Please gamble responsibly.
by Penny Walker
Its funny but we knew a day would come when the bingo call �88 - Two Fat Ladies� as a bingo call would come to a crashing halts. Rob Hutchinson predicted this a couple of weeks back and started a petition to the European parliament to stop this from happening, he was also backed in his efforts by the �Speak Plain English Campaign� and now they are backing bingo caller John Sayers from Sudbury, Suffolk.
Mr. Sayers who is 75 years old, runs a charity game in this borough, but he has been warned by the council that if someone takes offence at him using �Legs - 11� or the classic �88 � two fat ladies? They could get taken to court or worse. Up till now he has received no complaints and now his bingo players are saying that the game is boring with him just calling out the numbers.
What is it with these people; can they find nothing better to do with their time than suck all the fun out of everything, even bingo, under feeble excuses? A spokeswoman � perhaps she should be referred to as a �spokesperson�? For the council said that this was sad but unavoidable as everyone has to be politically correct!
Mr. Sayers is a former Mayor of Sudbury and member of staff of the Town Council was advised to cut the comic calls because they were worried they would face legal action. Their concern he said, was that if there were two fat ladies in the bingo audience and they were offended by him using the comic call for 88, or that if he called legs 11, someone might think he was looking at their leg. For goodness sake he is 75 years old and this is bingo, we know the calls! I have never heard of anything so bloody stupid in my whole life. Play online bingo, at least they leave you alone, that�s my final say!