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George Carlin Dead of Heart Failure
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on Mon Jun 23, 2008 07:50 AM
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George Carlin has died of heart failure. Most famous for his "Seven Words You Can Never Say On TV" routine which resulted in a landmark supreme court ruling, he was a true voice against censorship, and also one of the funniest men ever. He was 71.
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Smiling down. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Smiling down. (Score:5, Funny)
And God is patting him on the back saying: "Thanks for trying to clear up the 10 commandments thing".
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I've only got 7 things to say about this tragic loss of one of my favorite guys for humor and social commentary:
Shit......piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker....and tits.
R.I.P. George.
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Re:Smiling down. (Score:5, Funny)
::sound of audience clapping as Carlin takes the stage::
(slight pause as he waits for the applause to die down)
"Why... Why is it that most people who are against abortion are people you wouldn't want to fuck in the first place?"
That was truly one of the greatest facepalm.jpg moments of my life. Suffice to say that the rest of the evening was a bit awkward.
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Re:Smiling down. (Score:5, Funny)
Obviously, his soul is smiling down from Joe Pesci's roof, where it got stuck.
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And for those who don't get the Joe Pesci referenc (Score:5, Informative)
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--George Carlin
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Re:Smiling down. (Score:5, Informative)
Um, I think you mean. May his body decay into the earth as nicely as fucking possible.
Anyone who mentions "up there", "god", or "soul" in this article should be modded down.
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Re:Smiling down. (Score:5, Funny)
Reminds me of Vonnegut talking about Asimov:
I am honorary president of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the late, great, spectacularly prolific writer and scientist, Dr. Isaac Asimov in that essentially functionless capacity. At an A.H.A. memorial service for my predecessor I said, "Isaac is up in Heaven now." That was the funniest thing I could have said to an audience of humanists. It rolled them in the aisles. Mirth! Several minutes had to pass before something resemble solemnity could be restored.
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Lighten up Francis... (Score:5, Funny)
Keep it funny... here's another random quote: "If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?"
--George Carlin
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And now for something completely different... (Score:5, Funny)
"But I do mean that. I mean, I think the word fuck is an important word. It's the beginning of life, and, yet it's a word we use to hurt one other, quite often. And uh, people much wiser than I have said, I'd rather have my son watch a film with two people making love than two people trying to kill one other. And I of course agree. I wish I know who said it first, and I agree with that. But I would like to take it a step further. I would like to substitute the word fuck, for the word kill in all those movie cliches we grew up with.
'Okay Sheriff, we're gonna fuck ya now. But we're gonna fuck ya slow.'
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Re:And now for something completely different... (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Smiling down. (Score:5, Informative)
Anybody who mentions athiesm in a thread about a Christian's death should be modded flamebait or troll. Have a littlke respect, for God's sake.
From the same Wikipedia article: [wikipedia.org]
Carlin also joked that he worshipped the Sun, because he could actually see it, but prayed to Joe Pesci (a good friend of his in real life) because "he's a good actor", and "looks like a guy who can get things done!"[40]
Carlin also introduced the "Two Commandments", a revised "pocket-sized" list of the Ten Commandments in his HBO special Complaints and Grievances, ending with the additional commandment of "Thou shalt keep thy religion to thyself."[41]
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Re:Smiling down. (Score:5, Interesting)
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Re:Smiling down. (Score:5, Funny)
Smiling? I bet not, but if he's got that kind of view, he's probably doing something on us.
Sure wish it'd stop raining.
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Re:Smiling down. (Score:5, Interesting)
Earlier this morning I was thinking about how with as much media as we have these days, and the so many types of "celebrity" that exist, soon we're quickly approaching a future where someone famous is going to be dying pretty much constantly. The cnn.com homepage will become just a slideshow of who died today, while real news websites will decide that it's not worth the trouble and maybe just move those sorts of stories to a little sidebar somewhere.
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Re:de mortuis nil nisi bonum but ... (Score:5, Insightful)
Carlin's classic material tended to rant about things he hated, with the implication that he - and those who agree with him - are superior.
Only the insecure feel the need to apologize for other people's inadequacies.
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Re:de mortuis nil nisi bonum but ... (Score:5, Insightful)
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Re:Smiling down. (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Smiling down. (Score:5, Funny)
Why? There are plenty here already.
Layne
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Sad :( (Score:5, Insightful)
We'll see him again (Score:5, Funny)
He's just gone into the future to the time when the Wyld Stallyns music forms the basis of society.
