Since George has been “acted upon by nature”,and we’ll miss him, I thought this video of his “saving the planet” sketch might be a fitting epitaph. My favorite line of his, from the “hippy dippy weatherman” act was: “Why on TV do they always give the temperature at the airport? Nobody LIVES there!” (Warning: some adult language)
I’m only 25 and I was always such a big fan of his. I always had a soft side for the vulgar side of comedy.
For information – I have identified and partially fixed the problem.
In Firefox 3 there is an option for full page zoom which, if used, changes the whole page width and content and also it remembers the zoom level you set last time you visited the site. However hovering over the popup seems to set the zoom level back to default. I changed the zoom on this site back to default in the view menu and all is working as it should.
Why this feature should cause the effect it does I have no idea but at least I know what caused it and how to stop it in the future.
Thanks for your patience.
As a separate comment I now visit this site every day and, although much of the mathematics is totally beyond me, I consider it to be one of the more open minded and least dogmatic of the blogs. Congratulations and long may you continue.
RE: “He’s a partial intellectual entertainer. His character and way of story telling, explaining, imitating, and punchlining his points across! A realist, against the mainstream thought…”
The Kennedy Center says Carlin’s material and style made him a perfect Twain recipient.
As the audience yells back at him during his anti-environmental rant above, you can’t help but reflect on what kind of comedy this is, and why, if at all, it’s funny. It’s vitriolic. It’s misanthropic (shaking mankind off like a bad case of … whatever). Carlin defined himself when he said, “I think it is the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.”
Some commonalities to Lenny Bruce and Richard Prior. And Twain himself, who “lectured” (early standup?) worldwide with a memorized conglomeration of his funny essays.
Maybe the best wits have to be misanthropic. The acid in this makes for a stimulating visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there.