Tv Detectives.

[Mexican18]

Why is it that they all answer the phone by simply 'barking' their names?
Morse, Frost, Barnaby, Lewis etc. They all do it.
The only saving grace is
' Hercules Poirot speaks'!
Are real detectives so rude?

[Mamyalynne]

They only act in the manner they are written.

Need to ask the authors.

[Barsel]

Suppose it depends if they are in a bad mood when they answer the phone.

[jno]

they get too many scam calls telling them their Amazon accounts are about to be suspended, and they're cross about it.

[Tilly2]

It's to show how stressed and hard working they are.

[Mexican18]

I tried it on my son when he rang this morning. He has always thought I was a bit mad. I think I convinced him!

[barry1010]

I've been banned from answering our landline. Apparently I upset people when I pick up the receiver and say, 'Who are you and what do you want?'

[Bazile]

Why is it when someone dials a number the phone is answered almost as soon as they dial the last digit of the number

[retrocop]

Are real detectives so rude?

Nope

[retrocop]

//Why is it when someone dials a number the phone is answered almost as soon as they dial the last digit of the number//

Copper's Hunch ?

[Mamyalynne]

The viewer/reader would get bored if it rang out for half a chapter/scene.

We are talking about fiction here aren't we? ;-)

[weecalf]

The deceive on Father Brown would say What’s that bell like sound and promptly arrest the camera man .

[jno]

that would definitely improve Father Brown.

[piggynose]

Barry 1010 i used to ask the same questions when i moved in with my spanish wife 14years ago.. ¿Quién eres y qué quieres?
I used to wonder why they always hung up and never rang back.

[weecalf]

Father Ted oh sorry ft Brown the detective has been arrested today . the sound man is next if the camera man keeps his nose clean

[andy-hughes]

I think it counts as a no-nonsense - Here I am, I'm busy, so get to the point and be quick about it ...'

Far and away the very greatest telephone greeting was offered by my friend, the late lamented and utterly wonderful Mr Quentin Crisp, who put the phone to his ear and uttered with an inimitable drawn-out camp drawl - "Oh Yeeeeesssssss?????"

I always knew that he was in the mood for a chat - he simply didn't answer the phone if he wasn't - and that intro was going to lead me into another marvellous experience of hearing one of the wittiest and bravest people I have ever known chat with me for a while.

I miss him very much.

[andy-hughes]

For our answering machine message, I had a sentence already, but the present Mrs Hughes, who uses our home phone for business purposes wouldn't let me -

"Hi, we're not in at the moment, if you think it's important, leave a message, and if we think it's important, we'll call you back … "

[Cloverjo]

Andy, just wondering how you knew Quentin Crisp.
[Apologies, Mexican18]

[andy-hughes]

Clover - // Andy, just wondering how you knew Quentin Crisp.
[Apologies, Mexican18] //

I was commissioned to interview him by phone for a magazine when he lived in New York.

I rang his agent to ask him to contact Mr Crisp, and the agent said, "Here's his number, give him a call …" and I was gobsmacked!

To this day, with the exception of acoustic and jazz musicians, who have no money, and no sense of entitlement, no-one gives personal numbers to journalists.

When I questioned Mr Crisp about his availability to the world, he quite reasonably pointed out that there was no point having a phone if people couldn't phone you up - and as he was listed in the Manhattan telephone directory, anyone could call, and he would answer if he felt like it, and not if he didn't.

I pointed out that someone like Michael Jackson is nothing like so available, and Mr Crisp pointed out another in his depthless list of wise observations -

If you hide away, you can kid yourself that the world is trying to beat a path to your door. It is that mystery of unavailability that attracts people, and if you are available, as I am, you find that no-one is really that fascinated with you anyway. They show The Naked Civil Servant on cable tv maybe twice a year, and the phone goes mad for about three weeks, and then everything goes back to normal.

When we finished our interview, he told me he had enjoyed talking with me and to call him back any time I felt like a chat. He was obviously far too honest - having built his entire life around his inability to lie about anything, including his sexuality - to be just being polite, so I did ring him often and we did chat, and as I said, I am still sad I can no longer do that.

He was a wonderful wise and kind man, the world is poorer without him.

[10ClarionSt]

Quite a few years ago, I would say various things when answering the landline; "Fred Elliots' butchers. How can I be of service, I say service?" I tried to do the voice as well. Some people couldn't speak for laughing.
Other times I would say, trying to be Chinese; "Sunfrower shop. War u won". Mrs Clarion was not all impressed. Ah well. I say, ah well!

[Cloverjo]

Andy, that’s great. What a wonderful man.