Award-winning comedian George Carlin dies

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1. • fodads26

   I'll never forget how I felt when I first heard the words, "Fuck Mickey Mouse. Fuck him in the ass hole with a big rubber dick. Then break it off and beat him with the rest of it. I hope Mickey dies."
   George Carlin said it, in a venomous rant about the absurdities of American Culture.
   I was just about thirteen years old. And ever since, I have been a big fan of Carlin. I have listened to a few of his albums, perused his books, watched a couple of his videos. But more importantly than that, I held him close in my heart, as a role model, to always remind me just how cynical and sarcastic I should be in life.
   George Carlin was a cultural icon, a legend in his own time, and one of the funniest men to ever grace the stage. News of his death, to me, serves as a reminder that the world is changing. The best part of a great man's life is what comes after it. Myself, and untold thousands of people like me, have inherited the world, partly in the name of the great George Carlin.
   The world is just as pathetically neurotic, just as shitty, as it has ever been. Pop-culture - MTV, Fox, Hollywood - dares me, tempts me, to become an Islamic fundamentalist. The old political machine is a disgrace to modern decency. Advertisers - car companies are among the worst of them - are still corn-holing the population on a bi-hourly basis, raking up billions of dollars, while destroying the Earthly resources that are becoming more precious by the second.
   George Carlin was a visionary, a jester, a cynic, a philosopher, a genius, given to us by God, in response to all that is wrong with humanity. He told me and you, and everybody, the kinds of ass-holes that we truly are. He cut us up and fed us to ourselves. Some things he said were hard to digest; and those were the most important. Without the George Carlins among us, the world would be more than just ugly, it would be terrible, it would be unforgivable.
   Carlin killed his audience, every time. They showed up by the thousands, to die with honor, their laughter marking their decency, their humility. We love him, not because we hate the world, but because we have goodness somewhere in our hearts. There is a dream, that despite our arrogant destruction, our constant warfare, genocide, rape and pillage, our barbaric and primal instincts - a dream that there is something better on the horizon. George Carlin was there to grab us by the shirt collar, to press our face to the glass when we couldn't look for ourselves.
   George Carlin has checked out. The term "God rest his soul" should not apply to him, though. For one, he did not believe in God. But more than that, his "soul" had unrest as its unshakeable foundation. The anger, the disappointment, the bitter cynicism and wide-eyed skepticism, are alive and well. The dream lives on!

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2. • MarkCarras

   This REALLY sucks. This guy has brought laughter to so many for so very long.

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3. • PaulaB

   This is so sad...he was a very funny man who had a lot to say.

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4. • whirlytwirl69

   I will miss seeing new material come from George Carlin!! He said things publicly that we all think daily!! Rest in peace!!

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5. • KenC

   Three Carlin quotes I've used as email "Signatures" for years:

   First of all, the important thing is to question everything
   you read or hear or see or are told. Question it.
   And try to see the world for what it actually is,
   as opposed to what someone or some company or some organization
   or some government is trying to represent it as, or present it as,
   however they've mislabeled it or dressed it up or told you.

   -- George Carlin

   If you're born in this world you're given a ticket to the freak show.
   If you're born in America you're given a front-row seat.

   -- George Carlin

   Live every day as if it's your last and eventually it will be.
   You'll be fully prepared.

   -- George Carlin

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6. • Plays2win

   George always had a great way of cutting through all the BS and telling like it is. His comedy became more cynical and introspective as he got older but I liked that about him. He will be greatly missed.

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7. • exMixxer

   Today Is Your Day
   Dont Miss it............................
   http://www.media2win.com/landingpage/Sprite/?um=02

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