A great man is lost (Score:5, Insightful)
We held a little ceremony here before. Carlin was a truly great man. A voice against censorship and generally against rampant stupidity as well.
May his memory live long and someone crop up and continue on in his great tradition of telling the 'system' to go fuck itself.
Best Summary of Religion (Score:5, Insightful)
You will be missed, pal.
"In the Bullshit Department, a businessman can't hold a candle to a clergyman. 'Cause I gotta tell you the truth, folks. When it comes to bullshit, big-time, major league bullshit, you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims: religion. No contest. No contest. Religion. Religion easily has the greatest bullshit story ever told.
Think about it. Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man -- living in the sky -- who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time!
But He loves you.
He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money! Religion takes in billions of dollars, they pay no taxes, and they always need a little more. Now, you talk about a good bullshit story. Holy Shit!"
-George Carlin
Re:Best Summary of Religion (Score:5, Insightful)
I was watching him in Dogma [imdb.com] just this weekend. That opening with him introducing the "Jesus Wow!" campaign still cracks me up.
He'll be missed.
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Semantics (Score:5, Interesting)
"Get 'on' the plane, get 'on' the plane..."
"Fuck you, I'm getting *IN* the plane."
I started listening to "Class Clown" in 3rd or 4th grade. I always liked his insight, even if he did seem to get quit bitter over the past few years. I always liked his take on growing up in Morningside Heights. He always said that saying you were from a place like Morningside Heights would get you beat up, so he liked to say he was from "White Harlem."
His routine on "Shell Shock vs. Post Traumatic Stress-Disorder" rings very true.
Re:Semantics (Score:5, Informative)
Good choices, though I was always a fan of the Baseball vs. Football [baseball-almanac.com] routine.
And he's right on about Hockey: [boredatuni.com]
Hockey comes to mind. People think hockey is a sport. It's not. Hockey is three activities taking place at the same time: ice skating, fooling around with a puck, and beating the shit out of somebody.
RIP man.
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God Damnit! (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:God Damnit! (Score:5, Interesting)
At least you got the tickets. I decided at the last minute that 500+ miles round trip was too much for Jimi Hendrix in '69. Ditto when my parents said, "You've been working all summer without a break. Why don't you take the car this weekend and see this Janis Joplin singer?" Can't be that many double losers. Gotta see 'em when they're still here.
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In vein of the man himself... (Score:5, Insightful)
With nothing but contempt for modern humanity and politics, I highly doubt he'd want anyone to mourn.
So I'll tell it like it is.
Today an great man died.
He was a foul-mouthed rat-bastard hippy conspiracy theorist.
May his soul be blessed by whoever gives a damn.
I wonder if he got his two-minute warning? (Score:5, Funny)
"Two minutes... get your shit together..."
May he rest in peace.
Words to live by (Score:5, Insightful)
He's moved on, departed from the Big Electron. He was a giant and will be missed. I have taken one of his phrases to heart:
"Think about how stupid the average person is. Now, realise that half of them are dumber than that."
RIP Mr Carlin.
Maybe he needed to die (Score:5, Interesting)
Don't get me wrong, I loved Carlin all my life, but one of the things that was pissing him off lately was the fact that people weren't questioning government or religion as much as they used to be, and by all measure, things are getting worse.
Maybe this shock will wake up some people. Maybe the inevitable memorials will spark a renewal of the rebellious spirit.
I only hope so.
As a fellow atheist, I have come to accept that people only live on as the effect they've had on the world. For a relatively brief time in history, the world had a great jester and poet, lets all take time to remember him in or lives.
man what a bummer (Score:5, Funny)
-George Carlin, Life Is Worth Losing, Beacon Theater, HBO
Bad news to wake up to. (Score:5, Insightful)
Along with Bill Hicks, George Carlin was my absolute favorite comedian. What they did was much more than just comedy, though. The reason I loved George so much, just as with Bill, was because, in the process of making you laugh so hard, they also made you think. George had the ability to make you see how ridiculous certain things really were, even if you didn't want to.
So long, George. You're irreplaceable.
Re:Those seven words... (Score:5, Funny)
speak for yourself buddy...
_I_ still appreciate tits.
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Re:Those seven words... (Score:5, Funny)
Tits is now depreciated.
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Other words... (Score:5, Funny)
Temperature at the airport is 73......which is stupid 'cause I don't know anyone that lives at the airport..."
