The Daily Mash - ESTATE AGENTS CELEBRATE RETURN OF SCRABULOUS

ESTATE AGENTS CELEBRATE RETURN OF SCRABULOUS

04-08-08

BRITAIN'S estate agents were last night celebrating the return of popular word game Scrabulous to the Facebook social networking site.

At the time it was suspended more than 90 per cent of the game's 500,000 daily users were sitting around in one of the UK's six million estate agencies with nothing else to do.

Receptionist Nikki Hollis, of Knight Frank in central London, said: "We had a man in last week. He smelt a bit, but seemed really keen. He took a brochure, but when he got outside he made it into a hat."

Henry Chappell-Reeves, a senior negotiator for Chestertons in Fulham, said: "We've introduced naked cage fighting.

"It keeps everyone on their toes. The boys get greased up and the whole thing gets very competitive and erotic. Just like the boom days of '99."

Meanwhile Lane Fox in Chelsea is now the scene of noisy cock-fights, with rival negotiators pitching their animals against each other in duels to the death.

Wayne Hayes, of Winkworths in Battersea, said: "I'm keeping myself busy constructing a matchstick model of the last house I sold. By Christmas it should be worth more than the real thing."

Dr Julian Cook, a chartered economist, said: "The collapse of the housing bubble has led to a massive increase in loneliness, depression and distress among estate agents.

"A HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!"