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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.
I think he's up there now, smiling down at us.
he said it best:
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well, actually:
the Earth isn't going anywhere. We are.
There are some interesting stories about him on the Stern show today. He was a bit cynical in his later years but apparently was a really nice guy.
~S
Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, Cocksucker, Motherfucker, and Tits.
Tits is now depreciated.
A philosopher who was funny...he will be missed. (lifts glass) Cheers, TFG
He's just gone into the future to the time when the Wyld Stallyns music forms the basis of society.
I wonder if he got it ??
$2.52 !!
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.
I drink to make other people interesting!
Fuck!
Hmmm.
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
And with that, a great humorist and satireist passes from the Earth, and we are all a little diminished for it.
I will be watching the inevitable marathons on HBO.
After "discovering" him in Jay & Silent Bob Strikes Back he has been a constant search topic on youtube for me. Sad to see him go.
May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
- George Carlin
Although he was an atheist, I'm sure he prayed to the sun and/or Joe Pesci shortly before his death.
"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.
There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.
"Catholicism WOW!" with the Buddy Jesus
Hey, maybe he'll get to meet Buddy Jesus and see how that Catholicism Wow campaign really played out.
I wish there was a choice that said "Factually Wrong -1" when I mod.
Here: Seven dirty words and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Carlin.
Just in case like me you were live outside of the USA and were thinking who/why should I care etc.
I didn't know he had one.
Temperature at the airport is 73......which is stupid 'cause I don't know anyone that lives at the airport..."
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
He never even told them his name, but yet the Chosen Two knew it. Incredible.
Reviewing just the first hour of video games.
Now how am I ever going to watch Thomas The Tank Engine without a tear in my eye??
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I'm guessing no-mod or redundant. The latter being more accurate.I bet I am going to get modded flamebait.
I'm still working on a "Stuff" reference, though, so I guess I can't talk....
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
I had to convince my girlfriend a few weeks ago that we should get tickets because he's one person I would really like to see before he, ahmen, dies. So we spent ~$160 for great ticket to see him at the Chicago theater on Oct. 11. I have no more words for this.
Creationists are a lot like zombies. Slow, but powerful and numerous. And they all want to eat our brains.
We all should have a moment of silence in memory of Carling. No, fuck that. Let's have a moment of profanity instead. I think he'd appreciate that more.
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 admire Carlin's serious attitude toward the social power of comedy, but Lenny Bruce certainly broke more ground than Carlin, plus Bruce was funnier. And once we add Bill Hicks and subtract "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure," Carlin's historical balance is not looking so good. Of course, I am speaking only of him as a performer and artist.
Carlin's classic material tended to rant about things he hated, with the implication that he - and those who agree with him - are superior. I don't find that a particularly excellent trait for an artist. From Bruce and Hicks I get a much greater sense of social critique. I am prepared to defend the qualitative difference between the rants of Carlin and those of Hicks, but I should stay on topic.
Flame on ...
. . . in a about a million fucking different ways. RIP George, you fucker.
So maybe swimming in raw sewage isn't so good for you after all. There goes my plan to live forever.
Rat shit, bat shit, dirty old twat.
Sixty nine assholes tied in a knot.
Hooray, lizard shit, fuck!
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
Hey, you can sat fuck on tv in some countries. OK, sometimes only after 21:00.
The other 6 words are also often allowed. In many countries after 21:00 nudity is even allowed and I have seen it before 21:00 when it was a preview.
So apart from the very funny man, we will not miss his insight, because many people outside the USofA don't need it.
That said, many will still be interested, so thanks for the links.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
You know who else is 71? John McCain, that's who.
Carlin was a man who didn't know when to quit or who wasn't allowed to quit.
As those most esteemed gentlemen would say:
BOGUS!
Most non non non non non non heinous.
Well fuck. Who's going to call everyone on their bullshit now?
STFU & GBTW
So who gets all his stuff?
I had the chance to meet him twice once in Kalamazoo, Mi and once in Las Vegas. For all his fame, and wit he was really down to earth. Even though our meets with him five years a part he remembered me.
