DUmmies Discuss The TLB Hoax Yet Again

[GOBUCKS]

It isn't too hard to pull the wool over DUmmy eyes. After all, it's been four years and a lot of them still believe the Andy scam. In the curious case of TLB, however, a tiny glimmer of perception is starting to twinkle through the dark mists of DUmp stupidity:

Manifestor_of_Light  (1000+ posts)        Wed Jan-06-10 11:32 PM
Original message
Tangerine LaBamba - did anyone find out her nom de plume?
She was allegedly a famous author of historical fiction under a nom de plume.

We know her real name was Annette Appollo. Does anyone know her pen name?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7411473

Lex  (1000+ posts)        Wed Jan-06-10 11:38 PM
Response to Original message
4. There is no obit under her real name.

Should that surprise anyone? She did not exist. 

bettyellen  (1000+ posts)      Wed Jan-06-10 11:49 PM
Response to Reply #4
12. bigger question: has anyone confirmed she is actually dead? 
no one knows

Lex  (1000+ posts)        Wed Jan-06-10 11:44 PM
Response to Reply #6
7. Her "sister" posted at DU and said only one book was published
 and it sold poorly. If you believe that was her sister.

 

DUmmy Lex has discovered a clue:

Lex  (1000+ posts)        Wed Jan-06-10 11:53 PM
Response to Reply #10
16. First of all, why would her estranged sister even care about DU
in the least. Enough to post all that she did? Especially since OLL/TLB had been banned from here for several weeks.

I do like the touch that her "sister's" screen name has the word "ban" in it.

Did you know there are 52 cards in a deck, same as the number of weeks in a year?
 

WorseBeforeBetter  (1000+ posts)      Thu Jan-07-10 12:54 AM
Response to Reply #16
39. A number of newbies suddenly cared about DU.
I think sis said that a cousin Googled "Annette Appollo," and up we came. It's rather amusing that such a detailed profile was set up.
I missed the "ban" connection...duh.

Noobs, huh? Like maybe....sock puppets?

Ken Burch  (1000+ posts)        Wed Jan-06-10 11:57 PM
Response to Reply #10
19. Why would she write a letter in which she viciously attacked HERSELF?
What would be the point?

 

Lex  (1000+ posts)        Wed Jan-06-10 11:58 PM
Response to Reply #19
21. because she loved the ATTENTION
and because she wanted people to think that wasn't her posting

 

HiFructosePronSyrup  (1000+ posts)      Thu Jan-07-10 12:20 AM
Response to Reply #19
29. Same reason he/she'd fake her own death.
Same reason she'd keep coming back to DU with new accounts when it was clear she wasn't welcome.
Cause she was a sad sack of shit and needed to **** with other people to get attention.

Manifestor_of_Light  (1000+ posts)        Wed Jan-06-10 11:57 PM
Response to Original message
20. Basically, what I'm trying to find out is....
was she an insufferable braggart, and more importantly, a liar?

HiFructosePronSyrup  (1000+ posts)      Thu Jan-07-10 12:21 AM
Response to Reply #20
30. Yes to both.

TexasObserver  (1000+ posts)        Thu Jan-07-10 12:33 AM
Response to Reply #34
35. Maybe a roll of toilet paper could be made from her posts.
That's what they were fit for. She was obviously very badly impaired by substances and seemed to post drunk most of the time. Writer? Hardly. 

MichaelHarris (1000+ posts)      Thu Jan-07-10 02:21 AM
Response to Original message
48. Well
in the "tribute" post I held back. I won't now. She was the most hateful person I've ever had the displeasure to know on DU. After she asked for some of my photography she began to belittle my educational choices, I had recently returned to college. I made the mistake of discussing a legal issue with her and she took on such an arrogant attitude that I was left wondering, "is this person sane?" I left DU for a while because of her, I'm barely back.

For the "tribute" people, I'm sorry for your loss, the death or the tombstone, maybe both. Personally, I won't be surprised that this stunt actually proves that she is a phony and a psychotic. Please also stop the "suffer the fool" comments for those hurt by her actions, she was the fool banned numerous times. I hope my photos look nice on her wall or refrigerator box.

Yes, Virginia, there is a TLB. She posted at the DUmp as her sister, here as T. LaBamba, and also posted as the Las Vegas Lardass's slave girl Jeanette. On the innertubes, nothing is what it seems to be. Except Pam Dawson, who's way too dumb for deception.

[USA4ME]

MichaelHarris

.... she began to belittle my educational choices, ... she took on such an arrogant attitude that I was left wondering, "is this person sane?" I left DU for a while because of her, I'm barely back.

You got this bent out of shape over some anonymous poster on the internet?  Get. A. Life. 

.

[franksolich]

You know, if this was a hoax, it would be a good joke.

Excepting of course to the primitives, who can't take a joke.

[dandi]

You know, if this was a hoax, it would be a good joke.

Excepting of course to the primitives, who can't take a joke.

So what is the straight skinny on this, Frank?

[franksolich]

So what is the straight skinny on this, Frank?

I ain't got nuthin'.

[thundley4]

She posted 3 times at progressiveindependent @ December 17th.  That's about when she posted here.

[DixieBelle]

Wow. Their hatred knows no bounds.

