Robert Popper » Phonecalls http://www.robertpopper.com The official home of robert popper, peep show, look around you, the it crowd, the inbetweeners, script editor, producer, writer, actor, comedy, big talk productions, popper pictures Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:33:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 How much does Bruges weigh? http://www.robertpopper.com/2010/07/16/how-much-does-bruges-weigh/ http://www.robertpopper.com/2010/07/16/how-much-does-bruges-weigh/#comments Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:58:35 +0000 Robert Popper http://www.robertpopper.com/?p=3500

I really wanted to know, so I (well, Robin Cooper) called up the ever helpful, ever friendly Bruges Tourist Board. In Bruges.

It must be about a million tons, surely….?

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I, well, Robin Cooper, did a silly phone call to the Grand Hotel in Brighton.

Hats off to the charming and professional member of staff at the hotel. I do send my apologies.

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Amidst all this political uncertainty, I (well, Robin Cooper) decided to sort things out once and for all…

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I did this some time ago when I kept getting cold callers. I just couldn’t resist recording our conversations. Sorry it sounds like it’s been recorded on a rusty tin of tomatoes…

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Another phone call: the host to this foreign language show seemed so friendly and kind. I just loved our complete ‘non conversation’, and the fact that somehow so much seemed to be understood by both of us despite all the long pauses. He also has just about the best stare I have ever seen…

I have to admit I have always enjoyed the phrase, ‘My only friend’…

Here is is on Boing Boing, with some translation kindly offered.

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Some of you may know this call, but it’s the first time I’ve stuck it on my site. If you’re a swan and a rat lover, then this may well be the prank phone call for you…

By the way, that was Peter Serafinowicz playing ‘the sister’. We did have a giggle that day.

I wrote a piece for Saturday’s Guardian about my (definite non) obsession with making these calls. Feel free to peruse.

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Hoorah!

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Ok – you may have heard it before but it’s never been up on my site. Here I am calling 118 118, one of the main directory assistance companies in the UK. You see, I needed to know the number of a company called, well…

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Another one of my misguided phone calls that doesn’t really go anywhere, but still…

Ah well…

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Several years ago I called talk radio station, LBC, with a problem I’d been having with my shelves…

I love LBC. They’re all really good sports. No idea why I called myself ‘Sinclair’ though.

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