In a world gone mad, there is only one question that rings out amongst the proletariat: ‘Who you gonna call?’
Indeed, who are you going to call? It really depends on a lot of factors. The first thing that you probably need to determine is what the reason is that you’ve decided that you need to call somebody. Have you firmly established that calling someone is you best option? Is there even a phone to hand?
In this day and age, it’s increasingly likely that you’ll have a mobile phone and adequate signal to be able to make a call. Let’s take this as read. But the other issues are much more difficult to get to grips with. What if the universe were about to be destroyed by some kind of malevolent cosmic entity. You’re probably going to want to call either a) Fantasti-Man, b) Those crazy guys from Sherby57 or c) all of the above. That’s fine, you’ve decided who you’re going to call, so do it. Ahhhh. You see the problem. You don’t have any of their numbers. Nightmare. The universe has just been destroyed and everyone in the afterlife is blaming you and calling you a ‘numptie’.
I think we can all agree that we don’t want that to happen. Maybe you should be a bit better prepared.
Another scenario is that you trip whilst in the street and mildly graze your knee. Once again, who you gonna call? Well, probably no one. It’s just a bit of a graze and it will be fine until you get home and put a plaster on it. Oh no! You’ve already whipped out your pre-prepared phone that has a myriad of useful phone numbers in it and have started dialling the Fantasti-Phone. You explain your problem and FM laughs at you contemptuously. You look a complete dick.
You were over-prepared.
There is a fine balance to be found in all things, and you clearly have the equilibrium of a drunken sailor with vertigo. I want you to go straight home and start thinking about what you’ve done here. Go. Go now.
I mean it. Go home.
who you gonna call ? who ya got!
if the world’s being threatened by a mad robot.
is it Fantasti-man or a kung fu master,
which one do you think would come faster?
what if it was a cosmic monster?
and you couldn’t get an answer,
’cause we’d all be using our mobile phones
and we’d all be getting engaged tones
so i wouldn’t waste my time on a telephone call
i’d probably smoke something nice from nepal
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