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faint praise. and snickers. P.J. O'Rourke, former editor of the old National Lampoon magazine from the 70's (the most non PC and hilarious rag ever published), author of the short story First Blowjob , member of the prestigious conservative 'tank the CATO Institute, humorist, author of many funnybooks ( your homework: read Parliament of Whores ; it explains so much) has endorsed Hillary Clinton, sorta, kinda, maybe. Link: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/05/11/p-j-o-rourke-i-m-endorsing-hillary-clinton-the-devil-we-know.html You must read this. You simply must. It's classic PJ. Read all his books, you'll not be dissapointed. Especially Holidays in Hell, Don't Vote, It Just Encourages the Bastards, etc. An excerpt: (sung to the tune of Your a Mean One, Mr. Grinch): You’re a smug one, Hillary, You really are a snoot, You’re as cuddly as a cactus, you’re as charming as a newt, Hillary, You’re a bad banana in an garish and expensive power suit! You’re a limousine liberal, Hillary, Your heart’s an empty hole, Your brain is full of Sidney Blumenthal, you have boiled kale in your soul, Hillary, I endorse you with a thirty-nine-and-a-half foot pole! ... Heh. Whatta gem. zimboe has issued a correction as of 14:46 on Jun 17, 2016 |
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Errata: Endersement? Maybe he was in Na Joisey at the time. Link to a video wich may not work: http://wonkette.com/601578/pj-orourke-hopes-to-do-for-donald-trump-what-he-did-to-national-lampoon Excerpt: "The Republicans finally got all thier poo poo in a single bag, wrapped a suit around it and behold! Donald Trump." e: And another thing: ALL CANDIDATES SUCK. In all honesty, that should be the subforum title. Refute my reasoning. A link giving some history of NatLamp: http://www.salon.com/2015/09/24/p_j_orourke_on_why_trump_will_collapse_ann_coulters_a_fraud_and_how_national_lampoon_created_modern_comedy/ zimboe has issued a correction as of 15:15 on Jun 17, 2016 |
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Pollyanna posted:what SAY WHAT AGAIN! I DARE YOU, I DOUBLE DOG DARE YOU!
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like pj o'rourke's appeal, I don't understand the national lampoon radio hour was pretty good though
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Al! posted:like pj o'rourke's appeal, I don't understand "Radio Dinner" is on YouTube. One of the first and best of the albums. Includes "Catch It And You Keep It!" A hysterical game show parody, which I thinks should be resurrected as a real game show.Check it out, it's funny as poo poo. Where they throw prizes to the contestants from the top of a ten-story building. gently caress I'm a genius. I should be working for Showtime. NARRATOR: "What Ron doesn't know is that that American Tourister suitcase contains THREE SOLID GOLD BARS At 84 Kg EACH!" ... "COME ON DOWN! KIM KARDASIAN! Catch this brand-new 2016 Mercedes Maybach! The ratings would be through the roof. zimboe has issued a correction as of 16:12 on Jun 17, 2016 |
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It's like a space alien trying to learn English.
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The Larch posted:It's like a space alien trying to learn English. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upQuq4HsA-8
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Found it. Here it is: Catch it and You Keep It: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NewSO3RzKZg zimboe has issued a correction as of 16:11 on Jun 17, 2016 |
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P.J. O'Rourke posted:Count me the Iago of your supporters... i don't know if that self-comparison was completely thought through tbh
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IN 1884, MERIDIAN TIME PERSONNEL MET IN WASHINGTON TO CHANGE EARTH TIME. First words said was that only 1 day could be used on EArth to not change the 1 day bible. SO THEY APPLIED THE 1DAY.... AND IGNORED THE OTHER 3 DAYS. The bible time was wrong then and it proved wrong today. THIS IS A MAJOR LIE has so much evil feed from it's wrong. No man on Earth has no belly-button, it proves every believer on Earth a liar Children will be blessed for KILLING OF EDUCATED ADULTS Who Ignore 4 Simultaneous Days Same Earth Rotation. Practicing Evil ONEness - Upon Earth of Qaudrants. Evil Adult Crime VS Youth - Supports Lie of Integration. 1 Educated Are Most Dumb. Not 1 Human Except Dead 1. Man is paired, 2 Half 4 Self. EARTH HAS 4 CORNER SIMULTANEOUS 4-DAY TIME CUBE WITHIN SINGLE ROTATION 4 CORNER DAYS PROVES 1DAY 1 GOD IS TAUGHT EVIL. IGNORANCE OF TIMECUBE4 SIMPLE MATH IS RETARDATION AND EVIL EDUCATION DAMNATION. CUBELESS AMERICANS DESERVE - AND SHALL BE EXTERMINATED
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Al! posted:like pj o'rourke's appeal, I don't understand he's genuinely pretty drat funny, but just the idea that 'funny dude' translates to 'also very smart and wise' is always absurd no matter what side does it. He pretty much got his CATO slot because he was someone decently known who agreed with their poo poo and it snowballed from there into pretending he's some beacon of wisdom. But yea as for appeal in general hell I disagree with near everything he's said as a genuine opinion but I still like his stuff, dude's got a good sense of humor if you like the gonzo poo poo.
