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Post by crashmatsbazz on Aug 29, 2023 2:01:11 GMT -5
Uri Geller
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Post by Mozenrath on Aug 29, 2023 3:08:49 GMT -5
There's an old school rapper from the 80s named MC Shan who has had some legit classics, most notably "The Bridge," and perhaps hip-hop's all time greatest anti-crack song "Jane Stop This Crazy Thing." But then in the 2010s in the age of Twitter where he had a platform again, he just became a perpetual lying machine. It's similar to the Hogan thing where he's done so many impressive things that he shouldn't have to lie, he just likes to. The most notable is his claim that he was originally meant for the "Fresh Prince of Bel Aire" role and not Will Smith, which some hip-hop and music "did you know" trivia corners have just taken and echoed as fact without doing any research to see that the timelines don't line up at all. The way Shan tells it, he was starting to breakthrough in Hollywood after having acted in a movie with Steve Martin (1991's 'L.A. Story') and that lead to NBC wanting to cast him as the lead in the show. However, when Shan was cornered by an NBC executive for sexual favors, Shan turned him down and went on to say that Will Smith serviced him and that's where he got the part. As casually homophobic as it is clickbaity, Shan is the one and only person to ever, ever suggest he was considered for the part. Further, 'LA Story' was released midway through when the first season of "Fresh Prince" was already airing. It also discounts that Will Smith had a few years of working with NBC doing guest spots and hosting gigs for their other programming in the late 80s which would have already put him on their radar, whereas Shan had no acting experience at all, let alone enough of a relationship with NBC for them to consider putting him as the lead in their new prime time show. So yeah, Shan's a constant CONSTANT liar who directly takes the Hulk Hogan route of sprinkling in two details vague enough that whoever is listening to him can point to and say 1) they sort of remember that and 2) are convinced that there's no way someone else would lie about that. NBC: "You know, we were going to give you the role, MC Shan, but Will, that's one impressive blowjob you gave him, how would you like your own sitcom?" I'm having trouble telling how A and B lead to C on this one in his logic.
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Post by Gecko on Aug 29, 2023 6:37:20 GMT -5
Uri Geller he aint doing anything that you or I couldn't. I was going to throw his name into the mix earlier, but then I quite mysteriously forgot to do so... almost like an external influence was guiding me. Or it may just have been that I had to go out.
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Post by Glitch on Aug 29, 2023 6:40:42 GMT -5
The martial arts community is ripe with them. My favorite to bring up is Frank Dux, since he's got it by the boatload (and the basis for the Van Damme film Bloodsport)
He made up a fake tournament, fake master, fake adventures and a ton of other things that has zero evidence of it's existence. There are several videos explaining in detail his bs, but I'll mention the math people did based on the numbers Dux claimed about the tournament. The tournament would need 74 quadrillion people in existence for it to work.
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Aug 29, 2023 6:52:17 GMT -5
That guy who's married to Danielle Fishel. Jensen Karp? I know there was something, but I can't remember
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Post by crashmatsbazz on Aug 29, 2023 7:15:54 GMT -5
That guy who's married to Danielle Fishel. Jensen Karp? I know there was something, but I can't remember Shrimp in the ceral guy. didn't it turn out he was a dick to his ex girlfriend and stole a podcast?
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Post by Jaws the Shark on Aug 29, 2023 7:46:44 GMT -5
Pushing the boundaries of famous here, but at the start of the 2010s there was an English cricketer, Adrian Shankar, who achieved brief infamy for having built an extremely short-lived professional career on the most incredible lies. I did write out a whole post but it was going to be too long, so I'm just going to bullet point it (and it'll still be quite long):
- Landed a professional contract with Lancashire (for whom he never played a first team match) despite having been a thoroughly mediocre university and minor counties cricketer. He falsely claimed that his coach at Cambridge University - where he told teammates that he was heading for job either with the World Bank or the UN straight out of university - had said he was one of the best players he'd seen, only for the coach to read this in a press release and contact the club strenuously denying this, and telling them that he was actually a poor player, and that Shankar was three years older than he had claimed.
- When pressed on his age by a teammate at Lancashire, had said he was "stillborn" and spent the first three years of his life in an incubator, hence the confusion over his actual age; when said teammate pointed out that he would have continued growing, replied "No I didn't", and walked off.
- Claimed to have been a national level tennis player as a teenager; he wasn't.
- Claimed to have been part of the first youth intake at the Arsenal academy under Arsene Wenger; he wasn't.
- Struck up a friendship with Marcus Codrington Fernandez, a money mark who had started an ill-fated cricket bat company called Mongoose and signed several big name players to big retainers. And Shankar, who Codrington Fernandez recommended to coaches in the Indian Premier League based largely on bullshit fed to him by Shankar.
