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Subject: George Carlin ... gone at 71
Posted by: ¤ Mario LeMoose ¤
- [2558231] Mon, Jun 23, 2008, 02:13
Comedian George Carlin dies in Los Angeles at 71
Mon Jun 23, 2008 1:29am EDT
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comedian George Carlin, a counter-culture hero famed for his routines about drugs and dirty words, died of heart failure at a Los Angeles-area hospital on Sunday, a spokesman said. He was 71.
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| 1 | Perm Dude
ID: 30518231
Mon, Jun 23, 2008, 02:18
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Oh, that's freaky. I was reading a George Carlin skit on aging, click back here, and Moose posts this. Wow.
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| 2 | holt
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Mon, Jun 23, 2008, 04:54
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If there isn't a heaven where Carlin can do stand-up for God then it's a damn shame. He was definitely one of a kind.
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| 3 | Tree
ID: 1959236
Mon, Jun 23, 2008, 07:11
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well, as the article said, Carlin told Playboy in 2005 that he looked forward to an afterlife where he could watch the decline of civilization on a "heavenly CNN."
if that's what he's looking forward to watching, then he picked an excellent time to go.
godspeed mr. carlin.
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| 4 | walk
ID: 12558186
Mon, Jun 23, 2008, 07:40
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Yeah, I remember listening to some of his 1970s albums over and over as a budding teen. So funny. He was so clever with all of his ironic observations and linguistic put-on's. I read the whole NY Times obit...makes me sad.
NYT: George Carlin Obituary
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| 5 | Texas Flood
ID: 16510239
Mon, Jun 23, 2008, 10:21
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Oh wow, I had not heard this yet. Seems to me that so many have
gone so quickly recently. George provided many hours of
entertainment for me and my friends during our childhood/young
adult years.
Funny I've had the news on most of the morning and still not even
a mention.
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| 6 | Species
Dude
ID: 07724916
Mon, Jun 23, 2008, 12:12
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Like walk, I'll never forget as a 12-ish year old finding my older brother's Carlin album and hearing the infamous "Seven Words You Can't Say on Television" and roaring with laughter/feeling guilty about sneaking and listening to it. I also remember a skit about farts that had me in stiches.
Carlin was good not because he cussed......Carlin was good because he didn't need to cuss to be funny.....the cussing just seemed to amplify the humor.
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| 7 | JeffG
Leader
ID: 01584348
Mon, Jun 23, 2008, 12:53
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Classic George Carlin quotes
More Carlin quotes
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| 8 | biliruben
ID: 52561217
Mon, Jun 23, 2008, 13:18
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Ones that still make my chuckle:
If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2?
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.
The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.
Religion convinced the world that there's an invisible man in the sky who watches everything you do. And there's 10 things he doesn't want you to do or else you'll go to a burning place with a lake of fire until the end of eternity. But he loves you! ...And he needs money! He's all powerful, but he can't handle money!
Why are hemorrhoids called "hemorrhoids" instead of "assteroids"?
Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice"?
Whose cruel idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have a "S" in it?
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| 9 | Myboyjack
ID: 8216923
Mon, Jun 23, 2008, 13:51
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I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.
The most succint summation of the Protestant Reformation ever.
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| 12 | nerveclinic
ID: 5047110
Mon, Jun 23, 2008, 17:56
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My father used to wake me up on school nights to watch his routines on Johnny Carson.
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| 13 | TB
ID: 395122110
Mon, Jun 23, 2008, 21:40
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George Carlin is hands down my favorite comedian of all time. I can rewatch his performances again and again and still laugh as I did the first time. Some great quotes from him above. The flamethrower one I had as my sig for a very long time on another forum. Still makes me chuckle when I hear it in my head as him saying it.
I remember watching a skit and he was telling the news and said, "A man attempting to walk around the world today, DROWNED," gave the camera one of his funny looks, and went to the next piece of "news". It still makes me chuckle when I think about it today and that had to be 20+ years ago.
RIP
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| 14 | Balrog
Dude
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Tue, Jun 24, 2008, 17:32
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HBO's going to run 11 of his specials in a two night marathon Wednesday and Thursday.
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