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    Why We're Obsessed With This Fake Rockefeller
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    Image of SeaBassTian SeaBassTian
    12/03/08

    In reply to Why We're Obsessed With This Fake Rockefeller
    This article reads like a particularly compelling episode of Power, Privilege & Justice, but without DD! I have to say I am impressed with this nefarious character. "Isn't this grand!" may be my new motto for future gatecrashing!
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    Image of MrInBetween MrInBetween
    12/03/08

    In reply to Why We're Obsessed With This Fake Rockefeller
    You forgot one additional asterisk:

    * This man is a member of he wombat family.
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    Image of GirlyWhirl GirlyWhirl
    12/03/08

    In reply to Why We're Obsessed With This Fake Rockefeller
    I did not know about the submarine option from Hyannis to Nantucket. I wonder if it's faster or slower than the ferry?
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    Image of Iceland Spar Iceland Spar
    12/03/08

    In reply to Why We're Obsessed With This Fake Rockefeller
    Perhaps police should also start asking this guy some hard questions regarding the last time he's been to Montauk and if he is known to associate with any monsters.
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    Image of Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith
    12/03/08

    In reply to Why We're Obsessed With This Fake Rockefeller
    I kind of like the name 'Snooks'. Is it the name on her birth certificate, or just a nickname?


    And the Periodic Table thing is weird, but awesome! My parents were mad determined that we grow up scientists when my siblings and I were younger; my mother used to get me to recite the Periodic Table (I still can, but only up to the first twenty elements or so), and my father used to quiz us with simultaneous equations during car trips.

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    Image of SaraRueful SaraRueful
    12/03/08

    @Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith: Good lord. I couldn't even play hopscotch right.


    E= MC Hammer, right?

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    Image of Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith
    12/03/08

    @SaraRueful: I was too young for MC Hammer. Both my engineers were parents with backgrounds in chemistry, maths, and geology (my father once tried to trick me into collecting rocks), as were a lot of our family friends, so it always seemed kind of normal to me.

    Of course, as per my requisite rebellion, I am now studying Religious Studies and Media Studies at university. Ha, take that!
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    Image of Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith
    12/03/08

    @Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith: *Both my parents were engineers. Freudian slip, or some shit.
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    Image of SaraRueful SaraRueful
    12/03/08

    @Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith: I was too young for MC Hammer.


    Oh, honey, I am sorry. He was too legit to quit!

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    Image of Iceland Spar Iceland Spar
    12/03/08

    In reply to Why We're Obsessed With This Fake Rockefeller
    If someone sent me a text that said they were in a submarine I would think that they were liar. Then I would backtrack and my insecurities would lead me to believe that they were actually telling the truth and that I have the worst cell plan ever as sometimes I can't get service in my own bedroom and my friend is out in gallavanting around in a a submarine with Verizon's special underwater cell phone service.
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    Image of Schadenfrau Schadenfrau
    12/03/08

    In reply to Why We're Obsessed With This Fake Rockefeller
    Is he the greatest grifter of all time? I can't think of much real competition.
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    Image of Richard Lawson Richard Lawson
    12/03/08

    @Schadenfrau: If not the best, he's certainly up there.
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    Image of hollygirl hollygirl
    12/03/08

    @Schadenfrau: The Kimeses?
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    Image of honeybee111 honeybee111
    12/03/08

    In reply to Why We're Obsessed With This Fake Rockefeller
    I'd be curious to know more about Snook's mother. It seems like she was a smart, sucessful woman - yet she was completely taken in for years. Perhaps she was a victim of her own bougerious pretenious - so thrilled that she had the attention of a Rockefeller that she didn't notice she had never seen an id or been invited to an Exxonmobile stockholders meeting.
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    Image of hollygirl hollygirl
    12/03/08

    @honeybee111: I think you've got it about right- didn't want to look too hard at obvious bullshit...
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    Image of Nice Beaver Nice Beaver
    12/03/08

    In reply to Why We're Obsessed With This Fake Rockefeller
    This makes me not feel as bad about purposely wearing a cheap watch to seem absent-mindedly patrician.
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    Image of TheHonJudgeSmails TheHonJudgeSmails
    12/03/08

    @Nard: That is the same reason I wear a thrift-store camel hair coat.
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    Image of es-ki-mo es-ki-mo
    12/03/08

    In reply to Why We're Obsessed With This Fake Rockefeller
    The intro/music for Unsolved Mysteries used to scare the Robert Stack out of me as a kid.