I'm sure he will make good fertilizer of the grass.
Nothing here to see, just some useless stuff
Does netcraft confirm it?
Moving the argument from "shall we censor political speech" to "shall we censor dirty words and smut" doesn't really help much in the fight against censorship.
Here is a cookie.
"Action without philosophy is a lethal weapon; philosophy without action is worthless."
Many slashdot readers are outside US, you can see his work at youtube, especially 'Religion is bullshit' video:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=George+Carlin&search_type=&aq=f
"Two minutes... get your shit together..."
May he rest in peace.
Proverbs 21:19
Good bye George You will be missed.
Somehow the Universe isnt as funny a place anymore.
This guy is one of the comic geniuses of our times...We have to pay homage with some appropriate tags. morestuff,7words ....
I appreciate those tits, especially when they fly. [grin]
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
Shit that fuckin' matters.
Build it, and they will come^Hplain.
Who stole it from who?
He dedicated his life to making people think and making people laugh. We should always give people like George our respect and a moment of silence after their passing.
A great light among us has gone out.
My condolences to his family. He was a funny man who was not afraid to say things as they are (we need more people like him). He shall be missed.
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.
Every time I sit through the safety lecture on an airplane, hear anyone talk about "Jumbo Shrimp", or see someone prick their finger (but not finger their prick!), I'll think of him...
Time to go smoke some "Toledo Window Box" and put on his old albums, just as soon as I tag this article "shitpissfuckcuntcocksuckermotherfuckertits"
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George Carlin did not pass away. George Carlin Died.
Ironic that we had just watched that HBO special two nights ago...
I loved his word-play and oddball stuff...
RIP George, now you really are a fucking legend
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
Posting on Slashdot isn't a Sport because Romanians are good at it. Mod points also max out at 5 which goes against all sports logic. Posting on Slashdot is really just a variation of ping pong. It's racketless free-for-all ping pong played on a computer and keyboard with no net while sitting in a chair.
I've never been modded up to a 5 on Slashdot but one time, I had 5 of my comments modded up to a 2 and in my mind, that should count.
"Greetings my excellent friends!" Rufus
"George and Sam exceeded my expectations of simple humans." GODDDD
The 4D GoDDDD will always be greater than the parochial 3D GoDDD, never as shallow as the 2D GoDD, and really the 1D GoD is just a human word/acronym sort of thing meaning Go-Dogma and totally open to local interpretation/spin.
"Dogma affected never reason effective." Oldhawk777
Final words: "Party on and be excellent to one another." George
George was one of the best of US with the "Right Stuff". %~G
Sanity by mandate is highly over-rated by US.
Unaccountable leaders are masters, and unrepresented people are slaves. How do US and EU fare?
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.
He's with Joe Peci Now
I really enjoyed Carlin's schtick for the most part, but his "preachiness" was in its way just as annoying as that of the "christians" he spent time and effort criticizing.
N.B. I happen to think Carlin's REAL legacy will be the millions of email jokes with his name erroneously attached as the source.
