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Satirist PJ O’Rourke has died.
The Spectator ^ | February 15, 2022 | The Spectator

Posted on 02/15/2022 1:26:28 PM PST by PallMal

The great American journalist and satirist PJ O’Rourke has died. He contributed a number of articles to The Spectator over the years.

(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: gravedisappointment; nevertrump; obit; orourkesdrift; peej; pjorourke; politics; queensburyrules; spectator; turncoat; wellbye; writer
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To: Corey Ohlis

Lots of little O’Rourke quotes attributed or otherwise, have permeated the comments section of this forum for years to the informed reader.


101 posted on 02/15/2022 3:21:04 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: HighSierra5

One? Just one godd$@m thread?


102 posted on 02/15/2022 3:51:29 PM PST by 3RIVRS
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To: SamAdams76

“How to Drive Fast on Drugs While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed and Not Spill Your Drink.”

And don’t worry about the heroin making you vomit. It’s a rental.


103 posted on 02/15/2022 4:09:50 PM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: ought-six

“I was on the train on my way downtown to my office I was reading one of his books, and I just burst out laughing, loudly and uncontrollably, with tears running down my cheeks. People on the train looked at me like I was nuts. And I didn’t care.”

I love this. It’s actually making me kind of teary-eyed, sort of like what PJ sometimes did with his pen; on occasion he would make you laugh and cry at the same time, although this time it’s just knowing he’s gone that brings on the sad.


104 posted on 02/15/2022 4:18:22 PM PST by Auntie Mame (Fear not tomorrow. God is already there.)
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To: PallMal

Condolences to family and friends.


105 posted on 02/15/2022 4:19:30 PM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Allegra

I still have copies of those, and many issues of the monthly magazine, put away in a box somewhere.


106 posted on 02/15/2022 4:24:11 PM PST by ph_balanced
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To: Auntie Mame

“...although this time it’s just knowing he’s gone that brings on the sad.”

Yes, it does.


107 posted on 02/15/2022 4:27:26 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: SunkenCiv
How to Drive Fast on Drugs While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed and Not Spill Your Drink
108 posted on 02/15/2022 4:33:25 PM PST by BraveMan
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To: Luke21

I recall that.

I thought he was YOUNGER!


109 posted on 02/15/2022 4:40:21 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVd)
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To: PallMal; PJ-Comix

Rest in peace PJ!

I loved the dummie funnies videos you made!


110 posted on 02/15/2022 6:05:13 PM PST by GraceG ("If I post an AWESOME MEME, STEAL IT! JUST RE-POST IT IN TWO PLACES PLEASE")
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To: Luke21

He went back to New Republic the genesis of many second wave neocons like Kristol and Krauthammer and Barnes and Kondracke


111 posted on 02/15/2022 6:09:50 PM PST by wardaddy (1-20-21 if ever wa day needed a reckoning settled with blood....I'm with Bannon)
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To: Luke21

And Rolling Stone where I first saw him

He wrote like a merry prankster


112 posted on 02/15/2022 6:10:44 PM PST by wardaddy (1-20-21 if ever wa day needed a reckoning settled with blood....I'm with Bannon)
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To: wardaddy

“There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.”

P. J. O’Rourke


113 posted on 02/15/2022 6:14:10 PM PST by Theophilus (Convoy!)
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To: dfwgator
He pretty much doubled-down on that.

Yes, he did. He should have learned from Trump's brilliant first term that he could be trusted. That did not happen, and I don't understand why.

114 posted on 02/15/2022 6:18:32 PM PST by TChad ("Joe, we should evacuate the civilians before the military. You understand that, right? Joe?")
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To: PallMal

RIP PJ. I enjoyed your writings tremendously. We have lost a voice for sanity in our dark days.


115 posted on 02/15/2022 6:45:51 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Suppo)
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To: PallMal
Liberals have invented whole college majors—psychology, sociology and women's studies—to prove that nothing is anybody's fault. — P.J. O’Rourke

116 posted on 02/15/2022 7:24:51 PM PST by Albion Wilde (If science can’t be questioned, it’s not science anymore, it’s propaganda. --Aaron Rodgers)
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To: BraveMan
Who among us hasn't done th- wait, what?

117 posted on 02/15/2022 9:02:51 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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