Curiosity wrote:
I had recently won a Euro 96 pager at a Virgin Megastore by being good at Actua Soccer or some such thing. It worked as a normal pager, but it also gave football score updates for the Premier League and international matches, as well as transfer news.
Sometimes my friends would send me pages that were just designed to wind me up, saying Aston Villa had signed some terrible player, or that our best player had broken his leg or whatever. So when my pager went off to tell me that the football schedule for the day was cancelled because Diana was dead I thought someone was taking the piss.
I got out of bed and went downstairs to find some of my housemates still up from the night before. They had been drinking and smoking weed since the previous day, and had seen the news, but we're absolutely convinced that it was an extended Chris Morris spoof announcement (the previous year he had done one announcing that Noel Edmonds had murdered Clive Anderson).
So we were all sat around thinking it was a hoax, until we realised that actually it had really happened. Which was a weird way to come to a realisation.
So you didn't think that it was a bit of a coincidence that your mate decided to play a hoax on you that happened to be exactly the same subject matter as the spoof show your housemates were watching?
RIP mate.
