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Ossie The Mossie Gets a Brand New Job. Part 1
By gerardconnolly
20 April 2006
Rathr than just talk about it I thought I would spare five minutes to support the priceless Givitsum in his crusade to debunk Political Correctness. Like all credible comedy this arose from an incident when my BT Broadband crashed and my attempt to get sense out of the BT CALLCENTRE, presumably in Mumbai, made me resemble a jibbering , juddering plasma the like of some cove putting a thousand volts through a blancmange. I flatter myself this migh be worth a footnote in the Ronnie Barker Cookbook. There are others in this series.


 STRIKE UP WITH HAPPY SONG FROM THE MASSED CHOIRS OF THE ISLAMIC BRANCH OF THE RAMBLERS ASSOCIATION.

' WE LOVE TO GO A WANDERING, UPON THE TUBES AND TRAINS.
AND AS WE GO, WE LOVE TO LEAVE OUR RUCKSACKS AND REMAINS...

VALAREEEE ....VALARAAAA,.... VALAREEE, VALA RA HA HA HA

WATCH YER ARSE!..... [WATCH YER ARSE!].... INFIDEL!....[INFIDEL!]

OUR RUCKSACK'S ON YOUR TRAIN!! '



CUT TO REMOTE HILLS ON THE BORDER OF AFGHANISTAN/PAKISTAN



Dawn is breaking over the Tora Bora. Ossie the Mossie Bin Liner sits disconsolate cross legged outside his cave with his faithful servant Mustaptha Ali. Things haven't been going too well since the cheeky chappie attempted the total anihilation of America.


Mustapha. Oh My Lord Osama. Why so sad? For see the sun in his golden chariot rides from out God's furnace. to smote the curtain clouds of night and fire all the rocks to molten bronze!

Ossie. Oh my faithful servant Mustapha. Daylight breaks my heart. For I must leave the Tora Bora as th Yankee Infidel comes seeking my destruction. [ Sound of oncoming aircraft] I must find refuge whence none can trace me. I must at once away. Fast! For already I fear the falcon falls upon its fleeing prey. [ Aircraft noise grows louder]

Mustapha. Fear nothing, Lord of the Monsterous Demons! For, By the Prophet's Nightshirt!, I shall hide you in such a place as no creature born might trespass. A place so secret even the shadows dare not lie there! A safe retreat forever set beyond the eyes of the prying world!

Ossie. By the Prophets Beard!! SPEAK MY FAITHFUL SERVANT MUSTAPHA!!! Wherefore comes this fabulous lair!!?? Let your tongue unfold. And if it tells untruths, may a thousand vengeful swords fall from the angry sky and sever your vile head from your criminal and unworthy body.

Mustapha. It is no wind up O Wise One. For by the power of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Compasionate, the Most Sneaky, you shall vanish! As ether vanishes into air! You shall disappear as the forest at midnight melts unseen into the darkness of the misted mountains. You shall dissolve invisible to all creation, like the spirits of heaven hidden from mortal gaze.

Ossie. How can this be!? What blessed den have you prepared that can so hide a man as to become unseen!!? Shorn of my being, shall I  become as incorporeal nothingness?  Shall I crawl like the insects under a stone?

Mustapha. You are getting warm, O Destroyer of Worlds.

Ossie. Shall I feign disguise to dupe the unsuspecting?

Mustapha. You are getting warmer, O Scourge of the Infidel Crusaders.

Ossie. What then?...Speak....How may I be hidden so that God himself can scarce guess my whereabouts!!!???

Mustapha. You shall become BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS CUSTOMER SERVICES MANAGER!!  By the steel of the Sultan's Sabre, I utterly guarentee NOBODY.....NOBODY ...WILL EVER FIND YOU!!!!

As the noise of aircraft comes directly above and the sound of bombs dropping and exploding rents the desert silence, the two plucky chums scuttle away across the sand, dodging the blasts, to catch the Number 911 magic carpet bus to a new adventure..... In London!...... 

    TO BE CONTINUED.......SOON!



  



Reviews
Fresh Air
Written by givitsum (651 comments posted) 20th April 2006
Allow me to congratulate you gerard. You do sacrifice quantity for quality in your posts, unlike most of us, most of the time.  
 
Direct, funny and a joy to read.  
 
I still think Mustapha Crap would have been a better name though ;)  
 
My compliments to yous. 
 
GVTSM
Heartfelt
Written by Bottleblondesurfer (3590 comments posted) 20th April 2006
I think you speak for everyone who's ever had to ring a call centre. I'm with ntl but it is just the same. 
Wow ,you must have been one angry bunny. I just love the way you channel that vitriol into humour for all of us to enjoy. Iknew the ending wouldn't disappoint and it didn't...and you tell us there's more!

Written by sasquatch (125 comments posted) 20th April 2006
Haha, good one. A very good choice at the end. 
 
I once read in Bizzarre magazine about a supposed sighting of the BT customer services manager. There was a photo that went with it, but as usual it was blurred and out of focus so debateable as to whether it was genuine. 
 
Probably just some joker in a suit.
SHAME!
Written by woody44 (777 comments posted) 20th April 2006
I take great offence to this piece Gerard. As an ex BT employee I can tell you we are very easy to find. Between the hours of 12 and 3 we can be spotted in the Boiling Bunny Pub quaffing copious amounts of porter so we can be fast asleep at our desks when irritating little shits like you try to contact us... 
nice humourous piece Gerard. look forward to Ossie 2..
It's all bin said
Written by BrianRobertNeal (1195 comments posted) 20th April 2006
Course me being me, I read the first bit second, however ignorance of the first did not significantly weaken the impact of the first. 
 
(I'm still giggling.) 
 
Brian.
Its nice to be wanted!....
Written by gerardconnolly (1186 comments posted) 20th April 2006
Thanks to all for your remarks. 
 
I must say I enjoy the prospect of Ossie working at BT. I think he is going to be a big hit there. 
 
Slainte!

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