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LadyRainfire -> RE: George Carlin, RIP (6/23/2008 3:12:18 AM)

Here's the link to the story.....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080623/ap_on_en_tv/obit_george_carlin

This is one of the greatest losses to the comedy world. To the world of entertainment period. [:(] He  was so funny but spoke the truth.....



Level -> RE: George Carlin, RIP (6/23/2008 3:56:31 AM)

RIP George. One of the funniest, most original, and brilliant comedians ever.



SeeksOnlyOne -> RE: George Carlin, RIP (6/23/2008 5:04:12 AM)

omg i just read this and thought i must be seeing things....

i feel like i have been kicked in the stomach for some reason......i saw him a couple of times, and adored everything i ever saw that he did.

damn......how did he get to be 71......he was supposed to be forever young dammit.[&o]



michaelOfGeorgia -> RE: George Carlin, RIP (6/23/2008 5:20:27 AM)

the world has lost the greates comedian to have ever lived...i will grieve a long time.



Aileen1968 -> RE: George Carlin, RIP (6/23/2008 5:25:56 AM)

I saw him in concert years ago....probably about 19 years ago...I didn't care for him.  I found him annoying and he went on an anti abortion rant that lasted about 20 minutes. 



kittinSol -> RE: George Carlin, RIP (6/23/2008 5:36:47 AM)

Pro life is anti women. ~ G. Carlin



TheHeretic -> RE: George Carlin, RIP (6/23/2008 6:21:48 AM)

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ORIGINAL: Aileen1968

I didn't care for him.  I found him annoying


      Much like another deceased icon, Hunter Thompson, George kept going long after the damage from the drugs was obvious.  The line between funny/angry and just angry was often lost.

       At his best though, there wasn't anybody better.



camille65 -> RE: George Carlin, RIP (6/23/2008 6:22:32 AM)

Oh wow.
[:(]
He was a one of a kind man, and I will miss his words.



DarkSteven -> RE: George Carlin, RIP (6/23/2008 6:29:14 AM)

My God.

I just saw him a couple of years ago when he performed in Colorado Springs.

I'm an amateur comic myself, so I can appreciate his gift.



cjan -> RE: George Carlin, RIP (6/23/2008 7:20:36 AM)

A true original and much more than a comedian. George Carlin was a master satirist and fearless about goring sacred cows. Like Mark Twain and Lenny Bruce, he shed light on our hypocracies and how powerful, yet silly, attitudes about language can be. His personal journey regarding drug use, the seduction of fame and, finally finding maturity and balance while staying true to himself, is an inspiration to me.

He had/has a web site that I kept up on where he posted observations right up until his passing. Truly one of the great ones. He will be sorely missed.

R.I.P.



popeye1250 -> RE: George Carlin, RIP (6/23/2008 8:18:12 AM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: DarkSteven

My God.

I just saw him a couple of years ago when he performed in Colorado Springs.

I'm an amateur comic myself, so I can appreciate his gift.



Hey Darksteven, I'm an amateur comic too.
What do you call an Arab with his arm up a camel's ass?





A mechanic.



kittinSol -> RE: George Carlin, RIP (6/23/2008 8:25:19 AM)

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slvemike4u -> RE: George Carlin, RIP (6/23/2008 8:50:41 AM)

RIP Mr.Carlin



PanthersMom -> RE: George Carlin, RIP (6/23/2008 9:21:45 AM)

goodbye George, and thank you for many years of laughs.  RIP
PM



SummerWind -> RE: George Carlin, RIP (6/23/2008 9:46:37 AM)

Saw him in a small college gymnasium in Pennsylvania in 1986.........while on shrooms.......He was funny.......waking up in Delaware was even funnier.....

"Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, Cocksucker, Motherfucker & Tits" ...



xxblushesxx -> RE: George Carlin, RIP (6/23/2008 10:10:12 AM)

In his prime, he was hilarious.
Later, he seemed angry and bitter. He lost me then.
I felt bad for him though.
I will always remember when he first hit the scene...what a gift he had!



KatyLied -> RE: George Carlin, RIP (6/23/2008 12:14:59 PM)

R.I.P

I liked his remedy to the prison problem.



DelilahDeb -> RE: George Carlin, RIP (6/23/2008 2:50:50 PM)

As much as I laughed at Carlin's stuff, the memory I still treasure is of his pithy take on U.S. political parties (said on the Whoopi Goldberg Show a couple of decades back):
"Republicans are about property; Democrats are about people."

But my favorite bit is still his Irish Catholic upbringing in NY (as best I recall it):
"It's a sin to want to feel up Mary Ellen, it's a sin to think about feeling her up, it's a sin to plan to feel her up, it's a sin to take her to the place where you're gonna try to feel her up, and it's a sin to feel her up. That's SIX sins in one feel!"

Delilah Deb



Zensee -> RE: George Carlin, RIP (6/23/2008 3:21:10 PM)

A sad day for funny.  (Of all the Georges, why this one?)

Farewell George, and don't take any crap from God.


Z.



Evility -> RE: George Carlin, RIP (6/23/2008 5:10:50 PM)

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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic
     Much like another deceased icon, Hunter Thompson, George kept going long after the damage from the drugs was obvious.  The line between funny/angry and just angry was often lost.


I have to agree here. It's been a long time since George said anything that I truly though was funny. He was still always spot in his perspectives of people, society, government and politics but for quite a while now he had seemed like just some pissed off old guy on a rant.

But man... back in the days of "Class Clown" he kept me in stitches. I've missed George for years. Now I'll even miss him more.



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