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January 25, 2013

'Impossible Is Nothing' Aleksy Vayner Dead at 29
— rdbrewer

He is famous for the worst video resume ever created. (Embedded below the fold.) UBS Financial Services leaked it on the internet. There were many parodies, and he was relentlessly mocked. He deserved it, I guess, but I feel guilty for having mocked him myself. People like that are trying to compensate for terribly low self-esteem. Apparently it was a heart attack from a drug overdose.

Even before he arrived as a freshman at Yale, Vayner had become known for exaggerating his own feats.
At a 2002 event in New Haven for high-school seniors who have been admitted to Yale, Vayner told current students all about his abilities and specialised skills.
He told Jordan Bassm a freshman student at the Ivy League college that he had taught tennis to Jerry Seinfeld and Harrison Ford and that the Dalai Lama had apparently written his college recommendation.
'He talked for, like, six hours straight the first night,' said Bass to the New Yorker magazine after they investigated Vayner in 2006 following his notorious video job application.
'He had a lot of affiliations with Ã©lite institutions. He was an action star, an espionage expert, and a professional athlete. He would be on the C.I.A. firing range one day and, the next, at a martial-arts competition that took place in this secret system of tunnels underneath Woodstock, New York.
'Then he was at a skiing competition in Switzerland. He told us the Russian Mafia had him forging passports.'
. . .
Attending Yale despite the attention of the article, Vayner arrived with a CV that now boasted he had begun modelling for the price of $200 an hour, written a book about the Holocaust and founded a charity for troubled children.
He also claimed to have won two tennis matches against Pete Sampras, retired from professional martial arts and mastered the art of 'bone setting'.

According to the article, a friend on Facebook was concerned about his health the night before he died, "Do not, anyone, sell this idiot ANY pills!"

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Posted by: rdbrewer at 08:08 AM | Comments (222)
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1 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a malignant traitor.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at January 25, 2013 08:10 AM (8y9MW)

2 I'm sorry... who?

I've never seen this, and I can't watch it at work.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at January 25, 2013 08:11 AM (8y9MW)

3 I think it would be hilarious if everything he claimed actually turned out to be true.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at January 25, 2013 08:13 AM (xz0nG)

I still think about him when I lift weights. I mean, I'm no girly man, but if he was lifting what he said he was, he put me to shame.

And if Mr. Mackie hasn't said it enough, drugs are bad, people. So don't do drugs. Cuz they're bad. M'kay?

Posted by: BurtTC at January 25, 2013 08:13 AM (TOk1P)

5 it has been said that Darwinian principles can only be avoided for so long a time.

Posted by: VIA, on the tiny keyboard at January 25, 2013 08:13 AM (jkLB+)

6 I lived in the Seattle area until 1981, when I was four years old. Ten years later, Nirvana. Coincidence? I think not!

Posted by: Truman North, now at 25% battery life at January 25, 2013 08:15 AM (s8fwg)

7 A sociopathic pathalogical liar takes his own life by abuse of drugs. Shocked.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/ahc8poj at January 25, 2013 08:15 AM (l86i3)

8 Wait...we're supposed to be upset that some douche overdosed on drugs and died?

Nope.

Posted by: MadisonConservative at January 25, 2013 08:16 AM (Y/HG5)

I went through orientation with someone like this. He was a respiratory tech but apparently traveled the world, knew celebrities, had every imaginable skill - gourmet cook, pilot, spoke multiple languages, etc.

He talked non-stop about his life and the rest of us could only try and interupt this loon. He no longer works here.

Posted by: Cheri at January 25, 2013 08:16 AM (G+Wff)

10 He was just ahead of the power curve, if he had managed a run at high office as a (-d) all would have been forgiven....

Posted by: sven10077 at January 25, 2013 08:17 AM (LRFds)

11 Even before he arrived as a freshman at Yale, Vayner had become known for exaggerating his own feats. If he'd gone to Harvard, he'd have a Peace Prize by now.

Posted by: t-bird at January 25, 2013 08:17 AM (FcR7P)

12 standing by...

Posted by: Jones in CO at January 25, 2013 08:17 AM (8sCoq)

13 I did all that stuff at Occidental College before transferring to Columbia. So what if Romney had a 3.97 GPA while earning an MBA/JD at Harvard? I ate a dog, smoked dope, did coke and did Reggie Love in the Lincln Bedroom on Monday. And I killed OBL.

Posted by: Barry Soetoro at January 25, 2013 08:17 AM (Cm5S0)

14 Well, I guess we did miss out on a plethora of fiction yarns had he decided to write. But it's easier to talk shit than to produce anything.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/ahc8poj at January 25, 2013 08:17 AM (l86i3)

15 Munchausen much?

Posted by: toby928© for TB at January 25, 2013 08:18 AM (evdj2)

16 You know, I see a LOT more of this in my juniors these days than I ever did before. It just seems like within the last 10-15 years or so, everyone below the age of 30 is puffing themselves up with bullshit - and not minor BS, but like absolutely over the top BS.

That whole Jon Lovitz schtick on SNL must have been foreshadowing.

In fact, I was saying that just last night to my wife, Morgan Fairchild...

Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 25, 2013 08:18 AM (sbV1u)

17 Who is this guy and should I give a shit?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 25, 2013 08:18 AM (XkWWK)

I know this guy. He hangs around here sometimes, claims to play guitar.

Nic starts with a J....

Posted by: Meremortal, slutdrop the GOPe at January 25, 2013 08:19 AM (1Y+hH)

19 I'm a low-information intellectual, so I gots to know.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 25, 2013 08:19 AM (XkWWK)

20 If there's a douchebag heaven, I'm sure he's teaching douchebag god how to improve his forehand right now.

Posted by: rdbrewer at January 25, 2013 08:19 AM (Iyg03)

21 It's a shame this happened to him and not the president. Banhammer?

Posted by: Truman North, now at 25% battery life at January 25, 2013 08:19 AM (s8fwg)

22 I told him to get his ass to Mars.

Posted by: Carl Hauser at January 25, 2013 08:19 AM (evdj2)

23 In fact, I was saying that just last night to my wife, Morgan Fairchild... Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 25, 2013 12:18 PM (sbV1u) Tell Morgan my wife, Cindy Crawford says hello.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/ahc8poj at January 25, 2013 08:19 AM (l86i3)

24 2 Allen G,

The Russian Walter Mitty.

The guy got lambasted here or was it at LGF pretty well. You can't really hide from who you are anymore. It'd be like me claiming I "have contacts at the CIA at deep levels" because I have been in the basement and knew a guy there.

He should ahve ran for the Senate from either IL or MA then the ky would have been the limit.

Barack Obama's parents traveled through time to conceive him and Lieawatha Warren Persecuted her own imaginary people.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 25, 2013 08:20 AM (LRFds)

25 Who is this? Never heard of him. Sorry to say he sounds like he was a Kardashian.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 25, 2013 08:20 AM (Mj6r9)

26 7 Truman North,

I once had a LLC, I have had a water sprinkler thus a corporate jet....

"yeah kinda"

Posted by: sven10077 at January 25, 2013 08:21 AM (LRFds)

27 Just for an erection lasting more than four hours, here is the PDF of the decision, and YES my friend Judge Sentelle wrote it!

Suck the barbed cock of Satan, JEF.

http://tinyurl.com/b5mwmhu

Posted by: Billy Bob, Pseudo Intellectual at January 25, 2013 08:21 AM (wR+pz)

28 I never even knew "video resume" was an actual thing.

The things I learn at the 'Q.

