June 23, 2008

Carlin's dead.
posted by es el Queso 15 years ago
  • in case you're unsure of George Carlin was.
  • Shit.
  • my bad, the seven dirty words were: shit piss fuck cunt cocksucker motherfucker and tits.
  • I had no idea he was that old. I only really knew him as Rufus, and I guess he was in his fifties then.
  • trac, could you please change the sidebar title to the proper 7 words?
  • Tits doesn't even belong on that list.
  • ta, Trac. Kevvin- it was his list and a different time.
  • NO NO NO NO
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  • Q: Yes, I was there. That's actually a line from the 7 Words routine. Probably my favorite line of his, except maybe "And where is the hair on a pear? Nowhere, mon frere.
  • This made me quite sad, but then I realised: the guy had a lot of fun while he was here, spread a lot of laughs and made a lot of people think. That's pretty brilliant.
  • Seven words. If I was American and he was running for President, I would have voted for him.
  • Only last week it was announced he was to be awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humour by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. I guess those dumb cunts just didn't get their shit together in time. Goodbye, uncle George.
  • "I don't want to be buried or cremated. I want to be blown up." Make it happen, family members! This clip from New Jersey contains -- around 9:37 -- the funniest noise he ever made. RIP, George.
  • When they write the history of the twentieth century, they better not leave George out.
  • Remember as you read the quick quotes that pop up today about George Carlin's Death, and the bummed out eulogies (of which I am indeed bummed out), that he was far more than "The Hippie Dippy Weatherman" and the 7 Dirty Words guy. George was a Master of Observation, and the foundation of his humor was NOT about the silly little foibles of American Culture that make us chuckle, but focused on the the major train wrecks and squandered birthright of the human animal. He hated humanity in the general and loved individuals in the specific, and I'm glad he lived long enough to make us squirm with discomfort when faced with the mirror then achieve catharsis with laughter. At the end he was a cranky old-fart, with a laser-eye and the courage to tell us all to fuck off. And for that, I'll miss him. Here are a few links I'd posted the last couple of years. Dumb Americans Fuck The Children "101 Greatest" George Carlin Quotes
  • We so desperately needed him to help us sort out the bullsh*t. His take on religion was incredibly lucid and had a profound and lasting impact on my world (still does). What a mind, what a man. In a sad world where the laughs come hard, this is bad news. Followed by widely scattered light in the morning.
  • George Carlin died of heart failure after checking into a HOSPITAL? Where was the crash cart? After all, its been reported that a lady's DOG saved her life by jumping up and down on her chest. Saint John's Hospital boggled this one. *feels blood pressure rising*
  • Sometimes people just can't be saved, Dan. Sad fact of life.
  • ... in the real world, sometimes people with bad hearts cannot be saved. In fact, most of the time they can't. Carlin had a long history of heart trouble & the organ was probably weak & scarred. He also used a lot of cocaine when he was younger, which doesn't help, and had been a heavy smoker IIRC. In later life he got healthy, but if you're fucked, you're fucked. We're all gonna die, dude, and sadly most of us go long before the full lifespan in painful & unpleasant ways. Thems the facts.
  • Missing from the 'Carlin quotes' link: "If God had wanted us not to masturbate, he would have made our arms shorter" Thanks for the laughs, George.
  • Only last week it was announced he was to be awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humour... Hey, at least he was around to hear it was forthcoming. Probably got a good bellylaugh out of it, too. M#@$@#$$@#$rs. I’m always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I’m listening to it. There'll be some good ones coming up, George. Stay tuned. .
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  • "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."
  • So what do we do, George?? GEORGE??!!!
  • Yeah, for fuck's sake!!! Bloody hell. .
  • . Bullshit.
  • it was very nice of NBC to replay the first episode of Saturday Night from 1975 this weekend, with Carlin hosting... it featured the Original Not Ready for Prime Time Players (with Chevy Chase, even!), Billy Preston, Janis Ian, and best of all (besides George himself), Andy Kaufman doing Mighty Mouse!
  • Agreed, cheese boy. I routinely pvr SNL, and was delighted when this iconic episode came up. Nice move, NBC.