Did you see Room 101 yesterday evening. Hosted by Paul Merton with his guest Ross Noble. Ross has apparently joined CUP but I wouldn't know as I still haven't got a sign up script. His particular angle was clipboards which was especially appropriate as Paul Merton was sitting there with one at the time.
Ross is right though. People with cliboards are officious and overbearing: "Excuse me, can you spare me two minutes of your time to help Shelter - the Charity for the Homeless" with the implied "You'd better you proletarian bastard or you will rot in hell" simply left unsaid. They then tick off varous things and umm and nod and shake their heads. If this happens to you, and it shouldn't as you should have quoted the CUP mantra and moved on, then grab the clipboard and see what they are writing down. Then ask them some personal questions like "How much did you give to charity last Tuesday, what's the average velocity of a swallow (African or European - I really don't mind), do you like Busted" and see how they like it.
Send 20% of any money they donate to you to CUP.
Posted by grahame at December 2, 2003 04:13 PM | TrackBack