Posted by: Waterhouse at January 25, 2013 08:21 AM (xGlYu)

29 Who is this? Never heard of him. Sorry to say he sounds like he was a Kardashian. Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 25, 2013 12:20 PM (Mj6r9) Nope, but I think he had claimed to FK them all.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/ahc8poj at January 25, 2013 08:21 AM (l86i3)

30 That whole Jon Lovitz schtick on SNL must have been foreshadowing. In fact, I was saying that just last night to my wife, Morgan Fairchild... --- I'm here on behalf of Pathological Liars Anonymous. In fact... I'm not just a member of the organization, but I'm also its president!

Posted by: Tommy Flanagan Obama at January 25, 2013 08:21 AM (e0xKF)

31 A sociopathic pathalogical liar takes his own life by abuse of drugs.

Low, slow, and right over the plate.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at January 25, 2013 08:21 AM (ZKzrr)

32 This is a Philip K. Dick short story, isn't it?

Posted by: toby928© for TB at January 25, 2013 08:21 AM (evdj2)

33 I used to know a guy like this. He was normal at one time but once he went away to College something happened. In his first year of med school he would pull chicks by telling them he was a Doctor (this is a major ethical violation, especially for a med student.) He told them he owned a huge mansion (he rented a room in it, it belonged to a rich friend,) He boasted about all his celebrity friends that did not exist, claimed to ne a multi-millionaire (his parents were blue-collar and he wasn't even close to being a doctor YET.) Thins is, dude pulled tons and tons of tail. I mean tons. Squirrely little out of shape midget with bad teeth and dude pulled tail like Brad Pitt. Which is why he did this shit. Once he moved on to full-fledged douchbaggery, stealing his friends' girls, we dropped him from our circle completely. He's now a real doctor, very successful, and still a douchebag.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 25, 2013 08:22 AM (7ObY1)

34 17 Sean Bannion,

I wonder if it is part of what that shrink was saying on fox about "narcissist nation"?

I have failed at pretty much everything I have ever tried, it means on a lot of things including my infantry experience I have about two inches of knowledge in a 12 foot pool.

These kids coming up seem miffed they have had such an easy go of it, they hate who they are so bad they create a "new you."

Anyway it's sad.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 25, 2013 08:23 AM (LRFds)

35 Never heard of him. But an episode of "How I Met Your Mother" had Barney making a video resume just like this. Probably was a mockery of it.

Posted by: Pyrocles at January 25, 2013 08:23 AM (cv5Iw)

36 32 Ms radish,

Swing and a miss...

a-yup.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 25, 2013 08:23 AM (LRFds)

Jeez, y'all are some cruel bastages. He was a harmless fool, and now he's dead.

No need to pile on.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 25, 2013 08:24 AM (TOk1P)

38 It's like the movie Rushmore. Only funny.

Posted by: wooga at January 25, 2013 08:24 AM (q4KYY)

39 Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/ahc8poj at January 25, 2013 12:19 PM (l86i3)

You two sure like them old.

Kate and Brooklyn steal the covers.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 25, 2013 08:24 AM (GsoHv)

40 No need to pile on. Posted by: BurtTC at January 25, 2013 12:24 PM (TOk1P) He was a waste of oxygen, I propose a toast.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/ahc8poj at January 25, 2013 08:25 AM (l86i3)

41 38 BurtTC,

5 years ago I'd have agreed with you...now?

"Constitutional Scholar..."

fuck you you can't see my curricula vitae!

get it?

Posted by: sven10077 at January 25, 2013 08:25 AM (LRFds)

42 You two sure like them old. Kate and Brooklyn steal the covers. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 25, 2013 12:24 PM (GsoHv) No, it's just that I wanted my lie believable.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/ahc8poj at January 25, 2013 08:26 AM (l86i3)

43 39 wooga,

or with a happy ending.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 25, 2013 08:26 AM (LRFds)

44 Sean when it seems there is no real downside to fluffing up the creds. -->TFG Why not go for broke. Sad aint it? Phonies, the freaks, and the rejects get the attention while the real heroes are ignored.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 25, 2013 08:26 AM (Mj6r9)

45 He deserved it, I guess, but I feel guilty for having mocked him myself. People like that are trying to compensate for terribly low self-esteem. So the "Everyone gets a trophy for just showing up" crowd takes it in the shorts. Who knew?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 25, 2013 08:26 AM (GFM2b)

46 No, it's just that I wanted my lie believable.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/ahc8poj at January 25, 2013 12:26 PM (l86i3)

Why? I learned this technique from the POTUS. Look how well it works for him.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 25, 2013 08:27 AM (GsoHv)

Assault narcissism.

Seriously, does this guy's mannerisms remind you of anyone??

Posted by: Prescient11 at January 25, 2013 08:28 AM (tVTLU)

48 So the "Everyone gets a trophy for just showing up" crowd takes it in the shorts. Who knew? Posted by: rickb223 at January 25, 2013 12:26 PM (GFM2b) The odds of any of them actually understanding how fucked up they are is very very small.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/ahc8poj at January 25, 2013 08:28 AM (l86i3)

49 It just seems like within the last 10-15 years or so, everyone below the age of 30 is puffing themselves up with bullshit - and not minor BS, but like absolutely over the top BS.

Well you can't get into a "good college" on the strength of academic performance anymore; if you don't have a preferred skin color/last name/sexual fetish, you have to have a 30-page CV of non-school (progg-friendly) accomplishments. In between becoming a chess grandmaster and washing the sores of homeless lepers, you have to learn Mandarin and save the transgendered delta smelt.

I really did run into Weird Al in a hallway once, though.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at January 25, 2013 08:28 AM (ZKzrr)

50 When they told me that destroying America was "impossible", I remembered Aleksey's words.

Posted by: Jugears McFuckstick giving Vayner's eulogy at January 25, 2013 08:28 AM (eP0u9)

51 Who? Who?

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 25, 2013 08:28 AM (f9c2L)

42 -

I know, I know, but there are plenty of people who deserve both barrels (figuratively speaking). This guy ain't one of them.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 25, 2013 08:28 AM (TOk1P)

53 46 rickb223,

It is like the idiots who have wrought this culture can't seem to grasp that they are handing power over people with the power of the sun to self-delusory glib assholes.

It is almost enough to make one long for the true old Ivy legacy "we are power" bullshit. They knew they didn't know everything and didn't give a fuck they were in the "guide systems to results" business.

Ogabe is like Buckaroo banzai without any skill.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 25, 2013 08:29 AM (LRFds)

54 I once shot a man in Reno.

Just to watch him die.

Posted by: Cicero, Semiautomatic Assault Commenter at January 25, 2013 08:29 AM (4DGKs)

55 Many years ago there was a story in The Readers Digest about a guy at some college who convinced some rich girl that he was some kind of Kung-Fu master, on the run from the other King-Fu masters. He got her to run away with him all over the world, using her money, to escape from them. I think he kept this going for almost two years before she got wise to it. I'd google for it if I could think of the right search terms.

Posted by: toby928© for TB at January 25, 2013 08:29 AM (evdj2)

56 Oy Vey, The Vayner's Dead, The Vayner's Dead, The Vayner's Dead.

Long Live The Vayner.

Posted by: Gerbil Malodor at January 25, 2013 08:29 AM (T5dvf)

57 Boy, slow news day if you got to post this Stupid.

Did rbrewer heard JEF got fucked today? I read it on Allen's blog.

Posted by: Billy Bob, Pseudo Intellectual at January 25, 2013 08:29 AM (wR+pz)

58 Obviously, facing another day was impossible for him.

Posted by: @PurpAv at January 25, 2013 08:29 AM (GlnE7)

59 I can juggle pillows.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at January 25, 2013 08:29 AM (xz0nG)

60 These kids coming up seem miffed they have had such an easy go of it, they hate who they are so bad they create a "new you." Posted by: sven10077 at January 25, 2013 12:23 PM (LRFds)

I saw that teaching college freshmen.

By my third year, my "opening day" speech went something like, "You're not special. Being special starts now from absolute zero, so get over yourselves."

