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KingOfLostSouls Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-24-10 09:59 AM
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This Friday, February 26th, In Honor Of Johnny Cash And Bill Hicks
Edited on Wed Feb-24-10 10:01 AM by KingOfLostSouls
remember to wear black for the birthday of johnny cash and the day of bill hicks' passing.




America is a sadder place without these two giants and champions of the common man.
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-24-10 10:05 AM
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1. How about a black shirt for Johnny Cash?
Bill Hicks I don't care so much about. Sorry he died, but I don't miss him. I don't think I've ever laughed at a Bill Hicks 'joke'.
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KingOfLostSouls Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-24-10 10:09 AM
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2. not laugh at a bill hicks joke?!! wow...
why do you support the terrorists?
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-24-10 10:13 AM
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5. Because they don't make a career out of banal, profanity-laced observational humor.
:D
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KingOfLostSouls Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-24-10 10:17 AM
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6. oh ok, more a dane cook fan then
no problem.
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-24-10 10:26 AM
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8. Don't know
Never heard him. :shrug:

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NightWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-24-10 11:16 AM
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14. or maybe finds smashing fruit to be funnier
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jmondine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-24-10 11:13 AM
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12. I respectfully disagree about Hicks
He criticized Reaganism when it was at the height of its popularity. He mercilessly tore apart the greed, shallowness and excessive corporatization that went with it. He was one of the only popular comics to come out against the first gulf war. And his scathing satire of Christian hypocrisy is still just as relevant today.

He used profanity not simply for the sake of cheap laughs, but as a shock technique to shake audiences out of their complacency.
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-24-10 11:23 AM
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19. If it worked for you, so be it
I don't like the sledgehammer approach. Or 'shock techniques'.

And really, how ground-breaking was it to criticize the President, or war, or Christian hypocracy? Carlin had been doing that through the 60's and Mort Sahl and Lenny Brooks were on the case before him. Plus, they were funny.
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Political_Junkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-24-10 10:09 AM
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3. Yes.
"America is a sadder place without these two giants and champions of the common man."
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asdjrocky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-24-10 10:11 AM
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4. You are up to something very strange today.
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panader0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-24-10 10:19 AM
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7. " I bet there's rich folks eatin' in those fancy dining cars,
They're probly drinking coffee and smokin' big cigars."
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AlecBGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-24-10 11:15 AM
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13. well I know I had it comin
I know i cant be free
but those people keep a-movin
and thats what tortures me

One of America's great treasures. We miss you Cash!
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mopinko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-24-10 11:04 AM
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9. thanks for the reminder, i think i will.
and listen to some johnny. had the worst ear worm for rosanne's album "the list". i guess a little of pops would be a good break.
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Echo In Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-24-10 11:05 AM
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10. K&R for both
"Think of me as Chomsky with dick jokes." ~ Bill Hicks
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harrison Donating Member (916 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-24-10 11:10 AM
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11. I visited Bill Hicks' grave last summer down in
Mississippi. Brilliant guy.
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spiritual_gunfighter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-24-10 11:16 AM
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15. Love Bill Hicks
Sad he is gone so young, and that Dennis Leary stole his act from a dead man, who can't defend himself.
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Echo In Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-24-10 11:20 AM
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17. He stole it & made it conducive to the average sports bar mentality BS Hicks railed against
Edited on Wed Feb-24-10 11:21 AM by Echo In Light
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jmondine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-24-10 11:18 AM
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16. This Friday, February 26th, in Honor of Tex Avery
On his birthday, remember to drop a piano on Glenn Beck's head.



(with all apologies to KingOfLostSouls, I just couldn't resist)
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Echo In Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-24-10 11:22 AM
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18. _
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0BEbMTrc3UQ/SCwmPt59QmI/AAAAAAAADLQ/yEbeLzg45t8/s400/!1.jpg
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-24-10 11:24 AM
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20. NOW we're talking.
I'll go to a Tex Avery tribute any day.
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