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ChooseLiberty
06-22-2008, 11:22 PM
http://uk.reuters.com/article/mediaNews/idUKN2339172520080623


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.

Carlin, who had a history of heart problems, died at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica about 6 p.m. PDT (2 a.m. British time) 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 about seven dirty words you could not say on television. A regulatory battle over a radio broadcast of his "Filthy Words" routine ultimately reached the U.S. Supreme Court.

(Reporting by Dean Goodman; Editing by Patricia Zengerle)

OptionsTrader
06-22-2008, 11:28 PM
This makes me sad.

pinkmandy
06-22-2008, 11:29 PM
:(

I will miss his truth and comedy.

ronpaulhawaii
06-22-2008, 11:35 PM
Rip :(

TheEvilDetector
06-22-2008, 11:38 PM
I really liked his comedy.

Sad to see he passed away.

:(

Anti Federalist
06-22-2008, 11:38 PM
Drag.:(

In honorarium:

Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, CockSucker, MotherFucker, Tits

Roxi
06-22-2008, 11:38 PM
awww man that sucks... my dog is named after him

RSLudlum
06-22-2008, 11:39 PM
Damn that's not the kind of news I wanted to hear before going to bed. I saw him live about 5 years ago and it was one of the best stand ups i'd ever seen.


Carlin on "the American Dream"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ4SSvVbhLw

Conza88
06-22-2008, 11:40 PM
:(

foofighter20x
06-22-2008, 11:40 PM
Well, this is a bad way to start off the week. :(

Matt Collins
06-22-2008, 11:40 PM
I didn't think much of him personally, but he was funny and very intelligent. It is ironic I guess because about that same time tonight I was on the phone with my dad tonight and I cracked some Carlin-esqe joke

yongrel
06-22-2008, 11:42 PM
Fuck.

My day is spoiled and it's not even 2.

He will be missed.

sidster
06-22-2008, 11:43 PM
This makes me sad.

ditto. RIP :(

AFM
06-22-2008, 11:46 PM
Fuck.

asgardshill
06-22-2008, 11:55 PM
Weather forecast for tonight: dark.

NoxTwilight
06-22-2008, 11:56 PM
My best friend (who idolizes George) and I were lucky enough to meet him in 99 when a book of his came out. Forget the name of it. Anyway he was such a unique person. Should all give us the courage to speak the truth as we see it. Perhaps not as "colorfully" as he did but he sure did say it like it was.

He will be missed.

RIP George and have a kiss ass time where ever you are :)

dirknb@hotmail.com
06-23-2008, 12:01 AM
That sucks.

Chibioz
06-23-2008, 12:02 AM
Sad to hear that :(

ryanmkeisling
06-23-2008, 01:31 AM
WTF?:eek::(:(:( This caught me by surprise. He was certainly a champion for freedom. R.I.P.

sophocles07
06-23-2008, 01:51 AM
This is fucking depressing

amy31416
06-23-2008, 01:58 AM
Oh what the fuck. That fucking sucks, motherfucking *%26sucking, son of a bitch.

Fuck.

Rest in peace George--send us a dirty message from the afterlife if it exists.

Maverick
06-23-2008, 02:20 AM
This makes me sad.

Yeah, this sucks. I open my iGoogle homepage - with RSS news feeds set to it - and this is the first thing I see. Godammit. Why did he have to go before his time? I guarantee you this man still had more nuggets of wisdom left to drop on us. I guess we'll never know now. Shit :(

newyearsrevolution08
06-23-2008, 02:41 AM
yet again on another thread, rip brother.

fuck the world damn it lol

shit
piss
fuck
damn

We will keep things moving for you whether you are here or not damn it.

newyearsrevolution08
06-23-2008, 02:42 AM
Yeah, this sucks. I open my iGoogle homepage - with RSS news feeds set to it - and this is the first thing I see. Godammit. Why did he have to go before his time? I guarantee you this man still had more nuggets of wisdom left to drop on us. I guess we'll never know now. Shit :(

look at how old he was though.... I hope I can live that long.

