Alcohol vs. Pot

Bill Hicks!? I'm a huge Hicks fan. In fact, I started this thread with a question that he posed in one of his bits.

Hmm, come to think of it, that was in one of his bits. But I didn't realise that possibility existed he could of come up with it. Of course, it's been a long time, everything he's said is a cliché by now. Or should be.

Actually, his bit was a little bit different than mine, but yeah, it had something to do with people going out and getting violent. I have it on tape somewhere. The good thing about him not being very well-known is that I can use his stuff and look intelligent, without having to do all that thinking and stuff.

One of his great lines about drugs:

"Now, don't get the wrong idea. I'm not saying all drugs are good. Some of them...are great."

"All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal." - Thomas Szasz, in Reason

"I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me." - Hunter S. Thompson

"I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgment in all human affairs." - Albert Einstein, quoted in "Put That in Your Pipe" by Rick Newcombe in Reason magazine, Vol.26 No.3 (July 1994)

"I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money."
- David Lee Roth

"Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror." -William S. Burroughs

"Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?"
-Clifford Stoll

"Why is there so much controversy about drug testing? I know plenty of guys who would be willing to test any drug they could come up with"
-George Carlin

"I would never do crack... I would never do a drug named after a part of my own ass, okay?" - Denis Leary

and finally:

"Drug therapies are replacing a lot of medicine as we used to know it."
-George W. Bush

great stuff. Now I'm going to have to go dig up some more Bill Hicks stuff...

George Bush says we are losing the war on drugs. Do you know what that implies? There's a war going on, and people on drugs are winning it! Ahaha! What does that tell you about drugs? Some smart creative motherf*ckers on that side. They're winning a war and they're f*cked up! A lot of you don't even know you're fighting, do you? You're sitting there, "F*ck, I'm just sitting here watching saturday night live...are we winning? Honey, bring me a beer. We got a war to win!"

--Bill Hicks

They lie about marijuana. They tell you pot-smoking makes you unmotivated. Lie! When you're high, you can do everything you normally do, just as well. You just realize that it's not worth the f*cking effort. There is a difference.

--Bill Hicks

If you don't think drugs have done good things for us then do me a favor. Go home tonight and take all of your records,tapes and all your CD's and burn them. Because, you know all those musicians who made all that great music that's enhanced your lives throughout the years? Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreal f*cking high on drugs, man. The Beatles were so f*cking high they let Ringo sing a few songs.

--Bill Hicks

looks like I picked a good time to finally peek into this thread - great quotes!

kicky,

hee hee hee hee hee

good ones

Thanks, extra medium. I think my favorite is the one about the war on drugs. You've heard of Bill Hicks?

Kickycan, yes the one on the war on drugs is hilarious.

Yes, I saw just a little of Hicks. I like what one reviewer wrote about him: "He's an acquired taste."

Bill Hicks is one of my favorites, kicky.

For what it's worth.

Gus, great minds think alike. :wink:

When I go on dates, my big come-on line is "Would you like to come up and watch my tape of Bill Hicks ranting about the hypocrisies of government and religion?" Surprisingly, women don't find that to be an enticing offer. Maybe if I learn to say it in Italian...

Extra medium, yes he is an acquired taste. But he was a badass, and he was so damn funny.

"Think of me as Chomsky with dick jokes."

--Bill Hicks

Did you know there's an album by the rock band Tool all about Bill Hicks? It's called 'AEnima,' I think, or maybe 'AEnema.' It's really good, you know, if you don't mind a bit of prog-metal pretentiousness. The title track is all about Los Angeles flooding.

Yeah, I have that CD. Radiohead also dedicated an album to him. I can't remember which one though.

I first heared about him while I was reading a book with interpretations of Tool songs(3/5albums explained) and I read there that the introduction of a song is actually Bill Hicks(I was like, who?) during his routine act.
The Third Eye with the news in the beginning

as someone who has used an abundance of both, I would have to say pot is WAY easier on the body and mind as alcohol. and booze is several times more addictive.