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Colin and Ray: Phone Number
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Over a chat about two women in the office, Colin offers to hand Ray a colleague's number and then insists on sending it by phone instead of reading it out. He tries a short-range text, Bluetooth and email while Ray's patience drains, and each attempt turns out slower than speaking. When Colin finally recites the digits, he reads them as one long number, so Ray has to translate them back into the usual phone-number grouping.
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I'm waiting for you to read out the number using the ancient but surprisingly efficient communication technology of talking.
Your keenness to avoid humorous misunderstandings is one of your more appealing qualities, Colin.
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:02
Ray
You know Kerry in the open plan upstairs?
- 00:05
Colin
What, sad Kerry or Danish Kerry?
- 00:07
Ray
See, that's interesting. I know what you mean, but I always think of Danish Kerry as gorgeous Kerry, and the one you think of as sad Kerry as rebound Kerry.
- 00:15
Colin
We probably shouldn't get into what that says about you.
- 00:18
Ray
Fair enough. But you've worked with rebound Kerry, haven't you? You've got her number.
- 00:21
Colin
What, you want me to give you her number so that you can ring her up and go on a date and then see if she'll let you have sex with her?
- 00:27
Ray
Please.
- 00:29
Colin
It's like showing an office with Caravaggio.
- 00:30
Ray
You mean Casanova.
- 00:32
Colin
Oh, Casanova is it? You really do fancy your chances. Right, I'm just toothing it from my cell.
- 00:38
Ray
Oh, Colin, I do wish you wouldn't use language like that. Anyone could walk in. Toothing now. Are you getting it? Will you please just read it out to me?
- 00:46
Colin
Oh, don't be ridiculous, Ray. This is much quicker. Are you getting it?
- 00:49
Ray
No, I'm not getting it. I'm waiting for you to read out the number using the ancient but surprisingly efficient communication technology of talking.
- 00:57
Colin
Oh. Maybe it's a bit far away. That's sometimes the problem Have you got it now? Fine you win. I'm now turning on Bluetooth. I want to die.
- 01:11
Colin
See it's quicker, isn't it?
- 01:13
Ray
It demonstrably is not.
- 01:14
Colin
It's better though, isn't it?
- 01:15
Ray
No, not really.
- 01:16
Colin
More fun.
- 01:17
Ray
No
- 01:19
Colin
Have you got it?
- 01:20
Ray
No! Colin, it's Digital information not salt
- 01:33
Colin
Why isn't it working? I think your mobile's broken It's all right. I'll email it.
- 01:38
Ray
Please!
- 01:39
Colin
It's cheaper than texting.
- 01:40
Ray
Will you just read out the frigging number?
- 01:42
Colin
All right. Crikey. Sorry for trying to save you time in the long run. Sorry I can't chalk it on a little blackboard like at infant school and then take it to the nearest post office just in time for the last pigeon. Do you not want me to have sex with Kerry? Is she your mum or something? Ray, I have absolutely no interest in your penis or who or where you want to put it near or in. I will now read out the number.
- 02:10
Ray
Thank you.
- 02:12
Colin
So, it's Kerry. Have you put that in?
- 02:15
Ray
No, I prefer to put the number in first and then save the name second.
- 02:19
Colin
Is this going to be the new problem? No, no problem at all. It's just that in predictive text, Kerry comes out Jerry, and I wouldn't want you to involve yourself in some kind of humorous misunderstanding. misunderstanding
- 02:29
Ray
Your keenness to avoid humorous misunderstandings is one of your more appealing qualities Colin now Will you please just give me Kerry's telephone number and in a way that is not completely perverse?
- 02:41
Colin
Add four four or oh two zero seven ninety four six nought thousand eight hundred and sixty nine
- 02:54
Ray
do you mean 0207 946 0869
- 02:57
Colin
well yes if you want to be boring about it
- 02:59
Speaker 1
how much how much for the wardrobe that will make 250 it's quite a lot isn't it not really French oak 1890s gateway to Narnia
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