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
Truly a modern man, I'm new wave, but I'm old school and my inner child is outward bound. I'm a hot-wired, heat seeking, warm-hearted cool customer, voice activated and bio-degradable. I interface with my database, my database is in cyberspace, so I'm interactive, I'm hyperactive and from time to time I'm radioactive. Behind the eight ball, ahead of the curve, ridin the wave, dodgin the bullet and pushin the envelope. I'm on-point, on-task, on-message and off drugs. I've got no need for coke and speed. I've got no urge to binge and purge. I'm in-the-moment, on-the-edge, over-the-top and under-the-radar. A high-concept, low-profile, medium-range ballistic missionary. A street-wise smart bomb. A top-gun bottom feeder. I wear power ties, I tell power lies, I take power naps and run victory laps. I'm a totally ongoing big-foot, slam-dunk, rainmaker with a pro-active outreach. A raging workaholic. A working rageaholic. Out of rehab and in denial! I've got a personal trainer, a personal shopper, a personal assistant and a personal agenda. You can't shut me up. You can't dumb me down because I'm tireless and I'm wireless, I'm an alpha male on beta-blockers. I'm a non-believer and an over-achiever, laid-back but fashion-forward. Up-front, down-home, low-rent, high-maintenance. Super-sized, long-lasting, high-definition, fast-acting, oven-ready and built-to-last! I'm a hands-on, foot-loose, knee-jerk head case pretty maturely post-traumatic and I've got a love-child that sends me hate mail. But, I'm feeling, I'm caring, I'm healing, I'm sharing-- a supportive, bonding, nurturing primary care-giver. My output is down, but my income is up. I took a short position on the long bond and my revenue stream has its own cash-flow. I read junk mail, I eat junk food, I buy junk bonds and I watch trash sports! I'm gender specific, capital intensive, user-friendly and lactose intolerant. I like rough sex. I like tough love. I use the "F" word in my emails and the software on my hard-drive is hardcore--no soft porn. I bought a microwave at a mini-mall; I bought a mini-van at a mega-store. I eat fast-food in the slow lane. I'm toll-free, bite-sized, ready-to-wear and I come in all sizes. A fully-equipped, factory-authorized, hospital-tested, clinically-proven, scientifically- formulated medical miracle. I've been pre-wash, pre-cooked, pre-heated, pre-screened, pre-approved, pre-packaged, post-dated, freeze-dried, double-wrapped, vacuum-packed and, I have an unlimited broadband capacity. I'm a rude dude, but I'm the real deal. Lean and mean! Cocked, locked and ready-to-rock. Rough, tough and hard to bluff. I take it slow, I go with the flow, I ride with the tide. I've got glide in my stride. Drivin and movin, sailin and spinin, jiving and groovin, wailin and winnin. I don't snooze, so I don't lose. I keep the pedal to the metal and the rubber on the road. I party hearty and lunch time is crunch time. I'm hangin in, there ain't no doubt and I'm hangin tough, over and out!" ~George Carlin
That's how.
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I agree...good riddiance to that filthy mouth pile of rubbish. You won't be missed Georgey boy
No Justice. No Peace.
But I guess that illustrates the point.
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
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Outside of the Alanis Morissette way?
-George Carlin, Life Is Worth Losing, Beacon Theater, HBO
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
"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.'
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
When you assume, you make an ass out of you and me!
What is GP?
God Bless you George! I guess Jesus needed someone "funny" for the 4th of July party in Heaven.
If you want the best 'cunt' sketch, just look up Derek and Clive
George Carlin was funny, though not as much as Tom Lehrer - I find Lehrer's humour much more touching.
One swallow does not a fellatrix make
Party on on the roof, dude. You will be missed.
Colin Dean Go a year without DRM
I'm sure that's one motherfucker who'd prefer it that way, since heaven would be full of ignorant cocksuckers, you know, the type of cunt-heads who like to shit all over everyone who prefers worshiping tits over their pissy fucked-up superstitions.
"Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, Cocksucker, Motherfucker, and Tits." Yep - got 'em all covered.
PS: Father's day is when we pay homage to motherfuckers. After all, they wouldn't be your father if they hadn't fucked your momma!
"...and then the greatest comedy legend of all time goes belly up!?
Look, the guy was a great one, but the greatest? I think you may be getting a little carried away there. Carlin wasn't even the greatest of his own generation... that honor would have to go to Richard Pryor, not to mention all the pioneers of previous generations. I'd have a hard time saying that, when all was said and done, Carlin was greater than Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, the Stooges, the Marx Brothers, and especially, Lucille Ball.
Life is hard, and the world is cruel
You will be missed. Godspeed to yas.
Here is the thing about GC. He was funny. Then as he got older he just became incredibly bitter and angry. It became less about him being funny and more about an old man who was mad at the world saying "provacative" (we can say I guess) things.
Watch "Life is Worth Losing." It was terrible. He is just a bitter angry old man. Not even a funny bitter angry old man. Very few funny bits and lots of unpolished and stupid meanderings and tangents.
"It's Bad for Ya" (his latest comedy special) was good. He seemed more GC and less generic old asshole, but maybe it was only good compared to "LiWL."
