Yesterday Charlie Gasparino vowed to his CNBC colleagues that he was "going cold turkey on the expletives," after having a string of on-air slip-ups. We contacted CG to see if he wanted to make this little personal challenge interesting, and after some debating, he's relented. If Chaz makes it until March 1 without a slip-- and this not limited to the English language but includes ba fungools, as well-- Dealbreaker readers must scrape together the funds to sponsor one of CG's famed Nights At Elaine's (often the site of the reporters "big scoops," thanks to very knowledgeable busboys). If he fails to do so, he must turn to the camera and declare, "You win, Dealbreaker readers, I bow down to you, you [and he insisted on this part, which, knowing how he feels deep down inside, I think you should take as a compliment] unemployed cross-dressers," and then eat a plate of braciola, sopressata, and other nitrate-filled delicacies that night, while being taped for your viewing pleasure, at Big E's.






Posted by guest , Feb 03, 2009 1:48PM
you forgot to add : ...then he jumops out of the window.
Posted by guest , Feb 03, 2009 1:49PM
Nice...Game on!
Posted by guest , Feb 03, 2009 1:49PM
No Lycan costume? what about just for the antipasto?
Posted by guest , Feb 03, 2009 1:50PM
Im in for $20
Posted by guest , Feb 03, 2009 1:50PM
lame. he's a wuss.
Posted by guest , Feb 03, 2009 1:50PM
I'm so excited, my boner's poppin' outta my dress!!1!
Posted by guest , Feb 03, 2009 1:52PM
love it.
Posted by guest , Feb 03, 2009 1:52PM
this could be the greatest dealbreaker accomplishment to date
Posted by guest , Feb 03, 2009 1:52PM
Put the lotion in the baaaaasket.
Posted by StillNoCouch , Feb 03, 2009 1:54PM
I Love it !
Do you think he mention SNC's awesome intellectual powers as well ?
;-p
Posted by lehaigbsc , Feb 03, 2009 1:54PM
OK great now we need to get Dennis Keales email address and see if we can get him to get CG fired up on air.
Posted by guest , Feb 03, 2009 1:55PM
In.It.To.Win.It.
Chuck G. for mayor!
Posted by Investorcluzo , Feb 03, 2009 1:56PM
the guy is getting off easy, only 28 days in feb!
Posted by guest , Feb 03, 2009 1:57PM
So that's all he's got...? Let's put together a fund to pay Dennis K & Dylan R to chide Chaz until he curses. I'll throw down some $.
Posted by guest , Feb 03, 2009 2:03PM
I'd rather put my funds toward hiring some unemployed cross-dressers in 25 days to jump him in the alley after work and stick a 12" (fist) in Gasbag's mouth
Posted by guest , Feb 03, 2009 2:08PM
@11, apparently we just have to put them on in the same studio. . .
Posted by guest , Feb 03, 2009 2:13PM
@14 & 16 - Hell, just email Dennis and Dylan this thread. I'm sure they'd antagonize Gasparino free of charge to see him pay up.
-BeckyBootFan
Posted by guest , Feb 03, 2009 2:13PM
Has anyone actually contacted Elaine about this? She may be over the whole Gasparino-as-messiah by now!
Posted by guest , Feb 03, 2009 2:19PM
va a fare in culo, bess, va a fare in culo not bafungool. teach gasba the language of his ancestors too.
Posted by guest , Feb 03, 2009 2:20PM
VICTORY IS OURS !!!
Posted by guest , Feb 03, 2009 2:21PM
Cash and video should be held in escrow...
Posted by guest , Feb 03, 2009 2:29PM
Ratigan would probably take on baiting Gazza, free of charge, just for the pure sport of it and all. And I think Ratigan could be the only one to break this blowhard, just by taking 5 minutes to ask a question and confusing the fuck out of him
Posted by T C , Feb 03, 2009 2:30PM
I suppose that I'll kick in for Elaine's too, but if he won [not that I expect him to], he'd have had a better time at one of my suggestions
Posted by Anal_yst , Feb 03, 2009 2:39PM
I'm in! (btw, "guests" above volunteering to throw down, uh, great, so, that makes keeping track easy...)
Posted by guest , Feb 03, 2009 2:51PM
I hope you have confirmed that CNBC hasn't recently switched to a 5 or 10 second delay.
You might want to attach a rider onto the wager, so the guys in the control room don't bail Charlie out.
Posted by guest , Feb 03, 2009 3:12PM
Still no nitrates in braciola.
Posted by Tanman , Feb 03, 2009 3:20PM
I like my odds - I'm in as well.
Posted by guest , Feb 03, 2009 3:33PM
Aside from Bess, does anybody really care about this guy? What's the attraction? Local grease-ball becomes C-list TV personality?
Posted by guest , Feb 03, 2009 3:39PM
@28- hmm, lets see review this post and the two from yesterday. look how many people took the time to comment. "care" does have to me "like" but merely are interested in seeing be mocked. and obviously a lot of people care about that.
Posted by guest , Feb 03, 2009 3:46PM
Gas Bag has a LinkedIn page:
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/5/7b7/881
Posted by guest , Feb 03, 2009 4:39PM
I'd rather bathe in Dennis Kneale's sweat then watch the resolution of this challenge, quite frankly.
Posted by guest , Feb 03, 2009 5:12PM
THIS IS PRICELESS:
Current on-are editor at cnbc
Education University of Missouri-Columbia
Connections 26 connections Industry
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 12:54AM
I never watched this show, but now you're telling me that for the next 25 days it's going to be missing it's one bit of guilty pleasure?
Guess I won't be missing this show.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 6:08AM
who is Charlie Gasparino?