(To appease a reporter’s questioning, he then tried to drunk-dial the band in Turkey.

(It also led to the most prudish drunk-dial of all time.)

Almost one-third of Australian drinkers have regretted a drunk-dial or a tipsy text in the past year, a poll shows.

The script is fodder for a drunk-dial and the music is the perfect score - erratic, distorted, and a blaring buzzing sound that rings like an alarm throughout.

She spends the first six episodes of the second season struggling with it, until admitting that she is "over him" in a drunk-dial to Ross in "The One Where Ross Finds Out".

Last month - after 95 percent of respondents in a survey of some 400 of its customers admitted that they drunk-dial - Virgin Mobile started offering a service to its Australian customers prone to "dialing under the influence."

He gave the app high marks after it not only offered to call a cab when he said he was drunk (and not drunk-dial his ex-girlfriend) but also gave directions to mental-health facilities when he told it (presumably jokingly) that he wanted to kill himself.

The most entertaining exhibits are in the Corner of the Absurd: these include a chair adapted to insert suppositories; the Mop Star, which combines mop and wireless microphone; and the Afterhours, a mobile phone attachment that reads alcohol levels and blocks telephone numbers so that you can't drunk-dial an old boyfriend.