I do consider myself to be a fan of GC, but there did come a point at which his shit outweighed to the gold. I do not know how his recent performances have been (as I have not seen any of his recent live stuff following the HBO special), but before that his age and health seemed to have really affected his work.
So long wise man. You were my voice when i had none.
Love.
Just because you believe that religion doesn't work that way doesn't mean you are right.
Jesus preferred to pray in private. He spent time with lepers, prostitutes, tax collectors, and children. He devoted his life to people who needed compassion and care.
For the most part, Christians in the US gather every Sunday to pat themselves on the back for being so righteous as to show up somewhere for an hour. Politically they have voted with a party that advocates violence over diplomacy, and who seemingly despise any use of government funds to help to care for those who can't care for themselves.
Talking about ethics has no moral value, and that's all that the Christian culture seems to be interested in doing. When it comes to actual sacrifice, whether it's in the form of giving up wealth to help the needy, or turning the other cheek in the face of violence, they are strangely motionless.
Moderators are going to have a hard time with this article. Because on one hand, by referencing just about anything that Carlin said they could get modded Funny, but on the other hand they are probably quoting him and therefore it could also be thought of as Informative...what a dilemma.
When I have a kid, I want to put him in one of those strollers for twins and then run around the mall looking frantic.
Man the ruby exploits are fast.
Rather than the Big Seven, how about some of his other extremely funny bits?
1) Al Sleet, your Hippy Dippy Weatherman (an absolute classic that I still quote from memory)
2) Scott Lame, the BOSS jock with the BOSS sound on the BOSS station playing the BOSS records that my BOSS told me to play, on WINO radio.
3) The affair of the Hair (which won a grammy!)
4) Indian Sergeants.
This would be shitty news to wake up to any day, but it's even worse on your birthday.
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.
"We may face a scorched and lifeless earth, but they're accountable to their shareholders first."
I've never fucked a ten, but one night I fucked five two's. That has to count for something.
Mr Conductor ;->
Yes, he is dead, but he will live on in his audio and video recordings. His diamond sharp wit and analytical powers, able to easily cut through the bullshit and lay bare the vast hypocrisy running our society, were gifts used to bring joy and laughter to millions.
You done good George.
"I don't get all choked up about yellow ribbons and American flags. I consider them symbols, and I leave symbols to the symbol minded."
We play the game with the bravery of being out of range
petrified George Carlin covered in hotgrits?
You might want to be reminded that his whole 7 dirty words routine was going on in the early 70's.
I think your REAL legacy will be posting a completely inane post about George Carlin on /.
We play the game with the bravery of being out of range
Bwahahahahaha.
Thanks George for all the laughs.
make sure to ask Jesus for the big porkchop.
They're using their grammar skills there.
> ... and also one of the funniest men ever.
Not in the last 20 years he wasn't - just an angry old misanthrope.
I used to play his (cleaner) bits on-air at the college radio station I worked at in the late 70's - usually right before off-air time at midnight.
Frankly, I miss that guy, not the one who just died.
Ex-KNTU-FM
How is this "News for Nerds" or "Stuff that Matters?"
People across the globe report that candy "Doesn't taste as good."
am not looking forward to the spat of much repeated, and edited, reruns of "Bill and Ted's (Bogus Journey | Excellent Adventure)" which will inevitably be shown on the major cable and satellite networks.
The older stand-up routines, however, are a different story altogether.
...and enjoyed his past material should look at themselves. Maybe you've become the very thing George satirizes?
For the last time, PIN Number and ATM Machine are redundancies!
I
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Isn't that one of the four letter words Joe Pesci cant say on TV?
There is no right to feel safe thru security vaudeville at the expense of everyone's freedom, privacy and tax money.
"Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck." by George Carlin
The Rapture is NOT an exit strategy.
I'm not claiming to have an insight line on the mind of George Carlin but it seems like he'd be the kind of person to announce his death a little early, just so he can stick around for all that follows. And if he didn't do this, he really should have. Nothing would be funnier than seeing his response to comments like "he must be up there now smiling down on us." "What the hell? Who the fuck are you to promote me to your vision of an afterlife just because I made you laugh? Let me tell you something, asshole: when I really do snuff it, if I find out I've got wings and a halo because you liked my seven dirty words routine, I'm coming back and cramming my harp right up your ass."
