Birmingham Chamber duo's mix-up is just plane crazy
I hear that Birmingham Chamber spin doctors Tony “The Butler” Bell and Roger “The Baron” Monkman have been flying by the seat of their pants again.
This time out of Birmingham Airport on some exchange jaunt to visit the Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce.
Seems their hosts put on a very nice spread at a local seafood restaurant. But our heroes were nearly late for the crab cakes and lobster as preparing for take-off the captain announces a half hour delay.
There were 50 people on board and there should be 52 – two were missing.
And then Tony overhears a conversation involving one of the stewardesses which reveals that the absent pair are named Bell and Monkman.
“But we were already sitting there,” wails Bell.
All down to some confusion over the manifest.
Somewhat complicated, to do with the duo booking on line, but, when the plane was switched, somehow their names never got transferred across.
Nevertheless, the pair, however innocent, weren’t top of the popularity stakes with their fellow passengers.
No change there then!
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A shock for PR babe Jenny Chatham. Poor girl has apparently been diagnosed as deaf in her right ear.
This could explain all the times she has ruthlessly rejected my amorous advances. Literally deaf to my dodgy pulling patter.
Alternatively, and perhaps more likely, I could be just pug ugly.
“The consultant tells me its permanent – of course I refuse to give in so am looking at alternative treatments such as acupuncture,” she tells me.
I shall have to introduce her to John Crabtree and Eddie Marston who have a dodgy side where you say something to them and nothing registers. But most are very astute at making sure the good ear is facing the right way – a bit like a TV satellite dish.
