Ballduster McSoulpatch v. MSGT Soup Sandwich
Tournament starts Monday, runs through Friday, and if I figure out how to set it, you will get multiple votes.
Ladies and Gentlemen: Your combatants for National Chumpian of the first annual “Jesse MacBeth Stolen Valor Tournament”
If nothing else this contest has been worth it to see some of your photo shop… just brilliant and absolutely hilarious!
BALLDUSTER!!!
Um I’ve got to ask one more time, what is the “prize” if Soupy wins.
I have no idea. I’ve been thinking about it, and I would like to give them a papier mache penis with medals painted on it, but that would take effort.
Doc – with luck, we’ll get yet another photoshop, with his face in a suitable moment of triumph, and a caption of “veni, vidi, vici!” (Easier than translating, “I inhale shoe cleaner” into Latin.)
Who could ask for more?
SOUPY!!!!
BALLDUSTER…..
I’d love to see an actual trophy made, since it is named after MacBeth it would have to do something with him.
Sadly, with the never ending stream of posers coming out of the wood work, this may very well end up being an annual thing.
I’d pitch in for the making of a trophy. But it has to be something utterly humiliating, and has to be given IN PERSON. Lots of photos, and an explanation why they earned this. If that happened I’d drop about half my considerably small paycheck on that.
Lastly this would have to be blasted on every news site available.
I’ll have to go with Ballduster. The prize? A male gay porn video, or maybe just a video clip that can be emailed to the winner, time and time again.
Photoshopping a movie about two guys who exchange their man-batter is priceless for slugs named “SOUPY” and “BALLDUSTER”.
SOUPY!
Soup! Soup! Soup! RAH!
#8&9 Tman,Doc: Concur. Up front and PERSONAL. If this does turn annual, after I graduate and cash flow increases, I’ll be able to finish the man cave – might be able to come up with a cast and/or machined doohicky with a suitable Index of Humiliation.
And remember, mom or our daughters could see this so a modicum of decorum, shall we gents … ?
its Ballduster hands down…..
you know why?
if there was more fiasco and youtube footage, news people, etc for Soupy….it might have been a tighter race.
3 photos vs. news people, a fake bio, youtube….is no contest.
Isn’t ballduster gay? Isn’t that the whole reason he dressed up that way? Maybe he might enjoy breaking soupy’s back.
Ballduster…
While Soup had the cajones to walk into the commanders office and demand ‘justice’ wearing his finest, ‘Duster paraded at an INAUGURAL for a MAYOR.
With CIA accouterments to boot!
Did I mention the Mayor was gay, too?
The photoshop above was enough for me to order a case of brain bleach. You guys are right, when you say what has been seen can’t be unseen.
And just in time for Halloween, too.
PintoNag, start drinking heavily and maybe you’ll kill the memory cells with that image. That technique doesn’t really wor, but it’s an excuse to stay hammered.
Man, this is a tough vote. Soupy pulled his pud in Benning, but I’ve got a softspot for Ballduster. I still like his SAS badge.
Do you think Soupy leaves his desert boots on?
Gotta be Soupy… Ballduster is a close second, but it takes considerable chutzpah to march on to a military base, decked out in the finest that posers can accumulate, to make an ass of oneself.
You know, when he wears his service dress uniform?
C’mon, whaddaya think I meant?
Sheesh! You guys. . .
Interesting. I recall when this happened, just realized it was the same guy after reading a paste of the article on a military website:
“http://www.nola.com/…y/flight06.html
Pilot’s suspicions led to man’s arrest
Sky marshal story convincing, at first
02/06/02
By Susan Finch
Staff writer/The Times-Picayune
At a time when all eyes are peeled for the possibility that a passenger has carried a gun on board a commercial flight, Michael Patrick McManus’ undoing began with a pilot’s determination that he wasn’t armed at all.
It tended to undermine his claim that he was a sky marshal, a story that had gotten him past an airline ticket agent and then a gate agent — both of whom should have known that sky marshals dress in civilian clothes, carry concealed weapons and seek invisibility, officials said.
McManus, of Palo Alto, Ca., bounded onto a Dallas-bound flight last month at New Orleans’ Armstrong International Airport sporting battle fatigues with badges, including one for Delta Force, an Army unit that handles counterterrorism operations.