As you may have guessed, this is my absolute favorite graduation speech. http://scoamf.us/6h

It was delivered in May last year, in a town where the MEDIAN income is $125K and the MEAN home value is $900K - and I went to school with a boatload of people from that town.

They're fucking clueless. The video? Pure awesomeness.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 25, 2013 08:30 AM (sbV1u)

61 50 Ms radish,

and I really guarded Pete rose and maybe jhe is a nice guy if you are a friend, but the roughly 16 hours I spent with him over two days told me he was an asshole.

Anyway somewhere along the way it stopped being enough to be just a schlub trying to get by.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 25, 2013 08:31 AM (LRFds)

62 Yale? This guy belonged at Harvard.

Posted by: Cicero, Semiautomatic Assault Commenter at January 25, 2013 08:31 AM (4DGKs)

63 This sounds like the movie School For Scoundrels, which ace reviewed (I think?), and was based on a book he did review here (staircase wit). And yeah, Barney on "How I Met Your Mother" did this too, which was awesome!

Posted by: EC at January 25, 2013 08:31 AM (GQ8sn)

64 I've been an expert "bone" setter since I was 13!!!!

Posted by: Finn McCool at January 25, 2013 08:31 AM (+2y9C)

65 No need to pile on.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 25, 2013 12:24 PM (TOk1P)

He ain't gonna bury himself.

Posted by: MadisonConservative at January 25, 2013 08:32 AM (Y/HG5)

66 Impossible Is Nothing

Yeah, tell us about it.

Posted by: NLRB at January 25, 2013 08:32 AM (wR+pz)

67 I'm sorry for his family and friends-provided he actually had any except for Facebook. Extreme Narcissists never have real friends though

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 25, 2013 08:32 AM (+qMCO)

68 OT- Pennsylvania is contemplating Right To Work laws thanks to the changes made in Michigan, Indiana, and Wisconsin.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at January 25, 2013 08:33 AM (e0xKF)

Is there some connection between this and the announced retirement of Saxy Chambliss?

Cuz there should be, for some reason.

Posted by: Meremortal, slutdrop the GOPe at January 25, 2013 08:33 AM (1Y+hH)

70 61 Sean Bannion,

well it was a lot like Entropy the other day...we're all perhaps "exceptional' in our early circles but as we age the circles grow and intersect and change...some of us are unarguably smarter, some just more vulgar but our beauty as a species and ideally a culture is the interlocking set of skills, comfort, second set of eyes, and drive towards a goal....

and this Vid's takedown on weddings was nice....

failure...

yeah so haven't we all.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 25, 2013 08:33 AM (LRFds)

71 Lance Winslow called and expressed his condolences

Posted by: Bigby's Scissor Hands at January 25, 2013 08:33 AM (3ZtZW)

72 Posted by: sven10077 at January 25, 2013 12:31 PM (LRFds) I had dinner with Pete once in Mission Vally outside of San Diego when he was a coach. I thought he was a very nice and gracious man.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/ahc8poj at January 25, 2013 08:33 AM (l86i3)

73 sven, people have tried to tell the self important assholes that letting the special snowflake fail now & becoming a better person for it. But noooooooo, the jackwagons in power would rather "protect" them. There's a reason it's called "a cold, cruel world". The world doesn't give a shit if you got a trophy for just showing up.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 25, 2013 08:34 AM (GFM2b)

74 What wine do you serve with tranny delta smelt?

I'd probably go with a "Pompous Ass."
http://www.pompousasswinery.com/

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at January 25, 2013 08:34 AM (ZKzrr)

75 Well you can't get into a "good college" on the strength of academic performance anymore; if you don't have a preferred skin color/last name/sexual fetish, you have to have a 30-page CV of non-school (progg-friendly) accomplishments. In between becoming a chess grandmaster and washing the sores of homeless lepers, you have to learn Mandarin and save the transgendered delta smelt. Posted by: HeatherRadishÂ™ needs a beer at January 25, 2013 12:28 PM (ZKzrr)

You are SPOT. ON.

One of my assignments in the Army was as the Scholarship Control Officer for an ROTC region. I got an application from one kid at Princeton and one of his non-academic activities was "Teaching English in Peru"

At 17. Uh huh. Riiiiiiight.

You ran into Weird Al? Was it live from the Men's Room at Cal PolyTech in San Luis Obispo, CA?!?!?!

(Bonus points for anyone who remembers where that comes from...)

Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 25, 2013 08:34 AM (sbV1u)

76 The White Obama? A Self Inflating gas bag that yaps his way to achievements he never actually accomplished?

Posted by: jeremiah God Damn Barack Obama the Mother Fucking SCoaMF wright at January 25, 2013 08:34 AM (+OTLF)

77 I believe the 'bone setting' bit, if you know what I mean, and I think you do.

Posted by: model_1066 at January 25, 2013 08:35 AM (7xPCu)

78 Sven, it is sad, and I do think there is some narcissist nation about this. There was also an article somewhere that talked about how FB causes depression in some people because of the constant one-upsmanship. Mrs. Jakeman calls it "Facebragging."

I have to confess it absolutely kills me when my 15-year-old jakegirl gets all excited about "getting XX likes" on a FB photo, as if it's some sort of achievement. When she got straight As, I was proud, and told her so. When she made the golf team, I was proud, and told her so.

But yet, teenagers use social media as a primary metric. It saddens me. And even though I enjoy FB once in a while, mostly as a way to taunt my lib friends, I sorta wish it didn't exist.

Posted by: jakeman at January 25, 2013 08:35 AM (VBMfv)

79 Nansi Xu is quite the leggy lass!

Posted by: EC at January 25, 2013 08:35 AM (GQ8sn)

80 I have bumped into both Walter Cronkite and Bear Bryant, literally run into them. That's pretty much my claim to fame.

Posted by: toby928© for TB at January 25, 2013 08:35 AM (evdj2)

81 I had dinner with Pete once in Mission Vally outside of San Diego when he was a coach. I thought he was a very nice and gracious man. --- I've been seated next to Bobby Jindal and a pre-Senate Mary Landrieu before. Jindal seemed nice enough. Landrieu was pushy, even then, and rubbed other people at my table the wrong way.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at January 25, 2013 08:35 AM (e0xKF)

82 He was mentally ill. I feels sorry for him. What right did USB have to release his interview video?

Posted by: Waldo Truth at January 25, 2013 08:35 AM (jwumz)

83 What wine do you serve with tranny delta smelt? I would think something like, "I wanna Sex Change!"

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/ahc8poj at January 25, 2013 08:35 AM (l86i3)

84 You ran into Weird Al? Was it live from the Men's Room at Cal PolyTech in San Luis Obispo, CA?!?!?! (Bonus points for anyone who remembers where that comes from...) --- Never gonna stop eat it up such a tasty thing I always eat too much and throw up MY MY MY MY YOWWWWW My-my-my-my-my-my MY BALOGNA!

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at January 25, 2013 08:36 AM (e0xKF)

85 And I know a form NYC cop who threw Geraldo Rivera down a flight of stairs when he was a cub reporter. I thought that was a cool story.

Posted by: toby928© for TB at January 25, 2013 08:36 AM (evdj2)

86 former effin fingers

Posted by: toby928© for TB at January 25, 2013 08:36 AM (evdj2)

87 In fact, I was saying that just last night to my wife, Morgan Fairchild... Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 25, 2013 12:18 PM (sbV1u) Tell Morgan my wife, Cindy Crawford says hello. Y'all can say hi to my date, Kate Upton, when she gets here.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 25, 2013 08:36 AM (GFM2b)

Facebook: Show business for losers.

Posted by: Meremortal, slutdrop the GOPe at January 25, 2013 08:36 AM (1Y+hH)

89 What wine do you serve with tranny delta smelt?

I'd probably go with a "Pompous Ass."
http://www.pompousasswinery.com/

No joke, my wife loves this wine called "If You See Kay".

