# Is Michael\_Varn the new Jim\_B?

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**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")\
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**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")

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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):
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> 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.
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> 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.

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