Post by pinkdog on Dec 28, 2006 12:40:04 GMT -4
I have no idea if this is the right or wrong place for this thread.
A few days ago I got a holiday card from a family I'd never heard of: The Suttons. They apparenly are buying a house in the Lincoln Heights subdivision in Santa Clarita, CA. The card included a holiday newsletter regaling me with details from their lives for the past year. I took a close look at the photo of the people on the newsletter: an attractive black family, so photogenic that I decided they'd had their "casual snapshot" done professionally. I spent a moment envying the fact that they have enough money to have "casual snapshots" that are obviously professionally taken.
Then I really scrutinized their faces and names. Was one of these adults once one of my non-trad college students, who had taken the time to remember me at the holidays? Did I go to high school with these people? Who ARE these people?
Yes, that was definitely my name on the envelope. A real postal stamp. I phoned my mother. She didn't know these people either.
Then, in the dead of the night, it came to me. The teenage daughter has a myspace where she displays her artwork (according to the letter). I decided I had to check out this myspace.
So I did, this morning. It looks real. But the girl only has 17 friends. Anyone who knows teenagers and myspace knows that should be more like 317 friends.
There was an embedded clip from youtube or someplace on her site. I clicked it, and discovered...
...that LINCOLN HEIGHTS and this WHOLE FAMILY are a new TELEVISION SHOW. A scripted, real show--not a reality show.
ABC really got me with this one. Now I have to call my mom and tell her I solved the mystery.
Has anyone else gotten this decoy holiday card? And fallen for it? Or am I the only numbskull who took the bait?
A few days ago I got a holiday card from a family I'd never heard of: The Suttons. They apparenly are buying a house in the Lincoln Heights subdivision in Santa Clarita, CA. The card included a holiday newsletter regaling me with details from their lives for the past year. I took a close look at the photo of the people on the newsletter: an attractive black family, so photogenic that I decided they'd had their "casual snapshot" done professionally. I spent a moment envying the fact that they have enough money to have "casual snapshots" that are obviously professionally taken.
Then I really scrutinized their faces and names. Was one of these adults once one of my non-trad college students, who had taken the time to remember me at the holidays? Did I go to high school with these people? Who ARE these people?
Yes, that was definitely my name on the envelope. A real postal stamp. I phoned my mother. She didn't know these people either.
Then, in the dead of the night, it came to me. The teenage daughter has a myspace where she displays her artwork (according to the letter). I decided I had to check out this myspace.
So I did, this morning. It looks real. But the girl only has 17 friends. Anyone who knows teenagers and myspace knows that should be more like 317 friends.
There was an embedded clip from youtube or someplace on her site. I clicked it, and discovered...
...that LINCOLN HEIGHTS and this WHOLE FAMILY are a new TELEVISION SHOW. A scripted, real show--not a reality show.
ABC really got me with this one. Now I have to call my mom and tell her I solved the mystery.
Has anyone else gotten this decoy holiday card? And fallen for it? Or am I the only numbskull who took the bait?
