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 Post subject: P.J O'Rourke
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In many ways, he helped me through college. His work with Lampoon was really quite good.
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he was quite funny. He was on Bill Maher about 10 years ago and still had it. RIP.
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Would have lost the bet that he was still alive.
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Whoa, that sucks. Always enjoyed his writing.

EDIT: lung cancer, yeah, guy sure smoked a lot.

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Sad, but he lost his fastball twenty years ago.

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This one reads like he nicked it from Acton or Ambrose Bierce or Mencken:

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my dad had "parliament of whores" and "give war a chance" right alongside al franken books and leftists, sci-fi mixed in. a "recovering liberal" think o'rourke may have coined, can't remember. but my dad is a lifelong liberal and appreciated his humor and insight. that's what a liberal should do. liberalism on the other hand...isms in my opinion are not good.
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Sept, 1979 National Lampoon with the Vacation story written by John Hughes. All these years and I thought PJ had written it.
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Sad, but he lost his fastball twenty years ago.


Moving eulogy.

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my dad had "parliament of whores" and "give war a chance" right alongside al franken books and leftists, sci-fi mixed in. a "recovering liberal" think o'rourke may have coined, can't remember. but my dad is a lifelong liberal and appreciated his humor and insight. that's what a liberal should do. liberalism on the other hand...isms in my opinion are not good.


I've been buying his books since the eighties and firmly believe that by the Iraq war his kind of humor pretty much faded out. We as a nation became tired of the same old shtick and fairly jaded. And it's only become worse.

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A lot of satire died in the last part of the century and it’s pretty much dead now. Just like ol PJ.
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A lot of satire died in the last part of the century and it’s pretty much dead now. Just like ol PJ.

That it got extended to all kinds of entertainment including (ridiculously)sports reporting didn't help.

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my dad had "parliament of whores" and "give war a chance" right alongside al franken books and leftists, sci-fi mixed in. a "recovering liberal" think o'rourke may have coined, can't remember. but my dad is a lifelong liberal and appreciated his humor and insight. that's what a liberal should do. liberalism on the other hand...isms in my opinion are not good.


I've been buying his books since the eighties and firmly believe that by the Iraq war his kind of humor pretty much faded out. We as a nation became tired of the same old shtick and fairly jaded. And it's only become worse.

Eat the Rich was 1998 and I think that one is still pretty good. It hasn't held up, too much of its time, but it was good for its time.

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W_Z wrote:
my dad had "parliament of whores" and "give war a chance" right alongside al franken books and leftists, sci-fi mixed in. a "recovering liberal" think o'rourke may have coined, can't remember. but my dad is a lifelong liberal and appreciated his humor and insight. that's what a liberal should do. liberalism on the other hand...isms in my opinion are not good.


I've been buying his books since the eighties and firmly believe that by the Iraq war his kind of humor pretty much faded out. We as a nation became tired of the same old shtick and fairly jaded. And it's only become worse.

Eat the Rich was 1998 and I think that one is still pretty good. It hasn't held up, too much of its time, but it was good for its time.

I bought that on it's release and like I said, he lost his fastball twenty years ago.

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He was a r-etard when it came to politics. Rest In Piss, Polly Jean.


You are that offended by P J O’Roarke?

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McCareins_Fan wrote:
He was a r-etard when it came to politics. Rest In Piss, Polly Jean.


You are that offended by P J O’Roarke?

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Nardi wrote:
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He was a r-etard when it came to politics. Rest In Piss, Polly Jean.


You are that offended by P J O’Roarke?

Rourke


Fucking Chas.

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Nardi wrote:
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He was a r-etard when it came to politics. Rest In Piss, Polly Jean.


You are that offended by P J O’Roarke?

Rourke

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Nardi wrote:
WaitingforRuffcorn wrote:
McCareins_Fan wrote:
He was a r-etard when it came to politics. Rest In Piss, Polly Jean.


You are that offended by P J O’Roarke?

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