I always liked Carlin too. I am not current with the comedy of today, but I doubt any has a message that I would be able to relate to as well as his. I saw him on TV about 2 months ago promoting something that I do not remember, but he looked bad then. I assumed it was just the years showing though. Guess not.

I always liked Mr. Carlin.

(I became a fan of his when he still performed in short hair and a business suit.)

He had a glib tongue and the nimble mind to make the most of it.

Even in his vanilla days,he had an edge.

By the time he "turned hippie",he had perfected a way of challenging people to look beneathe the surface and THINK.

His treatment of taboo subjects lampooned the easily shocked and the people who embraced the sordid for its alleged "coolness factor".

He had a certain innocence under that wry cynicism and he had the success at making light of our institutions that only comes from someone who takes the fundamental verities very VERY seriously.

I'd like to think other comedians and his audience will continue to promote his perspective.

Not only could he ask why our society found making love more obscene than making war,he wondered why sheep don't shrink in the rain.

" If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed?"

I'd like to thank George Carlin for all the irreverence,whimsy and wisdom he used to make us aware of what matters.

He told us to "Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath."

I thank him for the laughter and the wonder and I thank him for including this quote in his essay on "How to Stay Young."

" Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."

We had two people in the newsroom -- one of them our summer intern -- who said "Who?" when I mentioned that Carlin had died.

Boy, that made me feel old.

That makes me sad, I loved George Carlin's comedy.

oops.....I hate no editing of entries...One in* the same.

HBO2 will have all 14 of his HBO specials showing Wednesday and Thursday nights.

Yes George Carlin will be missed by so many...The passing of him is a sad time like the passing of John Lennon and George Harrison...They all had a place in the time of so many of our teen age years... No matter what George Carlin had to talk about it not only put a smile on my face it was always something that we thought about but never spoke out about it...He will be missed but never will he be forgotten....