{"id":708,"date":"2008-06-23T06:01:33","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T06:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/http:\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/archives\/2008\/06\/2008_06_23_1401.php"},"modified":"2017-02-08T03:57:27","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T03:57:27","slug":"rip-george-carlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/06\/23\/rip-george-carlin","title":{"rendered":"RIP: George Carlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What the fuck is with all the deaths recently? Not that they can be helped, but I seriously think there are other people more deserving of death than the people I&#8217;ve been hearing about.<\/p>\n<p>So now we&#8217;ve got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etonline.com\/news\/2008\/06\/62841\/index.html\" title=\"view article\">Carlin kicking the bucket<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n<p>Why him? George Carlin is <em>by far<\/em> the <strong>greatest<\/strong> comedian I&#8217;ve ever come across. Why couldn&#8217;t it be one of those other rip-offs like Carlos Mencia? Joe <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_708_1('footnote_plugin_reference_708_1_1');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_708_1('footnote_plugin_reference_708_1_1');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_708_1_1\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">1 <\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_708_1_1\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\">See what I did there? 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