George Carlin RIP...

I saw George Carlin live when I was 16 or 17 at what was then named the O'Keefe Centre in downtown Toronto. Very, very funny show. I remember the outcry from his 70's Class Clown comedy LP featuring the 7 Words You Can't Say On TV. My mother was one of the outraged.... A wonderful quote from him:

"The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death! What’s that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you’re too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you’re young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating …and you finish off as an orgasm."

May 12, 1937 - June 22, 2008 R.I.P.