Real Life Mission-Impossible
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Every once in a while there's a story about someone who tries to be a real life superhero, and of course it always ends badly. But this story has to be my all time favorite. It's long but I found it strangely entertaining.
Short version: An executive with a large electronics distributor decides he wants to help a group of people who lost millions of dollars in an investment scam. So he puts together a team (ala Mission Impossible, Oceans Eleven, etc), comes up with a plan and they go off to get the money back from the bad guys. Of course this is real life, not the movies, and things go horribly wrong.
They really need to make this into a movie.
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@El_Heffe said:
Every once in a while there's a story about someone who tries to be a real life superhero, and of course it always ends badly.
Dude I live in Seattle. We have a real life superhero.
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Tragic!
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Dude needs to create a paramilitary organization just so he can make himself a colonel.
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@belgariontheking said:
Dude needs to create a paramilitary organization just so he can make himself a colonel.
Colonel is for slackers. Real men call themself Field Marshal.
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@El_Heffe said:
I'm guessing you just didn't understand the joke? Or...@belgariontheking said:
Dude needs to create a paramilitary organization just so he can make himself a colonel.
Colonel is for slackers. Real men call themself Field Marshal.
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@El_Heffe said:
@belgariontheking said:
Dude needs to create a paramilitary organization just so he can make himself a colonel.
Colonel is for slackers. Real men call themself Field Marshal.Major Major Major Major.
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@Sutherlands said:
Oh I got it. Forty years in power and still only a Colonel, what a slacker.@El_Heffe said:
I'm guessing you just didn't understand the joke? Or...@belgariontheking said:
Dude needs to create a paramilitary organization just so he can make himself a colonel.
Colonel is for slackers. Real men call themself Field Marshal.
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I wonder if military ranks suffer from level creep
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@dhromed said:
I wonder if military ranks suffer from level creep
Yeah, I think they do - just last week I had to promote myself to Überfragmeister Meta-General Zeroth Class of the Republic of Ekolistan, because my pesky brother stole my old title...
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Like, this one guy is so fucking awesome at generaling or fieldmarshaling or whatever the fuck these men do, that everybody else should hypothetically be bumped down a notch.
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@ekolis said:
@dhromed said:
I wonder if military ranks suffer from level creep
Yeah, I think they do - just last week I had to promote myself to Überfragmeister Meta-General Zeroth Class of the Republic of Ekolistan, because my pesky brother stole my old title...
I prefer the Zen/humility approach. I claim for myself the title of Second Assistant Deputy Vice-Undersecretary.
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@da Doctah said:
FTFY@ekolis said:
@dhromed said:
I wonder if military ranks suffer from level creep
I prefer the Zen/humility approach. I claim for myself the title of Second Assistant to the Deputy Vice-Undersecretary.
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@da Doctah said:
@ekolis said:
@dhromed said:
I wonder if military ranks suffer from level creep
Yeah, I think they do - just last week I had to promote myself to Überfragmeister Meta-General Zeroth Class of the Republic of Ekolistan, because my pesky brother stole my old title...
I prefer the Zen/humility approach. I claim for myself the title of Second Assistant Deputy Vice-Undersecretary.
My personal favorite is "Agent Bob". Especially when given to asomeone whose name is not Bob.
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@blakeyrat said:
Dude I live in Seattle. We have a real life superhero.
*headdesk**headdesk*
*headdesk*
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@toshir0 said:
Meh we got one too.@blakeyrat said:
Dude I live in Seattle. We have a real life superhero.
*headdesk**headdesk*
*headdesk*
One day I want to have a drink with Shadowhare.