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Monday, February 18, 2008

Tickled my funny bone...

I was researching for a talk I have to give to a local Soroptimists club. The topic is Go for Gold and it needs to be motivational, so I was looking at various quotes to do with gold and stumbled on this.

I know humour is very personal. I tried to tell it to Elliot and he didn’t think it was funny, but I’m no stand-up comedian. Here it is anyway…

“The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death! What's that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you're too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating...




...and you finish off as an orgasm.
”

George Carlin, American stand-up comedian

Posted by Barbara Hannay at 1:35 PM

1 comment:

Phillipa said...

I laughed out loud at the punch line. I love it Barbara.

1:25 AM

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