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Afropolli Spells ….. April Fool
I
have to admit that I expected at least one indignant phone call or
email following the publication of the advert for the Afropolli
Escort Agency in last month’s Lowdown.
But it seems that either the moralists amongst us have given up or
they missed the advert. Or perhaps we didn’t con them.
But we did con a number of other people, all men, and particularly
one persistent gentleman of Mediterranean origin. Please Mr Med, as
you have been told on the phone, this escort agency does not exist
and the advert was only an April Fool’s joke.
When preparing April Fool’s articles, or indeed, when playing any
joke on someone, part of the fun is seeing the response that the
joke elicits.
 And
this was my dilemma when doing this advert. How was I going to gauge
the response? Of course, I could have gone out and bought a Sim card
and used that number, but the devil in me came to the fore and I
decided that I could make this a double joke. So I scanned through
the numbers on my phone and my eyes settled on the perfect
candidate, Billy.
Luckily, I had the foresight to tell him wife, in advance, what I
was doing, so when the calls started coming in, she was able, after
some time, to tell him what was going on. He did, once he got over
the initial shock, regain his sense of humour and phoned to tell me
to ‘beware, the war is now on’.
I
now sit and wait to see what his revenge will be, but in the
meantime, I am enjoying calling him by his new name, Billy the Pimp.
And even more, I am enjoying placing touched up photos of him all
over the web!
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May
2006