Lyrics Familiar Expressions - George Carlin

Familiar Expressions

This next thing.
This next thing is about the English language.
Its about little expressions we use.
The little expressions, we all use them all the time.
And we never really seem to examine these expressions very carefully at all.
We just sort of say these things, as if they really made sense.
Like.
“Legally Drunk”.
Well if its legal?
Whats the fuckin’ problem!?
Hey!
Leave my friend alone officer, he’s legally drunk!”
You know you can stick it.
Why do we always assume people can know where they can stick it?
Suppose you don’t know, suppose your a new guy.
You have absolutely no idea where to stick it.
I think there ought to be a government title on “Where to Stick it”.
Now that i think of it, i belive there is a government booklet like that, they send it to ya on April 15th.
Undisputed Heavyweight Champion.
Well if its undisputed, whats all the fighting about?
It’s the quiet ones ya gotta watch.
Ya know that one eh?
Everytime ya see a story about a serial killer on T.V. What do they do?
they bring on the neighbor.
And the neighbor says “Well, he was always very quiet.”
And someone in the room says “Its the quiet ones ya gotta watch.
This sounds to me like a very dangerous assumption.
I will bet you anything that while your watching a quiet one, a noisy one will fucking kill you!
Suppose your in a bar and one guy is reading a book not bothering anybody and another is standing in the front with a machete banging on the door saying “I’LL KILL THE NEXT MOTHER FUCKER WHO COMES IN HERE!”
……who ya gonna watch?
Ya goddam right.
Lock em up and throw away the key.
This is really stupid.
Where ya gonna throw the key?
Right out in front of the jail?
His friends will find it!
How far can you throw a key?
60. 50 feet at the most.
Even if ya lay it flat on its side like that, and scale it.
Waddya get?
An extra 10 feet, tops.
This is a stupid idea.
Needs to be completely rethought.
Down the tubes.
Hear that one a lot, the people say “Ahhh the country is goin’ down the tubes” …..What tubes?
Have you seen any tubes?
Where are these tubes?
And where do they go?
And how come there’s more then one tube?
It would seem to me, one country, one tube.
What, does every state have to have its own tube now?
One tube is all ya need.
But a tube that big, somebody would have seen it by now.
“somebody would of been like “hey, Joey, joey, look at the fuckin’ tube” Big ass fuckin’ tube ova here.
Ya never hear that.
Ya know why?
No tubes.
We don’t have tube 1. We are essentially, tubeless.
Takes the cake.
Ya know, say “Boy he really takes the cake”……Where?
Where do ya take a cake?
to the movies?
Ya know where i would take a cake, down to the bakery, to see the otha cakes.
And how come he takes the cake, how come he doesn’t take the pie?
The pie is easier carrying then the cake.
Easy as pie.
Hey,wait.
Cake is not too hard to carry either.
Piece of cake.
The greatest thing since sliced bread!
So this is it, huh folks?
Couple hundred thousand years, The fuckin’ pyramids for christ sake!
Panama Canal!
The great wall of China!
Even a lava lamp.
To me is greater then sliced bread.
Whats so great about sliced bread?
Ya got a knife, ya got a loaf of bread, SLICE THE FUCKIN’ THING!
And get on with your life.
Out walkin’ the streets.
Ya know guy gets a parole.
“Now instead of being in prison this guy is out walkin’ the streets”.
How do we know?
Maybe the guys home bangin’ the baby sitter.
Not everyone who gets a parole is out walkin’ the fuckin’ streets.
Lotta times they steal a car ya know.
But we oughta be glad.
Thank god he stole a car, least he’s not out walkin’ the streets.
Fine and dandy.
That’s an old fashion one, isn’t it, yea.
Say to a guy “How are ya” “Fine and dandy” Not me, i never say that, ya know how come?
Cause I’m never both of those things at the same time.
Sometimes I’m fine, not dandy.
Close to dandy, approaching dandy, in the vicinity of dandyhood, not quite fully dandy.
Other times, i am indeed, highly dandy.
However, not fine.
One time, one time.
1965. August.
For about an hour.
I was both fine and dandy for about the same time.
BUT NOBODY ASKED ME HOW I WAS!
And I could of told ’em.
I could of told ’em.
I could of told em.
I could of said to the person, Fine and Dandy.
I consider it a lost opportunity.
Walkin’ Papers.
Ya know, guy gets fired.
they say “Jeez, poor guy well they gave him his walkin’ papers today.”
Did you ever get any walkin’ papers?
Seriously?
Believe me in my life i got fired a lot of times.
You can tell.
Never got any walkin’ papers.
Never got a pink slip, either.
Ya know what i would get?
A guy would come around to my desk and say “GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE!”
You don’t need paper for that.
It’s like the riot act.
The riot act.
They keep tellin’ ya there gonna read that to ya.
Have you heard this thing at all?
Especially when your a kid, they threaten ya.
“You wait till ya father comes home, hes gonna read you the riot act!”
Tell him I already read it myself!
And I didn’t like it either.
I consider it wordy and poorly thought out.
He wants to read me somethin’ how about the Gentlemens guide to the Golden Age of Blow Jobs (Golden Age of Blow Jobs… I don’t know either).
More then happy.
I bet you say that sometimes, don’t ya?
Once in a while you say to somebody.
“Ohhh I’d be more then happy to do that.”
How can you be more then happy?
To me this sounds like a dangerous mental condition.
“We had to put Dave in the mental home.
He was, whahaha, more then happy”.
One more of these.
In your own words.
People say that to you.
ya know, they did that a lot in the classroom.
Or in a court room.
They’ll say to ya “Tell us, in your own words”.
Do you have your own words?
Hey, I’m using the ones everybody else has been using.
Next time they tell ya to say something in your own words say “nikwakquarndayquanfloo!”