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The Indispensable Humorist

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Posted By: GustoGrabber, 2/12/2023 5:54:53 AM

The title of the present volume, The Funny Stuff, might imply the existence of other volumes of the not-funny variety, presumably by the same author, but this is not so. Some 20 other volumes of genuinely funny stuff by the late P.J. O’Rourke are, indeed, already weighing down our bookshelves. What this new book does is build a kind of museum exhibit of O’Rourke sentences, the better to examine them up close while we note their careful construction and hell-for-leather action. As for the perky title, it’s just an opening gambit, a promise that you’ll want to pause admiringly here,

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Reply 1 - Posted by: DiegoDude 2/12/2023 6:36:56 AM (No. 1400853)
First read P.J. O'Rourke in the National Lampoon, circa 1971 and never stopped laughing. I have all his books and used his "Parliament of Whores" to teach our kids how government really works.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: udanja99 2/12/2023 9:41:46 AM (No. 1400963)
I loved and greatly miss O’Rourke. My favorite quote from him has a touch of humor in it, but I love it because it so clearly hits the nail on the head… "At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child - miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats."
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Reply 3 - Posted by: DiegoDude 2/12/2023 9:48:52 AM (No. 1400972)
Or his quote on politicians. "Giving money and power to politicians, is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Italiano 2/12/2023 10:22:41 AM (No. 1400994)
As soon as I saw the headline, I knew who it had to be. Irreplaceable.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Vaquero45 2/12/2023 12:35:15 PM (No. 1401103)
I loved O’Rourke. I heard him on G. Gordon Liddy’s radio show once; he told Liddy “you’re my favorite felon.” He then talked about Bill Clinton and said he was “as pink as a baboon’s butt.” He was a treat.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Birddog 2/12/2023 12:43:42 PM (No. 1401108)
He came about his snark, wit, and wisdom the Honorable way...his mother, aunts and cousins. Fireballs one and all. Some "educated", all "Smart", mostly blue collar...what Carville considers "White Trash". I am honored to call some friends, and to have been treated as family at some holiday, wedding, and funeral, gatherings...some drank tooooo much, and intrafamilia conflicts could be a bit dramatic, but by the next gathering everyone was back on "best behavior", at least until it grew late.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: danu 2/12/2023 4:28:13 PM (No. 1401242)
a positively psychic man: he warned us of the Confederacy of Dunces... early and often.
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