# Buddy Christ is ironically sad **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 17, 2014, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buddy-christ-is-ironically-sad/693378 "2014-07-17T17:35:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buddy-christ-is-ironically-sad/693378/1 "2014-07-17T17:35:59Z")
> [@"\[npr](#): > > ([Clerical Error Puts Church On New York's 'George Carlin Way' : The Two-Way : NPR](http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/07/10/330525235/clerical-error-puts-church-on-new-yorks-george-carlin-way))"]The Corpus Christi Church in Manhattan, where iconoclastic comedian George Carlin once attended school and later ridiculed in some of his monologues, has a new street address: George Carlin Way. > > The New York Times calls what’s being described as a clerical error “an irony of Carlinesque proportions.” The church fought a street named after the comedian since the idea was proposed three years ago. > > The street naming fiasco “offers yet another bit of compelling evidence that even years after his death, Mr. Carlin’s famed ability to irritate and frustrate the powers that be remains undiminished,” the Times says. > > In signing the new street name bill, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said he was sure that “a lot of people have an opinion,” about it. He added that he has “a good opinion” of it. > > De Blasio said Carlin was “a New Yorker whose voice was heard literally around the world, born and raised in Morningside Heights, a true New Yorker, told it like it was, smart and blunt and honest and not afraid of controversy.” Lovely, lovely irony. Why can Corpus Pederasty Church not just bite it? We all have to deal with things that bother us, including problems we ourselves have created, what makes them so special? Carlin deserves this dig from the grave. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buddy-christ-is-ironically-sad/693378/2 "2014-07-17T22:15:54Z")
Let’s go to the quarry and throw stuff down there! George Carlin totally fucking rocked and IMNSHO this is a terrific thing for the city of New York to do. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2014, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buddy-christ-is-ironically-sad/693378/3 "2014-07-17T22:22:21Z")
The error will get fixed soonish, but it’s hilarious. I’m glad there’s a street named after him. The real irony here is that Carlin said pretty nice things about Corpus Christi on _Class Clown_. He says they were pretty progressive for the time, with the unintended side effect of a lot of the kids reasoning their way out of their faith. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2014, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buddy-christ-is-ironically-sad/693378/4 "2014-07-18T18:50:40Z")
My only question is, did they just pick a random short street in Carlin’s old neighborhood, or did they deliberately pick the street this church was on? Carlin was one of the few genuine celebs from that district, and I have no problem with having a street there named in his honor. But if some wiseacre deliberately chose the street that church was on, he was just being a jerk.