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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    12/03/08

    In reply to Why We're Obsessed With This Fake Rockefeller
    A peach melba post, if ever there were.
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    Image of Victor Ward Victor Ward
    12/03/08

    In reply to Why We're Obsessed With This Fake Rockefeller
    Some of that, especially the text, reminds me of my ex. He's also totally insane, but way hot.


    And those are the two main qualities I look for in a man.

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    Image of ElvisWorley ElvisWorley
    12/03/08

    In reply to Why We're Obsessed With This Fake Rockefeller
    Yea, but who plays him in the soon to be indie smash hit?
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    Image of Richard Lawson Richard Lawson
    12/03/08

    @ElvisWorley: Good question. Maybe Sam Rockwell? But he'd have to start out as a teenager. Emilie Hirsch to Sam Rockwell.
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    Image of NotChoinski NotChoinski
    12/03/08

    @ElvisWorley:


    Is Gary Burghoff too old?

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    Image of CodePink CodePink
    12/03/08

    @Richard: Sam Rockwell is a good physical likeness, but can't really play high society, I don't think. For this I suggest the obvious--Philip Seymour Hoffman. But he'd have to lose a few pounds.
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    Image of es-ki-mo es-ki-mo
    12/03/08

    @ElvisWorley: It will be a musical starring Phil Collins.
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    Image of BullfightsOnAcid BullfightsOnAcid
    12/03/08

    @ElvisWorley: This is the role that will finally get Phil Collins that Oscar he's coveted all these years.
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    Image of PrincessKashmir PrincessKashmir
    12/03/08

    @ElvisWorley: My money's on Kevin Spacey. Dude could be his twin.
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    Image of Calraigh Calraigh
    12/03/08

    @ElvisWorley: And what to call it? The Talented Mr. Gerhartsreiter doesn't really have the same ring.
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    Image of chazerium chazerium
    12/03/08

    @ElvisWorley: Can David Hyde Pierce grow a scrubby beard?
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    Image of Midwesterner in NYC Midwesterner in NYC
    12/03/08

    @chazerium: I see a little Chuck Klosterman in him for some reason.
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    Image of IndianSlipper IndianSlipper
    12/03/08

    In reply to Why We're Obsessed With This Fake Rockefeller
    I usually count my money, exclaim "It's a Boones Farm night", and go to the corner store. Brown paper bag to go, baby!
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    Image of BullfightsOnAcid BullfightsOnAcid
    12/03/08

    @IndianSlipper: I found my thrill on Strawberry Hill.
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    Image of GirlyWhirl GirlyWhirl
    12/03/08

    @IndianSlipper:


    I can't tell you how many nights after putting my didgeridoo away for the evening, I roll change while exclaiming "Isn't this grand!"

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    Image of NotChoinski NotChoinski
    12/03/08

    In reply to Why We're Obsessed With This Fake Rockefeller
    - Invented Frosted Flakes
    - Was the inspiration for 'Cousin Oliver' on TV
    - Edited the Chuck Norris Facts website
    - Beat Tonya Harding in a Hardee's parking lot
    - Has a Ben & Jerry flavor named after him
    - Has recently been named as a member of the Obama Administration.
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    Image of NotChoinski NotChoinski
    12/03/08

    @NotChoinski:


    - Created Oysters Rockefeller, later renamed Oysters Chichester, Oysters Crowe, and Oysters Smith

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    Image of GirlyWhirl GirlyWhirl
    12/03/08

    @NotChoinski:


    I bet Ben & Jerry's Rocky Rockefeller is delicious! It's peach-melba flavored with a LOT of nuts.

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    Image of NotChoinski NotChoinski
    12/03/08

    @GirlyWhirl: Actually Ben & Jerry named half a dozen flavors after him, they're just unaware of it.
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