From CNN: Award-winning comedian George Carlin dies

Carlin had a profound effect on me…in my misspent youth, I listened to his albums so often I memorized them voices and all - to this day, I can recite “The Hair Poem” in its entirety (including the, “See my beard?” coda), do a passable riff on birth control pills (”Gee, you are a good sport, aren’t you?”), and of course know the “Seven Dirty Words You Can’t Say on Television” (although some of them are now occasionally heard even on network TV). He also, on The Tonight Show a few years ago, gave me a line I have quite literally used in raising my daughter, the way I hope to be remembered by my child: “Good Father. Bad Example.”