Mr. Bergis
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Mr. Bergis is a mysterious person, made famous by prank phone calls made to him by dj's at WOCL in Orlando. The calls became an internet phenomenum, and whole websites were dedicated to Mr. Bergis. After doing research on him, most people have come to the conclusion that Mr. Bergis is not a real person, but a hired actor, and that the calls made to him were staged.
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[edit] Background
From the calls made to him, Mr. Bergis (who's full name is Richard Martin Bergis) has a personality seems to be that of a typical redneck. Bergis displays sides of him that are largely homophobic and racist, he also has a very short temper. Mr. Bergis lives in the city of Greenville, Mississippi with his wife, and two children, Kaitlin, and Max.
[edit] The Calls
[edit] Gay and Lesbian School
Mr. Bergis recieves a call about a new publicly funded school opening up in his kids school district. At first he is uninterested but becames intrigued by the promises of small class sizes, and free laptops for all students. When he learns that the school is named "Ellen Degeneres Elementary School" after the famous lesbian comedian, he asks what she has to do with the school. The two men on the phone explain to him that the school will have a faculty of all LGBT teachers, at which point Mr. Bergis explodes in anger, and seems to think that the callers are trying to get money from him. He goes on to call Ellen Degeneres a, "Gay clam licking fucking whore", and tells the men on the phone that he doesn't want his kids going to the school. He hangs up when he says his kids are home.
The duo calls back and talks to his daughter who answered the phone. They ask her if she would like to go to a new school, at which point Mr. Bergis starts yelling and swearing, and tells her to go outside. Bergis gets on the phone and says if they ever call his kids again he will kill them. He ends the by call calling the two men, "Motherfucking pretty boy, fucking cock sucking, fucking goddam fucking son of a bitch cum guzzlin', nut lickin', fucking goddam faggot fucking homosexual asshole fucking, shit fucking turdburgler, fucking goddam fucking bull dyke, fucking goddam fucking cock sucking, pantywaste fucking shitmonger, fuckin assface asshole!
[edit] Staged?
Shortly after the calls became popular, a topic on the ebaumsworld message board, was made in hopes of finding Bergis's number so that fans could make their own prank calls. When internet people searches found no one named "R Burgess" or "R Bergis" listed, some speculated that he was not a real person. Soon innacuracies in the phone calls were pointed out. For example, in the "Gay Day" call, Bergis suggests that the two callers go talk to "Mayor Bright" if they wanted to have a Gay Day in Greenville. After searching the history of Greenville, it was made apparent that there was never a "Mayor Bright" in the city, nor anywhere near Mississippi. Based on these most people have came to the consensus that Mr. Bergis is not real.