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
Last year, in early March around my birthday, I was listening to a lot of Boston music for some reason. On March 6, I said to a friend, "I need to see these great classic rock bands before they all start dying on me." and found the tentative Boston winter 2007-2008 tour schedule. On March 7, Brad Delp took his own life. I also passed up on seeing Carlin about 6 years ago when he came through. I was a college student and saved my money for ... for what, really?
Granted, it's nothing compared to Hendrix or Janis Joplin. Talk about a narrow window of opportunity that you missed. I hope you've learned your lesson. I, of course, should have learned mine earlier - my boyhood musical heroes were Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens. How I could make it to my 20s and not figure that out, I don't know.
Shame that someone with such a large body of great work is primarily remembered for his "7 words". It least here on /., there seems to be a bit more discourse on the rest of his comedy.
http://redcoredesigns.com/pictures/funny/george_carlin_irony.jpg I think George would find this quite ironic. :) RIP George - nobody will ever fill those shoes - ever.
Well, Penn at least. Teller may point out a thing or two, but he's not known for "calling" exactly.
My other car is a 1984 Nark Avenger.
Dark. Continued dark throughout most of the evening, with some widely-scattered light towards morning.
Here's hoping a weatherman somewhere says this on the 6:00 news.
Of course, George Carlin is best known for his role as "Mr. Conductor" on Shining Time Station, which curiously nobody has mentioned in this thread...
yeah, FOR YOU, who didn't get the obvious joke
He was one of the greats. I don't think he'll ever be replaced properly ever.
I wanna live. I don't wanna die. That's the whole meaning of life: Not dying! I figured that shit out by myself in the third grade.
Property is theft. Nobody "owns" anything. When you die, it all stays here.
Life is a zero sum game.
Most of the time people feel okay. Probably it's because at the moment they're not actually dying.
So far, this is the oldest I've been.
No one who has had "Taps" played for them has ever been able to hear it.
I wonder if he got his 2-minute warning.
"Two minutes. Get your shit together."
... would've posted on Slasdot, it would be hard to decide between moderating him "Funny" or "Insightful". Just like Bill Hicks and Lenny Bruce, he was more than just a comedian.
Carlin on Wikiquote
May he rest in peace. Thanks for all the laughs, and even more, thanks for all your insights. And may Joe Pesci grant him a well deserved nirvana :)
STATION!
----- You know you have ego issues when you register a domain in your name.
The joke is that he HAS gone to heaven! ;)
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
...you should read this interview.
AVC: Just like you changed your comic style in the late '60s and early '70s, some have contended that you changed again in the '80s, becoming a little bit angrier. Would you agree with that?
GC: No, it's not so much anger. People read it that way, and that's the convenient word to go to. I understand that. Here's why it seems that way. There is a certain amount of righteous indignation I hold for this culture, because to get back to the real root of it, to get broader about it, my opinion that is my speciesâ"and my culture in America specificallyâ"have let me down and betrayed me. I think this species had great, great promise, with this great upper brain that we have, and I think we squandered it on God and Mammon. And I think this culture of ours has such promise, with the promise of real, true freedom, and then everyone has been shackled by ownership and possessions and acquisition and status and power.
And perhaps it's just a human weakness and an inevitable human story that these things happen. But there's disillusionment and some discontent in me about it. I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist. But I understand the word "cynic" has more than one meaning, and I see how I could be seen as cynical. "George, you're cynical." Well, you know, they say if you scratch a cynic you find a disappointed idealist. And perhaps the flame still flickers a little, you know?
And so, there's a part of me that is angry. Not in the sense of, "Gee, George is an angry guy!" I mean, anyone who's been with me five minutes, five years, whatever, they would tell you they've rarely seen me in a moment of anger. Yes, I can become highly irritated in a line that's moving slowly, or with a clerk who's incompetent. But I don't yell. I don't get rude. I am clear about what I expect. In a store, my mother always told me, "Ask for the manager immediately. It changes the tone of the conversation." [Laughs.]
