Baron Ryan von Münchhausen

[Generic Other]

Even before his death, Münchhausen's reputation as a storyteller was exaggerated by several writers, giving birth to a fully fictionalized literary character usually called simply Baron Munchausen. The (fictional) Baron's exploits, usually narrated by himself, focus on his impossible achievements as a hunter, warrior, and traveler, including rides on cannonballs and trips to the moon.

[Jim__]

1. I hope that catches on!

[flamingdem]

2. Ryan is going down in history

but for being synonymous with liar not for being the "party intellectual"

[jsr]

3. He looks splendid

Fabulous, actually.

[malaise]

4. Freaking fabulous

Rec

[Honeycombe8]

5. OMG!

You outdid yourself on that! Hysterical!

[Generic Other]

7. Why thank you!

[central scrutinizer]

6. ¿Quién es más macho? ¿Paulo Ryan o el hombre Dos Equis?

[iemitsu]

8. ryan should have stayed at home, in janesville, and fleeced his neighbors.

they seem to be impressed enough with him.
but i think that he is out of his league on the national scene where his bluster and bravado are catching up with him.
he has been given much and earned little.
he knows he a charlatan and has done nothing worthy of respect so he lies to fill the gaps in his character.
the fact that his mendacity has fooled (some) others in the past feeds his need to feel better. so by lying he makes himself larger than life, the man he wants to be but isn't.
i suspect that his record "breaking physical feats" are a masque for some hidden inadequacies

[Generic Other]

9. yes mendacity!

hagiography.

[iemitsu]

10. hahah.

i'm sure ryan's auto-hagiography would sound much like the heroic st, patrick, the pagan slayer while a more honest telling would read more like munchausen's.

his penance for lying should be to live the life of a stylite for forty years. he might redeem himself that way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylite