Can I write the theme tune, sing the theme tune?
By silicon.com staff on 9 March 2007 11:35
This competition, featuring a pic of Stephen Beynon, MD of NTL:Telewest Business, taking part in a publicity stunt in Trafalgar Square, has now closed.
The lucky winner was Philip Cain, who suggested: "Stephen wondered if his asking for a "bigger desk to show his status within the company" wasn't being taken seriously."
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1. anonymous
Hhhhmmmm, have I got enough room for my Sky Digi box?
2. anonymous
ntl telewest business downsizes
3. Valérie Ganne
Look, when I said we needed another 0.5 staff, I meant someone part-time
4. Pendragon
Gulliver always got a real buzz out of his coffee every morning
5. Valérie Ganne
If you look closely, you can just see the puppet-strings controlled by Sir Richard Branson
6. Valérie Ganne
Stephen insisted on being supplied with a Lazeedwarf chair
7. Pendragon
Now I see why ntl is always spelt with small letters
8. Pendragon
ntl always liked to look after the small businessman
9. anonymous
Someday I will be big enough
10. Giles Turner
This wasn't what I had in mind when I said super size me
11. anonymous
Virgin media boss gets "LOST" during "24 Hour" negotiations to cross carry SKY 1/2. Colleagues suggest he "Jacks " it in before he disappears altogether.
12. NIGEL HAMMERSLEY
When i grow up i want to be as big as BT
13. Steve McNeill
Don't know about you, but i'm more concerned about what that horse is about to do on his shoulder...
14. anonymous
Stephen inadvertently tries the Home Office solution to making the Immigration issue smaller
15. Richard
NTL's MD risking a half Nelson?
16. anonymous
The big desk idea looked brilliant until he saw the gap between the Ctrl, Alt and Del keys on his keyboard.
17. Andy Ken
The Shrinking man and his shrinking business (Thanks to Sky)
18. Gwilym Rhys-Jones
Our cup runneth over and we're shrinking everything except bank charges.
19. Andy Hinton
Will it be me pot o' gold your after ?
20. Steve McNeill
When Branson took over the show, I didn't expect to have to make tea for the Media Giant...
21. Will Eastbury
'Drink Me'? I knew I shouldn't have trusted any gifts from Sky..
22. Will Eastbury
Right we've cracked it then, now to apply the same technique to a TVDrive box!
23. Terry Callaghan
Alice steadied herself. She had been fully prepared for the reducing effect of the liquid in the mug marked 'drink me' but was thoroughly put out by the surprise gender change. The white rabbit hadn't mentioned that!
24. techie-nerdo
Telewest prove "size isn't everything"
25. anonymous
Latest solution to congestion: hire small people
26. anonymous
What's elfin safety got to do with me standing on a swivel chair?
27. Phil Critchley
The "Big Cook, Little Cook" Live tour wasn't going quite as well as the producers had hoped...
28. Craig Mitchell
NTL try to bring CITV's Art Attack into the Big League.
29. Michael Hart
Bring in Skys' cheque - I can sign it now!
30. techie-nerdo
Stephen Beynon, MD of ntl:Telewest Business, accused by customers of being small minded. In response he claimed he wasn't small-minded, just small.
31. techie-nerdo
Can you someone help me in the toilet please?
32. Justin Hayward
When I said we were going to downsize management and cut our overheads last year, I meant it!
33. techie-nerdo
My critics call me a low-down bum. I say I just have short legs.
34. Craig Mitchell
Stephen Beynon shows the change in society. Olden Day leaders on horseback, later day bigwigs on huge chairs.
35. Andy Cook
Ok.. I ordered a large latte... but this is virgin on the ridiculous!!
36. Cath Shelley
"Honey, I shrunk your boss!"
37. techie-nerdo
In an initiative to improve cultural diversity, Telewest welcome their first oompa loompa.
38. Malcolm George
ntl goes open source with Leprechaun Linux
39. Mike Gardiner
MD addresses rally of satisfied NTL customers - attendance: 3 pigeons
40. Piers Dale
I thought this Virgin cola might have side effects but did not realize downsizing would be one of them.
