Moment of Silence for George Carlin
by Grant Brisbee on Jun 23, 2008 1:11 AM PDT
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PrintUpdate: Nothing says "moment of silence" more than a YouTube video. The bit is usually safe for work, but he might have thrown a couple of bombs in this particular performance, I'm not sure.
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I'll take the freight train, Bengie Molina.
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Idolizing Robb Nen since 2002...
by Smoke on the Water on Jun 23, 2008 2:19 AM PDT reply actions
FUCK, SHIT, PISS, CUNT, COCKSUCKER, MOTHERFUCKER, TITS!!!
I really think he’d prefer that to silence.
by positiveuphemism on Jun 23, 2008 5:34 AM PDT reply actions
tits?
Tits doesn’t belong on the list. I know it sounds like a snack. Bet you can’t eat just one.
Tits was on the list because it had only one meaning. There are plenty of “dirty” words that could be used on TV because they have other meanings: cock, ass, come, boner, pussy…
by North Side Chicago Expatriate Giants Fan on Jun 23, 2008 10:15 AM PDT up reply actions
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"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jun 23, 2008 7:21 AM PDT reply actions
In baseball, the object of the game is to "go home."
"[Greg] Vaughn is in a funk so deep, George Clinton wearing a miner's helmet couldn't find him."
- Jim Baker, ESPN.com, May 2002
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Proud supporter of the Fightin' Hydrants.
by Little Napoleon on Jun 23, 2008 8:26 AM PDT reply actions
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Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.
by WilliamVanLandingham on Jun 23, 2008 8:43 AM PDT reply actions
;_;
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No, really, I have updated my blog this year: http://skaldheim.livejournal.com/tag/baseball
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Proud adopted parent of future big league slugger Thomas Neal
by nostocksjustbonds on Jun 23, 2008 9:17 AM PDT reply actions
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Jonathan Sanchez. He's left-handed, like Barry Zito. His fastball breaks 80, unlike Zito.
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I was THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME (for 3 days in 1995).
by Mike Benjamin Hit King on Jun 23, 2008 10:03 AM PDT reply actions
bill and ted's excellent adventure
George played a cool role in this one …
He was very good at making sure all of us, don’t take ourselves too seriously.
RUFUS!!!
I'll take the freight train, Bengie Molina.
by Brother Bummer on Jun 24, 2008 1:17 PM PDT up reply actions
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Anagram of “comedian George Carlin” = COMICAL, ENDEARING OGRE
Anagram of "Giants pitcher Matt Cain" = TRAGIC MAN, ISN'T PATHETIC
by Stuttering John Tamargo on Jun 23, 2008 11:48 AM PDT reply actions
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Huge bummer…He was hands down my favorite comedian. Nobody can ever hope to top his witty rants on even the stupidest issues. I was hugely anticipating his next HBO special as he said there would be one when I saw him live about a year ago. And if anyone was at that show in Livermore a while back, I’m going to add him to my computer contacts and leave him there for 6 weeks before I actually recognize that he’s dead. RIP, George.
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Still loved him even though he made fun of my name.
Miss you George.
I am Cameron Wood and this is my son and business partner CW Culberson.
This sucks
People think he swore just to swear, but he used swearwords in the smartest way I’ve ever seen anyone use swear words.
It eternally sucks that Carlin’s last film credit is the awful Happily N’Ever After. He was funny in Dogma and Bill & Ted. Never funnier than when he was skewering our daily existence as human beings.
Heaven now has Richard Pryor and George Carlin. That’s a pretty good show.
"While conservatives tell you 'leave things alone and no one will lose,' and liberals tell you 'interfere a lot and no one will lose,' baseball says 'someone will lose.' Not only says it - but insists upon it! ... Democracy is lovely, but baseball's more mature." BVCE supports SF Dugout and Manny Burriss.
by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Jun 23, 2008 1:52 PM PDT reply actions
Very Sad, indeed...
He was truly a comic genius! I remember him most for his stand-up routines, long before he was in any movies.
Moment of silence?
Shouldn’t a more appropriate send off be the 7 words?
Adoptive parental unit of Kevin "Most Spectacular Pitcher" Pucetas.
"I'm a Giant now... I like watching the ball get up there" - Wendell Fairley
"I'm really proud to be on this team." - Nate Schierholtz
by obsessivegiantscompulsive on Jun 23, 2008 9:52 PM PDT reply actions
Oops
Someone beat me to this…
Adoptive parental unit of Kevin "Most Spectacular Pitcher" Pucetas.
