My eternal gratitude to anyone who can find the old Jonathan Katz stand up bit where he was spelling things out ridiculously to a 411 representative. I must have taped over my old VHS with it.
Hawaiian comedian Frank De Lima told a joke about a Filipino announcer saying somebody needed to move their car, license plate B for Bictory, L for Elephant, Q for Cucumberrrrrrr...
I used to have to be on the phones A LOT, and when I was requested to do this I would use the "Pasta Phoenetic" alphabet. You wouldn't believe how many different types of pasta there is!
It's not that the 'phonetic alphabet' make any sense either though.
Why should it though, it's just an agreed upon tool.
If ham radio taught me anything is the phonetic alphabet. Some people have been in the military. For me, I’m a ham.
Germans use ČS for "Tschechoslowakei". Yes, really − not only is Č not in the word, it's also not in the German alphabet.
Eggplant, xerxes, crybaby, overbite, narwhal.
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