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Stutter me up!
Sprinkler-faced
time wasters everywhere breathed a
collective, and repetitive, sigh of
relief this week as flashy bigwigs
at BT agreed to lower their call charges
for stutterers.
This follows a
campaign by famous globe-trotting
funnyman Michael Palin, who is himself
one of the "stuck record"
people.
Palin presented
BT M.D. C.J. Chuckles with a petition
signed by 800 fellow "needle-jumpers",
including Vietnam vet Paul Hardcastle,
and and and "uzi-tongued"
comic turned shopkeeper Ronnie Corbett.
Following the success
of the BT campaign, Palin’s next
move will be to fight for equal job
opportunities for fellow "word-jerkers".
He claims that 96% of "butter-lippers"
are unemployed, and that the 4% who
do have jobs tend to work alone,
in car parks, at night, collecting
trolleys for giant supermarkets for
£2 an hour. Palin finds this
unjust and thinks that these "jammed-disc
jockeys" have much more to give.
Or rather :
"M-m-m-m-much
m-m-more to g-g-g-give" as he
put it, as I stood, waiting, looking
at my watch and shielding my eyes
from the spit storm.
A stammer
in the works
Ex-funny
man Michael Palin reckons it's bang
about time stutterers smashed through
the "glass roof" of their
mouths, and got out of the guttural
and into the utterable, in these hitherto
closed off jobs:
- Air Traffic Controlling
- Bingo Calling
- Suicide Counselling
- Stockbroking
- Elocution training
- Telesales
- Auctioneering
- Hostage Negotiaiting
- P-p-picking up
penguins
- P-p-p-p-Pop
Idols
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