A World Without George Carlin? This is Gonna be Rough…
June 23, 2008 by Sean Kelly
Filed under Business
(FranchisePick.com The franchise blog) George Carlin died yesterday at age 71. A world without George Carlin seems like a diminished world, indeed. I had barely recovered from the loss of Kurt Vonnegut, and now this… I’m depressed.
While George could not be called a fan of franchising, he did inspire a few of the traits that fuel FranchisePick.com: a passion for honesty, a disdain for BS, an antipathy for mediocrity, a relentless appetite for sacred cow meat, an appreciation for absurdity, and a playful fascination with language.
A world without George Carlin? Thank God for CDs. Thank God I’ve committed every routine to memory ever since I first heard him both ponder the philosophical complexities and celebrate the poetry of baldness.
Where is the hair on a pear? Nowhere, mon frere!
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Carlin was a gifted social commentator, without rancor or bitterness.
Satire can be the most effective reformer’s tool – ask Jonathan Swift about that Irish problem, eh.
He was also pretty good as the narrator on Thomas the Tank.
Sean,
I, too, am bummed out. Carlin was one of my idols, along with Johnny Carson, and Buddy Rich.
I memorized the ENTIRE AMFM album.
Geez!
Joel Libava
{Your Hippy Dippy Cleveland Blogger}
another good one bites the dust, he will be missed.
I loved Carlin too, surprised the hell out me when I heard him (notice I didn’t say saw him) on TV as the conductor on Thomas the Tank-I always thought it was the heighth of the ridiculous (pure Carlin) that the man who made a routine out of the words you can’t say on TV, including the F-bomb, would become a icon for children through Thomas the Tank!
He was a funny guy, I hope God appreciates him, as much as we will miss him!