I’ve got a million favorite lines, and so I just grabbed for the first one that came to mind. That there won’t be any more has already made the world seem a sadder place.
RIP, George Carlin.
I’m Getting in the Plane
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RIP, George Carlin.
Sailing shouldn’t be a sport. Riding the bus isn’t a sport, so why should sailing be a sport?
In football the object is for the quarterback, also known as the field general, to be on target with his aerial assault, riddling the defense by hitting his receivers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz, even if he has to use shotgun. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches his troops into enemy territory, balancing this aerial assault with a sustained ground attack that punches holes in the forward wall of the enemy’s defensive line.
In baseball the object is to go home!
(Cribbed from this morning’s Salon, but honestly one of the first bits that made an impression on me.)
“Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?”