Actress Nancy Mckeon, an absolutely wonderful, great person who was best known > for playing tough-talking, street-smart tomboy "Jo Polniaczek" on the > long-running NBC sitcom 'The Facts of Life' from 1980 to 1988, and had been > playing tough, alcoholic, promiscuous, and troubled "Inspector Jinny Exstead" > on the Lifetime cable TV channel's female cop series 'The Division' since > January 2001, was just tragically killed in a car crash in the L.A. area. She > was 38 years old, married since June of last year (2003), and had given birth > to her first child, a baby girl named Aurora, in March of this year. She will > be missed very much.
Just awful.
Have you heard about the alibi and excuse club? Members link up with strangers through cell phone text messaging or an internet chat room to fabricate a lie to "skip work, get out of dates or give a loved one the slip."
They give the example of a man who wanted to skip out on his girlfriend to spend a weekend with another woman in another town. He contacted the network and another member took him up on it. The stranger called their house, where the boyfriend makes sure the girl answers the phone. The stranger pretends he's calling regarding work and leaves a message that the man is needed in the other town.
Another angle is the new availability of fake "background noise" for your cell phone. Traffic, airport, dentist...just choose which alibi (lie) you want to use.
I'm thinking I should join the alibi network and a find a sucker who'll use me as his excuse. When he gives me the wife's/girlfriend's number I'll call her and tell her the truth. At the same time, change my log in name...and on to the next sucker. Sounds like a good mission for The Guild.