Hot New Game: White House Cellphone Bingo
Tommy Christopher
Contributor
Posted:
05/15/09
At today's White House Press Briefing, the subject of Wednesday's madcap cellphone shenanigans came up briefly. Press Secretary Robert Gibbs made early reference to the incident. Prior to the briefing, he told reporters that his 5.5 year-old son said, "Mrs. Larrison told me you took away someone's phone." The lad forbade Mr. Gibbs from future phone-fiscations.
It's a good thing, too, because several of us have begun to endure the aforementioned sport of people calling us during the briefings just to see if they can get our phones to go off. I'm proud to say that I have narrowly avoided several such pranks. I did hear someone's voicemail alarm and 2 other ringings during the briefing, so somebody scored some points.
I also got a chance to talk to the Holy Grail of White House Cellphone Bingo, Human Events' John Gizzi. He told me that people were also pestering him for his cell number so they could prank him. Someone also gave him a genius idea: Auctioning off his phone on eBay for charity.
I got a look at the famous phone, which is only slightly smaller than the one George Peppard used to have on Banacek. Gizzi definitely needs an upgrade.
Even better would be a two-fer auction with CBS News' Bill Plante, the brass-adorned reporter who actually took a call later in the same briefing and sidled casually out the side door, chatting away. I half-expected him to do a Chapelle-esque "I'm Bill Plante, byatch!" on the way out.
If you plan on playing White House Cellphone Bingo, I suggest looking elsewhere. I've already devised a strategy to punish my pranksters. They know who they are, and I promise, they won't like it.
It's a good thing, too, because several of us have begun to endure the aforementioned sport of people calling us during the briefings just to see if they can get our phones to go off. I'm proud to say that I have narrowly avoided several such pranks. I did hear someone's voicemail alarm and 2 other ringings during the briefing, so somebody scored some points.
I also got a chance to talk to the Holy Grail of White House Cellphone Bingo, Human Events' John Gizzi. He told me that people were also pestering him for his cell number so they could prank him. Someone also gave him a genius idea: Auctioning off his phone on eBay for charity.
I got a look at the famous phone, which is only slightly smaller than the one George Peppard used to have on Banacek. Gizzi definitely needs an upgrade.Even better would be a two-fer auction with CBS News' Bill Plante, the brass-adorned reporter who actually took a call later in the same briefing and sidled casually out the side door, chatting away. I half-expected him to do a Chapelle-esque "I'm Bill Plante, byatch!" on the way out.
If you plan on playing White House Cellphone Bingo, I suggest looking elsewhere. I've already devised a strategy to punish my pranksters. They know who they are, and I promise, they won't like it.
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