Tuesday, December 16, 2008

D-Day

When I watched National Lampoon's Animal House for the first time (I was 10...but a very mature 10...) my favorite character was not "Bluto" Blutarski, nor was it Flounder or Hoover. My favorite was the total badass, "D-Day" ("Ramming speed!")

And my favorite part of the movie was the end, where all of the heroes and ne'er-do-wells' personal histories (fictional, of course) are revealed to the viewer.

Recently came news from the New York Times that Daniel "D-Day" Laikin, National Lampoon Chief Executive, has been charged in conspiracy and security fraud to artificially inflate the stock of the company.

It is a career footnote worthy of the movie's closing credits.

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