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He pretended to be me, and I pretended to be him.
"We pretended to help them and they pretended to reform," he told the New York Times in 1994.
"I've never pretended to be a perfect person, nor pretended to be someone that I'm not," Trump said.
The Kremlin and its viceroys have pretended to manage, and the people on the ground have pretended to be loyal.
She's pretended to blow dry her callers' asses, counselled them through their wives' infidelity, and even pretended to be a squirrel.
We pretended to be caterers, publicists, journalists, and other VIPs.
He pretended to care about climate change because of Miami.
Since then Shias in Egypt have pretended to be Sunnis.
The pride you feel when you've convincingly pretended to masturbate.
So I pretended to get a call from my roommate.
With robotic focus, Clinton even pretended to be Elizabeth Warren.
She pretended to be 15 so they could get married.
With the other, he pretended to grip a steering wheel.
Riley allegedly showed up and pretended to be his friend.
I pretended to be more comfortable than I actually was.
We pretended to rip our faces off with a pop.
Comedian George Lopez even once pretended to pee on the star.
Later, I pretended to like vinegar to be more like her.
Paul Ryan pretended to have character for all of 5 seconds.
The defendants and their co-conspirators pretended to be grassroots activists.
Though according to Ettel, she only "pretended" to call the cops.
At one point, she pretended to throw glitter at the camera.
You made that swan-shaped planter your parents pretended to like.
Otto, who is physically fit but nonviolent, pretended to lose consciousness.
"Falling in love now, losing control now," Jenner pretended to sing.
I could have gone up and pretended to be somebody else.
My heart broke a little, as I pretended to be unaffected.
" He admitted the president-elect "never pretended to be a theologian.
The policeman hmmed and pretended to jot something in his notebook.
I'm a lawyer and I never pretended to be an economist.
While she held onto my passport, we pretended to be friends.
When Barajas allegedly wouldn't stop, Dalla Betta pretended to fall asleep.
As kids, we all pretended to be different sorts of people.
Trump then pretended to drive the truck and honked its horn.
Antinozzi reportedly pretended to be a slave auctioneer during the simulation.
" Worse, I have, on multiple occasions, pretended to have read "Middlemarch.
They just happen not to be who they pretended to be.
"Reid just never pretended to be something he wasn't," Krone said.
We pretended to be sportscasters on ESPN, recapping highlights and embarrassments.
Among the few survivors were some who pretended to be dead.
I'm human and I have never pretended to be anything but.
No one really believed that; they only pretended to believe it.
She says she pretended to phone 911, which scared the couple away.
He grabbed the flip-phone and pretended to be having a conversation.
And last month, comedian George Lopez pretended to pee on the star.
Is it the Realist mirage that pretended to be revolutionary—and failed?
Wagner said she first pretended to be asleep, hoping he would stop.
Like a biographer, Bishop cared about facts (or at least pretended to).
She melted into the crowd and pretended to look for her parents.
Ms. Henderson pretended to clear up the mystery in a 2015 interview.
Scott has never pretended to be anything more than a role player.
Instead, he gave into temptation and pretended to be someone he wasn't.
He described Halili as "the one who pretended to parade the addicts".
I pretended to be OK at school and fell apart at home.
Stepping away from the table afterward, Tokarczuk groaned and pretended to collapse.
Then I casually walked in, not acknowledging them, and pretended to shop.
On my computer screen, we pretended to land at the Charleston airport.
Police said the men pretended to be customers before ransacking the store.
At first it pretended to be the world, and then it was.
When it failed to do so, thanks to a Democratic filibuster, the administration contented itself with a make-believe process in which Iran pretended to make a full declaration and the rest of the world pretended to believe it.
He pretended to dial the phone, before holding it up to his ear.
He pretended to be different Americans or American grassroots groups on social media.
Neoclassicism was fundamentally inauthentic, a facadism that pretended to represent glory and truth.
Biden has also pretended to talk like a gun rights supporter -- and unconvincingly.
Participants held tripods and selfie sticks and pretended to be chasing a celebrity.
There was a period of my life when I pretended to hate weddings.
So I marched across the room and pretended to trip and fell down.
She pretended to be exasperated, but this former horse girl was secretly thrilled.
"Not even for a split second," Corden replied, jokingly pretended to be hurt.
In posing as an Israeli Agent, he pretended to offer self-defense exercises.
Having done so, they proceeded to imitate that which they pretended to disdain.
In the early days of parenting I pretended to be confounded by swaddling.
Her own voice or the voice of the boy she pretended to be.
He pretended to notice the chimney again, and looked up toward the workmen.
Others have pretended to have COVID-19 in an effort to gain attention.
He pretended to have destroyed "100 percent of ISIS," which is patently false.
She'd pretended to be sick so that she could skip the following lesson.
" The host smiled, and pretended to act afraid: "Quick, cut to commercial break!
I pretended to tell the cab driver to go to the local Walgreens.
Adam says the catfisher even pretended to be various members of Gabriella's family.
When they got to the TCL Chinese Theater, they pretended to push the car.
I pretended to ignore the quiet sniffles of mothers who could not do it.
Like in Cibele, there were boys who pretended to love us to get sex.
First, he pretended to think that the fictional Potter character was her real identity.
I could offer my opinion, but then, I never pretended to be a psychologist.
Someone even pretended to be him and called in bomb threats to his school.
Police said the bomber was a teenager who had pretended to be a worshipper.
In post-referendum Britain they have "taken back control", or at least pretended to.
The study sent professional actors to doctors' offices, where they pretended to have depression.
They pretended to call their relatives but talked, instead, to Eritrean smugglers in Tripoli.
Bates pretended to stub a cigarette out on Paulson's shoulder, then nuzzled her affectionately.
Wiredu acknowledged that he had called himself Amara and pretended to be South African.
His way was not revolutionary, and I don't think he ever pretended to be.
But if I accepted it, or even pretended to, I would go crazy too.
"They had their chance, but pretended to rush," Trump wrote Thursday of House Democrats.
She banged her fists on her desk, rattling the vials, and pretended to pout.
He wrapped a roll of bills around his penis and pretended to fuck it.
In hindsight, I don't think he was as loyal as he pretended to be.
When we glanced back, they lowered their heads and pretended to check their phones.
Of course, I've never pretended to have the faintest idea of the company's strategy here.
I pretended to be scared because I thought that's what I was supposed to be.
An argument ensued before Ettel got out her phone and pretended to call the police.
As Trump lied, he made fake spastic movements and pretended to have a disabled arm.
As part of the lesson, children pretended to be runaway slaves navigating the Underground Railroad.
In her book, on page 123, Ms. McGowan wrote: 'I pretended to have an orgasm.
One day I pretended to leave the house and recorded him banging on the wall.
Basilio pretended to eat one of the invisible "pasteles," or cakes, that Roger offered him.
To channel the passion in her week 3 Tango, Hernandez pretended to smell a quesadilla.
At first he pretended to be okay with it, but it soon came between us.
She just pretended to be dumb to get a boy to keep talking to her.
A series of serene looking white people pretended to consult with doctors about their cancers.
Oscar Isaac snuck up behind Adam Driver and pretended to punch him in the back.
McIlroy never pretended to view the Olympics the same way, and neither did most golfers.
I've never said I'm a perfect person, nor pretended to be someone that I'm not.
The West has pretended to not notice or, more insidiously, has been a willing partner.
There are other, more prestigious clients, but he pretended to no longer remember their names.
You may remember a time when Republicans pretended to care about the debt and deficits.
Maybe it would actually have been what it pretended to be for all this time.
In the first few months after her father died, she'd only pretended to run away.
Although wounded, "he pretended to be dead, escaped, and we spoke to him," she said.
He pretended to disentangle himself from the prospect of non-stop corruption during his Presidency.
He liked that even less, and so he pretended to work on a new novel.
They also pretended to be a New York Post reporter to share pro-Iranian propaganda.
So, I often pretended to be Spider-Man or Sherlock Holmes or even James Bond.
The Greeks pretended to retreat during the night and left behind a huge wooden horse.
Richard pretended to tell the alleged arsonist a story about a puppy he once had.
Kramer did more work in the "Seinfeld" episode where he pretended to have a job.
Graham said that he preached caution and that Trump became exasperated, or pretended to be.
Instead, Kris says he pretended to be Blake Griffin when he was out in public.
I probably pretended to hate The Beatles into my twenties based on that first line alone.
At one point, Papile even went behind the counter and pretended to punch in an order.
Other fake personas, though, pretended to be progressives or liberals, attacking Trump and praising Democratic candidates.
In Tuesday's free routine final at the Rio 2016 Olympics, the duet at least pretended to.
But JAY-Z actually pretended to pull it out of her hand and stop her bidding.
However, in 2016, Ferrell pretended to work at Refinery29 (yeah, this place!) to attend Fashion Week.
Cheers to our dragon prince, the only person who pretended to read the material before class.
He pretended to be his own publicist back when he was just a real estate billionaire.
In 2014, someone pretended to be DeLillo on Facebook and said they were crowdsourcing a story.
I pretended to be everything from a low-level shoplifter to a middle-market drug dealer.
" Diesel, 49, jokingly pretended to kick the actress as he said, "Of course it's not me!
After all, who knows you better than all the people you pretended to be one time?
My mother opened the door and I handed her the card, which she pretended to appreciate.
The time Rosa Lyster pretended to a "Marxist bro" that she hadn't heard of Slavoj Žižek.
Perhaps more accurately, there were times when she sounded like Sanders, or at least pretended to.
There, predictably, everyone got very drunk and pretended to eat Ramen out of a toilet bowl.
The German soldier who shot him kicked his head and Optatius Buyssens pretended to be dead.
Greene pretended to have a Portuguese ancestry and passed as white for most of her adulthood.
The times when Germany at least pretended to lead on this issue internationally are long over.
The mashed potatoes were awful, but then Mr. Gokce has never pretended to be Spud Bae.
She pretended to be a German heiress, bilking Manhattan hotels, banks and a private jet operator.
I think what got him was at the end I pretended to pee in the bushes.
The guy even pretended to be embarrassed at the end and threw his towel at James.
He pretended to be an insider when in fact he was nothing more than a gofer.
"That's the problem with the Freedom Act: It procedurally pretended to solve the problem," he said.
When the fan tried to walk away, Gooden, Gonzalez, and Conner pretended to beat them up.
Onscreen, the new Prince Phillip appears to throw Loechler a ring, which Loechler pretended to catch.
High-ranking officers pretended to take his myopic vision seriously, and construction began in April 1967.
"He pretended to fix it, and it still wasn't fixed," Nealon told Conan O'Brien in 2015.
I pretended to scan the contents as I replayed the previous eight hours in my head.
From that lesson emerged a strategy: Democrats would prove themselves the fighters Trump only pretended to be.
" When asked whether she still loves her ex, Pulliam said she loves "who he pretended to be.
The NCRI said the couple arrested in Belgium had pretended to be supporters of the People's Mujahideen.
In the end, Corden jumped on the bandwagon and pretended to join in on the vaginal steaming.
"I'm thinking about getting really fat," he quipped to Vulture as he pretended to tease season 3.
"I never said I'm a perfect person nor pretended to be someone that I'm not," he begins.
" In addition to apologizing, Hill said, "I am not a perfect person and never pretended to be.
This shows a kind of intelligence, but not necessarily that of the wunderkind I've pretended to be.
"I never said I'm a perfect person nor pretended to be someone that I'm not," he said.
Like in Lost Memories Dot Net, there were boys who pretended to want us to get nudes.
"I went to her office and pretended to be a flower delivery person," Greene, 67, tells PEOPLE.
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They're very clever, Sauvé said, adding that the birds pretended to be injured during a news conference.
"I've never said I'm a perfect person, nor pretended to be someone that I'm not," he said.
News first reported, Fergie joined Hammer onstage, interrupting his speech as she pretended to be the actor.
I pretended to look impressed and got in, as a jazz club and more toilet visits awaited!
I haven't seen a grin this trollish since Squints pretended to drown in front of Wendy Peffercorn.
During an in-store performance, Arrow pretended to fall, then actually fell and then hit her head.
I don't think he actually knew who she was, but his employee did, and he pretended to.
Then, with a big grin, Brooks knelt and pretended to yank at the 44th president's suit pants.
On one play, Woodman pretended to lose sight of a fly ball with a runner on third.
" "Judd approached me when he was 16 and pretended to be an interviewer for a radio station.
"Jeremy had planned to have a photographer there and he pretended to be a fan," says Maldonado.
He pulled over a woman, asked for her ID, and pretended to run her plates, KABC reports.
A month later, Watters pretended to be a big boy reporter and made an ass of himself.
Yet the president gave no signs of distinguishing the prankster from the senator he pretended to be.
I also pretended to be terrified of things Penelope would never fear, like her heart-patterned socks.
When they first telephoned her, she pretended to be her mother-in-law to put them off.
Elizabeth has pretended to be herself for so long that she's not entirely sure who "herself" is.
A fixer for the news organization pretended to be a wealthy Sri Lankan businessman, and potential client.
He pretended to tie his shoe in the middle of a point in his match against Baghdatis.
He was allowed to become Hooded Justice, a superhero, but only if he pretended to be white.
Are you saying you just pretended to be a racist to whip up support from racist voters?
While she pretended to steal secret materials, her helmet's monitor notified her she was hit, she said.
The wounded police pretended to be dead as Taliban finished off anyone who appeared to be alive.
In an earlier interview with HuffPost, Ms. Ettel said she had only "pretended" to call the police.
