The Royals ~

[zaphod]

My prank phone calls from my youth are far more creative and funnier than theirs.

Nice!

A favourite from my own youth (we're talking 1970) was to call someone at random, claiming to be from the phone company, and asking the callee to help us test the line by standing at various distances from the phone and whistling (for example) Colonel Bogey. Of course, this was purely for our own amusement, and not for radio broadcast, nor any wider audience than our own circle of friends.

More recently, one of our number at the small call centre I worked at last year would occasionally relieve the tedium on backshifts by calling a pizza restaurant and asking ‘Do you deliver?’ When they answered ‘Yes we do!’ he would say ‘Great! Then I'd like a pineapple and liver pizza, please!’ (Maybe this only works when said with a Scottish accent?) Again though, this was just for yuks for those present, and not for broadcast.
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Zaphod