George Carlin dead at 71

Lo! It's a sad day for comedy, and a sad day for all sarcastic bastards. My hero George Carlin died last night. I remember seeing him in the mid 90's at the Star Crowne plaza -I took home a shirt that said "Simon Says Go Fuck Yourself" and only had the courage to wear it a few times. He really knew how to let loose, but he always had a way of reigning it back in. So many of his comic bits crossed way over social lines and polite society, but I always felt that while he was cursing Tiger Woods and Lance Armstrong, that he was still holding back many conclusions that would have logically followed from his reasoning. The child within him would always take his routines back to 'silly'. It's almost like his dirty jokes were just good clean fun in his world. As mad as he sometimes was, he never took himself too seriously. He will be sorely missed, and he is truly irreplaceable.

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