Say it slowly.

Posted by: EC at January 25, 2013 08:37 AM (GQ8sn)

80 -

One of my proudest moments was when my daughter told me she deleted her facebook page because she had no interest in all the drama.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 25, 2013 08:38 AM (TOk1P)

91 Years ago a friend of mine told me that her boyfriend could do a great resume for me. This was before computer word processors were as sophisticated as they are now with templates and automatic spell checking. This resume was the biggest pile of BS you ever saw. He would take a trivial thing you'd done and turn it into a major project or accomplishment. If I had gone through an interview with that resume and they'd asked me about these projects I had supposedly organized and run, I would have been a sitting duck. Also the spelling and grammar were awful, it looked like a 10 year old had done it. And this guy was a junior high teacher. So I took it to a secretarial service to have it redone. The secretary just laughed.

Posted by: nerdygirl at January 25, 2013 08:39 AM (9H+iJ)

92 re: "I think it would be hilarious if everything he claimed actually turned out to be true."

If this guy had actually done any cool shit, he'd have quickly learned how poorly people react to being told that you've done any cool shit they haven't done. And if he were a sociopath, he'd have deduced that and styled his presentation differently.

He seems to have been an innocent loon.

Not very long ago, we used to let people go ahead and be loons in peace. Now we gang up and terrorize them into isolation, like ape clans do.

Bon temps.

(In dark age England, smart guys spoke French.)

Posted by: oblig. at January 25, 2013 08:39 AM (cePv8)

93 74 OSP,

We met him at different points in his life and under different circumstances I am certain. It really shocked me because my dad knew his brother from a construction materials business Dad drive for. I never deigned to inflict that knowledge on Mr. Rose but I can still remember the giant stuffed dog his brother gave me through my dad.

We meet each other at different points in our toils on this mortal coil, and the Chinese believed you never walk through the same river twice.

Hell at some critical mass of population, you will have a chance to run by a genetic perfect match of YOU but it will not be you.

Anyway, my point wasn't to slag Mr. Rose and it may have seemed flip, but my Grandmother rest her soul reminded me that every group can be brought low by the failure of the boss or saved by the brilliance of the janitor so value performance as much as position.

Sorry to be a bother.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 25, 2013 08:39 AM (LRFds)

94 Good riddance.

Posted by: Peetey S. Dee at January 25, 2013 08:39 AM (7QZ6R)

95 44 sven10077, Your formulation is better. Rushmore was actually pretty funny in its own right. So: This is like the movie Rushmore, only with a happy ending.

Posted by: wooga at January 25, 2013 08:39 AM (q4KYY)

96 No joke, my wife loves this wine called "If You See Kay".

Say it slowly.

Or sing it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aEnnH6t8Ts

Posted by: Waterhouse at January 25, 2013 08:39 AM (xGlYu)

No joke, my wife loves this wine called "If You See Kay".

Say it slowly.

Posted by: EC at January 25, 2013 12:37 PM (GQ8sn)

Call for Hugh Jass! Call for Hugh Jass!

Posted by: Czar of humor at January 25, 2013 08:39 AM (XLuH2)

98 No joke, my wife loves this wine called "If You See Kay". Say it slowly. Thunderbird!!

Posted by: rickb223 at January 25, 2013 08:39 AM (GFM2b)

99 O/T old but still funny!

DON
CHERRY, Canadian Hockey Commentator for CBC Television, was asked on a
local live radio talk show, what he thought about the allegations of
torture of suspected terrorists. His reply prompted his ejection from
the studio, but to thunderous applause from the audience.

HIS STATEMENT:
"If hooking up one rag head terrorist prisoner's
testicles to a car battery to get the truth out of the lying little
camel shagger will save just one Canadian or American life, then I have
only three things to say:
'Red is positive, black is negative, and make sure his nuts are wet."

Posted by: Billy Bob, Pseudo Intellectual at January 25, 2013 08:40 AM (wR+pz)

100 . I got an application from one kid at Princeton and one of his non-academic activities was "Teaching English in Peru"

At 17. Uh huh. Riiiiiiight.

Translation: One night he chatted up a Peruvian hooker trying to score without having to pay.

Posted by: @PurpAv at January 25, 2013 08:40 AM (GlnE7)

101 I'd probably go with a "Pompous Ass." http://www.pompousasswinery.com/

Holy shit, I've actually been there! I was staying in PennYan, NY for some reason and my wife and I stopped there on the way out.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 25, 2013 08:40 AM (sbV1u)

102 82 Brandon in BR,

My understanding from having lived there is one was royalty the other elected....

would you say that is a fair analysis?

Posted by: sven10077 at January 25, 2013 08:40 AM (LRFds)

103 Four guys can lift 465 lbs? Huh.

Posted by: Dang at January 25, 2013 08:40 AM (R18D0)

104 I guess I feel sorry for him and his problems with reality and his ego. But, a good friend's wife died on Tuesday from complications with the flu. She was a nice lady and he adored her, and to me that is infinitely sadder than some egomaniac twit who dies from a drug overdose.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Wily Wrepublican Wench at January 25, 2013 08:40 AM (kXoT0)

105 HIS STATEMENT: "If hooking up one rag head terrorist prisoner's testicles to a car battery to get the truth out of the lying little camel shagger will save just one Canadian or American life, then I have only three things to say: 'Red is positive, black is negative, and make sure his nuts are wet." --- I think I need to watch Hockey Night In Canada.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at January 25, 2013 08:40 AM (e0xKF)

106 When you are applying for a job in IT, if you have heard of something, you are lightly experienced in it, if you have actually seen it, then experienced, and if you've done it, you are very experienced.

Posted by: toby928© for TB at January 25, 2013 08:41 AM (evdj2)

107 Well Red, back when I was tiger ranching in Kenya...

Posted by: Hap Shaunnesy at January 25, 2013 08:41 AM (opLk0)

108 Sorry to be a bother. Posted by: sven10077 at January 25, 2013 12:39 PM (LRFds) My good ron ron friend, you sir are never a bother. You should be held up with the ron greats. I'm sure there is also a difference between a three hour dinner and two days.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/ahc8poj at January 25, 2013 08:41 AM (l86i3)

109 This dude sounds like one of my cousins. Though in his case, I haven't caught him in a lie yet. Every kooky story he's told me has turned out to be true.

Posted by: Zippity Doo Dah at January 25, 2013 08:42 AM (E55AK)

110 Call for Hugh Jass! Call for Hugh Jass! Mike Hunt, has anyone seen Mike Hunt?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 25, 2013 08:42 AM (GFM2b)

111 My two cents which is really worth one cent or maybe a peso or a drachma or a platinum coin: His wife is quite a beauty. And Mama Mia! The pic of him flexing in a speedo! The dude is ripped! I think it kind of shitty that the company leaked his video. It's something the douchebag media would do, doesn't excuse the lies. I guess it all caught up with him in the end.

Posted by: L, elle at January 25, 2013 08:43 AM (0PiQ4)

112 Call for Hugh Jass! Call for Hugh Jass!

Mike Hunt, has anyone seen Mike Hunt?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 25, 2013 12:42 PM (GFM2b)

Just say, here Meggy Mac, come here, that's a good girl.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Wily Wrepublican Wench at January 25, 2013 08:43 AM (kXoT0)

113 105 82 Brandon in BR, My understanding from having lived there is one was royalty the other elected.... would you say that is a fair analysis? --- True to a degree. Landrieu may be "royalty", but only in New Orleans AFAIK. This meeting was in Baton Rouge and she may have been a politician but she was still a lower-level one, as she hadn't had her failed run at Governor of Louisiana yet.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at January 25, 2013 08:43 AM (e0xKF)

114 Amanda Huggincis!

Posted by: toby928© for TB at January 25, 2013 08:43 AM (evdj2)

115 Don Cherry is a classic. As a Broons fan, I'll never forgive him for 6 men on the ice in '79, but he made our expat year in New Brunswick a lot more fun in 2009. Anything to avoid listening to the jackassery on CBC.

