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George Carlin, the Comedian, Is Dead at 71
Jun 23^rd, 2008 at 12:27am

George Carlin, the Grammy-Award winning standup comedian and
actor who was hailed for his irreverent social commentary,
poignant observations of the absurdities of everyday life and
language, and groundbreaking routines like "Seven Words You
Can Never Use on Television," died in Los Angeles on Sunday
according to his publicist Jeff Abraham. He was 71.

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Re: George Carlin, the Comedian, Is Dead at 71
Reply #1 - Jun 23^rd, 2008 at 12:53am

I Just saw the news myself. Logged into Yahoo and seen the headline in the latest news.

Man, he was one of my favs.

He was fine a year or two ago.

Well, well first Tim Russert, now ..Carlin.

I would say he was, or at the very least is arguably one of the top ten stand up comedians of all time. I am positive he is seen in that realm by many people and as well is viewed by the media in that same light. Hats off to him.

Here is a link to the story on Yahoo.com

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080623/us_nm/carlin_dc

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Reply #3 - Jun 23^rd, 2008 at 1:04am

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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Carlin, who had a history of heart and drug-dependency problems, died at Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica about 6 p.m. PDT (9 p.m. EDT) after being admitted earlier in the afternoon for chest pains, spokesman Jeff Abraham told Reuters.

Known for his edgy, provocative material, Carlin achieved status as an anti-Establishment icon in the 1970s with stand-up bits full of drug references and a routine called "Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television." A regulatory battle over a radio broadcast of the routine ultimately reached the U.S. Supreme Court.

In the 1978 case, Federal Communications Commission vs. Pacifica Foundation, the top U.S. court ruled that the words cited in Carlin's routine were indecent, and that the government's broadcast regulator could ban them from being aired at times when children might be listening.

Carlin's comedic sensibility often came back to a central theme: humanity is doomed.

"I don't have any beliefs or allegiances. I don't believe in this country, I don't believe in religion, or a god, and I don't believe in all these man-made institutional ideas," he told Reuters in a 2001 interview.

Carlin, who wrote several books and performed in many television comedy specials, is survived by his wife Sally Wade, and daughter Kelly Carlin McCall.

(Reporting by Dean Goodman and Steve Gorman; Editing by Patricia Zengerle)

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Re: George Carlin, the Comedian, Is Dead at 71
Reply #10 - Jun 23^rd, 2008 at 7:48am

Pdog wrote on Jun 23^rd, 2008 at 7:36am:

anyone with kids knows his narration of Tomas The Tank Engine. I never got used to that, Carlin was very special to me. One of the greats, he took comedy to the next level...

In the UK, the narrator of Thomas the Tank Engine was the drummer of a well known beat combo from Liverpool who broke up in 1970.....!

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Re: George Carlin, the Comedian, Is Dead at 71
Reply #12 - Jun 23^rd, 2008 at 9:45am

Ah SHIT! Along with Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor, one of the top 10 comedians of all time and a very cool guy. His "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television" will live in infamy, and his obervations on religion were side-splittingly funny. I loved him as Cardinal Glick in "Dogma" too. He'll be missed.

RIP, Georgie, you were one of the best.

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Martha Rocks Off Regular Offline Rocks Off Rules You Bastards Posts: 774 The Blues Gender:	Re: George Carlin, the Comedian, Is Dead at 71 Reply #13 - Jun 23^rd, 2008 at 11:26am This is very sad news....George was just out here last winter, I think it was December, and we didn't go see him. I wish we would've now. George was great and I am thankful to know his comedy. It lifted me up on more than one occasion. RIP Martha
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Re: George Carlin, the Comedian, Is Dead at 71
Reply #16 - Jun 23^rd, 2008 at 11:39am

Gazza wrote on Jun 23^rd, 2008 at 7:48am:

Pdog wrote on Jun 23^rd, 2008 at 7:36am:

anyone with kids knows his narration of Tomas The Tank Engine. I never got used to that, Carlin was very special to me. One of the greats, he took comedy to the next level...

In the UK, the narrator of Thomas the Tank Engine was the drummer of a well known beat combo from Liverpool who broke up in 1970.....!

carlin...ringo...alec baldwin...anyone who's anyone in hollywood has narrated thomas the tank engine.

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Reply #18 - Jun 23^rd, 2008 at 2:01pm

Gazza wrote on Jun 23^rd, 2008 at 7:48am:

Pdog wrote on Jun 23^rd, 2008 at 7:36am:

anyone with kids knows his narration of Tomas The Tank Engine. I never got used to that, Carlin was very special to me. One of the greats, he took comedy to the next level...

In the UK, the narrator of Thomas the Tank Engine was the drummer of a well known beat combo from Liverpool who broke up in 1970.....!

As far as I know: Ringo, Some Baldwin and Mr. Carlin.
Back to mourning.

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Reply #20 - Jun 23^rd, 2008 at 2:06pm

Starbuck wrote on Jun 23^rd, 2008 at 11:39am:

Gazza wrote on Jun 23^rd, 2008 at 7:48am:

Pdog wrote on Jun 23^rd, 2008 at 7:36am:

anyone with kids knows his narration of Tomas The Tank Engine. I never got used to that, Carlin was very special to me. One of the greats, he took comedy to the next level...

