A SlimVirgin Close Encounter, ...of the first kind Options

[TabulaRasa]

If you followed a link on O-Smear to get here, please be sure to read this topic for some more recent commentary on this whole situation. Thanks!

UPDATE: We'd also like to apologize for the fact that the topic referenced earlier was the wrong one, and was, indeed, a dead link until just recently. The topics are referenced by number, and the admin adding this note (who has since been severely punished) originally typed "8623" instead of "8263." (The link was dead until the new number came up and was taken by an RSS-fed media topic.) OOPS! Normally we're more careful than that... sorry! Anyway, the purpose of linking to the other topic was simply to help keep people up-to-date on what we're discussing, and the gist of that was that Wordbomb is not "Joey," at least not according to our IP data, analysis of posting patterns, writing style, attitude, known history on Wikipedia, and just-plain common sense. Sorry about that too, but it's our story and we're sticking to it.

Also, putting notes like this in threads that are linked to by other sites is hardly "unprecedented." Half the time we delete such threads completely, just to piss people off... we're just like that! In this case, we simply want to make it clear that while Wordbomb is generally well-tolerated here, and Gary Weiss is generally disliked, that doesn't mean we have any real desire to get in the middle of their little feud, or whatever it is. Most of us are only concerned with how it plays out on Wikipedia, not elsewhere. That's our "purview," you see. (The site is actually called "Wikipedia Review," not "The Gary and Judd Review"...)

Anyway, thanks! We hope you enjoy the site!

The Management, Apr. 17, 2007

Antisocialmedia.net has found the actual person who might be partly responsible for Linda Mack's slow descent into SlimVirginity. If the story weren't so unbelieveable I'd discount it, but trust me: you can't make this stuff up.

The first half of the post is mostly a rehash of things we've read here, but the second half is where Slim comes in and that's what you really need to read. If it's all true, then SlimVirgin mythology has just taken a huge step forward. It's at http://www.antisocialmedia.net

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I don't mean to stir up more controversy with Slimvirgin, but has anyone considered they're chasing the wrong tail?

Those in the Intelligence community are well known to have different names, especially while in operation. The names floating around that are being attributed to Slimvirgin may not be her real name. They're well known to put up front biographies that will pass any scrutiny (especially by even news organizations -- it took CNN's Anderson Cooper to admit he interned for the CIA in college, for example).

No one knows her before her Cambridge days. That the sleuthing stopped there, and SV is operating as usual, is a very good sign whatever her name that was "outted" now, is no concern for her -- it's a dead end.

It's when they become unhinged is when you know you actually got your man/woman (remember the early fallout days of the Cambridge Five? The tipoff was when Phiby and Burgess flew the coop?).

I also wonder why folks claim it's MI5 (FBI), when it sounds more like MI6 (CIA)? It's the MI6 guys that does the foreign intelligence, where the MI5 does the domestic scoops. And the MI6 recruits the weirdos.

[Jonny Cache]

And the MI6 recruits the weirdos.

Darn you !!! Now they'll just go and add "being called a weirdo" to their list of e-vocational hazards.

Jonny

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Darn you !!! Now they'll just go and add "being called a weirdo" to their list of e-vocational hazards.

In a rare attempt of being serious, now it's a comedy!

But seriously, what piques my curiosity is how SV can turn on and off her British accent, to even fool natives. That's a sign of her being "handled". And if she passes the native test, more likely she's not even Canadian (especially living now in Canadian Texas country...where else in Canada more willing to be sympathetic to the Crown?). It's the foreign intelligence services that train operatives in languages (very intensely, right down to local dialect). And they are the ones who recruit the, yes, "weirdos" (Anthony Blunt and his fellow Soviet spy travellers weren't "conventional" even in the 1930s, for example).

The truth is every organization that has any popularity will be infiltrated by intelligence services, of many countries. Especially organizations that ply information. But I wonder, how many on that admin list are undercovers for other agencies? If Anderson Cooper can be an anchor despite admitting he just "interned" for the CIA, just how many are in the management positions who don't/won't admit it?

The danger in all of this cloak and dagger stuff is how knowledge will be repackaged according to an agency's agenda (we already see that pitfall in the MSM). Will Wikipedia be the next bastion of accessible knowledge to fall?

[Eva Destruction]

But seriously, what piques my curiosity is how SV can turn on and off her British accent, to even fool natives.

I don't think that's particularly unusual - I know nothing about SV's background (alleged or real), but I was brought up in England by New Yorker parents & can flick between the two accents (spoken & written) like a switch. I'd imagine a Canadian who spent a long time in the UK could do the same.

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But seriously, what piques my curiosity is how SV can turn on and off her British accent, to even fool natives.

I don't think that's particularly unusual - I know nothing about SV's background (alleged or real), but I was brought up in England by New Yorker parents & can flick between the two accents (spoken & written) like a switch. I'd imagine a Canadian who spent a long time in the UK could do the same.

But can you fool the natives? And can you switch off the dialect and accent that tells them if you were raised in London or Liverpool?

It's like watching "Gone of the Wind". You know the actress who played Scarlet wasn't a Georgian but British. But would folks know that the accent in Atlanta is different than the one in Savannah (which Scarlet tried to portray)? Only locals know and can detect this, for example.