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The collegiate idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses and learn something about it.

The collegiate idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses and learn something about it.

P. J. O'Rourke
Fun, College, Earth Day
"Parliament of Whores". Book by P. J. O'Rourke, 1991.

Smoking crack is a way for people who couldn't afford college to study the works of Charles Darwin.

P. J. O'Rourke
College, People, Smoking
P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The CEO of the Sofa”, p.173, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.

P. J. O'Rourke
Stupid, College, Stupidity
P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.88, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

You start out with Mad magazine, and you go right through the sort of black humor of Lenny Bruce, Lord Buckley, Mort Sahl, Paul Krassner... If you put Lenny together with Mad magazine and run it through the brain of a college student, you get National Lampoon.

P. J. O'Rourke
Running, College, Mad
Source: www.avclub.com

Everything on a boat has a different name than it would have if it weren't on a boat. Either this is ancient seafaring tradition or it's how people who mess around with boats try to impress the rest of us who actually finished college.

P. J. O'Rourke
College, Names, People
P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "What's Funny About Thi”, p.142, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Especially with a magazine like Lampoon, which was very dependent on newsstand sales. Our readers didn't usually occupy the same address long enough to get a subscription, because they were in college, or they were hippies. So it was very up-and-down, and we had to calculate how many to print, which was always sort of a headache from a business point of view.

P. J. O'Rourke
Hippie, College, Views
Source: www.avclub.com

I started reading Hunter S. Thompson when I was in college.

P. J. O'Rourke
Reading, College, Hunters

Lampoon ran out of steam in the early '80s, and wasn't able to reinvent itself because it ran out of talent. People who wanted to do this kind of stuff could suddenly make $100,000 in Hollywood right out of college.

P. J. O'Rourke
College, People, Hollywood
Source: www.avclub.com

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