The passing of a legend (Morgue report added for doubters)
Someone dropped off a link in one of our posts today that announced the passing of the winner of our Phony Soldier Tournament, the fellow whom I named General Ballduster McSoulpatch. Even the Army Times like the name.
I remember when we first met, in a picture that the folks at POW Network sent me one Saturday and I distributed the photo to the MilBlog community and we started our first pitchfork brigade search for him. It was the first time that I realized the reach that TAH had when a member of the Houston gay community dropped a dime on him.
Apparently, he passed just a few months before the tournament, so it’s sad that he never knew how much we really thought of him. But here’s the obit;
Updated for the doubters who think he faked his death, too. Thanks to billo at Blackfive for the links for the final research we have to do on this ass-munch;
Category: Phony soldiers
Do we need to redo the tournament?
Hey Mailahn, if you finally succeed at something, say Hi to McManus for me.
If he bit the crimson shillelagh before being voted #1, doesn’t the honor fall to the first runner up?
” . . .passed away suddenly, but peacefully. . . .”
From what? A drug OD? Final complications from AIDS? Or some other STD? In the hospital after an ass-whupping in a back alley?
Give us a clue, Soulduster. The Ouiji board is warmed up and waiting.
Well…I guess it will be Soup Sandwich by default then…though I am sorely disappointed that my vote went for a dead guy.
Will his 13 year old Laotian partner be deported?
I’M SURE YOULL GET PLENTY OF CHANCES TO GET TO KNOW HIM IN HELL YOU PATHETIC LITTLE PIECE OF SHIT.
Woodman
I think he slipped and fell in the shower when he bent over to pick up the soap….
I’m guessing since he had a taste for little Thai boys and he frequented the area, it was AIDS that took him from us in his prime.
I wished him my fondest, it probably won’t be printed
Did they Bury him ass up so friends would recognize him and have a place to park their bicycles?
I wonder if they had Soup and the rest of the finalists at the funeral to bestow pseudo military honors.
Also, I love the part that went “survived by cherished friend Alvin Chan of New Orleans.” more than likely a Thai rent boy?
Chan was his boyfriend from my earlier research on him.
I am sorely disappointed that my vote went for a dead guy.
Could be worse, you could a Democrat and you’re voting when you’re dead.
Sorry, lurkers–I’m not going to cry too much over this one.
Ray–they probably buried him upside down, so later on his friends could drop by and have a cold one.
Proof, I want proof of death. If this guy has faked everything under the sun, what would stop him from faking his own death?
He’d want to be buried close to Alvin because he wouldn’t be able to bear the thought of leaving his buddy’s behind.
I am with Spork!
So Spork, are you a “Deather”?
(If I had PACER, I would look up his case, and see if it was rendered moot by death.)
@16 – I’m with you (even paranoids have enemies).
SOUPY FTW!!!
Soupy wins by default.
I’m with Spork on this. Proof of death or we don’t believe it.
I think we should rename the award in his dishonor thus sustaining the legacy he established in his brief time on earth.
Soup couldn’t win a match with a dead guy? Classic!
I want proof, too. I did a search for his name and only found 1 obituary.
Let me guess, he choked on cock.
he has to play dead so that he and the TURD-BURGLAR mailhan can sneak off and rub rank in secret.
Oh did he get buried with all his CIA medals and a dildo in appropriate orifice? Hey maybe he’ll end up on 1000 ways to die. I can already see the title “Cock-a-doodle-do”
Dammit Doc! Smart water ain’t cheap!
If this is his soulmate, then don’t belive I’ll be eating at the Pizza Hut not very far from me:
http://www.sos.la.gov/tabid/819/Default.aspx
Business: ALVIN B. CHAN, INC.
Charter Number: 32033640 F
Registration Date: 12/27/1977
Domicile Address
5 BEACONSFIELD CT.
ORINDA, CA 94503
Principal Business Establishment in Louisiana
PIZZA HUT
CROWLEY, LA 70526
Might there be a different type white cheese on their pizza’s?
#10 SG – Spew alert please. I wasted a good drink of Bud.
Y’all are going to to learn the facts soon that Gen Ballduster is actually undercover now and on another secret mission
#30: Asian Pepperoni.
The tournament could be the ball duster mcsoulpatch memorial tournament now…
@29, just doing my part to keep you in beer and skittles.
Wow, talk about mixed emotions. Don’t get me wrong, the guy was total asshat. But it was his photo that first brought me to TAH…..and it’s been so much fun since I’ve been coming here.
The fact he died is irrelevant!
If an actor wins an academy award, and dies a few weeks later, he does not ‘forfeit’ the award.
Ballduster was a legend among phonies, he deserves to live in infamy as the inaugural winner.
I raise my nutsack in his memory.
It was The JMB Tourny that brought me here, only it was the write up for the Phony Marine Lesbian Pirate. The fact her fraudulent youtube video still exists to this very day angers me.
While I admire the dedication of the “Soup group,” let’s have no more talk of reopening the tournament. There was no rule about being “alive.” If there were, we’d still be in litigation over who won “from the neck up.”
Hey maybe the Lesbian Pirate LTC Wolf knocked him off when she was trying to win the tourney.
I believe next year we should rename the tournament in honor of the Delta, CIA, Super Ranger, General Ballduster McSoulpatch.
One can only hope this is the start of a Karmic trend. I can think of one fat ass I want to see go next.
^This guy will be found in his mother’s basement 3 years after he kicks over, because no one gives a flying fuck about him.
Need to know where the grave is located so I can piss on it.
May he rest in piss.
@40- Aw, come on… Doc’s not all that bad.
@24, 33, 39: Fully agree. How about it, Jonn? The “Xth Annual ‘MG’ Ballduster McSoulpatch Memorial Military Phoney Award”? IMO that has a nice ring to it.
Oops. #44 above was mine. Forgot to put in the ID info.
Come on, now. You can’t call the Superbowl the “Walter Peyton Memorial Game”; the MacB’s monicker shouldn’t change either. However, there should be a Ballduster Memorial Trophy for the fake with the most flamboyant uniform, or the J MacB’s Ballduster Stolen Valor Hall of Shame.
Would someone recommend a good book on Army and Air Force uniforms? I will admit I’m woefully. Ignorant about your guys’ uniforms, soup sandwich was obvious but not knowing enough about your badges and hash marks, etc someone could get away! Thanks and Semper Fi.
I am so happy I found this site!
Yat Yas 1833: Ask and ye shall receive – well, for the Army, anyway. The current Army Uniform Reg is available on-line.
http://www.apd.army.mil/pdffiles/r670_1.pdf
Marlow White also has it available, as well as (purportedly) the Navy Reg (but I’m guessing you know that one well enough) and the USPHS uniform reg. They don’t seem to handle USAF and USMC, though.
http://www.marlowwhite.com/army-uniform-regulations.html
Can’t speak for an AF source, but someone here can probably point you at one.
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teddy996: not sure that’s a good argument. While they didn’t rename the Super Bowl, the NFL did rename the NFL championship trophy the Lombardi Trophy after Vince died.
He faked everything else about his life, how can be sure he’s not faking now?!