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Giovanni Strassini: A Football Fantasy

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Dryden
alwaystheres manifesto makes a bit more sense now. I'm guessing this is the talk page JustinAgs referred to?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Bender235

Giovanni [edit]

Congratulations on being the first editor to draw him out of his shell! I hope you don't waste too much time or energy trying to reason with him, though. I am kind of thinking he's not very persuadable. (Thanks BTW for the Barnstar -) JohnInDC (talk) 18:34, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

It's okay, I'd like to give him room to explain himself. I'm still wondering what "court case" and "identity theft" he is referring to, tho. --bender235 (talk) 18:42, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

Well, there is something to be said for letting him completely and visibly fail to make sense! The only way I can see "identity theft" mattering here would be if this guy was a star at OSU and some time between then and today he had to change his name to something completely unrelated. (Witness protection makes more sense than ID theft in that case though.) Anyhow that might explain why the new name isn't in any of the record books! But it wouldn't explain why someone who went to so much trouble to put space between his current name and his old one would go to the trouble of connecting them back up again. He says he's "done with" us two however so we may never get an answer. JohnInDC (talk) 18:49, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

BTW, I'm not trying to mess you up or make your life difficult by removing his threats along with his edits. It's just easier to rollback whatever he does! JohnInDC (talk) 15:24, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

I know. I don't blame you. --bender235 (talk) 15:27, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

Plus, have a look at this! I don't think we're dealing with the most savory of characters here and I suspect what's going on is that, having tried so hard to construct a seamless and well-documented fake history for himself, he's concerned that what's going to turn up in future Google searches is our discussion of the fabrication. I think he's growing a bit desperate. (Of course this is all surmise on my part.) JohnInDC (talk) 15:44, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

Sorry to be a quasi-stalker guys, but this weirdness has intrigued me. I think this person may suffer from multiple personalities disorder. This is the most bizarre thing I've seen on Wikipedia in my 6 1/2 years editing. Jrcla2 (talk) 18:11, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

Can't speak for Bender, on his Talk page, but I don't mind the attention - after all, you can observe a lot by just watching. I agree that this is a weird one. Unless the Charlotte club is in on the gag, it takes a lot of balls (and an uncommon willingness to play on others' trust) to pass yourself off to an OSU alumni group as an accomplished and admired football player from a storied age in the school's history. And, like I noted elsewhere, there's a kind of, I dunno, arrogance too in assuming that facts that are so easily checked will not be checked. It doesn't add up. And finally I was thinking how if this editor had just let the deletions stand, hadn't tried to force them back into place after block upon block, we'd have stopped talking about this after about 2 paragraphs. Certainly no one would have bothered to drop a note to OSU or the Charlotte group. Some people are their own worst enemies - JohnInDC (talk) 18:30, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

"Not the most savory of characters" might be a fitting description. I'm not conjecturing here, but isn't it interesting there's also this verdict against one "John Strassini" of Charlotte, which says: "To corroborate his fictitious professional history and to generate funds for his businesses, Strassini fabricated federal income tax returns, Forms 1040 for himself and Forms 1120 for his two businesses. With these returns, the defendant claimed that he was the founder and CEO of multi-million dollar construction enterprises. He also sought the services of reputable accounting firms to create financial statements for his corporations." You may connect the dots now... --bender235 (talk) 22:52, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
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BIATCHabutuka
so this dude basically needs to move away from Charlotte and try his hustle or legit business elsewhere and under a new name now. job well done Buckeyes.

zero credibility now.

the poster here with the champions lane sign for an avatar had someone in his office that worked with him or did some business with him. pump that contact for stories and share please. to paraphrase Kenny Banya, there's gold in there Jerry, gold!
 
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HorseshoeFetish
TD Strassini 89;2338270; said:
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Well, if you think the photo of one of my Rose Bowl catches is somehow "doctored" then I feel really, really sorry for you. I hate to make YOU look like a fool, but you asked for it.

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Tears...fucking tears! I haven't laughed this hard since scUM fans found out Urban had been hired.
 
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