View Full Version : RIP George Carlin
Tone Capone
06-23-2008, 03:28 AM
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/06/23/carlin.obit/index.html
synch
06-23-2008, 06:06 AM
When I read about this I came straight here for some reason.
RIP :(
MC Moot
06-23-2008, 09:09 AM
(n):(
He was a phenomenal observational comedian. I was trying to think of the best comedians and he has to be at the top. His writing was spot on and he was in the business forever.
One out of every three Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of two of your best friends. If they are OK, then it must be you.
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You can say prick on television. If it happens to your finger it’s alright. You can prick your finger, just don’t finger your prick.
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I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.
I sucks that George won't hear this eulogy.
cookiepuss
06-23-2008, 11:49 AM
*Salutes*
another one of my heros...gone.:(
abcdefz
06-23-2008, 11:59 AM
R.I.P.
YoungRemy
06-23-2008, 02:35 PM
the big box in the sky just got some good stuff...
MC Moot
06-23-2008, 02:40 PM
^
Live Tonight!
From St Peters strip Lenny Bruce,Richard Pryor and George Carlin!
Carlin did not believe in Heaven or Hell so my guess is that he will just push up daisies.
Religion is sort of like a lift in your shoes. If it makes you feel better, fine. Just don't ask me to wear your shoes.
~George Carlin
Loppfessor
06-23-2008, 03:21 PM
^Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it doesn't exist...meanwhile why do the good always die so young??!!
Very true. I guess George is being forced to drink red wine with Jesus and Jerry Falwell right now.
Laserface
06-23-2008, 03:25 PM
yeah sucks for him if all Christians really are right about heaven and hell
RIP
MC Moot
06-23-2008, 03:25 PM
"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 to 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 just can't handle money!..."
:D
MC Moot
06-23-2008, 03:27 PM
^Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it doesn't exist...meanwhile why do the good always die so young??!!
71 is young?...after what he put his body through,that's great age...(y)
cookiepuss
06-23-2008, 03:27 PM
Carlin did not believe in Heaven or Hell so my guess is that he will just push up daisies.
^ that occured to me too, about george.
wouldn't it be great if Death is really what you want it to be..whatever you beleive? if you want it to be nothingness, it is. if you want it to be harps and angels and ice cream, it is. Maybe if you beleived you should go to hell, then you get flames. wouldn't that be an interesting end to this life? to be able to create your own death. hummm...
Guy Incognito
06-23-2008, 03:30 PM
Is it wrong that it took his death to get me interested in seeing more of his stuff? I had heard of him and seen bits and I'm a massive Hicks fan and there are definite parallels so i feel a bit stupid having only now started to see how funny he was. I have watched loads of stuff today after seeing a few links today and investigating further stuff. Really really good.
cookiepuss
06-23-2008, 03:35 PM
better to have discovered him because of his death than never to have discovered him at all.
he was an icon.
Well, I know that Jesus won't be happy.
I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.
~George Carlin
cookiepuss, I have already created my own netherworld. I am keeping it secret but I will say that it involves hookah pipes and slippers.
Dorothy Wood
06-23-2008, 03:38 PM
RIP Rufus :(
Guy Incognito
06-23-2008, 03:50 PM
better to have discovered him because of his death than never to have discovered him at all.
he was an icon.
It just feels like cheating a bit. Now i have seen a bit of stuff today you can spot all the things he has influenced and i just cant believe i havent sought his stuff out before.
MC Moot
06-23-2008, 04:05 PM
^ hey Guy,check "Brain Droppings" and "Napalm and Silly Putty" highly consumable...wish it was "new" to me....
P.S: I'M HAVING BBMB DEJA VU...:eek:
Lyman Zerga
06-23-2008, 04:08 PM
never heard of him before but after reading parts of the link it sounds like a loss
Guy Incognito
06-23-2008, 04:26 PM
^ hey Guy,check "Brain Droppings" and "Napalm and Silly Putty" highly consumable...wish it was "new" to me....
P.S: I'M HAVING BBMB DEJA VU...:eek:
Cheers but why the deja vu?
insertnamehere
06-23-2008, 05:00 PM
normally celebrity deaths don't bother me too much, but this really makes me feel :( inside
i'd say the old man had a good run though. been on comedy since the 50s and will be remembered for much longer still. that's gotta be some kind of record
mathcart
06-23-2008, 05:33 PM
I said this already somewhere else- but few others had as a big an impact on the way I think and see the world. Among the greatest performers I have ever had the privilege of allowing warp my mind. truly sad news for this world...
(n)
skinnybutphat
06-23-2008, 05:35 PM
:(
I got my tickets for his October show in the mail on Saturday.
One of the best...
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!
What's all this stuff about motivation? I say, if you need motivation, you probably need more than motivation. You probably need chemical intervention or brain surgery. Actually, if you ask me, this country could do with a little less motivation. The people who are causing all the trouble seem highly motivated to me.
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.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=YphEUa5LPjM
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9FKOVFyd3nc
cookiepuss
06-23-2008, 05:45 PM
:(
I got my tickets for his October show in the mail on Saturday.
oh dude.
You don't know how much I thank my lucky stars that I got to go to his HBO Special filming back in March.
taquitos
06-23-2008, 10:12 PM
Three Carlin threads!
RIP Rufus :(
qft
yellow
06-24-2008, 12:35 AM
R.I.P. George. u will be missed by many. thank you for your unforgettable humor, your perfect way of tellng the truth in a way that enlightened your audience's. thank you for entertaining all of us for so many years.
HBO is running Carlin shows.
Wednesday, June 25
8 p.m. "George Carlin at USC" (1977)
9:30 p.m. "George Carlin Again!" (1978)
11 p.m. "Carlin at Carnegie" (1983)
Midnight "Carlin on Campus" (1984)
1 a.m. "Playin' with Your Head" (1986)
Thursday, June 26
8 p.m. "What Am I Doing in New Jersey?" (1988)
9 p.m. "Doin' It Again" (1990)
10 p.m. Jammin' in New York" (1992)
11 p.m. "Back in Town" (1996)
12:05 a.m. "You Are All Diseased" (1999)
1 a.m. "It's Bad for Ya" (2008)
http://www.hbo.com/events/george-carlin/tribute.html?ntrack_para1=feat_main_image
jackrock
08-19-2008, 02:13 PM
normally celebrity deaths don't bother me too much, but this really makes me feel :( inside
George Carlin will never rest properly unless you apologize for calling him a celebrity.
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Forget the politicians, they're irrelevant. The politicians are put there to give you the idea you have freedom of choice - you don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They've long since bought, and payed for the senate, the congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets, and they own all the big media, so they control just about all the information you get. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying - lobbying, to get what they want.
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By the way, it's the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think, and what to buy.
The table has tilted folks. The game is rigged, and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. Good honest hard working people: white collar, blue collar it doesn't matter what color shirt you have on. Good honest hard working people continue (these are people of modest being) - continue to elect these rich douchebags who don't give a fuck about you. They don't give a fuck about you - they don't give a fuck about you. They don't care about you at all - at all - at all, and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care.
That's what the owners counted on. The fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white, and blue dick that's being jammed up their assholes everyday, because the owners of this country know the truth. It's called the American Dream cause you have to be asleep to believe it.
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