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» Conned
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.
(Thu 18th Oct 2007, 14:45, More)
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.
(Thu 18th Oct 2007, 14:45, More)
» I'm going to Hell...
Hotel bible malarky
I can't remember the circumstances of it starting but for the last 20 years or so whenever I stay in a hotel I 'autograph' the courtesy Gideons bible with "All the best, Jesus"
(Sun 14th Dec 2008, 22:25, More)
Hotel bible malarky
I can't remember the circumstances of it starting but for the last 20 years or so whenever I stay in a hotel I 'autograph' the courtesy Gideons bible with "All the best, Jesus"
(Sun 14th Dec 2008, 22:25, More)