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Bill Murray Actor

SLIMES RAFFLE TABLE, CALLS HOUSE AGAIN

"I will be calling the numbers again tomorrow, and the day after that," says a laminated raffle ticket

Existence confidence provisional
A generated photo of an anonymous stranger. It is not the person named.
Bill Murray eats a bag of crisps at a bus station bench, glancing sideways with one eyebrow raised.
Location
Folding chair behind a bingo machine, school sports hall, Auckland, repeating Thursday
Currently
Bingo caller in a sports hall, stuck on one Thursday
Last confirmed sighting
Calling the same Thursday's second house, again, at 7.02pm
Observations
Whispers the final number so quietly that the balls have to lean in.

He took the bingo caller's job at a school sports hall in Auckland after the previous caller retired to his allotment. Since then every session has been the same Thursday, and he is calling it with the patience of a man who has done so before. Doors open at 6.30pm, the tea urn is always lukewarm.

His deadpan delivery has transformed the numbers: 'Two fat ladies' is now followed by a long, level look at the nearest pensioner. He has also started waking at 6am to the same radio song, and now calls 'Legs eleven' before the ball drops. Each repeat he refines his patter slightly.

"I've been selling raffle tickets in that hall for nine years," says Denise, a dinner lady. "Same Thursday, but he's got better every time. Last week he whispered 'on its own, number seven' and I'm fairly sure the ghost in the stage curtain clapped."

Guidance for the public

Bring your own pen, and do not shout house before he says to.

Actual status (not satire) No death recorded as of 24 October 2026. Born 21 September 1950. Source: Wikidata

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