“George Carlin’s ‘Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television’ was so far ahead of its time — or maybe just so plain profane — in 1972 that you still can’t utter the Big Seven on prime-time broadcast television… And as it happens, you can’t necessarily hear them at the Kennedy Center, either,” where the routine was mercilessly bleeped during a ceremony honoring the late comic. Some in attendance found it ironic – others were merely annoyed.