George Carlin
June 23, 2008
I would never name George Carlin as one of my favorite comedians but I was sad to hear he died yesterday. I won tickets off the radio ten years ago to see him in Hampton Roads. I laughed my butt off.
I'm stealing off the internet to share some of his "gems" from over the years.
- As a matter of principal, I never attend the first annual anything.
- Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
- When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?
- One can never know what a deserted area looks like.
- “"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?
- “Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that ...”
1 Comment:
I saw George in Vegas about 10 years ago and he was hysterical. He was going on about white people dancing and claimed that there were on 2 dances that white people should do...line dancing and polkas. Everything else was off-limit. We'll miss his insight. RIP!
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