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June 23, 2008
Forget the seven words you can't say on television...
I know this blog is supposed to tackle issues at the Connecticut Post and www.connpost.com, but the death of George Carlin's got me bummed out.
Yes, he's famous for that bit about the seven words you can't say on television, but he was so much more.
To those of us of a certain age, nothing was funnier than Carlin's Al Sleet, the hippy-dippy weatherman. That was back in the hazy, crazy late '60s and early '70s, man, when Sleet loved to talk about that big ole Canadian high moving in. And Carlin's Biff Barf was a microcosm of those screaming TV sportscasters of the day. Just thinking about that brings a smile to my face again.
And later in his career Carlin would ask questions like, "why do they call it a driveway if you park on it? And why do you drive on the parkway?"
One of my favorites was "legally drunk."
How could you be legally drunk, Carlin asked.
"But officer," Carlin would say after his buddy was pulled over for zig-zagging, "you can't arrest my friend, he's legally drunk."
Too much.
And I'll leave you with one of Biff Barf's favorite sports lines:
"And we've got a partial score, here, folks. Yankees 6, ...
Posted by Ted Tompkins on June 23, 2008 3:01 PM
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