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To: Volsi Mimir who wrote (1417)	12/24/1998 4:58:00 AM
From: Volsi Mimir	Respond to of 13018

For those who totally missed the point tribute to Mike Royko By R. Bruce Dold The kind of writing Royko did has become dangerous. Some people thought that was because he wielded a weapon blunted by age, but that wasn't the case. Some people just started to insist that no one could be a target, intended or not. His best pieces, his most controversial pieces, were written as satire. And when he'd write satire, there were always a few people who didn't see it coming. At least once, he swore off ever writing satire again. He got a letter from a reader who said Royko was an ignoramous, and he was ugly and had a big nose to boot. So Royko announced in his column that he had gone to a plastic surgeon to have this deformity corrected. But the plastic surgeon had made a terrible mistake and had grafted Royko's nose to his forehead. The paper ran a doctored photo of Royko with a proboscis protruding just below his hairline. People called, in tears. People called, shaking in anger. They urged him to sue the doctor. Hard as it is to believe, some people believed he had a nose on his forehead. After that, he told his friends that he would no longer write satire. If there were newspaper readers who could actually believe he had a nose above his eyes, then satire had no place in a newspaper. excerpt from Chicago Tribune chicagotribune.com.