Posted on 04/10/2021 7:41:46 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
25. To a woman solicitor, 1987: “I thought it was against the law for a woman to solicit.”
26. To a civil servant, 1970: “You’re just a silly little Whitehall twit: you don’t trust me and I don’t trust you.”
31. On stress counselling for servicemen in 1995: “We didn’t have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun. You just got on with it!”
65. “People think there’s a rigid class system here, but dukes have even been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans.” 2000.
78. On marriage in 1997: “You can take it from me the Queen has the quality of tolerance in abundance.”
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Hear, hear!
My Dad came back from Korea with permanent hearing damage and got squat.
Dad was a strong, strapping giant of a man that was unflappably composed in the face of danger or adversity. Nevertheless,
I remember him wearing blast muffs to my sports nights because the cheering and roars of the crowd would cause his ears to ring so badly, it was intolerable.
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Geezers. The man is dead already
Sounds sensible to me.
He is very humorous.
Yes that’s a good one!
Yogi Berra went a long time being ‘ridiculed’ about his misstatements BUT when you parse a lot of them, they make perfect sense....
That place is so crowded no one goes in there anymore
AND
Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t go to yours
AND
Cut the pizza into 4 pieces, I’m not hungry enough for 6.
Right-like putting up with an ungrateful, stupid grandson!
“People think there’s a rigid class system here, but dukes have even been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans.” 2000.
Especially relevant NOW
Got that right. . .
I met Prince Philip back in the late 90s. . .before you and I met.
Met him at a formal dinner, Guildhall, London.
We chatted in a side room before being escorted into the main hall.
I was in my formal Air Force Mess Dress.
Out of nowhere, he looked at me with a wry grin on his face and asked: “Do you know why Bill Clinton wears underpants?”
Me: “Ahhh. . . No.”
HRH: “To keep his ankles warm, of course!” He laughed and by gawd, I laughed as well. . .good joke. . .good man.
I liked and respected him very much because of who he was and the fact that he was genuinely human and always a nice guy to me.
Never confuse humor with shellshock he was witty and a quick thinker and not a the modern day PC puss bowing to the mobs.
That was no joke with Carlin, it was all about how the language gets softened over time, and has all the humanity sucked out of it. He was right on there. Some things I vehemently disagreed with Carlin on, but he was right on, a lot of the time.
39.
A VIP at a local airport asked HRH: “What was your flight, like, Your Royal Highness?Philip: “Have you ever flown in a plane?”
VIP: “Oh yes, sir, many times.”
“Well,” said Philip, “it was just like that.”
Slipped the knife in so smoothly he didn't even feel the sting.
great story! Without a doubt, he totally got how much of a dog Clinton was :)
A good amount of Carlin’s later work were rants about the decrease of basic common sense. If he were alive today, he would be ripping snowflakes to pieces.
I wish it were true, but I must say, his strongest vitriol was towards conservatives, especially religious ones, now I get attacking organized religion, especially TV preachers, they deserve to be mocked, but he genuinely came across at being angry at God (even though he claimed to be an atheist, why be angry at something you think doesn't exist?)
Amen, and LOL.
Twice 😉
Rest In Peace good sir,
Even we yanks will miss you,
Tatt
About atheists, your right about the anger. I heard one preacher describe it. Even if the atheist sounds rational in denying the existence of God, deep down inside he is shaking his fist toward heaven, yelling “No, God!”
Much like what Joseph Stalin did on his death bed just before he expired.
Towards the end George was just angry and mean. After his wife died, the process just accelerated. I love his earlier stuff. Edgy, but not mean spirited.
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