Talk:Bill Hicks/Archive 1

message: I'm pretty sure the "How much do you smoke a day?" quote goes:
"How much do you smoke a day, dude?  Pack and a half?  You little puss...Why don't you just put the fuckin' skirt on, and swish around for us? 'Pack and a half, I smoke a pack and a half..'  I go through two lighters a day, dude".  
At least, that's how I remember it appearing on the Dangerous album.  It could be that the quote in the article is a variation from a different source.
::That's exactly what it is.  Sometimes he would improvise around his scripted jokes. --Viriditas  | Talk 11:39, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: The amount was based on how much the person in theaudience he asked said they smoked, which was different ever show since he asked different people.Elijya 04:18, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That was the basic idea, but he changed it in different bits.  He did that one all the time, and would change the insult depending on the amount smoked by the person. Ario 07:05, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  How much do you smoke a day? 

message: "Hicks started drinking heavily and using drugs, leading to a more disjointed and angry, at times misanthropic, ranting style on stage."
--user Are you sure his angry and disjointed style was caused by drugs and alcohol? Could very well be the anger that caused the drugs, not the other way around. I think the above sentence is  speculation, not fact.
--g0sp3L 14:07 21 Nov 2005 Anyone that says that Hicks' use of drugs caused anger or was caused by anger obviously has never heard the message of his comedy. He was angry because he had life figured out. He knew that war, politics, and ignorance are the bane of human existance. When he said "I've had some killer times on drugs", obviously that was meant to be funny, however his use of psychedelic drugs OBVIOUSLY shaped his personal philosophy and caused him to be more enlightened. When he went off on his rants about how "We are one consiousness" and whatnot, you'll notice that the crowd laughs and giggles, but these statements WERE NOT JOKES! It sounds like "druggy jibberish" to anyone who has never had a psychedelic experience, but to ANYONE who has had a spiritual awakening while under the influence of Mushrooms or LSD, it is EXACTLY what they discovered during that experience. Anyone who laughed at those statements has either never taken a psychedelic drug, and if they have they definitely didn't use them correctly. ("I took mushrooms once and went to AstroWorld and had a really bad time.")
And why is it that every time I post that he was an advocate for the use of psychedelic drugs, someone deletes it as if it is my opinion?
:part of writing a NPOV-article is describing the debate (if there is one) around this issue without taking sides. if there are two different valid views of this, both should be included.--Johnnyw 03:21, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  1980's 

message: I didn't want to change it, as I haven't seen it, and someone who has may be able to clear it up, but should Counts Of The Netherworld be described as a sitcom? From my understanding, shit would have been a show that was broadly comedic, but much more of a discussion and stand-up show than anything resembling a sitcom, even in the broadest use of the term. NickBarlow 07:28, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: You can make up your own mind as to what Counts of the Netherworld would have turned out like - there are a few excerpts available on the Sacred Cow website.  Difficult to describe what I saw, butI think it would have been more like a late night discussion show with lots of dark satirical tones to it. -Zaphod Beeblebrox 08:35, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Counts Of The Netherworld 

message: "That this house notes with sadness the 10th anniversary of the death of Bill Hicks,
on February 26th 1994, at the age of 33; recalls his assertion that his words would be a bullet in the heart of consumerism, capitalism and the American Dream; and mourns the
passing of one of the few people who may be mentioned as being worthy of inclusion with Lenny Bruce in any list of unflinching and painfully honest political philosophers."
- Stephen Pound MP; Parliamentary House of Commons, U.K.
sources for quote ;
http://www.marcusshelton.com/links.html
http://www.billhicks.com/
http://armour.inspiracy.com/2004_02_22_armoury.html
http://www.commonground.ca/iss/0504165/cg165_Hicks.shtml
[dirk diggler jnr]
:I've added it to the Legacy section. --CapitalLetterBeginning 15:49, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable Quote, worth adding to article I believe 

message: Substituted at 08:51, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Assessment comment