Posted on 06/25/2004 7:46:13 PM PDT by BluegrassScholar
SAN FRANCISCO, June 25 — Cellphones are chock-full of features like built-in cameras, personalized ring tones and text messaging. They also gave a real boost to Kenny Hall's effort to cheat on his girlfriend.
Mr. Hall, a 20-year-old college student in Denver, decided in March to spend a weekend in nearby Boulder with another woman. He turned to his cellphone for help, sending out a text message to hundreds of other cellphone users in an "alibi and excuse club," a network of 3,400 strangers who help each other skip work, get out of dates or give a loved one the slip.
Assistance came instantly. A club member, on receiving Mr. Hall's message, agreed to call the girlfriend. He pretended to be the soccer coach from the University of Colorado at Boulder and said that Mr. Hall was needed in town for a tryout.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Because they can.......
Reciprocity?
Kind of a milder form of "Throw momma from the train"?
BWHAAAAAAAA!!!I love it. Straight out of the Clinton book!!!!
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Hey, everyone, if Mrs. Lucido logs on and asks, tell her I'm still at the office finishing up work on some case files.
Wow, folks, go to www.sms.ac for a look at all the different "activism" clubs - a sure opportunity for FREEPING!!
Like this one: "joint action commetee"
"curbing the act of tagging muslim terrorist" - ????
'Cause Bill Clinton said it's OK to lie if it's about sex...
I couldn't vote on an important bill because they wouldn't let me ( real reason: fixing bike tube, eating more of those delicious scallops from Nantucket, because I could-but didn't feel like going to work)
Mr. Hall sounds like a real jerk. If he still has that girlfriend, I hopes she dumps him.
"...Another member — the wife of a soldier stationed in Iraq — sent out a message asking for help to conjure up an excuse after becoming pregnant by another man. But in that case, many responders urged the woman to tell her husband the truth, according to club members..."
BluegrassScholar:
"Why would someone lie for a stranger?"
Multiple Choice Answer:
A. No class
B. No morals
C. Narcissism
D. All of the above.
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