"I'm a Giant now... I like watching the ball get up there" - Wendell Fairley
"I'm really proud to be on this team." - Nate Schierholtz
by obsessivegiantscompulsive on Jun 23, 2008 9:52 PM PDT up reply actions
doesn't mean you can't do it, too
I think it would have made more sense if every single post were those 7 words.
by positiveuphemism on Jun 23, 2008 10:45 PM PDT up reply actions
And seven other things: fuck, shit, piss, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits.
“They fired me from a Las Vegas casino for saying “shit” in my act. Some big Texan was at the tables saying, “Aw shit, I crapped.” They fly those guys in for free. They fired me. Shit.”
DFA all Giants over 34 years old.
Remembered this George Carlin bit
Found it online, although it’s not word for word how I remember it:
But I understand that; I can empathize with the fans. Because, frankly, I don’t know what to do during a moment of silence, either. Do you? What are you supposed to do? What do they expect? Do they want us to pray? They don’t say that. If you want me to pray, they should ask. I’ll pray, but at least have the courtesy to make the formal request.But no. They offer no guidance, no instruction at all. I honestly don’t know what to do. Sometimes I resort to evil thoughts: I wish my seatmates ill fortune in days to come; I fantasize about standing naked in front of the Lincoln Memorial and becoming sexually aroused; I picture thousands of penguins being hacked to death by boatloads of graduate students. More often though, I wind up bored silly, searching for something to occupy my thoughts. One time I inventoried the pimples on the neck of the man in front of me, hoping to find one with a hair growing through it, so I could quietly pluck it out during the confusion of halftime. On a happier occasion, I once found myself staring at the huge but perfectly formed breasts of the woman to my left, her fleshy mounds rising and falling softly in the late October sun. And my thoughts turned tenderly romantic:
“Holy shit! Look at the fuckin’ knobs on her! Great fuckin’ knobs! I think I’m gonna go to the refresment stand, buy myself a weenie and hide it in my pants. Then during halftime, I’m gonna whip out the weenie and force her to watch while I eat the bun and stuff the weenie up my…. naaah! She’s probably one of those uptight chicks who’d think I’m weird. She doesn’t know the problem is I’m shy.”
Don't think, it could only hurt the ballclub.
The Orleans , Las Vegas
He played there just last week!
I was getting up the nerve/jack to see him!
Fuckshitpiss , etc. I feel worse than when I discovered Hendrix in 1974.
My father took me and the son of the surgeon who appendectomied me to see George at the University of Alaska in 1974. We were at the foot of the bleachers AND the stage , two 14 year olds and a chaperoning father either drunk asleep or feigning it .
Classic blue bedlam was ensuing all around. We rolled , Dad slept.
Or so I thought.
After dropping off my friend my father turned to me and in a moment of , I’m sure , parental self second guessing said “I never want you to mention George Carlin again.”
It’s interesting hearing the contrast between the obscenely hilarious 70s Carlin and the dry , cerebral modern version…damn. Just damn.
Aaron "Swag" Rowand
by victor frankenstein on Jun 24, 2008 10:57 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh , and this.
He did some of the narration/voices for “Thomas The Tank Engine” which helped the parenting thing for me.
Aaron "Swag" Rowand
by victor frankenstein on Jun 24, 2008 11:05 PM PDT reply actions
Heh
I totally forgot about that. I couldn’t keep a straight-face when it was Carlin doing the voices. I pictured him finally busting loose from the script….
“Percy meanwhile was having trouble shunting the freight cars. Thomas asked merrily ‘Do you need some help Percy?’. Percy replied ‘F_ck you Thomas, how the hell am I supposed to learn this sh_t if you don’t let me do it myself? Always the f__king show-off.’ Sir Topham Hatt arrived & was shocked by Percy’s behavior. ‘Percy, you know I don’t like that type of language on my railways’. Percy didn’t care. ‘I’m not taking crap from you fat man until I get my paycheck already. I got a wife & little conductor at home. Stop jerking off & make us some money.’ James the Red Engine pulled into the station. ‘Is Percy in trouble again? And they call me cheeky?’ James, the king asshole of Sodor, steamed away.”
Don't think, it could only hurt the ballclub.
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