In the UK, the narrator of Thomas the Tank Engine was the drummer of a well known beat combo from Liverpool who broke up in 1970.....!

carlin...ringo...alec baldwin...anyone who's anyone in hollywood has narrated thomas the tank engine.

We need a Ringo the narrator tribute artist.

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Re: George Carlin, the Comedian, Is Dead at 71
Reply #21 - Jun 23^rd, 2008 at 4:14pm

Carlin's New Rules For 2008

New Rule #1: Stop giving me that pop-up ad for classmates.com!
There's a reason you don't talk to people for 25 years. Because you
don't particularly like them! Besides, I already know what the captain
of the football team is doing these days.... Mowing my lawn.

New Rule #2: Don't eat anything that's served to you out a window unless you're a seagull. People are acting all shocked that a human finger was found in a bowl of Wendy's chili. Hey, it cost less than a dollar. What did you expect it to contain? Trout?

New Rule #3: Ladies, leave your eyebrows alone. Here's how much men
care about your eyebrows: Do you have two of them? Okay, we're done.

New Rule #4: There's no such thing as flavored water. There's a whole
aisle of this crap at the supermarket: Water, but without that watery taste.
Sorry, but flavored water is called a soft drink. You want flavored
water? Pour some scotch over ice and let it melt. That's your flavored water.

New Rule #5: Stop screwing with old people. Target is introducing a
redesigned pill bottle that's square, with a bigger label. And the top is now
the bottom. And by the time grandpa figures out how to open it, his
ass will be in the morgue. Congratulations, Target, you just solved the
Social Security crisis.

New Rule #6: The more complicated the Starbucks order, the bigger the asshole. If you walk into a Starbucks and order a "decaf grande half-soy, half low fat, iced vanilla, double-shot, gingerbread cappuccino, extra-dry, light ice, with one sweet'n'Low, and one NutraSweet," ooh, you're a huge asshole.

New Rule #7: I'm not the cashier! By the time I look up from sliding my card, entering my PIN number, pressing "Enter," verifying the amount, deciding no, I don't want cash back, and pressing "Enter" again, the kid who is supposed to be ringing me up is standing there eating my Almond Joy.

New Rule #8: Just because your tattoo has Chinese characters in it
doesn't make you spiritual. It's right above the crack of your ass and it
translates to "beef with broccoli." The last time you did anything
spiritual, you were praying to God you weren't pregnant. You're not
spiritual. You're just high.

New Rule #9: Competitive eating isn't a sport. It's one of the seven
deadly sins. ESPN recently televised the U.S. Open of Competitive
Eating, because watching those athletes at the poker table was just too
damned exciting. What's next, Competitive Farting??? Oh wait!? They're
already doing that. It's called "The Howard Stern Show."

New Rule #10: I don't need bigger, mega M&Ms. If I'm extra hungry for
M&Ms, I'll go nuts and eat two.

New Rule #11: No more gift registries. You know, it used to be just
for weddings. Now it's for babies and new homes and graduations from rehab.
Picking out the stuff you want and having other people buy it for you
isn't gift giving, it's the white people version of looting.

New Rule #12: When I ask how old your toddler is, I don't need to know
in months (e.g., 27 months.) "He's two," will do just fine. He's not a
cheese. And I didn't really care in the first place.

New Rule #13: If you ever hope to be a credible adult and want a job
that pays better than minimum wage, then for God's sake don't pierce or
tattoo every available piece of flesh. If so, then plan your future around
saying, "Do you want fries with that?"

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Reply #24 - Jun 23^rd, 2008 at 7:31pm

RIP George. He was one funny man. Saw him several times and was always impressed. He also was spot on concerning the myth of Global Warming!

"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 fucking 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 gonna save the fucking planet?

I'm getting tired of that shit. Tired of that shit. I'm tired of fucking 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 save for their Volvos. Besides, environmentalists don't give a shit 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 fucked. 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 gonna 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, worlwide 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 shit, 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 wanna 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 wanna 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 pardigm: 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...asshole.

So, the plastic is here, our job is done, we can be phased out now. And I think that's begun. Don't you think that's already started? I think, to be fair, the planet sees us as a mild threat. Something to be dealt with. And the planet can defend itself in an organized, collective way, the way a beehive or an ant colony can. A collective defense mechanism. The planet will think of something. What would you do if you were the planet? How would you defend yourself against this troublesome, pesky species? Let's see... Viruses. Viruses might be good. They seem vulnerable to viruses. And, uh...viruses are tricky, always mutating and forming new strains whenever a vaccine is developed. Perhaps, this first virus could be one that compromises the immune system of these creatures. Perhaps a human immunodeficiency virus, making them vulnerable to all sorts of other diseases and infections that might come along. And maybe it could be spread sexually, making them a little reluctant to engage in the act of reproduction.

Well, that's a poetic note. And it's a start. And I can dream, can't I? See I don't worry about the little things: bees, trees, whales, snails. I think we're part of a greater wisdom than we will ever understand. A higher order. Call it what you want. Know what I call it? The Big Electron. The Big Electron...whoooa. Whoooa. Whoooa. It doesn't punish, it doesn't reward, it doesn't judge at all. It just is. And so are we. For a little while."

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