But in those cases, Bush and Clinton at least pretended to have principled reasons for the pardons.
Clark pretended to notice the "urn," picked it up, turned to his girlfriend, and professed his love.
When asked about the referendum, he stopped in his tracks and pretended to be hard of hearing.
Ballmer, meanwhile, famously snatched an employee's iPhone at a company meeting and pretended to stomp on it.
In October, the company took down Russian-backed accounts that pretended to be from political battleground states.
"My mother pretended to agree with him, but I could tell she was pleased," Mr. Yilmaz said.
Meanwhile, in Thailand young protestors pretended to collapse as they demanded transformative action on the climate crisis.
Once James reached the bench, his teammate Kyle Kuzma pretended to put a crown atop his head.
He argued that while Mr. Berlusconi pretended to be coarse during campaigns, he was really a sophisticate.
But Boyd got her revenge when she got her hands around his neck and pretended to choke him.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus pretended to be Questlove DJing, complete with his afro pick in her own straight hair.
How's this for irony: Morgan pretended to barf, then slammed the pop star for not acting her age.
My Central Jersey  reported that Dykstra put his hand in a bag and pretended to have a gun.
Maybe Democrats will begin to actually adopt the kind of anti–Wall Street populism Trump pretended to represent.
Elliott was Charlotte's (Vanessa Ray) therapist, meaning Archer Dunhill has pretended to be Elliott for over five years.
It was eventually retrieved by Charles, who jokingly pretended to throw it for Digby to fetch once again.
I agree with the Volvo engineer who said Tesla's system pretended to be more capable than it was.
Miranda-Alvarez then pretended to have her baby at the hospital, but said that the baby was sick.
The general threw him to the ground, then pulled him up again, and pretended to slice his throat.
Pretend you're watching Thrones the same way you pretended to be into Lost or the Elena Ferrante novels.
Suspecting his intentions, Darel said she pretended to be dating her costar to get him to back off.
The man pretended to need directions, so Barker led him to the spot the man needed to go.
She's no Gretchen Carlson, who once pretended to have to look up "czar" and "ignoramus" in the dictionary.
Remember that Titanic story about the guy who pretended to be a woman and snuck onto a lifeboat?
The problem with what you and your friend did wasn't that you pretended to be a lesbian couple.
BDSM or S&M is something you pretended to be into to compensate for your lack of personality.
Sitting in his car from across the street, Mitnick pretended to be a McDonald's employee, taking customers' orders.
I pretended to have broken my leg once, so I didn't have to see my boyfriend after school.
Later that night, I pretended to fall out of bed (in reality, I threw myself onto the floor).
The 54-year-old pretended to help the Italian but instead used his trust to escalate the abuse.
The participants were engaged in a role-playing exercise in which a woman pretended to fire a man.
In the past, I didn't think God would like me much unless I pretended to be someone else.
Mambele saw the world through thick glasses and with a deep scepticism of all who pretended to authority.
While his friends played with toy soldiers, he toted a leather briefcase and pretended to be a stockbroker.
In the videos, he pretended to take steroids and spoke of enjoying the smell of his sweaty armpits.
Then he asked, "Why are you so cold?" and I pretended to be asleep because I didn't know.
To please those around me, I got a girlfriend and pretended to live in a perfect heterosexual world.
The congresswoman then jumped to her feet and pretended to count out her challenger like a boxing referee.
My dad pretended to read The San Francisco Chronicle while stealing glances at my mother from his booth.
Trump pointed to his forearm and pretended to blow on Biden, who he then suggested would fall over.
Users have pretended to be infected, and harmful stereotypes about people of Asian descent are on the rise.
So I stood in the corner, pretended to be busy on my phone, and eventually left empty handed.
Politicians have, at best, only pretended to care about working people and, at worst, have screwed them over.
About an hour later, she woke up again to Preston beside the bed and pretended to be asleep.
The man they were sitting with drew a gun and then pretended to point it at their heads.
On Thursday, the president of the United States got into a parked truck, honked, and pretended to drive.
In fact, two ISPs actually pretended to join the July 12 protest in order to actively undermine it.
Initially, the business "pretended to be the manufacturer," opting to be less transparent as a means to entice customers.
Later, the leader of the free world got in the cab of a truck and pretended to drive it.
One woman pretended to wash car windows until she was close enough to the US to ask for asylum.
The ISIS fighters wore military uniforms and pretended to be members of the Iraqi federal police, manning a checkpoint.
He's pretended to abduct children (with parental permission), terrifying them, in hopes that they'd learn not to trust strangers.
You can use this sentence starter to help you answer the question: I pretended to be _________ when I was _________.
Republicans only pretended to care about debt as an excuse to hobble President Barack Obama and slash social programs.
He pretended to be a soldier seeking asylum in Canada to escape anti-Semitic attacks in the United States.
She and her friend ducked into an alleyway, pretended to be smoking cigarettes when a regime thug spotted them.
It's the only time in the 19 years I've worked with Jeff where he pretended ... to ignore a recommendation.
Redditor EndlessLazer posted a handwritten note from a little girl, Lily, who cleverly pretended to be her dad, a.k.a.
That night, A. pretended to be asleep, and at 1 in the morning he climbed silently out of bed.
Worse, might it draw creepy men, like the ones who pretended to be widowers and stalked my Facebook page?
Then there was the 2010 stunt, in which his associates pretended to be telephone repairmen to sneak into Sen.
He was walking her to her car, pretended to slip on snow and stuck his hand up her dress.
"I was Scott Rogowsky's roommate for a few years... until he pretended to move to LA," the listing reads.
Sure, he sold out Robb Stark and pretended to burn Rickon and Bran alive, but he did save Sansa!
An aide repeatedly asked them to leave, as Ms. Warren pretended to examine the paint on the hall ceiling.
Destiny's Child's "Bills, Bills, Bills" played throughout the store as Kristen discussed work and pretended to eat a croissant.
In the past, con artists from Nigeria often pretended to be princes in trouble to get your personal information.
Lester managed to stream for hours because he pretended to be playing the new UFC game from Electronic Arts.
"We pretended to love it ironically, but we actually genuinely loved it," Alex Mann, another former theatre kid, reminisces.
Coleman says Allen's allegations that he pretended to be a woman to obtain "private information" about Ray are false.
One woman screamed, "New Orleans!" as soon as "Daddy Lessons" came on and another pretended to play the trumpet.
One of the accounts even pretended to be the cousin of an African American who died in police custody.
They pretended to have all the answers, when the more honest responses to human suffering are concern and doubt.
Considering he allegedly once pretended to be his own publicist, Trump probably knew responding would create more press ruckus.
For several months, he put on a suit and pretended to cross the Detroit River and go to work.
It rained here the night the president pretended to be an environmentalist during the State of the Union address.
I noted details the way I had previously only pretended to when strolling through museums with more sophisticated friends.
In his latest YouTube video, posted this month, he pretended to smuggle himself onto a plane in a suitcase.
To survive, Qassem told Ms. Malfatto, he converted to Islam — or at least, pretended to — and ISIS spared him.
After the board of the magazine threatened to resign in January, "they pretended to accept our autonomy," she said.
Some even strapped tool belts to their waists and pretended to be craftsmen, disguising newspapers under their thick clothes.
Trump never pretended to be a man of the people; he bragged about his wealth on the campaign trail.
But "the Mooch" fell for the prank not just once, but twice, as the prankster also pretended to be Huntsman.
Lee admits it was difficult standing next to his friend while Sixx's on-screen doppelgänger pretended to overdose on heroin.
"I never said I'm a perfect person nor pretended to be someone that I'm not," he said in the statement.
"I never said I'm a perfect person nor pretended to be someone that I'm not," he began in the statement.
Dad sat at what would have been his desk; Dan pretended to fire what would have been his machine gun.
He tells us about a parody account that pretended to be him and stepped over the line of what's acceptable.
Benchmark revisions indicate this labor market isn't as youthful as it has pretended to be over the last two years.
She had tried to overlay her values and her views, he said, on the people she pretended to be helping.
The woman told police she pretended to comply but instead went to the bedroom and jumped out of a window.
After LeBron James pretended to sip a beer, the brewery ran with the viral moment — but King James wasn't happy.
The two pretended to get into a brawl in order to mess with all the drunk St. Patrick's Day viewers.
" She added: "Afterwards when they got out of the tub, Linda went up to Stallone and pretended to punch him.
Some members of Archimedes pretended to be local news organizations that "published allegedly leaked information about politicians," according to Facebook.
Debra moved across the train and pretended to know the woman being attacked; she played along, as did another stranger.
Shortly after, Tarantino mock punched the Empire star in face, and he pretended to fall down – to laughter from all.
Goofy Elizabeth Warren, sometimes referred to as Pocahontas, pretended to be a Native American in order to advance her career.
The attacker pretended to be CEO Evan Spiegel while asking for employees' payroll information, according to a company blog post.
At a recent event promoting fitness, Prayuth wrapped a scarf around a gym instructor's neck and pretended to hang him.
Huang and D'Arcy of Poncho practiced for hours, and at one point, their colleagues pretended to be the different mentors.
And that wasn't the only thing that got blurred: The more I pretended to undress, the more I'd be undressed.
Sandford, then 19, approached a uniformed police officer during Trump's June 16 rally and reportedly pretended to seek an autograph.
With the single, she was reclaiming the agency in the for-us-by-us storytelling blaxploitation films pretended to fulfill.
Can you elaborate on your charges in the lawsuit that Kris "pretended to DJ" while you guys were on tour?
" She also claimed that she only pretended to call the police and that "this has no racial component to it.
She encountered Margaret, the Duchess of Montenaro, and the two women pretended to be each other and live different lives.
He headed into a train station, where he pretended to examine a poster showing future renovations for the 1988 Olympics.
The supervisor pretended to be from the United States Pacific Command in a phone call placed to day-shift workers.
Authorities say that Magen Fieramusca, 33, pretended to get pregnant around the same time as her longtime friend, Heidi Broussard.
A YouTuber called out 2 TikTok stars for a prank where they pretended to be in a violent, abusive relationship
This has made it easy prey for charlatans like Paul Ryan, who pretended to be serious about his fiscal principles.
The hosts of "Romper Room" pretended to see them through a "magic mirror," and read their names on the air.
"We can lie": A detective pretended to have evidence linking a 13-year-old to the stabbing of Ms. Majors.
He swept me up and said, "This is where dads take their bad daughters"; he pretended to throw me over.
Always opposed to what he has called "politically incorrect nonsense," he never pretended to be your Sensitive New Age Guy.
"Savannah pretended to conduct as the national anthem was playing, and George joined in the fun," a royal observer tells PEOPLE.
Sanderson Farms, the third-largest chicken producer in the U.S., has never pretended to be against feeding antibiotics to its birds.
A former worker wore a hidden camera and pretended to go back to work in the commune near the Vermont border.
Clearly, he pretended to be dead after the "You're Mine" thug shot him, eliminating the possibility of any more bodily harm.
He pretended to cooperate while using Russian colloquialisms to warn his associates that he'd been conscripted into a US government sting.
We collected moss and dandelions to create little homes for ourselves outdoors and pretended to fight the villains of the novel.
Brian Bosché, a Washington DC-based entrepreneur, pretended to swing a golf club whenever Mr Trump won a key battleground state.
Bill Clinton never pretended to be some kind of cultural conservative who claimed that everyone should live by certain personal standards.
The first group date was "wedding photos," where the women pretended to be taking shots to commemorate themed matrimonies with Nick.
We're told Alana's in a stable place now, despite her recent antics on social media ... when she pretended to snort cocaine.
The base has already hosted a reality television show, in which six celebrities pretended to be astronauts facing life-threatening challenges.
While John pretended to be a doctor, Dr. Duntsch is, amazingly, the real deal — just, it seems, a very bad one.
Corruption, Lies, and Death Threats: The Crazy Story of the Man Who Pretended To Invent Email, Gizmodo, March 5, 2012. 3.
I tweeted about porgs for a day, pretended to love them, and caught the eye – however briefly – of Luke Skywalker himself.
The defendant pretended to have a 10-year-old daughter who also did "nude modeling" to gain the children&aposs trust.
This is the same girl who pretended to be Alice Webster, framed the innocent Kristian Hertz and faked her own death.
A girl just came in and asked me if "everything was alright" and I pretended to answer a phone call. Christ.
George Lopez pretended to urinate on President Donald Trump's Hollywood Walk of Fame star in a video that has gone viral.
It was filmed from afar, and the person who shot it pretended to freak out and ran away after the stabbing.
But he also observes that "the crown prince has never pretended to be a political reformer," which is not entirely true.
The ambient heat had patrons removing layers, and one woman pretended to pour a bottle of wine over her date's head.
Sarah Palin The former vice presidential candidate said Cohen pretended to be a wounded veteran during her interview with the actor.
He pretended to stagger around the cage on drunk legs, then stood over his concussed opponent, pointed, and made inaudible comments.
Blue Apron CEO Brad Dickerson told Axios' Dan Primack that the company pretended to be a technology business when it wasn't.
The arrangement brings to mind the movie "The Front," in which Woody Allen's character pretended to pen scripts from blacklisted writers.
Epstein's ability to evade justice is of a piece with the elite impunity that Trump pretended to challenge, but actually embodies.
If not for my precarious reproductive situation, I probably would have pretended to be ambivalent about kids for 10 more years.
To enhance the feeling of intimacy, Mr. Chiu pretended to be a host and spoke to the audience about each piece.
Mr. Broome said the girl pretended to be a transfer student and knew class schedules and instructors' names at the university.
They gathered and pretended to be monkeys, lions, slugs, and other members of the animal kingdom straight up doing the deed.
After all, this is a man who, in the 1980s, pretended to be his own spokesman on phone conversations with reporters.
When he walked through the door, Tiny turned and pretended to straighten the hair products on the table behind her chair.
A YouTuber called out a questionable prank by two TikTok stars where they pretended to be in a violent, abusive relationship.
A number of viewers were also made uncomfortable during Monday night's game when some teammates pretended to punch Mixon in celebration.
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Eventually, Ferrara pieced together the truth: He learned that Biegler was not nearly as polished and rich as he pretended to be.
At some point in your life, sat in front of a computer screen, you have almost definitely pretended to be a hacker.
She said there have been times she pretended to go into a building to avoid a man following or yelling at her.
I pretended to myself that I had come out to the rocks simply because I had wanted to be near the ocean.
He also pretended to be a veteran who worked for Apple, persuading a Beverly Hills dentist to do $28,000 worth of work.
" On Saturday, Trump released a statement saying: "I never said I'm a perfect person nor pretended to be someone that I'm not.
I was weaker at the time and pretended to be fine with her going to live on a sailboat for a year.
The clip shows Poncho promptly administering chest compressions to an officer who has pretended to collapse on the ground in cardiac distress.
It's like, couldn't they have pretended to stay together so that we could at least take comfort in some solid celebrity couples?
An unknown assailant walked up to him and pretended to shake his hand before flinging the liquid — known in Russian as "zelyonka".
His momentum carried him out of bounds — where he jokingly grabbed a beer from a vendor and pretended to take a sip.
He is white and He pretended to be a Japanese writer to get work at his publisher in violation of the rules.
We already know from a sworn deposition that Trump pretended to be his own spokesperson, "John Barron," in the 1980s and 90s.
Perhaps the strangest thing about it is that Trump pretended to be busy when his public schedule for the day was empty.
So I pretended to hail a cab to go home, and then went back into the bar and drank with other guys.
In April 2015, Schumer pretended to fall at Kardashian and Kanye West's feet on the red carpet at the Time 100 Gala.
Even worse, he pretended to have something he didn't, and seems to have fooled an awful lot of people along the way.
Donald Trump pretended to send well wishes to people who oppose him ... but let's be honest, it was aggressive and mean-spirited.
Page then pretended to stagger around the cage on drunken legs before standing over his fallen opponent so he could mock him.
Like the guy on YouTube who told his partner he'd blown up their kid, or pretended to throw it off a balcony.
The two pretended to have food poisoning to gain access to a private bathroom where they got Cohen into character, Deadline reports.
Beside him, two girls slouched in their chairs and pretended to care, but they kept looking at their cell phones, obviously uninterested.
The seismic shock from these actions can only accelerate the erosion of that bedrock societal foundation the attorney general pretended to honor.
In 2004, ten female prisoners in Pennsylvania received roughly $260,000 from hundreds of men who they'd pretended to fall in love with.
LONDON — The 26-year-old man pretended to be a teenage girl to meet boys and young men on online chat forums.
It's worth recalling that at his confirmation hearing in January he pretended to be unaware of what the "emoluments clause" even is.
The nod towards unity Trump pretended to advocate for during the State of the Union was gone in less than 85033 characters.
Trump also pretended to have opposed military action in Iraq and Libya from the start when the record shows just the opposite.
And what's driving the U.S. economy now is the very deficit spending Republicans pretended to be horrified by during the Obama years.
And in this instance, my own professional career took inspiration from a 1980's actor who pretended to be an FBI agent.
I'm never going to be a "237 unread messages" person, and I've never even pretended to go on a social media cleanse.
Just to add a little sauce on it, I pretended to be devastated so he didn't suspect he had granted my wish.
Instead, she pretended to order a pizza and used code words until the 2911 dispatcher understood what she was trying to say.
Republicans never actually cared about debt; they just pretended to be deficit hawks as a way to hamstring President Barack Obama's agenda.
It felt like tea parties I'd pretended to have with my grandma when I was a child, and I told her so.
They were, however, predicted on the assumption that Fred Rogers was a completely different person than he pretended to be on PBS.
It wasn't until she spoke to the New York Times that Swinton finally admitted that she pretended to be Ebersdorf to play Klemperer.
Mark&aposs son, 24-year-old Marcus Ling, even approached the woman and asked her to move, but she pretended to be asleep.
The Times reported last week that AET funneled money to a project that used a Facebook page where people pretended to be conservatives.
Meanwhile, a group of young ultranationalists staged a protest at which they pretended to hold Santa Claus—that unwelcome Western intruder—at gunpoint.
As for why they pretended to be in Puerto Rico when they were actually in Mexico, we're not even going to touch that.
The British comedian, 44, attended Los Angeles premiere of his latest film, The Brothers Grimsby, where he pretended to publicly support Trump's campaign.
Have you ever acted in a play, pretended to be a famous athlete when you play sports, or imagined yourself in a movie?
The theories were tied to 2017, when XXXTentacion faked his death in a post on Instagram in which he pretended to hang himself.
He slyly pretended to be a part of Mayweather's entourage, and no one asked questions, checked his ticket, or noticed he didn't belong.
I loved the teacher (a thin, intense Frenchwoman named Vangeline), as well as an exercise in which we pretended to have no faces.
Once he noticed he was on the big screen, he jokingly leaned over to his seatmate and pretended to make out with her.
Then again, that work was in response to Nixon-era politicians, who at least pretended to hide their lies to the American public.
Ettel told a reporter, according to NBC News, that the girl had been disturbing her work, so she pretended to call the police.
A Texas man reportedly pretended to be a police officer to get to the front of a Whataburger drive-thru line in 2015.
I pretended to not like Madonna nearly as much as I did (and those were the American Life years — such a good album).
The woman said she was stunned and pretended to be asleep because she feared what would happen if he knew she was awake.
He pretended to be confused by the British actor's British accent, and at one point asked Holland if he could lick his shoe.
Like my mother's words after the thief's father pretended to call for him, then slammed the door because his son couldn't be bothered.
Everyone pretended to invest $100,000 and whomever's portfolio was worth the most money at the end of eight weeks would be the winner.
The group allegedly used the Grindr app and pretended to be a lone gay man, who arranged to meet at the victims' homes.
And by that I mean called the dude whose name was on the Gumtree listing and pretended to be interested in the flat.
The agents reportedly pretended to be Garcia's cousin, sending text messages from her cellphone indicating that she had been in a car accident.
He used the same apology statement as the Dobre Brothers, and pretended to be stony faced and miserable when a fan walked in.
Fooling around, I stuck my leg out and pretended to hitch up my skirt so as to get a lift as a hitchhiker.
Asrary then pretended to be Bieber, and demanded the girl send nude photos of herself and threatened to hurt her if she refused.
My boyfriend and I started making out on his bed, and then I pretended to go to the bathroom to insert a diaphragm.
When Tywin finally joined the rebellion, he pretended to be Aerys's ally one more time in order to gain entry to the city.
She wasted time waiting to be discovered, chased after empty material success and pretended to be someone she didn't even want to be.
So she had seven fugitives hide under the bed and then got in, pulled the covers over herself and pretended to be sick.
A stripper and porn star by trade, she has never pretended to be someone she's not and has a reputation for demanding respect.
Republicans were never the patriots they pretended to be, but at this point they've pretty much crossed the line into being foreign agents.
I took the dustbin, and I pretended to go empty the trash, and as I was going downstairs, my mother walked behind me.
"  In an Instagram story, Turner pretended to be an influencer and said, "Hey, guys, just kind of going for my influencer look today.
The bomber was dressed in a police uniform and pretended to be disabled, infiltrating the crowd before detonating his explosive, Mr. Hassani said.
That seemed like an unusually wide array of footwear at a concert; I pretended to drop my pen to get a better look.
Meanwhile, Kris dressed as Khloe in a long bleached-blond wig, and Kendall Jenner pretended to be Kylie showing off her makeup range.
Lawrence also said she believes Chapman pretended to be Feden while communicating with her family, using Feden's Facebook account to message with them.
This probably sounds really weird, but I figured out that if I pretended to masturbate like a cis guy, I could feel it.
The sex offender registry, with its one-size-fits-all approach, has pretended to answer all of them — by, in reality, answering none.
While at the event, the couple played around in the popular photo booth set up in an elevator and pretended to get caught smooching.
In his opening statement, Spodek argued the system is "easily seduced by glamour and glitz" so Delvey pretended to be wealthy to get ahead.
She forged emails, staged an embarrassing incident at a karaoke bar, and then pretended to be engaged to her gay pal George (Rupert Everett).
"I have never pretended to be pretty or look good in clothing, I have never tried to be flashy or show off," she wrote.
Image: YouTube ScreenshotEarly this year, we all pretended to be shocked when we saw a video of monkeys having sex with deer in Japan.
For one night as he delivered his State of the Union address, Donald Trump pretended to be the president Republicans wish he really was.
"I've never said I'm a perfect person, nor pretended to be someone that I'm not," he said in regards to the tape being released.
He finally showed up and struck a pose, jabbing George Harrison, who pretended to tip backward and make the other Beatles fall like dominoes.
"I find it offensive that Goofy Elizabeth Warren, sometimes referred to as Pocahontas, pretended to be Native American to get in Harvard," Trump tweeted.
On Sunday night's episode, Simpson, 71, laughed when Baron Cohen, in character, pretended to stab his "girlfriend" Christina while explaining why he was famous.
Instead, their companies chucked motorized scooters on the city sidewalks, without the city's permission, and then pretended to be shocked when children rode them.
He allegedly said he pretended to be an ICE agent "to show everyone that he was 'somebody' and had done something with his life."
Midland's Cameron Duddy pretended to hawk beer in a running gag with show hosts Little Big Town, but TJ Osborne took the comedy seriously.
Nazi collaborators who pretended to be picking mushrooms in the forest, looking for Jews to betray to the Germans, were arrested, interrogated and shot.
Williams had pretended to take Jake for therapy, then created the false bills so he could pocket a cash "reimbursement" from a county agency.
Another common claim is that his wife, Lisa, only pretended to recognize the gun found at the scene—which was an antique family heirloom.
Then Orton twisted, or pretended to twist, stretching just enough that the rubberband of Jeff Hardy's dangling earlobe looking to be twisted 180 degrees.
Source: Julia Vie Ross Ulbricht was arrested at Glen Park Library after two undercover agents pretended to get into an argument to distract him.
Cohen never pretended to be a disabled vet, Showtime insists, echoing what Cohen's character already wrote in an open letter to Palin last week.
To gain entry in the home, Kvitová said he pretended to be a workman inspecting her flat's hot water system, according to The Guardian.
It'll also cross over a large swath of soon-to-be disillusioned Trump supporters who realize Trump only pretended to care about their struggles.
I pretended to ignore him and hastily ran by the remainder of the team that was now staring at my legs pointing and giggling.
Besides, any novel pretended to be true, and a good "open" text would spur the reader to judge and interpret that truth for himself.
The woman who pretended to be mentally ill and threw crickets over an entire D train car in August calls herself a performance artist.
Daeshgram pretended to confirm suspicions that it controlled the Amaq website by uploading a video that claimed to have hacked the ISIS propaganda site.
Lynch, a Democratic cabinet member, pretended to not know that she was being asked whether she is biased and unable to oversee the investigation.
But the ruse was all part of Ciancia's master plan, as he pretended to stumble as he climbed off the stretcher, the station reports.
" Other attacks included an offensive pantomime of Maza's voice in which Crowder pretended to eat chips and exclaimed "just can't eat one, like dicks.
People just love telling you about their lives, and, honestly, it calmed me down when I just pretended to care because, eventually, I did!
Though the producers "pretended to be very remorseful," Paige told me that all the footage she asked to be cut was, in fact, used.
She pretended to be a mental patient for an article, "10 Days in a Madhouse," that led to reforms to a women's mental institution.
Mr. Bannon has now joined with Mr. Ailes in a common cause on Mr. Trump's behalf, a mission that Breitbart never pretended to deny.
Asked his opinion of the case, which is now the matter of a lawsuit in New York, Mr. Oxendale pretended to zip his mouth.
In cases for which the caller pretended to have acute symptoms, the average time until an appointment was about one and a half weeks.
In one, they pretended to be older Mexicans, falling and injuring themselves as they tried to navigate the city's many rundown sidewalks in wheelchairs.
The sheriff, terrified of the untamable Bean, at least pretended to go about his work for a time, before returning to Jackson sans prisoner.
"Russia's trolls pretended to be American people, including political groups and candidates," Ms. Kim wrote in a post for the Brennan Center for Justice.
But even during its wildest moments, Bartiromo pretended to understand what Trump was talking about and acted as though he was making profound points.
For years, Ms. Sorokin pretended to be Anna Delvey, a German heiress with a trust fund that paid for a life of glamorous ease.
As Hyperallergic reported, protesters at the opening pretended to sip oil-contaminated champagne and chanted slogans noting the company exploitation of Iraq's natural resources.
In 1990, two thieves pretended to be police officers and robbed the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, taking what's worth an estimated 500 million dollars.
For example, he has pretended to contact the spirits of Mac Miller, XXXtentacion, and YouTuber Etika who tragically died by suicide in June 2019.
Soccer star Alex Morgan went viral when she pretended to sip tea after scoring a winning goal against England during the Women's World Cup.
