Final Curtain

"Hey, did you hear? George Carlin died!"
"George Carlin? I just saw him yesterday!"
"Yeah.......didn't help! He died anyway!"
Unfortunately this conversation was bound to take place two days ago. George Carlin, one of the greatest stand-up comedians of our time, died of heart failure in Santa Monica, California. And although it is all but impossible to write an obituary for every great person that passes away, I have to write one for him before his friends delete his entry from their address books in 6 weeks.

As George, I don't believe in an almighty, invisible GOD and therefore not in an afterlife, heaven or hell. But I do believe that people live on after their deaths: In the minds and the memories of people who knew them. And nowadays technology can help a little bit as YouTube, Wikipedia and other pages in the internet can act as external memories.
And lucky for us, George left us many there that can help, big time!
I only saw the first video of him on the web a few months ago and hardly ever enjoyed a video that much! Perhaps that's the reason why the news of his death hit me hard. I know that there a no more new shows coming!

Now that he gives less than a shit about the sanctity of life let's see who this comedian was:
His life is well documented on Wikipedia and I don't have to repeat that here, so let's look at his shows!
He said the seven words you can't say and even things no one ever said before. He had a lot of good business ideas worth looking at! He knew, he was ahead of his time, unfortunately only 1.5 hours. He knew we can't save this planet and was asking about the difference between abortion and an omelette.
He was also very efficient! He managed to slash the 10 commandments down to 3 by removing unnecessary redundancy. On the other hand, he was very confused about phrases and words constantly changing!
Google for videos of his shows and you find many more. Whenever I go to YouTube I find new ones that I don't know yet. Take the chance to get to know him and make sure the memory lives on!

Now on the off-chance that there is a heaven and a God, I can only hope this God has more humour than his self-appointed clerical workers down here who didn't get the best of the bargain in Carlin's shows. But anyway, if Carlin really went to heaven, let's go to the topless bar near the airport and bow to the man who said the things many of us should say more often!