>> Kent Finnell wrote:
>>> One of my all time favorites died yesterday at age 71 of a heart attack.
>>>
>>> I remember seeing him live here in Nashville before my son was born.
>>> IIRC, it was at the War Memorial Auditorium, an ironic place for the
>>> Hippy Dippy Weatherman to perform.
>>>
>>> He did some of his classic (or what later became classic) bits. How we
>>> take smaller and smaller versions of our stuff (except he used the word
>>> "shit" on stage) on our vacations. He used Hawaii for the main trip and
>>> going to another island in the group for a reduction of size of "our
>>> shit".
>>>
>>> One of the briefer bits was about how we tend to keep almost but not
>>> quite empty milk and juice cartons in the fridge, eventually spilling it
>>> on ourselves or forgetting to get replacements. He indicated the amount
>>> by holding his thumb and forefinger about an 1/8th of an inch apart.
>>>
>>> That became a unit of measure in our house. "How much milk do we have
>>> left, Kent?" "Oh, about a half Carlin."
>>>
>>> Yes, he was vulgar. Yes, he was obscene. Yes, he became darker and
>>> darker as he aged. But he was almost always funny and he was also
>>> insightful more often than not.
>>>
>>> He was scheduled to get the Mark Twain Award this fall. "Have Mr.
>>> Twain's people call my people."
>>>
>>> RIP, George.
>>>
>>>
>> Strange that Kent would be the one to mark the passing of one of the
>> worlds most inciteful liberals; but I fully agree.
>>
>> RIP, George. There will never be another quite like you.....
>>
>
> But it's not strange to me that you make another false assumption about
> me.
>
