Robert Chomsky

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Robert Chomsky was a name some callers believed was Ghost's real identity in late 2011. The first recorded mention of the name on BlogTalkRadio is when Area code 417 called up on Ghost's show during a Cluster Call in September 2011 and claimed that he hired a private investigator revealing Ghost's real identity. Ghost reacted as he always does with his 'alter-egos', demanding proof, in which 417 listed that Ghost lives in Manhattan, New York and is Jewish (417 typically attacks Jews in his calls to Ghost). This spawned a short-lived series of Twitter Names following that broadcast, and calling in, or splicing Ghost as Robert Chomsky irritated him very greatly for a while, before the Hambone trend took over. Ghost often commented that Robert Chomsky must be "Noam's son or something", referring to the famous linguist (and leftist, and ethnic Jew ) Noam Chomsky. Some people misheard this as "Gnome's son" and began to joke that Ghost was the son of Gnome Chompski from Half-Life 2 Episode 2.