Mr. Malek once even pretended to be a sales representative for one of the companies, giving his name as "Judy Jones," the suit said.
"I still am very comfortable playing female roles, because I pretended to be a woman for thirty years of my life," Bouk went on.
Anyone who's ever been to a dinner party that pretended to be friendly while feeling like open-heart surgery will read this in awe.
However, you could only get fired if you were actually not unable to work because of your sickness but only pretended to be sick.
All I know is that neon gym equipment was carted onto the stage as the ripped dancers pretended to struggle with five-pound weights.
When a nurse came in to empty his bag of urine, I pretended to sleep so she wouldn't see me poised to lose it.
The "Titanic" star has pretended to be American, Australian, Polish-Armenian and in her latest film, crime thriller "Triple 9", a Russian-Israeli mafia boss.
" As Dad spoke, Mom picked up a little Julio Jones doll and pretended to speak in the star wide receiver's voice: "I love you, Wyatt.
So I used "Help a Reporter Out," which I think is probably the most embarrassing open secret in media, and pretended to be an expert.
On top of that, Theon pretended to murder the youngest Stark boys, Bran and Rickon Stark (Art Parkinson), when he actually lost them as prisoners.
More explosively, Caixin wrote in its May 1st issue that Anbang had pretended to have more capital than it had—an allegation denied by Anbang.
Around the same period, the band spent afternoons filming interstitial scenes where they pretended to converse with the cartoon mice through holes in the stage.
In the footage, one man is shown sitting in a rolling chair surrounded by three others who pretended to perform a sex act on him.
In a bid to prove she wasn't racist shortly after, she revealed she had pretended to be "a half-caste African" a few years prior.
One study published last year found that managers couldn't tell the difference between those who worked an 80-hour week and those who pretended to.
"I've never said I'm a perfect person, nor pretended to be someone that I'm not," he said in a video statement back in October 2016.
In this case, a young operative sitting at a computer in Canberra successfully pretended to be a senior terrorist fighting in a faraway war zone.
Some harbored doubts as to whether I had truly changed, or whether I had merely pretended to do so in order to deflect police attention.
Over the last few weeks, Lee has pretended to be blissfully ignorant about his casual dog whistle racism when it comes to wrestler Kenny King.
But Anna Faris decided to go a different route and bond with the women who've pretended to be intimate with her famous husband, Chris Pratt.
Police in India this week arrested 70 people allegedly involved in a scam in which some pretended to be IRS agents, according to media reports.
My mother and brother couldn't speak Chinese, so they pretended to be deaf and mute, and none of the Chinese passengers said anything, sparing us.
Read more: Alex Morgan pretended to sip tea after a goal against England in the World Cup, and then fans sang 'Happy Birthday' to her
In a court filing, prosecutors declined to reveal what agency or department may or may not have employed the individual who pretended to be Ghaada.
Since that draw with Wilder, Fury has signed with Top Rank and ESPN, and pretended to blow a kiss to his summer opponent Tom Schwarz.
Julie purchased water polo gear on Amazon and had his son pose for pictures in a pool in which he pretended to play the sport.
Also calling him Daddy while he pretended to be holding her as a sex slave in a crawl space underneath her own East Hampton kitchen.
I love you in the waterWhere they pretended to wade,Singing that old blood-deep song That dragged us to those banksAnd cast us in.
I took out my notepad—a notepad would make me look important, I thought—and pretended to write, only to sense someone standing behind me.
The fellow model then became the victim of a pretty tame prank, in which Kennedy pretended to be an Uber driver who'd found Baldwin's phone.
I pretended to be everyone from a 34-year-old male Filipino software salesman to the 57-year-old female head of a production studio.
To do so, she pretended to be a mother seeking a school, an out-of-character assignment that appeared to be a moment of awakening.
After she explained that she just got a haircut with bangs, he recalled meeting her, or at least pretended to, and soon they began dating.
In Iran, his relatives pretended to be Muslim to avoid harassment, performed religious rites in secret and were denied access to higher education, he said.
"President Trump has never pretended to be a Bible-banging evangelical," said Penny Young Nance, president of Concerned Women for America, a Christian conservative organization.
But Barr — who also served as attorney general during the George H.W. Bush administration — has pretended to be painfully ignorant about Trump's conflicts of interest.
Rather than Russians working in St. Petersburg posing as Americans, this time Democrats — most of them far from Alabama — pretended to be conservative state residents.
In the Lower East Side and Harlem, children pretended to be bride and groom, wore masks for Halloween or drew with chalk on the sidewalk.
I ran into him three years ago at an event, and he pretended to know who I was, but I'm not surprised if he didn't.
The couple got a jump-start on the weekend at new hot spot TAO's Beauty & Essex and pretended to avoid cameras on their way out.
A mutual friend who had agreed to accompany the groom on an investigation pretended to be injured and asked the bride to take his place.
Six jihadists, wearing tailor-made courier-service outfits, pretended to deliver a parcel and hacked down the two men in front of Mr. Mannan's mother.
Kyrgios pretended to sweep back his hair and pick at his shorts after being penalised, prompting the crowd, and chair umpire Jaume Campistol, to laugh.
The same person is responsible for both forged nominations and had pretended to be someone qualified to make the nomination, Njolstad told The Washington Post.
The four-time NBA MVP rose up and pretended to block his teammate&aposs shot, much to the delight of the commentators covering the game.
And I think there is no rational answer for what has happened, except that we pretended to be what we were for fifty, sixty years.
Imagining alternate, low-cost forms of torture, Desus said, "Strap you to a chair and make you watch 'Young Sheldon,'" while Mero pretended to scream.
One, Oleg Kulik, pretended to be a dog: naked, chained, he barked at passers-by in a reminder of the animality beneath our civilizational veneer.
One, Oleg Kulik, pretended to be a dog: naked, chained, he barked at passers-by in a reminder of the animality beneath our civilizational veneer.
I did like Bring Me The Horizon sometimes, but they were too heavy, I mostly pretended to like them because I wanted to be cool.
Its as if those retro, cold, text-only chat rooms on the Internet that pretended to be coffee-shops ended up inspiring physical coffee-shops.
Kimmel predictably harped in on his bitter "rival" Matt Damon, as he pretended to put their long-running feud behind while actually continuing to insult him.
The couple's 12,000-square-foot home features six bedrooms, or almost enough rooms for the eight-person crew team that Loughlin's daughters pretended to be on.
She says she was told she could not leave Sea Org and was released from duty only after she pretended to attempt suicide by swallowing bleach.
Though David Rosen appeared to initially escape death by effectively talking Jake out of shooting him, Cyrus pretended to offer a confession, but instead poisoned David.
Meanwhile, her victims are just excited about working with Amy Pascal or Kathleen Kennedy — two of the many women she's pretended to be over the phone.
Photographer, Jan Hoek, became infatuated with a small group of men in Nairobi, who pretended to be pirates, even though they had never seen the ocean.
I could have just gone all-out, pretended to be mad and been dismissed, but the thing is I do want to serve in the army.
After Obama placed the medal around 90-year-old Brooks' neck, it appeared that the comedian jokingly kneeled and pretended to yank on the president's pants.
However, the funding may have been for previous projects, and other scientists interviewed said that it was possible He pretended to have government funding for credibility.
"He thinks I'm really special," I told my mother hanging up the phone in the kitchen, where she pretended to busy herself at the counter cleaning.
It was so bad that some girls pretended to want to begin a relationship with me so as to get me to let my guard down.
As the two smiled and posed for pictures together, Corbett wrapped his arms around his onscreen wife and pretended to plant a kiss on her lips.
He voted against Britain's membership in 1975, opposed the single market in the 1980s and only pretended to campaign for Remain in the referendum of 2016.
"I find it offensive that goofy Elizabeth Warren, sometimes referred to as Pocahontas, pretended to be Native American to get in Harvard," he tweeted last week.
The girl's mom posted video of that apparent phone call to Instagram, and Ettel later told HuffPost she "pretended" to report the incident to the police.
First, the major issue: that YACHT pretended to be victims of a sex crime, further complicating the challenges of real-life victims to be taken seriously.
That agent worked with Hollywood veterans to set up a fake Hollywood production company and pretended to scout locations for a big-budget sci-fi epic.
Another reason: Donald Trump is more popular than they are among the GOP base, and Trump is not nearly as conservative as they pretended to be.
And I think a lot of people pretended to be people they weren't on social media, and intentionally stirred up fights and ganged up in mobs.
When Mary Drake (Andrea Parker) pretended to be her twin sister, Jessica DiLaurentis, and hooked up with Peter Hastings (Nolan North), Mary got pregnant with twins.
Some of the phishing messages analyzed by Citizen Lab pretended to come from the US Embassy in Mexico City, alerting the recipient of urgent visa problems.
A correct answer earned a cheer, but, if the student erred, the girl pretended to pour a bucket of slime—another block—over the transgressor's head.
Rogen tweeted some screen grabs from the exchange, in which he riled up Mitchell and then constantly pretended to be in a meeting when he replied.
The pressure to be chill is the reason I pretended to be cool with an open relationship, even though that shit is really not for me.
Playing to the crowd of thousands gathered to cheer him on, the president pretended to be Dr. Blasey testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee last Thursday.
Anyway, to celebrate the proper way, we thought we'd ask a bunch of people about all the bands they pretended to like for a shitty ex.
The teacher didn't show up for his orchestra class, so Dudamel got up from his seat in the violin section and pretended to lead the rehearsal.
The breakthrough in the case came after they created a fake profile with a sample retrieved in 1980 and pretended to be someone researching family history.
Goins pretended to casually throw back to Estrada, but actually placed the ball in his glove as Frazier stood on the base, looking toward the outfield.
I don't know the language, so I had no idea what she was telling me, but I pretended to listen, and I nodded as she continued.
It's hypocritical for Trump to be today's avatar of hostility to immigrants, since his own family suffered from anti-German sentiment and pretended to be Swedish.
To this day I remain completely embarrassed by one pageant performance, recalling how I dragged my easel on stage and pretended to paint my latest masterpiece.
This case sounds very similar to the story of Frederic Bourdin, the French man who pretended to be a missing 16-year-old boy from America.
In another instance, the Lyft driver pretended to help a stumbling passenger who'd been drinking walk to their door, before allegedly raping them inside their home.
While celebrating his monumental score, Moore dropped to all fours and pretended to pee like a dog, earning himself an unsportsmanlike-conduct penalty for excessive celebration.
Mr. Brooks coyly pretended to wonder whether the crowd recalled songs like "The Dance" or "Unanswered Prayers," only to be answered with end-to-end singalongs.
A Pennsylvania man who allegedly kidnapped his girlfriend and pretended to be her while communicating with her family and friends has been arrested, police said Friday.
According to Facebook, Iranians pretended to be located in the U.S. and Europe, and used fake accounts that impersonated legitimate news organizations in the Middle East.
The Nabokovs knew a Soviet plot when they saw one: They were convinced the Communists had pretended to smuggle Pasternak's novel out of the Soviet Union.
Jong Un is known to have been educated at an international school in Berne, Switzerland, where he pretended to be the son of an embassy chauffeur.
For her first big assignment, she pretended to suffer from amnesia and delusions and was committed to the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island, according to PBS.
Russian hackers pulled off another successful—at least for a while—false flag when they pretended to be a patriotic hacker group called the Yemen Cyber Army.
The reason for that is back when Obama was president, Republicans pretended to believe that it was very important to keep government spending as low as possible.
Some people are saying they fibbed about the number of languages they speak, while others are saying they really aren't the team players they pretended to be.
On both occasions, he pretended to have found the offending bits of trash himself after reporting on the contamination to his superiors, as per the criminal complaint.
Pratt appeared as part of a new segment titled "What Do You Have to Plug," and Kimmel pretended to be completely unaware of the first hit movie.
The impostor pretended to be in the US military and after gaining the woman's trust began asking for money to help with a series of fake emergencies.
The Virginia school's students were asked play a Black History Month "game" where they pretended to be runaway slaves navigating the Underground Railroad as they encountered obstacles.
BEFORE he ran to be president of Guatemala two years ago, Jimmy Morales pretended to be a presidential candidate in a television sitcom called "Moralejas" ("Cautionary Tales").
She pretended to accept the proposal and said she just wanted to pop back to her college, which was in a neighbouring country, to collect her things.
But that's mostly a convenient excuse, as the league has been strict about celebratory conduct long before it ever even pretended to give a shit about safety.
A tweet went viral claiming that a photographer said Tweeden had asked him to take a staged photo while she pretended to be asleep and Franken posed.
The actor, 44, was all smiles as he playfully wrapped his arm around Halsey's neck and pretended to pull her backwards as they walked around the park.
Teigen hilariously pretended to shoplift a bottle of Ouai haircare product by stuffing it her cleavage as she walked through the store with Luna on her hip.
So, this leaves two options: Either Trump lied about her not speaking English, or she pretended to not speak English to avoid talking to the U.S. president.
Shouts out as well to all the dancers whose big break in a Lil Wayne video meant gyrating next to him while he pretended to play guitar.
In the shot, Hyland held up her ring finger and stuck her tongue out while the Bachelorette alum pretended to be surprised by the giant diamond ring.
The Buffalo News is a real newspaper, and Rex is a huge football history buff so he pretended to be a former Bills lineman from the 1970s.
Members of Congress, media personalities, consultants and actors dressed up and pretended to get along last night, but it wasn't for the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner.
As Smith shot from the front seat, King tried a few different positions—knees bent; legs propped up against the window—and pretended to read the book.
