Kiho said:
eclimial, my post was a sardonic reply to your posting the definition of <civic> below Carlin's quote.
Fair enough, and thank you for your very 'civil' reply. Apparently my mistake in the original post was attempting to intellectualize the quote.

I very much enjoyed our discussion, and thank you Kiho, it was illuminating.

Now ... to segue and totally get us back on topic by shamelessly using Monty Pythons classic tag line ..."and now for something completely different":

Quote of the day ... (in no way related to the afore mentioned discussion)

If there is no silicon heaven

Where do Androids go when they die?
Rob Naylor and Doug Grant - Red Dwarf

(God help anyone who tries to intellectualize that!!!) LOL