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« Surreal snow globes at last; Color thesaurus online | Main | News of Marie Antoinette? (London) Times puts searchable newspapers online (1785-1985) » June 23, 2008George Carlin splits; The train that never slows; Motorized suitcase
Religion has convinced people that there’s an invisible man…living in the sky, who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn’t want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer and burn and scream until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you and he needs money. L.A. Times obit: Counterculture comedian tested the limits of speech and society, (and the source of the photo).
I think he'd have fun with his NYT obit, which manages to use the obscure adjective "splenetic" in the headline: George Carlin, Splenetic Comedian, Dies at 71. Splenetic: 1. Of or relating to the spleen. 2. Affected or marked by ill humor or irritability. n. A person regarded as irritable. Aw c'mon, George's humor was never ill. Update, 9:33 a.m.: The day shift arrived and changed "splenetic" to "irreverent." The YouTube collection of Carlin clips More: Remembering George Carlin at NPR. Passenger insertion: Trains that pick you up without stopping This is a concept for Singapore’s Metro Rail Line...The idea is that people who want to board the train get into a smaller car that piggybacks onto the moving train as it passes through the station. To get off, you get into the smaller upper car while on the train and it unhitches at the station. There's video, but I'm having fun imagining all the ways you could drop people into a speeding train, and pluck them out of it.
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