So I am not a difficult man by any stretch, and I'm saying that with a full and honest inventory going on. I'm not. And I'm not angry on stage. There is a heightening. There is an intensification of the feelings on stage in order to let them carry the room. There is a theatricality about it. The whole thing is oratory, so there's persuasion involved. There's the art of rhetoric involved. And so, with hyperbole and with the desire to really punch the thing home, some of it reads a little more angry.
Now, it's true that the direction of the material changed, at least in part. Because I had always featured language stuff that was fairly simple and innocent and honest and even sweet and childlike, and other things like, "Oh, did you ever notice between your toes, you have these things." I still did all that stuff. But I began to tap into that other part of me that would've been a great protest singer. I just began to let that part of me grow and live. It was a natural thing, and it just went from one level to another. And there's a lot of that social criticism in the shows now, because what I'm really trying to say to people is, "Don't you see what the fuck you're doing here? What you've done to yourselves? Can't you see what you're letting them do to you?" I mean, that's sort of the subtext. "Aren't you aware of what the fuck is going on, you folks?" That's kind of what I'm thinking in my heart.
Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone.-rms
I mean really it was his stuff he had some, someone must be getting it?
Is he taking it with him?
Carlin always wanted us to look differently at life, so in the Carlin spirit..
"Today was the best day of George Carlin's life... he died."
Bringing liberty to the masses. - http://freetalklive.com/
"69 with two fingers up your ass"
Bat shit
Dirty old twat
69 assholes tied in a knot...
Hurray!!!! Lizard shit......FUCK Now, I know you people like to memorize these things so....
--George Carlin
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
I'm new wave, but I'm old school and my inner child is outward bound. I'm a hot-wired, heat seeking, warm-hearted cool customer, voice activated and bio-degradable. I interface with my database, my database is in cyberspace, so I'm interactive, I'm hyperactive and from time to time I'm radioactive.
Behind the eight ball, ahead of the curve, ridin the wave, dodgin the bullet and pushin the envelope. I'm on-point, on-task, on-message and off drugs. I've got no need for coke and speed. I've got no urge to binge and purge. I'm in-the-moment, on-the-edge, over-the-top and under-the-radar. A high-concept, low-profile, medium-range ballistic missionary. A street-wise smart bomb. A top-gun bottom feeder. I wear power ties, I tell power lies, I take power naps and run victory laps. I'm a totally ongoing big-foot, slam-dunk, rainmaker with a pro-active outreach. A raging workaholic. A working rageaholic. Out of rehab and in denial!
I've got a personal trainer, a personal shopper, a personal assistant and a personal agenda. You can't shut me up. You can't dumb me down because I'm tireless and I'm wireless, I'm an alpha male on beta-blockers.
I'm a non-believer and an over-achiever, laid-back but fashion-forward. Up-front, down-home, low-rent, high-maintenance. Super-sized, long-lasting, high-definition, fast-acting, oven-ready and built-to-last! I'm a hands-on, foot-loose, knee-jerk head case pretty maturely post-traumatic and I've got a love-child that sends me hate mail.
But, I'm feeling, I'm caring, I'm healing, I'm sharing-- a supportive, bonding, nurturing primary care-giver. My output is down, but my income is up. I took a short position on the long bond and my revenue stream has its own cash-flow. I read junk mail, I eat junk food, I buy junk bonds and I watch trash sports! I'm gender specific, capital intensive, user-friendly and lactose intolerant.
I like rough sex. I like tough love. I use the "F" word in my emails and the software on my hard-drive is hardcore--no soft porn.
I bought a microwave at a mini-mall; I bought a mini-van at a mega-store. I eat fast-food in the slow lane. I'm toll-free, bite-sized, ready-to-wear and I come in all sizes. A fully-equipped, factory-authorized, hospital-tested, clinically-proven, scientifically- formulated medical miracle. I've been pre-wash, pre-cooked, pre-heated, pre-screened, pre-approved, pre-packaged, post-dated, freeze-dried, double-wrapped, vacuum-packed and, I have an unlimited broadband capacity.