- While associated with Mongoose, wrote a bizarre blog full of fictional and verbose accounts of cricket matches that he hadn't played, and some of which didn't even take place.
- Posed as journalists and supporters to write articles for Mongoose and emails to Mongoose about himself and his exploits in a fictional cricket league in South Africa.
- Went on a cricket charity trip to Botswana, where he claimed that through his connections at Lancashire he could secure the involvement of several England cricketers. Suffice to say this never happened.
- After being released by Lancashire, was signed to another professional contract by Worcestershire, apparently on the strength of his performances in a cricket league in Sri Lanka that again, didn't actually exist. This time he created a (very unconvincing) website for it, and several sockpuppets on a Sri Lankan cricket forum to post about it.
- Was "injured" in his second match for Worcestershire rather than face the bowling of England speedster Steve Harmison and risk having his head knocked off his shoulders.
- Was fired by Worcestershire two weeks after signing after the club found he had fabricated everything and given them false documents, including a forged passport, and a fake letter from the WHO "supporting" his earlier claims about his age. He claimed that he was being blackmailed by Indian bookmakers and that MI5 were involved; MI5 wasn't, but the police were when the club passed his papers over to them.
- Tried to explain himself to a teammate via text message; the teammate just responded with a picture of Pinocchio.
- After leaving cricket, attempted to bullshit his way into a career first as a food/London high society journalist, then as a film producer.
Oh, and just to make it all even funnier, his degree at Cambridge? Law.
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Post by Zombie Mod on Aug 29, 2023 9:24:52 GMT -5
I'd say Jeremey Clarkson, but it would mainly be because most of what he says is bollocks and rarely out and out lies about how great he is and his reputation was that of a blowhard that talked out of his arse, well pre p.a. slap firing & game of thrones treatment demand for Meghan Markle (aka Duchess of Sussex.) newspaper column.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Aug 29, 2023 9:55:17 GMT -5
James Frey, and his memoir "A Million Little Pieces".
Micah Ian Wright, then writer of the Wildstorm comic "StormWatch", claimed to be an Ranger with combat experience in the opening in a book he wrote. Records show that never happened.
And then there's Manny Fernandez and his stories about Vietnam.
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Post by James Fabiano on Aug 29, 2023 9:59:21 GMT -5
Wasn't MC Shan featured in Snow's "Informer "?
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Post by Nr1Humanoid on Aug 29, 2023 10:52:00 GMT -5
Are writers of the history books artists?
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Post by chazraps on Aug 29, 2023 11:39:17 GMT -5
Jensen Karp? I know there was something, but I can't remember Shrimp in the ceral guy. didn't it turn out he was a dick to his ex girlfriend and stole a podcast? Oh there's A LOT about Jensen Karp. Prolific plagiarist whose career boasts are largely unverifiable.
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Post by chazraps on Aug 29, 2023 11:39:53 GMT -5
Wasn't MC Shan featured in Snow's "Informer "? Correct, so again he's done enough that he doesn't have to lie, he just likes to.
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Post by Bam Neeley on Aug 29, 2023 12:29:31 GMT -5
Todd Rogers who for years claimed he had a time of 5.51 in Atari 2600 Dragster. That game is so simple that all possible gameplays can fit into an excel spreadsheet and the best possible time is 5.57. Oh and Frank Abagnale who's autobiography was basis for the movie "Catch Me If You Can" who claimed he'd worked as a fake pilot, lawyer and doctor while actually he just forged cheques.
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Post by SsnakeBite, the No1 Frenchman on Aug 29, 2023 12:46:44 GMT -5
Tommy Tallarico has to be the most amazing bullshit artist I've hear of recently. A guy so obsessed with claiming credit for things he didn't make he's been desperately trying to claim the "oof" sound from Roblox (which actually predates Roblox) despite the fact that he didn't actually make it (one of his employees did). But the reason I've heard of him recently is because he's the "genius" behind the Intellivision Amico and if you know anything about that thing, it's how disastrous its development is being and how many lies Tommy told everyone. Between hbomberguy's video on Tommy as a whole and Slopes Games Room's video on the Amico in particular, I have now seen nearly 6 hours of videos going over just his most obvious lies. Here's the hbomberguy video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0twDETh6QaIAnd the Slopes Games Room one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BgAarlzVD4
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Aug 29, 2023 12:49:22 GMT -5
Tommy Tallarico has to be the most amazing bullshit artist I've hear of recently. A guy so obsessed with claiming credits for things he didn't make he's been desperately trying to claim the "oof" sound from Roblox (which actually predates Roblox) despite the fact that he didn't actually make it (one of his employees did). But the reason i've heard of him recently is because he's the "genius" behind the Intellivision Amico and if you know anything about that thing, it's how disastrous its development is being and how many lies TOmmy told everyone. Between hbomberguy's video on Tommy as a whole and Slopes Games Room's video on the Amico in particular, I have now seen nearly 6 hours of videos going over just his most obvious lies. Here's the hbomberguy video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0twDETh6QaIAnd the Slopes Games Room one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BgAarlzVD4I've watched the hbomberguy video 3 times because of his insane it is.
