OT - George Carlin

and has managed to stay relevent through the decades. I only saw him a while back in Vegas and it was a great show.

... in the early 70’s when I was in high school. He really did push the envelope in ways no comedian except Lenny Bruce had done up to that time.

He will indeed be missed.

(Strange, when I posted this there was an ad offering “George Carlin Ringtones” on the page. I have no control over that.)

There should be randomly placed land mines in the outfield. Batters should only get one swing. There should be a 2 second shot clock in basketball. Why do pitchers always “uncork” a wild pitch? How can hitters NOT hit the ball where it’s pitched? Football is played in a stadium, War Memorial Stadium. Baseball is played in a park. Those are some of the comments I remember from George Carlin.

BTW, i have seen two football games between Miss State and Arkansas at War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock. Tim Russert talked about seeing Bills games at War Memorial Stadium in Buffalo.

I loved his fascination with words and their meanings.

R.I.P. George Carlin.

over the years. The version I had on album had two bits not on the youtube
clip. One was that football was in fact very European as the object was to
“Kick them and take their land and kick them and take their land”

Also instead of imagining what Parcell’s would look like in a uniform he talked
about how Woody Hayes wore a baseball cap on the sidelines but if Casey Stengel
had worn a football helmet in the dugout they would have carted him way.

Anyway my favorite baseball routine.

We’ve been playing his stuff in the office all day, much to the chagrin of the boss, but he can go shove it… at least his name isn’t Todd or Tucker ;-)

“Hi, I’m Wayne… I’m a gun person.” Priceless.

I just started reading his book “Brain Droppings” again while waiting for the game to start yesterday. Kind of a strange coincidence when I saw the news this morning. I’ll never forget seeing him in Little Rock in ‘99. He was still every bit as funny as all the older shows I watched. I’ll miss him.

I was thinking of making a fanpost about this myself.

Once in 1990 Harbaugh and Grace hosted on WGN together and they read Baseball vs. Football.

In football the quarterback also known as the field general leads his squad down the field and executes plays and if he does have to he resorts to throwing the bomb in baseball its about going home.

In football it’s rigifdly timed and if it’s tied we have sudden death. In baseball they play 9 innings and we don’t know when it’s goibg to end. We can have extra innings!

(not exact words but I loved those 2 passages)

“Four to three, six to one, five to four and in extra innings six to five.”

...and there’s 7 of them you can’t say on TV. That still has me rolling and it was some 30 years ago he did that.

Tonights’ forecast: Dark….tomorrow morning it will start to get a wee bit light then it will be bright later.

His baseball vs football comparison is a riot.

RIP George, there will never be anyone quite like you buddy.

F’ng A George….RIP

I doubt we’ll ever see his like again.

RIP George-You will be missed.

and decided that, if there is a God, George was welcomed into Heaven because of his consummate humanity, and obvious love for his fellow man (disguised as sarcasm).

I will truly miss him.

every time i’m driving down a parkway. Why do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway. His mastery of the english language was amazing.

for my wife and I was that, driving around on Sunday we heard that Carlin had just been nominated or given some kind of achievement award. I didn’t catch where/who it was from though, if anyone can help out. Anyway, they’d mentioned at that time he is 71 and I said, “Wow, he’s gettin’ up there. He’s a bit older than I thought.” Then the next morning he was gone.

He was one of the good ones.