[magprob]

I am old enough to have watched the Hippie Dippy Weatherman on Rowan and Martins Laugh In. George was WAY COOL.

YouTube - george carlin nails it

[Credendovidis]

Yes indeed ! My favorites are The Sanctity on Life and the Ten Commandments !

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[NeedKarma]

This is sad news indeed.
RIP.

[tomder55]

Some Carlin classics

Why do they put Braille on the drive-through bank machines?

How do they get the deer to cross at that yellow road sign?

Does the Little Mermaid wear an algebra?

Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?

If you ate pasta and antipasti, would you still be hungry?

Why are hemorrhoids called “hemorrhoids” instead of “assteroids”?

I'm desperately trying to figure out why Kamikaze pilots wore helmets.

Do illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?

One out of every three Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of two of your best friends. If they are OK, then it must be you.

Is a vegetarian permitted to eat animal crackers?

What if there were no hypothetical questions?

[speechlesstx]

George Carlin on the environment (some of his 7 words "bleeped"):

We're so self-important. So self-important. Everybody's going to save something now. "Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails." And the greatest arrogance of all: save the planet. What? Are these (bleep) people kidding me? Save the planet, we don't even know how to take care of ourselves yet. We haven't learned how to care for one another, we're going to save the (bleep) planet?

I'm getting tired of that (bleep). Tired of that (bleep). I'm tired of (bleep) Earth Day, I'm tired of these self-righteous environmentalists, these white, bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is there aren't enough bicycle paths. People trying to make the world safe for their Volvos. Besides, environmentalists don't give a (bleep) about the planet. They don't care about the planet. Not in the abstract they don't. Not in the abstract they don't. You know what they're interested in? A clean place to live. Their own habitat. They're worried that some day in the future, they might be personally inconvenienced. Narrow, unenlightened self-interest doesn't impress me.

Besides, there is nothing wrong with the planet. Nothing wrong with the planet. The planet is fine. The PEOPLE are (bleep). Difference. Difference. The planet is fine. Compared to the people, the planet is doing great. Been here four and a half billion years. Did you ever think about the arithmetic? The planet has been here four and a half billion years. We've been here, what, a hundred thousand? Maybe two hundred thousand? And we've only been engaged in heavy industry for a little over two hundred years. Two hundred years versus four and a half billion. And we have the CONCEIT to think that somehow we're a threat? That somehow we're going to put in jeopardy this beautiful little blue-green ball that's just a-floatin' around the sun?

The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through all kinds of things worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles... hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages... And we think some plastic bags, and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference? The planet... the planet... the planet isn't going anywhere. WE ARE!

We're going away. Pack your (bleep), folks. We're going away. And we won't leave much of a trace, either. Thank God for that. Maybe a little styrofoam. Maybe. A little styrofoam. The planet'll be here and we'll be long gone. Just another failed mutation. Just another closed-end biological mistake. An evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planet'll shake us off like a bad case of fleas. A surface nuisance.

You want to know how the planet's doing? Ask those people at Pompeii, who are frozen into position from volcanic ash, how the planet's doing. You want to know if the planet's all right, ask those people in Mexico City or Armenia or a hundred other places buried under thousands of tons of earthquake rubble, if they feel like a threat to the planet this week. Or how about those people in Kilowaia, Hawaii, who built their homes right next to an active volcano, and then wonder why they have lava in the living room.

The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we're gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, 'cause that's what it does. It's a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed, and if it's true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesn't share our prejudice towards plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn't know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, "Why are we here?" Plastic... a$$hole.

George skewered everyone. By the way, NBC is replaying the first Saturday Night Live with him as host this week.

[spitvenom]

Speech that is my favorite Carlin rant of all time!! The Man is a genius. It's a shame he died. I loved when he would talk about how people want more prisons just NOT IN MY BACKYARD!!

[George_1950]

George Carlin gets a last laugh; listen to Jonah Goldberg explain the cover of his book, Liberal Fascism, 1:35 seconds into the interview with Glenn Beck: YouTube - Author Jonah Goldberg on Glenn Beck 2/18 - Liberal Fascism

[JimGunther]

Hey how many of you saw him play Mr. Conductor on the kids show "Shining Time Station.?" The guy was amazing!!

[tomder55]

Yes he was the 2nd Mr Conductor . Ringo played the part before him and that goof Alex Baldwin after him.

[JoeCanada76]

May George Carlin rest in peace indeed. I am a big fan of his work and think he was a brilliant thinker. Artist and writer and performer. There are so many things I can say.