Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:31
Written by admin
I saw the movie “Catch Me if You Can” not long ago and one of the opening scenes was of the great imposter on the television show, What’s My Line. He had two other imposters who were trying to convince the audience that they were the great imposter. Interestingly enough, they were imposters of the imposter.
They all answered questions about life as an imposter and the imposters and the great imposter would answer. Then inevitably, the end of the half hour comes and for the first time they all have to be real but even then they try to fool you. First one begins to stand; stopping with his hands on the table he looks at the other imposter, or is it the real imposter or simply the not real imposter of the great imposter. Then another one starts to stand while the first and the second one are playing “it’s you, it’s me”. The third one now starts to stand, then the first one sits and starts to stand up again and while you’re looking the host says “would the real imposter please stand”. It’s now as if you’re at a tennis match and your head is turning to the left, then right, then back to the left, halfway back to the right, then back to the left again. And you say to your self or out loud even “that’s him, no wait that’s not him, that’s him, no then who is that one”. And finally the real fake stops faking and you see the real imposter stand up perfectly straight. Of course he can not stand perfectly straight because he’s crooked anyway.
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