Friday, August 8, 2014

George Carlin and a fascination with language

Hopping around the web, or snorkeling, the late comedian George Carlin popped up the other day.

It must be the fascination with language and what people do with language that makes Carlin appealing to us. Every once in a while, when looking at some event, there is a brief 'wonder what Carlin would make out of that', not in the sense of attempting to emulate his style but in the sense of "I am sure he'd have something hilarious to say, as opposed to us with our the true and tried, our bland Google and Twitter filter safe".

Although we did upset a filter algorithm a couple of times in almost two years of shenanigans.

To celebrate our rediscovery of George Carlin, here are two quips for the filters:

Have you ever wondered about the invisible hand of the market, the hand that fixes everything that can go wrong in the free market? It's invisible but that doesn't mean you can't see its effect - when the stock index reaches a new high, that's the invisible hand of the market j###king off.

Politicians in Washington are between a rock and a hard place right now about the release of the report investigating 'harsh interrogation'. That term was spoiled by the Germans, so you can understand the conundrum. Does finding yourself between a rock and a hard place count as torture? The answer is simple: [redacted].

No comments:

Post a Comment