Word: sayin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...straight-suited standup. Now sporting chest-length locks and painted undershirts, Carlin tells low-key tales of his kidhood on the fringes of Harlem: "You put five white guys and five black guys together and after a month . . . what you'll see is redheaded guys named Duffy sayin' 'What's happenin', baby?' " Carlin also deals heavily in various bodily functions. In one routine called "Filthy Words," he blithely reels off the rapidly dwindling list of banned mots-the kind of vocabulary that got Lenny Bruce arrested...
...with hunger, fightin' temptation, women of all races callin' me on the phone, and the only thing keepin' me from goin' out the window is thinkin' of that short walk to the ring, and all those faces there, lookin' at me and sayin': 'Why it's a miracle! He looks sooo beautiful.' " He did, weighing in last week at a rock-hard 213½ Ibs. His measurements in fact differed in only one respect from those taken at his last fight in 1967: he had added...