1) Complete O. J. Simpson's quote in an interview with Esquire: "Let's say I committed the crime. Even if I did do this, it would have to have been because ___________________"
a) I was extremely provoked.
b) I loved her very much.
c) I'm a homicidal psychopath.
2) Who is Ruby Wax?
a) The restaurant owner that O. J. Simpson shook down for $500 after she refused him service because her other customers threatened to leave rather than dine in the same room with a man they believed to be an absurdly acquitted double murderer.
b) The Florida police officer who took the hysterical 911 call that 17-year-old Sydney Simpson placed after she had an argument with her father.
c) The BBC interviewer that O. J. Simpson, while mugging insanely for the camera, pretended to stab repeatedly with a banana.
3) In an interview with ESPN, who did O. J. Simpson say "went through similar things" to his own ordeal?
a) The Menendez brothers.
b) The Manson girls.
c) Jesus and Moses.
4) True or false? After lawyer F. Lee Bailey revealed that his client O. J. Simpson had failed a 1994 polygraph test, Simpson claimed to have never taken one but offered to do so on 60 Minutes or 20/20.
5) Who is Jeffrey Pattinson?
a) One of the police officers who searched O. J. Simpson's Florida home in connection with allegations of money laundering, drug dealing, and stealing satellite TV signals.
b) The driver who flicked his lights at O. J. Simpson's SUV as it cruised through a stop sign, prompting Simpson to leap out of his car, reach into the other car, and rip the man's sunglasses off, scratching his face in the process.
c) The lawyer who said that, for the right price, O. J. Simpson would pose for a tenth-anniversary photo shoot in front of the murder scene.
6) What did O. J. Simpson's girl friend Christie Prody do a month after breaking up with him and telling the Enquirer that he often described the murders while high on coke, that he was stalking her, and that she was afraid he was going to kill her?
a) She dyed her hair black and gained twenty pounds to make herself less recognizable to him.
b) She moved to New Zealand.
c) She got back together with him.
7) True or false? In a 2001 New Yorker profile of O. J. Simpson, his lawyer Yale Galanter said, "I envision a day when O.J. will again be a celebrity spokesman in the mainstream of commerce."
8) What was the name of the hidden-camera TV show O. J. Simpson was trying to sell in which he would play pranks on people?
a) Sliced
b) Juiced
c) Hacked
9) On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the murders, to which shameless provider of national television time did O. J. Simpson say that he didn't really think there was such a thing as date rape, that the TV exposure Fred Goldman got as a result of his son's murder provided him with great career opportunities, and that he was mad at Nicole for not being around to help him raise his kids.
a) Fox News's Greta Van Susteren.
b) NBC's Katie Couric.
c) Court TV's Catherine Crier.
10) What did O. J. Simpson tell People magazine about women who heckle him in public?
a) "I see their husbands trying to get them to shut up, and I understand why men get into fights with women."
b) "I just laugh because I know it means they want me so bad they have to hide it even from themselves."
c) "They only do it because I murdered two people."
ANSWERS
1) b, 2) c, 3) c, 4) False. He offered to take one on a pay-per-view TV special, 5) b, 6) c, 7) Laughably true, 8) b, 9) a, 10) a
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"What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas"--
O.J.'s as right as a swinging hammer;
Let's follow the fellow's steely wishes
And keep him for good in the Vegas slammer.
For those who celebrated OJ's acquital. That was uncalled for. There are no winners. Two people have died.
Regarding OJ's Guilt. I believe he commited the crimes but I believed it was in the heat of passion not premeditated. And I believe OJ has high on drugs.
The Prosecution did not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that is why OJ was found not guilty. The Goldmans and Browns should sue the LA District Attorney's Office for Prosecutorial Incompetance.
Or what about the LAPD or LA District Attorney's Office not enforcing the Order of Protection Act against OJ when OJ was arrested for stalking Nicole.
Sort of like Al Capone with the tax evasion thing.
Hmmm...judging from his behavior over the last, er, 20 years, do you suppose OJ could have syphilis, too?
In the meantime, GIVE IT UP PEOPLE, GET A LIFE. If you want to persecute someone, I can think of one murderous individual who is responsible for hundreds of thousands of people's deaths. Try harassing him.
How will you feel if one day it is proven - and there are many reasons to believe - that O.J. was/is not guilty? You have murdered him, taken his life from him through your ugly, hating words and action.
Is this the way Christians apply their faith?
And I remind you, that in the U.S., you are innocent until proven (PROVEN) guilty.
suspected of possibly having planted evidence? O.J. may well have gotten away with murder. I don't know. But our system of justice still worked because a defendant does not have to prove his innocence. The prosecution has to PROVE his guilt. They failed to do so in the O.J. case, and if Simpson is truly guilty, they have only themselves to blame for allowing a killer to slip through the cracks. If O.J. is truly innocent, then score one for a system designed to work just as it did, with our country's most cherished legal tenet--innocent until proven guilty--affirmed.
Journalism has a criteria for what makes news and the OJ story had legs because it fits so many of those news values: fame, sex, race, money, oddity, proximity, crime, etc. Get it?
The OJ story has legs because a famous, charismatic black man killed two white people and got away with murder.
That he's back in trouble is newsworthy because most rational people who read the news want the murderer punished- for anything.
Again, if you don't like reading about OJ, stop at the headline, and spare those of us who do all the kvetching.
1) b, 2) c, 3) c, 4) False. He offered to take one on a pay-per-view TV special, 5) b, 6) c, 7) Laughably true, 8) b, 9) a, 10) a"
Hmmm....I thought that the answers to each question were a, b, AND c.
The time line after his defense team proved it. Left 11 minutes for OJ to have killed both of them (2 or 3 minute, who knows), drive back to his house (9 minutes with no traffic), get rid of all the blood (so no one could ever find it (at least 10 minutes, who knows), Pack cloths (3 minute), get dressed (5 minutes), and come out to the car to take him to the airport (maybe 1 or 2 minutes). Total= 28 to 30 minutes minimum.
Why is it though, that OJ viciously attacked and murdered two people and he was arrested and tried without delay? GWB has been doing it for five years and there's still been no arrest?
Riccio had an audio tape ready for sale almost immediately,and these guys were trying to sell their stories almost as quickly.
I'll admit that I don't know much about the law,but it seems to me that a halfway decent defense attorney is gonna have a field day with these guys.
All charges should be dropped. Let me make it simple. Riccio broke into his own room and brought Oj along.
Note to self: All day OJ is no longer a good use of time and energy.
I'm sorry for the troubles of OJ Simpson, but I'm more worried about a war in Iraq, what we plan to do to Iran, global warming, homeless kids, starving people, seniors who have to cut their medicine in half or can't afford to take it at all, what's in the milk that they put in my morning latte, if my kids sucking on lead in their toys, and what the hell I'm going to fix for dinner tonight.
All the best to us today,
Ani