which Behan replied:
"Aye, and it's straight from me heart, too."</FONT></B></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1DEA3883-0FF4-4D7A-A06D-5909A2126B00/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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