A new rule mistakenly attributed to George Carlin. From the new rules for 2006.
New Rule: No more gift registries. You know, it used to be just for weddings. Now it’s for babies and new homes and graduations from rehab. Picking out the stuff you want and having other people buy it for you isn’t gift giving, it’s the white people version of looting.
Any way we’re going to ask ya’ll NOT buy us more stuff. Please! We NEED more SPACE. Our goal is to build onto the house. So if you feel inclined to gift us then do it with a Lowe’s gift card or something. K? 
[This is supposed to be funny and a bit serious. Get it? Get it! Huh? ok. I laughed at it...]
Seriously, we will share more official “registry” information later, but we really don’t need anything that takes up physical space until we can build an addition to our little house!
I was interested in the “new rules” this came from and I found that it was actually first written/said by Bill Maher. This is apparently a regular feature of his show. Here’s the real new rules, that Maher said on a show on which George Carlin was guest. (A ha!) I actually like it better than the mis-attributted e-mail version.