jaleel white/steve urkel is not dead

[rkt]

*Jaleel White is not dead. An e-mail hoax has been circulating around the Internet that claims the actor, best known for his role as Steve Urkel on “Family Matters,” was found dead Monday of an apparent suicide. The report, falsely credited to The Associated Press, goes on to claim that White’s friend “alerted police after hearing what he described as ‘a loud bang’ coming from White's Los Angeles apartment.” The story also gives false quotes from his former “Family Matters” co-stars Kellie Williams ("Everyone adored him.") and Reginald VelJohnson ("We have all lost a dear, dear brother."). A hint that the story was fake: reports that a suicide note was discovered, which read "Did I do that?”

http://eurweb.com/story/eur26711.cfm


seriously, don't people have lives?

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[kaygigi.livejournal.com]

You know, I got really sad when I found out that Jaleel White may be dead. I have nothing better to do with my life than read Internets rumors, and I'm offended you would make derogatory implications about whether or not I have a life. I was delighted beyond words to find out it was a fake rumor; my life suddenly had meaning and joy again. I could watch "Family Matters" reruns again without shedding tears, except, of course, for those episodes which were so dramatic and heartwarming, a dedicated watcher could do nothing BUT cry. And you know, those reruns are about the only joy in my life right now.

I mean, I just connect so deeply to that show. Being black and middle class in Chicago, at least in my childhood, that show was very relevant to my everyday experiences. I lived a life free of racism, but for a few episodes that seemed to always happen during February sweeps, and my police officer father worked his way up through the ranks, unemcumbered by racial tensions that were NOT, contrary to popular belief, ripping apart the Chi-town PD at its seams. My generic middle class black neighborhood was safe and happy; we were free of gangs and those "ghetto trash" (except for my single mother welfare queen aunt, who managed to finagle her way into living in our ridiculously large single family home with her baby, though thankfully she ditched her baby daddy on the basis of "I'm not sure it's yours, punk").

I'm going to stop here before I start choking up with how it all changed when my parents moved to Westchester, became white and somewhat Jewish, and my dad switched to being an accountant.

Oh yeah, and I was getting tired of being cynical. It will come back to me in a little bit, but really, it was getting tired...

[rkt.livejournal.com]

as long as you didn't craft the internets rumour, i'll remain assured that you have a life.

[kaygigi.livejournal.com]

So funny story about starting rumors.

When I decided to come out in high school, I decided that the easiest way was to start a rumor. So I went to the biggest gossip and I was, um, flamboyantly dykey? She then went around and told tons of people that she thought I was gay. :D

So as you can see, I only start rumors that are true about myself.