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Would you like to hear me tell a joke?

SwillSwill Registered User regular
edited February 2009 in Social Entropy++
Go fuck yourselves.

Con men thread! This is the place to discuss our favorite sneaky son's-of-bitches.
We are fascinated by them, because they have the confidence to do what we could only dream of. They owe all their success to their charisma.

The most (in)famous:

Frank Abagnale. Subject of the 2002 movie, Catch Me With You Can

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This dude was raw. He looked much older than he actually was, and did much, much more than steal money. During his criminal career he impersonated:
-Teacher
-Pilot
-Doctor
-Lawyer

Maybe you're thinking, I like my men fictional, studly, and teamed up with 10 more outrageous and wacky people.

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Alternatively (originally)
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Now, this part of the post, probably belongs in the "What is the Best movie ever" thread, because this shit is rocking. Good tunes, the bad guy wins, and the snooty rich dude gets hosed.


Some of these men, were so good, the goddamned internet is having troubles with them.

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Let us talk about these smooth talking badasses.

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  • PhonehandPhonehand Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Is it ironic that Leonardo Dicaprio looks much younger than he actually is

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  • Triple BTriple B Bastard of the North MARegistered User regular
    edited February 2009
    That was not a very funny joke

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  • DrIanMalcolmDrIanMalcolm Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    That joke was spoken by Tom Hanks, who was an officer of the FBI, not a conman

    Get your facts straight

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  • BusterKBusterK Negativity is Boring Cynicism is Cowardice Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Can we talk about hoaxes too?
    I'm fascinated by hoaxes
    I just read an article about Piltdown Man
    Apparently English anthropologists were so eager to have racial supremacy that they were willing to believe the original man had a modern skull and the jaw of a orangutan
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piltdown_Man

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  • CrashmoCrashmo Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    I always liked the dude that jumped out of the plane with stolen money and was never heard from again.

    Except in Prison Break, or that Seth Green movie about camping.

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  • SwillSwill Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    BusterK wrote: »
    Can we talk about hoaxes too?
    I'm fascinated by hoaxes
    I just read an article about Piltdown Man
    Apparently English anthropologists were so eager to have racial supremacy that they were willing to believe the original man had a modern skull and the jaw of a orangutan
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piltdown_Man

    Awww yeah.
    ... pluto?

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  • ButtersButters A glass of some milks Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Gotta give some props to Charles Ponzi

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  • SwillSwill Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Butters wrote: »
    Gotta give some props to Charles Ponzi

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    He is so cool. It is like the classic coming to America story with a twist.
    Came to America with only a couple bucks, then abused the shit out of a minor flaw in the postal system.

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  • BusterKBusterK Negativity is Boring Cynicism is Cowardice Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Butters wrote: »
    Gotta give some props to Charles Ponzi

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    The man who invented money

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  • FlatEricFlatEric Leaves from the vine, Falling so slow Like fragile, tiny shells, Drifting in the foamRegistered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Crashmo wrote: »
    I always liked the dude that jumped out of the plane with stolen money and was never heard from again.

    Except in Prison Break, or that Seth Green movie about camping.

    D.B. Cooper, I think.

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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    fucking love catch me if you can

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  • Calamity JaneCalamity Jane That Wrong Love Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    i think my old history teacher was D.B. cooper

    the picture of cooper's likeness is everywhere in his classroom

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    FlatEric wrote: »
    Crashmo wrote: »
    I always liked the dude that jumped out of the plane with stolen money and was never heard from again.

    Except in Prison Break, or that Seth Green movie about camping.

    D.B. Cooper, I think.

    Yep

    there was also a dude named Richard McCoy who pulled the same kind of thing a few years later, except they caught him

    but many believe that Cooper and McCoy are the same man

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  • BeyondBeyond Nerd Slayer In the SkyRegistered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Where the hell is Matt Damon?

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    FlatEric wrote: »
    Crashmo wrote: »
    I always liked the dude that jumped out of the plane with stolen money and was never heard from again.

    Except in Prison Break, or that Seth Green movie about camping.

    D.B. Cooper, I think.

    Yep

    there was also a dude named Richard McCoy who pulled the same kind of thing a few years later, except they caught him

    but many believe that Cooper and McCoy are the same man

    Or rather, were the same man

    McCoy died in 1974 in a shootout with the FBI

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  • SwillSwill Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    potatoe wrote: »
    fucking love catch me if you can

    All the actors are choice in it.

    Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream..

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  • SwillSwill Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    @ Grey Ghost

    How are you liking this new thread so far?
    Does it have enough classy criminals?

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  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    I LOVE JOKES! :D

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  • SwillSwill Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Koshian wrote: »
    bernie madoff?

    Haha, I just read up on this dude. Largest investment fraud for a single person, damn.

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  • The Otaku SuppositoryThe Otaku Suppository Bawstan New EnglandRegistered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Koshian wrote: »
    bernie madoff?

    If they ever convict that guy his punishment should be exile to an island with a rudimentary shelter and access to only 1,500-2,000 calories a day and that's it. Let him live the rest of his life in poverty.

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  • BedigunzBedigunz Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    FlatEric wrote: »
    Crashmo wrote: »
    I always liked the dude that jumped out of the plane with stolen money and was never heard from again.

    Except in Prison Break, or that Seth Green movie about camping.

    D.B. Cooper, I think.

    Also mentioned in Newsradio.

    I think the story line was that Jimmy James was really DB Cooper or some nonsense.

    I didn't really pay attention due to a significant lack of Phil Hartman

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  • HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited February 2009
    Koshian wrote: »
    bernie madoff?

    If they ever convict that guy his punishment should be exile to an island with a rudimentary shelter and access to only 1,500-2,000 calories a day and that's it. Let him live the rest of his life in poverty.

    Fuck that, I'd make him work for minimum wage in a dirty ass kitchen somewhere and have to survive only on that income and whatever he can sell his blood for.

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  • DogDog Registered User, Administrator, Vanilla Staff admin
    edited February 2009
    Would you like to hear me tell a joke?

    No thanks.

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  • MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    edited February 2009
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