Posted by: jakeman at January 25, 2013 08:44 AM (VBMfv)

116 Another privileged white male dies of white privilege and drugs, but mostly drugs.

Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein from Brattleboro, Vermont at January 25, 2013 08:44 AM (aR5oH)

117 Well Red, back when I was tiger ranching in Kenya... Posted by: Hap Shaunnesy You go Hap! Seriously. Just go. LOLZ

Posted by: rickb223 at January 25, 2013 08:44 AM (GFM2b)

118 Oh, and Mary's little brother Mitch, the current mayor of NOLA, is supposed to be a good guy. Granted, this came from some National Guard guys I know from when he was considered to be head of the LA National Guard as Lt. Governor.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at January 25, 2013 08:44 AM (e0xKF)

119 Paging Mike Hunt. Paging Mike Hunt

http://tinyurl.com/a73pvla

Posted by: Billy Bob, Pseudo Intellectual at January 25, 2013 08:45 AM (wR+pz)

120 80 Jakeman,

There are times I'm glad I was a misfit, but still well liked to a degree by many. The thing is I knew to value true friends and learned the difference between acquaintenceship and friendship. One of the narcissisms I grant myself from my failed foray into the education world is the "right" to look at classes and consider my eye "semi-stage one trained" on deciphering the group dynamics oof a class.

These poor kids are 24-30 islands, I just don't see the group dynamic that even some of my adversaries in the student body felt for their peers to "learn."

I'll never forget that a kid that broke my nose twice also helped me master base geometry as I aided him in understanding the differences between the Articles of Confederation and Constitution.

and Sean that speaker made my point far more eloquently than I am doing meandering here.

Thanks to you both.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 25, 2013 08:45 AM (LRFds)

121 "Mikali Jusfahtid, Mikali Jusfahtid and Leftaruum Dabahstad please meet your party at Baggage Carousel 2."

Posted by: Sean Bannion at January 25, 2013 08:45 AM (sbV1u)

122 His weightlifting form sucked ass. He was too concerned about impressing people instead of lifting correctly.

Posted by: walknot at January 25, 2013 08:45 AM (vo2je)

123 113Call for Hugh Jass! Call for Hugh Jass!

Mike Hunt, has anyone seen Mike Hunt?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 25, 2013 12:42 PM (GFM2b)

...and that's why I'm here. I just can't find this level of sophistication anywhere else.

Posted by: Czar of humor at January 25, 2013 08:46 AM (XLuH2)

124 Douche.Bag.

Posted by: Commander McBragg at January 25, 2013 08:46 AM (3ZtZW)

125 Honest to god, I was in an airport one time, and they paged "Iwana Cocknow." It was teh awesome.

Posted by: jakeman at January 25, 2013 08:46 AM (VBMfv)

126 Is anyone else reminded of a certain trolling guitar player?

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Offering Moobats Gasoline and Matches at January 25, 2013 08:47 AM (0q2P7)

127 Douche.Bag. Posted by: Commander McBragg at January 25, 2013 12:46 PM (3ZtZW) OMG, I loved the wonderful world of commander McBragg.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/ahc8poj at January 25, 2013 08:47 AM (l86i3)

128 A narcissist and a pathological liar? A fondness for drugs and undeserved power? His only skills are the ability to manipulate the people around him?

He reminds me of someone. But who?

Posted by: gastorgrab at January 25, 2013 08:47 AM (FX38i)

129

he could have been President, what a dirty, rotten shame...

Posted by: Shoey at January 25, 2013 08:47 AM (Y7jCH)

130 OSP remember in a previous thread about involuntary commitments for those who are having issues? Might have saved this guy.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 25, 2013 08:47 AM (Mj6r9)

131 Several current and former Patriots players frequented my CVS. One time, I turned the corner and bumped into Rodney Harrison. It was like hitting a steel wall.

Posted by: Truman North, now at 25% battery life at January 25, 2013 08:47 AM (s8fwg)

132 I think it kind of shitty that the company leaked his video. It's something the douchebag media would do, doesn't excuse the lies. I guess it all caught up with him in the end.

Yeah, they should've edited his name out at least, but I imagine that one guy sent it to a friend or two without anticipating it would go viral.

I doubt the video getting publicized was what led to his suicide though- it broke in 2006. The video was more likely a symptom of his problems, not the cause of them.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at January 25, 2013 08:48 AM (SY2Kh)

133 Stoners don't pull this crap.

Posted by: SFGoth at January 25, 2013 08:48 AM (dZ756)

134 Then he dove at me and took out my knee.

Posted by: Truman North, now at 25% battery life at January 25, 2013 08:48 AM (s8fwg)

135 Has anyone seen my legless Mexican friend, Consuelo?

Posted by: BurtTC at January 25, 2013 08:49 AM (TOk1P)

136 Pills, He left me his oxycodones in his will but the damned probate lawyer ate em all. I hate lawyers!

Posted by: Judge_Roy_bean at January 25, 2013 08:49 AM (SCNfR)

137 Truman's kicked out of the pool. When you post something and end it with "Banhammer?" it's a pretty good indication that you have enough sense to not hit "post" but you did it anyway.

Posted by: Andy at January 25, 2013 08:49 AM (C/NnJ)

138 So this is the sad story that defines my generation doesn't it?

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at January 25, 2013 08:50 AM (NzBQO)

139 133 SFGoth,

Well tehy do, but they are playing the movie in CAC's 10th dimesnion in their brain chemical soup...

"heh"

Posted by: sven10077 at January 25, 2013 08:50 AM (LRFds)

140 OT

Daily Beast has a story from none other than David Mamet, our newest convert, about guns.

It's pretty much fucking spot on.

Oh yeah...

http://youtu.be/QMFwFgG9NE8

Posted by: EC at January 25, 2013 08:50 AM (GQ8sn)

141 He did give me the empty bottle though!

Posted by: Judge_Roy_bean at January 25, 2013 08:50 AM (SCNfR)

142 139 OT Daily Beast has a story from none other than David Mamet, our newest convert, about guns. It's pretty much fucking spot on. --- Which reminds me... I need to go dig out my DVD of Glengarry Glen Ross this weekend so I can hear Jack Lemmon yelling "FUCK YOU and kiss my ass!"

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at January 25, 2013 08:51 AM (e0xKF)

143 I can see why this kid did the David Caruso schtick. I was going to night school to get my MBA around the time this video came out...they brought in some hedge fund manager, who basically told all of us that he wouldn't hire anyone from our school unless they had played college football (he had coached HS football before he attained success, 2006 style). Grade A asshole. Handing over finance jobs to predatory, Type A brain-damaged athletes led to the wonderfulness of 2008.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 25, 2013 08:51 AM (Ec6wH)

144 it's a pretty good indication that you have enough sense to not hit "post" but you did it anyway. So is Ace gonna close the pool?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 25, 2013 08:51 AM (GFM2b)

145 Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 25, 2013 12:47 PM (Mj6r9) Maybe, but once found out, people like that continue into new circles. Burning bridges is a profession. Use them get what you want and on. No compassion, empathy or sympathy for others. Those are hard to corner. Once you do, murder is their favorite out.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/ahc8poj at January 25, 2013 08:51 AM (l86i3)

146 >>>The video was more likely a symptom of his problems, not the cause of them.