Maverick
06-23-2008, 02:47 AM
look at how old he was though.... I hope I can live that long.

Yes, that is true. 70 is a decent age. I'll be surprised as well if I live that long given how much I smoke :p

newyearsrevolution08
06-23-2008, 02:52 AM
http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/06/comedian-george.html

kombayn
06-23-2008, 03:13 AM
I loved this man and his comedy, he brought a lot of laughter and joy into people's lives and he'll truly be missed. George, we'll never forget you... You left your footprint on this planets history and nothing will take it away from your legacy. Peace be with you. :)

newyearsrevolution08
06-23-2008, 03:14 AM
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=George+Carlin&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wv&oi=property_suggestions&resnum=0&ct=property-revision&cd=3#

great show, show respect, have a beer and laugh your ass off

fuck

tit
fuck shit

and all those other fucking words

this is a great video of him , watch it and show respect damn it

werdd
06-23-2008, 05:53 AM
Rip

Truth Warrior
06-23-2008, 06:22 AM
R.I.P. George. :(

acptulsa
06-23-2008, 06:38 AM
Loved his rhythm and the way he drew you in.


Have you ever noticed...

That everyone who drives faster than you is a maniac...

And everyone who drives slower than you is an idiot?


By the way I decided at an early age that since I had to be one or the other, I'd rather be a maniac than an idiot.

Bye George.

angelatc
06-23-2008, 07:26 AM
Yes, that is true. 70 is a decent age. I'll be surprised as well if I live that long given how much I smoke :p

72 is average.

HOLLYWOOD
06-23-2008, 08:54 AM
The NEOCONs gave him an early retirement AFTER they learned he was to appear at the CFL rally in St,Paul, MN.

They couldn't have 20,000 locals, and millions on TV/Radio listen to the true facts about government and their Empire of Lies.

The Man had it together! Boy would it of been an effective speech at the rally!

Truth Warrior
06-23-2008, 09:05 AM
Carlin did not vote and often criticized elections as an illusion of choice.[38] He said he last voted for George McGovern, who ran for President in 1972 [39] against Richard Nixon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Carlin

torchbearer
06-23-2008, 09:36 AM
The following is a verbatim transcript of "Filthy Words" (the George Carlin monologue at issue in the Supreme Court case of FCC v. Pacifica Foundation) prepared by the Federal Communications Commission:
Aruba-du, ruba-tu, ruba-tu. I was thinking about the curse words and the swear words, the cuss words and the words that you can't say, that you're not supposed to say all the time, ['cause] words or people into words want to hear your words. Some guys like to record your words and sell them back to you if they can, (laughter) listen in on the telephone, write down what words you say. A guy who used to be in Washington knew that his phone was tapped, used to answer, Fuck Hoover, yes, go ahead. (laughter) Okay, I was thinking one night about the words you couldn't say on the public, ah, airwaves, um, the ones you definitely wouldn't say, ever, [']cause I heard a lady say bitch one night on television, and it was cool like she was talking about, you know, ah, well, the bitch is the first one to notice that in the litter Johnie right (murmur) Right. And, uh, bastard you can say, and hell and damn so I have to figure out which ones you couldn't and ever and it came down to seven but the list is open to amendment, and in fact, has been changed, uh, by now, ha, a lot of people pointed things out to me, and I noticed some myself. The original seven words were, shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits. Those are the ones that will curve your spine, grow hair on your hands and (laughter) maybe, even bring us, God help us, peace without honor (laughter) um, and a bourbon. (laughter) And now the first thing that we noticed was that word fuck was really repeated in there because the word motherfucker is a compound word and it's another form of the word fuck. (laughter) You want to be a purist it doesn't really -- it can't be on the list of basic words. Also, cocksucker is a compound word and neither half of that is really dirty. The word -- the half sucker that's merely suggestive (laughter) and the word cock is a half-way dirty word, 50% dirty -- dirty half the time, depending on what you mean by it. (laughter) Uh, remember when you first heard it, like in 6th grade, you used to giggle. And the cock crowed three times, heh (laughter) the cock -- three times. It's in the Bible, cock in the Bible. (laughter) And the first time you heard about a cock-fight, remember -- What? Huh? naw. It ain't that, are you stupid? man. (laughter, clapping) It's chickens, you know, (laughter) Then you have the four letter words from the old Anglo-Saxon fame. Uh, shit and fuck. The word shit, uh, is an interesting kind of word in that the middle class has never really accepted it and approved it. They use it like, crazy but it's not really okay. It's still a rude, dirty, old kind of gushy word. (laughter) They don't like that, but they say it, like, they say it like, a lady now in a middle-class home, you'll hear most of the time she says it as an expletive, you know, it's out of her mouth before she knows. She says, Oh shit oh shit, (laughter) oh shit. If she drops something, Oh, the shit hurt the broccoli. Shit. Thank you. (footsteps fading away) (papers ruffling)

