George Carlin would have been 76 today

[pokerfan]

Happy birthday to the great George Carlin, who would have been 76 today. As a tribute, here are some of his funniest and most poignant political quotes of all time.











Many more: http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/bl-george-carlin-quotes.htm

[Lindsay]

1. I miss him

every day.

Thanks for the reminders of why.

[Smarmie Doofus]

2. Rec. The last one's the clincher. n/t

[pokerfan]

3. Yes, it is

No one could combine the profound and the comic the way he could.

[Smarmie Doofus]

4. You've seen this? "He thinks he's a comedian."

>>George Carlin once said that you always knew you were in trouble in school when the priests called you “Mister,” reports David Gonzalez in the New York Times (6/24/08). George made the observation during a 1983 fundraising event at Cardinal Hayes High School in the Bronx, “whose colors are cardinal and gold” but that George said “looked suspiciously like red and yellow.” Naturally, there was some nervousness about what he might say about “a school that preached a religion he no longer believed in,” not to mention the fundraiser’s guest of honor, its dean of discipline, Msgr. Stanislaus P. Jablonski.

“Some of us said Jesus hung out with sinners,” recalled Neil Sullivan, who had a hand in arranging for George’s appearance. “That won out. Maybe this was a road back for him.” A road back didn’t materialize, but George did keep things clean for the occasion, which included “spot-on impersonations of teachers and deans of his era … He captured the hilarity of teenage wiseguys dreaming up outlandish hypotheticals in religion class as they tried to stump the priests about what is and isn’t a sin,” and other articles of faith (“If God is all powerful, can he make a rock so big that even he cannot lift it?”).

Years later, rumor had it that George sometimes was spotted lurking about outside the school’s doors. “He would come up to the front of the school and he would walk back and forth,” according to Neil Sullivan. “Apparently he went back there to get his thoughts. It brought him back to a certain time.” He also apparently always kept a Hayes baseball jacket he had been given by the school that night in his dressing room for years to come. In any case, Msgr. Jablonski apparently enjoyed George’s performance at the fundraiser, at one point reading some of the “old detention slips he had issued to a young George Carlin,” one of which read: “He thinks he’s a comedian.” ~ Tim Manners, editor >>>

http://www.reveries.com/?s=george+carlin

[pokerfan]

8. I've always considered him

more of a stand-up philosopher.

[Initech]

5. Truly a man ahead of his time.

A few of my favorite bits:

And then an interview on Real Time:

[pokerfan]

6. Thanks

I never saw him on Real Time.

[Egalitarian Thug]

7. One of the good ones. The world is worse for his absence.

You can watch the consequences of his observation every day right here at DU.

[Lucky Luciano]

9. George was the best. nt

[Martin Eden]

10. George Carlin was/is a NATIONAL TREASURE

His birthday is indeed cause for celebration and for keeping his wit & wisdom alive.