41. Chris Pimenta
"How weird" says Steve. "All I did was take a sip from this cup which says 'DRINK ME' on the side, and next thing I know I'm starring in 'Honey I Shrunk The Boss'..."
42. Stuart Fawcett
Young Stephen knew playing with the big boys was going to be fun.
43. Matt Wheeler
Who needs Sky one? Who Cares, look at this MUG!
44. Stuart Fawcett
The giant mobile office for the London executive had seemed a much better idea on the meeting room whiteboard.
45. John Morton-Hicks
That's why customer service calls to ntl's help desk didn't get through - he was in Trafalgar Square.
46. Stuart Fawcett
Police officers had to be called again when another caffeine junkie climbed up on Trafalgar Square's latest exhibit.
47. anonymous
Yes Richard, Anything for you sir! Here, have my coffee...
48. Darrall Pullen
"When you take into account the size of me, our organisation and our abilities to fulfill customer service" said Stephen Beynon, MD of ntl:Telewest Business "you can truely see the proportions are very...very accurate"
49. Craig Mitchell
Stephen Beynon shows the change in society. Olden Day leaders on horseback, later day bigwigs on huge chairs.
50. Craig Mitchell
NTL try to bring CITV's Art Attack into the Big League.
51. Nick Butland
Thought bubble above the lion...
"No, second thoughts - I'll save the horse & rider for later & just have that snack on the chair now..."
52. anonymous
Stephen wondered if his asking for a "bigger desk to show his status within the company" wasn't being taken seriously.
53. Jamie Beecher
Has anyone seen that advert with the baby running a loo roll business.....
54. Noel Blundell
Downsizing was not as effective as first thought
55. Chris O'Prey
Beynon tries Branson's chair for size but finds his ego just doesn't fit...
56. Geoff Paterson
Serves me right fo buying Viagara off the Internet.
57. anonymous
That's the last time I have white rabbit for lunch.
58. anonymous
Whilst we may no longer have Sky One, we're still damn entertaining!
59. anonymous
what a diet of turkey twizzlers will do for you...
60. MSM
Never mind the size, feel the bandwidth!
61. MSM
Stephen proves to his determent the health issues associated with chasing the goal of a 'size zero' body
62. MSM
When Stephen said "everything is reduced in the Spring sale" he meant it!
63. Miles Mercer
A misunderstanding in the marketing department leaves Stephen wishing he had clarified the statement '... we need to reduce our overheads..'
64. Carl Chilley
"I said I wanted Michael Schumacher not E F Schumacher to do the theme for this promo!" (E F Schumacher is author of the iconic "Small Is Beautiful"...)
65. Steve Green
Now he knows what it's like to be downsized
66. kenneth wilkinson
"Everthing was ready for John Prescotts news conference
67. anonymous
These Designers are a b....y joke!
68. Murdoch (not the one from Gorilaz))
Fe Fi Fo Fumb,
I smell the blood of a small English firm ripe for a good stamping.
69. Pendragon
I've got to use a desktop PC. The last laptop almost killed me.
70. Pendragon
Stephen Beynon demonstrates the gas-powered chair that will propel the Army's new Skynet satellite into space
71. Jon Morton
Steve sat patiently in the Casualty waiting room, hoping that his psychedelic trip would end quickly.
72. John Ray
Historic Trafalgar Square demeaned by PC minnow.
73. Haydn Rees
Virgin on the ridiculous.
74. Tim Weaver
Of course I'm a virgin man now as well...
75. anonymous
Alice, the new tea lady, had a lot to answer for
76. Johnny Thomson
Horse says to lion - "looks like they're trying to install another abstract piece in the square."
77. anonymous
Following a glitch on the Starship Enterprise, a giant Spock beams into a 2007 boardroom meeting, whilst a shrunken Steve Beynon rematerialises with his furniture in Trafalgar Square.
78. Eric Beattie
I can't overemphasise the importance of shrinkage in the retail world today