Read it! (from audience)

Shit! (laughter) I won the Grammy, man, for the comedy album. Isn't that groovy? (clapping, whistling) (murmur) That's true. Thank you. Thank you man. Yeah. (murmur) (continuous clapping) Thank you man. Thank you. Thank you very much, man. Thank, no, (end of continuous clapping) for that and for the Grammy, man, [']cause (laughter) that's based on people liking it man, yeh, that's ah, that's okay man. (laughter) Let's let that go, man. I got my Grammy. I can let my hair hang down now, shit. (laughter) Ha! So! Now the word shit is okay for the man. At work you can say it like crazy. Mostly figuratively, Get that shit out of here, will ya? I don't want to see that shit anymore. I can't cut that shit, buddy. I've had that shit up to here. I think you're full of shit myself. (laughter) He don't know shit from Shinola. (laughter) you know that? (laughter) Always wondered how the Shinola people feel about that (laughter) Hi, I'm the new man from Shinola. (laughter) Hi, how are ya? Nice to see ya. (laughter) How are ya? (laughter) Boy, I don't know whether to shit or wind my watch. (laughter) Guess, I'll shit on my watch. (laughter) Oh, the shit is going to hit de fan. (laughter) Built like a brick shit-house. (laughter) Up, he's up shit's creek. (laughter) He's had it. (laughter) He hit me, I'm sorry. (laughter) Hot shit, holy shit, tough shit, eat shit, (laughter) shit-eating grin. Uh, whoever thought of that was ill. (murmur laughter) He had a shit-eating grin! He had a what? (laughter) Shit on a stick. (laughter) Shit in a handbag. I always like that. He ain't worth shit in a handbag. (laughter) Shitty. He acted real shitty. (laughter) You know what I mean? (laughter) I got the money back, but a real shitty attitude. Heh, he had a shit-fit. (laughter) Wow! Shit-fit. Whew! Glad I wasn't there. (murmur, laughter) All the animals -- Bull shit, horse shit, cow shit, rat shit, bat shit. (laughter) First time I heard bat shit, I really came apart. A guy in Oklahoma, Boggs, said it, man. Aw! Bat shit. (laughter) Vera reminded me of that last night, ah (murmur). Snake shit, slicker than owl shit. (laughter) Get your shit together. Shit or get off the pot. (laughter) I got a shit-load full of them. (laughter) I got a shit-pot full, all right. Shit-head, shit-heel, shit in your heart, shit for brains, (laughter) shit-face, heh (laughter) I always try to think how that could have originated; the first guy that said that. Somebody got drunk and fell in some shit, you know. (laughter) Hey, I'm shit-face. (laughter) Shitface, today. (laughter) Anyway, enough of that shit. (laughter) The big one, the word fuck that's the one that hangs them up the most. [']Cause in a lot of cases that's the very act that hangs them up the most. So, it's natural that the word would, uh, have the same effect. It's a great word, fuck, nice word, easy word, cute word, kind of. Easy word to say. One syllable, short u. (laughter) Fuck. (Murmur) You know, it's easy. Starts with a nice soft sound fuh ends with a kuh. Right? (laughter) A little something for everyone. Fuck (laughter) Good word. Kind of a proud word, too. Who are you? I am FUCK. (laughter) FUCK OF THE MOUNTAIN. (laughter) Tune in again next week to FUCK OF THE MOUNTAIN. (laughter) It's an interesting word too, [']cause it's got a double kind of a life -- personality -- dual, you know, whatever the right phrase is. It leads a double life, the