Ding ding ding. What do you do when reality keeps creeping into your life and your real self is falls well short of your inflated self image? How do you manage that without losing that inflated view of self? I'll give you a hint it starts with duh, and rhymes with rugs.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Offering Moobats Gasoline and Matches at January 25, 2013 08:51 AM (0q2P7)

147 Apple's stock has fallen 37% since Sept.

However strained, I'm sure there's a connection in there somewhere.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at January 25, 2013 08:52 AM (xz0nG)

148 no great loss... natural selection is a wonderful thing.

Posted by: redc1c4 at January 25, 2013 08:52 AM (8MasJ)

149 How do you delete a facebook account?

Everytime i bother to log in and look for it, i can never find the option

Posted by: jeremiah God Damn Barack Obama the Mother Fucking SCoaMF wright at January 25, 2013 08:52 AM (+OTLF)

150 This whippersnapper couldn't run with the big dogs.

Posted by: Lance Winslow at January 25, 2013 08:53 AM (/ZZCn)

151 137 Adam Smith's IMPH,

Maybe to a degree, the good news is I believe in you younger adults. Hunger is a great motivator and if you have moral fiber which I know a lot of you do from working with and in some cases supervising you guys you'll figure it out when the bottom falls out. Hunger, fear, and desire are a holy trinity for hard work and a proper wariness of authority when coupled with good morals.

You'll either be fine or you won't and in truth that is every generation's battle.

Imagine how crazy the north korean leader is, and how much chaos he can cause.

I can forgive this guy being Kung-fools Ninja a lot easier than I can the NorKs wanting to cause a world war.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 25, 2013 08:53 AM (LRFds)

152

I've known a few guys who embellished and exaggerated and outright lied. Thing is, most of their lies were manifestly transparent, and I found myself feeling sorry for them, just as I feel sorry for Vayner.

Imagine living your life trying to remember every lie you've told and to whom you've told them so that you won't be caught out and exposed. The slightest misstep and off you go, into the abyss. Such a life is pitiable and sad.

Posted by: troyriser at January 25, 2013 08:53 AM (vtiE6)

153 Ouch! Sorry Truman. Can he come back later somehow? Is this probation or a life sentence?

Posted by: L, elle at January 25, 2013 08:53 AM (0PiQ4)

154 How do you delete a facebook account?

Everytime i bother to log in and look for it, i can never find the option

Post anti-obama pics and messages.

Posted by: EC at January 25, 2013 08:53 AM (GQ8sn)

155 Greatest generation..my dad..WWII vet. My generation could not hold a candle to him. My sons generation...pul-ease. Bwah, hah, hah, hah! His kids generation...May God have mercy on their souls. I would kidnap them to teach them right but they made that a federal crime.

Posted by: Judge_Roy_bean at January 25, 2013 08:54 AM (SCNfR)

156
Thinning of the herd is a good thing.

Posted by: Dr Fish at January 25, 2013 08:54 AM (ndqJC)

157 How do you manage that without losing that inflated view of self? I'll give you a hint it starts with duh, and rhymes with rugs.

duh jugs?

Posted by: Hollowpoint at January 25, 2013 08:54 AM (SY2Kh)

158 Drudge is certainly having fun with the "fly pic" today. It was a small pic earlier, and now it's the giant one again with the big, bold red font.

HAHAHAHAHA!!!

Posted by: EC at January 25, 2013 08:55 AM (GQ8sn)

159 146 Apple's stock has fallen 37% since Sept. However strained, I'm sure there's a connection in there somewhere. --- Al Gore cashed in his stock options and the man is King Midas in reverse, as everything he touches turns to shit.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at January 25, 2013 08:55 AM (e0xKF)

160 142 Big fat meanie,

and a population conditioned to trust power and taught that they can always avoid huge consequence helped...

"too big too fail" invariably is the partner of "too small to succeed"

Posted by: sven10077 at January 25, 2013 08:55 AM (LRFds)

161 Truman got bounced? Geez, you go the store for some beer and the whole neighborhood changes by the time you get back...

Posted by: lincolntf at January 25, 2013 08:55 AM (ZshNr)

162 160 Truman got bounced? Geez, you go the store for some beer and the whole neighborhood changes by the time you get back... --- So... Cristoph got him after all?

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at January 25, 2013 08:55 AM (e0xKF)

163 146 Apple's stock has fallen 37% since Sept.

Obviously their court decision against Samsung did not make any difference.

Samsung is kicking their ass in the world phone business.

Posted by: Billy Bob, Pseudo Intellectual at January 25, 2013 08:56 AM (wR+pz)

164 What pray tell did Truman do?

Posted by: Billy Bob, Pseudo Intellectual at January 25, 2013 08:56 AM (wR+pz)

165 Samsung is kicking their ass in the world phone business. Posted by: Billy Bob, Pseudo Intellectual at January 25, 2013 12:56 PM (wR+pz) It sure is easy to support big business in your country when someone else is paying for the Sheep Dog.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/ahc8poj at January 25, 2013 08:57 AM (l86i3)

166 Samsung is kicking their ass in the world phone business.

Suing the shit out of everyone and everything doesn't help either.

Posted by: EC at January 25, 2013 08:57 AM (GQ8sn)

167 154 Judge Roy bean,

You ever read my bitter joke I used to tell about my son's PC anxiety he is developing?

Our current generation of boys aged say 6 to 18 are either gonna fold like cheap lawn furniture or be the craziest bastards on Earth and the stuff of legend if we ever point them at an enemy and say "you can do whatever you want he is the bad guy I have been warning you of."

That thought used to make me laugh, because I figured the guy getting buzzsawed would be Jihadi Jim....

The problem is I think the NEA is hoping it is us.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 25, 2013 08:57 AM (LRFds)

168 Yeah, I can't hate on the guy. He seems to have been genuinely afflicted with some sort of developmental problem. He obviously couldn't read social cues or he would've stopped telling these tales when people told him he was full of shit. And the company releasing his resume video was dickish...he didn't hurt anyone but himself by sending them that, why humiliate him? I can see why bloggers and companies would want to release embarrassing things about people who hurt harass or threaten them.---I don't agree, but I get it---but this guy was utterly harmless and amusing to them. They could've laughed amongst themselves and been harmless back to him. Granted, I imagine he would've had a messed up life and maybe died young either way, since the video was just part of a pattern...but still. Ugh, his poor family.

Posted by: Jenny tries too hard at January 25, 2013 08:57 AM (u41CN)

169 The slightest misstep and off you go, into the abyss. Such a life is pitiable and sad. You need a new life advisor.

Posted by: SCOAMF, Hillary, JFKerry, etc. at January 25, 2013 08:58 AM (FcR7P)

170 OT, but someone in my connections on LinkedIn just liked a post by Barack Obama on there, which brings up two points. First, why the fucking hell is Barack Obama on LinkedIn? Second, who the fuck is dumb enough to make their political views openly apparent on Linked... never mind, I withdraw that question.

Posted by: Lemmenkainen, Freelance Warlord at January 25, 2013 08:58 AM (ZWvOb)

171 This guy has nothing on Lance Winslow III: http://www.lancewinslow.org/founder.shtml

Posted by: General Zod at January 25, 2013 08:58 AM (2+bRt)

172 151 TroyRiser,

Life's hard enough to remember one version of.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 25, 2013 08:58 AM (LRFds)

173 What do you do when reality keeps creeping into your life and your real self is falls well short of your inflated self image?

Spend 12 hours a day on the internets.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs an intervention at January 25, 2013 08:59 AM (ZKzrr)

174 >>>Greatest generation..my dad..WWII vet.

I have a lot of love for the so called "greatest generation". But they left us with a fundamental failing that has plagued society for decades, their kids, which is every generation's greatest responsibility.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Offering Moobats Gasoline and Matches at January 25, 2013 08:59 AM (0q2P7)

175 Posted by: Lemmenkainen, Freelance Warlord at January 25, 2013 12:58 PM (ZWvOb) I keep getting invites to liked in. I come across the Douchiest people. WTF is it and why is it there?