I'm a rude dude, but I'm the real deal. Lean and mean! Cocked, locked and ready-to-rock. Rough, tough and hard to bluff. I take it slow, I go with the flow, I ride with the tide. I've got glide in my stride. Drivin and movin, sailin and spinin, jiving and groovin, wailin and winnin. I don't snooze, so I don't lose. I keep the pedal to the metal and the rubber on the road. I party hearty and lunch time is crunch time. I'm hangin in, there ain't no doubt and I'm hangin tough, over and out!"
--George Carlin
And now...he's gone.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Maybe Jesus will bring him the pork chops now!
Anyone who can come up with a title such as "Napalm and Silly Putty" belongs no where but in this fucked up world, and I mean that with great sincerity, and in no way derogatorily. This man brought countless laughs to the world, and countless laughs to my life (which, honestly, I care more about then the world). On the subject of where he is now, I will not comment, as I will "keep thy religion to thyself"...I just hope he's having the last laugh now...looking at all of us.
Words do not turn your fellow men into blind idiots, your fellow men choose to be blind idiots. Curse words are not actual curses causing people to act against their will. Choosing different words will not change human nature. Honestly, the people you worry about, the easily manipulated, often react more emotionally to a well reasoned argument they can't understand than to a curse word they can.
Curse words are less manipulative than words like love, freedom, and peace. Would you ban those words as well, to protect us from the manipulators who use them?
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
They'll have the event continued with the stunt double in place: Assy McGee.
George Carlin is just another money-collecting asswad that hates God because they probably tried to fight over buying the same beach-house. Only difference between God and George Carlin will be that one is a cowardly entertainer and the other is a bitter old man who profitted from making books on stupid turring-like subjects of fiction.
None of his skits are entertaining, and he can't make his comedy on the fly. In fact, neither can Carlin. They're just bitter old men that snort cocaine before their staging. I'ld rather donate my cock to a church coir coffer.
I just want to be there when they blow up his body. That was how he wanted to go: gather all his friends and just blow him up. "Look at him go!" "What a guy" This is what the man said. ...but he may have been joking.
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Realisant mon espoir, je me lance vers la gloire
Copy/Pasted into a permanent file on my machine.
May I use that as an attributable reference?
I like to think that somewhere, somehow, George, is looking down at us thinking:
What the FucK is that guy doing!!?? o_O
Anyone who knew George Carlin's comedy would realize that he didn't die: He passed on, or expired. Or maybe he experienced a terminal episode.
(This is from a bit he did where he pointed out that "shellshocked" became "PTSD")
I am officially gone from
It's a shame he didn't live long enough to see the stock market drop 2000 points in one day. I'd like to see that myself. I'm sure it's coming too.
Something happened to Carlin in the late '80s or early '90s and he stopped being funny and started being whiny. I saw him in concert in '99 or '00 and it was an hour of complaining and whining. Yeah, he did the 7 words and Wonderful WINO, but other than a few "classic" bits, the rest of it was kind of disappointing. And the worst of it was that you could look around the audience and see most everybody else looking like they'd just shelled out their money to listen to some grumpy old man bitch and moan.
To top it off, the show just sort of ended...no big finish, it just ended, almost like he figured out that he was bombing and just quit before he was done.
However...his mid-career stuff was definitely groundbreaking. He definitely changed comedy.
"I really like the new Nabisco Tits."
You really ought to try them on a Ritz, they're much tastier!
This is my favorite Carlin quote proving that the "old man" Carlin was always on top of things. (unlike our president)
"The worst thing about e-mail is that you can't interrupt the other person. You have to read the whole thing and then e-mail them back, pointing out all their mistakes and faulty assumptions. It's frustrating and time consuming. God bless phone calls." -- George Carlin
I regret not buying tickets to his show in time and missing my last opportunity to see him life in Phoenix AZ. You'll be missed Carlin.
"Real Christians would revolt at the atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan - where are they now?"
