Many DUers don't know the difference between baseball and football.

[Elwood P Dowd]

Maybe this will help you.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YphEUa5LPjM

[MzNov]

1. Next to Al Sleet,

this is my all time favorite George Carlin routine. Thanks.

[Elwood P Dowd]

4. What about his sports reports?

"Here are tonight's baseball scores.....3-2, 5-4, and a partial score, Pittsburgh 7." My scores are probably wrong, but you get the idea.

[MzNov]

5. absolutely.

I saw him way back in the 70's and I'll never forget that concert.

[Elwood P Dowd]

7. "A dog blew up on a downtown street today.

No people were hurt, but over 5,000 fleas died in the blast."

[MzNov]

8. lol. If cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say?

:rofl:

[Elwood P Dowd]

10. We're showing our age.

Remember the Russian ICBMs on the weather radar or the one-arm man in a boat? Wish I still had all those old tapes and LPs. None of that stuff is on YouTube.

[pokerfan]

16. "Our radar is picking up a line of thundershowers,

but it's also picking up a squadron of ICBMs, so I wouldn't sweat the thundershowers."

[Elwood P Dowd]

17. Finally found that on YouTube.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=HMd5qaRlJ20&

[cboy4]

2. Brilliant. LOL!!

:thumbsup:

[Coexist]

3. .

[Greyhound]

6. Another Gem from one of our last, best social commentators. n/t

:kick: & R

[CatholicEdHead]

9. Still better than Cricket and Soccer

;)

[damntexdem]

11. Sure we know the difference -- football uses a bigger puck.

And in baseball, they sweep the ice a bit more before throwing the stone.

[lordsummerisle]

12. Thanks for posting this

it's one of my favorite comedy routines...

[silverojo]

13. He expressed my sentiments exactly

I always did feel that football was a real sport, while baseball was...well...a tad on the sissy side. Let's face it, not one of those lardbutts who call themselves MLB "athletes" could cut it in any real sport that demanded any prolonged activity.

George Carlin was a true comic genius, and a true genius at observing society.

[Donkey_Punch_Dubya]

14. Yep, football is the king of sports.

I heard this Carlin routine when I was a kid and loved it then.

[pokerfan]

19. And I thought it was dissing football

by giving it all the "bad" attributes.

"Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings." -George Will

[Oeditpus Rex]

21. Is that how you read it?

I see it as a statement that football is the sport of warmongers. :shrug:



:popcorn:

[Bake]

23. You try hitting a baseball thrown at you at 90+ mph

With a round stick maybe three inches in diameter. Oh. And you don't know if the ball is going to go straight, left, right, up or down. And you've pretty much got to decide just about the time the pitcher releases the ball.

And tell me any ol' lardbutt can do it.

Bake

[Elwood P Dowd]

15. Here is George Carlin 42 years ago

on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=HMd5qaRlJ20&

[MzNov]

18. OMG, I didn't know he went back that far...

:rofl: He started out being HILARIOUS didn't he? Aw crap, we're going to miss him.

[Oeditpus Rex]

22. He went back fartther than that

Carlin was in the Air Force in the '50s and while stationed at Barksdale AFB in Louisiana he moonlighted as a disc jockey for a nearby radio station, where he put to work some of the characters he'd been developing since he was a kid. When the Air Force kicked him out, he got a gig at a station in Texas, where he met Jack Burns, another DJ, later famous as half of Burns and Schreiber (noted for that rapid-fire "Huh?" "Yeah." "Huh?" "Yeah." "Huh?" "Yeah" bit that Burns continued in his stint as the deputy who replaced Barney Fife on "The Andy Griffith Show"). The Burns and Carlin team worked the California comedy circuit for a couple of years around 1960.

See what you can learn from Playboy? :D

Oh — in the Air Force, Carlin was a radar/optics technician on SAC bombers. He said in his Playboy interview that he smoked dope every day he was in the service.

[ColbertWatcher]

20. Carlin marathon tonight! HBO East Plus starting @ 8:00pm n/t