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Re:Other words... (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Those seven words... (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Those seven words... (Score:5, Funny)
Depreciation: assets with finite lives lose value over time.
Deprecated: features that are superseded and should be avoided.
Q: What does an 80-year-old have between her tits that an 18-yer-old doesn't?
A: Her bellybutton.
Sounds to me like tits are assets with finite lives that lose their value over time ...
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Re:Stern (Score:5, Insightful)
I think when his wife died it really changed him and his routines. I still found him funny, but he came off very angry.
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If I were in charge of the networks (Score:5, Interesting)
I'm tired of television announcers, hosts, newscaster, and commentators, nibbling away at the English language, making obvious and ignorant mistakes. If I were in charge of America's broadcast stations and networks, I would gather together all the people whose jobs include speaking to the public, and I would not let them out of the room until they had absorbed the following suggestions. I'm aware that media personalities are not selected on the basis of intelligence. I know that, and I try to make allowances for it. Believe me, I really try. But still ⦠There are some liberties taken with speech that I think require intervention, if only for my own sake. I won't feel right if this chance goes by, and I keep my silence.
The English word forte, meaning "specialty" or "strong point," is not pronounced "for-tay." Got that? It is pronounced "fort." The Italian word forte, used in music notation, is pronounced "for-tay," and it instructs the musician to play loud: "She plays the skin flute, and her forte [fort] is playing forte [for-tay]." Look it up. And don't give me that whiny shit, "For-tay is listed as the second preference." There's a reason it's second: because it's not first!
Irony deals with opposites; it has nothing to do with coincidence. If two baseball palyers from the same hometown, on different teams, receive the same uniform number, it is not ironic. It is a coincidence. If Barry Bonds attains lifetime statistics identical to his father's it will not be ironic. It will be a coincidence. Irony is "a state of affairs that is the reverse of what was to be expected; a result opposite to and in mockery of the appropriate result." For instance:
* If a diabetic, on his way to buy insulin, is killed by a runaway truck, he is the victim of an accident. If the truck was delivering sugar, he is the victim of an oddly poetic coincidence. But if the truck was delivering insulin, ah! Then he is the victim of an irony.
* If a Kurd, after surviving bloody battle with Saddam Hussein's army and a long, difficult escape through the mountains, is crushed and killed by a parachute drop of humanitarian aid, that, my friend, is irony writ large.
* Darryl Stingley, the pro football player, was paralyzed after a brutal hit by Jack Tatum. Now Darryl Stingley's son plays football, and if the son should become paralyzed while playing, it will not be ironic. It will be coincidental. If Darryl Stingley's son paralyzes someone else, that will be closer to ironic. If he paralyzes Jack Tatum's son that will be precisely ironic.
I'm tired of hearing prodigal being used to mean "wandering, given to running away or leaving and returning." The parable in the Book of Luke tells of a son who squanders his father's money. Prodigal means "recklessly wasteful or extravagant." And if you say popular usage has changed that, I say, fuck popular usage!
The phrase sour grapes does not refer to jealousy or envy. Nor is it related to being a sore loser. It deals with the rationalization of failure to attain a desired end. In the original fable by Aesop, "The Fox and the Grapes," when the fox realizes he cannot leap high enough to reach the grapes, he rationalizes that even if he had gotten them, they would probably have been sour anyway. Rationalization, that's all sour grapes means. It doesn't mean deal with jealousy or sore losing. Yeah, I know you say, "Well many people are using it that way, so the meaning is changing." And I say, "Well many people are really fuckin' stupid too, shall we just adopt all their standards?"
Strictly speaking, celibate does not mean not having sex, it means not being married. No wedding. The practice of refraining from sex is called chastity or sexual abstinence. No fucking. Priests don't take a vow of celibacy, they take a vow of chastity. Sometimes referred to as the "no-nookie clause."
And speaking of sex, the Immaculate Conception does not mean Jesus was concieved in the
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Re:If I were in charge of the networks (Score:5, Insightful)
And exactly why the Mark Twain award is so fitting for George - Twain has long been for me the model for precise usage of language - and Carlin was a modern example.
I'm sad to see him gnoe - one less funny (and wise) fucker in the world.
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Re:If I were in charge of the networks (Score:5, Informative)
excerpt from George Carlin's book, Brain Droppings.
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Re:Cock-Sucker (Score:5, Funny)
Well fuck. Who's going to call everyone on their bullshit now?
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Re:More info for those of us who aren't in the US. (Score:5, Funny)
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