BBC Breakfast Weather Presenter Carol Kirkwood Falls For 'Otter's Pocket' Twitter Prank (Video)

Huffington Post UK   Alastair Plumb First Posted: 17/01/2012 09:33 GMT Updated: 23/05/2013 12:55 BST

Oh, Alan from North Yorkshire, you are a naughty BBC Breakfast viewer. After all, who else would sneak in an obscure sexual reference into a weather report via Twitter?

Taking the opportunity to tweet at BBC Breakfast weather presenter Carol Kirkwood that it was "wetter than an otter's pocket" where he was, Alan's unusual turn of phrase was enough to gain a mention by Ms. Kirkwood live on-air.

Cue one awkward recitation of a rather weird piece of slang, some bemused faces throughout the rest of the studio, and thousands of viewers at home chuckling that somehow, God knows, that phrase got onto their tellybox.

For those who aren't aware what an "otter's pocket" is referring to, allow us to point you in the direction of a highly NSFW definition of the phrase on UrbanDictionary.com. Seriously, it's for grown-ups only. Fair warning there kids.

Of course this is far from the first time a BBC employee has been caught out by social media pranksters - just remember the terrible time Mark Chapman endured on Radio Five Live back in December...

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Steven Schwartz2012
Liberal, because someone has to think
01:48 AM on 01/20/2012
she was hornswoggled....
02:21 PM on 01/18/2012
Check out http://www.otterspocket.net/ which shows diagramatically where the pocket is on an otter. Helpful to any zoology student studying otters.
02:34 PM on 01/18/2012
Thank you for that, free5pirit, I'll now be better able to determine which is the female of the species.
11:00 AM on 01/18/2012
almost as bad as mike hunt, and mary hinge, ben dover etc etc
10:42 PM on 01/17/2012
When the Scots get their independence,will she have to stay up there Boo Hoo!
09:42 PM on 01/17/2012
Never heard that one before!
09:05 PM on 01/17/2012
As wet as a camels foot in a tropical downpour :) Try that one Carol !!
08:03 PM on 01/17/2012
Lets have a good forecast with some Sunny Weather for a change Carol
07:02 PM on 01/17/2012
Well done Carol, dont be embarrased it only makes you more endearing, its a common phrase up here in Yorkshire.
cantabria
my default position is wrong
06:22 AM on 01/18/2012
I'm from Yorkshire, never heard of it.
06:32 PM on 01/17/2012
What a star, I'm just as naive, I had to look it up, I haven't led a sheltered life, but it is something new to me. I must be getting old. Thank you Carol, that was a gem.
05:07 PM on 01/17/2012
Good Morrrrrrning ....
La Kirkwood could model as the fallen madonna anytime !
She's very big in Bristol.
06:57 AM on 01/18/2012
Did you mean; "in the Bristol area"?
07:08 AM on 01/18/2012
Yes, yes.... Particularly in the Bristol City department.
Nothing to do with rhyming slang of course.....
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02:18 PM on 01/17/2012
Well I must be as naive as she is, I didn't even know that otters have pockets...to what does it refer?
04:30 PM on 01/17/2012
try reading thewhole article as this link was given for assistance - not for the 'easily offended' !!

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=otters%20pocket
06:10 PM on 01/17/2012
I had to look it up, in the dictionary that is, not literally of course!
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10:47 PM on 01/18/2012
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There's nothing quite like looking up an old friend.
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one1byke
Easy no Man.
02:09 PM on 01/17/2012
bless her sweet, naive, blonde soul.... she must get LOADS of FUN right in her eye, regularly.
02:07 PM on 01/17/2012
Credit where it's due, Roger's Profanisaurus strikes again. lol
01:26 PM on 01/17/2012
I don't see the problem, no-one down South can understand her anyway.
02:19 PM on 01/17/2012
Well I can't.
10:17 AM on 01/18/2012
Me neither its like an alien language or somthing !
10:27 PM on 01/17/2012
People from Invernesshire speak very clearly and precisely, so there must be something wrong with your hearing.
The farther North you go in the Highlands, the easier on the ear, the Scottish accent gets.
03:38 PM on 01/18/2012
I'm sorry, I didn't get that...can you say that again?