Using phoney names, the writer recalls some of the more memorable guest stars, like the typing teacher who was the terror of Crestview High.
After the declaration of war on Nazi Germany by the United Kingdom and France, in the aftermath of the German invasion of Poland, nine months of stalemate took place along the Western Front named the Phoney War.
But it is my contention that the vast majority of our affected brothers and sisters would have nothing to do with this phoney act done in their name.
I suppose what it boils down to is that I've always hated phoneys, and anyone who changes their name, their accent or their religion seems to me to be doing the cultural equivalent of putting a crochet crinoline lady on a toilet roll.
So it is easy to see why Smith has excluded them both from the 19-man squad he has named for this weekend's phoney war against New Zealand, although it must nevertheless be a risk for England to go into a game in which they desperately need to build some form and confidence without two of their best players.
There will be further added layers of secrecy: phoney foundations and fake beneficial owners with no names mentioned even in internal emails.
The name "Haddock" means (in its French form, aiglefin) "phoney", "counterfeiter" – and, anyway, it's not his real one.
To understand Father John Misty you have to remember that Josh Tillman spent a decade chasing a phoney idea of authenticity, making several earnest, ascetic albums under the name J Tillman.
(Your correspondent's dog was pre-approved for a platinum card when his name was used on the family subscription to the New Yorker).One scheme involves submitting a phoney change of address to the post office on behalf of a potential victim.
The feminine mystique, she said, was 'a phoney bill of goods society sold to women that left them unfulfilled, suffering from "the problem that has no name" and seeking a solution in tranquilisers and psychoanalysis'.
