Yeah, I was pretending the word got censored. Guess that wasn’t as funny as I thought it’d be.

“When he uttered all seven at a show in Milwaukee in 1972, he was arrested on charges of disturbing the peace, freed on $150 bail and exonerated when a Wisconsin judge dismissed the case, saying it was indecent but citing free speech and the lack of any disturbance.”

I was at that show – It was “Summerfest” on the shores of Lake Michigan. Drove up from Chicago with some college buddies. A big outdoor stage, many acts, and many beer gardens on the grounds. We were there for the beer and the music (and women wearing t-tops and hiphuggers).

I had no idea who George Carlin was, and had never heard him perform. He was sandwiched as filler between a couple of musical acts. I cannot remember the name of a band or a single musical number that was performed that night. But I remember almost every word of that routine. It was the funniest fucking thing I had ever heard. I couldn’t breathe from laughing so hard. Of course, I may have been in an altered state where pretty much anything was funny. Yes, I inhaled. That might also explain why I cannot remember the bands.

When they cut off the microphone, he just continued mugging, clowning and pantomime on the stage for the audience. He was arrested after he left the stage. I did not know he had been arrested until I read it in the papers the next day.

We found it endlessly amusing to keep repeating the “seven words” to each other for the rest of the night. Recall that we were in a state where we were easily entertained.

If there actually is a Christian heaven as Dr. Rajimaji imagines, I expect Jesus has requested a command performance, and George is pointing to Dr. Rajimaji’s comment and cracking Jesus up saying “Can you believe that is what they think about you????”