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Thread #138999 Message #3184696
Posted By: autolycus
10-Jul-11 - 01:20 AM
Thread Name: BS: Brits.. Bill Hicks?
Subject: RE: BS: Brits.. Bill Hicks?
I've heard a couple of tapes. When he was just angry, he was unappealing; when he was angry-funny, he was brilliant.
I loved his one about, words to the effect,
"Her in America, where everyone can have a gun, there were 23,000 murders last year. In Britain, where very few people have a gun, there were 16 murders last year.
"Let me just go thru those numbers again. 23,000 murders in the U.S. where anyone can have a gun; in Britain, where very few have a gun, there were 16 murders.
"And anybody who claims there's any connection whatsoever between those two sets of statistics is a Commie bastard."