When the pilot asked about the military garb, McManus had a ready answer: “The sky marshal program was not up to speed, so they were using Delta Force members as sky marshals,” according to an FBI affidavit filed in court. As for his lack of a weapon, McManus said “he was Delta Force and he was trained to handle any situation,” the FBI said.
Then the real sky marshals boarded the flight. McManus, apparently exposed as an impostor, if not quite a terrorist, was hustled off the plane. He was not immediately arrested or publicly identified, and was allowed to return to California.
Now he faces a federal felony charge of impersonating a U.S. officer or employee. A federal grand jury late last week charged him with passing himself off as a U.S. Transportation Department air marshal and a U.S. military major assigned to perform a security check of American Flight 1970 on Jan. 21.
New Orleans Acting U.S. Attorney Jim Letten said the indictment shows the government is serious about aircraft safety.
“We think this intentional, well-planned-out breach of security is something that has to be dealt with very seriously,” he said.
Noting that McManus persuaded an American ticket agent and gate agent that he was an official sky marshal, Letten said the case offers a lesson in vigilance.
“In this case, this individual had an ID that probably could or should have been scrutinized more carefully. Luckily the pilot asked all the right questions,” Letten said. “Ultimately the system did work, albeit at the last minute.”
McManus may not have looked like an air marshal, but he definitely had paid attention to the fine points of military regalia, according to the FBI report.
The ticket agent with whom he spoke said he showed what appeared to be a military ID. The gate agent who upgraded McManus’ ticket from coach to first class said his army fatigues were similar to those worn by National Guard soldiers working at the airport. She also noticed McManus was wearing an earpiece with a curled cord extending into his collar.
It worked. Sort of.
McManus secured the pilot’s approval and boarded the aircraft ahead of other passengers. The pilot had approached him for a further chat when he noticed McManus looking around the lavatory and galley in the rear of the aircraft.
“At that time, McManus asked the pilot what the code word was to access the cockpit,” the FBI report said.
Back home in California on Jan. 22, McManus was grilled by FBI agents from the bureau’s San Francisco division. According to court records, he said he had been in the military in the 1980s, but was not currently on active duty.
McManus admitted he did not earn the insignia displayed on his battle fatigues, including those for Ranger, Airborne, Jungle Expert and Air Assault, the FBI said. He told the agents he bought the patches, as well as a military police badge and military ID, through a military surplus store, military magazines or the Internet.
An American Airlines spokesperson Tuesday said the company doesn’t discuss security issues but confirmed that the incident occurred.
U.S. Magistrate Louis Moore in New Orleans issued an arrest warrant for McManus on Jan. 24. It was unclear Tuesday whether McManus was in custody. He is scheduled to make his first appearance in federal court in New Orleans on Feb. 22.
. . . . . . .
Susan Finch can be reached at
sfinch@timespicayune.com or (504) 826-3340.
02/06/02″
I have not seen mention of this incident on McManus entry on POW Network.
Gotta go with Soupy here…
Let me recount his glory…
HE WALKED ONTO F*CKING FORT BENNING WITH AN UNGODLY AMOUNT OF CRAP ON HIS COAT! What didn’t he stop to consider that he might end up like this? Benning is after all…a proverbial bowl of testosterone and manliness. Full of people that know their sh*t.
Yeah…Ballduster was gutsy, he went to a Mayor’s inauguration wearing an SAS badge and General stars…got it he went big.
But Soupy……wow.
if I figure out how to set it, you will get multiple votes.
How Democratic of you.
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
Sammich’s “I knew this was a bad idea” dipshit stare is classic. P-shops into anything hilariously, but especially good in the above pic, with the ‘Duster standing on pitcher’s mound with a big ‘ol grin.
Oh man… I was afraid it would come to this. They are both so deserving of this.
As a suggestion for the winning prize, it is clear that both these guys desire attention, so I suggest that you put together a press release about them winning the award and send it out there on PR Wire and to all the TV, Radio, Newspapers, etc. Phrase it in such a way that it will not be slander or liable, and that the TV reporters will be willing to publish it. Might want to avoid terms like “ballduster” that would let the reporters know it’s not intended as an honor. You could even include a video clip of you behind a podium announcing the winner, (with tounge firmly in cheek) holding up a trophy, and announcing that regretfully the winner couldn’t be here to accept his award. Have a couple of hot women in low cut evening gowns behind you in the video as presenters… that will help it get on TV. Try to hook it into something that is “hot” like the Occupy movement. Then sit back and laugh when CNN picks it up and runs with it.