# Is Michael\_Varn the new Jim\_B? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 28, 2022, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-michael-varn-the-new-jim-b/972409 "2022-09-28T20:03:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-michael-varn-the-new-jim-b/972409/1 "2022-09-28T20:03:09Z")
> **[Michael\_Varn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/michael_varn/activity/topics)** He’s been a member for about 6 years but his posting activity has only recently been picking up. He has an inordinate amount of misspellings in his posts. He posts a lot of idiotic ideas similarly to our recently banned friend. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-michael-varn-the-new-jim-b/972409/2 "2022-09-28T20:24:47Z")
I did notice Varn’s postings after the banning of Jim\_B, and also noted the similarity of content/style and entertained similar thoughts as you on the topic. Maybe so, maybe no. If so, it indicates to me that our recently banned longtime poster was more likely a somewhat sophisticated troll than a clueless nebbish. But whatever, _laissez le bon temps rouler_! ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-michael-varn-the-new-jim-b/972409/3 "2022-09-28T20:38:11Z")
I don’t think it would surprise anyone that there’s been a lot of speculation in the Trolls thread, but I think the following puts it best: > [@Trolls R Us Resurrections](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trolls-r-us-resurrections/950518/7604): > > Saw this earlier. Based on his posts there, I’m comfortable concluding MV is 100% a troll. I was suspicious before but this clinched it. > > It’s basically the same idiot credulity affected by Jim\_B, but cloaked in a more energetic and aggressive, and less affably dopey, persona. So the comparison is being made . . . I suspect more would have been said but the with workingdude blowing themselves up recently, it had been secondary at best. I’m pretty bad about identifying trocks, but I’ll agree that the pattern of sudden ressurection and all the CTisms and JAQ feels super-trocky. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-michael-varn-the-new-jim-b/972409/4 "2022-09-28T21:46:33Z")
Didn’t we have a 3rd one from the Obtuse Universe that also got banned this summer? ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-michael-varn-the-new-jim-b/972409/5 "2022-09-28T22:06:44Z")
Does the pitee’s posts have lots of superfluous idiotic emojis? If not, he’s not Jim\_B. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-michael-varn-the-new-jim-b/972409/6 "2022-09-28T22:39:54Z")
Or he’s hiding his tracks. Look at the now closed blood donor thread that he started. He cites a 30 year old PSA that he thinks that he remembers. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2022, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-michael-varn-the-new-jim-b/972409/7 "2022-09-29T00:30:06Z")
I hardly ever go looking for a poster’s past threads, but **Mikey\_V** was so strange that I found some baffling discussions he’d started, most along the lines of: > Hey, what about this crazy idea I once heard but I don’t know where? I mean, I could’ve looked it up in the past five years, but instead I’ll just ask everyone here. And once it’s disproven by Dopers doing my homework for me, I’ll just ask about it all over again, or make my question about a reworded version. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2022, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-michael-varn-the-new-jim-b/972409/8 "2022-09-29T01:24:50Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > laissez le bon temps rouler Now I have zydeco music rolling through my head. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2022, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-michael-varn-the-new-jim-b/972409/9 "2022-09-29T14:24:24Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Now I have zydeco music rolling through my head. You’re welcome!