impersonating a journalist is a crime…somebody better tell Fox News!

So there’s this kid. He loves the Mets. Really, doesn’t everyone? But he loves them so much he forged an NBC employee card and got a press pass so he could get into Shea Stadium to watch them play.

And now he’s in the pokey.

Police arrested the 18-year-old Leli Friday night at Shea just before the start of the New York Mets-Colorado Rockies game and charged him with impersonating a journalist, the Queens District Attorney announced Saturday…

Leli was also charged with criminal possession of a forged instrument, falsifying business records, larceny, criminal possession of stolen property, criminal impersonation and criminal trespass.

He was arraigned Saturday in Queens Criminal Court and released on his own recognizance.

Leli was scheduled to return to court on Sept. 27. He faces up to seven years in prison if he’s convicted.

Man, not even George Will loves it that much!

welcome to *$. Asshole.

Starbucks, yo! And don't gimme no sheeyit: Howard's my homeboy!Re-posted from another forum. Sorry if you’ve already read it; go on to All Your Snakes Are Belong To Us or Chad Vader, Day Shift Manager, Part One or Part Two.

Never come between addicts and their caffeine. Working seven years at *$, I learned this well. They really do believe in the happy, smiley customer service, and it runs deep in that company, but sometimes you just have to say no. Even though it could cost you your job.

One day some eedjut was making fun of us behind the counter.

“I bet your moms are proud of you, pouring coffee for a living, har har!” etc etc, AT LENGTH. He’s treating the whole weekday morning lineup to his hilarious routines, oh god, he is a real Jim Carrey of the Latte, this one. On and on he goes.

Until he gets up to the front, and he says, “Just gimme a big, strong coffee. You aught to be good at that, since that’s all you do with your life.”

At that point I poured the coffee and, without approaching the counter, spun around.

No,” I said. “You don’t understand. You don’t get this coffee unless I give it to you.”

Pause.

You could have heard a quark drop in that place.

The staff couldn’t believe I’d pull this, and neither could Eedjut here. The customers in line new better than to interfere when a drama was unfolding right before their eyes, so they were silent, too.

“Naw, seriously. You gotta give me the coffee.”

“No, seriously, I don’t.” Pause, during which a dawning realization lit up his face. Would I give up this sale? Yep.

“Who’s in charge? Who’s the manager?”

I am,” I lied, smoothly.

Pause.

“Oh, okay. I guess I look like a jerk, eh? Sorry, can I please have my coffee?”

Honest to god, he tipped, too.

Once in a lifetime, boys and girls.

Is it relevant to note that during a job review, when it came to the “Interpersonal Communications” section, the manager giving me my review said,

“Given the difference between what you could say and what you do say, I’m giving you ‘outstanding’?”

quiz o’ the day: which Simpson are you?

I was inclined to give this a miss, because there aren’t that many questions and I couldn’t even pick out the comic book shop guy from them, but when I saw the result it gave me I knew it was uncannily accurate.

You Are Bart Simpson
Very misunderstood, most people just dismiss you as “trouble.”Little do they know that you’re wise and well accomplished beyond your years.

You will be remembered for: starring in your own TV show and saving the town from a comet

Your life philosophy: “I don’t know why I did it, I don’t know why I enjoyed it, and I don’t know why I’ll do it again!”

The Simpsons Personality Test

stolen from Dykewife, a fellow Diary-X alumnus

Patriot Pampies vs the Dark Stain of Valour

You know you remember that song (and probably that movie). But you don’t know the latest version.

Let’s go to Jesus’ General and let him explain to our tender ears the background on Ofjoshua‘s great invention, Patriot Pampies.

 Our Lady of the Concentration Camps, Michelle Malkin
Hugh Hewitt, Townhall
Bob Owens, Confederate Yankee
Pamela, Atlas Shrugs
Biggus Dickus, Blue Crab Boulevard
Ace, Ace of Spades HQ
Allahpundit, Hot Air

Dear fellow Fighting Keyboarders,

After seeing our reactions to the capture of various vaseline-wielding senior citizens and brown people in ninja costumes, my wife, Ofjoshua, suggested that we might consider creating a product that would prevent us from soiling our pants. She even came up with a name for it, “Patriot Pampies.”Patriot Pampies

Although I promised I’d run it by all of you, I don’t think much of the idea, myself. I’m not ashamed of the sudden incontinence I experience when I see a swarthy person. The dark stain that radiates from my crotch isn’t an external display of fear. It’s a warning symbol to all around me that I’ve spotted a potential terrorist and will report him or her to the State Security Apparatus the moment I stop shaking enough to dial my cellphone.

I like to think of it as a kind of self-awarded medal, a “Dark Stain of Valor” or “DSV” if you will. It’s a commendation that almost anyone, no matter their class, can obtain. Just as Sen. Specter wore it deservedly and proudly when he attempted to pass his warrantless wiretap legislation, so did Allahpundit when he risked a coronary reporting on the “Ahmadinejad virus” and the dangers of petroleum jelly. Their respective stations in life made no difference. Each earned the DSV solely on his own merit.

I guess, I’m not really giving Ofjoshua‘s idea a fair hearing. I suppose there are advantages to wearing Patriot Pampies. They’d save us a little in laundering costs and the French would stop laughing while pointing to our crotches (although I still get a lot of that even when I haven’t soiled myself).

So what do you think? Would you buy Patriot Pampies if they were available?

Or would you rather wear your Dark Stain of Valor, proudly, like me?

Heterosexually yours,

Gen. JC Christian, patriot

So much for background. I think these things would sell like hotcakes, myself! Since everything in America eventually gets super-sized, including the children, it was inevitable that the sanitary pad was destined for bigger and … uh … bigger things.

Now if only I could get some of them on that CC list to try the tampons, we’d really be onto something.

Particularly if they put them in their mouths.

Call 1-800-shoot-to-kill

In any case, Corrente has taken inspiration from the General’s call for DSV-wearing patriots to stand up and be counted. And he’s set it to music, of which we present a slice here.

Stain alive, people, stain alive.

Pissing Our Pants
(sung to the tune of “Staying Alive”)

Well, you can tell by the way I stain my pants
I’m a patriot: just read my rants
Muslims make me want to hiss, when they come at me
I start to piss
And now it’s airtight, it’s inside
I have hung onto my pride
We just want to all be safe
But when I walk I tend to chafe

When you are so frightened the tension is quite heightened
You’re pissing your pants, pissing your pants
Feel the bladder leakin’, everybody freakin’
And we’re pissing our pants, pissing our pants
Ah, ha, ha, ha, pissing our pants, pissing our pants
Ah, ha, ha, ha, pissing our pants…

Well now, I get moist and I get dry
Sometimes in back I “bake a pie”
My body sometimes like to twist
I’m leakin’ from every orifice
And now it’s airtight, it’s inside
I have hung onto my pride
We just want to all be safe
But when I walk I tend to chafe

Saw a brown person. Somebody help me.
Somebody help me, yeah
Saw a brown person. Somebody help me.
Somebody help me, yea. Pissing my pants.

Brings a tear to the eye, don’t it?

all your snakes are belong to us!

126,000 views? But then, it’s apparently been kicking around since the end of June. How did I miss this?

Update: I didn’t. Now I remember seeing it ages ago. It must have been when I was having trouble posting, otherwise I’d have grabbed it. But opening weekend is as good a time as any to put it out there, eh?