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/ahc8poj at January 25, 2013 08:59 AM (l86i3)

176 sven, agree 100%. I just bristle at these self-proclaimed big swinging' dicks. They're an anathema to my personality type. I worked with a lot of fighter pilots in the Air Force, and the majority of those guys were actually pretty down to earth and kept their accomplishments in perspective.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at January 25, 2013 09:00 AM (Ec6wH)

177 169 Lemmenkainen, Freelance Warlord,

It would have been dumb back when society tried to be civil.

Now it is probably a resume enhancer not a ding for their side only.

You have to figure the Obamabots are gonna start hiring only Obamabots when able for "magical recovery."

We need to consider adopting minority population survival techniques.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 25, 2013 09:00 AM (LRFds)

178 I keep getting invites to liked in. I come across the Douchiest people. WTF is it and why is it there?

It's like Facebook without the tits and ass mirror pics from 16 year old girls.

Basically, people use it to find other people and where they work. I think it's supposed to help with job searches.

Posted by: EC at January 25, 2013 09:01 AM (GQ8sn)

179 109 When you are applying for a job in IT adult films, if you have heard of something, you are lightly experienced in it, if you have actually seen it, then experienced, and if you've done it, you are very experienced.

Posted by: toby928Â© for TB at January 25, 2013 12:41 PM (evdj2)

*****

Tweaked that a little for you.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 25, 2013 09:01 AM (1OZSU)

180 >> Can he come back later somehow? Is this probation or a life sentence? Depends on how he responds to my email.

Posted by: Andy at January 25, 2013 09:02 AM (C/NnJ)

181 @153..you had a facebook account? Bwah, hah, hah, hah, hah, hah , hah! You can never delete it . You will be assimilated and become an Obama worshiper! So let it be said , so let it BE written by the scribes, so let it be done! Facebook, you young whipper snappers really crack me the fuck up.

Posted by: Judge_Roy_bean at January 25, 2013 09:02 AM (SCNfR)

182 I keep getting invites to linkedin. I come across the Douchiest people. WTF is it and why is it there? It's supposed to be a "networking" tool for professionals. You have your resume and connections, they have theirs. Using both, you might find a new job.

Posted by: t-bird at January 25, 2013 09:02 AM (FcR7P)

183 172 Ms Radish,

GUILTY!

Heh.....when I am deeply bothered by the world I hide in here.

I am trying desperately to pull another long term fade by getting my confidence back up.

This place is nice for feeling comfort...it is like we all throw heat for the wolfpack in the burrow during the storm but yeah it is really easy to want to keep warm.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 25, 2013 09:02 AM (LRFds)

184 That guy reminds me if L Ron Hubbard - another guy who ridiculously padded his resume.

Posted by: John Roberts at January 25, 2013 09:02 AM (uhAkr)

185 >>>he didn't hurt anyone but himself by sending them that, why humiliate him?

Well the release was probably an unintentional leak. But as for it doing him good or ill, when confronted by a public humiliation it would have been the only thing, if anything could, reach him and get him to grapple with his real self. The fact that it did not is QED in my mind that he was beyond reach, and unless his talents someday measured up to his image of them, he would be doomed to fighting reality and losing to it.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Offering Moobats Gasoline and Matches at January 25, 2013 09:02 AM (0q2P7)

186 Wait a minute - his name was Vayner? How fucking Dickensian can you get?

Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at January 25, 2013 09:03 AM (celt+)

187 I worked with a dick like him.
He had (supposedly) a degree in Philosophy from Yale.
He could easily tell the difference between a $10 bottle of wine and a $100 bottle. Run of the mill audio equipment was all crap unless he owned it.
He could have sat for the bar exam without going to law school.
He called himself a marketing guru. He bs'd his way into a Marketing Director job at another company (at my company, his job was to make icon buttons for the software and make our brochures) and he basically told everyone in the office that we were slugs but if we tried hard enough we could be like him someday. They fired him after 2 months.
The idiot I worked for hired him back and made him my boss because he had gained so much experience and contacts in those 2 months (according to the Marketing Guru).
It was the most soul crushing, life draining, miserable time in my career.

Posted by: CozMark at January 25, 2013 09:03 AM (WAHqd)

188 > I keep getting invites to liked in. I come across the Douchiest people. WTF is it and why is it there?

LinkedIn is a career connections deal. Kind of like FB but for staying in touch with people you've worked with/for/customers/etc. I've found it pretty helpful for finding new opportunities when switching jobs, and for finding people I know who work at prospective employers either to get me an in or to give me an honest ground floor view of what it's like to be an employee there.

Like I said, first time I've ever seen anything remotely political on there, and hopefully it's the only time.

I did unconnect from that dingbat though. Was just a person I know in my department at a previous job.

Posted by: Lemmenkainen, Freelance Warlord at January 25, 2013 09:04 AM (ZWvOb)

189 Posted by: t-bird at January 25, 2013 01:02 PM (FcR7P) OK, a crying zone for folks that can't use tools.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/ahc8poj at January 25, 2013 09:05 AM (l86i3)

190

that was fascinating reading....

i never knew there were secret tunnels underground in woodstock...

Posted by: eurw at January 25, 2013 09:06 AM (xffhK)

191 Who was that feminist blogger that wasn't very nice or pretty and said she deserved a doctor or lawyer kind of boyfriend and people started sending this video to her? That was funny shit, I wish I could remember which one it was...

Posted by: liquidflorian at January 25, 2013 09:06 AM (Kx/oz)

192 Who was that feminist blogger that wasn't very nice or pretty and said she deserved a doctor or lawyer kind of boyfriend and people started sending this video to her? That was funny shit, I wish I could remember which one it was...

Amanda Marcotte?

Posted by: EC at January 25, 2013 09:07 AM (GQ8sn)

193 He obviously jammed about 85 years into about 7 minutes and now he's done.

Notice there was nothing in there about taking the time to smell the roses.

......as a matter of fact, brb

Posted by: ontherocks at January 25, 2013 09:07 AM (aZ6ew)

194 A narcissist and a pathological liar? A fondness for drugs and undeserved power? His only skills are the ability to manipulate the people around him?

He reminds me of someone. But who?

***

He's on the tip of Chris Matthews' tongue.

Posted by: WalrusRex at January 25, 2013 09:07 AM (hyB08)

195 186 CozMark,

That is the regional manager of a year ago at the company I work for....

guy was from Turkey and "I can turn any station into a 30,000 a week profit center!"

Oh, okay well why don't YOU manage the operation and get us there?

The guy did not even understand the concept of demographics, market %, and disposable income and was convinced that the client base will buy the product even if their liquid income is gone.

Price-points, competition between equivalent vendors?

"never heard of 'em"

He made it two of the three years I've been in the area including my 9 months off I am just ending.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 25, 2013 09:08 AM (LRFds)

196 He's on the tip of Chris Matthews' tongue. Posted by: WalrusRex at January 25, 2013 01:07 PM (hyB0

I thought he was using his uvula like Mike Tyson uses a speed bag.

Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Author of Amy Lynn available on Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/ahc8poj at January 25, 2013 09:08 AM (l86i3)

197 Amanda Marcotte?

***

I call her Crash Maricoot.

Posted by: WalrusRex at January 25, 2013 09:08 AM (hyB08)

198 nood on assault thingies and grenade launch doodads

Posted by: jakeman at January 25, 2013 09:10 AM (VBMfv)

199 "The Greatest Generation"? My dad was in WWII, I think he would be ashamed of all the BS about their service.

The Greatest Generation? How about the survivors of The War Between the States. Especially Southern men. Their entire economy was destroyed, their land was occupied and they had no capital to rebuild with. Southerns had invested over a trillion dollars in the slave market. That all disappeared, while the North kept their factories and immigrant wage slaves humming.

