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yonder

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16. Thanks for this. I was a big fan of Mike Royko - would love to see his take on today.

Sun Dec 29, 2019, 12:48 AM

Dec 2019

"....the wife and bimbo both show up at my bowling league. This guy ain't got no class."

and

"So now he's up to his sneer in a mountain of debt." Pure Royko there, and as true then, as today.

I had a boss once who was an editor at an engineering company we both worked at. He was a former Chicago area sports writer and claimed that he and Royko would occasionally buy each other drinks. He would tell a story on how Royko got his first writing job - by bluffing an editor into hiring him though he had little to no writing experience. According to that boss, "Look it up, look it up" is what Royko would say when on the end of an argument about sports or politics in which the stats or sources were weak. I may be mis-remembering that one, though as it might have been been a Studs Terkel/Jimmy Breslin story.

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10 million in Trump change, a column by Mike Royko on Trump from 1991 [View all] Beringia Dec 2019 OP

AND NOW, HE'S THE POTUS........ a kennedy Dec 2019 #1

IMPOTUS Skittles Dec 2019 #7

Royko was one of the greats. What brought this column to your attention? Hekate Dec 2019 #2

Yeah I always liked him captain queeg Dec 2019 #4

Royko was great - never missed his columns and grieved his passing. Marie Marie Dec 2019 #6

Royho tagged Jerry Brown with the 'Moonbeam' thingy and Jerry loves him for it Brother Buzz Dec 2019 #9

I went down a rabbit hole Beringia Dec 2019 #13

Great read...Trump's only gotten worse. Karadeniz Dec 2019 #3

That's why I don't understand bankers localroger Dec 2019 #5

Royko must be spinning in his grave. greatauntoftriplets Dec 2019 #8

I saw him once too Beringia Dec 2019 #11

I miss reading his take on things. greatauntoftriplets Dec 2019 #12

I used to read Royko before anything else CanonRay Dec 2019 #10

Royko was great Cartoonist Dec 2019 #14

I read Mike Royko all the time mountain grammy Dec 2019 #15

Thanks for this. I was a big fan of Mike Royko - would love to see his take on today. yonder Dec 2019 #16

I can believe that, that he bluffed his way in Beringia Dec 2019 #17

Royko was the absolute best. nt coti Dec 2019 #18

I always believed he lied about financial troubles to stiff Ivana. nt live love laugh Dec 2019 #19

As a Chicagoan, I really miss Mike Royko Martin Eden Dec 2019 #20

Royko was great, and this column had tRump pegged perfectly. Mc Mike Dec 2019 #21