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Wonder, Think & Know: Kitchen Vacating Edition

Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: Some things you wonder, some things you think, and some things you just know. Maybe John Greenlief Whittier would have liked Mike Royko’s writing too. At least he actually said part of that. On the long list of things I don’t want to…

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Wonder, Think & Know: Double Bubble Edition

Driving home from South Bend today after watching the men’s basketball team open their season with a win, hoping to watch the gridiron Irish dismantle the Navy Midshipmen, I said to myself, “Some things you wonder, some things you think, and some things you just know.” My voice sounded nothing like Mike Royko’s, which is…

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Wonder, Think & Know: Nuts and Bolts Edition

Mike Royko never said, “Some things you wonder, some things you think, and some things you just know.” Bernie Lincicome said that. Regardless, I hope both of them would have said the number of curse words I said in the last couple hours. They’re smart men, and they know what side of the bread the…

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Wonder, Think & Know: Admiral Ackbar Edition

Mike Royko never said, “Some things you wonder, some things you think, and some things you just know”. He might have said some of the unprintable things I said while watching the game, though. Probably while watching Cubs games. I’ve never seen two teams work harder to give each other the game. Final score notwithstanding,…

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Wonder, Think & Know: Frozen Bippy Edition

I know Mike Royko never said, “Some things you wonder, some things you think, and some things you just know”, but did he ever say, “It’s cold enough to freeze the balls off Santa Claus”? When you have Irish-7 and Stanford-4 in a multi-game squares pool that will pay you a cool grand, 61 seconds…

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