What happened to Captain Sidney Reilly?
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This has been discussed a few times on here and noone knows for sure.There have been a number of different reasons he's not posted that people have suggested.Personally I miss him because we are from the same area (supposedley) and I competed against him (supposedly).
He's laying low since my guess is that he uses number of screen names.
You can detect the similar tone, sentence structure, and message when he posts under a different screen name.
"it's five o'clock somewhere"
Signed: Mr Buffett
Go PITT & CSU Rams!
You can detect the similar tone, sentence structure, and message when he posts under a different screen name.
"it's five o'clock somewhere"
Signed: Mr Buffett
Go PITT & CSU Rams!
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It's just not the same without the colored font scrolling across the screen.
I really liked his posts that came after 1am some were really interesting.
captain was a local attorney who "Left for the coast". there was speculation recently as to his identity. i think it was finally determined who he was. the fact that lemon ears and other deviants on the blue white board were enraged by his postings was reason enough to enshrine him somewhere.
He accidentally ventured into the now defunct Locker Room and was never seen or heard from again.
He was caught using his 103 screen names aka Judas Shuttlesworth/Andrea DiMaggio.
No way he was a lawyer. Lawyers have to write competently to make a living. CSR couldn't have passed grade school grammar.
he was a goofball but a good-natured one. That said, I don't miss his "contributions" on this board.
Badby's right. No way.
And if he was not just a lawyer...but a high powered attorney representing NFL players as some believe he was......
then stop and think about how much time he wasted on this board rambling.......
At $400/hr.
No way.
And if he was not just a lawyer...but a high powered attorney representing NFL players as some believe he was......
then stop and think about how much time he wasted on this board rambling.......
At $400/hr.
No way.
He's at the happy home hanging out with basket weavers who sit and smile and twiddle their thumbs and toes.
Not sure who he is exactly, but I'm pretty sure he is an attorney.
Can't say I know the guy, but I heard he just successfully completed winning the nomination to run for governor of Vermont.
High powered lawyers charge way more than $400 an hour...that is the rate of a 1st or 2nd year associate. Hail to Pitt!
yes, to get a hold of him you dial the crazy eights...
but in any case...
Sidney George Reilly MC (c. 1873[a] – 5 November 1925), commonly known as the "Ace of Spies," was a Russian-born adventurer and secret agent employed by Scotland Yard's Special Branch and later by the Foreign Section of the British Secret Service Bureau,[8] the precursor to the modern British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6/SIS).[9][10] During his lifetime, he is alleged to have spied for at least four different great powers.[11]Documentary evidence indicates he was involved in espionage activities in 1890s London among Russian émigré circles, in 1900s Manchuria on the eve of the Russo-Japanese War, and in an abortive 1918 coup d'etatagainst Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik government in Moscow.[12]
After his disappearance in Soviet Russia in the mid-1920s, Reilly's friend, British diplomat and journalist Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, publicised their 1918 operation to overthrow the Bolshevik regime.[13] Lockhart's 1932 book, Memoirs of a British Agent,[14] became an international best-seller and posthumously garnered global fame for Reilly. The memoirs retold the efforts by Reilly, Lockhart, and other conspirators to sabotage the Bolshevik revolution while still in its infancy.
Within five years of his capture and execution by Soviet agents in 1925, the press had turned Reilly into a household name, lauding him as a peerless spy and recounting his many espionage adventures. Contemporary newspapers dubbed him "the greatest spy in history" and "the Scarlet Pimpernel of Red Russia."[15] The London Evening Standard published an illustrated serial in May 1931, headlined "Master Spy," imparting his exploits. Later, writer Ian Fleming used Reilly as a model for James Bond in his novels of the 1950s and 1960s.[16] Today Reilly is considered to be "the dominating figure in the mythology of modern British espionage,"[17] as well as the first 20th-century "super-spy."[18]
Since you raised the issue, I'm already a top 100 donor in athletics, have endowed a scholarship for football, and do everything possible to assist the program. If Pitt had a couple thousand more fans that broke out their check books in a similar fashion, Pitt would rank far better in the ACC in private support. Just saying. Hail to Pitt!
I would be shocked if he was an attorney. The guy couldn't write a paragraph or form a cogent argument, even when he chose the topic.
What information is this belief based on? Not just asking PG but also everyone else who believes the Captain is a lawyer.
He mentioned it a couple of times. He often shared information at events he attended.
From what I remember, he would say he was going somewhere (Venice Beach for example) and then this public figure would show up at that place a day or two later on Twitter. Someone put 2 and 2 together and outed him. He never posted after that.
I don’t buy it. It was obvious from his posts that he wasn’t very bright, he was terrible grammatically, and he lacked the ability to think critically or carry a simple debate. His response to posters who insulted him or called him a name was essentially “no, you are!” or “you’re more of a (insert insult)”. It wasn’t just that he lacked knowledge of football, he seemed to lack general knowledge of any subject that came up. Lots of head-scratching material in his posts.
He also supposedly began as a poster on the PSU board but switched over to the Lair after they chased him away over there. I don’t know if that’s true or not but that was the accusation of a couple of posters a while back.
He just came across as a really weird dude who wasn’t very bright. Seemingly nice guy based on his online persona though, no doubt about that.
Didn’t he say he was turning into a USC fan at some point? Maybe he’s taken his special brand of ridiculousness to the Trojan board.
At any rate, I wish him no ill will and I hope he’s happy and healthy wherever he is and whatever he’s doing. I don’t feel any kind of void from his absence however.
I dunno - personally he never bothered me and at the end of the day he was ALL about Pitt. Hope he comes back.
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