[delilahmused]

MichaelHarris (1000+ posts)      Thu Jan-07-10 02:21 AM
Response to Original message
48. Well
in the "tribute" post I held back. I won't now. She was the most hateful person I've ever had the displeasure to know on DU. After she asked for some of my photography she began to belittle my educational choices, I had recently returned to college. I made the mistake of discussing a legal issue with her and she took on such an arrogant attitude that I was left wondering, "is this person sane?" I left DU for a while because of her, I'm barely back.

I just hate it when a guy is a bigger drama queen than I am.

Cindie

[delilahmused]

You know, sometimes reading the DUmp makes me feel very unfeminine because I realize I have more testosterone than the majority of "men" over there. What kind of woman wants a man like that?

Cindie

[Ree]

You know, sometimes reading the DUmp makes me feel very unfeminine because I realize I have more testosterone than the majority of "men" over there. What kind of woman wants a man like that?

Cindie

I'll take a couple for target practice...

[Chris]

I'll take a couple for target practice...

[Chris]

HiFructosePronSyrup  (1000+ posts)      Thu Jan-07-10 12:20 AM
Response to Reply #19
29. ... Cause she was a sad sack of shit and needed to **** with other people to get attention.

Pot, kettle, etc. 

[AnotherWoman]

Wondering what happened to her after so many years, I googled and came across posts about Annette's suicide. Hope you don't mind my joining to comment. What seems strangest to me is that even though her book didn't sell well, she was a Harper Collins author and her dying while waiting to be evicted with $400 to her name would have at least made a local newspaper. It's good copy. But there's nothing. Maybe she is gone...but perhaps she tired of being Annette Appollo and simply decided to kill her off in the same way she's killed off online personnas over the years.

[franksolich]

Wondering what happened to her after so many years, I googled and came across posts about Annette's suicide. Hope you don't mind my joining to comment. What seems strangest to me is that even though her book didn't sell well, she was a Harper Collins author and her dying while waiting to be evicted with $400 to her name would have at least made a local newspaper. It's good copy. But there's nothing. Maybe she is gone...but perhaps she tired of being Annette Appollo and simply decided to kill her off in the same way she's killed off online personnas over the years.

It's indeed a mystery.

If Gloria Swanson (aka Tangerine LaBamba) shows up again, it'll have been a great joke.

The primitives on Skins's island would be all upset and pissy and bent out of shape, but we here on this side, even with eggs on our faces, would take it as a good joke.

I think however she's really gone.

[delilahmused]

I keep imagining this kind of Marie Prevost scene.

Cindie

[Carl]

Wondering what happened to her after so many years, I googled and came across posts about Annette's suicide. Hope you don't mind my joining to comment. What seems strangest to me is that even though her book didn't sell well, she was a Harper Collins author and her dying while waiting to be evicted with $400 to her name would have at least made a local newspaper. It's good copy. But there's nothing. Maybe she is gone...but perhaps she tired of being Annette Appollo and simply decided to kill her off in the same way she's killed off online personnas over the years.

Interesting and indeed a good take on things.
What sparked your interest and did you find us here in your search or some other way.

Welcome to CC.

[dutch508]

who is to say it was an Annette?

Might have been an Adam.


or Steve.


or an Aboveground panther...

[Carl]

I suspect this thread will become interesting or an amusing entry in the history of CC before it is done. 

[dutch508]

http://www.annetteappollo.com/

[thundley4]

Wondering what happened to her after so many years, I googled and came across posts about Annette's suicide. Hope you don't mind my joining to comment. What seems strangest to me is that even though her book didn't sell well, she was a Harper Collins author and her dying while waiting to be evicted with $400 to her name would have at least made a local newspaper. It's good copy. But there's nothing. Maybe she is gone...but perhaps she tired of being Annette Appollo and simply decided to kill her off in the same way she's killed off online personnas over the years.

Suicide, huh?  I've done extensive searching on the internet since the report of her demise on Skin's Island and never saw a mention of suicide. Do you happen to have a link to mer death being a suicide?

[Carl]

Suicide, huh?  I've done extensive searching on the internet since the report of her demise on Skin's Island and never saw a mention of suicide. Do you happen to have a link to mer death being a suicide?

It was a DUmp post from a person claiming to be her sister.

[thundley4]

It was a DUmp post from a person claiming to be her sister.

Oh yeah, I remember that, now.  Still I never found any mention of her passing anywhere else,

[Carl]

Oh yeah, I remember that, now.  Still I never found any mention of her passing anywhere else,

That may or may not mean a thing as when mom passes no one will know unless myself or my brother tell them..it is her wishes to have no services or announcement.

That last post in the blog Dutch linked to does sound like a person that knows death is close.
Her or someone showing up here to settle old scores would fit a bit too.

Suddenly tonight a poster by the name of "AnotherWoman" arrives with some obvious knowledge of all this so I just find it to be intriguing and an interesting distraction from every day life.

Will see how it unfolds.

[AnotherWoman]

Well yes, I have some obvious knowledge because I read the posts about her suicide and I'm wondering if it's really true. I knew Annette from her earliest incarnations online. I remember when her book first came out. I decided to ask here if anyone knew for certain because even though I'm not a politcal conservative frankly these boards seemed a bit more rational than over at Dem Underground.

[IassaFTots]

It's indeed a mystery.

If Gloria Swanson (aka Tangerine LaBamba) shows up again, it'll have been a great joke.

The primitives on Skins's island would be all upset and pissy and bent out of shape, but we here on this side, even with eggs on our faces, would take it as a good joke.

I think however she's really gone.

I am with you Frank.  No rhyme or reason to it, but I think the same.