Even if you hated the music, you might've pretended to like it (me), relished in vocally hating it (my internet friends) or followed them closely anyway (both).
There was Vandenburg's roommate, Mack Prioleau, who pretended to be asleep while the woman was being raped and didn't call police or check on the victim afterward.
"Small-town sheriffs would begin telling their friends about the tourist who pretended to be the Dutch prime minister," said Erica Terpstra, a former Dutch sports official.
The demonstrators, many smiling, laughing, and snapping photos on their cellphones, "pretended to set the building and trees outside on fire using the lasers," the Guardian reports.
It's that time in the presidential election season when Donald Trump has to say he has never pretended to be his own spokesperson in interviews with reporters.
The affidavit, obtained by the Austin American-Statesman, said 33-year-old Magen Fieramusca pretended to get pregnant around the same time as her friend Heidi Broussard.
Prudence wore a disguise (also known as a glamour on the show) and pretended to be a woman from New Orleans named Miss Dubois, portrayed by Boltt.
Although the Paris Review exchange was conducted by letter, the final transcript pretended to describe an encounter in which Green's partial deafness had been a recurring problem.
Then, after the interview ended, an undercover investigator pretended to offer Mr. Philippe a friendly hug, but instead pointed a pistol at his belly and handcuffed him.
A career con artist who often pretended to be a military veteran while engaging in schemes across the country was convicted on Wednesday for a recent charade.
In the since-removed video, titled "COUPLES THERAPY STYLE Q&A" and which is still circulating on Reddit, Deyes jokingly pretended to sit on Sugg&aposs chest.
She even planned a gender reveal photo shoot where she pretended to be pregnant and then wrapped Brown in a blanket as if he was a baby.
In an interview with New York's 92.3 AMP Radio, Sheeran revealed that he once pretended to be Calvin Harris to get into a party at Madonna's manager's house.
An older girl, someone who pretended to be her friend she says, was actually preying on Little, first luring her with drugs and then trafficking her for sex.
Authorities said a Florida man pretended to be famous on Instagram to lure a 17-year-old Texas girl to his Orlando home, where he raped her repeatedly.
He was teasing Paul about the airport-purchased spy novel he was reading, so Paul pretended to beat on him, as one does in a clearly jovial manner.
But Ettel told HuffPost that she had only "pretended" to call the police and said the call had nothing to do with the girl's and her mother's race.
Just when it seemed the Roy Moore sexual assault scandal couldn't get more unbelievable, someone went ahead and pretended to be a Washington Post reporter in a robocall.
To regain her good will, her husband has pretended to be enfeebled by a heart attack, but when Maude says she forgives him, he confesses that he's fine.
This feeling of being imposter haunts her — and it's a result of her time at Homecoming, where she knows deep down she pretended to be a good person.
In another incident at a Texas Walmart in May, YouTube stars Lauren Love and her partner, Joel Ashley, pretended to fire the employees of a Richmond area Walmart.
So when Kristen Wiig pretended to be an elderly woman misreading her cue at Saturday's Independent Spirit Awards, many thought she was making a joke at Dunaway's expense.
The character reminded viewers of Rachel Dolezal, the real life former NAACP leader who made headlines in 2015 when it was revealed that she pretended to be black.
"I never said I'm a perfect person, nor pretended to be something that I'm not," Trump said in a brief videotaped statement released shortly after midnight via Facebook.
The report said he had also pretended to grab his gun while talking to a pizza delivery driver and joking that he was alleged cop killer Markeith Loyd.
I have a flaming-pink coat — with a bow, thankyouverymuch — that I haven't worn in years because an ex-boyfriend pretended to don shades whenever I wore it.
The Republican also pretended to rebuke a supporter later during his event on Tuesday when supporters suggested Clinton was "in the bathroom" when not on the campaign trail.
In an apparent attempt to sound credible, some Lorde fans pretended to be underwhelmed by Lana Del Rey, an artist for whom they wish nothing but the best.
While I mixed the slime and pretended to be a mad scientist, Loftus tore up pages of Infinite Jest and prepared to add them to the slime mixture.
The skit was pretty funny ... Gronk pretended to kick KC -- who he called a "seat filler" -- out of her spot to let Florida Georgia Line take her place.
The speech pretended to be a thoughtful, relatively objective appeal for bipartisanship, but time and again, he presented a one-sided view of reality that was deeply partisan.
In each test, the dog's owner pretended to have difficulty removing the lid of a "transparent jar," which contained an item that had "no value" to the dogs.
That's because kaizo stages tend to involve advanced techniques the Mario games don't consider canon, and Nintendo has historically pretended to ignore (and quietly punish) the kaizo community.
Mad about not being able to have the time to train properly, Conor refusted to show up to a recent media appearance and pretended to retire over Twitter.
Netflix offered money to Anna Delvey — the woman who pretended to be a German heiress to swindle banks, hotels, and socialites — to make a TV series about her.
He didn't move fast enough, so while he huddled, naked, behind a door, I pretended to search for a lost contact lens under the glare of a flashlight.
Palin, a 2008 vice presidential nominee, says she was duped into participating in an interview for the satirical show after Baron Cohen pretended to be a military veteran.
The trend has now culminated in the nomination of Donald J. Trump, a presidential candidate who truly is the know-nothing his Republican predecessors only pretended to be.
One-year-old Grayson Salerno was cruising in his toy Mercedes convertible when a police officer in Malden pretended to pull him over, according to The Associated Press.
In the third and last cycle of assaults, Matt and Tim pretended to break in through the women's windows while they feigned sleep, pinioned by their own bedding.
After trying out a whole bunch of political games yesterday afternoon, and as I pretended to not be constantly refreshing Twitter for new polls, I discovered two things.
"I thought we were going to talk about the game," joked Kerr, who pretended to flop Monday on San Francisco Chronicle columnist Ann Killion to make his point.
When Levinson wrote that many middle-aged men viewed their wives as a "destructive witch or selfish bitch," he pretended to do no more than report his findings.
In the calls, the pranksters pretended to be Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg, the Sun said, although it was not exactly clear how they had fooled the prince.
Even under these conditions, an impressive 37 percent of hungry babies picked up the fruit and offered it to the researchers who pretended to have trouble reaching it.
I see him as a guy who pretended to be all about balanced budgets but was really always just going for the tax cuts and screw the deficit.
My cousin linked arms with me and pretended to admire a bracelet of silver and lapis lazuli that Juan Martín had given me on our honeymoon in Valparaíso.
At an ice cream shop, he pretended to be a clueless American tourist -- using affected Spanish, asking to see tourist attractions on the other side of the island.
The most recent high-profile case is IHOP's faux name change earlier this summer; the chain pretended to re-brand itself IHOb to launch its new burger menu.
During a news conference with Mr. Hollande, Haider al-Abadi, Iraq's prime minister, said the suicide bomber had pretended to be a man seeking to hire day laborers.
The government lied to us, we knew they were lying, they knew we knew they were lying, but they kept lying anyway and we pretended to believe them.
His lawyer said the victim was not Muslim or of Middle Eastern descent and he believed that the assailants pretended to be Middle Eastern to "scare" the victim.
One such "threat": a 12-year-old with a disability who made a gun with his fingers and pretended to shoot at make-believe creatures in a hallway.
White House special counsel Ty Cobb was duped by the same prankster in early September, who pretended to be the White House head of social media Dan Scavino.
Two journalists pretended to be travel bloggers to enter Xinjiang, the western Chinese province where police are intensely cracking down on the Uighurs, a mostly-Muslim ethnic minority.
There were all these people who'd been pretending to work, as the saying went, and the state pretended to pay them, and that was how it was done.
She has been quoted making racist comments and for claiming that she wasn't racist because she pretended to be "a half-cast African" in an iTV1 interview in 2004.
In the unedited version of Zamperini's statement she says that Pfeiffer, "... pretended to be my friend, she came to my home for an exclusive interview," Zamperini said in court.
Logic is a rapper who reportedly once pretended to be a high schooler working on a class project to avoid paying some costs involved in a music video shoot.
We've completed ignored Trump's routine reliance on an insecure smartphone, even as conservatives pretended to believe compliance with government IT rules was the central issue of the 2016 election.
J.J. tapped me on the shoulder to let me know he still didn't have a job, Sarah Herron gave me a hug and Clare pretended to not see me.
In a segment for The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon, the cast of the Netflix series pretended to Madame Tussauds wax figurines in the background of a photo opportunity.
Authorities in Florida believe a man who is accused of murdering his in-laws also murdered his wife last year and pretended to be her to cover the crime.
In a popular television show Sergei Kuryokhin, a composer and artist, pretended to be a historian, arguing that Lenin ate psychedelic mushrooms and in the end turned into one.
Just a few months ago, we saw video of an Uber driver blowing through red lights, though it remains unclear if that guy also pretended to be a cop.
The teen pretended to help the legally blind 64-year-old through a turnstile at the 34th Street and Eight Avenue station in Manhattan on Monday afternoon, cops said.
"I had decided that this had happened because I had settled, once again, for someone who had never once pretended to value me," she wrote in the Facebook post.
Kardashian pretended to be a tourist from Albuquerque, making friends with the driver who even highlighted the restaurant where Kim Kardashian West gets her go-to chinese chicken salad.
The hackers placed a fake message on the site that pretended to be the newspaper apologizing to PewDiePie, and claiming the newspaper fired journalists who had reported on him.
One day, Weizenbaum discovered his secretary chatting with a version of Eliza, called Doctor, which pretended to offer an elemental type of psychotherapy—basically mirroring whatever a "patient" said.
" The comedians in 2016 also pretended to be "undecided" voters during the presidential election and spoke with presidential candidates on the campaign trail in their Amazon Prime movie "Undecided.
Yesterday, a little girl's father tweeted out that his daughter pretended to be FaceTiming with Solange, only to have the artist respond herself wanting to make it a reality.
That November landing at SAS Institute wasn&apost the only time Desgroux pretended to be a general despite never serving in the U.S. military, prosecutor Barbara Kocher said Tuesday.
I pretended to care about figures, phrases and a sterile way of thinking that muffled my real personality and kept those nagging ideas of freedom and happiness at bay.
Yes, I leaned against the very wall where Ms. Hepburn pretended to slumber; not quite as good as being discovered by Mr. Peck, but it would have to do.
For example, in North Carolina, prosecutors refused to pursue charges against a woman who pretended to be her dead mother so that she could vote for Donald Trump twice.
I pretended to like them intently at one point because the person I was sleeping with or wanted to sleep with liked them and I wanted to impress them.
For example, in the 103s, David (he prefers to go by his first name) pretended to be Alex Von Fürstenberg, the son of famed fashion designer Diane Von Fürstenberg.
Usually the most we can expect is a poignant end-credits glimpse of the real people our favorite movie stars have pretended to be for the previous two hours.
In an elaborate ruse, Zeus transformed himself into a magnificent swan and pretended to escape from a bird of prey, then laid down next to Leda and impregnated her.
Though they were fantasies in so many other ways, most of Donald Trump's scams — from bankrupt casinos to phony universities — never really pretended to be in the public interest.
One of the best things about Loudon Wainwright III, who was raised among the country clubs of Westchester County, is that he's never pretended to be anything he isn't.
In the facility's kitchen, she checked the temperatures in refrigerators and freezers, pretended to swab for bacteria on the floors and counters, looked for expired food, and took photos.
When the line gets its first tragic call, Archie immediately breaks a pencil, grabs a baseball bat, and picks up his mask, which he pretended to throw out earlier.
Past impostors, known as catfish in social media parlance, have switched gender or sexual orientation, pretended to be their sons or girlfriends, and even invented babies and dead pets.
One assailant had even dropped his gun and pretended to be an officer ushering panicked recruits into the apparent safety of the dining facility, one of the officials said.
Sarah Palin went on a Facebook tirade alleging that Cohen had pretended to be a disabled veteran and that his crew had dropped her off at the wrong airport.
And while it's notable how many women participated in Surrealism, albeit on the sidelines, the movement was sexist even as it pretended to exalt women and encourage their liberation.
But beyond watching dogs confusedly serpentine across parks in anticipation of a ball that would never land, one I pretended to throw, I had no real experience with trolling.
So many people ate or pretended to eat the poisonous pods of laundry detergent that eventually stores had to lock the pods up to ensure they were being purchased responsibly.
He continued appearing on TV into the noughties, with cameos on Little Britain Abroad and Ricky Gervais' Extras, where he pretended to be caught taking drugs at the Bafta awards.
Instead, after Adele kicked off the show with a performance of "Hello," the Late Late Show host pretended to bungle his entrance before launching into a rap about the ceremony.
One pretended to be Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian, and the newspaper says Johnson spoke to them for 18 minutes, discussing topics including the poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal.
This wasn't the prankster's first major endeavor — they previously pretended to be Howard Stern and executives at Citibank and Goldman Sachs — but this one apparently came from a personal place.
Ninety percent of those were from corrupt defector aid groups that pretended to help rescue defectors but instead only pocketed aid money raised in the United States and South Korea.
For them, there seemed to be an important difference: Mr Trump was what he was, and made no bones about it, whereas she pretended to be a noble public servant.
I pretended to care, but when Scott went to the men's room, I drained every last drop of pulque from the three plastic sample cups he had so carelessly abandoned.
Clinton's campaign said that three women in Iowa, including one named Allison Holmes, pretended to be supporters in an apparent effort to catch the campaign participating in an illegal activity.
During the 22008 World Cup in Cairo, Egypt, when Meloon was 22008, he climbed into her bed and digitally penetrated her while she pretended to be asleep, the lawsuit says.