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Post by Mozenrath on Aug 29, 2023 12:54:22 GMT -5
Wasn't MC Shan featured in Snow's "Informer "? Correct, so again he's done enough that he doesn't have to lie, he just likes to. A funny parody by In Living Color, but it's kind of ironic that they have the MC Shan stand-in in "Imposter" telling Jim Carrey's Snow that he "needs a black man to increase his credibility" when Shan's turned out to be such a bullshit artist, while Snow on the other hand was one of the people with the most legitimate criminal backgrounds rapping about the subject, rather than making it up wholecloth for image. Of course, there were/are other questions of his authenticity, like his using a patois to perform to begin with or credit disputes with the album, but it does add to the humor all the same.
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Post by Mozenrath on Aug 29, 2023 12:58:34 GMT -5
Tommy Tallarico has to be the most amazing bullshit artist I've hear of recently. A guy so obsessed with claiming credits for things he didn't make he's been desperately trying to claim the "oof" sound from Roblox (which actually predates Roblox) despite the fact that he didn't actually make it (one of his employees did). But the reason i've heard of him recently is because he's the "genius" behind the Intellivision Amico and if you know anything about that thing, it's how disastrous its development is being and how many lies TOmmy told everyone. Between hbomberguy's video on Tommy as a whole and Slopes Games Room's video on the Amico in particular, I have now seen nearly 6 hours of videos going over just his most obvious lies. Here's the hbomberguy video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0twDETh6QaIAnd the Slopes Games Room one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BgAarlzVD4The funny thing is, I met the guy once around 15 years ago, completely oblivious to his lies and bluster, really only knowing him from some of his verifiable work. He was nice enough, but had that "salesman" vibe to him, and he signed a receipt I had on my person for free. I bring this up because I've actually been using that same wallet since then, and I had tucked the receipt into one of the pockets in it and left it there. So, I've been carrying Tommy Tallarico's autograph on my person for like 15 years, unknowingly, and that's just kind of funny to me.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Aug 29, 2023 13:17:22 GMT -5
Todd Rogers who for years claimed he had a time of 5.51 in Atari 2600 Dragster. That game is so simple that all possible gameplays can fit into an excel spreadsheet and the best possible time is 5.57. Oh and Frank Abagnale who's autobiography was basis for the movie "Catch Me If You Can" who claimed he'd worked as a fake pilot, lawyer and doctor while actually he just forged cheques. Todd Rogers is the guy who signed a lawsuit as Todd Todgers or something like that.
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Post by BorneAgain on Aug 29, 2023 16:15:10 GMT -5
Tommy Tallarico has to be the most amazing bullshit artist I've hear of recently. A guy so obsessed with claiming credits for things he didn't make he's been desperately trying to claim the "oof" sound from Roblox (which actually predates Roblox) despite the fact that he didn't actually make it (one of his employees did). But the reason i've heard of him recently is because he's the "genius" behind the Intellivision Amico and if you know anything about that thing, it's how disastrous its development is being and how many lies TOmmy told everyone. Between hbomberguy's video on Tommy as a whole and Slopes Games Room's video on the Amico in particular, I have now seen nearly 6 hours of videos going over just his most obvious lies. Here's the hbomberguy video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0twDETh6QaIAnd the Slopes Games Room one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BgAarlzVD4The funny thing is, I met the guy once around 15 years ago, completely oblivious to his lies and bluster, really only knowing him from some of his verifiable work. He was nice enough, but had that "salesman" vibe to him, and he signed a receipt I had on my person for free. I bring this up because I've actually been using that same wallet since then, and I had tucked the receipt into one of the pockets in it and left it there. So, I've been carrying Tommy Tallarico's autograph on my person for like 15 years, unknowingly, and that's just kind of funny to me. Of course Mozenrath fails to mention the life changing advice that Tommy gave him that he also once told Miyamoto-san as well as how Stephen Tyler also walked by and told the former "Hey trust my cousin Tommy, he knows what he's talking about". Hard to believe you forgot such notable details when meeting the first* Westerner to work on Sonic the Hedgehog. *First named Tommy Tallarico that is.
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