Say a kind and dirty word for George Carlin

Comedian and actor George Carlin will forever be linked to the world of electronic media by his “seven words you can never say on television” routine. It seems tame by today’s standards, but in 1972 he was actually arrested in Milwaukee and charged with disturbing the peace after he said all seven words on stage. The sketch was the focus of a landmark indecency case filed after a radio station aired the bit in 1973. The U.S. Supreme Court ultimately ruled 5-4 that the Carlin was “indecent but