"[Trump] used to be kind of like the boob of New York that pretended to be wealthy, or we thought was wealthy, and now he's just a psychotic," Letterman said.
He picked up a guitar and pretended to play, and before long this bit of flimflam mutated into the formation of the Nuns, a foundational Bay Area glam-punk outfit.
Stout of frame and sweaty of brow, he looked more like a workaday suburban dad, which he is, than a celebrity chef, which he has never exactly pretended to be.
Mr. Nuttall, the judge wrote, "demonstrated a naïve, childlike demeanor right from the start" of his dealings with the undercover officers, who pretended to be bent on launching an attack.
In 2017, the president had a viral moment when he pretended to drive a tractor-trailer during a photo-op at the White House with leaders from the trucking industry.
For a year starting at age 4 he pretended to be a dog and padded around the house on all fours, woofing, which may have been his first acting experience.
Top White House economic advisor Gary Cohn pretended to have a bad connection to get off a call with President Donald Trump this month, a Democratic senator said Wednesday. Sen.
"I've never said I'm a perfect person, nor pretended to be someone that I'm not," said Mr. Trump, a 70-year-old real estate developer and former reality television star.
So Homeland Security officials looking to evaluate the agency had a clever idea: They pretended to be terrorists, and tried to smuggle guns and bombs onto planes 7373 different times.
Hathaway also recalled that her first audition was for a anti-smoking PSA, which required her to keep a straight face while someone pretended to cough up a blue earmuff.
Jean-Raymond's family didn't think he could handle it, so every once in a while, they'd put him on the phone with an aunt who pretended to be his mother.
The tapes, recorded by an ally of Keiko Fujimori who pretended to be toying with the idea of switching sides, appeared to trace graft to the highest levels of government.
But as he sat with other believers in his high school auditorium, watching his mentor prowl the same stage where Foster had pretended to be Thoreau, he saw only artifice.
An artist had his video go viral here this week, after he dressed up as an astronaut and pretended to moonwalk across potholed roads in the tech hub of Bengaluru.
To avoid persecution and be accepted as naturalized citizens, many pretended to be Bengalis who migrated from East Pakistan before the 1971 war of independence, after which it became Bangladesh.
While members of Congress currying favor with the president by patronizing his businesses is pretty close to the textbook definition of corruption, McCarthy has pretended to be oblivious about it.
Alana "Honey Boo Boo" Thompson apparently pretended to snort cocaine on social media on Thursday, over four months after her mother Mama June Shannon was arrested on drug possession charges.
He pretended to play mute, seeming to draw inward, and tried to shake off his assailants, but they didn't loosen their grasp until he was turned over to the police.
While on a visit to a girls' school in Morocco, the couples' pregnancy was top of mind and the Duke of Sussex jokingly pretended to know nothing about the matter.
The huckster has pretended to recognize Aldo, and Aldo assumes he might be a former student from the time when he taught high school or at a university in Rome.
I sneaked inside a hotel lobby, hid in the bathroom for 45 minutes, pretended to be a guest as I re-emerged, and had the doorman hail me a cab.
Scientology honcho David Miscavige had reason to fear a guy who threatened to kill him, because we've learned the guy was armed with ammo and pretended to be a cop.
One attention-grabbing moment from her 2015 hosting stint came when she declared that the R&B-focused award show isn't for rappers and jokingly pretended to call rapper Iggy Azalea.
Anyone who's ever performed a mini concert in the comfort of their shower or pretended to be a guest on Carpool Karaoke knows that singing out loud, without restraint, feels amazing.
Asked about Antonin Scalia, who died Saturday, the former president said the following on CNN: I always kind of liked Justice Scalia because he never pretended to believe something he didn't.
A YouTube star is facing backlash after she disguised herself as a high-ranking Walmart executive and pretended to fire employees at a Texas store as part of a "prank" video.
A flight attendant who allegedly started a fire on board an airplane, then pretended to have discovered a fire and put it out, was in court on Wednesday facing federal charges.
Saleh has previously shared videos that seek to expose Muslim stereotypes, as well as a recent clip where he pretended to travel in his luggage — a hoax that was quickly exposed.
Johnson talked international relations and rude poetry with a hoax caller who pretended to be the Armenian prime minister in an embarrassing new gaffe for one of Britain's most prominent politicians.
The attack occurred in a parking lot outside the mosque, during Maghreb prayers, when the bomber pretended to break the Ramadan fast with a group of security personnel, al Arabiya reported.
The bottom line: Unlike most others, who pretended to leave on fine terms, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis bailed with a sharp, specific, stinging rebuke of Trump and his America-first worldview.
At the 2016 Critic's Choice Awards, Stanfield took the stage and pretended to accept the trophy for Best Comedy Series, though the award had actually been won by HBO's Silicon Valley.
Pre-sentencing court documents filed this week by the defense said the other inmate pretended to show an interest in converting to Islam and then concocted the scheme against the judge.
The AU pretended to believe that the coup against Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe in 2017 was not a coup (and that the election that replaced him with Emmerson Mnangagwa was fair).
On the July 29 episode, Moore sat down with Cohen who pretended to be an Israeli security expert named Erran Morad to discuss the development of a machine that detects pedophiles.
When the Scream star hosted Saturday Night Live in 1997, she revealed that hadn't seen the show very often and pretended to know David Bowie, the musical guest on that night.
She had never been archetypal, or average – to play the "good" political wife, she merely pretended to be – and perhaps she now had the potential to be out and out extraordinary.
The Taliban sent out a 6-year-old girl, who unconvincingly pretended to be herding her goats while really reporting the location of the US soldiers by radio to the Taliban.
We did a little role-play where I pretended to make fun of her, and that really helped her get the gusto to confidently put the other kids in their place.
Where Ryan has built himself up as an honest, poised man of substance, Trump not only has never pretended to these particular virtues, he has delighted in demonstrating their political uselessness.
On the July 29 episode, Moore sat down with Cohen, who pretended to be an Israeli security expert named Erran Morad, to discuss the development of a machine that detects pedophiles.
All they can do is make plain the choice America faces between hewing to ideals that everyone in public life once at least pretended to revere, or consenting to their defilement.
EgyptAir's security procedures last came under scrutiny in March when a passenger on a domestic flight pretended to be wearing an explosive vest and forced the plane to land in Cyprus.
His enthusiasm for Christianity bothered her; she was sure he was hiding something ("He pretended to have forgotten all of his African religion," she wrote in her 1942 book Dust Tracks).
Mind you, mine was not plugged in because I was a child, not a teenager, but I 100% had one and definitely pretended to be making important phone calls on it.
I broke into a sweat, and then, faking a smile, I pretended to text a friend while, in fact, I frantically Googled the items on the list to see their pictures.
He watched in awe as I shamelessly pretended to hit the security guard over the head with a box of Choco Coco Chanel trying to escape with my Chanel branded goodies.
She found her models on Tinder, just like in her last photo series, Lifeconstruction, in which she pretended to be in long-term relationships with people she had recently matched with.
We can talk about it for what it is, not what it pretended to be for so many decades, which allows us to criticize it in new, fun, more honest ways.
Donald Trump and his allies pretended to give you a gift, but they gave themselves and their wealthy patrons much bigger gifts — and they're going to stick you with the bill.
Let me also bash their enablers — all those who were duped into believing their claims to be deficit hawks, or pretended to believe them in order to appear balanced and bipartisan.
She pretended to hang on Mr. Mummolo's every word, not letting on she had already bought him a Chuck Berry guitar for Christmas autographed by Mr. Berry on the pick guard.
Didi Gregorius hit a grand slam to right off reliever Tyler Duffy, and it was such a no-doubter that right fielder Eddie Rosario never even pretended to go after it.
Illiterate in the language, I pretended to read it as I sat there alone, between the wall and a display case of macaroons, looking at medieval illustrations of the 10 plagues.
He said he had pretended to have obtained the rights to the life story of the opera singer Kathleen Battle and intended to produce a one-woman show starring Ms. Nyong'o.
The technology first gained widespread attention in April 20203, when comedian Jordan Peele created a video that pretended to show former President Barack Obama insulting President Donald Trump in a speech.
One assailant had pretended to be a wounded soldier, replete with an intravenous drip bottle attached to his arm, officials said, as the trucks passed through seven checkpoints toward the base.
Other runners, unaware that Bell was acting, tried to help her when she pretended to struggle, which required some finessing by the crew to make sure they still got their shots.
Other runners, unaware that Bell was acting, tried to help her when she pretended to struggle, which required some finessing by the crew to make sure they still got their shots.
We haven't seen the real Gargoyle King's face yet, though several people have pretended to be him, and he has appeared as a vision to plenty of people high on fizzle rocks.
The refrain was peppered through celebrations (like when midfielder Allie Long pretended to eat a page from the lawsuit while goalkeeper Ashlyn Harris said, "pay us, [expletive]" in a social media post).
The infamous hack of the cheaters' hook-up site revealed that it enticed men through an army of chatbots—more than 70,000 in all—that pretended to be women looking for flings.
I interpreted this as Mae becoming the true zealot the Circle's leaders pretended to be, turning on both the rebel and the establishment to lead the Circle toward a post-privacy world.
" Jack assumed that Nicky's animosity towards the Vietnamese villagers (he pretended to shoot them with his hand) led to the innocent boy's death, thus leading to Nicky's discharge due to "psychiatric reasons.
Both of us being only children of Japanese immigrants in New York City, we saw each other more as family than friends, and we often pretended to strangers that we were twins.
"Security team members burst into the subject&aposs cell, shouting and howling" while one of the interrogators "walled him five times" and then pretended to interrupt the mock killing and rescue him.
Dee Dee had pretended to the world that Gypsy Rose was severely physically and mentally ill — perhaps for the attention, sympathy, or so that Gypsy would be more reliant on Dee Dee.
The man who pretended to be Justin Bieber, trolling the Internet looking for the singer's fans and strong-armed one of them to send nudes, will spend some serious time behind bars.
Instead of simply hiding food in their pockets, a group of creative friends in California taped half watermelons to their stomachs and pretended to be pregnant when they went to the movies.
When she was asked to get up so they could pose for photographs by themselves, William and Kate got the giggles as they pretended to talk among themselves naturally for the photographers.
P2P lending (of the sort Ezubao pretended to offer) has rushed into the gaps, matching depositors who want higher rates of return with small firms that cannot get credit from big banks.
Perhaps most insidious of all was the online incarnation known as "Blacktivist," whose Facebook page garnered more likes than the one belonging to Black Lives Matter, whose cause it pretended to champion.
While still a teenager she pursued her dream of being an artist, studying at 21950 (she pretended to be 505) at the National Academy of Design, and then the Art Students League.
One boy was making a tall structure with symmetrically arranged arches and towers—and, thus, exploring principles of geometry—while a girl pretended to snap photographs of it with a small block.
Once play resumed and Benoit lost a point, the Frenchman pretended to have a shoe issue of his own and sat in his chair, testing the chair's patience but earning no warning.
Podcast host John Melendez, better known as "Stuttering John," pretended to be the Democratic senator from New Jersey last week by calling the White House and asking to speak to the President.
It was the first time I wasn't held a silent hostage by the hopes for the man I wanted him to be or the lies of the man he pretended to be.
In an appearance on the CBS program The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Biden pretended to confuse Colbert with another comedian and talk show host, Jimmy Kimmel, provoking laughter from the audience.
Decades after this fight is done, they will greet each other with open arms and warm words, thinking about all the cash they earned back when they pretended to hate each other.
U.S. doubles tennis star Mike Bryan pretended to load his racket like a gun and shoot a line judge over an incorrect call ... and the guy was fined $10,000 for the gesture.
The lesson to be learned from this is that President Trump is not the fighter he pretended to be during the campaign, but that he's actually someone who folds when credibly accused.
Last year, Google revealed how the company had used YouTube videos of the Mannequin Challenge (where people pretended to be frozen in place) to train a tool to predict depth in videos.
They pretended to be showing off their dramatic chops, declared they were passionate about production design and broke into a terrifically precise little musical medley to introduce the best costume design nominees.
Those who weren't immediately executed, like Ngor, a physician who pretended to be a taxi driver, were sent to detention camps where they died from being starved, worked to death and tortured.
Where Beck once pretended to accept Joe's horrific history, Love actually does, and answers in kind with her own truths that chill even Joe (not to mention us) with her manic energy.
Luckily, I had draped part of my comforter over the side of the bed where my boyfriend was, and I pretended to be half-asleep as my mom came into the room.
Though it started as a parody of straight-edge hardcore bands, as time has gone on, the a capella duo has become the reverently worshipped hardcore act they always pretended to be.
A lonely guy pretended to get stood up on a romantic Valentine's Day dinner at Outback, wasted hours of a well-meaning but clueless server's night, and went home with a free meal.
That's where a wannabe scammer pretended to be Emin Gün Sirer, a professor at Cornell University, and asked people to send him Bitcoin, promising to give them a stake into the Tezos platform.
There, he and his colleague Kyaw Soe Oo were given documents rolled up in a newspaper, instructed to read them later–and then pounced on by police, who pretended to discover the documents.
Once country's wildest child, ACM Honoree Tanya Tucker proved that at 57, she's as rowdy as ever when she pretended to flash the camera and then planted a kiss on Cole Swindell's cheek.
Even when I was no longer reading books for class, there were so many others I wanted to thumb through: moody New York novels, or old classics I'd long pretended to have read.
