George Carlin on The Pill
On his brilliant 1972 album, FM&AM, the comedian George Carlin predicted that it wouldn’t be long before birth-control pills were available without prescription. Customers would buy them as quickly and easily as a pack of mints.
When that happened, Carlin said, the pills would need snappier names.
“Preg-Not!,” he offered by way of example. “Doctors prefer Embry-no. Here’s one for the ladies: Narry-a-Carry. Something lofty and poetic…Nay-Family-Way. Something for the youngsters…Junior Miss. Here’s a real man’s product: Inconceivable.”
He rattled off more:
Mommy-Not
FetusFail
KiddyKill
PoppaStoppa
WombBroom
Humpty Dumpty
He went on: “They’re clever guys. I wouldn’t be surprised if they came up with a birth-control pill that didn’t work all the time. Call it BabyMaybe, available in the six-pack, the sex-pack, and the handy shack-pack for you weekenders.”
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