I was twelve years old when I first heard the work of George Carlin on a late-night illicit HBO binge, and I was immediately transformed by his humor and use of language. Even today, his perspective forms the foundation of most of what I find funny (Stephen estimates that 25% of my jokes are Carlin riffs, but that seems high and also mean.) Still, knowing George’s voice and material the way I do, I always get angry when someone forwards me some homespun “Aw, shucks, can’t we do better than this” glurge and credits it to George. There are at least half a dozen different stupid internet essays that I’ve seen improperly attributed, and EVERY SINGLE TIME, I get angry and disgusted with the universe and it’s population (which seems like a very Carlin-esque response to foolishness) which leads us to today’s contentious query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) also hates when vulgar, inferior song parodies are inevitiably credited to Weird Al Yankovic, asking: Do you have a pop culture berzerk button, something that makes you angry EVERY TIME you hear it?
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Not really, getting angry would require I actually care enough about what stupid people say, but I’m constantly mildly annoyed by several things. #1 right now is probably “Superman is boring”. No, YOU are boring and lack imagination.