Fake Steve Jobs is Forbes Editor!

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Senior Editor Danial Lyons of Forbes has just been outed by a New York Times reporter as the Fake Steve Jobs that’s got everybody frothing at the mouth.

Having crowned Bill Gates “the Beastmaster,” Eric Schmidt “Squirrel Boy” and open source addicts “freetards” during his anonymous reign, Lyons hit everybody with his schoolyard candor – from major CEOs to tech journalists to forum geeks.

There doesn’t appear to be a successor in line. Post-unmasking, Lyons wrote, “My plan at this time is to live forever and to remain in charge here, though perhaps with fewer restrictions on my power.

“The truth is, I am not human – I am a man-god, son of Zeus, born to a mortal woman but fathered by the ruler of the gods, lord of thunder.”

We like this Danial Lyons.

After playfully rebuking the NYT reporter for robbing people of their “childlike wonder,” he alluded that Fake Steve Jobs will live on as part of the Forbes.com family.

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