NY Times Carlin Obituary Sends Readers Scrambling for "Splenetic"

Funny you should mention it... that's exactly where the word came from...

splenetic
Etymology: Late Latin spleneticus, from Latin splen spleen
Date: 1697

Same word root as splenectomy, etc.

Splenetic, huh?

That could explain why they are down 9%, eh?

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Maybe they've been distracted from work by having to constantly look out the window to see if anyone's climbing up the side of the building.

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Man, that is one long word. Almost as long a supercalifragi... well, you know, that word from Mary Poppins.

I wonder if there's a long word for "fear of HTML is signatures"?

That's why I call it a 'sin' below.

You shouldn't 'sin' because a) it reflects badly on you and b) it comes back on you children to the latest generations.

As far as (a) goes, the rampant HTML-sigging has helped to paint 'Xombies' as 'SP@M-monkeys' in assorted bookmarking-networks.

Instead of 'children' & 'generations,' (b) respectively applies to 'downliners' and 'levels-down.' You joined 'tuh wryit ferr muhnee,' so you promote Xomba as an opportunity 'tuh wryit ferr muhnee,' so your downliners join in order to, and so they promote the opportunity to, so their downliners join in order to ... and so on and so on.

Except there is a disillusionment there. They learn that they don't get money *directly for writing*, but for *being rehd*. And that makes the whole opportunity seem 'scammy.'

But it's true, you really do get paid the more you write! just not all in 'muhnee' and not all in your own spaces (actually, hardly ever there, I explain ...)

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I.e., if you're hanging with the popular crowd and doing the prescribed amount of cyberbutt kissing and shameless self-promo-ing, you'll get noticed (and read) more. Net writing success doesn't seem to have much to do with how well you write, or even what you write about. But that's OK. Like Groucho, I wouldn't want to join any group that would accept me as a member!

(Passive-Resistance)

'Writing well' is just an overflow from the writing that makes the money.

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Yeah, but at least "irreverent" is appropriate, and people know what it means. If half the English-speaking world is Googling a word to find out what it means, then the headline writers are being too obscure.
"Heretical" is a word Times readers would probably know, though it seems too narrow in describing Carlin.

Maybe they shouldn't have used any adjective at all...

If you're "reverent", that's not funny. Irreverence is what comedy is all about, so maybe no adjective at all would have been best. Carlin was also kind of a word nerd. I recall one of his famous comments: Why is a parkway for moving cars and a driveway for parked cars?

Well, they don't HAVE to be irreverent, but it certainly helps. I've seen some comedians who weren't irreverent... but they weren't very funny, either!

He rebelled against the Establishment/status quo, like Lenny Bruce, his hero, even employing the same verboten words (for those times, anyway). So maybe "subversive" is the right adjective.

He had spleen problems? I thought it was just his heart.

... that was just a reference to the NY Times using 'splenetic.'

LOL!

George Carlin was talking about the 'words' used that showed domineering American football's conquest of pansy baseball.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/23775/saturday-night-live-george-carlin-monologue-1

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I was going to watch that first SNL show the other nite but forgot (missed it the first time too). Thanx for the link.

You are very welcome to the link. I could just as easily have put that link in another `blurb and pointed you to that (on the off-chance I might make some money with it).

Thinking about it, I ~would~ be 'ashamed' of not using the money-path *if* I were sewn in a field of money; but luckily I realize that the money is sewn in *me*---it grows/multiplies because I am a fertile mind in which the charitable plant their wealth-seed and rejoice in the harvest ... errrrrrrrrr sum`thin` lol

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You are too kind, really.

But don't you mean "sown"? Well, I guess either one would work.

Ha! Being "sewn" in a field of money... you are surrounded by cash, but can't spend it because you are stitched in and can't move!

I'm reminded of one of the most-important things I learned from Carlin - http://www.weshow.com/my/group/Carlinian_Church_of_Reality - 'The school-system is screwed-up and will never be fixed because it is HOW "they" (the wealthy establishment) own you! They've got you by the balls!'

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Yeah, I think 90% of the people who read that headline thought the same thing. The Times was smart to change the word to something else.