Acceptable Variations

Wednesday, May. 30, 2007 - 1:27 a.m.

First -- I almost never ever EVER send you guys to a site that features video, but I'm afraid this has to be an exception.

This is located over on Cute Overload, and it features a mommy cat with some surrogate babies.

All together now -- AWWWWWwwwww..w.w....

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In the Some Dumbass Got Paid To Do It Wrong Dept -- there's a glaring and incredibily stupid spelling error I am continually finding in network news reports about the fake Stanford student.

It's spelled IMPOSTOR.

It is NOT spelled IMPOSTER. The word 'IMPOSTER' is fake. Wrong. Incorrect.

There are two Os in the word, NOT an O and an E.

IMPOSTOR, with two Os, is the CORRECT spelling.

Long time readers will understand that I of all people will probably always remember how this word is spelled.

This is the same sort of bad spelling osmosis that destroyed the two words 'all right'.

Mind you, my work here is far from perfect, and sometimes I even make words up.

But I'm not doing this on a television station overlay during the news.

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Finally, speaking of same -- I'm getting hits from the Erasure Impostor information from somebody in Washington state.

Dear Washington Whomever: If you are in contact with anybody on AOL who claims they are the younger brother of Andy Bell, or who claims they ARE Andy Bell -- it's a lie. Keep chat logs, call the police, and don't give him your phone number.

If you did already, then change it.

Five years ago, an impostor on AOL lied to me about his identity and his association with Erasure.

The impostor does not like me one little bit. Why? Simple -- I've exposed his fraudulent activity.

Natually, he's very upset with me for doing this. He's so damaged that he doesn't think he did anything wrong, and as of this writing, has been completely incapable of apologizing to me for the problems his impersonation caused.

He merely considers this as a joke that went a little too far.

It ceased to be funny the day Fake Andy Bell was pretending to be dying and said he would do so if I hung up the telephone and allowed him to lose consciousness -- which made me miss the last Christmas I could have spent with my father before he died of a sudden heart attack about a month later.

In honor of my father, and unfortunately for the impostor -- I don't plan to stop.

I will be continuing to update my impostor information until the authorities finally make him stop perpetrating his fraudulent impersonation. I have done nothing but post the truth about how this person treated me, what he told me, and how I figured out he was not telling the truth.

The truth hurts him. A lot.

You know what they say about a certain organic substance decomposing when exposed to sunshine. That's sort of the effect my words have on him, and hopefully on all people who are using the Internet to pretend to be somebody else.

Bottom line: If you are in touch with a person on AOL claiming to be closely related to the group Erasure in any of the aformentioned ways -- you are being lied to. It's okay if you don't believe me. I didn't believe anybody who tried to tell ME the truth at first, either.

The impostor is very charming and very well-read and very deceptive. And his latest trick is to claim that *I* have lied.

So, at this point, it's his word against mine.

Go ahead and take your time in deciding what's really going on. I'm so cynical about whether the authorities would do anything anyway at this point that I don't give a shit either way as to what you choose to do. I'm telling the truth about what that person did to me, and that's good enough for me.

Take it or leave it.

But whatever this fake has told you -- know your ground and don't let him bully you into not checking your facts.

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All right, enough.

Have a good Wednesday!

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