LinkedIn skills you didn't think you needed

'Round tables','hugs', 'cheese': Pranksters bomb co-workers' profiles by endorsing fake skills

LinkedIn, the resume brag site and online mixer, allows people to supplement the online profiles of others from a shopping list of more than 35,000 touted job skills, including such stalwarts as "marketing" and "data analysis."

Also included in the list of achievements are "foxtrot," "fire alarm" and "butter."

A couple of Rhys Wilson's customers recently asked about his expertise in "fly fishing," a listing that reeked of payback. Mr. Wilson, a manager at a software startup, had earlier endorsed a friend's skill in the use of "lubricants."

Profile pranks, also known as endorsement bombing, sprang from