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exactly my first thought when i read this thread. carlin fucking died. which sucks terribly. im gonna miss that sonofabitch. |
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Same here. It's kind of eerie how his last HBO special was titled, "Life's Worth Losing". Which was one of the top 3 of his career. You could talk endlessly on how George was an inspiration w/ the use of language, & the meaning of words. & a truther as well, but I'll always love his zany comedy, & early material. "Take Off's & Put On's" is one of my favorite comedy records. I believe it was his first record. "Anyone can have bad breath, but you could knock a buzzard off a shit wagon." -George Carlin
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06.23.2008, 11:10 AM | #23 |
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He finally swallowed enough saliva.
Last night I had a dream about my grandpa's funeral --- we had it again, even though he's been dead for 7+ years. They took his casket out of where he was buried and we had the procession again. I don't know how this is related to this at all. Have your body shipped in peace, Georgie. |
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Kevin Eckhoff of Jacksonville, Illinois:
George was in classic form as he arrived for a show in late 2004 at the Touhill Performing Arts Center in St. Louis. This was my second time meeting George. He signed the photo from our first meeting, took this new photo, and then proceeded to begin signing my friend's albums. Before he started, he paused, fanned out the records, looked at each, and in his own special way said, "You know, I go from city to city and you guys (autograph collectors) always have my records in such great shape. Just where the fuck do you get these records in such pristine condition?" We all busted out laughing.
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Hell Yeah! George knew what the value of records meant. This is a great little read, for it makes me feel good to have the George Carlin record collection I have. Which are in pristine condition.
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i can't say anything everybody else hasn't already. he was my favorite comedian next to pryor. this blows hard chunks.
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i think what is most appropriate is to say...
"fuck it!"
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Bad news, I did enjoy his comedy but I did find it a tad over-rated.
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06.23.2008, 10:26 PM | #32 |
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changed my msn screename to this:
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I'm just glad he finally got to find out who was right about god. Him or the religious people
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06.25.2008, 08:32 AM | #34 |
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Carlin:"The real owners are the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians, they're an irrelevancy. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They've long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the statehouses, the city halls. They've got the judges in their back pockets. And they own all the big media companies, so that they control just about all of the news and information you hear. They've got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying; lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want; they want more for themselves and less for everybody else."
"But I'll tell you what they don't want. They don't want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don't want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They're not interested in that. That doesn't help them. That's against their interests. They don't want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table and figure out how badly they're getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. "You know what they want? Obedient workers; people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork but just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And, now, they're coming for your Social Security. They want your fucking retirement money. They want it back, so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street. And you know something? They'll get it. They'll get it all, sooner or later, because they own this fucking place. It's a big club, and you ain't in it. You and I are not in the big club." "This country is finished." |
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I liked him better in the early 70s. I found his recent stuff unfunny and very cranky.
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His 60's stuff is surprising.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emGe0oF2ZM4 but classic Carlin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1GYP...eature=related |
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Yes. After that he sort of becomes a caricature of himself, seems to me.
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I loved the last 10 years or so of carlin's comedy. he stopped just trying to make jokes and began to truly just rant about how fucking horrible he saw our situation is and how hopeless he finds it and how fucking stupid humans are, and getting stupider by the minute.
LOVE IT sometimes you need to hear this shit
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this is from a science magazine
He was one of the funniest humans ever. I rode in on the bus today listening to a compilation of his monologues, and several times, I busted out laughing in a way that’s generally considered unseemly on public transportation. So my flimsy excuse for paying tribute to George Carlin on a Science blog is to assemble a few of his observations. He was full of wisdom, and at his best while pointing out that most of us are full of something else entirely. Since his death was reported on Monday, CNN has played a clip of Carlin taking an unnamed CNN weatherman to task for using a phrase like “rain event.” It got me to thinking about some of his other observations on science and tech stuff. Feel free to add your own, but as is often the challenge with George Carlin, keep it clean! On Energy: “Electricity is really just organized lightning.” On Human Intelligence: “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” On Intelligent life in the universe: “If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. “ On Meteorology: “Weather forecast for tonight: dark.” On Invention: “When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I’m sure it made the work seem that much more urgent. “ On Aviation: “If the “black box” flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn’t the whole airplane made out of that stuff?” On Nature: “I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It’s so f***in’ heroic.” “It isn’t fair: the caterpillar does all the work, and the butterfly gets all the glory. “ and “If a turtle doesn’t have a shell, is he homeless or naked?” On Electronics: “Why do you press harder on a remote-control when you know the battery is dead?” On Military Technology: “The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, “You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.”
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