Posted on 06/22/2008 9:54:22 PM PDT by Gigantor
George Carlin reported dead from heart failure.
RIP Mr. Carlin, you were a funny man.
But what the heck? Just like abject lying is protected political speech, vulgarity is protected artistic speech! Long live the ten commandments and the ten amendments!!!
Bummah! he was liberal twit but the man had wit.
RIP George. Yo made me laff with all my heart
maybe you should drink decaff this late?
“Trippy Hippy Dippy Weatherman”
Yeah, and he was doing that one real early on I think.
Another good thing about Carlin is that, since he grew up in upper Manhattan, he was a New York Giants fan. When they moved to San Francisco, he became a Mets fan.
“When interviewing with a guy, look at the picture of his wife on the desk and say, “Who’s the c*nt?”.
It still makes me laugh...
“The weather? Downtown? Downtown is on FIRE man!”
"If someone asks you what you are going to spend your money on, tell them 'beer and p-ssy!' That will shut them up."
RIP again George and for any other threads that pop up. I know how much you like it, so I’ll make sure I ask your closest living relative ‘if there’s anything I can do for them’ LOL...
“Tonight’s forecast: Dark.”
His is the last direct link to the transitional Lenny Bruce era that connected the Classic comedy era to the 60's and early 70's political social commentary/comedy.
RIP GC.
PERFECT!
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Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. |
Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle. |
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Baseball is played on a diamond, in a park. The baseball park! |
Football is played on a GRIDIRON, in a STADIUM, sometimes called SOLDIER FIELD or WAR MEMORIAL STADIUM. |
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Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life. |
Football begins in the fall, when everything is dying. |
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In football you wear a helmet |
In baseball you wear a cap. |
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Football is concerned with downs. "What down is it? |
Baseball is concerned with ups. "Who's up? Are you up? I'm not up! He's up!" |
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In football you receive a penalty. |
In baseball you make an error. |
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In football the specialist comes in to kick. |
In baseball the specialist comes in to relieve somebody. |
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Football has hitting, clipping, spearing, piling on, personal fouls, late hitting, and unnecessary roughness. |
Baseball has the sacrifice. |
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Football is played in any kind of weather: Rain, snow, sleet, hail, fog...can't see the game, don't know if there is a game going on; mud on the field...can't read the uniforms, can't read the yard markers, the struggle will continue! |
In baseball if it rains, we don't go out to play. "I can't go out! It's raining out!" |
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Baseball has the seventh-inning stretch. |
Football has the two-minute warning |
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Baseball has no time limit: "We don't know when it's gonna end!" |
Football is rigidly timed, and it will end "even if we have to go to sudden death." |
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In baseball, during the game, in the stands, there's kind of a picnic feeling. Emotions may run high or low, but there's not that much unpleasantness. |
In football, during the game in the stands, you can be sure that at least twenty-seven times you were perfectly capable of taking the life of a fellow human being |
And finally, the objectives of the the two games are completely different:
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In football, the object is for the quarterback, otherwise known as the field general, to be on target with his aerial assault, riddling the defense by hitting his receivers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz, even if he has to use the shotgun. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches his troops into enemy territory, balancing this aerial assault with a sustained ground attack that punches holes in the forward wall of the enemy's defensive line. |
In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! "I hope I'll be safe at home!" |
He was too liberal for me but was very cordial when he and Coulter appeared on Leno. I thank him for that. RIP.
Is that an attempt at humor, or are you just exhibiting a certain level of breathtaking, classless, inanity?
Carlin rocked.
RIP, George. Tell Kinnison, Belushi, and Kaufman that their fourth for bridge is in the house.
He was a funny guy. May God comfort his loved ones and may He give them strength in the difficult days ahead.
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