Close but no cigar
I answered the phone once in our shared flat:
‘Hello’
‘Is Sam in?’
‘No, can I take a message?’
And the caller said yes please – it was about the script Sam had sent the BBC – this was the Assistant to the Head of Radio Comedy – could I tell Sam that they were very interested in commissioning a series of six – would Sam be able to come to London (we lived in Newcastle) tomorrow? – and so on.
Literally as I was putting the phone down a seventh sense I didn’t yet know I had cried ‘SUCKER!’ and I realised it was a wind-up. I also realised, crucially, that the caller had absolutely no idea that I had done anything other than fall hook line and sinker for it.
Later that evening Sam and a suspicious number of friends turn up. The kettle is boiled and the majority of those present are skinning up. I can sense that everyone there is waiting for the con to develop when Sam casually asks if there have been any messages for him…
‘No, mate’ And everyone there present knew nobody could say a thing!

Length? Could be worse.
(Crocodile, Thu 18 Oct 2007, 14:45, 3 replies)

No Cigars . . . but still not so close either
wtf?
Sorry; But did you ever know there's a small
but *important* difference between a "Con"
-done for gain-
and your garden variety wind-up "fun"?
The good one's about making a killing- not pissing about.
Though the concept of "Not saying a thing"
does make a certain sense to me here...

Was the "friends" point that you all are so soused
and living on top of each other that
you can beleieve bob's an uncle every time?

Please send a list of drugs you use on to health authority -
There is a team stationed nearby to assist you.

And then they'll also want a chat
to make sure you are using contraception correctly.
(hilarleo, Thu 18 Oct 2007, 16:10, closed)

So that's why Sam didn't turn up
And there was the budget for it too.
(enile, Thu 18 Oct 2007, 17:19, closed)

Nice one, Croc
Hilary, your paragraph skills are fucked up.
( Beve The Spaniard broke off his horse's head, Fri 19 Oct 2007, 11:37, closed)