This must have rung false for audience members, who travel daily along Kampala's dirt roads, and many of whom live without access to basic amenities.
He asked me if I knew what company I had rung (I quickly glanced down at the results of my "IT company central London" Google search).
The Institute of Grocery Distribution, which represents the food and consumer goods industry, predicts that in five years the sales rung up in small neighbourhood stores will have increased by a third to almost £50bn – piling pressure on the economics of the traditional supermarket model.
Starbucks has rung up total sales of £3bn in the UK since opening its first store in 1998, but has recorded a loss for every year since it started trading in Britain, despite US management claiming it had been a "profitable" marketplace.
This has rung true for revolutionary inventors, from Nikola Tesla to the South Africa-born Elon Musk.
White and black Americans see race from radically different perspectives, to the point that the white, world-saving New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has rung the alarm that "whites just don't get it".
Although an acquaintance, who also happened to be a member of the Nazi party, had rung their doorbell at 7.30 that morning and warned them that their business was due to be attacked that evening, Mr and Mrs Izbicki had refused to be intimidated and had gone to work as normal.
It is a story that has rung true since the silent era.
He [Starkey] come over to me and we rung for ambulances and police and things like that.
It transpired, rather bizarrely, that he'd rung Liam Gallagher, who at some point had been associated with Adidas, who sponsored Milan.
Though the cocktails are clever, delicious and prepared and served with panache and pomp, the true genius of Hop Sing is the theatre: It's a faux speakeasy in Chinatown, with an unmarked door whose bell must be rung.