This is the city in Slaver's Bay that was liberated, even if only temporarily, by Daenerys Targaryen when she pretended to buy a slave army and ordered them to kill their former masters.
According to an arrest affidavit previously obtained by PEOPLE, Lopez said that after spotting the alleged Craigslist ad in late December, he contacted the victim and pretended to be an experienced hired killer.
It originally pretended to be a dupe of Malwarebytes' Adware Medic app, and Apple removed it from the App Store until it changed its name to Doctor to bypass the exact name copy.
A 14-year-old boy allegedly pretended to be a police officer as he stole a blind man&aposs wallet at a New York City subway station last week, police said on Sunday.
The actress sported an off-the-shoulder white maxi dress with gold polka dots and pretended to blow out two sparklers on a cake that was designed to look just like her dress.
The targets: Actress Rose McGowan: Two investigators from Black Cube, one of whom pretended to be a women's rights advocate, met with actress Rose McGowan, who publicly accused Weinstein of rape last month.
Steve Harvey's come-to-Jesus chat with his "sister," Mo'Nique -- about Hollywood blackballing her -- got seriously heated to the point she pretended to punch him ... 'cause ain't no fight like a family fight!
Sources close to the couple tell us once the baby's name was revealed, One Direction fans started creating bogus social media accounts with Freddie's name, and pretended to be associated with the family.
Dressed in a suit, 2503-year-old Lopez walked over to the pink plaque, gestured to a man with a recording device and pretended to urinate as the water sprinkled onto the ground.
They want to manage it in as smooth a way as possible," said Shihabi, adding that Mohammed bin Salman's Saudi Arabia never pretended to implement anything other than a "top-down reform process.
Earlier this year, he pretended to sneeze when pronouncing the name of a Chinese executive whose last name is Chiu — pronounced "choo" — and has drawn criticism for speaking flippantly about Indians and Bulgarians.
Asiashu Tshitamba, a 26-year-old South African cagefighter, produced a stunning knockout at EFC 81 but caused controversy with his celebration when he pretended to shoot his downed opponent in the head.
Mr. Perez pretended to have never played squash when Ms. Wedel, who is quite experienced at the sport, invited him to play, and he irritated her to no end when he beat her.
I was on Greta Van Susteren's show to talk about a story I was chasing about a couple who pretended to be Scottish royalty, though they were actually living off of entitlement programs.
Once things were safely under wraps, the director positioned me at a podium in front of a group of extras, pretending to be readers, pretending to ask questions, while I pretended to answer.
The only people besides the carabinieri who knew about the substitution were the priest of the church and the local mayor, and in the hours after the theft, they pretended to be distraught.
The models would talk to their callers about what they themselves liked in bed, but the point was kind of lost if they then pretended to orgasm at the drop of a hat.
The ex-wife of Moynan's ex-boyfriend told police she had also pretended to be Moynan on the phone with her property manager and that she had a copy of Moynan's driver's license.
Perhaps Trump can delegate his executive authorities in the same way as he used to license his name, pretending to be president just as he once pretended to be a real-estate tycoon.
Teigen and Legend were dinner guests at the Kardashian-Jenners&apos home on Wednesday, and jokingly pretended to be inconsiderate and rude to their hosts in other videos posted to Jenner&aposs story.
Trump invited trucking industry representatives to the White House in order to discuss health care proposals and infrastructure, but before things got serious, he climbed into a semi-truck and pretended to drive.
In doing this, he learns the inner peace and patience that makes him attain, inadvertently, the kind of spirituality he pretended to have at the start of the show as a silent monk.
When he emerged seven years ago, he was a high-fashion natural, displaying the sort of comfort and fluency in that world other rappers had pretended to pull off but never quite nailed.
After scoring his second touchdown against Cleveland, his former team, Crowell pretended to go to the bathroom in the end zone, using the football as a prop before tossing it into the stands.
Judge John Hodgman Emily writes: My boyfriend, Nicky, grew up being "woozled" at bedtime: His parents would pick through his hair for imaginary creatures, which they then pretended to feed to his dog.
Vaginal gels and rings releasing H.I.V.-killing drugs have failed in clinical trials — not because they don't work, but because many trial participants threw them away and only pretended to have used them.
And nobody should mistake Prince Mohammed for the benign reformer he once pretended to be, or to let him believe he has closed the chapter on the barbaric extermination of a troublesome critic.
I remember standing there—you know, in a dumpster—as they pretended to walk away whilst giggling, thinking to myself in my ten-year-old brain, I cannot believe this is my life.
Drake got punked by an impostor who pretended to be his manager and put the word out the rapper was putting his incredible estate on the market ... and the media took the bait.
Last year a man, hard hat at a cocky angle, strode across stage and pretended to use construction equipment wrong to show how Microsoft's AI could identify and tag unsafe practices on a worksite.
Pretended to be pregnant When Wilkins came to Lane's house in Longmont, about 40 miles north of Denver, Lane beat and stabbed her, cutting into her uterus and removing the fetus, according to prosecutors.
Theon used his ironborn pirates to take over his former home in order to impress his Greyjoy father — and pretended to burn the bodies of Bran (Isaac Hempstead-Wright) and Rickon Stark (Art Parkinson).
The little girl made it past security checks by taking "advantage of her small size" and pretended to be with a group of adults boarding an EasyJet flight at the Geneva Airport, police said.
Spencer embarrassed the hell out of himself on Sunday's episode of "Who Is America?" when he appeared in a segment where Cohen pretended to be an ex-Israeli military officer offering anti-terrorism training.
For the prank, Cohen, 46, pretended to be an Israeli self-defense and anti-terrorist expert who visited Smiley, 44, and Rossi's home to teach them how to defend themselves against a home invasion.
He told the Detroit Free Press that the idea was to remind people who pretended to be Irish for a day about what life was really like for Irish immigrants in the 19th century.
"He used to be kind of like the boob of New York that pretended to be wealthy, or we thought was wealthy, and now he's just a psychotic," the former late-night host said.
He was born an outsider, lived outside of America, and realized that assimilation would exact a high price; he would have to forget where he came from, as Andy Warhol often pretended to do.
Black Cube spied on these women, using agents who pretended to be journalists or other interested parties, in a wide-ranging and expensive campaign of dirt-collecting for the purposes of intimidation and suppression.
Ettel later told Huffington Post she only "pretended" to call the police because the girl was being loud, and the San Francisco Police Department confirmed to NBC News that it never received a complaint.
To fuel his crack habit back in 230, he walked into 210 stores over eight days and either distracted a clerk or pretended to have a concealed gun before stealing from the cash register.
In another instance, a hacker pretended to be a New York Times reporter by the name of "Lucy Leung" asked their target to click on a link, claiming it led to a news article.
Though she was certain she would soon be killed, Solis pretended to be dead on the carpet, waiting as many as 20 minutes before ultimately summoning the bravery to rise from that church floor.
The foul misogynists on Reddit never pretended to be anything other than foul misogynists; it was the genteel chauvinism of the enlightened elites at Kleiner Perkins that carried with it the sting of betrayal.
Trump's comments after the shootings in El Paso and Dayton weren't the first time he's pretended to be interested in background checks, only to reverse course after the issue fell from the front pages.
In addition to building the replica memorial, Mr. Ruch and his colleagues pretended to monitor Mr. Höcke's family home from a fake spy room with old electronic equipment that was also open to visitors.
SOLOMON L. WISENBERG, deputy independent counsel: Hickman Ewing, our deputy from the Little Rock office, who's from Tennessee, pretended to be Bill Clinton to give us a flavor of what was going to happen.
I made up some sort of story and cut my date short, walked out with him, pretended to head home, then went back to the venue to soak up more of this guy's energy.
Tuesday, at the third exercise — essentially a Dungeons and Dragons-style game for law enforcement, government employees and security researchers — a "red team" pretended to attack a city, while a "blue team" defended it.
WARREN BUFFETT: Well, people have pretended to be me on both Facebook and Twitter, I mean— BECKY QUICK: Have you guys gone after the people who— WARREN BUFFETT: We did it for a while.
Cardboard Air Band — with you and Ellen, Bobby G, Becky Howland, Walter Robinson, Debby Davis, Alan Moore, me, and others — was really fun when we pretended to play our hybrid music on cardboard instruments.
He'd looked at her and crossed his lips with his index finger, and Danielle had nodded and pretended to zip her own lips, to assure her father that his secret was safe with her.
When they had finished, this second and final time, and while he dozed or pretended to in the bedroom, she went through the narrow hallway and into the kitchen again; she examined his lair.
When I finally asked her political views, figuring even she must have thoughts on the current state of the world, she pretended to take a phone call, so she wouldn't have to respond to me.
Whitaker, who had left the home after saying he was going to get his cell phone, returned and then pretended to try to confront the shooter and shot himself in his arm, he told ABC.
Bowling Green, Kentucky (CNN)Hillary Clinton impersonated Donald Trump at an event Monday, mocking the presumptive Republican nominee during a speech where the former secretary of state pretended to be in a general election debate.
They employed me as a lifeguard, but I never saved anyone—all I did was fold towels, clean windows, check chlorine, and talk to rich people about their problems as they pretended to swim laps.
So, in total, Theon turned on Jon's believed half-brother, who later died violently, pretended to roast Jon's other half-brothers alive, actually roasted two of Jon's technical subjects alive, and killed Jon's childhood teacher.
There's certainly precedent for implementing player suggestions in battle royale-style games: in PUBG, fans pretended to become zombies against a single survivor, and the unofficial mode eventually got put into the game for real.
Justin Bieber fans and their parents are being urged to be extra careful when using the internet after a man pretended to be the pop star in order to commit hundreds of child sex offenses.
A Florida man police believe killed his ex-wife and then pretended to be her in text messages to her parents allegedly murdered his former in-laws and their adult son when they expressed suspicion.
A 4-year-old Missouri girl who heard gunshots pretended to be asleep and survived while her father fatally shot and killed her mother, her half-brother and then himself, according to multiple media reports.
But if a leader can convince the public that it exists and is a real threat, he can manipulate that threat into empowering himself, undercutting the values that the deep state had pretended to safeguard.
Earlier this week, the prankster pretended to be Kushner and wrote to Kushner's real attorney, Lowell, about the (fictitious) adult content of emails he had shared with White House officials, as covered by Business Insider.
Meanwhile, the Trump-Ailes axis of abuse raises another question: Is sexual predation by senior political figures — which Mr. Ailes certainly was, even if he pretended to be in the journalism business — a partisan phenomenon?
One of the callers pretended to be new Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, and the newspaper said Johnson spoke to them for 18 minutes, discussing topics like the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal.
In one of the longer bits, the pair pretended to audition for the role of the white Diana Ross in a show about the Supremes, but the humor was a little too flighty to land.
I pretended to sleep over at a friend's house, when in fact we fled Brattleboro for New York City (in a teenager-driven car — terrible!) to see Simon and Garfunkel's free concert in Central Park.
In March, a white teacher at an affluent New York private school was accused of holding a mock slave auction for her students in which white fifth-graders pretended to bid on their black peers.
But while other reporters, like Neil Sheehan, never pretended to be otherwise, Herr writes in a way that sucks you in, makes you feel that he, and maybe you too, are in the combat zone.
In January the hosts, "Romper Room"–style, even pretended to be watching Potus, showing a video feed of the White House and asking him to flash the lights on and off if he was watching.
Mahmoud, a Raqqa resident who fled a year ago, said friends told him that food was so scarce that they saved it for their children and pretended to chew at meal times, to fool them.
Richard's first sermon, he pretended to bring the person who started the fires to church to question him in an imaginary court, to try to understand what the person was struggling with in their heart.
On a different tee, he took his driver head cover, decorated with studded stars, and pretended to give a back rub to Rodgers and Jerry Kelly, the other pro, by brushing it over their sweaters.
We did the same thing with The Dirties—we pretended to be high school students making a film about us planning a school shooting—I talked with students, teachers, and friends in the exact same capacity.
One of our friends just went on a date from hell with a guy who pretended to dine-and-dash on their date (WTF?!), so we talk shit about LA's dating climate while sipping on Americanos.
Kratz previously told PEOPLE that when Avery called the magazine the day of the murder, he pretended to be his sister, Barb Janda by providing her name and number to lure her over to his house.
Other commenters pretended to be predators themselves, using time stamping — a tool that bad actors use to signal parts of a video that in turn sexualizes a child — in an attempt to get a video removed.
Facebook said Thursday that it has removed hundreds of pages and accounts that pretended to be real news sites from places in Eastern Europe, but were actually operated employees from Russian state-owned news company Sputnik.
Porn performer and activist Arabelle Raphael told me about one person who pretended to be her husband on Twitter, using their account to tweet nasty insults and cruel comments about her supposed inadequacies as a wife.
Clearly elated by this turn of events, Mark Zuckerberg invited Bill Gates to sit on a couch and endure almost 60 seconds of very bad acting as he pretended to spot Harvard's invitation on his iPhone.
The report states he had also pretended to grab his gun while talking to a pizza delivery driver and joked that he was Markeith Loyd, a Florida man who is accused of killing a police officer.
But officials say Watters pretended to be Backstreet Boys member Howie Dorough, ex-MLB star Johnny Damon and former Orlando Magic head coach Scott Skiles -- among many others -- in order to scam them out of money.
When I first got to the city, I met these drag queens who were throwing this party called Mall Goth—basically they dressed up and pretended to be these two girls who work at the mall.
At the base's dining hall, witnesses said one attacker set down his weapon and pretended to guide soldiers to safety, only to lock the door behind him and set off a suicide vest in their midst.
