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Run Up The Score found this 6/23/2008 on news.yahoo.com [flag]
LOS ANGELES - Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television. Some People Are Stupid. Stuff. People I Can Do Without. George Carlin , who died of heart failure Sunday at 71, leaves behind not only a series of memorable routines, but a legal legacy: His most celebrated monologue, a frantic, informed riff on those infamous seven words, led to a Supreme Court decision on broadcasting offensive ... [link]

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Bye, George.
Published 6/23/2008 by Run Up The Score! at Run Up The Score
... Awful way to start the week.  George Carlin was the closest thing I had to a Celebrity Hero in my adolescence and adult life. ...

George Carlin: Baseball v. Football
Published 6/23/2008 by BigBlueShoe at Stampede Blue
... Comedian, philosopher, miscreant, agitator, and TV icon George Carlin passed away yesterday at the age of 71. Whatever your feelings about his politics or his unrelenting attacks on taboos and organized religion, he did have one very funny bit about baseball v. football. Rest in piece, Mr. Carlin, and on a personal note, thanks: ...

Remembering A Great
Published 6/23/2008 by Ken (noreply@blogger.com) at The Power Play - The interweb's most insightful and delightful hockey blog!
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