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Did anybody watch the last episode of the current series of Dr Who? If so you might have seen this picture.
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Now, you probably didn't try ringing the number, but if you had, what would you have found?
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That it is a sort of real number. Ofcom has reserved a large series of numbers for dramatic purposes and has published them on the Internet, here.
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So, if you ever see a programme which has an advert asking you to ring an 01632 number, or an 0161 496 xxxx number, you know that it's officially fake, and not pretend fake.
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I like living somewhere where people care enough to make sure about this sort of thing.
5 comments:
Isn't 0161 496 XXXX a Chinese chippy in Stockport?
Uh, forgive the ignorant Yank, but just what in the heck is a "chippy"?
A chippy is a fish and chip shop. A Chinese chippy is a Chinese restaurant that only serves people who take the food home. If it's in Stockport (which is in Manchester, even if it isn't, if you get my drift), it also serves fish and chips; and pies.
A Chinese chippy uses odd stuff like oil to fry things in. Mancunian chippies use oil to lubricate the vans they use to go to the cash and carry to buy boxes of crisps; they use lard to fry things in.
If you are lucky, so far south as Stockport, you might get Holland's pies (which are from Baxenden, not Holland) and come in fake 1930s lorries, and the best pie isn't a pie, but a pudding: steak pudding, which is steak in gravy, boiled in a suet casing, and served with chips and gravy (and a chip is about ten times as thick as a "French Fry"). (Drool till you can drool no longer.)
You don't get Indian chippies; only Indian takeaways. You get Chinese chippies and takeaways. You don't get "English takeaways", only chippies.
You might not like me saying this, Father, but your photo shows you as being built like a Mancunian. Did lard and suet play much of a part in your upbringing?
LOL. No, not really. What you're seeing is probably the result of a certain number of Welsh genes. My last name is "Blevins", and I understand that some of my ancestors lived north of Manchester several centuries ago.
Well, we all know what your specialist subject will be if you ever get on Mastermind, don't we?
Not wishing to take anything away from your excellent descriptions, you missed out the rather important bit about eating them out of the paper (often while your mother screamed 'GET A PLATE)!
I could just eat pudding and chips now.
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