Answer: They are so few in number, that they are afraid to speak out against the multitude of mean spirited posers for fear of retribution.
He thinks nobody cares about what he says, so he's going to talk about it so everyone does; but deep down in is gut, he thinks everyone cares about what he says and is afraid to admit that he's a cheezeball waste-of-space rapper and a useless-eater by the Black Pope's standard.
Tell hym to make use of his vessel by shovelling shytte.
considering that one of Carlin's early albums was titled "Occupation:Foole".
Chalk up another one for the clueless mods...
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As opposed to 68 - "you do me and I'll owe you one."
Laughter is the Spackle of the Soul.
Just this weekend I was trying to think of a comedian that didn't suck. I happened to be surrounded by billboards of sucky comedians all last week, and something was nagging in the back of my mind. I was trying my hardest to remind myself that there was actually a time when some comedians didn't suck.
Maybe it was the fact that I was in Sin City or perhaps something random happened to remind me of George Carlin, because I thought to myself "Goddammit, not only did he not suck, but that crotchety old bastard changed the fucking world."
He actually changed the world we live in by pointing out obvious truths and cursing about it.
And it made me sad to think of how thoughtless the rest of humanity is that no one did it before him, and that no one has done it as well since.
But it makes me glad to know that George's spirit is alive and well on one of the few sites left on the internet where you won't get banned for typing something offensive.
"I assumed blithely that there were no elves out there in the darkness"
Sat down with my coffee, fired up my feed reader .. top story.
I don't have words, but I do feel a little colder.
Still, he has six months before I delete him from my contacts list. Hurry up mate, clocks ticking.
Robert Anton Wilson
But Lehrer is a quitter. Not sure of the latest, but he was certainly alive during the early parts of Dubya's reign of miserable failure, and not a peep out of him.
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
He did a lot for you Americans. Especially for your image. First time I saw some of his routines and recognized how successful he was, even in the main stream, I was happy to notice that there is some common sense over there, in masses. And he got better with age, one of the finest "grumpy old man" I've ever seen. And he was funny as hell though.
On second thought, let's not go to Camelot. It is a silly place.
I heartily suggest everyone here take a piece from his live act of "Class clown" - the bit about popping your cheek and he gets the whole audience to do it at once.
In other words, sit down, toke one up for the man (because he DAMNS "The Man") in tribute and go about your lives.
And, like he would say, you can't 'Keep him in your thoughts' so you should remind yourself about him now and then instead.
Now then, time to get inebriated.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Its sad to know someone like him is gone, today is a day of mourning, religious folks got it very easy saying he is somewhere else, but we all know hes gone, damnit hes fucking gone for good and he will never come back, ill miss him, he was the funniest guy ever. My condolences to the family and friends.o/
Indeed. I had forgotten what paragons of virtue most people in other countries are. Remember one of Carlin's great lines:
"Think about how stupid the average person is. Now, realize that half of them are dumber than that."
I fail to see how people in any random country are different in this regard. Face it, we could all use some enlightenment at one time or another.
Here are some quick facts to help you get started:
Nobody's perfect...
Elrond, Duke of URL
"This is the most fun I've had without being drenched in the blood of my enemies!"-Sam&Max
...when all we are now left with is Andy Rooney?
Here's to you Georgeorgeorgeorge....
Oops! Sorry.
You will be missed.
Hey- you have to asleep if you believe in that!
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- aqk
F U
Fuck, shit, piss, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, tits ....Fart, Turd and Twat!
How does everyone forget the last three?
Carlin changed the way I look at the world, how I write, where I place my trust.
The world just got a little more serious, and damn it all if that is what he'd want to happen.
as caught up to his act.
Sorry, for me it went stale 20 years.
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The fucking pathetic fuckhead who fucked around coining words like 'f-bomb' can go take a flying fuck. The word fuck has a beautiful amalgam of meanings, from delicate and subtle, soft and sexy, petty frustration, joyful mockery, and yes, it can be used in a vulgar or angry fashion too. It can be a noun, verb, adjective, adverb, or even just a filler like your doch. Please, keep finding it offensive, part of the allure and mystique as you mention is the taboo.