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postpaleo
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29 Aug 2007, 12:35 pm

"If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses."
Lenny Bruce

Not to mention the church steeple decorations, alter decorations, pictures on walls.......
How about a noose around their necks 8O


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29 Aug 2007, 2:06 pm

Posthumously? Isn't Lenny Bruce dead?


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29 Aug 2007, 2:43 pm

Yes he is and no it wasn't.


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29 Aug 2007, 9:04 pm

1966, I think it was. It may have been considered obscene in those time, because he was prosecuted for saying 'cocksucker' on stage, and the cops attended most of his shows afterward. I have heard some of his material, and have also seen the movie with Dustin Hoffman as Lenny, and it is very good material. BTW, he died in 1974.


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30 Aug 2007, 9:24 pm

"when you take away the right to say 'f**k', you take away the right to say 'f**k the government'"


one of my favorite quotes.