Naming A Street After George Carlin

[gblowfish]

The comedic community in NYC started a petition last September to name a stretch of 121st St. in Morningside Heights Manhattan after George Carlin.

That's the neighborhood in NYC where Carlin grew up. It's also where Tom's Diner is -the diner you see in Seinfeld.

Three links, first the story in the NY Times about the petition. Second, a story about a priest at Corpus Christi Parish (where Carlin went to Catholic School) being AGAINST the change, third, a response to the priest from Kelly Carlin, George's daughter. Interesting stuff:

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/08/george-carlin-street-hed-have-something-to-say-about-that/

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/25/pondering-a-carlin-street-and-keeping-the-7-words-in-check/

http://www.laughspin.com/2011/10/10/pastor-says-no-to-george-carlin-street-daughter-kelly-responds/See More

[rico]

YES! George Carlin = my personal hero (excluding friends/family).

[Dr. Johnny Fever]

Cock sucker mother fucker lane

[lcarus]

Pre-suck my genital situation!

[FAX]

One day, the beautiful and witty Mrs. FAX and I were going for a drive and we passed this little bridge that had a sign that said something like, "The John Farmsworth Memorial Bridge". The thing is that this bridge was just one of those little concrete deals on a two-lane blacktop that spanned a dry creek or whatever. Then, we started noticing that there are memorial bridges all over the damn place here.

I mentioned that I would really like to have a memorial bridge named after me and the beautiful and witty Mrs. FAX agreed wholeheartedly, so one weekend we made up a fake sign with some hooks and went to a bridge near us and hung up my sign, "The FAX Memorial Bridge" (or words to that effect) over the real sign. It stayed up for several months. It was one of the proudest several months of my entire life.

FAX

[Demonpenz]

I'm Sure he is in heaven smiling.

[Dayze]

I'm Sure he is in heaven smiling.

ROFL
well played.

[redfan]

George Bretts gazes upon his vast Superhighway and chuckles.

[Demonpenz]

if it snows on Ms. Fax bridge "It's nice to see someone finally plowing Ms. Fax"

[Chiefnj2]

We shall start a petition to rename Corpus Christi Parish the George Carlin Home of the Imaginary.

[Demonpenz]

maybe the telephone booth from bill and teds can be on there?

[lcarus]

I'm Sure he is in heaven smiling.

I'm sure he's down there in hell, screaming up at us.

[listopencil]

A very old article:


Friday, 27 June 2008

Westboro Baptist Church to picket George Carlin's funeral (http://blog.newhumanist.org.uk/2008/06/westboro-baptist-church-to-picket.html)

You have to pity those poor folk at the Westboro Baptist Church – they just keep on picketing funerals, whether they belong to Heath Ledger, victims of school massacres or US soldiers killed in Iraq, but no one seems to be getting any less gay, or any less atheist for that matter.

And now they've announced plans to picket the funeral of a man who really couldn't have cared less where a bunch of Christian fundamentalist homophobes from Kansas think he'll be spending his non-existent afterlife. Yes, that's right – the Westboro Baptist Church will be outside the funeral of the late, great George Carlin who (http://www.westborobaptistchurch.com/written/fliers/20080624_carlin-in-hell.pdf), in their words was "the filthy blasphemer - the obscene potty-mouth skeptic, agnostic, and profane atheist - who had nothing but disdain for God and the Bible all the days of his tragic life - [who] is now, at this minute and for ever writhing and screaming in exquisite pain - pleading for mercy from that God he flipped off while performing for HBO for lucre."

Something tells us Carlin would have quite enjoyed that description.

http://blog.newhumanist.org.uk/2008/06/westboro-baptist-church-to-picket.html


I don't think you can be both an atheist and an agnostic.

[scho63]

I saw George Carlin perform in Atlantic City and he is still one of the most original and funniest SOB's to have ever walked this Earth.

Also saw Rodney Dangerfield another time.

Ahhh, the golden days of great comics

[vailpass]

PissShitFuckCuntCocksuckerMotherfucker Avenue

[chefsos]

Man...somewhere there must be an old Carlin bit about naming streets or roads or buildings after people, and it must be funny as all hell.

[Demonpenz]

carlin cleaned comedy dry, there's othing left.

[Braincase]

Rat shit bat shit
Dirty old twat
16 assholes tied in a knot
Yeah! Chicken shit! fuck!