Sherry Chandler » George Carlin (May 12, 1937-June 22, 2008)
George Carlin (May 12, 1937-June 22, 2008)
Well, since we’re about words here, we’d probably better do this one, too. I found it at Via Negativa
While I’m stealing memorials to George Carlin, I’d be remiss in not pointing you to Lance Mannion’s George Carlin is Safe at Home. Lance gives us one of Carlin’s sports routines:
Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle.
Baseball is played on a diamond, in a park.The baseball park! Football is played on a gridiron, in a stadium, sometimes called Soldier Field or War Memorial Stadium.
Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life.
Football begins in the fall, when everything’s dying.In football you wear a helmet.
In baseball you wear a cap.Football is concerned with downs - what down is it?
Baseball is concerned with ups - who’s up?In football you receive a penalty.
In baseball you make an error.
I am not into sports but this one is fun, and touching in the context. Click over and read it all.
I can’t claim to have been a big George Carlin fan but he has been part of the cultural texture of my life for a long time and in losing him we have lost the voice of an era, a voice of my era, a speaker of truth, and his passing grieves me.
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