Tangerinegate… by Robert Popper


So I switched on LBC (a London talk radio station) where the topic was Gordon Brown’s alleged bad temper. I called up and got through almost instantly. “What do you want to talk about?” asked the LBC operator. Without time to think I replied, “Gordon Brown visited my place of work and lost his temper right in front of me”. Very soon I was on air, explaining how Gordon Brown had toured my workshop – a ‘lamination factory’ – and thrown a tangerine into one of the machines, breaking it, before calling a member of staff a ‘citric idiot’.  It was all I could think of at the time. A load of nonsense. But I was quite proud of the phrase, ‘citric idiot’.

Link: BBC – BBC Comedy Blog: Tangerinegate… by Robert Popper