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King’s Privilege

David Skoke, 61, says “My first time around” — when he was a teenager in college — “I wasn’t serious at all.” He flunked out because he “was more interested in having fun.” The stockbroker has been attending Georgia Perimeter College in Dunwoody for four years to make up for his partying. “I want to do well,” he says. “I don’t hang out with the kids, but I get along with all the kids here.” So much so, this year he decided to run for Homecoming King. He made up a campaign T-shirt and wore it on campus, and put up posters urging students to “Make an old guy happy: Vote for me!” A reporter watched as one student, Marie Ibrahim, 19, asked him, “How old are you?” After his reply she noted he was “older than my parents.” Skoke didn’t win. “I was kind of hoping to be king,” he said — and he has asked for the vote totals to see how close he came. He is also thinking about transferring to Georgia State, where he might run for Homecoming King again. (RC/Atlanta Journal-Constitution) ...Nice to see he’s taking college so seriously this time.