Thanks to Rupert Murdoch's late in life acquisition of a conscience, OJ Simpson's 'hypothetical' 'confesssion' to two murders will not be distributed (except for the several hundred thousand copies like to find their way on to e-Bay) and the interview will not be broadcast (except on some blogs who will undoubtedly get their hands on a copy).
Forgive us or suspecting that this 'crise' de conscience had a lot more to do with Fox affiliates yanking the interview and bookstores balking at selling it.
To fill the void, a 'friend' of TT's plans to rush to print with their own version of 'If I Did It'.
This 'friend' has long lived under a cloud of suspicion that they devoured an entire chocolate cake in a single day. Loud protestations of innocence and an admittedly feeble effort to find the real perpetrator, have failed to remove the dark cloud.
An independent enquiry absolved the 'friend' after a thorough review of the evidence. Sure there were flakes of chocolate found on the floor of the 'friend's' bedroom, but those could have come from another chocolate cake and anyone could have dropped them.
The analysis of the chocolate stains on the 'friend's' pillow case was deeply flawed and there was substantial evidence of investigatory malfeasance. It could never be substantiated that these stains were chocolate and even if they were, they could easily have been residue from Ben and Jerry's, Chocolate Chocolate Chip which the 'friend' was known to indulge in periodically.
'IF I Did It' will highlight the broad outlines of the 'crime' - hypothetically.
A fake chocolate cake replica would have been constructed. A willing accomplice would have been lined up to Hoover up the crumbs and dispose of the chocolate covered blouse or shirt (demolishing an entire cake in a single day would surely have left the perpetrator covered in chocolate!).
Real chocolate shavings would have been hoarded in advance and used to sprinkle over the 'fake cake' in order to concel the crime as long as possible and allow the perp to clean themselves up and make a getaway.
If I (or my 'friend') had done it, tiny slivers of cake would have been carved out of the cake and consumed, carefully replacing the remaining pieces in such a way as it would not be obvious that any of the cake had been eaten - merely cut into pieces.
When the amount of cake consumed could no longer be concealed, the fake cake would be put in its place and real chocolate shaving sprinkled over the top to delay detection.
We guess we will have to wait for OJ's book to pop up on e-Bay but the 'If I Did It Format' strikes us as a legitimate literary genre and a way for the Innocent to find their voice!!
Hmmm. Is that Chocolate Cake??