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Patworx Patworx from In front of my laptop Since: Aug, 2011
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#1: Jun 6th 2012 at 1:17:10 PM

There's a guy named Timothy Michael Poe who auditioned for Americas Got Talent. He talked with a stutter which he claimed he got from a Grenade accident when he was serving in Afghanistan. Then he sang, and he was very good at it.

But now the Minnesota National Guard has released a statement saying that, while he did serve with them, he was never injured in the line of duty. Also, the soldiers who served with this guy say he's full of shit.

Here's a video of his performance.

And here's a Washington Post article discussing the controversy.

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#2: Jun 8th 2012 at 12:35:06 PM

Mother. Fucker.

Well, he's fucked. Forever. Now wherever he goes, people who've seen the show will know what a prick this guy is.

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#3: Jun 18th 2012 at 5:58:14 PM

Fuck that guy. What a douchebag.

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#4: Jun 18th 2012 at 9:12:38 PM

He should have said his talent was acting.

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0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
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#5: Jun 18th 2012 at 10:59:45 PM

*sees someone on one of these talent reality shows has a completely BS sob story*

*is not surprised in the slightest*

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ATC Was Aliroz the Confused from The Library of Kiev Since: Sep, 2011
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#6: Jun 26th 2012 at 7:44:46 PM

Look, I have a friend who stutters, and from being around him I wonder how anybody was fooled.

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#7: Jun 26th 2012 at 8:33:59 PM

It's the small things that get me. Corruption in government? It happens. This? Just what the fuck?

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TamH70 Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#8: Jun 26th 2012 at 11:51:41 PM

Us Brits call those people "Walts", after Walter Mitty. They are hated by lots of folks out there. Except me. Well, I do hate them but they come about number a million or so after politicians, bankers and mime artists.

Nicknacks Ding-ding! Going down... from Land Down Under Since: Oct, 2010
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#9: Jun 27th 2012 at 5:06:40 AM

I love that this is such a big deal.

You mean to tell me that people on these shows lie!?

.*faints dead away*

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PoochyEXE from 127.0.0.1 Since: Sep, 2010
#10: Jun 28th 2012 at 11:57:38 PM

So all these shows are giving people attention (and in some cases, money) for telling their sob stories and really hamming it up, and people start coming out of the woodwork with fake ones? As Jon Stewart once said, I believe this is a phenomenon experts call "What The (BLEEP) Did You THINK Would Happen?"

I'd really like to see someone audition for one of these shows with the most ridiculously Beyond the Impossible made-up sob story just to see if they actually put them on. ("Well, you see, my diabetic grandmother went into shock while trying to park in our driveway, which caused her to park her car in our living room by accident. She ran over poor Fluffy in the process, who jumped up on the table and knocked over a glass vase onto my brother's foot. Meanwhile, my cousin Joey [this is where you show a picture of the most adorable little kid who looks nothing like you, preferably of an entirely different nationality] was hit by a piece of the living room wall. We tried to file an insurance claim, but our homeowner's insurance company said we should file the claim with our auto insurance, our auto insurance company wants us to file it with our health insurance, and our health insurance company refuses to cover anything because grandma's diabetes is a pre-existing condition. So the top prize is $1 million, right? 'Cause our total bills come to $998,400 for the hospital, home repair, car repair, veterinarian, therapy, and veterinarian therapy. Oh, and we need $1,600 for a new couch, since there's a gigantic yellow stain on our current one from when Joey saw that car coming at him.") Unfortunately, I'm too busy and have too little patience to stand in line for a full day just to make a joke.

edited 29th Jun '12 12:25:08 AM by PoochyEXE

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