word fuck. First of all, it means, sometimes, most of the time, fuck. What does it mean? It means to make love. Right? We're going to make love, yeh, we're going to fuck, yeh, we're going to fuck, yeh, we're going to make love. (laughter) we're really going to fuck, yeah, we're going to make love. Right? And it also means the beginning of life, it's the act that begins life, so there's the word hanging around with words like love, and life, and yet on the other hand, it's also a word that we really use to hurt each other with, man. It's a heavy. It's one that you have toward the end of the argument. (laughter) Right? (laughter) You finally can't make out. Oh, fuck you man. I said, fuck you. (laughter, murmur) Stupid fuck. (laughter) Fuck you and everybody that looks like you. (laughter) man. It would be nice to change the movies that we already have and substitute the word fuck for the word kill, wherever we could, and some of those movie cliches would change a little bit. Madfuckers still on the loose. Stop me before I fuck again. Fuck the ump, fuck the ump, fuck the ump, fuck the ump, fuck the ump. Easy on the clutch Bill, you'll fuck that engine again. (laughter) The other shit one was, I don't give a shit. Like it's worth something, you know? (laughter) I don't give a shit. Hey, well, I don't take no shit, (laughter) you know what I mean? You know why I don't take no shit? (laughter) [']Cause I don't give a shit. (laughter) If I give a shit, I would have to pack shit. (laughter) But I don't pack no shit cause I don't give a shit. (laughter) You wouldn't shit me, would you? (laughter) That's a joke when you're a kid with a worm looking out the bird's ass. You wouldn't shit me, would you? (laughter) It's an eight-year-old joke but a good one. (laughter) The additions to the list. I found three more words that had to be put on the list of words you could never say on television, and they were fart, turd and twat, those three. (laughter) Fart, we talked about, it's harmless It's like tits, it's a cutie word, no problem. Turd, you can't say but who wants to, you know? (laughter) The subject never comes up on the panel so I'm not worried about that one. Now the word twat is an interesting word. Twat! Yeh, right in the twat. (laughter) Twat is an interesting word because it's the only one I know of, the only slang word applying to the, a part of the sexual anatomy that doesn't have another meaning to it. Like, ah, snatch, box and pussy all have other meanings, man. Even in a Walt Disney movie, you can say, We're going to snatch that pussy and put him in a box and bring him on the airplane. (murmur, laughter) Everybody loves it. The twat stands alone, man, as it should. And two-way words. Ah, ass is okay providing you're riding into town on a religious feast day. (laughter) You can't say, up your ass. (laughter) You can say, stuff it! (murmur) There are certain things you can say its weird but you can just come so close. Before I cut, I, uh, want to, ah, thank you for listening to my words, man, fellow, uh space travelers. Thank you man for tonight and thank you also. (clapping whistling)

sophocles07
06-24-2008, 03:06 AM
By the way I decided at an early age that since I had to be one or the other, I'd rather be a maniac than an idiot.

I think intended point is: such irrational subjectively frivilous attitudes are ridiculous (and probably linked to other, larger, political irrational attitudes).