'It's Spike.' '[Mischievously inquisitive] From...?' '[Blurts out, in an annoyed tone] It's Spike LEE.'
March 14, 2004 1:05 AM Subscribe
Random New Yorker gets Chris Rock's old cellphone number. Or fabricates a convincing story about it. It seems real to me, though.
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Oh, snapdragons.
posted by The God Complex at 1:23 AM on March 14, 2004
posted by The God Complex at 1:23 AM on March 14, 2004
An interesting task would be, to trick the callers
into giving her Chris' home number.
posted by asd at 2:08 AM on March 14, 2004
into giving her Chris' home number.
posted by asd at 2:08 AM on March 14, 2004
Double post (I think this may be my first call out)
posted by feelinglistless at 2:16 AM on March 14, 2004
posted by feelinglistless at 2:16 AM on March 14, 2004
I, for one, welcome this double post as it allowed me to see what a pickle the original post became! I had read the fpp and the early comments, felt sated, and moved on. Turns out, it became quite the (relatively) heated thread.
So, how 'bout that? Thanks for the double post Tlogmer!
posted by Richat at 4:23 AM on March 14, 2004
So, how 'bout that? Thanks for the double post Tlogmer!
posted by Richat at 4:23 AM on March 14, 2004
I completely agree. I wasn't that fussed about the link the first time round, but after reading that thread I am convinced she is pure comic genius. So thanks.
posted by arha at 6:42 AM on March 14, 2004
posted by arha at 6:42 AM on March 14, 2004
I'm reminded about a story of a coincidence, not because this constitutes much of a coincidence, but because the coincidence involves phones:
I forget the details of the circumstances, I have a feeling the man may have been on a sponsored walk, but for whatever reason he is walking past a remote public telephone in some rural county or other, possibly in England's south-west. The public telephone rings, so naturally he answers it. His wife is on the phone with some relatively mundane query or comment. Clearly puzzled, the man asks his wife how on Earth she got that number. She replies, a little confused, that she rang his mobile telephone number. The man explains that he has just answered a public telephone in the middle of nowhere. Upon further scrutiny, his wife realises her mistake. She read the wrong number from her phonebook, and accidentally dialled his Auotomobile Association number instead of his mobile number, which just happened to correspond to the number of the public telephone which he happened to be passing at that precise moment.
I don't think Chris Rock was involved at all, though.
posted by nthdegx at 7:39 AM on March 14, 2004
I forget the details of the circumstances, I have a feeling the man may have been on a sponsored walk, but for whatever reason he is walking past a remote public telephone in some rural county or other, possibly in England's south-west. The public telephone rings, so naturally he answers it. His wife is on the phone with some relatively mundane query or comment. Clearly puzzled, the man asks his wife how on Earth she got that number. She replies, a little confused, that she rang his mobile telephone number. The man explains that he has just answered a public telephone in the middle of nowhere. Upon further scrutiny, his wife realises her mistake. She read the wrong number from her phonebook, and accidentally dialled his Auotomobile Association number instead of his mobile number, which just happened to correspond to the number of the public telephone which he happened to be passing at that precise moment.
I don't think Chris Rock was involved at all, though.
posted by nthdegx at 7:39 AM on March 14, 2004
I'm happy about the repost. It allowed me to revisit the link to see a new footnote:
If you're thinking something along the lines of, "What a shame -- so much opportunity for evil squandered," yeah, you may be right. But if I went down that route, I'd be just another ugly American, and that's not who I am or someone I'd ever want to be.
Coldchef - just another ugly American. :-p
I see that Laura has also removed the bits about her preference for Clay Aiken. So while the story may have been an exercise in banality, at least she's taking our critique to heart.
posted by Fofer at 9:24 AM on March 14, 2004
If you're thinking something along the lines of, "What a shame -- so much opportunity for evil squandered," yeah, you may be right. But if I went down that route, I'd be just another ugly American, and that's not who I am or someone I'd ever want to be.
Coldchef - just another ugly American. :-p
I see that Laura has also removed the bits about her preference for Clay Aiken. So while the story may have been an exercise in banality, at least she's taking our critique to heart.
posted by Fofer at 9:24 AM on March 14, 2004
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