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Bitesize Ep 59 - The Best of British Prank Calling: A Look into Fonejacker and Charlie's Best Impressions

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The Importance of Being a Phonejacker

Mr. dovde is a fictional Middle Eastern technophobe who would mistakenly abbreviate everyday technology and brand names pronouncing them exactly as they are written. The main gag his character focused on was the word DVD player. So that is technically an initialism meaning all three letters actually stand for something and we pronounce them individually D V D. I wonder if you can remember or work out what they stand for. Pause the player now if you care to think but D stands for digital V stands for versatile and the last D stands for disc digital versatile disc DVD whereas Mr. doVde uses juvka instead of the well-known Japanese electronics brand JVC juvka.

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