It took fifty years for the South to begin to rebuild. All the rail road lines were destroyed, all the factories were destroyed and much of their homes were burned to the ground.

I would say those guys were a pretty "Great Generation" just to have survived, both Black and White.

Posted by: Billy Bob, Pseudo Intellectual at January 25, 2013 09:11 AM (wR+pz)

200 Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey http://is.gd/cyK84s

Posted by: toby928© presents at January 25, 2013 09:13 AM (QupBk)

201 Amanda Marcotte?

Posted by: EC at January 25, 2013 01:07 PM (GQ8sn)

Nah, she had like a four or five part name... It'll come to me eventually...

Posted by: liquidflorian at January 25, 2013 09:15 AM (Kx/oz)

202 sven10077
There's nothing worse than watching someone you know is an absolute fraud succeed because he's got the bosses conned. The biggest sale I ever made (I made a huge sale to Goldman-Sachs) and that no talent SOB lying POS told everyone he closed it (implying I needed his help)-He wasn't in the room and had no idea that I was even talking to them. soul. crushed.

Posted by: CozMark at January 25, 2013 09:15 AM (WAHqd)

203 199 Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey http://is.gd/cyK84s

Posted by: toby928Â© presents at January 25, 2013 01:13 PM (QupBk)

Yes! Thanks!

Posted by: liquidflorian at January 25, 2013 09:15 AM (Kx/oz)

204 Regarding Apple,
The difference between them and Samsung? Samsung actually builds its products.

Posted by: Rule #2 at January 25, 2013 09:17 AM (CypDC)

205 184, yeah its true that it was probably unintended. But I don't know that public humiliation is the only thing that could've reached him and got him to change...he was so young, he might have been able to get schooled in a less public way, get some therapy and social skills training, and just grow past it. And I dont know that he didn't try to grapple with his issues after the whole thing, he may well have gotten therapy and such, and still failed. How do you even know what to do in such a situation? Drug addicts have a system for getting sober and showing other people that they've changed, and whole corners of medicine...I wonder if people like him have specialists or something? Does the severe lack of social skills put him somewhere on the autism spectrum? I'm probably thinking too much about it but it's sad and kind of interesting.

Posted by: Jenny tries too hard at January 25, 2013 09:24 AM (05NCS)

206 201 CozMark,

It is a symptom of a bad organization when "good people leave."

If/when the economy recovers apply the lessons and move on.

The guy is back in Turkey now, so usually there's a happy ending somewhere.

Posted by: sven10077 at January 25, 2013 09:25 AM (LRFds)

207 Okay, so he has me on the bone-setting. :p I wouldn't worry about having mocked. The guy, as some are wont to be, was, a story teller. If he was that, and thought the world or even himself, could live with that without some... embarrassments... Well, don't worry about it. If something got to him it was probably himself, as he realized... he was a puff of smoke with a good (if horribly overdone and delivered) story. We are all, even the truly elite, just puffs of smoke, actually. It's learning to live with it. Between "what have you done lately" and questions of validity (we all stretch, some of us are simply Olympian in that alone), most of us are or will be never-was'es or has beens. Not... your... problem...

Posted by: Doom at January 25, 2013 09:27 AM (LHavG)

208 205
I'm changing careers-studying for the CPA exams. I'm done with sales 4ever.

Posted by: CozMark at January 25, 2013 09:32 AM (BjOkm)

209 this is how scientology was founded.

Posted by: jd at January 25, 2013 09:35 AM (DGhcv)

210 207 CozMark,

some friendly advice from a lowly tax specialist and not a CPA?

Forensic datamining coursework....

"trust me"

Posted by: sven10077 at January 25, 2013 09:39 AM (LRFds)

211 I see President Obama was ghost writing this guy's resumes.

Posted by: Bhoddisatva at January 25, 2013 09:42 AM (wH62G)

212

Hmmmmm... I always thought alecksy and Jacqueline paisley passey Posey would get together and have amazing super-babies. Now the world has no hope.

Posted by: chad at January 25, 2013 09:43 AM (781vg)

213 209
Thanks, all advice is heeded at this point. I'm looking into it now.

Posted by: CozMark at January 25, 2013 09:50 AM (JeBIy)

214 Does this mean Joe Biden needs a new LIFE COACH ?

Posted by: DrDrill at January 25, 2013 10:03 AM (sOFZs)

215 Too bad he's dead. He'd have had a long career as a Democrat.

Posted by: Sam In VA at January 25, 2013 10:14 AM (YCvRs)

216 One thing he didn't learn at Yale: How to live to be 30.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 25, 2013 10:23 AM (iAUf+)

217 All he needed was an African father and he could have been President of the United States.

Posted by: somebody else, not me at January 25, 2013 10:48 AM (nZvGM)

218 and now pass into that sweet night. Farewell, o'douche, we hardley knew ye.

Posted by: Liza Minelli, woman beater at January 25, 2013 10:50 AM (qM5uD)

219 makes me think of why Amy Winehouse and a moped are alike. They won't hit 30.

Posted by: Liza Minelli, woman beater at January 25, 2013 10:51 AM (qM5uD)

220 "Not very long ago, we used to let people go ahead and be loons in peace. Now we gang up and terrorize them into isolation, like ape clans do. "

This. The age of the internetz is a cruel age to be a weirdo in.

Jennytriestoohard: Bless you.

Posted by: Fnord at January 25, 2013 02:30 PM (hoJnS)

221 Aleksy Vayner dead of most awesome professional overdose ever. The gold medal of drug overdoses. A truly awesome display of amazing pharmaceutical mastery.

Posted by: Daryl Herbert at January 26, 2013 08:39 AM (9sPRl)

222 Yahoo News: january 28th 2013 Breaking news The Democrat Permanent Supermajority and New Voter Act of 2013. Reports indicate that Republicans and Democrats have finally reached a deal on immigration reform. This bipartisan deal reached between such notables as McCain and Schumer is a remarkable step forward. The impasse over immigration was broken when Marco Rubio offered the bipartisan compromise of allowing all illegal immigrants immideate voter registration. This compromise was brought about when Democrats offered Republicans a "sweetener", letting them all kill themselves via Hari Kuri. "this is a huge deal!" Sen McCain is quoted as saying. "We were arguing over what method of suicide we would be allowed, pill, hanging, shotgun, and the divides were huge. But when the Democrats mentioned they would allow republicans to commit Japanes Hari Kuri, all argument stopped." this bill entitled "The Democrat Permanent Supermajority and New Voter Act of 2013" will be submitted to the Senate this february. Mitch McConnell said this bill would be submitted anytime now, in exchange for being able to work a 5 hour work day, and assures conservatives that this allowance will make the Democrats pay a huge price down the road. "we are legalizing 15 million illegal immigrants during a time of record unemployment, who will they blame when they realize House Republcans and Democrats are only working 5 hour work days? Also, I need sleep, can't you see I need to spend more time with my family?". President Obama hailed this deal as a bipartisan step in the right direction. "it is great to hear that Republicans have heeded my advice to start ignoring the voters of this country......oh wait let me take that back my teleprompter malfunctioned, ignoring Rush Limbaugh, the tea party, I don't know what insert demonized social group Â means, but I am glad Republicans have started to ignore them, and listen to mainstream American media members...I mean mainstream Americans. Haha, sorry I must have gotten some water on my teleprompter during my Hawaiin vacation". The timetable for this bill could come quickly, as both parties agree a budget and other matters such as 16 trillion dollars in national debt are matters the public cares about more, and such their time frame for moving on bullsh$t is short following a succesfull election. Ken Brockman yahoo news

Posted by: Mr Pink at January 28, 2013 08:23 AM (/zrB9)

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