R.I.P. George Carlin

[OrlandoMike]

What words?

Geesh, I already forgot!

 

[rpmdfw]

But who knew new dryers don't come with plugs anymore! So top of my honey - do list was to take the plug off of the old dryer and hook it to the new dryer, clean out the lint hose, install the new dryer, and haul the old dryer to the curb, where it was promptly picked up by someone in the neighborhood in a new record amount of time......10 minutes!

How butch!

I'm impressed!

And we've hijacked another RIP thread, again, haven't we?

 

[OrlandoMike]

OOPS, my bad!

As for the words, I remember now that I went outside to chop up the box that the new dryer came in to put in the trash.....IN THIS HEAT!

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OOPS, the Dis has a filter on! Sorry!

 

[wallyb]

OOPS, my bad!

As for the words, I remember now that I went outside to chop up the box that the new dryer came in to put in the trash.....IN THIS HEAT!

@&%^$&
&%$%^%
*^%$%#
@#$*^
!^$^&
y^%#$%

AND

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OOPS, the Dis has a filter on! Sorry!

Come on your a Mod - you can get around that pesky filter

 

[padalyn]

Found out that George Carlin died while I was driving in to work.

This makes me very sad!

He was VERY funny.

WHAT??????
Gee and he lived in my county....I missed this completely....oh no....

 

[Timon-n-Pumbaa Fan]

Time to set the Tivo!

HBO plans encores programs of George Carlin comedy
Tue Jun 24, 2008 5:51pm EDT
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - In a tribute to irreverent comedian George Carlin who died this week, cable television network HBO said on Tuesday that it will air encore specials of more than 30 years of his comedy shows starting this week.

Carlin began giving performances on HBO as far back as 1977, almost since the network's inception, and the network will air the first "George Carlin at USC" as well as the final "It's Bad for Ya."

Sister network HBO2 will show 11 of his specials over two nights.

"Because HBO has had such a long and close relationship with George Carlin, his passing is like losing one of our own," HBO Entertainment Senior Vice President Nancy Geller said in a statement. "No performer was more important to helping our network define itself in its early years."

Carlin was 71 years-old when he died of heart failure on Sunday in a Los Angeles-area hospital. He had enthralled the country for nearly 50 years with his provocative humor.

In 1978, a radio broadcast of Carlin's routine "Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television," fueled a battle with the Federal Communications Commission over indecent language on U.S. airwaves.

The U.S. Supreme Court later ruled that Carlin had used words that were indecent, and that the FCC could ban them from being aired when children were listening.

Still, Carlin continued with his no-holds-barred style of comedy that inspired several generations of young comedians to push the boundaries of what audiences considered funny.

"(No) performer was more committed to the ideal of freedom of speech, a principle he embodied for the 50 years he performed with his trademark wit," Geller said.

Apart from presenting 14 shows on HBO, Carlin wrote three best-selling books, won four Grammy Awards, and recorded 22 comedy albums.

The John F. Kennedy Center recently announced Carlin the winner of the prestigious Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, which he was to receive in November this year.