Alec Baldwin was thrown off a plane today for continuing to play the cell-phone video game Words with Friends (which is an odd name to call a game you play by yourself on your cell-phone, but whatever: maybe they’re just trying to get us all used to the idea that our cell-phone is our only friend now, which it will be if you play with it all the time!) after being told to stop by a flight attendant. Oh, the humanity! I think someone forgot that even though he’s “played a pilot before” (from the Capital One ad), he still has to obey the flight attendants. (The nerve of telling a star what to do! Does she think she’s a director or something?) Doesn’t he know that cell-phone word games can down an aircraft?
This is why they sell those travel-size games at the airport. Sure, they’re expensive, but he’s part of the 1%, so he can afford it! Plus, it would be way safer for him to play the travel version of Scrabble, rather than a cell-phone video game! Or would it? Actually, Baldwin seems so obsessive about his word games, he’d probably lose an important letter (like Q, V or X) while playing (they’re a lot smaller in the travel version!), and he’d go ballistic searching for it everywhere, accusing everyone around him of stealing it, and causing a ruckus, requiring him to have to be wrestled off the plane again. (Oh, the humanity!)
This video game has been described as extremely addictive, and we can see the lengths people will go to get their fix! So shouldn’t it be banned? Then drug cartels could get people to smuggle it in their rectums! And then addicts could wear some charm bracelet with Scrabble letters hanging from it to keep them from flipping out when they have to stop playing the game; like on a plane, or at a green light, or when their spouse asks them something, etc. Then they could just fondle the letters like worry beads until they can get back to what really matters in this life: video games!
(You know, I was hoping some TMZ reporter would ask Alec Baldwin what he thought of being thrown off the plane, and he’d say: “I don’t give a flying f*ck!” And then the reporter could say: “Well, you can’t now, because you’re not on the plane anymore.” And then Alec Baldwin could chase him angrily around the airport.)
Here’s the story:
And here’s that Capital One ad, where Alec Baldwin says he’s played a pilot before:
And yes, Alec: Traveling is hard enough already (without guys like you making it take even longer)! {<But in his defense, it was probably really entertaining to watch him get thrown off the plane! And after all, he is an entertainer!}
(BTW: My reference to the term: “Oh, the humanity!” is appropriate in this context, as it refers to another disaster aboard an aircraft: that of the Hindenburg. If you want to hear that famous radio broadcast, it’s on the Wikipedia page for the Hindenburg disaster.)
