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I've been taking the rise out of the Wasp T12 mobile phone adverts which have recently appeared on bus stops. I genuinely thought they were real adverts, and was scoffing with my friends at their ridiculousness. The advert claims "It's well weapon" and calls it a "speechtool", and shows a heavily designed phone in yellow and black stripes.

Last Friday night, I watched the new Chris Morris project "Nathan Barley", featuring an idiot DJ who has a Wasp T12. At one point, he explains how it has a large 5 key because this is the most commonly-used number, and demonstrates the MP3 decks which are available when you flip it open. I still didn't twig.

At lunch time today, I looked up the Nathan Barley website, and found a Flash movie advertising the Wasp T12. At this point, the penny dropped: the whole phone and the advertising campaign are a massive hoax and publicity stunt for the programme. I was well and truly duped. By the way, the programme is excellent (in my opinion, of course), brilliantly satirising the iPod generation and vacuous media types.