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wow O'Rourke writes like a douchebag now
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she a witch one line paragraph like an irl witch maybe also scarlett ohara italicized foreign words witch welp thanx for reading gotta go record an episode of Wait Wait Dont Tell Me now
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Whadda ya know will always be the superior but underrated NPR quiz show to wait wait please don't make me listen to Mo Rocca again
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He had some good lines, to be fair.quote:Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope. e: He always sucks on NPR quiz shows however. Talking isn't writing.
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i rolled my eyes at like eight of those
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sean10mm posted:He had some good lines, to be fair. I find propogating the myth of the lemming very triggering.
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Mirthless posted:IN 1884, MERIDIAN TIME PERSONNEL MET IN WASHINGTON TO CHANGE EARTH TIME. First words said was that only 1 day could be used on EArth to not change the 1 day bible. SO THEY APPLIED THE 1DAY.... AND IGNORED THE OTHER 3 DAYS. The bible time was wrong then and it proved wrong today. THIS IS A MAJOR LIE has so much evil feed from it's wrong. No man on Earth has no belly-button, it proves every believer on Earth a liar
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sean10mm posted:He always sucks on NPR quiz shows however. Talking isn't writing. yeah i pretty much only know him from WWDTM and he sounds like a smug prick
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Aliquid posted:yeah i pretty much only know him from WWDTM and he sounds like a smug prick he has a voice that has the same effect seeing Sean Hannity's face has on many people, just an instinctive thought of 'someone should smack this dude' pops in when you hear it even if he's not saying anything that bad.
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He peaked like 25 years ago, so we're seeing a guy who was 40% funny 60% rear end in a top hat in his prime a generation ago now running on creative fumes. I am not surprised he looked at Trump and went LOL gently caress THIS poo poo though. PJ's politics are hot garbage but he's not quite THAT stupid.
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it's illegal in my country to say the holocaust never happened but guess what the holocaust happened
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NPR stands for Liberal Weenie Radio.
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sean10mm posted:He peaked like 25 years ago, so we're seeing a guy who was 40% funny 60% tbh, his joke construction is pretty dated 3/4 of those one liners posted sound like they'd get delivered with a spinning bow tie and a cigar puff Mirthless posted:IN 1884, MERIDIAN TIME PERSONNEL MET IN WASHINGTON TO CHANGE EARTH TIME. First words said was that only 1 day could be used on EArth to not change the 1 day bible. SO THEY APPLIED THE 1DAY.... AND IGNORED THE OTHER 3 DAYS. The bible time was wrong then and it proved wrong today. THIS IS A MAJOR LIE has so much evil feed from it's wrong. No man on Earth has no belly-button, it proves every believer on Earth a liar
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i read his books when i was kid, right alongside the dave barry ones, and maybe he's part of why i was a loving high school chickenhawk but i did like his writing. haven't revisited it once since. let's see what i think of this article yeah that was a lovely article. i swear in the 80s/90s he at least wrote in paragraphs. that was kind of depressing to read. good to know i left something behind at the right time i guess like, there was one about his international travels and it was all right wing and un-pc and poo poo but i feel like i picked up some knowledge that i haven't had to burn out of my brain with a cigarette lighter since, like he at least put in a fairly poignant anti-apartheid essay in my high school opinion. i don't know anything about this radio poo poo, i bet that's excruciating, i can barely stand listening to the good npr edit: in an era when we're collecting every random-rear end republican who endorses hillary it's nice to know we can throw the corpse of the funny one on the pile editedit: i bet this explains my politics and my sense of humor loll oystertoadfish has issued a correction as of 03:19 on Jun 19, 2016 |
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The King of Sandusky Ohio was a very funny short story.
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oystertoadfish posted:i read his books when i was kid, right alongside the dave barry ones, and maybe he's part of why i was a loving high school chickenhawk but i did like his writing. haven't revisited it once since. let's see what i think of this article i was obsessed with dave barry as a preteen and kind of rediscovered him much later and realized ahhh poo poo this is where i got all my jokes.
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I think for a clearer picture of what this endorsement means, we need to look back to Erma Bombeck's rejection of Nixon because faaaaaaart pisssssss
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I remember P.J. O'Rourke wrote this paragraph about teenagers rolling a car in a cornfield and it was super funny
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Al! posted:i was obsessed with dave barry as a preteen and kind of rediscovered him much later and realized ahhh poo poo this is where i got all my jokes. lol i havent gone back to it. i bet im unconsciously ripping him off
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i only know him from old wait wait don't tell me shows and being on that show is like being terminally lame, with a bad case of fail
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I know P.J. O'Rourke from when he shows up on Bill Maher and I have to figure out which one of those two I hate most.
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Todd Carrol and Ted Mann were funnier http://www.beltssuspenders.com/download/8108371045/utterly-monstrous-mind-roasting-summer-of-oc-and-stiggs/
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