Yeah, it’s, umm, OK.
The thing is though, having read just about alll of the man’s output over the years, I can’t place which previous essays and books the jokes come from but I know I’ve read them before.
Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino’s box
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Instead, be a corporate lawyer and make $500,000 a year. No matter how much you cheat the IRS, you’ll still end up paying $100,000 in property, sales and excise taxes. That’s $100,000 to schools, sewers, roads, firefighters and police.
Both Eat the Rich, aren’t they?
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1 R. Sherman // May 5, 2008 at 1:31 pm
You are correct, although in the second quote he used “United States Marines” instead of police.
Regards.
2 TimT // May 6, 2008 at 1:44 am
So should we condemn the younger P J O’Rourke because he imitated the older P J O’Rourke? The way I see it, an unoriginal joke is still a good joke if the author is smart and writes well. And O’Rourke is, and does.
Tim adds: Very true, it’s just that I expect so much more from The Master.
3 Serf // May 6, 2008 at 9:11 am
Surely a Lawyer doesn’t generate any value though, only redistributes it. So the argument doesn’t work here.
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