Oh lots of lol! That's ridiculous. I thought they were over that infancy period of blatantly ripping people off and now onto less blatantly ripping people off. For example.
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£500 BIG MONEY PRIZE
Hiya guys! How's it going? I'm streaky and this is Quizchat Live. Do you know what? My pockets are full to the brim of lovely cash, oozing with cash. You've just got to dial me up and give me one word and you'll be £500 richer! Come on dial me up now, why is no one phoning through why? why? why? We have to take a call in the next minute, I'm going to start a timer. Can we have a timer please?
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Ok, there will be a caller in the next minute, there has to be a winner very soon. Look at the time, look at the time. That phone could ring at any time and it could be you on the end. It could ring in one seconds time.....<<pause>>.......or the timer could get down to a couple of seconds. It's totally random.
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Come on guys start the timer, get ringing in....59.....58......there we are. What could it be? Top........well I'm not saying anything, but maybe you should look around your house. If you have any pets what are they? Maybe that would fill the slot. Just a clue. 42....41. Come on guys and gals get ringing in, it's only 70p and you could win more than 500 times that just for giving me a simple word. Please get the bill payer's permission before calling in though. Actually fuck 'em, just ring up anyway the tight sods. 33.....32 Why not say limit yourself to ten tries......if you don't get through on the first try...dial up again, you might be more lucky. Come on, it coudl be you. 24....23. Ummmmm I had a lovely Indian Takeaway tonight. A Chicken Tikka Masala, it was lovely. With a garlic Naan. Hmmmmmm.....come on dial in, if you win, you coudl buy an Indian Restaurant. Yeah! Well er.....no....but you know what I mean. 12...11 OK, caller in the next ten seconds........9.......8.......7........6........5........4.......3.....come on countdown with me.....2.......1......<<pause>>
<<outrageous pause>>
<<coining it in pause>>
BRRRRRRRRRRRRIING!!!
Hello who am I speaking to?
"It's Mike."
Mike, where are you calling from?
"Enfield"
Ok, Mike from Enfield <<<whoooooooop blooooop feedback>> what's your answer?
"Enfield"
Top Enfield. Let's see........UNLUCKY.
"No dog, I meant to" <<click>>
Nope sorry. I have to accept the first answer. OK, let's have another timer.
>>>>>>FAST FORWARD
Four hours later. Still the same tarnished spiel.
TOP CAT (the easy one to show people it can be done, but not as easy as TOP DOG which is what everyone will say first, if they don't say Enfield or there aren't 'technical faults' or mysterious callers who just hang up.)
TOP .... (no one will ever, ever get this one. It's actually TOP SNO an artifical analogue of real snow that is currently being tested on certain dry ski slopes in New Zealand)
TOP SPIN (A respectable answer)
TOP ... (Not quite sure about this one, it's actually TOP BAT. Nah, I didn't understand it either)
TOP OF THE CLASS (This is the trick one, especially geared at senile people, after all, they're responsible for most of the revenue, so give 'em something back eh?)
In a way they feel much fairer, but they're still a con. The original count the weights or how many snowflakes in the picture or add all the numbers are pure insanity. Lateral thinking it is not. It's pure gobbledecodswallop.
ops: oops, I should know that.
