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imaginator
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 Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 9:34 am Post subject: george carlin: no more stuff |
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my skills with language will never be as good, as insightful, or as funny as that of george carlin. nor, by personal choice, will my language prove as bothersome or offensive to nearly so many people. but his is a voice i will miss, now that it's silenced.
while many reveled in his irreverence and (some would say) obscenites, it was his fascination with language and human behavior that had me hooked from way back in the 60s. example: one of my favorite headlines - "dock workers walked off their jobs this morning. rescue operations continue..." or "why is it we drive on a parkway, but park in a diveway?" and i'm forever obsessing about, as he so aptly observed it, a place for my stuff.
i've just added a new favorite quote from george carlin, found in a memorial piece on the huffington post this morning. and regardless of political or spiritual leanings, it resonates:
'It's a wonderful feeling to have found something you're good at, that you love to do, and that other people think you do well. Those are the three elements, I think, that go into being happy: Find something you love, be good at it, and have other people pat you on the back and say "good job."'
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DaveChristi
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Rest in peace George...
| George Carlin wrote: | | I’m getting old. And it’s OK. Because thanks to our fear of death in this country I won’t have to die — I’ll ‘pass away.’ Or I’ll ‘expire,’ like a magazine subscription. If it happens in the hospital they’ll call it a ‘terminal episode.’ The insurance company will refer to it as ‘negative patient care outcome.’ And if it’s the result of malpractice they’ll say it was a ‘therapeutic misadventure.’ |
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dhouston67
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Even when his material lost some of its zing in later years, there was still nothing more captivating than a Carlin piece on the malleability/ugliness/beauty/power of words. What they mean, how they're used, why they're used --- and that melodic, rhythmic delivery he used in the telling. It was like jazz.
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ronphi
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These are classics.
George Carlin- Newscast 1967
Baseball and Football
R.I.P George Carlin
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Lizden
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Eddie Eagle
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| Nobody said them 7 words like he did! |
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Bailey
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| George Carlin wrote: | | I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it. |
R.I.P. George... Thanks for the laughs.
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Yoda117
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Bruce
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If you watch his concert film from 1978 in Phoenix (which I saw a bit of on YouTube today) you'll see me laughing my head off in the second row in some shots. Ohhh it was so tempting to play the 7 forbidden words when I was on the air. We snuck everything we could of his on the air back in the early 70's...late at night.
Good Night, Al Sleet, you Hippy Dippy Weather Man.
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Christopher French
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George Carlin was one of my heros. I lament that I never got the chance to see him live. I told Jen that we should've went and seen him last year when he played at Soaring Eagle Casino in Mt. Pleasant.
I hope, wherever he is, Georgie is making them laugh their heads off.
RIP, George.
"I've always had a problem with the name George. . .it's never really quite finished, is it. . .G E O R G E. . .O R G E. . .O R G E. . ."
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