George Carlin Died, Yesterday Options

[Supersprynt]

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

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.

Sad day, a very funny man.

[shaunrichard]

I just read an article the other day about him receiving the Mark Twain award. No mention in the article of any health problems, though.

I agree. Sad day. Carlin has always been a major comedic genius whose commentary pulled a lot of ugly stuff into the light.

[Random_Stranger]

Strange coincidences for me lately. Thursday, I am tripping out on birds. Listening to them and watching them (which I never do). Friday night comes and I save a bird from being killed by my cat. Saturday morning, I take him outside as he is healthy and fine. He flies away. Saturday night, my friend brings up George Carlin. She reads me things from his book (forgot what the title is, but it mentions it in the headline for yahoo news upon his death), she goes on about how much she loves George Carlin. Now he dies. There are more but I can't dig that deep into my head at this hour, perhaps I should sleep. Crazy though.

[DEATH]

I [A huge Carlin fan from as early as 8yo] knew this was gonna happen and I told Griffy about it just a month ago. I got on this kick recently and was watching alot of his stuff with this weird little nagging feeling that his time had come.
And some people don't believe in the supernatural - I don't claim to be pschic but I certainly saw this coming. Weird.
Mad props for the man who said: "I don't have issues, I have major psychotic fcuking hatreds"
Oh yeah: May God and Joe Peschi rest his soul

This post has been edited by DEATH: Jun 23, 2008 - 7:13 AM

[97Celica]

I'm pretty sure smoking and alcohol had something to do with it...

[SeverX13]

I'm pretty sure smoking and alcohol had something to do with it...

who cares if it was smoking and drinking. At least it wasnt a drug overdose like how most of the celebrities that die. He was a great and funny man. I highly respect him and all that hes done for comedy. One of the things about him i enjoyed the most is about how he lived his life to the fullest, not caring about what anyone thought, and voiceing his opinion. He was probably one of the only true comedians left. I am truly saddened about this.


RIP: George Carlin - 1937-2008

This post has been edited by SeverX13: Jun 23, 2008 - 7:42 AM

[Jdog1385]

He will be missed;

- When cheese gets it's picture taken, what does it say?

- When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?

- If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?

- When someone is impatient and says, "I haven't got all day," I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

- I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?

- If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?

- Is a vegetarian permitted to eat animal crackers?

- What if there were no hypothetical questions?

- Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

- Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.

- 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.

- Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?

- Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

- Why do croutons come in airtight packages? It's just stale bread to begin with.

- I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.

- May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.

- Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

- If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2?

- I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories.

- Electricity is really just organized lightning.

- Women like silent men, they think they're listening.

- "I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?

- Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.

- If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?

- Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

[Jen]

This is probably the saddest I have ever been over a celebrity death. Wow.. he was a legend.

[Supersprynt]

# Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

# I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.

# Why is the man (or woman) who invests all your money called a broker?

# I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

# There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

# At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.

# As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.

# 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.

# Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

# Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

# I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.

# The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.

# 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!

# This is a lttle prayer dedicated to the separation of church and state. I guess if they are going to force those kids to pray in schools they might as well have a nice prayer like this: Our Father who art in heaven, and to the republic for which it stands, thy kingdom come, one nation indivisible as in heaven, give us this day as we forgive those who so proudly we hail. Crown thy good into temptation but deliver us from the twilight's last gleaming. Amen and Awomen.

[SeverX13]

-So I say, “Live and let live.” That’s my motto. “Live and let live.” Anyone who can’t go along with that, take him outside and shoot the mo********er. It’s a simple philosophy, but it’s always worked in our family.