George Carlin RIP

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I just read that George Carlin has died from heart problems. I didn't follow his comedy but his movie roles were great. With Kevin Smith in Dogma, and Jay ands Silent Bob Strike Back. And when he was in Bill & Ted. Funny guy.

 

Oh no .

The guy is an absolute legend. My usual reaction to news reports that 'xxx has died' is "Oh, well, that's a bit sad I 'spose, but I don't really care", but I'm a bit affected by this. He's the 2nd best comedian of all time, the world needs more people like George. He said whatever he wanted and would not be censored. Rest in peace pal.

 

I think the only word that really sums this up is ****

 

George Carlin has passed away.

Actual quote:

Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.

Edit: This was from my post in whatnots.

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Oops -- I start one of these threads in Whatnots ... The forecast for tonight is dark.

Carlin was an incredible writer -- he had a knack for both the profound and the profane.

TGS -- how fitting to use of the seven words ....

 

I wonder how many of the seven words you can't say on TV are also banned on SP?

RIP, George.

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Crap. I just posted in the Whatnots thread before I saw this one.

George was one of the best.

 

Type them and find out....

WARNING: Bad words follow in the spoiler (or a lot of astericks)....

Seven Words by George Carlin:

Spoiler

"I love words. I thank you for hearing my words. I want to tell you something about words that I uh, I think is important. I love..as I say, they're my work, they're my play, they're my passion. Words are all we have really.

We have thoughts, but thoughts are fluid. You know, [humming]. And, then we assign a word to a thought, [clicks tongue]. And we're stuck with that word for that thought. So be careful with words. I like to think, yeah, the same words that hurt can heal. It's a matter of how you pick them.

There are some people that aren't into all the words. There are some people who would have you not use certain words. Yeah, there are 400,000 words in the English language, and there are seven of them that you can't say on television. What a ratio that is. 399,993 to seven. They must really be bad. They'd have to be outrageous, to be separated from a group that large. All of you over here, you seven. Bad words. That's what they told us they were, remember? 'That's a bad word.' 'Awwww.' There are no bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad Intentions.

And words, you know the seven don't you? ****, Piss, ****, ****, Cocksucker, Mother****er, and ****, huh? Those are the heavy seven. Those are the ones that will infect your soul, curve your spine and keep the country from winning the war.

****, Piss, ****, ****, Cocksucker, Mother****er, and ****, wow. **** doesn't even belong on the list, you know. It's such a friendly sounding word. It sounds like a nickname. 'Hey, ****, come here. ****, meet Toots, Toots, ****, ****, Toots.' It sounds like a snack doesn't it? Yes, I know, it is, right. But I don't mean the sexist snack, I mean, New Nabisco ****. The new Cheese ****, and Corn **** and Pizza ****, Sesame **** Onion ****, Tater ****, Yeah. Betcha can't eat just one. That's true I usually switch off . But I mean that word does not belong on the list.

Actually, none of the words belong on the list, but you can understand why some of them are there. I am not completely insensitive to people's feelings. You know, I can dig why some of those words got on the list...like cocksucker and mother****er. Those are...those are heavy-weight words. There's a lot going on there, man. Besides the literal translation and the emotional feeling. They're just busy words. There's a lot of syllables to contend with. And those K's. Those are aggressive sounds, they jump out at you. CocksuckerMother****erCocksucker. It's like an assault, on you. So I can dig that.

And we mentioned **** earlier, of course. Two of the other 4-letter Anglo-Saxon words are Piss and ****, which go together of course. But forget about that. A little accidental humor there. Piss and ****. The reason Piss and **** are on the list is that a long time ago certain ladies said 'Those are the two I am not going to say. I don't mind **** and ****, but P and C are out. P and C are out.' Which led to such stupid sentences as 'OK, you ****ers, I am going to tinkle now.'

And of course the word ****. The word ****, I don't really...well, this is some more accidental humor, but I don't really want to get into that now. Because I think it takes too long. But I do mean that. I mean, I think the word **** is an important word. It's the beginning of life, and, yet it's a word we use to hurt one other, quite often. And uh, people much wiser than I have said, I'd rather have my son watch a film with two people making love than two people trying to kill one other. And I of course agree. I wish I know who said it first, and I agree with that. But I would like to take it a step further. I would like to substitute the word ****, for the word kill in all those movie cliches we grew up with. 'Okay Sheriff, we're gonna **** ya now. But we're gonna **** ya slow.' So maybe next year I'll have a whole ****in' rap on that word. I hope so.

Uh, there are two-way words, but those are the seven you can never say on television. Under any circumstances you just can not say them ever, ever ever, not even clinically. You can not weave them in the panel with Doc and Ed and Johnny, I mean it's just impossible, forget those seven, they're out.

But, there are some two-way words. There are double-meaning words. Remember the ones your giggled at in sixth grade? 'And the cock crowed three times.''Hey, the cock the cock crowed three times. It's in the bible.' There are some Two-way words, like it's okay for Curt Gowdy to say 'Roberto Clemente has two balls on him.' But he can't say, 'I think he hurt his balls on that play Tony, don't you? He's holding them. He must have hurt them by God.' And the other two-way word that goes with that one is prick. It's okay if it happens to your finger. Yes, you can prick your finger, but don't finger your prick. No, no."

EDIT: I guess five of the seven are unacceptable....

 

That guy was a legend. I loved his stand-up work and his views on the world. Perhaps I should finally book up a few of his books, like I've been planning to do for a long time.

 

Well, crap. Words fail.

 

Yeah; his three books are wonderful. (You might remember I used to post snippets and 'short takes' from time to time in RBPs).

I can't say I was completely surprised; he'd had some heart attacks in the past few years. But news of his death still rocked me to a stand-still - I ended up late to work.

I'll miss him, but I'm glad he had a good run of things.

I've been browsing through all the audio clips on his website, and I've settled on one closing line of his as 'my personal epitaph' for Mr. C:

(apologies if anything above either contravenes BoM's rules, or - more importantly - offends anyone)

 

A sad day, for certain. I borrowed a couple of his books from my cousin a few years back. I really shoud read them...