When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? -- George Carlin

George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? (New York: Hyperion, 2004). Learn about George Carlin from the Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Carlin (check out the accuracy of the biography in standard library sources http://libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/infotree/resourcesbysubject.asp?subject=Biographical+Information.

Wouldn’t it be fun if, all at once, everybody just forgot everything they knew? (p. 51)

You can think about this on a variety of levels. Certainly prejudgements would disappear and pessimists might think that perhaps more would be gained than lost. Of course, perhaps -- and we're in the realm of science fiction here -- we would just proceed to replicate good and bad all over again. I'm certain there are many science fiction tales that explore this.

I’ve always wondered if the Library of Congress provides books in their public toilets to promote reading. I should think they wouldn’t want to pass up a captive audience like that. (p. 55)

The less said the better.

Award winning documentary maker Ken Burns continues his penetrating look at American history as he takes on a three-part study. The Great Cabbage-Fart Panic of 1860. The disaster, which lasted an entire summer, took the lives of thirty-five hundred people, mostly from lung diseases. The special sound effects heard required the services of over three-hundred Milwaukee men who were fed only beer and cabbage for seven weeks. Fourteen stuntmen died during the recreations. (p. 190)

This is just plain funny; but I wonder if the language were changed a smidge if some would think it was about a real event. Hey, it's possible some folks might?