Speed Dating Scandal

Earlier this afternoon I was performing my daily task of scrutinizing pics of the males taking part in PocketChangeNYC’s speed dating event for “Rich Older Women and Hot Young Men (Sugar Mamas and Boy Toys),” AKA The Saddest Story Ever Told/The Greatest Spectator Sport Of All Time (if enough of you agree to show up on the 7th to watch, they’ll consider bringing in bleachers). Unfortunately for me, today’s batch of applicants were about as exciting as proxy access. No pool cleaners, no horses, NO CRUSHED VELVET. I was considering writing to PCNYC to vent my frustrations vis-a-vis their paint drying BTs but decided to retract my claws and give them one more chance (I’ve lately been taking my cues from Little Bunny Foo Foo’s F.G., except the shit about field mice, because those assholes have it coming), when I came across something that can only be described as smelling like Eau de Hunter, i.e. FISHY.
A 33 year old toy claiming to be “Mike Darda,” an economist with MKM Partners and CNBC commentator, enclosed five photos. The first three were all of him on CNBC, which I thought was a little weird and narcissistic and not necessarily an attribute I’d assign a “boy toy,” who’s supposed to be the submissive one that gets told what to do. But I reasoned that maybe he didn’t have any recent photographs of himself and besides, he looked pretty attractive in the screenshots– essential to his success at the event. Then I scrolled down to pics 4 and 5. Imagine my surprise and downright horror to find that the chappie* in the last two were decidedly NOT Mike Darda. I forwarded them to a few people who confirmed that I was not crazy (in this specific instance only), and that the five shots were definitely of two different dudes. But why would somebody do that? Steal a CNBC commentator’s identity to gain entry to a dating service? And then fuck it up by including two different faces? Or was the application actually submitted by Mike Darda, and he added a couple pictures of a less attractive dude, relatively speaking, to come off as what? Less intimidating to the senior citizens?
I had to shut off my computer and walk out of the room. I needed to get away from the notion that someone would take something so innocent and pure like a speed dating event for rich old women and hot young men and taint it with some sort of sick game. Now, several hours later, I still don’t understand. I’m hoping that it was just a case of incompetence on the part of PCNYC, and two applicants’ portfolios got mixed. But I’m not holding my breath. If you have any ideas, preferably ones that’ll talk me off the ledge, I implore you to share them now.
–Jewish Nancy Drew, DealBreaker correspondent.
*male form of “chippie”


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Comments (20)

  1. Posted by Mick | January 17, 2008 at 4:59 PM

    Does that waiter have a Lloyd Christmas haircut?

  2. Posted by Anonymous | January 17, 2008 at 4:59 PM

    i love bess

  3. Posted by anon | January 17, 2008 at 5:02 PM

    When did Jim Carrey become a waiter?

  4. Posted by Anonymous | January 17, 2008 at 5:08 PM
  5. Posted by love it | January 17, 2008 at 5:10 PM

    this is so tawdry!

  6. Posted by GAnalYst | January 17, 2008 at 5:15 PM

    actually the guy in the last pic, with the shades, looks like he could have a fat cock.

  7. Posted by clmgd30 | January 17, 2008 at 5:27 PM

    Whats up with the teeth on the wannabe? I would not be smiling much if I were him.

  8. Posted by investorcluzo | January 17, 2008 at 5:51 PM

    wtf? damn! I feel bad for the waiter with the bad haircut, I’m sure he didn’t want to have his mug all over the internet.

  9. Posted by Anony_mous | January 17, 2008 at 6:20 PM

    I’m not sure these pictures are of 2 people, but I am convinced that the beard in the 2nd photo is fake.

  10. Posted by anonymous | January 17, 2008 at 6:21 PM

    Bess you’re sick! the funniest post by far

  11. Posted by Anonymous | January 17, 2008 at 9:36 PM

    you slay me Bess

  12. Posted by Anal_yst | January 17, 2008 at 11:52 PM

    Imagine if the guy in the last pic had (has) a coke habit, with the size of those nostrils he could snort that shit through a paper towel roll

  13. Posted by Anonomoose | January 18, 2008 at 6:45 AM

    Is there actually a “Bess” or is this sort of a Norman Bates thing with the other dude….

  14. Posted by Anonymous | January 18, 2008 at 7:50 AM

    thes pretzels are making me thirsty

  15. Posted by Erin Burnett's Booty Call | January 18, 2008 at 8:50 AM

    “Is there actually a “Bess” or is this sort of a Norman Bates thing with the other dude….”
    I think you might have something here.
    Bess is hilarious… she cracks my shit up. So the one pic of her I’ve seen can’t be real, because hot girls are rarely funny.
    I think it’s an elaborate ruse to get the geeks to keep coming back to this site to ogle pics of gender-ambiguous hands.

  16. Posted by Anonymous | January 18, 2008 at 8:54 AM

    The waiter in the 4th picture has a cool haircut.

  17. Posted by Anonymous | January 18, 2008 at 9:12 AM

    did Mike Darda ever date Erin Burnett? maybe that was just a made up one-liner.

  18. Posted by L'Emmerdeur | January 18, 2008 at 4:12 PM

    Because nothing says “boy toy” than a faded polo shirt, cheap mirrorshades, and Waterpiss Lager in the prole seats at a sporting event…
    OH, WAIT A MINUTE, IS THAT ONE OF CARNEY’S 18 “USE A FUCKING CONDOM ALREADY” BROTHERS IN THE BLEACHERS?
    (I jest, I jest, like this isn’t all Dali absurd already)

  19. Posted by M. Darda | February 4, 2008 at 1:01 PM

    Please remove this page. Thank you in advance for your attention to this matter.

  20. Posted by guest | February 28, 2008 at 7:54 PM

    Michael T. Darda joined MKM Partners, LLC in December 2003 as Chief Economist and Director of Research. Prior to joining MKM, Mr. Darda worked as Chief Economist and Director of International Research Polyconomics, Inc., a research firm located in New Jersey. Before joining Polyconomics, Inc., Mr. Darda worked in the Wisconsin State Legislature as a Press Secretary and Staff Economist for State Senator Margaret A. Farrow.
    Mr. Darda is a contributor to The Wall Street Journal and the National Review. He has also been published in the Washington Times and the Financial Times. He is a frequent guest on CNBC and appears regularly on Bloomberg financial television and radio.
    He graduated with honors in economics, journalism and public relations from the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater.

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