I know he is married with kids now; I actually saw him in a grocery store a few months ago and put my hood up and pretended to look at feta cheese until he was gone.
In one case, an undercover agent pretended to be a 216-year-old Muslim woman, sending flirtatious messages to a Michigan terror suspect that implied she wanted to be his ISIS bride, according to court records.
These masterpieces never pretended to supply the last word on love, friendship, forgiveness, loss, hope or possibility, but they added a dimension to how we think about these concepts that lodged in our consciousness, maybe permanently.
Marilyn Manson showed a shocking lack of empathy Sunday night as he pretended to spray the crowd with bullets from a fake semi-automatic weapon ... in a county that is still reeling from a mass shooting.
Australian police ran one site for six months and pretended to be the owner, posting from his account; the FBI did the same when they briefly operated the dark web child pornography site Playpen in 2015.
For months he has pretended to negotiate on a political solution to a five-year-old civil war between his client, President Bashar al-Assad, and rebels backed by the United States and some Arab nations.
In my home state of Arizona, voters have slowly discovered that Kyrsten Sinema is not really the centrist she has pretended to be and are turning toward the Republican candidate, Martha McSally, a former fighter pilot.
Turns out, Bryan was right to protest -- the replay showed the ball was out -- and as part of his celebration for the successful challenge, he pointed his racket at a line judge and pretended to shoot.
At the same time, by the end of the week Trump was dealing with a controversy over whether he had at one time falsely pretended to be his own publicist in a call to a reporter.
Trump, on the other hand, pretended to be a populist — he even claimed that he would raise taxes on the rich — and waited until taking office to reveal himself as just another reverse-Robin Hood Republican.
In a win at Atlanta that night, James pretended to try to block a Rondo layup — just to show how much fun his team was having — as Los Angeles moved to a glittering 24-3 record.
Then, under a profile named Blinky Bill, he pretended to be an employee of their label who was begging for fans not to tell his boss, even though the album came out on MacKenzie's own label.
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson talked international relations and rude poetry with a hoax caller who pretended to be the Armenian prime minister in a new gaffe by one of Britain's most prominent politicians.
Mississippi State won the Egg Bowl on Thursday against its archrival Ole Miss after the Rebels earned a late unsportsmanlike-conduct penalty for a celebration in which receiver Elijah Moore pretended to pee like a dog.
USA soccer star Alex Morgan is upset that people are upset with her for daring to be brash after her team defeated England in the World Cup and she pretended to sip a cup of tea.
In an effort to intimidate and vex their enemies, Ukrainian troops have at times pretended to be members of US Navy SEAL Team 6 and give orders over the radio in English, The Daily Signal said.
Team Canada's Dylan Strome invoked either Katniss Everdeen or Legolas or Hawkeye or baseball's Fernando Rodney when he pretended to reach into a bag of arrows and fire one into the air after scoring a goal.
All of which begs the question: What in the world would drive a guy to write a book he's pretended to have discovered about a writer who's penning a memoir about a suburban bachelor outside of DC?
BuzzFeed News looked at retweet counts and found that the most viral tweets were posted by accounts that Linvill and Warren called Left Trolls, and which pretended to be liberal black Americans tweeting about black identity issues.
The son of "Tarzan" star Ron Ely said he had a gun and pretended to draw the weapon before 4 deputies fired a total of 24 rounds, ultimately killing the actor's son ... this according to law enforcement.
He's pretended to date Lana Condor, and is currently shooting his shot with Selena Gomez, but I think Centineo would love to play arm candy to an A-Lister like, say, Jennifer Garner or Tracey Ellis Ross (!!).
In order to protect its massive store of the substance, Wakanda has pretended to be a primitive nation throughout its history, hiding its advancements from the rest of the world with the aid of a force field.
In this view, Facebook is a naive weakling afraid to take any enforcement action on its platform; Apple, on the other hand, is the practical one who never pretended to embrace free speech in the first place.
At 240, her refusal to adhere to society's view of how a woman of her age should behave incites anger and repulsion (Piers Morgan pretended to vomit into a bucket following her 583 appearance on Carpool Karaoke).
The first dude I ever kind of dated built me a skateboard and we'd spend weekends listening to AlexisOnFire and Thursday on West 4th and at Union Square, while I pretended to know what I was doing.
The lawsuit alleges Hickey pretended to be a woman named Deja Stwalley, who claimed to live in Las Vegas where she ran a number of talent companies, including New Seattle Talent, West Coast Talent and FMH Modeling.
The strategy: Russian hackers pretended to be friends of friends of people in Macron's circle, ostensibly to gain personal information, plant malicious software, or gain access to their electronic accounts — an objective that seems to have failed.
According to the The Guardian, he pretended to take care of the now-21-year-old after she had too much to drink, even going so far as to check her pulse in front of his friends.
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Commuters in Taiwan on Tuesday pretended to hit a ball with a bat, swim and run on a Taipei subway train as part of a campaign to promote the capital's Summer Universiade games this month.
After Mia's famous glow-up, that all changed, and Lana pretended to buddy up to the high schooler she had bullied for years — not that Mia wanted anything to do with her at that point, of course.
One girl pretended to backhand him when he put bunny ears on her — Alex proceeded to limp back to his podium, clutching his chest in mock pain, groaning, 'Aye, that was brutal — she gave me a whack!
His success was consolidated by 2009's Close-Up, a radically inventive "docufiction" about a man who pretended to be a real filmmaker, and tricked a family into thinking they were the subjects of his supposed movie.
William received Thomas' first call in which Thomas pretended to be "Mega Millions" and told William he won $15.5 million and a Mercedez-Benz, but needed to send Thomas $50,85033 to pay for taxes, according to CNN.
A 2013 Tumblr post from literary editor Sarah Weinman points out that not only was this far from Tomasso Debenedetti's first hoax involving legendary writers—it's not even the first time he's pretended to be Don DeLillo.
Obvious Twitter jokes that get mistaken for the truth can get you suspended, as happened with VICE contributor Krang T. Nelson, when that user pretended to be a violent leftist in the process of overthrowing the government.
Ettel, who said earlier this week that's she's received thousands of death threats since the video was uploaded, later said she just "pretended" to call the police on the young girl because she was continuously yelling outside.
When she failed to get that apartment, she joined forces with Mr. Douglas, who pretended to be her boyfriend during her next apartment visit in the West Village, which she had arranged through another real estate agent.
The president viciously mocked Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, acting mentally confused as he pretended to be Ms. Feinstein responding to a question about whether her staff had leaked information about one of Judge Kavanaugh's accusers.
When a researcher pretended to drop a fruit onto a tray and reach for it unsuccessfully, signaling a desire for the snack, 58 percent of the babies picked up the fruit and gave it to the researcher.
It wasn't wheelchair-accessible; it was accused of overcharging its customers; and, as VICE reported, the shop's publicist pretended to be its first customer in a television interview, during which she raved about the service she received.
"That would have been the mass-shooter&aposs final joke against society: to trick all journalists into writing inaccurate and stupid copy and going after certain individuals who pretended to be influencing him," Higgins told First Draft.
She said, with some discomfort, that it was fine if any of the children or their parents supported Hamburger S.V. — the other, bigger club in the city — but she pretended to gag as she said its name.
"Al Franken, Giant of the Senate" is, in part, the story of how Franken became a giant phony — how he pretended to be a serious person in public even as his inner comic monologue never stopped running.
The lawsuit also says that Eugene's half-sister Rachel Jeantel pretended to be Eugene when she was interviewed by prosecutors and provided false statements to incriminate Zimmerman based on coaching from others in court during his trial.
Some have even created best practice guidelines for using virality to push Le Pen to a win, while others have more deviously pretended to be French in order to better spread their partisan memes, as reported by BuzzFeed.
The scalps that followed included British politicians, an Uber executive (targeted after stories about the company's improper acquisition of a passenger's medical records), and actor Kevin Spacey in a gag in which Linton pretended to be Hugh Jackman.
According to court documents obtained by PEOPLE, Darin Schilmiller of New Salisbury, Indiana, pretended to be someone named "Tyler" in online conversations with 18-year-old Denali Brehmer, who is accused of planning the killing of Cynthia Hoffman.
Specifically focusing on children, the researchers reported that movies were turning young viewers into "delinquents," with girls becoming promiscuous and boys aggressive (or at least they pretended to be, when playing) thanks to what they'd seen on film.
This was mostly ignored and instead, mainstream parties pretended to have listened to the French people by borrowing from Le Pen's discourse, rather than by reinventing more positive and courageous politics that might appeal to the wider population.
According to The Sun, the cut happened at the Royal Lodge in Windsor when the royal pretended to knight fellow pop star James Blunt — not knowing Sheeran was standing close behind her when she swung the ceremonial sword.
Delvey — real name Anna Sorokin — perpetrated a years-long swindle where she pretended to be a German heiress, and tricked banks into giving her more than $22 million in loans, as well as tricking bankers, hotels, and socialites.
Dozens of people have been indicted for their involvement in a scam in which call-center operators in India pretended to be IRS and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials, the Justice Department of Justice (DOJ) said Thursday.
"He stood there and pretended to cry and mentioned mass shootings and conveniently left out Fort Hood," he said, referencing a 2009 incident at the Texas military base that killed 13 people and wounded more than 30 more.
"I loved shooting the first campaign with Kevin for H&M so much that we just had to do a sequel," Beckham says of the previous campaign, in which Hart pretended to play Beckham for a movie role.
The Florida high school had multiple guards at the school yet he still got in the school, pulled the fire alarm, shot multiple students/ teachers, AND pretended to be one of the students that were trying to escape.
A week ago, Jamaican authorities arrested Mr. Faisal in Kingston, the Jamaican capital, after he was indicted in New York on charges that he assisted an undercover officer who pretended to be trying to join ISIS in Syria.
Unlike the President, who pretended to fire people on TV but won't do so directly in real life, Daniels is known for dismissing those who fail her, and she does it face to face and on the spot.
In 20123, he called up the Bakersfield Condors, a team in the East Coast Hockey League, and pretended to be his own agent, claiming he had this tough, gritty kid named Nello Ferrara the Condors ought to see.
I wouldn't mind if you took the easier path and cooked the pork shoulder in the kitchen in a standard oven all afternoon and just pretended to be out there maintaining a steady 300 degrees in the Weber.
Knicks CHICAGO — As media members surrounded Chicago Bulls forward Jimmy Butler after Friday's win against the New York Knicks, teammate Taj Gibson jokingly pretended to hold an invisible microphone and angled his way toward the front of the pack.
At last night's Alfalfa Club dinner — a black-tie cotillion for titans of government and business — physician and former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist [corrected] pretended to give a grim, gloved medical exam to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Editorial During a New Year's Day speech, President Paul Kagame of Rwanda pretended to be humbled by the outcome of a constitutional referendum that paved the way for him to seek a third term and, conceivably, rule until 2034.
One of her friends pretended to be Chyna as the two tried to shield their faces away from the videographer — in an attempt to get away from the "paparazzi" who were asking what their unborn daughter's name will be.
Thanks to a tip from a former football team member, Veronica, Betty, Ethel, and Kevin are able to track down the proof they need: a notebook full of Chuck's team scoring various women they pretended to have sex with.
Corbyn publicly pretended to support Remain during the referendum, but I think it's pretty obvious he wants to leave the EU, and in any case, he'll never go that far out on a limb to prevent Brexit from happening.
This was the late 1990s and early 2000s, when 56k modems were fast — nearly a decade before social media gurus would shed their gills and learn to breathe on dry land, where they've pretended to be human ever since.
In 1991, Trump pretended to be a publicist named John Miller so he could present his side of his divorce from his first wife, Ivana, and also spread the false story that he was dating the model Carla Bruni.
On Easter Sunday 1977, while humming the words to a classic Irving Berlin song, I pretended to be Judy Garland: In your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it, You'll be the grandest lady in the Easter Parade.
If you've ever sat through a school assembly where an actor pretended to be some great man or great woman of history, you will know the style well, and Valentina Fratti, directing for The Acting Company, doesn't invigorate it.
The worker grew "increasingly suspicious" of Deas, 29, after visiting him "on at least ten separate occasions" and soon discovered that he had pretended to be his "mentally and physically handicapped 18-year-old brother named Cory," police allege.
One five-year-old boy, after being separated from his mother for 50 days, pleaded to be breast-fed even though he hadn't nursed in years, while a three-year-old pretended to vaccinate and handcuff people around him.
When he beat Richard Kiely in his comeback bout in Ireland two months ago, he stood over his beaten opponent, mocked him to his face, and then pretended to hobble around as if he were standing on drunken legs.
Washington (CNN)A former Forbes reporter claims that Donald Trump, before he was president, pretended to be a Trump Organization executive speaking on Trump's behalf and then lied about his wealth in order to crack the Forbes 803 list.
Some of the callers in the operation also pretended to be offering grants or payday loans linked to a borrower's paycheck, prompting victims to pay a fee upfront before they could receive the fictitious loan, the 2016 indictment says.
They played at street fairs and charity events, never for money; at home, they pretended to be the Spice Girls (two Sportys, and Este was Ginger) and dissected the classic rock songs and disco numbers their parents listened to.
He also explained how he had stolen a corporate credit card from a mailbox at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he pretended to be an instructor, and used the card to buy thousands of dollars' worth of equipment.
A few years ago, some vigilantes pretended to take the bait of one of those African hoaxes ("I have $500,000 in an account that I will transfer to you if you can just help me with the wiring fees…").

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