http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52880 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sun, 19 May 2013 17:52:08 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52880#post-153346 Fri, 14 Dec 2012 11:33:32 +0000 Squudge 153346@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Genius, though bumping it in 2042 might be fun just to see if anyone has enough marbles to remember the first time. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52880#post-152317 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 10:51:48 +0000 beau-jolly 152317@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>AAAH! My dad used to do the trimphone thing everytime a phone rang, anywhere. He would then laugh that little self-satisfied laugh while everyone else cringed. He's still around, fit and well and in his eighties but happily appears to have forgotten this particular talent. Maybe that is why he has survived. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52880#post-152292 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 07:54:54 +0000 DustyBinLaden 152292@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Good point. There are probably thousands of them. Maybe an FP for abut 2042 then, or 'One from the future...' </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52880#post-152286 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 07:35:04 +0000 Dickens or Shakespeare 152286@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I knew several people who could do a more than passable impression of a trimphone when I was at school in the seventies. They would be in their mid fifties now. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52880#post-152257 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 22:43:58 +0000 waylandsmithy 152257@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Stan's sub was very moving, but I still managed to <strike>knock one out</strike> hold myself together.</p> <p>Fish paste supper sounds delightful. Shall I bring the Marmite? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52880#post-152255 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 21:57:45 +0000 custard cream 152255@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Beautiful, just beautiful! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52880#post-152244 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 21:09:55 +0000 DustyBinLaden 152244@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Wayland, are we still on for that fish paste supper? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52880#post-152243 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 21:09:01 +0000 DustyBinLaden 152243@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Thanks folks. Boutros/dvo: yes, it would NiB down I guess. I kind of like the dark undercurrent of the middle bit. An easy edit for the ed team, should they want it. There must be a melancholy atmosphere tonight. Stan Laurel's sub almost had me in tears. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52880#post-152242 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 21:05:02 +0000 waylandsmithy 152242@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Brilliant. Would be a total waste to NiB it. Personally, I like NiBs that set out to be NiBs. Short and sweet. Rather than a shortened version of something that has lots of thought put into it: it was a bit sad to see Quaz's Doctor Who sub NiBbed, as an example. Not criticising the editing, just that it has to happen. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52880#post-152241 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 20:53:24 +0000 Dick Everyman 152241@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Sad, dark but above all funny. Hang on is that the phone ringing? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52880#post-152224 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 19:11:18 +0000 Al OPecia 152224@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Lovely. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52880#post-152222 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 19:09:35 +0000 SteveCut 152222@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Very funny! 5 stars </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52880#post-152215 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:50:49 +0000 writinginbsl 152215@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>yep</p> <p>stars </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52880#post-152209 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:16:33 +0000 dvo4fun 152209@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Yep. Could be Nibbed as you say Boutros but I really like</p> <p>"You see, she had a daughter that had gone missing some years ago, and whenever the phone rang, I rather think she hoped it might be her" frompara 4 </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52880#post-152207 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:11:28 +0000 Boutros 152207@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Love it. But I reckon it works just as well without paras 4, 5 and 6 to make it NiBBy </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52880#post-152203 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 17:31:33 +0000 malgor 152203@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Extremely funny, DBL. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=52880#post-152202 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 17:24:38 +0000 DustyBinLaden 152202@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Jim Hughes, the last person known to be able to accurately impersonate a 1970s Trimphone, has died at a nursing home in Cheshunt.</p> <p>‘It was a big part of his life,’ said Jim’s nephew, Philip Hughes. ‘I can remember us all being round there on a Sunday afternoon watching the wrestling on ITV, and suddenly from behind his newspaper, he’d start warbling. </p> <p>‘My aunt would jump up from her chair and dash into the hall. She’d sit down at the telephone table, pick up the phone, and say in her poshest voice, “Bishop’s Stortford 7849, who’s speaking please? Deirdre, is that you love? Speak to me, pet.” </p> <p>‘Well, we would all just fall about laughing, and she’d be fuming, because there’d be no-one there. It was just my uncle playing the fool. You see, she had a daughter who had gone missing some years ago, and whenever the phone rang, I rather think she hoped it might be her.’</p> <p>This went on for a good ten years, until she left him for Derek Davidson, who lived three doors down and couldn’t impersonate anything much, other than pretending to be a normal human being. Turns out he’d be keeping Deirdre in a specially constructed soundproof cellar for almost twenty years. My aunt and her daughter were reunited and the police let Derek off with a caution. We were pleased for her, obviously.’</p> <p>Mr Hughes became the last Trimphone impersonator after the death of Mr Haji Nakajima, from Tokyo, in 2009, aged 83. Mr Nakajima was an incessant Trimphone mimic, continuing to impress friends and family even after his wife committed suicide in 1976.</p> <p>Mr Hughes’ death was announced by nursing staff at the home. It is believed he died of heart failure, although the local coroner has asked for an investigation into traces of adhesive tape that were discovered around the mouth of the deceased. </p> <p>He will be laid to rest in a two-tone avocado coffin made of ABS plastic, donated by BT in his memory. The family have been told to expect the coffin some time between 8am and 8pm on the day of the funeral. </p>